Behind the scenes of filming

Shoot 1:

 

Shoot 2: 

These are some pictures from the second video shoot we did.

Communication regarding filming

Planning for our video shoot

Mrs D

Well done Simeron. You have got some good idea and your RMAs deal with codes and conventions of an opening of a film well. To improve you need to add more technical details to your RMAs especially sound. Your animatronic storyboard looks good - you need to work on the pace/ editing and the variety of camera shots. Are you using split screen as lots of your shots use this?

Final Anamatronic StoryBoard

This is our final anamatronic storyboard. We shall post it on facebook to get some audience feedback of our shots and backing track.

Final StoryBoard

This is our final storyboard for our film 'Tied'. We've included rough timings for each of our shots. We have ensured that we have left enough time for transitions that we will later add and any changes we may want to make.

Draft StoryBoard

This is a draft story board of potential shots and timings for our film opening. Not all of these shots were included in our final anamatronic storyboard but it enabled us to identify and develop different shots we wanted to include.

Mood Board 2

After finalising our idea for our Moving Image storyline we decided to put together another storyboard just to illustrate some of the ideas we wish to develop when filming our film opening.

Potential Ideas for Film Opening

Idea 1-
The first idea we had was a horror movie. We felt this was a genre which we could easily portray to our audiences. Similarly in our audiences feedback a lot of people said they enjoyed horror movies and the tense atmosphere created throughout. Our idea was centred around a young girl who had schizophrenia and kept seeing thing that weren't actually there and picturing herself in situations that she wasn't in fact in. We didn't continue with this idea because we felt that that this was a hugely sensitive topic and we would have to approach it with care. Additionally horror is a very popularly done genre and we wanted to do something a little different. Furthermore the actual filming of this would be very tricky and we would have to try and fit a lot into a small amount of time which may have confused our audience.

Idea 2-
We had an idea to do a romantic comedy. We both had a keen interest and have watched a lot of films within this genre. We wanted to base it on the concept of love at first sight. We liked the idea of having a woman walking down the street (we particularly liked London for this idea) and something happening causing her to meet/come into contact with a mysterious man who she had a special connection with. We felt we could make this fun and happy and really get our audience to smile. We decided against this idea for many reasons. Firstly the location being so far away, if we needed to re shoot anything it would be very difficult. Also in our research on the film industry we discovered that romcoms make up just 1% of Box Office takings. This makes it a hugely unpopular genre. Similarly it means we would only be approaching a niche audience because it's mostly women that watch these types of films, whereas other genres were a lot more popular.

Idea 3-
We looked at some potential clips and really liked some hospital dramas we saw and we really felt some created a very emotional atmosphere and engaged us right from the start. We thought about playing with the relationship between a father and his daughter. We thought he could be a single dad with a daughter who was very poorly and the story surrounding this, such as his relationships etc. We really liked this idea but knew it would be impossible to carry out successfully. We wouldn't be able to create the right location (the hospital) or have any of the right props to create mise en scene (such as the bed, the machines etc). It also doesn't have a clear genre (that we would be able to portray to our audience), because we found that the majority of hospital dramas were television shows and there were few films out there in this genre.

Test Shots for Moving Image

These are just a few test shots of potential locations for our film opening. In most of our shots we will be including close ups and extreme ups therefore our background location will not be seen as much. The first the pictures show the setting for the last scenes as June Morgan (our protagonist character) walks downstairs. The 3rd and 4th pictures will potentially be used as the setting for June's bedroom. We plan to alter the setting in terms of bed covers and props to ensure we illustrate her characters personality. These locations will be used at the beginning of our film opening. The last two shots are potentially going to be used for Freddy Sharp's (our antagonists character) bedroom. This can be used in the scenes where he begins to get ready for work. We chose to use this as the bedroom of Freddy Sharp as it's quite a minimalistic setting an plain which relates to the character and represents his character. The props will be carefully and neatly placed to show that Freddy is a clean character that takes consideration into the setting of his bedroom. He comes across as a no fuss kind of character but deep down inside his life is very chaotic and muddled.

Pitch and Audience Feedback

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This is our prezi we used for our pitch. This gave us the opportunity to put all our ideas together and get some feedback from our teachers and classmates so we could improve our final idea. This included our genre and audience and why we decided on these, a basic mood board we put together of some ideas, we wanted to get feedback on the concept before we produced a final one. We briefly referred to our audience feedback and explained how this influenced some of our decisions, including our character names. We wrote a storyline so our classmates could understand where we were coming from in terms of our story and from this we could get feedback on what they thought we should include in our first two minutes. We shared an opening which particularly inspired us and who's ideas we were keen to adapt to fit our own storyline. We then put some research we did on a slide and explained the elements we liked about each of the artifacts and the aspects we didn't like. By doing this we were able to get some valuable feedback and then apply it to our later ideas.

This is a copy of the questionnaire we gave to 13 boys and 2 girls.We gave it to mostly males because they are predominantly our target audience gender but we decided it would be useful to ask a few girls too to be able to compare what the genders want for their films.

This is the feedback we received from the people who took our questionnaire. From this we were able to chose names for our characters, our film, different idea we had, what elements we included and many more things that really helped us in creating a final product.
Our Pitch Feedback-
POSITIVE-
-People said they liked our plot and the way the story would develop
-People said the name of the film was good
-People liked the ideas from our mood board and thought the rope was particularly intriguing.
-People liked our character names and said they were very fitting with the genre and personalities of them.
NEGATIVE-
-We included examples of TV series as artifacts, but people questioned how we would copy these since they have a long time to develop characters and relationships whereas we have only two minutes.
-People questioned who we would get to play our characters since we were very specific with our descriptions of them, especially June.