Evaluation Question 7

Q7) Looking back at your prelim task, what have you learnt in the progression from that to the final poduct?


Here is my prelim....

Reflecting on my Prelim, this was the first time I had actually used proper filming equipment and editing software such as Premier, so looking back i was overall quite UN experienced

Progress in Planning and Research

My use of planning and research has improved tremendously from the preliminary task to the film opening of ‘UNTAMED’. When planning for the prelim task, it was kept very brief and did not go into much detail, for example we only made one storyboard which was basic and didn't include specific shots, locations, time etc. As a result from this poor shooting schedule we as a group had some confusion with what sequence of the opening we had recorded and what still needed to be done as it was not precis therefore we did not really follow it. We spent a lot of time on figuring out the order of shots we had filmed and what was still left to be done, meaning we had less time to edit to a high professional quality. We also as a group did not do much research into the genre and audience our type of film would have, which means we took a risk that could have been accurate had we done the correct research and analysis.

From the mistakes and brief planning of the preliminary i was able to correct and prepare better for the UNTAMED opening as it would be more accurate and reliable meaning we would be working to a strict schedule to avoid the risk of uncertainties and loss of time. So when planning UNTAMED we done lots of close detailed research into our genre and specific audience so we knew exactly what it must include to capture out target audience. To plan for filming we made a shooting schedule which included specific dates and times we could all meet and where we would be filming and for how long, We used this schedule as a guide to keep us on track. In comparison to the prelim this worked out much more efficient and organised which meant we used our time extremely wisely and always knew what we needed to do next making it a success.

Editing progression

Before taking media i had no experience or knowledge of how to use Premier Pro at all, after helping edit the prelim task my navigation around the software began to improve, however it was still fairly basic. In the prelim task it was quite basic editing, just cutting clips and making sure they all lined and were in the right place. For the opening sequence we had a black/white filter edited on and music in the background which at the time seemed really impressive as we had never been able to do this before. Although looking back it could have been improved for our first proper attempt at editing it was quite successful and we were overall happy with the outcome.

The comparison between editing on the prelim to editing UNTAMED was quite a substantial difference, we added black cut clips to create the effect of Aubrey being drunk we also had to make sure the clips smoothly transitioned and that they lined up as it proved challenging when editing and cutting out certain clips such as one when Aubrey was smiling and we had to cut it out but make sure her face was exactly the same for the start of the next shot. For the Film opening we also had to do titles which proved challenging as we had to make sure they were on screen for the correct amount of time and clearly visible from the background of the screen.


Overall progress
When i watch both the Prelim and the film opening its almost instantly visible the progress i have made, i feel that i have broadened my knowlwdge with technology and software which helps and come as a great advantage when approaching new tasks. From comparing the two i have also learnt the value and importance of a detailed thought out shooting schedule.

Here is my Film Opening...

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract:address your audience? from Holly Connell

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 1

9 Key moments within the film opening

Evidence of Working

Reflection on the Social Media account

What we learnt from making the Social media Account

From making the UNTAMED twitter account, we found that this was a good source of promotion as twitter is used by 30017million on a monthly active basis. Therefore creating speculation and hype around the UNTAMED Film would easily be spread by many. The account was free to make and enabled us to share information relating to the film with our users. To improve our twitter account we could have got sponsors from other brands and people with large amounts of people, we could have also been more active by tweeting regularly and interacting with fans. Reflecting on the twitter account we could have also made Instagram and Facebook accounts to cover all areas and users of the 'social media world'.

UNTAMED FINAL

UNTAMED- Social media account

As a group we decided to make a Twitter account for our film UNTAMED as it would help to create a fan base and update our followers with news on the film. Such as when the film would be Premiering and when the global release date would be.

Genre Research part 2

Conventions of a Teen Drama:

• 'real life' or relatable characters and story line, but mostly exaggerated to make the narrative more interesting.
• Cliques and friendship groups and separation between these cliques - nerds, jocks, cheerleaders, stoners, musical theater (actors and musicians)
• Most teen drama films are set in the location of a typical American High School - locker rooms, cafeteria, sports field, auditorium.
• Alcohol and drug use- sometimes being peer pressured into these activities, substance use at parties, emphasis of the novelty of the new feeling of being drunk/ high.
• Teen love- usually the main character having a new/ first love, a summer romance - doesn't always work out as planned.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a teenage drama film, revolving around a 15 year old, mentally ill boy called Charlie, and his friends Patrick and Sam.
The film is set in the 1990s (noticeable from the clothing the characters are wearing in the poster above). You are also able to tell it is a teen drama due to the characters being young (teenagers) and the dramatic narrative.
 The background of the poster looks like the wall of a high school gym which provides evidence for the genre being a teen drama.
The colours used include only black against a bright lime green, and a short quote is placed directly in the middle of the poster. The contrast of the two colours creates foreshadowing for the dramatic narrative ahead and the short quote "we are infinite" shows the basis of the film. we implemented these conventions to our own film poster to reflect the teenage drama genre.

