Evaluation question 3

Optimum releasing is a film distributor company working in the UK they might distribute our film because they release over 200 films a year and are one of the most prominent distributors in the UK independent film and world cinema market. They distribute many different types of independent film so it is possible they would distribute our film an advantage of this could be that if we were to make more films in the future they are owned by vivendi so will have contacts with film distribution companies that are more well known.

Evaluation question 6

To create our storyboard we used storyboard quick it was our first time using this programme. we found the programme to be fairly easy to use and very simple to operate  most commands being accomplished by a simple drag and drop method. Once the storyboard was complete we had a very clear image of what the film would look like and what we needed to film.


                                                                    

We used Final draft 7 to write and develop our script it was reasonably easy to use once you had got used to using its shortcuts.

We used mini DV cameras to capture our film onto tapes, they are very easy to operate you simply turn them onto camera setting point them at what you want to film and press the record button.

We used Final cut express to edit and create our film, we found the programme to be a bit challenging because we found it to be a bit awkward at times in terms of getting the desired outcome. It is useful because it allows for non-destructive editing as everything is stored digitally so mistakes can be undone at the push of the button: an advantage to the cutting and sticking of reels of footage which would be the case if destructive editing methods were employed.

We used soundtrack pro to import sound effects and music files into final cut express to be edited. We found the programme very confusing only actually using it once or twice.

We used Livetype to create our titles and ident, We found this programme fairly easy to use because although it has many effects and functions they are easily accessed and implemented. 

We used the compressor to compress our film before uploading it, it can be a bit confusing as a programme as it has lots of different settings and features however we managed to get what we needed out of it without to much trouble.

We used youtube as a way of publishing our two minute media product. Before, uploading our film I had never uploaded a video onto youtube before. I found YouTube, very easy to use and is a great way to publish our film.








  I used blogger as an archive for my media journey its advantage over other method i could have used for this purpose is that it can display text, pictures and videos and can be viewed from anywhere.

I used all the programmes on a Mac it was my first time using a mac and being used to using a pc i found it a bit confusing because the commands are different. Given the choice i would prefer to use a pc as i am more comfortable with using them and i feel they are more reliable as on more the one occasion the mac crashed causing me to loose work.

Evaluation question 7

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



Issues with our preliminary task:

• Continuity issues - Car moves position (0:33 - 0:45)
• Sound cut-offs - Door closing (0:56 - 0:58)
• Sound transitions - Intro Music (0:28 - 0:30)
• Jump-Cuts - (1:00 - 1:01)
• Poor titles - (0:40 - 0:45)

'Catechize Academy', Examples of improvement:

• Good continuity - Walking (0:30 - 0:35) - Door Opening (1:00 - 1:08) -  CCTV (1:38 - 1.42)
• No sound cut-offs
• Good Sound Transitions - Sound Bridge (1:35 - 1:45)(0:25 - 0:30) - Fade In (0:50 - 0:54) -  Fade Out (2:26 to finish)
• No Jump Cuts
• Effective titles - (0:25 - 0:30)

Skills we have improved on:

• Wider variety of shots - close ups, more shot reverse shots, high/low angle shots, long shots, medium shots.
• Better framing and positioning of equipment.
• Tracking and Panning - close up on feet
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Evaluation question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our Typical Audience

Here is a picture of what we believe to be our target audience

Age: 15-21

Gender: Predominantly Male 

Social Class: Middle to Lower

When asked 'What films do you enjoy ?' these people answered with:

• Batman 
• Butterfly Effect
• Hannibal 
• Sin City
• Fast and Furious
• Inception
• Lord Of The Rings

Most of these films are 'Thrillers', we chose this target audience as we wanted people who have left school or who are in higher education as they can relate to the surroundings and the characters, when they watched our film they said:

• 'I Found it interesting' 

• 'I would like to see what happens later on in the film' 

•  'I could relate to the surroundings' 

• 'It was very good'

 This is very positive and we feel we chose our target audience well.

Evaluation 5

How Does Your Film Attract Your Target Audience ?

 This screenshot is of the establishing shot of our location, the school environment will appeal to those in school and who have recently left as they have memories of their time in school and can relate to the environment.

This screenshot is of our main Actress, Miss Smith, we think her attractive appearance will appeal to the mainly male members of our target audience and attract them to see our film.

This screenshot is of our main actor, Mr Jones, we think his attractive appearance will appeal to the mainly female members of our target audience and attract them to see our film. This character may also appeal to teachers as they can relate to his line of work, we have not targeted this audience directly but this may encourage them to see our film.

This screenshot is of our titles, we feel they are mysterious and therefore would appeal to our target audience, the TV effect would also appeal to our target audience as many of our target audience enjoy watching television.

