Each person had good film pitches, all of our pitches were around the same genre of drama so we decided to stick with that genre. We went through a few ideas before deciding on the final pitch.
We all contributed equal amount to the final pitch as we all had different ideas for shots, locations and order of events. I am working with the same people I filmed my Juno task with and we worked well together then so i think we will continue to contribute different ideas and equally share the work throughout this task.
In the next few lessons we will pitch our idea to the rest of the class to get some feedback from others prospective. We will then continue to develop our idea and begin to plan a timeline and story boards.
We have set a time of three days to film our footage as we want to spend a longer time on the editing.
Thursday 12th November 2014- Today we had our second group meeting, we began to plan further details of our film. We decided on the names, the locations we were going to film and began to research some more films that were similar to our ideas.
The names of the characters and who would play them we decided on are-
Libby- Daisy Blackman
Katie- Eliza Thomas
Frankie- Naomi Waters
Mr Amato- Doctor Peters
Locations of filming-
A corridor that resembles a hospital corridor, most likely filmed in one of the school corridors. However if we can get access to a hospital like Broomfeild then we will film there.
Southend- Some of the memories will be filmed here. Once will be shot from the person riding a roller-coasters point of view, another will be of a sunset on the beach, and the last will be in the amusements/ arcades.
The main character will be reading the scrap book on the train so we will shot some at Chelmsford train station and then film her looking through the scrap book on a train, the train will most likely be to Southend so we can save money on train journeys.
We researched some similar films to our own and found a few:
Memento- A man with short term memory loss uses notes and tattoos to hunt the man he thinks killed his wife.
-Genre- Mystery/thriller
- Budget- $9 million
-Distributor- Summit Entertainment
-Producer- New Line Cinema.
The Notebook- The story of a man and women told on two levels, one is in present day where the pair have grown old and live in a nursing home, the other is the story the man reads to his wife of how they fell in love. In the ending we discover that the wife has Alzheimers, her husband is reading to jog her memory.
-Genre- Drama/romance
- $29 million
-Distributor- Time Warner Company
-Producer- New Line Cinema.
Both films show different the different extremes of memory loss, both are also produced by New Line Cinema so it is likely that we will choose them as our distributor.
Friday 13th November 2014- today we had our third meeting were we analysed some film openings to help give us ideas for timings and font of titles. We also finalised our film producers and distributor, we decided on Runner Productions as the producer and New Line Cinema as the distributor.
Tuesday 17th November 2014- Today we divided up the various tasks we needed to complete during the process of planning and making our film. Some tasks we decided we would complete as a group or each do individually, we each have five tasks to complete along with the group and individual tasks.
Wednesday 18th November 2014- Today we continued with the process of planning our film.
Friday 13th November 2014- today we had our third meeting were we analysed some film openings to help give us ideas for timings and font of titles. We also finalised our film producers and distributor, we decided on Runner Productions as the producer and New Line Cinema as the distributor.
Tuesday 17th November 2014- Today we divided up the various tasks we needed to complete during the process of planning and making our film. Some tasks we decided we would complete as a group or each do individually, we each have five tasks to complete along with the group and individual tasks.
One of my tasks was to write the script that accompanied our film, so i wrote this in todays lesson.
Libby began to plan our storyboard using postet notes.
Katie wrote a props list of what we needed for our filming.
Wednesday 18th November 2014- Today we continued with the process of planning our film.
I completed my second task of producing a shooting scheduel of when and where we would film the shots and what kind of shots would be used.
Katie did some reaserch into different styles of music we could use and where they could fit in.
Libby continued with drawing and writing out story boards.
Thursday 19th November 2014- Today i began making the mooboard, using our original ideas and where we got inspiration from. I used screenshots from films and music videos to show where we got inspiration from.
Libby began doing titles research into different styles of writing and what would fit in with our genre and why.
Friday 20th November 2014- Today I continued developing our mood board using out original ideas from various films. We also prepared to film our titles on Monday so we didn't have to waste time preparing on Monday.
Libby continued researching into different styles and fonts for our film title.
Monday 24th November- As planned in our shooting schedule we filmed our titles today. We wrote them out letter by letter and filmed them. We decided to just write one word first and see how it looked when we began to edit it together. Through this we found that writing it our letter by letter wouldn't work so we decided to have Libby write the letter as we film it and then speed the footage up on premier. This worked much better however the writing wasn't very exciting so we so tested our a few different fonts on some scrap paper. Again we found that none of these were exciting enough so i suggested that my Mum who has more exciting writing should write them and I film them. We all agreed to try this so I went home and filmed these.
Tuesday 25th November- Today we looked at the footage I shot of my mum writing out the titles. We began trying out different ways in which we could present it when we realised that it looked really boring with just the writing. So we decided we would re shoot the titles once we had added in pictures, stickers and doodles into the background of the scrapbook, we thought this would make it more believable and realistic to someone's personal scrapbook.
Wednesday 26th November- Today we began decorating the scrapbook to make it more realistic. We also got some feedback from our teachers and various other students in our class to see what they thought of our film. When getting feedback from our teacher we discussed what the genre was, so we began to realised that it wasn't obvious. We originally wanted it to be mystery but from the feedback and looking at the titles and music we had planned to use, it was clear we needed to change it to a teen drama.
Thursday 27th November- We continued to decorate the scrapbook today and finalised how we wanted to present our titles. We chose to present them as 3D letters that we will place into the scrapbook. Katie and i continued to draw out our storyboard towards the end of the lesson. I also began the marketing campaign and finished our titles timeline.
Friday 28th November- Today we got everything ready to film on Saturday. We filled out a risk assessment, completed our storyboard and then recorded the voice over that will play over some of the footage. I also began to plan our marketing campaign.
