Evidence of Work

In this photo it shows our lap charts and who we decided would do each blog post. 

This photo shows me and faith working on different parts of our lapcharts ready to upload them on our blog. 














This is a photo of me editing the film opening to make it as good as possible 

Representation

Insitution

The companies that would produce these films are Lions gate and Paramount this is because they are big production companies so the film will be well known and a lot of people will want to see the film. They also release a range of different film genres so they would happily produce this film. Here I have explained why we picked Paramount and Lionsgate as our film production companies. In this video the reasons have been explained.

Shooting Schedule

Our shooting schedule for our film opening was pretty simple because we filmed everything on the same day. This was Thursday the 1st of December. However once we had put it all on premiere we had to go out on the school field and take a few more shots and film so diegetic sound to make it sound more realistic.

Once we completed our first draft we went back to Springfield to re film some bits to make them better. We filmed these on the 13/12/16. So we had time to re edit our film opening.

Props Research

We did some research of props we would need in a mystery murder film opening and there wasn't many. So we came up with our own props that we knew we were going to need. These were:

• Blood
• School uniform
• Dog

These were the three main props we used in out film opening, this made it look more realistic because the dogs helped find the body, the school uniform made it look like she was walking home from school and the blood made the death look real.

Location shots

These are all the different shots and an explanation about them.

Moodboard of Films

This is a mood board of our film inspirations. Looking from the film posters you can see they all are mysterious and have the same genre of mystery/crime. These films also gave us an idea to what our film opening should look like. These films all have murders or some type of criminal case, which links to our film idea, of a girl being murdered and then no one knowing who has done it.

Production Diary

07/11/16- Monday

On this day we were put into our groups, in my group was Leah and Beth. We had to write down a few film opening ideas to do with the story line and genre. Here are our ideas that we presented as a mind map:
Faiths ideas:
1)cliff hanger/twist at the end
2)internet-cyber bullying/online stalker
3)missing peoples case
Leahs idea:
My idea:

All these are similar ideas to do with mystery, like the internet idea leaves you thinking who is behind the computer screen, and a missing persons case it is like where is the person? Was this person taken?

08/11/16-Tuesday  

On this day we had to come up with our ideas and make something good to present them on to for the rest of our groups.

09/11/16-Wednesday

On this day we presented our film ideas to each other and picked the best film opening idea that we agreed on. We picked Leahs idea because it was very successful in the plot, and we also thought it would be easier to film. We had also started planning and adding things on to the story plot.

10/11/16-Thursday

On this day we started doing our film presentation on PowerPoint, for our film opening story, saying what our idea is, our marketing, etc. ready to present to our class.

11/11/16- Friday

This day we had to present out group PowerPoint to the class the class gave us some ideas that we could develop or ask. These are some feedback we got:

• a lot of enigma code through out(makes the reader want to watch more)
• very clear genre/themes
• might be to hard to imitate a funeral
• the ex boyfriend is the most interesting character because people want to know how the is involved.

14/11/16-Monday

On Monday we were planning/adapting our ideas based on the whole class feedbacks. We decided to change the bit of the funeral, because everyone thought it was to hard to do. We changed this ideas with the CCTV footage of some of the girls last moments before her death so the audience can build up the story in there head.

15/11/16-Tuesday

On this day we started drawing our storyboards, and planning the shots. We noted the timings, the props.

17/11/16 and 18/11/16- Thursday/Friday
On both these days we started to blog about our film openings and our ideas.

21/11/16- Monday
Monday, we started writing up our tasks that we assigned each other. We shared our tasks out so that our time would be managed correctly. Like we started blogging about location,shots,script,audience.

22/11/16-Tuesday
On this day we started to write a script for our story board and we planned it, to upload as a video. Also we done research on music that we could play in the film opening to create affects.

23/11/16- Wednesday
On this day we updated our production diary and started to carry on our blogs about shots/location/editing/sound.

24/11/16- Thursday

25/11/16- Friday

On this day we filmed our story board, and we recorded the voice over telling the main ideas behind the story boards.

29/11/16- Monday

we uploaded our story board and voice over on to adobe premier and edited the footage so we could upload it on to our blogs.

1/12/16- Thursday

On this day we filmed our film opening in Springfield park, all day. Getting all the shots and things together.

2/12/16- Friday

On this day we updated our blogs and started editing the shots.

5/11/16- Monday

We edited our film opening and made improvements just before our deadline

6/12/16- Tuesday

On this day we watched all the other film openings and peer assessed them and we got our feedback back most of it was good but the voice over was a bit dodgy. so we decide to re do it.

7/12/16- Wednesday

On this day we re filmed the voice over and added it to our second draft and added all the titles and made sure all the diegetic sounds were in the right place.

8/12/16 & 9/12/16 - Thursday & Friday

On these days Faith, Leah and I started to finish all the work on our blogs and make sure everything was there.

