Full bloopers/Behind the scenes

This is a video that we created which contains all the blooper, behind the scenes and also some deleted scenes from our film.

Evaluation question 7:

For question 7 I have decided to create a video comparing the skills that we had when creating our Prelim clip and the skills we have now. I used the programme Camtasia to edit this video. 

 Here is a prezi about what I have learnt by working as a group to create our film. 

Evaluation question 6:

Evaluation question 5:

As part of question 5 I decided to film an interview with a member of our target audience asking them questions about our film. This is an interview with a girl who is 16 years old and this is what she thinks about our film.

Promotional Pack:

Poster:

 

This is a poster that I have created. This poster would be hung up in schools and colleges all over the UK because these pupils are the age of our target audience. This poster will attract teenagers because the pictures on the photos look quiet creepy and this will mean that the audience will want to go and watch the movie so that they can see what it is about. 

Teaser trailer:

I thought that creating a teaser trailer will be something different for the viewers. By watching this they will know what to expect from the real movie. It is only 30 seconds long which will leave the audience with a lot of questions and because of this they will then want to see the actual movie. 

Newspaper review:

This is a newspaper review about the movie JACK. This would appeal more to the older audience,by this I mean young adults from the ages of 17 to 22. This would appeal more to the older audience because the older audience are the ones that read newspaper. This is just a very short review but it would encourage the readers to go watch the film.

Evaluation question 4:

Evaluation question 3:

Evaluation question 3 for media from Rusne Indrasiunaite

Evaluation question 2:

Evalutation question 1:

As a group we decided to record an interview with a cast member as we thought that this would be a good way to discuss the conventions of film openings,how we followed them and the conventions of title sequences. What I forgot to say during the interview is that we did challenge one of the main conventions of teen movies which is that they are mostly Hollywood. Whereas our film is a British production for a British audience.

We followed a conventional order for our titles,this it the order in which all teen film titles appear as. I have created a video of our title sequence.



Intertextual characters: 

On the left is Safia who plays the character of Chloe. Chloe is represented as being the princess in the film. while watching the film you are able to undertand that she is the princess because she is dressed inappropritely for camping,she's wearing a dress and she has brang a suitcase whereas everyone else brang bags with them. Her character was inspired by Dana from the movie The Cabin in the woods. The character of Chloe is very similar to Dana because in the movie The Cabin in the woods Dana is seen as the princess in the group. 

 On the left is Shahed who plays the character of Aaron. Aaron is represented as being the Jock in the group. Aaron is the guy in school who everyone wants to be like and all of the girls are jealous that his bestfriend is Chloe. Even Jack is jealous of their friendship. The character of Aaron was inspired by the character of Steve from the movie Scream. Steve is also represented as being the jock and because of this he is killed during the film. 

On the left is myself(Rusne) and I play the character of Katie in the film. Katie is represented as being the geek in the group. She is the girl in school who always gets the best grades and everyone is jealous of that. She's been friends with Chloe and Aaron for a while but she still has a very close friendship with Jack. My character was inspired by Sara from The Roommate. Sara is very similar to Katie as they are both the type of people who study because they want to get far in life. But what they never expect to happen is for one of their bestfriends to turn against them.

On the left is Tho who plays the character of Jack. jack is represented as being the creepy guy out of the group. He's had some bad argurments with Chloe and Aaron which has only left him with one real friend and that is Katie. But even their friendship won't stop his plan. The character of Jack was inspired by the character of Rebecca from the movie The Roommate. Rebecca is the new girl on campus and she soon becomes best friends with her roommate but then she becomes very jealous and ends up wanting to kill everyone who even talks to her best friend. Both of these characters are very similar because the reason they both decide to commit murder is because of jealously. 

Today's Lesson

In today's lesson we got the opportunity to show our films to the rest of the class so that we can get some feedback from students and our teachers. We recorded a vlog of what they said.

Feedback from students

When we finished making our film we decided to show it to other students to get feedback from them. Some students said that our storyline is very clear and it is easy to understand the four different characters in the opening. Other students commented on our title sequence saying that it is very plain and simple but it fits with the genre of our film. After talking to some students we felt very proud of what we have accomplished and felt happy that people enjoyed our film.

Bloopers of our own film

Today we had a 3 hour lesson and because we finished our film during the first 2 hours we decided to make a bloopers video. For the bloopers video we messed around with music so that it fits with the footage. Below I have included our actual bloopers. 

Finished movie

Today we had 3 hours during our lesson to finish our film and we have now finished. What we had to do today was just to add the titles and we done that pretty quickly once we were shown how too. We are very proud of our film and now we are very happy that we are finished.

