practice test footage

This is our testing footage for our thriller opening, we have started to decide what order the sequence will go in and have done some test filming to practice this.

Children's Film

Self-Assessment.

Media Assessment

We had two weeks to create an opening sequence for a children's film, we had one week to create our footage and one week to edit. We could use either IStopMotion, green screen or actual footage. We choose to create our film using actual footage and to edit our film on Final Cut Express. The story was based on a group of teenage girls and was set in a location of a college. The plot of the story was about a teenage girl starting at a new college and her whole process of making a  relationship with a group of friends and the problems that occur. The target audience we aimed our sequence at was teenagers this is because we wanted the audience to relate to the characters.

We feel we met our genre by using a variety of mise-en-scene that linked to the target audience including location, clothing, props, characters body language and real life situations. We also included a variety of different camera angles and shots including a panning shot, tracking shot, high angle shot and more.We had an establishing shot to show where our films is set, we introduced characters, credits and the music we included was created by a member of our group in Garage Band which was edited into our sequence by Final Cut Express. We edited our footage by cutting, trimming and extending on the final cut express software. We incorporated a voice over in our product to create more of a narrative in the story, we did this so that the story of the film would be clear to the target audience.

If we were to reproduce the film we could have used our time more effectively and spent more time on planning and making sure our plans can be carried out in the amount of time we were given.
While creating our film, we had a lot of ideas however we encountered problems with the cameras and therefore has to change our ideas. We feel that with a little more planning and time we could have improved the outcome of our film.

12 T1-20 Media Peer Feedback

1. Conventions of an opening sequence.
- Credits were good, could've left it more of a cliff hanger rather than tell you the whole story but we enjoyed it.
- Included character introduction, credits, theme and and setting.

2. Specific genre conventions.
- Chick flick

3. Variety and quality of camerawork.
-Yeah, i suppose the camerawork is ok.
-Yes includes different angles.
-Good camera angles.

4. Use of special effects - animation.
- None.
-Clouds and credits.

5. Sound - quality and effectiveness.
-Background music went along with storyline as did narrative.
-Yes the sound is effective but outlasts movie.
-Appropriate music for what was going on.

6. Use of Mise En Scene.
-Food use of mise en scene such as using the sandwich and money.
-Props eg. food and bag etc.

7. Editing.
-Food - with the sound put with film in time.
-Is well done with the exception of the sound at the end.

8. Best Features.
- Alright.
-Voice over (narrator) was good.
-Really liked the credits over the clouds.

By Victoria Pryor

Planning For Our Children's Film

Throughout our planning of the project we experienced minor difficulties with creating out first idea so then had to often re-think our ideas as we went along. Therefore our original planning doesn't really fit the theme of our final piece. Our final piece is set in a school and is about a new girls first day and the difficulties of making friends. It is a chick-flick genre and we were inspired by the TV program  'waterloo road'. 

Photo's - these were taken around site to inspire our thoughts and creations, we have lots of colourful photos to represent children's colour's and how we might decorative our background in the film. 

this is the green room were we will be filming our story. 

Initial Ideas -

- who ate the smarties
- Little girl playing with her toys but then they come alive when she goes for dinner and eats her smarties
- making it a fantasy world
- using a green screen to change the location background (disney land)
- PG film
- Voice overs for the toys
- Jewellery box noise (music) in background softly
- Names and title created in sweets
- She is having a tea party with her toys feeding them smarties

Props and Costumes -
- Teddy bears
- Barbies
- Little children toys

Genre -
- Fantasy

Shot list -
- Close up shots
- Mid shots
- Tracking shot

Editing -
- Parallel editing
- Effects
- cut transition

By Saffron Osborn and Jake Page

Group 20 - Daisy Dunnett, Vic Pryor, Saffron Osborn, Jake Page

Preliminary Task and Storyboard

Storyboard -

Analysis -

While filming our preliminary task we had a certain amount of shots to be included. We began by filming a establishing shot this was to introduce the location of the sequence, we created this by a character walking down the hallway. The next shot we used was a close up of the characters hand opening the door as well as that we had to create a match on action shot this is when you cut during an action to another camera angle but showing the action from the same point in time that you left from the previous shot, we incorporated this shot by showing the character opening the door from both sides, this is important as it shows the flow of the scene. The plot of our task was a character walking to meet to talk to another character, the next shot we needed to use was a reaction shot this is to introduce the second character, this is another important shot as it encourages the audience to believe the characters are in the same location. The long shot is the other shot we needed to include this shows the two characters in the same location, this informs the audience of the characters positions relative both to one another and to their surroundings. The final shot is filming a conversation over the shoulder, allowing both characters to remain in the scene. The conversation we used was general conversation. Overall our preliminary task was a success as we included all the shots needed.

Daisy Dunnett