Prelim task and evaluation

Prelim task and evaluation

The Show Must Go On! 

The task was simple, we had to create a short film on a genre of our choice, we chose a musical. In the presentation below it includes, self and peer evaluation, shooting schedule, storyboard, production diary, brief film treatment and risk assessment a long with a film poster.

The Show Must Go On!

Here is our short film that we created in our group, the genre is supposed to be a musical.
Group; Elona, Georgia, Jack and Luke. Mr Amato also helped in the short film.

Risk assessment and shooting schedule

RISK ASSESSMENT

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

First lesson of Prelim Task

First editing session

What we done

During our first editing session we managed to film 7 scenes, this included many shots including match on action, tracking shot, pan shot and top angle shot. As a group we think that we managed to film a lot of scenes for one lesson, our roles were Georgia filming, me storyboards, saying what had to be done during the scene, with Elona and Jack acting and Mr Amato also acting as the teacher in our film opening. 

Brief film treatment

Brief film treatment

Title

After a group discussion and deciding what the film is going to end up like, we decided on a title. We thought that it would be a good idea to decide the title after we decided on the storyboard and what genre we were going to do. We came to an agreement that the title would be 'the show must go on' 

Genre

After discussing as a group we decided that we were going to go with a musical, because with the horror and thriller genre already taken we could not use this genre, therefore we decided on choosing the musical. 

Idea

The film is basically about two children that are in school and have got detention on the night of one of the school plays/musical. The children have to try and escape from the teacher that is supervising detention in order to reach the school play. We decided to start the film with the children in detention and then progress from there, with the children attempting to escape to the show that is going to be shown in the hall. In order to make this work we decided to use an ordinary class room for where detention would be and then the show is going to be happening in primmer assembly hall, as we thought that this would be a better destination rather than using the drama studio. At one point during the film the children will be running through the hallways, therefore we decided to use the link corridor to film this part of the film. 

Music

1) Break free

2) Don't stop me now

3) We will rock you

Script

Limited speech

Teacher tells children that the they must stay in the room and they cannot go to the play. 

Children do not really say anything in response to this and communicate to each other through hand signs and nodding. 

Institution - Big and small Institutions

The big six

There are six major institutions that in a way rule the movie industry, these big six are; Sony, Warner Bros, 20th century fox, Paramount, Disney and Universal. All of these have introduced many great films into the world and the table below shows the movies each have helped in becoming great movies. 

Sony	Warner/Bros	20th Century fox	Paramount	Disney	Universal
Amazing Spiderman 2	Magic mike XXL	Taken 3	Turtles	Inside out	Ted 2
Equaliser	Gravity	How to train your dragon	Mission impossible	Avengers	Pitch perfect
Pixels	Get hard		Terminator	Muppets most wanted	Jurassic world

Lesson - Getting up-to-date

In today's lesson we spent the whole hour all getting up to date on our blogs and improving any posts if possible or adding posts where needed. I am nearly up to date but i just realised that the taken 2 part 1 film opening was just a picture saying buy tickets so i have got to find another film opening so i can analyse it using the acronym DISTINCT. Also, I have to add more information into my analysis of Jack Jack attack and the prestige, because in both of them I need to add Todorov thoughts, so the obstacle and if there is a beginning middle and end. Also, in the Jack Jack attack analysis i need to add all of the other people including, Levi-Strauss, Barthes and Propp.

Our preliminary task

Preliminary task 

In our last media lesson we were split randomly into 3 groups, my group is made up of me, Elona, Georgia and Jack. After a discussion we decided to go for the genre of musical, this was because both thriller and horror was already taken and they were the two we mainly wanted to do. In class for half the lesson in our groups we were discussing how the film will go, we have not completely decided on everything yet but are slowly mind mapping ideas to bring together a final piece so we will have an idea of what our film will be like. In our next lesson we should be able to get started on our storyboards and then start working even further from there. 

Animals Dancing/James Bond edit

                   


                         

The purpose of this task was to use Adobe Premier for our first time to try and edit a piece which consisted of both dancing animals and action. To begin with i did find the editing hard and needed to ask our teacher a few times where some of the tools were but as i used it more and more i began to find all of the tools and understood how to use the program a lot more. I found the action part a lot easier to edit than the Dancing Animals scene, however i think this was because by the time i was editing the action and James Bond scene i understood how to use Adobe Premier and new where almost everything was by now.

Our task was to create two scenes that consisted of different things, the first scene was for Dancing Animals and the second scene was about an action piece, but this was to be based around James Bond. In order to do this we used clips from the media shared area to import into Adobe Premier and choose the Dancing Animals scenes we wanted, i also used you tube but this was to get a James Bond scene that i wanted to use. Overall, i think that the mini film with dancing animals and action went really well and i think that the final edit was completed to a good quality and standard.

Juno - Filming

Filming Juno

When filming Juno we were in groups my group was made up of three people, me, Charlie and Connor, however when we were filming the first minute for Juno like the task asked us to do Connor was not in therefore me and Charlie had to do the filming as a group of two. We found this task quite hard because Charlie was on crouches and therefore it was hard to film. Although we did manage some of the filming was a bit dodgy because Charlie had to limp as he could not walk straight. However we managed to get everything filmed and some of the scenes we had to film later as we either did not have the correct props or needed Connor as a third person to help out in the scene. 

Overall, i thought that the task went really well and even though some of the film is dodgy because Charlie had to film whilst on crouches i think that the short film its self is as close as we could get it to the Juno shot film actual one. As a group we did think that it does not look as good as others because we did not have a girl in our group so a boy had to play the role of Juno, as a result of this the edit does not look as good as it could have if we had a girl in our group. Now i will be editing our Juno piece in Adobe Premier Pro and then be uploading onto my blog and you tube. 

Media Studies Talk

Media Studies Talk - Pete Fraser

Today, we were asked to go to the assembly hall as Pete Fraser came into to talk to all of the Media Studies students about the course and to give us some tips about the course and how to get the most marks possible. The man that came in talked about top tips, like actually knowing what a opening scene is, not getting confused with a trailer or short film. Also, Pete showed us some students past film openings and we the as a group would discuss why the film opening was given the grade it was awarded and what its strengths and weaknesses were.

All together we were shown four film openings from four groups, between the film opening all of the groups were awarded a level 1, 2, 3 and 4. Pete also gave us a top tip that was to improve every little thing we can, this is because all little things that are made better all add up to a big difference which could end up getting us a better grade. Lastly, Pete recommended that we checked out this website - http://www.artofthetitle.com/ - This is because they give of a lot of film opening and text on how to use titles in the opening and what makes them the most effective and how to create a good level film opening.

Juno Opening

Juno Opening 

This is the opening scene from Juno, our task was to try and re-create this ourselves, therefore we completed storyboards of what happened throughout the opening scene and then in our selected groups we were asked to video it. Our group will be filming in a few lessons.