Monday 1st December- We looked over our footage today and began to begin editing it together. We managed to add in the music and link some footage together. We are using Pro Premier to edit our film opening together.
Tuesday 2nd December- We are continuing to edit our footage together. We also discussed where we are going to put the titles within the film. Whilst filming we were sure to leave space in the shots so we could edit in the titles.
I stayed after school to continue editing.
Wednesday 3d December- today we continued to edit ready for our final deadline on Friday
Thursday 4th December- we completed the final edits to our first draft. We knew it needed lots of improvements and some footage was missing but we were pleased with our first draft.
I came back after school to complete editing for our first draft.
Friday 5th December- we sent our first draft to our teacher and began to receive feedback on our first draft.
Monday 8th December- Today we watched everyone's film opening draft and gave feedback on them, taking into consideration the genre, camera angles, acting, conventions, music. We gave them an overall score out of 60.
Tuesday 9th December- Today we received the feedback from the other classes about our film. Overall we are happy with our feedback, we mostly received good marks out of 60 and everyone gave some constructive criticism on how to improve our film for our final cut.
Wednesday 10th December- I blogged about our feedback today and in our group we discussed how we would improve our draft to make it the best we can for our final cut.
Thursday 11th December- As a group we edited in some more titles and began to think about what music we could use as the one we had chosen was too well known to use.
Friday 12th December- We continued to edit for our final cut today. I also blogged about the changes we were making to improve it.
Monday 15th December- As a group we looked through the lap chart to check we had completed everything, we found that we needed to complete our storyboard and blog about the genre conventions and then everything was completed.
Me and Libby filmed the storyboard and i began to edit it together. ]
Tuesday 16th December- I did some research into genre conventions of drama and then compared them to our film and what we had included before blogging about it.
I also came back after school to complete the final editing.
Wednesday 17th December- Today we sent our final draft to our teacher.
Individually we began to blog anything that we had missed along the way and anything extra we wanted.
Friday 20th November 2014- Today I continued developing our mood board using out original ideas from various films. We also prepared to film our titles on Monday so we didn't have to waste time preparing on Monday.
Libby continued researching into different styles and fonts for our film title.
Monday 24th November- As planned in our shooting schedule we filmed our titles today. We wrote them out letter by letter and filmed them. We decided to just write one word first and see how it looked when we began to edit it together. Through this we found that writing it our letter by letter wouldn't work so we decided to have Libby write the letter as we film it and then speed the footage up on premier. This worked much better however the writing wasn't very exciting so we so tested our a few different fonts on some scrap paper. Again we found that none of these were exciting enough so i suggested that my Mum who has more exciting writing should write them and I film them. We all agreed to try this so I went home and filmed these.
Tuesday 25th November- Today we looked at the footage I shot of my mum writing out the titles. We began trying out different ways in which we could present it when we realised that it looked really boring with just the writing. So we decided we would re shoot the titles once we had added in pictures, stickers and doodles into the background of the scrapbook, we thought this would make it more believable and realistic to someone's personal scrapbook.
Wednesday 26th November- Today we began decorating the scrapbook to make it more realistic. We also got some feedback from our teachers and various other students in our class to see what they thought of our film. When getting feedback from our teacher we discussed what the genre was, so we began to realised that it wasn't obvious. We originally wanted it to be mystery but from the feedback and looking at the titles and music we had planned to use, it was clear we needed to change it to a teen drama.
Thursday 27th November- We continued to decorate the scrapbook today and finalised how we wanted to present our titles. We chose to present them as 3D letters that we will place into the scrapbook. Katie and i continued to draw out our storyboard towards the end of the lesson. I also began the marketing campaign and finished our titles timeline.
Friday 28th November- Today we got everything ready to film on Saturday. We filled out a risk assessment, completed our storyboard and then recorded the voice over that will play over some of the footage. I also began to plan our marketing campaign.
Monday 1st December- We looked over our footage today and began to begin editing it together. We managed to add in the music and link some footage together. We are using Pro Premier to edit our film opening together.
Tuesday 2nd December- We are continuing to edit our footage together. We also discussed where we are going to put the titles within the film. Whilst filming we were sure to leave space in the shots so we could edit in the titles.
I stayed after school to continue editing.
Wednesday 3d December- today we continued to edit ready for our final deadline on Friday
Thursday 4th December- we completed the final edits to our first draft. We knew it needed lots of improvements and some footage was missing but we were pleased with our first draft.
I came back after school to complete editing for our first draft.
Friday 5th December- we sent our first draft to our teacher and began to receive feedback on our first draft.
Monday 8th December- Today we watched everyone's film opening draft and gave feedback on them, taking into consideration the genre, camera angles, acting, conventions, music. We gave them an overall score out of 60.
Tuesday 9th December- Today we received the feedback from the other classes about our film. Overall we are happy with our feedback, we mostly received good marks out of 60 and everyone gave some constructive criticism on how to improve our film for our final cut.
Wednesday 10th December- I blogged about our feedback today and in our group we discussed how we would improve our draft to make it the best we can for our final cut.
Thursday 11th December- As a group we edited in some more titles and began to think about what music we could use as the one we had chosen was too well known to use.
Friday 12th December- We continued to edit for our final cut today. I also blogged about the changes we were making to improve it.
Monday 15th December- As a group we looked through the lap chart to check we had completed everything, we found that we needed to complete our storyboard and blog about the genre conventions and then everything was completed.
Me and Libby filmed the storyboard and i began to edit it together. ]
Tuesday 16th December- I did some research into genre conventions of drama and then compared them to our film and what we had included before blogging about it.
I also came back after school to complete the final editing.
Wednesday 17th December- Today we sent our final draft to our teacher.
Individually we began to blog anything that we had missed along the way and anything extra we wanted.