House scene filming

This is what we have planned for the 4th of Feb filming of our house shoot. Each of us has to bring in some of the props. We discussed who will bring in and what we think the actors are required to wear. Hopefully it will be a very productive day.

ANOTHER opening credits idea

Whilst looking at title credits, we came across the opening sequence of Napoleon Dynamite. This really fit the character in our film Ned Flame and as the film is based around him this would be a good idea for an opening. We plan to used books instead of food to highlight Ned's "dorky" character. We may also use men's mag's to show Rick Flame's character but personally i feel that they are too graphic, but this is just an option.

This is another possible title sequence opening. If we feel that it doesn't work out then we will go back to our first idea of establishing shots.

Looking at fonts for credits

Today we started looking at various different fonts for our title sequence. We used a website called 'dafont.com' which allows you to download various different fonts.

This is the font we plan to use for our Titles.

5 days of filming

We have updated our film schedule as we still have more shooting to do. We hadn't decided where we was going to shoot our house scene, but now that we have we have planned filming for saturday to do more scenes.

Just a little update, our first Vlog

Shot list

Here are a few shots and possible transitions when editing we are thinking about using in our film

Production schedule

This is our production schedule for our film. We begin most of our filming this week.

More film influences: Juno credits

Another opening credits that we looked at was Juno. Andrew had the idea of making them "cartoony" adding to the theme of our film. In Juno everything looks drawn which is really comical and adds to what potentially will happen in the film. Whether we would be able to make something similar possible for our film, we will have to see.

Possible opening credits music

As possible opening credits music, we looked at Jamie Lidell - Another day. As our film in a Rom/Com this song is very upbeat and will help add to the start of our film for our credits. It would be nice if this ran while the first establishing shots were running.

Public Survey

We did a survey in order to decide what genre we wanted to do. From our group, Ruth went around people in our year group and asked people "Which genre do you prefer?" out of the options Action, thriller, romance, Rom/Com, drama, horror, sci-fi, western, crime, comedy.

She also asked "How often do you watch TV in a week?" with the options 0-5 hours, 6-10 hours, 11-15 hours, 16-20 hours.

The results for our survey are below.

From the results we can see that Action, Rom/Com, and Comedy came out on top for what pupils in our year group liked the best. This helped us to come to what genre we wanted to do.

We decided to go with the genre Rom/Com, after a lesson we had looking at film openings. I thought it would be a good idea to conform the normal stereotype of a girl finding love, with a boy finding love. This is how our idea came about.

The beginning of our 2 minute movie task

As part of our coursework, we are required to create a 2 minute film opening. This means that we were left to create everything, from the story to filming. My class was split into groups and i was chosen to work with Andrew, Ruth and Mica. First, we had to come up with a genre that we wanted to work with...

Preliminary Task Storyboard

For our preliminary task we had to create a scene, in which two characters are in room sitting opposite each other. My scene involved an imigration officer and a suspected immigrant.

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Preliminary Task.

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple lines of dialogue. The task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot, and the 180-degree rule.

The scene begins with a close up shot of a woman's feet as she opens the door into the room. we do not yet know who the woman is or what she is doing. the shot then moves up slowly so that we see a medium close up shot of her writing on a note pad. the camera then rises up again so that the audience can see the woman's facial experession. she looks determined, almost as if she needs an answer.

We then follow the woman across a dark room, with one light with a gentleman sluched, one arm on the back of the chair; legs spread apart holding a cup of water. the lady then sits down across the table from the young man, crossing her legs. This is shown as an medium long shot and also as a two shot (as it is a conversation). The camera then zooms into the woman writing on her notepad again cutting to her face...

In the next scene, there is a close up shot of the woman saying "Did you do it?" This allows the viewer to see her expression and emotion.

The camera then cuts to the boy she is interviewing. A close up shot is shown of the boy not looking bothered, swirling the cup of water.

An extreme close up shot shows the boy drinking the bottle of water. The viewer can actually see the water go go into his mouth. Shot is held to show him wipe his mouth.

We then zoom out to a close up of the boy replying "No" With no expression or care in his face.