Shot List

Shot List

This is a list where all the types of shots are written down that would be used when filming every scene and part in my film. The location is also written down as well as the subject and action that the characters would be doing. This is to help us film and we have a plan of what is first and last.

Synopsis

This is a synopsis that I have created by myself on Word, to show how the opening sequence starts and what happens in it.

Presentation on Survey and also analysation.

This is a presentation on our findings of our primary research task. I have put it in a graph chart to show how many people favour which option. This is helpful because we can see what the audience would like in terms of location and the type of characters and what storyline they would be interested in. This would benefit us because we get to see what audiences would be interested in and we can base our film on this so our target audience would approve of our choices that we make for our film. Some problems that we encountered are for the location, most people would have rather have the location for our film set on a beach because it is more romantic, however, despite this, we have decided to still go with our original setting which was in a park near restaurants and this is because we would need a restaurant in our film. Also because it is more realistic for our Rom-com as well as the fact that it would be hard for us to film on a beach. Another information I have gathered from this primary research is what types of Romantic films they favour. The films that they have written down are some of the films which I have based my Research Task on and most of these films have inspired me to recreate some scenes or use some effects from that particular film for my very own. For example, most people have chosen that they liked the film "Friends with Benefits", this is valuable information for us because we have decided to recreate a crucial scene from this film for our own and the fact that audience like this film would mean they would like our film that we would make, recreated some shots from this film. Another thing that went well from this primary research is the type of characters the audience would like to see in a Romantic/Rom-com film. The answers they gave matched the answers we originally planned to have our characters in, so this benefited us because we now know the audience would like the characters we would choose for our film.

Audience Research Questionnaire

This is a primary research that me and my group have conducted for the audience to see what the audience would prefer and what options they would go for. This is for us to see what they would like to see in a Rom-com film, this gives us an insight into what they are interested in and benefits us so that we can reinforce these options in our own film to make it successful for our target audience to like.

Film Inspiration

This is my film inspiration. I have chosen certain few films from the Romance genre because that is what my own film will be based on and I would like to recreate some scenes that I would use in my own film. I think some aspects of these scenes would look really good for my own film and has inspired me to add some bits in, it also establishes the genre very well.

What makes an effective opening sequence?

Here, I have chosen a few films from the Romance genre and analysed what are the specific things that make an opening sequence of an film effective through micro-features that would make the audience carry on watching or being interested in.

Character Analysis

I have analysed the main protagonists and how they act and what they wear and what all these connotes.

Micro-feature Analysis

I have chosen two Romantic films and analysed the micro-features and how they portray the genre very well in terms of what they use and how well they use it.

Textual Analysis Genre

Here, I have chosen a film from the Romance genre and analysed the mis-en-scene, location, sound, editing and camerawork that are used to portray the genre very well.

Media - (Romance Poster for the Opening Sequence).

This is an mind-map of what genre I would like my film to be based on and which location I would use and all the characters that will be starring in it, as well as any props and what exactly will be happening in my opening sequence. This helped us to start off as we had planned everything out on paper beforehand.

Preliminary Task

My role within the group was to help set up the camera with another person in my group and then give the signals to the actresses on when to come in through the door or to wait or when the right time was for them to speak and also to signal to the cameraman to click the record button. I was pleased with many aspects of my video sequence, one may be was that it did not take long to record so everything was done at a fast pace. I was pleased with how all the timing was correctly put in order so nothing looked out of place and everything fit perfectly. Also pleased with the dissolve effects that I have used because it makes the video look more interesting. We did encounter a few problems especially at the start, it did not take much long to set up the camera on the tripod, however it did take time to set up the Microphone because we could not figure out why the sound was not coming through and why there was a weird noise every time we connected it to the camera. We then figured out that there was something wrong with the microphone and it would not work but we could not figure out what problem that exactly was. Luckily, we also figured out that we did not need the microphone for the sound of the actresses speaking to come up on the camera as we checked beforehand and it worked fine without the microphone, that is how we resolved this issue without having to use a microphone. We also had another issue where a teacher kept coming into the room whilst we were filming and he accidentally got caught up into the video. It was because he had to supervise us and got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. How we resolved this problem was I had to signal to him to move out the way and stand in another place in the room to supervise so he would not get caught seen on the camera. I have developed and learnt many new skills, one of which was how to set-up the camera and onto the tripod because I did not know that. I also learnt a whole lot on the Premium Pro that we used to edit our sequence and use new effects which I did not know how to insert. I learnt how to add the titles and change the font and size to that and I also learnt how to add dissolve and many other effects to make it look much nicer. I discovered new tools to use with this program for my clip which I did not know before, so I learnt new things along the way. The ways that I could have improved my project are by ensuring that the Microphone should have been working from the start and to make sure when we took the camera out that everything was in working order so that we would not have wasted any time when filming trying to get certain parts to be working, e.g. microphone. This is something that I would do differently if I was to repeat this task. Also, to improve my project I would make sure that whoever is filming the sequence would have held the camera in the right position because towards the end we did not realise that the camera had titled ever so slightly to the side when it should have been straight. If I was to repeat this task, I would do this differently, so everything is perfect. Moreover, I would probably add more effects if I was to repeat this task again, I would make the starting of the sequence probably dissolve in, so it looks more professional and much nicer than it currently is.