This screenshot is of the classroom we used during our film, our target audience, people who are in school or have recently left, would be able to relate to the surroundings and would connect to he film better.

This screenshot is of a running/action scene in our film, the action will appeal to our target audience as these films that they have highlighted as being enjoyable and they include a lot of action shots.

• Batman 
• Butterfly Effect
• Hannibal 
• Sin City
• Fast and Furious
• Inception
• Lord Of The Rings

Evaluation Question 1

Final cut

Here is the final cut for our film.

Rough cut feedback

Here is the feedback our class gave after watching the rough cut of our film, we hope to use this feedback to improve our film for the final cut.

Rough cut

This is the rough cut for our film.

Filming diary

Filming diary

Thursday 10th March

Sam and tom began filming the start of the film, I then later joined them after a driving lesson which they were aware i had so had known i was going to be slightly late,when Miss Smith walked down the corridor. Sam and myself tried several different camera angles and shots; filming through windows, low angle shots looking at feet and tracking shots. Whilst Tom directed the actors.Filming was productive getting more filmed than anticipated, because we just wanted to film the corridor and we ended up filming the scene when Mr Jones enter his office.We filmed two takes of everything, so that we had enough footage to edit.
Adam did not attend this shoot.
Monday 14th March 

we all started the filming of the CCTV footage in the classroom, which will be played on the screen of the headmaster’s computer. A small number school students attended, although further recruiting by Adam and tom meant that we had sufficient numbers.However the filming did not go to plan as our "actors" did not act there parts well enough meening a re shoot would be neccesary.


Tuesday 15th March

we all continued  filming even though only 1 student turned up to be filmed along with the actress playing Miss Smith. We filmed several shots with these 2 actresses. We watched the footage back at the location to make sure the quality was of a high standard. .
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Tuesday 22nd March (lunch)
Sam and Tom filmed the scene where the students stand up (leaving 4 students still standing, we changed it to 4 becuase we just didn't have the students avalible) and leave the classroom. The 4 students left standing were fantastic at standing still and not moving which had a little bit of fear factor.
I wasn't there becuase I had Forbidden Planet rehearsals and Adam wasn't there either becuase no one could find him to tell him.

Tuesday 22nd March (After school)
We all continued to film the last remaining scenes after school becuase this week we were told by a teacher that some students would like to be in our film and are going to media now, Tom went to fetch these students so that we could complete the filming. Meenwhile myself Adam and Sam filmed the few shots we could do with Miss Smith and the 2 actresses that turned up on the day. Tom later returned after 10 minutes looking for the students that wanted to help us, but they didn't turn up, this meant we could not do any more filming and we caried on editing our film.

Audiences

These are the categories the bbfc uses to label all films

The Categories

The BBFC endeavours to classify submitted works in one of the following categories:

The following pages set out guidance on how the main issues (for example, sex and violence) are specifically applied from ‘U’ through to ‘R18’. The criteria should be read in the light of the general approach set out earlier under ‘General Principles’, ‘Overarching Factors’ and ‘Main Issues’.

Because works from time to time present issues in ways which cannot be anticipated, these criteria will not be applied in an over-literal way if such an interpretation would lead to an outcome which would confound audience expectations.

I Think that our film would be labelled as a 15, this is fine for our film as our target audience was 16-25 so doesn't really cut into our audience base

add-Lighting and tracking techniques

We were set some small tasks involving 3 point lighting tracking dollies, these were set so that we would be able to employ these techniques again in our film if necessary.

Potential filming issues

This is a list of issues that can come up during filming, this list states the issues and how they will either not affect our shoot or how the issues will be managed.


Costume Changes;
During our film, we have no scheduled costume changes as we are setting the film to be on the same s
school day.
Travelling between Locations
Our filming location has been decided to be filmed within school, so travelling between locations will all within walking distance.
Producing same shot/angle
We are planning to film in order of location, to ensure that we are using the same shooting angle if a duplicated shot is required.
Weather Conditions
We are filming all scene's inside the school, so even though the weather may change this may just be a way of showing time past.
Changes of Natural Light
If there is a drop in natural light, we may possibly use production artificial lighting to compensate for the drop in light to the shoot. If there is a increase in natural light, then filming may have to be halted and timing schedule be changed to allow for this delay, although we can not completely eliminate this problem, as the level of natural light will change from hour to hour.

Shooting schedule

This is our shooting schedule that we prepared to organise our filming to ensure that everyone would know who was needed and what props are required for each shot.

