Final Opening Feedback

Positives:

• Showed the drug taking (Suggestion shot), its effective as its a ghost shot, emphasises the effects.
• The soundtrack with real sounds underneath is effective.
• Good titles
• Range of shots, shot duration and angles
• Effective range of angles that show different views of the character.
• The music sets the mood.
  

Negatives:

• Not much content
• Some mise-en-scene against stereotypes
  
• Prompt ending, we should have a more subtle ending.
  

Final Opening Sequence

This is our final opening sequence:

Soundtrack

We decided to make the soundtrack a bit sad to reflect the feelings of the male character. The soundtrack runs smooth with the sequence as the shots and sounds are effective by drawing in the spectator.



We used orchestral sounds and emotional piano sounds to also reflect the emotions and feelings of the male character.

Effects

We decided to stylize our sequence a bit, which we know is against conventions of social realism, however, we felt that putting this specific effect in would make the sequence more effective in the way that the sequence suggests the male doing drugs. The filter shows the effect of the drugs on the male.

Fonts

The font we decided to use was Arial, we decided this when putting our titles into our sequence as we couldnt find any of the fonts we wanted to use. We saw Arial and decided this was a good font to use as it looked the part that we wanted to achieve.



We liked this font as it was bold and dull which is the effect we were looking for.

Rough Cut.

Here is our rough cut :)

Rough Cut Deadline

As we had a week off college, the deadline has been moved to Monday 2nd of March. We feel in a confortable position to say that we can finish our roughcut by then. We finished filming on the 25th of February and have already got our sequence into place. All we need to do is cut down some of our sequence to make it fit to the requirements, which is two minutes long, and add our ident and place in where the titles are going to be.
We had problems with filming which means that we were worried about reaching th deadline for the rough cut, however, we now feel that we are going to be fine for the deadline and do our best to make the rough cut to a good standard.

Film Names

We are only just starting to discuss film names as it is getting to that time when we need to think of what the film title is going to be so we can include this is on our sequence.

Here is some names that we thought up:

• White Wednesday
• Sad Man
• Faze
• All Alone
• Oblivious

More Font Research

For our titles we decided to use a dull font, which has hardly any effects on it. A bold font which puts accross the conventions of a social realism. Here is just a few that i saw and thought would look good combined with our sequence.

We have not yet decided on any specific font, but we have decided to the charcateristics of the font, being bold and dull.

Shot List

We decided to change our shot list as there was problems with our planning of filming. As we filmed later then we should have, we had to shorten the sequence to fit it into the time we had to film. At first we were dissappointed that we had to shorten the sequence, however, thinking about it more and more, we realised this would be a benefit for our sequence. It would be more conventional to use this shortened sequence.

New shot list:

• Male character asleep on the floor with a blanket over him. Different shot types, side angles, eye level and aerial views. This is to show where the male is and the different angles of him.
• The male character is being waken by an alarm/phone call on his phone which is by his side, along with some needles and syringes. The eye level shot is used to show the male moving and doing what he does every morning.
• The male character lays back down and snoozes for a few minutes (still at eye level)
• The camera then moves to infront of the character and shows him putting on his t-shirt.
• Then the camera moves to the back of the character and watches him from behind as it is suggested that he injects himself with something, trying to make the spectator assume it is heroin.
• At the same angle, the character falls onto his bed slowly and we watch him as his face relaxes.
• We then see the male arise again and get ready to leave his home. We watch him dress and put his shoes on. The camera is watching him from the side.
• Then the camera is watching the male walk through his front door and down the path with him turning and the camera following.

This is then the end of the sequence which runs on for about 2 minutes and is dragged out to see the male wake and rise like a normal day which everybody goes through. The male was origionally going to be a lower class male, but we had problems with finding somewhere to film to portay this, so we thought about it and realised that social realism can be of any class representation. We decided to represent the working/middle class.

Film Fonts

Existing Film title fonts.

We have been researching what fonts to use for our titles in our sequence. We were lookin at media products that already exist and found the type of fonts they use in their sequence. we looked at 'This is England' and 'Sweet sixteen'.

Filming Problems

Unfortunately we could not film on the Monday, when we had initially planned to film as our group did not pick up the camera, therefore corrupting the time of filming. Due to this, we had to film the week we came back to college. This is was also a problem as there was only two members of the group available to film as the other two were absent from college. This was an inconvenience because it was harder to film and decide on things with only two of us. We had to shorten the film opening sequence as we did not have enough time to film the second half of the sequence.

Production Example

Here is an example of the call sheet that we need to start producing our film sequence. The call sheet tells us all the information we need to know about the production. For example, contact details of people, locations and maps, general things we need or should know, like where the nearest a&e is.

Titles

We come up with a few titles to go across the bottom of the screen whilst the sequence is running.

Karl Lambourne
Sam Perry
Pia Rolfe
Cassie Barker
Niall Folbigg
Rachel Chaplin

These are going to represent people who were involved in the making of the film. The titles will last about 1 minute, and then the opening sequence will last roughly another minute.

Contributor Release Form

We did a contributor release for for the actor (Sam) to give his consent of using his image in our sequence. Real film producers use these to getpermission of people starring in the film to stop anyone from causing distress about using their image. We are using these slips to make our production more professional and show that we are capable of planning in depth and thinking about every possiblity.

Call Sheet

We have decided to film at Cassie's House in Sawston. We will collect the camera from college on Wednesday 18th between 12 and 1.
Filming on Monday 23rd February at 1pm.
First location is Cassie's house, second location is in the street and the other locations is Boots in the local village.

Production contacts:
Camerawork: Karl
Actor: Sam
Directors: Cassie & Pia

We all have each others contact details.

This is the location of where we are going to film. Also on the map it shows where Addenbrooks hospital is.

Emergencies:
In an emergency we will contact the police. The nearest A&E is Addenbrooks in Cambridge, just across the road from long road.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hills Road Cambridge

CB2 0QQ

Test Footage*

We went out and did some test footage to show what sort of filming we will do and how we will do it. We acted out some of the shots included in our sequence and filmed them to see what they would look like.

We then filtered the video to make this more effective in the sense of social realism.
We used the filter Image control; desaturate. This drains out the colour from our shots and makes it look more like a social realist drama.

Target Audience

The target audience depends on the way the film is constructed and the content. The genre of social realism has its own independence. Considering our opening is based on social realism our target audience is probably adults no younger than 17. Then content of our social realism would be too dull for a teenage audience. Also it might be suitable for older viewers but I don't think it would be a mainstream production.

Locations

We initially planned to film in the media studio but due to it being vandalised not too long ago, we are not allowed to use this for various health and safety reasons. Also, as we are doing a social realist, using a real bed and bedroom for the sequence would be a better option to use. This also means taking the camera and equipment out of college. We are just going to use somebodys ordinary bedroom.

Risk Assessment

Risks that could be avoided:

• Dropping of the camera. This could be avoided by using the equipment properly and making sure the group is handling the equipment with care.

• Tripping over. This could be unexpected but could be avoided by watching where one is walking.




• Being careful outside of college. Being aware of others around you and damaging the environment or disturbing natural causes.


• Being aware of traffic and pedestrians. Making sure that people are careful of roads etc.




• Making sure that our filming does not interupt anybody else or cause any harm.


• Damage of equipment. Equipment should be handled with care.

• Icy paths may be a hazard as somebody may slip over on it and hurt themselves. To avoid this, members of the group should be aware of the weather conditions and be prepared to look out for the icy paths or roads.