Risk Assessment

Script

We only have talking in the news report and this is our script for it:

At around 7:45am this morning the police were alerted to an incident at Coronation park. A young girl who has just been identified as Lillie Mason, a student from Great Baddow High School, was found dead by local dog walker Joanne Roberts. She claims that the dog went over to a pile of leaves, it was only then when she went to go and retrieve her dog that she saw the young girl, she immediately phoned police.

 When police arrived on the scene they were quick to tell that she was already dead, police say the girl suffered major stab wounds and that the injuries were the cause of her death. The police have already started the murder investigation  but have yet to have any main suspects. 

The family is all fully aware of this tragic incident that happened this morning and would be grateful if anyone could come forward with information on who was with Lillie Mason on her walk to school. Its not clear to as whether this was a random attack or if 17 year old Lillie Mason was a target. The family have asked for people to respect their privacy at this time so that they can start to come to terms with the loss of their daughter.

Audience

Our target audience is 15-30 years olds. This is because we find that the disturbing scenes are not suitable for under 15 year olds. We also didn't aim for the target audience to be above 30 year olds because we found that older people would find it less interesting and they have less time as they might work and have a family.
Our primary audience is teenagers because they help decision make. Whereas are secondary audience is early adults because they are the second most important consumer segment we'd like to target.

Shot List

1. Our logo
2. Paramount and lionsgate logo 
3. Title of film
4. Four different shots of the park-(zoom in/outs)
5. Man walking dog (close up of feet)
6. Dog sniffs out body (180 degree shots)
7. Shots of body (all close ups)
8. Man gets out phone
9. News report (just a voice over)
10. CCTV footage(all high shots)
11. Fade out into black screen

Storyboard and evaluation

Storyboard:



Evaluation:
This is our storyboard as a video, we voiced over so that more details could be heard and explained. All though there is not a lot of detail in the drawings, being able to see a drawn plan as well as written helps. The descriptions in the storyboard is very brief but has been expanded a little because of the voiceover. We could have improved it by adding more detail into the explanation of each drawing.

Marketing campaign

Our film needs to be marketed so that people can want to go and watch it. Our main marketing idea is to distribute poster every where ,giving a brief overview about what our film is about. We want to make the audience want to see more so a lot of enigma codes will be used in our poster as well. Another idea of marketing, is social media. Social media plays a huge role in day to day life, so if shown on there, a lot of people will get to see it, because there's no restrictions like a poster has. Also a website of our own to show, will advertise the film opening well. We have also made a web page that explains everything about the film and the different ways we are marketing the film and how to contact us about the film. We are hoping that using all these different ways of marketing our film will get good views.

 

 

 

Music research ideas

music research ideas

Timeline of opening

This is the timeline of our opening and how it will be set out with the timings and everything. However, things may change slightly because of how the different scenes are shot.

Fonts for titles

Here are different fonts for the titles of our film opening. We chose 10 different fonts so we had a wide range of ideas to choose from for our final opening.  They all give a creepy, mystery look which gives the audience some idea of what the film will be like. If we picked a nice fantasy font it would make the audience confused as it wouldn't go along with the theme of the film opening. 

Titles research

• (Name of studio) Presents
• In Association with (Name of production company)
• Starring
• Film title
• Featuring also starring
• Casting or Casting by
• Music or Music composed by
• Costume design or Costume designer
• Editor or Edited by
• Production design or Production designer
• Director of photography
• Producer or Produced by, Executive Producer
• (Screen) Story or Story by
• Writer(s) or Written by or Screenplay or Screenplay by
• Director or Directed by

Research codes/conventions of genre and audience

We researched different codes/conventions of genre and audience to come up with our film opening. Here are some of the ideas we got:

Storyline:

• Unsolved crime
• Centred around detective/Normal civilian
• Detective/ Normal civilian pieces things together

Setting

• A big open area where the murder will happen 
• Office/room- detective/normal civilian puts pieces together 

Themes:

• Mystery- lots of enigma codes to make you think who could have murdered the young girl
• Crime- young girl being murdered in a park

Characters:

• Detective/Normal civilian
• Criminal

Props:

• murder weapon 

Editing:

• Fades to black- creates suspense

Sound:

• Mellow, eerie orchestral music- adds tension
• Slow and creepy soundtracks

All of the codes and conventions relate to our film opening because in a murder mystery film there is a lot of tension and suspense. 

Film opening and evaluation

Evaluation:
The feedback we got for our film opening presentation was mixed. Most people said that it was difficult to understand and that there wasn't a message behind it. Most people said that our film genre was a horror/ dark genre but it is more like a crime than a horror as it isn't scary at all, this is good genre because we have merged two together to create a widespread genre to get as many people as possible to watch the film. Some people also said that it's very intriguing because of all the enigma codes and because it is a close relative that has killed her. The target audience was the right age gap because they are quite young and they enjoy crime/mystery genre films. Most people think that the funeral will be hard to film so maybe we will re-think the funeral and just have the family members going to her grave one at a time as this would look more realistic. The production companies we have chosen are very well known so this will hopefully help us get more views with the film.