Highgate Wood leaflet

When we showed our rough cut to our teacher,the feedback that we got from her was to create a leaflet for camping in Highgate Wood  so that the audience can understand where the four characters are going. Then when the leaflet is created to re-film the scene of Katie. When we film we will start off with a close up of this leaflet so that it shows where the characters are going and what they are doing there.

Rough cut

Today we showed our rough cut to our teacher and some other students. The feedback that we got was that we need to change the order of the titles and that the movie of the title can not come last. Our teacher also told us that it is not clear how all of the characters are connected and that they are all going camping together. So we have now decided to re-film the scene of Katie. This is because we plan to use more props and we plan for her to have a leaflet for Highgate woods camping when she is packing. This will then make it clear that all of the characters are going camping together. We plan to re-film this scene on Wednesday morning. 

Editing process

The programme that we used to edit our film is Final Cut Pro on the iMac's. To create the ident's at the start of the film we used motion. What we first done was that we moved all of our recorded footage from the memory cards onto our hard drive just to make sure that we can move our footage onto Final Cut Pro. We then opened a new project on Final Cut Pro and moved all of our footage onto there. What we then had to do was to order our scenes so that it all makes sense,some scenes we had to shorten whereas some scenes we had to speed up. The scene of where Katie is texting Aaron, was sped up whereas the scene of Chloe walking was shortened. We then researched music and found the two songs that we wanted to use through Thesecession's YouTube page. We first searched on Creative Commons but we only found one song that we liked but it did not have a download button,so we then researched further and found the original track on YouTube. The owner's of the music allowed us to use their songs as long as we do no monteize. We found other songs that also suited our movie and we downloaded two songs. We made sure that they were in the right format so that we could transfer them into Final Cut Pro. We then added the music into Final Cut Pro and matched it up with our footage. After this we had to create the idents and then create the title sequence. Which we done over motion.
Below I have included a slideshow of some pictures we took to prove our editing process.

Editing process - slideshow

Music we will be using

We have found the music that we want to use and the creator of the song has replied to us and told us that we are able to use his songs. For our film we want to use four different types of songs for the four different characters.Below I have included a screenshot of Thesecession's comment allowing us to use their songs.

Here is a link to Thesecession's offical YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/thesecession

Music we want to use

Today we started searching for the music we want to use in our own film. What we first decided to do was search on Creative Commons theough Soundcloud but we did not find the type of music that we wanted. But we did find one song but there was no download button which means that we are not able to use it. But then we read the description where the person has said that he does not own rights to the song an he has downloaded the song from TheSeccision's offical YouTube. What we then decided was to ask the creator of the song whether we would be able to use it for our own film. We are now waiting for a reply. 

Character profile: Aaron

Aaron is played by Shahed. Aaron is the guy in school who's known for his sports. He's the leader of his football team and during his weekends he plays baseball with friends. He's the top of his class for sports but I can't say the same thing for all other subjects. He's been so focused on getting a sochloship at Loughborough University that he hasen't had time to study for other subjects. In year 8 Aaron and Katie were in the same class for science and that's how they became so close and through Katie he met Chloe. Aaron started to drift apart from Jack and Katie and become closer with Chloe. Then in year 11 they became very close again and they all ended up going to the same college. Aaron is excited for the camping trip because he's had a crush on Chloe for years and now he'll finally be able to spend time with her. When he finds out that Jack is coming he won't be too happy.

Character profile: Chloe

Chloe is played by Safia. Chloe is the girl in school that everyone likes. The girls want to be her and the boys want to be with her. But what she lacks is brains. She's so focused on being popular that she has no time to revise or even try at school. In year 7 that's when her popularity began when everyone in the school knew who Chloe was. Even though she's popular she's only close to a few people. Her bestfriend is Katie. They've known eachother since they were little kids and their friendship has grown and grown through the years. Ever since year 9 she's always had conflicts with Jack because she always felt like there was something odd about him. What Katie does not know is that Chloe has had a massive crush on Aaron for years now. That's why she's so excited to be going on a camping trip with her crush.

Character profile: Jack

Jack is played by Tho who is one of our friends who we asked to help us with filming our film. Jack is the boy in school who only has a few friends. He's the boy that everyone else thinks is weird or creepy. Except for Katie who's always been his friend. Ever since year 7 they've been friends and Katie has stayed friends with him even through all the conflicts he had with Chloe and Aaron. Jack dosen't do that well in school,low grades and bad behaviour is what causes him to be in the lowest sets for all of his subjects. He's been bullied a few times by his classmates calling him names beause they find him creepy. His home life has been hard,his parents went through a divorce when he was young and that is the reason for his bad behaviour now. He's always blamed his parents for everything bad that has happened in his life. He spends a lot of time in his room by himself,which might be the reason why he becomes the way that he is now and the reason why he murders his friends on the camping. Even the one friend who's stuck by him.