Locations

Last week our group went out of school and went to a few locations to find out where we are going to film our film, these are the locations we choose

Ideas..

Here are a few photos that we are going to put in our film opening, we have got some others that we will also use.

Character Profiles

This is Joe Shaw, 16 years of age and he will be playing a teenage heart broken boy called Jacob, who gets dumped by the only girl he ever loved. We chose Joe to play this role because he is the best at acting this part

Character Profiles

This is me,  Gina Fort, 16 years of age and she will be playing a teenage love rat girl called Isabella, who messes with her boyfriends head.

Research and Filming

We Went out for a reckie trip as we needed to decide on the location for the opening scene of our film, after looking around we collecting an amount of pictures: we have yet to decide what pictures are going to be the area we actually film in, as there was so many to decide from .

As we were out we took the time to film some of our opening scene to get a quick glimpse of what our film would like, we will edit it to make sure that everything is okay and then we will go out again and re film it as we haven't decided if there area we filmed it in is the area that we going to use.

Song choices for our movie.

This is just one of the songs we are thinking of using because it fitws in with thed meanings of our videos and how the characters are feeling.

Rom-Com Film reviews

This film review is about 50 first dates. It shows us whats good and bad about that particularly film and it will help us with our film making. So we know how to make our film differ from this one and how to make the critics like it. 

Planning and Research

http://movies.about.com/od/dvds/tp/romanticcomedy.htm

These are some films that have the same genre as ours. However, these films havent got very good ratings, so we are hoping that by the reasearch we have done and our own knowledge we are able to make a better film and hopefully get more ratings.

Above is a list of films and their directors with similar genres to our idea. This has helped us in our planning stages because it means if our film was ever to be produced we would know who our competition would be and who was the best director to help us. We can tell the best director by looking at the films produced and seeing which one has been most successful. 

So far these are the plans we have made. However, these could change over time depending on how well they fit and if the circumstances are right.

Our idea and others on the market

Our final idea is similar to the film 'John Tucker Must Die' which was made in 2006.

The film is about three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.

Our idea however is about one boy who is trying to get revenge on his ex-girlfriend for messing him around and not caring about him or taking his emotions into consideration.

Although our ideas are similar they have completely different concepts and will be represented differently.

Our Final Idea

Our romantic comedy (Rom-com) 2 minute film opening idea

BASIC DESCRIPTION

• various shots of the couple happily together and in love
• a shot of the couple arguing and breaking up
• a medium shot of one character ripping up a picture of them to show their relationship is over
• the title 'karma' then appears.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In the opening scene we will show close-ups of the pictures of the couple (Geoffry Palamason, played by Joe Shaw and Isabelle Thomson, played by Gina Fort) in memory of their happy relationship. A short part of the opening will then show the couple arguing and splitting up. A close-up will then appear of Geoffory looking upset and disraught and then Isabelle looking happy and not bothered. A fading camera shot will the show the close-up as a distant memory. Another medium shot from beind Geoffory will then show him ripping up something the viewer cannot see. Then when Geoffery leaves the camera zooms onto in on the thing that he ripped up thing which is a photo. The photo is of the couple ripped up and then a title appears saying 'KARMA'

Our Final Chosen Idea

For our final idea we have chosen to do idea 3. We are now going to do some research into our idea and how its going to work.

Changing Identities was out first idea, the genre was an Action Thriller. We decided against this film  because of the hassle and difficulty contacting the police about allowing the props on the streets e.g. knifes. However, it would have been a really easy film to shot as it would be a lot of jump cuts.

Lost times was  the second film that our group produced, the genre of the film is Romance. We did like this idea as we prefer to do a Rom-com or a romance, but from the analysis and the feedback that was given, there was many faults with this idea and required a lot of work to ensure that the opening scene would of good quality and interest the audience.

Karma was another film idea that we produced, the genre is Rom-com; this was the genre that we thought we would enjoy the most and would enjoy filming. Feedback was given when we produced our presentation to the class, it was very useful, it was mainly positive but we did get a negative but that could be worked on, and changed into a positive. A basic and detailed description was posted on our blog to show and represent the ideas and films relating to the film itself.

This is my Opening time line for casino royale

Casino Royale Opening Credits.

