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 :)

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

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.

Costumes

We don't really have a theme for costumes, we thought we would just use casual, everyday clothing. As the genre is social realism we gave our characters a naturalistic look.
A casual look would be something along the lines of jeans a top and a jacket.

This is some shots of mise-en-scene and camerawork:

There is a variety of shots including eye level shots, aerial view shots and over the shoulder shots. These will all combine in our sequence toshow different views and angles of the main character.

Props

We are going to use a radio for when the character gets up and the radio will be on until he leaves the house. this will combine with the convention of social realist as it is natural.

These are the syringes that are going to be on the mans bedside table which he will suggest to the spectator that eh will take when he gets up. Again we wil see a reaction shot of his face after he has taken the drugs. To suggest that he has without showing he has.


We are going to use a bedside table for the props to go on which will be the syringes and drugs. The table will be next to the characters bed, so we can see this in each shot.

Locations

The center of town, where our main character will be walking on his way to super drug (to buy his girlfriend a pregnancy test). There will be a variety of shots of the character walking downt the street to get an insight of where he may be.

This is the place where the character will get the pregnancy test. he doesn't buy it though, he steals it. this will be suggested through a variety of shots, including close ups of his face to see his reaction after it is suggested that he has stolen the test.

We will be using the media studio as one of our locations and the center of town for the other half of the sequence.
We will take pictures of the media studio when we begin to film and will be on here shortly.
In the mean while, here are the other places we are going to film.

Animatic

This is our animatic. We used a range of shot types and a variety of different diagetic sounds to emphasis the everyday sounds that people do not normally notice. The shots are quite long duration to try and show how we are going to drag out the shots. this was rather hard to show in the animatic as they are pictures and not clips. Although the shots are long duration, there will be many angles taht will be used. The sound we are going to use is going to be diagetic, everyday sounds such as people in the street, children playing and cars going past.

Storyboard

This is our real story board that we will follow when filming.

These are our practice story boards:

This is our storyboard and the images we will use for our animatic. There was a few more pictures that we added to our animatic that we haven't got on here. We did two storyboards and then combined them together to make one. We did this as we all had different ideas and if we put them all together it would combine everyones ideas.
Some of the ideas were missed out as they did not fit in as ell with the rest of the sequence, however, many of the shots were used.

Pitch Feedback

In the lesson we presented our pitch to the rest of the group. This is our feedback:

"Good use of conventions of a realist drama. The way we have thought about lighting and sound in our sequence. We have thought about the problems that happen everyday and used them to produce an idea for a sequence"

"Good representation of social realism"

"Good research. We have thought clearly about where we are going to film and thought about having permission to film in a shop. "

Mood Board

This is our mood board. We used images from the internet to put our ideas together. We used images that are other film titles that are social realist. The other pictures are to represent the things that are going to be used in our sequence. They show props, locations and lighting. The mood board is to represent our genre which is social realism.