Character Profiles

Task Sixteen: Character Profiles

 

 

 

 

 

What have I learnt?

For this task, I had too create character profiles on our actors, which was difficult as we had a lot of character issues. Therefore during this task, We have learnt how to work together in a crisis and overcome it.

Sound

Task Nineteen: Sound 

What have I learnt?

During this task, We have looked at various sound tracks, and decided which would be best suited to our sequence and our genre of 80's Science Fiction.

Cloning Practise

Cloning Practise

 

As we have chosen to create a film including clones, we decided to play around with iMovie and clone some items.

Analyse previous students work

Task Ten: Analyse previous students work

 

       

           

             

 

 

What have I learnt?

During this task, I have looked at the work of previous students, and discussed what was good and what wasn't so good. This helped me to decide what I had to do to our opening sequence so that it was professional and did not include small mistakes that others had made, such as bad lighting. 

Typography Research

Task Eighteen: Typography Research

For our research, we looked into font's that would be best suited to our genre of film. We then created a survey on those particular fonts so that we could gain some insight into what our audience thought. 

When we had received all of our survey's, we looked at the results and decide which font is best suited, that the audience had chose.

 

 

 

We then put the titles together to see what they would look like.
 

 

What have I learnt?

During this task, I have learnt that it is important to ask the opinions of your chosen target audience, so that your decision is best suited to what the audience feel is best, therefore engaging them.

Green Screen Practise

Green Screen Practise

   

  

For our opening sequence, we will use a green screen. Therefore we played around with a green screen and some backgrounds so that we had a clear idea of how to work a green screen and what to do when editing our chosen background onto one.

Representation in Films

Task Nine: Representation in Films

  

                           

What have I learnt?

During this research task, I have learnt how to use things such as mise en scene, editing and sound to create different representations and social groups in films.

Audience profile

Task Thirteen: Audience Profile

What have I learnt?

During this task, I have learnt that our primary audience will be teenage males and our secondary audience will be females and young adults. We have also decided that our opening sequence will be aimed towards the working class as the protagonist will be from a working class family, therefore our audience may be able to relate to the character.

Draft and Final Script

Task Fourteen: Draft and Final Script

Draft

Final Script

What have I learnt?

During this task, I have learnt that in order to get the perfect script, you must go over the narrative various times, so that the stage directions and speech is in the right order and where they should be.

Create a continuity sequence of at least 20 different shots

Creative Task Five: Create a continuity sequence of at least 20 different shots

                       

                       

                       

          

What went well?

 

During this task, we found that planning out our scenes worked very well as it meant that we could film faster and more efficiently as we knew what we were doing. We also found that our match on action shots were smooth and everything fit together nicely.

 

Problems?

 

We did not have many problems, however after editing, we did notice that there was a person stood in the back of one of our shots. This will be something that we will be looking out for in  our final piece as  it can affect the quality of our piece.

 

What have I learnt?

 

During this task, I  have learnt that background is very important as it can affect the quality of your work if things such as people or shoes are in the corner of the shot.  I have also learnt how to condense a sequence down by using quick shots so that you are able to fit every shot in the small amount of time that we have.

 

Thinking of a concept/Final idea

   
Task Twelve: Thinking of a concept/Final idea

Before we began to think of an idea, we looked at the positives and negatives of each sub genre so that we could clarify which type of coming of age film would appeal to the audience more. 

In the end we chose...

We then began to think of a few ideas for different films.

After looking into each idea in more detail, we chose film idea 2, however we used elements of film idea 1. From idea 1, we have chosen to use the idea of teenage boys on bikes, then we merged this with film idea 2 and came up with the idea of two teenagers  who discover a clone of themselves. We also decided to base our film around the 80's.

Once we had came up with an idea, we created a pitch, looking into certain things such as...

• Name ideas for our film.

We came up with the title 'humanoids' after looking at words linked with robots and science fiction. 

• Age certificate

We looked into age certificates and decided that our film should be rated more than a PG but less than an 18.

• Location

For location, we came up with the idea of using an old council estate. 

We also looked into:

• Characters
• Fashion
• Typography
• Narrative
• Audience
• Representation
• Institutions

                                          

                                              Our Pitch

What have I learnt?

During this task, I have learnt that putting all your ideas onto a piece of paper can be helpful in deciding what is best and what is not so good. Also by sharing a pitch with others, you can gain other's opinions on your ideas, helping to create a better idea.