Research Into Titles

These are the opening film stills for Casino Royale

Final Preliminary

Questionaire

What’s your favourite genre? (Circle answer)

· Horror

· Comedy

· Romantic

· Action

What’s your favourite film? (Write Below)

Do you like your opening scene to...? (Circle answer)

· Give great detail into characters

· Start a dramatic event (death, action or fight)

· Slow build up to a main event in the film

· Show a event then go back in time to see the build up of the event

· Set scene

Age (so we know our target audience- write below)?

Are you male or female? (so we know our target audience - write below)

We will hand out this questionaire to the general public which will give us an insite into what our target audience will be and what our movie genre will be.

Please fill in, we would like as much analysis as possible.

Ratings

 Suitable for all

It is impossible to predict what might upset any particular child. But a ‘U’ film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over. ‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.
Parental Guidance

General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.
Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

Suitable for 12 years and over

Exactly the same criteria are used to classify works at ‘12A’ and ‘12’. These categories are awarded where the material is suitable, in general, only for those aged 12 and over. Works classified at these categories may upset children under 12 or contain material which many parents will find unsuitable for them.

Suitable only for 15 years or over

No-one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

Suitable only for adults

No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video work.

bbfc

The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.

Cinema
The British Board of Film Censors was set up in 1912 by the film industry as an independent body to bring a degree of uniformity to the classification of film nationally.Statutory powers on film remain with the local councils, which may overrule any of the BBFC’s decisions, banning films we have passed, passing films we reject, and even waiving cuts, instituting new ones, or altering categories for films exhibited under their own licensing jurisdiction.

Video
In 1984 Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act. This act stated that, subject to certain exemptions, video recordings offered for sale or hire commercially in the UK must be classified by an authority designated by the Secretary of State. The President and Vice Presidents of the BBFC were so designated, and charged with applying the new test of ‘suitability for viewing in the home’. At this point the Board’s title was changed to the British Board of Film Classification to reflect the fact that classification plays a far larger part in the BBFC’s work than censorship.

Finances
The BBFC is a not for profit organisation, and its fees are adjusted only as required to cover its costs. In order to preserve its independence, the BBFC has never received subsidies from either the film industry or the government. Its income is derived solely from the fees it charges for its services, calculated by measuring the running time of films or DVDs submitted for classification. The tariff must be approved by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

My Groups Logo

By Gina, Joe, Mat and Alex

Analyse Film Openings

Mean Girls
The opening scene of mean girls shows a girl who used to be home schooled moving to a high school. It starts off with her parents talking to her, looking down at her. They show this in a two person shot. It then does an over the shoulder shot of her standing up. The camera movement throughout the opening scene is mostly panning.

The Hangover
The film opening to the hangover starts off with showing us the wedding venue and the bride worrying about where her husband to be is. The opening the goes onto a Close-up of a man on the phone, the man says the Bachelor party got out of the control and they 'F***ed up' and lost the man who is due to be getting married. He then says the wedding will probably not happen. The titles then start and it makes you want to carry on watching in suspence to know what happened that may make the wedding not happen, and where the lost man actually is.

Step-brothers
The opening sequence of 'Step-brothers' shows a women and her son at home, and then a man and his son at home. It then cuts to the man and women meeting in what seems to be a work conference. I think this is shown to show the two families coming together which makes the viewer want to keep watching to find out what will happen.

Codes and conventions in Media

The codes and conventions in media can be separated into 3 distinct groups -
- Technical (camera techniques & shots),
- Symbolic (ie clothing, colours)
- Written and audio (music etc).
These give the text meaning and determine the response of the viewer. They can be used as a basis for simple text analysis. So in order to compose any work related to media you should con

Codes and Conventions: the familiar and predictable forms and techniques used by the media to convey a desired impression. Codes include the special devices of an individual media, such as camera angles, lighting, special effects. Conventions are the typical plot elements including conflicts and resolutions of a particular medium.

Continuity

This is when video clips go together, but they have the same information so the clips flow together smoothly.

180 Degrees rule

The 180° rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Shot/Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Therefore the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the veiwer assumes that they are looking at eachother.

Match on Action

This is where the film cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.

Match on Action

Introduction

My name is Georgina Fort. I am 16 years old and currently studying my A levels at Ken Stimpson.

In my group i shall be working with Joe Shaw, Alex O'flaherty and Mathew Wilkin

In media studies this year I will be doing:

Preliminary exercise (continunity exercise)
This will involve a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom they exchange a couple of lines of dialouge. The tast should demonstrate

• Match on action
• Shot/Reverse shot
• 180 degrees rule

Main Tast: opening to a new fiction film and titles.