Audience Feedback

The from the feedback that we have collected from the audience that have watched our 3 minute sequence we have got back;
That our Mise en Scene was good
We found that most of our audience understood our main object of the film (Demonte being gay) but they were not sure what he was setting out to achieve, we also got back that the relationship between the characters was not entirely clear.
We had mixed views of our camera work as they varied between; good to weak.
We also had mixed views on editing from ok to very weak.
The sound of our sequence was mainly goods and ok's.
Our titles were said to be mainly ok's.
From the feedback that we have got back we have got that our strengths are that our sequence is funny, we have used a good variety of camera shots, the Mise en Scene relates to the film sexuality, age and gender. Our dialogue was also a strength that was picked up on.
The weaknesses that got picked up on was mainly the editing.

altering the film sequence

we had to alter our film sequence because the sound was abit fuzzy and there was alot of background noise. we did this from final cut express, it was very easy to use and helped our film sequence be better.

Textual Analysis - Kevin and Perry go large

Camera-

At the beginning of the opening sequence, Kevin is having a dream, that he was in the victorian times. The shots that were used were, extreme close up, long shot and close up shot.

Then there is a clip of Kevin in his bedroom, the clips that are used are a low angle shot, a long shot, a close up, an extreme close up and two person shot. 

throughout the rest of the opening sequence shots such as;

Hand held camera shots

Panning

low angle shots

Extreme long shot / panning with title of film

Representation of characters

The representation that these characters give across, is a typical teenage boy, and the things they get up to. They also give the representation of how teenagers act towards their parents, and how the parents handle not being obeyed. 

It also shows perhaps a hobbie that teenagers would be into "music". Kevin and Perry enjoy to DJ, but again, they disobey their parents with playing their music to loud, i think this opening sequence represents teenagers well. 

Mise-en-scene

The bedroom - in this shot their is;

Posters of woman

Books

Blow up toys

clothes

magazines

The shopping- in this shot there is;

Shops 

People 

Editing

There did not seem to be a lot of editing in the opening sequence other than, the titles at the beginning.

The cutting between shots

Fading out

Titles of the film and the end

Sound

Throughout the opening sequence there was an ongoing beat behind the actors talking this is called non-diegetic sound.

There is one scene where Kevin and Perry are DJ in their bedroom, this music would be called diegetic sound 

We did not look at the whole of this clip, we studied up to where the title of the film comes up,

which is around 5 minutes 07.

Whilst filming our 2 minute sequence

Whilst filming our two minute sequence we came across some problems, that we didn't think would be an issue whilst planning.
The cast that we were planning on using, was not as easy to bring together, because of other lessons, and different timetables. we tried a number of times to bring our cast together but for different reasons they could not get out of their lesson. Our group from college was allowed to miss lesson as we got slips from our teacher, but the cast members that we used who did not do media could not get one of these, and so it was difficult for them. One of our main characters "Spike" played a large part in our play, and was also a large part in our planning, but because she could not miss any of her lessons, we where unable to get her into our filming. As she played a large part in this we had to re-think our filming, but we managed to film it so as it still made sense, and she was still referred in it.
Another thing that we had in our plan was the location, we was planning on going to Brighton to film a small section, but we did not manage to get this to go ahead as we planned a day to go, but due to other crews commitments we did not manage to go.
Although we came across some issues we managed to correct them and cover them up. I now know that if we were to do this again, we would have to plan more accurately and have the time in consideration, and perhaps make it more realistic, as it is difficult to organize when a group of people can all get time out of college.

6th feb

Wrote up textual analysis. 

We then went on to watching videos of similar genres on you tube to get ideas for our film.

Textual analysis American Pie

Camera- 

There have been many shots used in the opening scenes:

- high angle

- low angle 

- medium close up

- extreme close up

- over the shoulder

- tracking

- close up 

- two shot

Sound

When the film began there was music playing, as the characters were getting introduced. There were many significant sounds in the film, like the sirens of the police cars. also the voice was louder and bolder when he used the machine that shouted for him.