The film Juno is a teenage drama film about a 16 year old girl named Juno who is attending high school and falls pregnant with her boyfriend's baby. This film follows the dramatic life of a pregnant teenager and the challenges and journeys she comes across along the way.
This film has the conventions of friendship groups (Juno is in a nerd clique, whilst her boyfriend and best friend are both the sporty type/ group), the typical high school setting and real life characters.
We implemented this research into Untamed by using a real life and relatable character.

The film Mean Girls is a teen drama which follows the new life of Cady Heron, who once lived in Africa and has recently moved to America and starts at a new high school. This film follows the teen genre conventions by having drug and alcohol use, teen love, cliques, real life characters and being set in high school.

Genre Research

Our film opening is the genre of a teen drama.

There are conventions of a teen drama which usually are consistent throughout all films of the genre.
The conventions are:
Drug/ alcohol use
Popularity status/ friendship groups
Dramatic narrative.

As our film was only the opening, we managed to use the conventions of alcohol use (where Aubrey is walking home drunk with a bottle of alcohol in her hand.
Additionally, we used Dramatic narrative to fit with the genre conventions. We did this by the use of argument between Aubrey and her mother, Caroline.

UNTAMED Official Website

http://hollyjconnell.wixsite.com/untamed

This is the link to the UNTAMED official website which we created in order to promote our film. We took inspiration from the INTERSTELLER official website as it looked very interesting, displayed both photos and description about the film which would be helpful to the target audience of they wanted to learn more about the film. We therefore modelled out website similarly to theirs.

FINAL Titles

A CONNELL PRODUCTION

 HOLLY CONNELL

ANNEKA WILLIAMSON

KATIE DUNNING

UNTAMED

JODIE PETERS

CHARLOTTE ELLIS

AARON ELLWOOD

HARRY FOORD

ELISE BECKETT

CASTING BY    OLIVIA TUCKER

MUSIC BY    ISABELLE MCCABE

MUSIC SUPERVISOR    LISA WISEMAN

COSTUME DESIGNER    SHONA EKINS

EDITOR    LUCY HOCART

PRODUCTION DESIGNER   EMILY SPENCER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY    RICHARD SMITH

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS    NICOLE ROBINSON

SHANE WILLIAMS

PRODUCED BY PETER RODGERS

JORDAN WHITEHEAD

CAROLINE MARDEN

SCREENPLAY BY   MILES PETERSON

LIA MARSHALL

DANA HAROLD

DIRECTED BY    KEITH BRUSSELL

Shot List

 

Night Time Productions- 0:00- 0:08
Wide Shot of Aubrey - 0:08-0:11
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey- 0:11- 0:15
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey 2- 0:15-0:18
Close shot of Aubrey's face, UNTAMED title- 0:18-0:26
Tracking shot of behind Aubrey walking- 0:26-0:29
Tracking shot of side of Aubrey walking- 0:29- 0:37
Panning behind shot of Aubrey walking to front door- 0:37-0:39
Still Side shot of Aubrey dropping bottle in bush- 0:39- 0:41
Close up shot of Aubrey unlocking door- 0:42-0:48
Aubrey walking in door from behind (exterior)- 0:48-0:49
Aubrey walking into house from front (Interior)- 0:49- 0:52
Side shot of Caroline looking up at Aubrey- 0:52-0:52
Tracking shot of Aubrey looking around house- 0:52-0:55
eye level mid long shot Aubrey talks to Caroline- 0:55- 0:57
Still right mid shot of Caroline- 0:57-0:58
LS left track of Aubrey walking to sofa- 0:58- 1:01
MLS front of Aubrey sitting on sofa- 1:01-1:02
Over shoulder shot of Caroline- 1:02-1:03
MS  of Aubrey- 1:04-1:05
Long over shoulder shot of Aubrey- 1:05-1:08
MS of Carol- 1:08-1:10
High MS of Aubrey- 1:10-1:10
MS of Carol- 1:11-1:12
LS of Aubrey standing up- 1:12-1:14
Tracking shot of Aubrey walking away- 1:14-1:15
Tracking shot of Caroline walking after her- 1:15-1:17
Tracking shot of Caroline chasing Aubrey up stairs- 1:17-1:18
side MS of Aubrey and Caroline on stairs- 1:18-1:21
Over shoulder MLS shot of Aubrey- 1:21-1:22
Over shoulder MLS shot of Caroline- 1:22-1:25
LS of Aubrey-1:25-1:26
Over shoulder shot of Caroline- 1:26-1:26
Over shoulder shot of Aubrey running up stairs- 1:26- 1:31
Tracking shot of Aubrey walking into bedroom- 1:31- 1:33
Tracking shot of Aubrey packing- 1:33-1:34
High shot of Aubrey packing- 1:33- 1:38
tracking shot of Aubrey- 1:38-1:41
Tracking shot of Aubrey- 1:41- 1:44
Tracking MS of Aubrey running our door- 1:44-46
Tracking high shot of Aubrey running down stairs- 1:46-1:49
Tracking shot of Aubrey putting on shoes and running out door- 1:49-1:52
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey running on road (exterior)- 1:52-1:53
Behind tracking shot of Aubrey running on road- 1:53-1:57
Front tracking Close up shot of Aubrey running- 1:57-1:59
Long shot to Aubrey running- 1:59-2:01
Long behind shot of Aubrey running- 2:01- 2:03
Side mid shot of Aubrey stopping at gate- 2:02-2:04
BCU of Aubrey's face- 2:04- 2:06
Black screen- 2:06- 2:09

