FINAL FILM

26. Andrew, Kelsen, Sergio from 283goswell on Vimeo.

PRELIM

29. PRELIM Andrew Karim Sergio Mimi from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation Question 1

As you can see in the video we tried to stick to title sequence conventions by the order of the credits. Due to our film being a youth drama rather than a high school drama there aren't as much people named in the cast as high school dramas tend to have way more in the cast. As our film was inspired by Kidulthood we decided to recreate a few of the shots we saw in the opening of Kidulthood as you can see highlighted in the video.

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

 

The main character here is portrayed as a lonely science nerd who is very secretive. We see him doing some sort of experiment on his own. He then walks through the college without speaking to anybody and hides the experiment in a secret place. He texts an unknown character who's face we don't see.

This character is unknown to the audience. He is portrayed as a mysterious 'boss' type character. He is shown to be watching the main characters movements on a CCTV camera. Once the main character has his the experiment he texts this mysterious character. He is wearing a smart hat and blazer and money placed on the table next to him to show that he is a boss. it is made clear that he is in control of the operation.

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Evaluation Question 5

Social media was key in promoting our film to our target audience as it is so important to a teenagers lifestyle. Pretty much every teenager uses some sort of social media. Knowing that, we promoted our film through Twitter, Blogs and Vimeo as you an see in the presentation. It was also promoted through Snapchat.

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Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at my prelim film we already had some really nice shots but what has definitely stepped up is the mise en scene used. As you can see in the clip the mise en scene is pretty basic no consideration was taken to make it look like a realistic nurse/doctors office. There is a picture of an x-ray in the background but thats about it.

Whereas with the new film our mise en scene is much better. You can see all the test tubes and other scientific equipment to show whats going on. We also made a scene which made it look like the main character was on CCTV.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In the opening title sequence of our youth drama film, different types of social groups are not presented. Our opening scene only shows two characters, the main character and a mysterious man. The mysterious main only appears for a few seconds and the rest shows the main character. Although we do not have a variety of social groups in our scene such as the common jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, our main character can be linked with other characters in real media products who represent a certain type of social individual.

Our main charater is only seen on his own within our title sequence which shows he has no friends and does not belong to a specific group but an individual instead. Although this means he does not belong to a particular social group, he is represented as a 'loner'. He can be compared to the character from 'Not Another Teen Movie' also know as the Beautiful Weirdo. Both dress in very plain and neutral colors as well as being on their own.




Another way we represented this 'loner' stereotype was to present him as quite smart. Usually, being very clever would be classed as a nerd and a nerd would typically have only a few friends. This contributes to the idea of isolation. He is shown that he is capable working with the chemistry equipment efficiently which adds to the smart factor as well as being alone in the classroom which contributes to the 'loner' stereotype.

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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your product?

Using these different types of technologies during the production stage of our film was very useful and allowed us to add more creativity into our film. The use of effects in final cut pro was essential to some of our scenes such as the CCTV camera and reducing the brightness of the image which enhanced the thriller and suspense in our film. 
The use of GIFS, videos and other presentation softwares in our blogs allowed us to present a more interesting and interactive experience for the audience.
Using Motion to create our credits was a lot more useful than using the text function on final cut pro. Motion provided more options to the text such as transitions and effects. The effect we went with was each letter appearing individually rather than the whole word showing up at once. This went along well with the theme of our film.

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Filming and Editing FINISHED!!!

We have finally finished filming and editing our film on the date of the deadline!

Branding our Blog

As our theme has taken a science turn with chemistry involved, we decided to change the background with test tubes and the font to a neater and more sciency.

Title and Ident Editing

Today we added in the titles from Motion along with the footage in Final Cut Pro. We realised that the amount of credits we had did not meet the length of the entire clip so we will need to make more. 

Audience Feedback

We have gained some feedback from fellow classmates on our second rough draft and in the video uploaded above, any people suggested the plot was more along the lines of a science thriller rather than a drug/gang theme. We intended the plot to be more about a local student/drug dealer but instead we created a sci fi genre with chemicals and viruses. We have taken the feedback into consideration and decided to use keep the film we have and head for this sci fi genre.