Shot list

These are the shots that we are planning on using for our two minute opening sequence:

• Opening shot, interview room- Over the shoulder, two person shot
• Editing- Fades out into a long shot
  
• Long shot of Spike and Demonte walking to the front gates of college
  
• Medium Close up shot over the shoulder of Spike and Demonte having a conversation before entering the college. 
• Medium close up from the front of  Demonte dancing 
• Close up to Spike saying " Come on you big girl, lets go and get this party started."
• Long shot over the shoulder of them walking down the drive 
• Medium shot of Demonte and the rest of the group siting at the table having a conversation
• Close up of person 1, when she is talking
• Close-up of Demonte when is says  "Erm no, i don't really see girls in that way, that's not the way i flow"
• Extreme close up of person 1, 
• Medium close up of Demonte and the rest of the table. You then hear someone in the background shout something
• Low angle shot of Demonte when he gets up from the table and walks away
• Cuts to the interview room, over the shoulder shot of interviewer to spike and Demonte
• Medium close up of spike in his bedroom
• close-up of him on the phone
• Cuts to college where they are doing the petition
• long shot of the whole scene
• tracking in to a close up shot of spike
• then switches between the others
• extreme close up of Spike talking to Demonte
• close-up of Demonte shouting
• cuts back to the interview room, over the shoulder shot of interviewer on Spike and Demonte
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film pitch

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powerpoint presentation

16th January 2009 - During this lesson we started to create a pitch for our movie on a powerpoint presentation. Within it we had to include developments, production stages and distribution.

we will carry this on until the due date which is thursday the 22nd of january.

19th January 2009 - We carried on our presentation. When we logged on we found that our previous presentation and disappeared, and so we had to try to catch up as much as possible. We managed to catch up as much as possible, and nearly completed the presentation. Although we have one slide to Complete next lesson.

22nd January 2009 - We finished our presentation. 

textual analysis "mean girls"

Camera -
when Lindsay Lohan is saying goodbye to her parents on her first day of school, the camera shot that is used is; a two shot, high angle and a close up. They are also taking pictures of her so a freezing shit is used whilst this is happening.
-Throughout the rest of the opening sequence shots such as;
-medium close up
-close up
-long shot
-over the shoulder
-pan held
-tracking

Sound
At the beginning when Lindsay Lohan's parents are saying goodbye, non diegetic sound is being used, as Lindsay was talking as the narrator.
when they were at the school there is a lot of non diegetic sound, such as music playing in the background, students talking in the background and the school bell ringing.

Mise en scene
The Mise en Scene throughout this opening sequence is mainly of the school and Lindsay's home, the things that are included in theses shots are;
-Modern day clothing
-Class rooms / desks / boards etc
-School playing field
-Natural lighting is used throughout the opening sequence

Representation
The opening sequence to Mean girls represents teenage life, school life. and the importance and difficulty to settling in somewhere. The different type of social groups is also shown very quickly into this opening sequence. Stereotypes are represented in this film very clearly, there are the "Plastics, Nerds, Asians, Fat people" it comes across very clearly as they have used, costumes, personality, the actor, script and mise en scene.

Editing
There did not seem to be a lot of editing in the opening sequence, however there was a bit of freezing shots, when pictures where being taken. When going from shot to shot a straight cut was used.

synopsis

Its a new term of college with a new year of students, two students have hidden a secret that they have been a couple for a while, finally decide to come out and admit their feelings to everyone that they are in fact gay and in a relationship. They have never admitted to their feelings before to anyone else, other than to each other because they were scared how people would react and what they would say.

lesson one creating production company

MONDAY, 5 JANUARY 2009

Today we had our first production meeting we all discussed our strengths, timetable and we discussed what we would prefer to do, we came up with the following:

Director/actor- Conor
Producer-Sophie
Camera- Tasha
Sound-Catherine
Editing- Everyone

However we may make some slight adjustments, when our idea if finalized.


-Thought of names for the production company

-Researching genres of the films e.g. Horror, romance, Action, comedy, thriller and are own ideas for our 2 minute opening sequence

We thought of resources that we have access to to give us a better idea as to what and where we could film, we came up with the following:

-College
-Houses
-Car
-Park
-Car-park
-Prop's in college (Prop cupboard)
-Costumes

we used this video because t is a lot like the genre and film type we have chosen for our 2 minute opening sequence.