Shooting schedule

Animatic

After making the story board we turned it into an animatic this helps to give us a better idea of what the end film would be like and to give us an indication of the length of the film.
To create this we imported all of the still frames from our storyboard into final cut.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard this helps to visualise what shots are used and how they will look.
This will be especially useful when setting up the camera at a shoot.
To create this we used Storyboard Quick to construct each frame importing some images were necessary.

Catechize Academy Storyboard

Costume research

Mr Jones

We have looked at a few teachers, researched by ourselves and have asked others members in our media group, what teachers should look like. The overall results were;

Image 1 - Geography / History

Image 2 - Head-teacher / Senior Teacher

Image 3 - Drama.

We can identify that our headteacher (Mr Jones) can fit the describtion of picture two  becuase of this characters smart business clothes with his cufflinks showing and his top button done up. Picture 1 is a young teacher, stylish shirt, loose tie and shirt, showing that he is new to the job and is very relaxed. Where as picture 3 shows a older member of staff in a plain shirt and tie. We can also see the importance of each character because of the way they dress.

Miss Smith

We are going to cast our character, Miss Smith, in line with the photos above. We have researched the pictures from google and have found that common female teachers should wear;

Cut off blouse (simple colours - blue, red, pink and white)

Cut off High Jumper

Black trousers.

High Heeled shoes or stilettos.

Jack Costume

For the general costume for the students, we are going to use the standard GWPAHS uniform;

Jack  - White trainers (reason for detention), Black trousers, White collared shirt, tie and Spiky Hair.

Boys - Black trainers or Shoes, Black Trousers, White Collared Shirt and Tie.

Girls - Black shoes, Black trousers or Skirt and White blouse.

Location research

As our film is based around a plot of a brainwashing headmaster in a school, we have decided to film in Great Wyrley P.A. High School. This decision was made through the ease of accessing the location and the low shooting problems within the school. We have taken images from our location and inserted below.

Here is an image looking down the main corridor of GWPAHS. I am planning to use this corridor to track Miss Smith walking down and meeting Mr Jones. We are able to use several camera angles to produce a good edit.

Here is an image looking down the main corridor of GWPAHS. I am planning to use this corridor to track Miss Smith walking down and meeting Mr Jones. We are able to use several camera angles to produce a good edit.

This is our chosen location outside of Miss Smith's classroom where the two brainwashed block the entrance to Miss Smith's classroom.

Here is an image of Miss Smiths proposed classroom, i have taken a photo from the corner of the classroom where the CCTV effect will be created. We have chose this classroom as it is of a good size and we are able to create the whiteboard opening titles effect along with the door and teachers desk being in a good place. The classroom is also near to the corridor above so it will be easier to film with hopefully less jump cuts.

Here is an image looking up the corridor in which we will use to film the running scene. We have chose this location as we are able to position the cameras in many angles to show a fast paced running when editing. We can film from outside in through the windows and use both the top and bottom of the corridor.

Here i have added an image of the location we will filming the head teacher in his office, and also where Miss Smith gets dragged into the head teachers office.The office will also the camera will go to black out and the door will then slam. We have chosen this office as it is along the corridor in which Miss Smith will be cornered into along with also be very close to other shooting locations so the travelling between shoots will be much smaller and further filming and perfection can be acquired.

Props list

This is a props list to take on shoots to ensure we have all the props in the correct scenes.
Props List New

Script

This is the final script for our film.
This had to be written so that the actors will know what they need to do when we come to filming so there will be no time wasted on having to decide exactly what they will say when we come to filming.

Final Script for CATECHIZE ACADEMY

Film treatment feedback

This is a recording of our group reading our treatment to a group of sixth formers who are in the target audience for our film of between 16 and 25.

Treatment

This is our treatment for our film.

Catechize Academy Treatment Changed

Treatments Research

In preparation to pitching our film to the class, we need to wright a treatment, but  before we can do that we need to know exactly what a treatment is.

A film treatment (or treatment for short) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play. It is generally longer and more detailed than an outline (or one-page synopsis), and it may include details of directorial style that an outline omits. They read like a short story, except told in the present tense and describing events as they happen. There are two types: the original draft treatment, created during the writing process, and the presentation treatment, created as presentation material.

Treatments are important because they clearly show what happens in each scene aswell as were the scenes are set and at what time.

Treatments are widely used within the motion picture industry as selling documents, whereas outlines are generally produced as part of the development process. Screenwriters may use a treatment to initially pitch a screenplay, but may also use a treatment to sell a concept they are pitching without a completed screenplay.

The original draft treatment is generally long and detailed. It's compiled of full-scene outlines put together. These are usually more than about 30 standard letter size/A4 pages (Courier New 12 point), less than about 80 pages, and an average of about 40 pages. For example, The Terminator original treatment is 44 pages. More elaborate forms of the draft treatment are the step outline and the scriptment.