Rough Edit 2

This is our second rough draft of out title sequence. We have put everything in order as well as the production and distribution idents. We still need to place every credit in its order. We also need to do one more final filming session to get footage for the ending of the film.

creating titles on motion

• we used motion to create the titles we are going to use in the title sequence
• we used the font Helvetica Neue. the font colour we used was white font that  is very discrete and the titles will appear on different corners in the frame dependent on the whats going on in that particular frame

EDITING 2

We have included additional footage we filmed from the chemistry lab and replaced bits from the old footage. I have also played around with effects in final cut pro and have managed to create this CCTV effect.

Our Final Production Ident

I decided to recreate the same ident I created during my motion tutorial as I believed it fit perfectly with our film. However, I did change the text slightly to make it look more presentable.

As you can see in the background there is globe which I imported from Google images.

Once I imported the globe I then edited the text for the ident adding 'Glowing Globe Presents.'

To make the ident more appealing I then added a sparkle effect to make a 'Glowing Globe.'

I then altered the text to make it say 'Glowing Globe Productions,' with Golden Globe in yellow to relate to 'golden' globe.

Distibution Ident

We created our distribution ident by using Logocreater and edited it on photoshop to change the colour scheme and add the text. We then used motion to add effects such as fading in and out so it flows well with our film.

Editing Research

We needed apply a CCTV camera effect for a clip in our scene so we looked on Youtube for tutorials on how to create one.

Filming Day 2

Filming of the chemistry lab was available at lunch so we took this opportunity and spent our lunchtime filming any shots that came to mind as we only had an hour to film. We managed to get many fantastic shots but i think we would need to re shoot the entire scene another lunch time. This is because i think the area we were set up at was next to the wall which restricted the cameraman to position himself to get all the correct shots. Overall, it was a good shoot and we have learnt what shots we need for the next time we shoot in the lab. 

Rough Draft 1

• we have looked over our footage and comments made about certain shots such as the lighting in some of the shots needed to looked over and the actions of the characters in the actual clip needed to be adjusted to go in conjunction with what we wanted the titles sequence.
• due to the comments made we will need to film some of the clips again and make sure we have enough clips.
• we will go back and re-film a lot of the scenes in the lab as the lighting was off and we didn't like the positioning of the main character in the clip.

Editing 1

We used Final Cut pro to edit our footage and put every clip in place. We still need to film a lot more scenes as well as re film the whole of the science scene because the lighting and placement of the equipment was too hard to work with.

Blogging Health Check 2

• Need to use more technology in my posts (GIFS, Prezi, Thinglink)
• Review footage from first rough draft.
• Need to do more individual posts.
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Blog health check 2

• need to use a wider range of technology when presenting my work , more use of sites such as emaze ect 
• do more extensions do get more marks 
• also need to put more photos of filming and editing 

social networking

we decides to create a twitter page so that teachers were informed as to what was happening when we were filming as well as trying to put up picture of whats happening behind the scenes and any updates as to how far along we are with filming. our twitter page is www.twitter.com/titlesgroup26

Filming Day 1

Due to Kelsen unable to come into college today, we decided to start filming anyway. We started off with the scene where our new main character Sergio walks out of the chemistry lab and heads outside looking suspicious. We managed to get most shots completed within this scene but i think we will re take some of them using more match cuts to show a smooth flow of his actions to show he is in a hurry.

Location (REVISED)

Opening Sequence Research (REVISED)

Our opening title sequence was heavily influenced by the opening sequence of Kidulthood. We took inspiration from the scene where the main character is working in a crafts workshop in school and we get the impression he is hard working as he is very focused and seems to know what he doing but then we see he made a gun which then tells us that this character is using his talents for the wrong reason. We wanted to re create this with our plot except in our title sequence, the main character will be in a chemistry lab mixing substances to create drugs.

Props and Costumes (REVISED)

As our plot has changed, the props and costumes we will be using have also changed to suit the mise en scene of the opening titles. We have changed our main location from an estate to a chemistry lab inside a college.

Chemistry Equipment:

• Bunsen burner
• Flasks
• Test Tubes
• Food colouring
• Flour or powder substance
• Pipet 

Clothing:

• Lab coat
• black jumper
• Sweatpants 
• Trainers
• Backpack
• Black coat

Revised Storyboard

As our main character wasn't in to film with the original plan, we revised our storyboard with the settings and story changing from a mugging in an estate to a drug dealer who uses after hours at college to produce drugs. This new scene was heavily inspired by the opening scene of Kidulthood where the main character is seen using machinery in a classroom to make a  gun. We wanted to do the same thing as how they showed a character who is gifted in a certain subject but uses it for the wrong reason.