Titles

A CONNELL PRODUCTION

HOLLY CONNELL

ANNEKA WILLIAMSON

KATIE DUNNING

UNTAMED

JODIE PETERS

CHARLOTTE ELLIS

AARON ELLWOOD

HARRY FOORD

ELISE BECKETT

CASTING BY    OLIVIA TUCKER

MUSIC BY    ISABELLE MCCABE

MUSIC SUPERVISOR    LISA WISEMAN

COSTUME DESIGNER    SHONA EKINS

EDITOR    LUCY HOCART

PRODUCTION DESIGNER   EMILY SPENCER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY    RICHARD SMITH

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS    NICOLE ROBINSON

SHANE WILLIAMS

PRODUCED BY PETER RODGERS

JORDAN WHITEHEAD

CAROLINE MARDEN

SCREENPLAY BY   MILES PETERSON

LIA MARSHALL

DANA HAROLD

DIRECTED BY    KEITH BRUSSELL

UNTAMED Website inspiration

For our UNTAMED Film website we took inspiration from the INTERSTELLAR website as it was eye catching and bold, we took influence from the navigation bar and the overall layout of the website.

Production Diary

07/11/16 -  Today, in our lesson, we were told that we were going to be producing a film opening that needed to look as professional as possible. We were all put into groups our group included me, Charlotte, Anneka and Holly. We began to brainstorm ideas and decided to present our film opening pitch on a presentation website called Emaze. I set up an account and began to present our ideas, we also discussed what genres we could most successfully portray.

08/11/16- In todays lesson I continued to add more to the Emaze presentation, whilst charlotte focused on shots and locations were going to include, and holly and Anneka researched good film openings and noted down things that made them stand out and seem intriguing. In our Emaze we included our genre, target audience, plot, characters and props/costume. We found it quite difficult to adapt to the software as it was the first time we had used it.  The theme of our film is adolescence, it's about a young 17 year old girl who is quite troubled and rebellious she confesses she is gay to her mother, and is kicked out the house. We chose to do this type of film as it is modern and relatable we also wanted it to stand out from the typical more obvious genres such as Action and horror.

09/11/16- We continued to adapt and add more to our Film pitch presentation, we began to add more detail to our character analysis and include specific locations and shots we wanted to include.With all of our input, Holly created and designed an institution that we will be using before the film opening. It is called 'night time' Productions and is transitioned on screen with lighting.

10/11/16-  Today, in lesson we continued on the Film pitch we described certain shots in great detail and what was going to happen within them shots .We finished the Emaze presentation by adding the target audience, character profiles and overall plotline.

11/11/16-  In our lesson today, we presented our film pitch to the class and received feedback which was mostly positive. We also watched and listened to the other groups within our class and gave them back feedback on their film pitches.

14/11/16- Today we worked on creating a script for our film opening, whilst I started creating the storyboard on an Emaze presentation, we made the storyboard quite simple and short as we decided we  would edit it on Premier so that Anneka would speak in the background of the storyboard to add more detail into the specific shots and character analysis .

15/11/16-  As a group we continued what we was doing yesterday, whilst Charlotte began to do some research into the film titles, she took note of how long they lasted on screen and what order they came up in, as well as considering what font and colour we would like to present in our own film opening.

16/11/16-  The script got finished, and Anneka started to create a moodboard to portray this type of film opening, whilst we continued to work on the storyboard and develop a detailed background script for Anneka to read out.

