Feed Back

Feed back for our film titles

This is the feedback that we got from people on facebook. We asked them what title would best suit the film about someone gettting kidnapped. their feedback was: no one said about titles 2, 6, 7, 9 and 10, one person said about title 1, two people said about title 3, three people said about title 4, five people said about title 5 and nine people said about title 8.

Our Film Title Idaes

Film titles
These are some of our ideas for the film title for our film opening. We have come up with these and we have posted them on facebook to see what people thing of them. Also to see what one they thing is best for our film. Starting from the top and going down they go 1-10.

Questionnaire

Loctions

Loctions of our filming...

My group has decided to do our filming on the school grounds. We have chosen to do it in school because it is easier for us to meet up as we all have the same free lesson, which we can film, in here. We have decided to use lionsgate institution as they have produced lots of film with the same genres that we want to us. 

We started off by filming in the school grounds and then at the end we finish the end at a wall outside the schools gates. When we finally leave the school site then we will be able to start to film the surroundings of the school. We then start to film the girl sitting there waiting for her mum, but than she gets a text saying her mum can't pick her up. As she leaves the stop she disappears into the distance.

 These are a few of the photos that we took for our storyboard and also we took these to get an understnading of the final loction.

My Groups Film Institution

Lionsgate Institution

Lionsgate is a Canadian entertainment company, it was formed in Vancouver but the main headquartered in Santa Monica, California. In 2007 it was most successful independent film company in North America. They produce not only films but also television programs and family/home entertainment. 

After doing research into lionsgate institution I found out that most of the films they produce have the same genres. The genres they all link into are Thriller, Drama and Action. Another genres they use is horror over the last 5 years they have produced the most popular horrors they re SAW 3D, SAW 1/2/3/4/5/6 and The Eye. These are the only successful horrors that they have produced over the last 5 years.

My Favourite Film Opening

This is one of my favourite film and here is the opening to it;-

My favourite film opening is lion king; this is because the colours of the title make it feels warm and as though something good is going to happen. At the start you can hear noises that you would hear in the wild. As the sun starts to rise the music starts to play. As all the animals start to look up it makes you think what is happening? What is going on? It then shows all the animal going towards a certain place. The camera angles they use are birds eye view, extreme long shot, medium shot, worms eye view and eye level shot. At the end of the opening it shows a lion standing up on a rock higher then all the other animals, this implies that he is the leader and in charge of the rest of the animals. This film was made by Walt Disney, this means that it was a family film. The film is about a younge lion that's dad is the king of circle of life. But one day his dad get tricked in to helping his son and dies. He then runs away from the cicle of life and grows up. A few years later he bumps into his old friend and then he goes back and becomes the king of the circle of life.

Animatic

Here is my groups final animatic edited together:-

Evaluation:- As a group it took us half the time to make our animatic. We started off by taking pictures of our locations and then after we had done we uploaded them to the computers where we then traced them, to get a more accurate animatic. We all then started drawing them, this made it quicker and we was able to get them down faster. we then used the pictures to get the right colours of the locations. by also having the pictures it is easier to understand what and where our film opening is being shot. after we had drawn and colour in the pictures we then started to film. We had came up with an idea were one person would record, one would place the pictures down and the other would pick up the pictures after they had been filmed. This made it a lot quicker for use to get it done. We used whte paper under so the background was all one colour. as a hole my group has worded well together with the making of the pictures and filming the animatic. The bad thing about our animatic was that we had to many pictures but we manged to get them done because we all took the same amount to draw and colour. 

Our Research

Research

Costume research:-
When it comes to the costume of our characters they have to be wear the same clothes and make sure they look the same as they do when we filmed on the first day otherwise it will show that we have done filmng on different days and different times. We have decided that she will be wearing leggings and a top because she will be in school and as she is doing dance we looked up what the wear for kit and found out it was leggings and a top. The other two girls will be wear causal clothes as they go to sixth form and they are allowed to wear what they like. 

Props:-
the props that we have used in our film opening are;- a computer, phone and bags. the computer is for when she is dancing in the hall to play the music on. the phone is for when she is texting her mum and friends. the bags are for the gilr to out all the school work in.

My Groups Film Opening

My Groups Film Opening

My groups film opening is about a girl that is at school dancing while she is waiting for her friends, as her and her friends are leaving the school throught the main gate, they walk down towards the place were she meets her mum and she has to wait for her mum to pick her up. As her friends apart ways she is left waiting by her self at the wall. A few hours later she gets a text from her mum saying 'Sorry running late, start making you own way home xx' and as you see her walking down the road she slowly fades away.

Our film is about a girl that gets kidnapped on her way home from school. In our film opening it shows her and her friends at school. As they walk to the place where she meets her mum they all part ways but she has to wait for her mum, but her mum is running late and tells her to walk home. As she walks off down the road she fades away this is because it is a good way of showing that she goes missing. We are going to be using Lionsgate film company, as when we was researching in to other film about abduction this was the institution they used. The shots we are going to use are:- match on action and shot revers shot. The people in our film are going to be Sophie bagley as Gemma, Ashleigh Prichard as Jess and Courtney Gill as Lucy. The mise-en-scene is at a school in a dance studio, walking down the path towards the gate and the wall she sts on to wait for her mum. The mise-en-scene is important so that the audience knows that she is a school girl not just a dancer. The first shot of the film will be a close up on the school logo on the girls dance top and as we zoom out she starts to dance and the music starts to play. Other shots that we are also going to us are birds eye view as she is reading the text from her mum.

Target Audience

What is a target audience...
A target audience is a particular group of people that a company has decided to point there product at e.g. disney films are aimed at young children.  The more that a company finds out about their target audience, the more they can produce and sell to them.

My groups target audience...
The target audience of our film opening is female and males aged between 12A+ and anyone that likes thrillers.

My Groups Film Schedule

This is my groups filming schedule

More Camera Angles

Bird’s-eye view

A birds’-eye view shot is were the camera is looking straight down on to the scene that is being filmed. 

High angle

This camera angle is similar to bird’s- eye view but is closer. The high angle shot is used to make a character look powerless and vulnerable. This angle is normally used in a film to make the scene more dramatic or if there are two characters are having a convention and one of the characters are up high e.g. in a tree house.

Eye level

An eye level shot is where the camera is placed at the eye level of the characters in the scene. If they are standing the cameraman can get the shot easier but if they are sitting down it is harder as the cameraman has to blend slightly. 

Low angle

A low level shot is where the camera is place looking up at a character. This shot shows that a character has power over the characters looking up at them.

Worm’s eye view

A worm’s eye view is a shot taken from below. It is the opposite of bird’s-eye view. It is used in filming to make something look taller, stronger and mighty.