17/1 1/16- Today we focused on doing some more blog posts, we looked at the risk assessments and how we would overcome them and what difficulties we would face when filming. We also done a post about props that we would be using including all technical equipment such as the cameras and tripod. Another post was about costume for the characters and how we wanted them to be portrayed.

21/11/16- As a group we went into the green room and started to film the background recording to our storyboard.

22/11/16- Today we started filming, we went up to Brixton Academy to see Chance the rapper, we filmed a short scene of when Aubrey she is at a concert and is enjoying herself. However we didn't use this video footage as the quality wasn't very good as it was hard to keep the camera steady, as well as this the lighting was to dark.

23/11/16- We decided that we were going to start filming on Friday round Anneka's house we planned to do the opening shots of Aubrey walking home drunk from the party and the inside shots and dialogue of when she is confronted by her strict mother who tells her to leave. We made some quick changes to the script and as a group discussed what we wanted to have achieved by Friday.

25/11/16- Today we began filming, we firstly began by doing hair makeup and costume for Anneka and Holly who were playing Aubrey and Carol .We managed to get some good shots from different angles and levels, we filmed the scene outside in the dark of Aubrey stumbling home drunk after the party. We used the street lighting, phone light and torches to create the lighting for the camera to use pick up Aubrey, we took lots of clips so that we could choose from the best ones. We also completed all the filming of the indoor dialogue scene.

28/11/16- Today we began editing, we began by uploading all of Friday's footage to the Mac and watching it back, this was quite time consuming as it took a long time to upload the videos. After we watched the footage we began to select which ones we were going to use and which ones we could delete.

29/11/16- We bagan to edit on premier, Anneka cut out the clips of Aubrey walking that we didn't need and edited them together, she also split the videos up which showed black screens to represent her drunken state.

30/11/16- Today we all went back round Anneka's house to finish the filming. We filmed a scene of Aubrey running away from home and meeting the girl she fancies Riley, all filming was done at night so it was quite difficult to achieve the correct lighting. We changed to finish all the filming we needed for our first film draft of UNTAMED.

02/12/16- Today we uploaded all the footage from last tight and watched it back we then began to add the ones we needed to premier to continue editing.

05/12/16- Continued editing on Premier we edited the clips and shots of Aubrey and her mother talking and then Aubrey running up the stairs and into her bedroom. We also done some music research and used a karaoke backtrack version of the song Naïve by the Kooks for the opening scene of her stumbling home.

06/12/16- Continued editing on Premier we edited the scene of Aubrey packing her bag, this consisted of lots of different shots and camera angles. We also created the UNTAMED film poster on fireworks and Photoshop.

07/12/16- We spent the lesson finishing the first draft, we finished all the video footage and began to add the titles. Once our first draft was finished we exported the video.

08/12/16- Today we watched everyone's first film opening drafts and filled out feedback sheets to give constructive criticism and to give advice on what went well.

09/12/16- As a group we read all our feeback sheets and talked about what we needed to change and what we could include to improve it. We then done a blog post about the Feedback summarising what people generally said.

12/12/16- Today we continued blogging about the film opening and began the process of making improvements based on our feeback sheets. We also made sure we were up to date with everything.

13/12/16- We changed our titles on premier as we had some names that were repeated through out. We also done some research into film certificates and what makes our film a 15. Holly began to create a website for our film to gain more publicity and variation in advertisement.

14/12/16- In today's lesson we continued to re do the titles for the opening, this involved doing some research into other film opening titles, we looked at Juno and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and wrote down what order they came in. Holly and Charlotte continued to create the UNTAMED website and we decided that we would make a social media account.

15/12/16- Today we continued to edit for our final UNTAMED film opening, we finished doing the new corrected titles and just made a few edits to some of the clips. We also continued to do the website and uploaded our film opening to one of the website pages.

19/12/16- Today we finished editing for our final draft and exported it. We then continued to finish the film website and created a Twitter account.

Location Shots

Above is an image of where the first shot of Aubrey is filmed.

Here is where one of the first shots of our film opening is filmed. In front of the gate is where Aubrey is pictured stopping and drinking from her bottle of alcohol with close up shots of her face whilst the titles play.

      

Above are images of the location where Aubrey is filmed walking and stumbling with her alcohol bottle whilst titles and Naive by the Kooks plays.

Here is Aubrey's home. Aubrey stops in front of this house and throws her bottle into the bush, then quietly enters the house.

Above are images of where Aubrey is filmed running away from home in a hurry.

Above are two shots of the final shot. This is the location which Aubrey is filmed stopping herself from running by grabbing onto the gate and heavily breathing with a close up of her face. This is the last shot of the whole opening sequence.