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:

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?



PRELIM

20. PRELIM - Shahed, Rusne, Safia, Paige, Arber from 283goswell on Vimeo.





FINAL FILM

16 - Rusne Indrasiunaite, Safia Hanou, Paige-Gabrielle Griffith, Abu Shahed Miah from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation question 6:

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation question 5:

How did you attract/address your audience?

The four stereotypical characters in our film are represented as 'the princess', 'the nerd', 'the jock' and 'the weirdo' or in this case he is the killer. All these are conventional social groups seen in most teen films. This is one way to attract our audience who are teenagers and they can relate with at least one of the 4 characters. Also our story line attracts the audience this is because most teenagers around 13-18 go camping and they want to see that experience played by someone else especially in an horror. When we uploaded our rough cut, there were some improvement that we needed to do from our audience response. We needed to make the title sequence follow the conventions of a teen film and also we needed to make the story line more clear for the audience to understand.



Jack poster:

This is a poster that I crated using footage from our films. You can see that there is blood and eyeballs in a glass. This would represent death and foreshadow what might happen in the movie later on. The one liner for the film is "...you're next" and I have chosen this because it suits in with our story line of the weirdo killing everyone one by one. We have used posters such as this to advertise our film. We would place these posters on buses, train stations, schools and colleges. This would attract a wide variety of our audience. Putting the posters up on buses and schools will attract from ages 15 and over because most teenagers travel to school by bus and will notice our posters or banners.. Also placing it in college and train stations will get the older teenagers that are aged 17 to 22. The posters on the train station will attract any young adults that maybe go to work or on their way to college.

Another way we have addressed our audience about our film is through social networks such a Facebook. This is where we release the trailers of our film and let the audience know when it will be released to keep them updated.

Evaluation question 4:

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation question 3:

What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?

Evaluation question 2:

How does your media product represent social groups?

to represent something is to describe or depict it, to call it up in the mind by its description or portrayal. To represent also means to stand for, symbolize or be a substitute for e.g the representation of the color black is to symbolize death, darkness or evil. Representations is the way that people ideas, and events are presented to us. The media will always represent people, places and situations to us. For example in most teen films the character representations are based on how they dress. The pretty and popular girl will dress really princess like and wear pink and the jock will always wear some type of a sport jacket to represent that he is fit and strong which makes him stand out from the others. The media rely on audience understanding these representations and accepting them. In most teen film there is also the representation of different social groups such as "the nerds", "the popular kids" and "the unpopular/weird kids". In our opening we have introduced these social groups. In the beginning scene you can see the nerd packing. The next scene shows the jock and the princess(the popular kids) talking on the phone. It then shows someone packing a knife to represent that he is the killer. The killer also represents the unpopular and weird kid that used to always get bullied. Even though our film represents all different types of social groups, it is still represented in a positive way because it shows how the different social groups are interacting with each other. the nerd and the two popular kids are friends that are going on the camping trip and the weird kid is a friend of the nerd but the popular kids don't know him very well. In the real media the nerds and the weird kids are looked  down at and claimed to be unpopular where as in our film although different social groups are present, they are still a mixture of friends from different social groups.

The Nerd:

The Jock:

The Princess:

The Weird kid:

Below is a an audience response after watching our short opening at the cinema's

Evaluation question 1:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The conventions of film openings is what is stereo-typically common in most film openings. Some of the most common genre conventions in a typical teen film are love and comedy for example '10 Things I hate about you'  and '17 Again' . In most conventional teen films there is a conflict between teens vs authority. One example of where this is shown in is 'The Bling Ring' which we have studied in our media class because it represents the way how teenagers go against authority. Our teen film opening followed some of the conventions of a teen film. One of the way was through social network and how the four characters in our film used messaging as a way to meet each other up. For our title sequence we have also followed the conventions and put the titles in order of an conventional film starting off with our production ident followed by our distribution ident. Our ident's then would show up again in the title sequence because they are the most important part of the film as they are the ones that produced it and will distribute it. They are also important in beneficial ways because they would give you the money to make the film and without them there would be no film. We then followed the strict order of the title sequence putting the names of 2 actors followed by the movie title. This was on our media classroom wall so that we never forgot the order of the titles.


As a group we decided to interview one of the actor, Katie (the nerd) from the film.

Beginning of the film, the location starts of with the nerds room which follows most teen film openings because most films shows the teenagers packing in their room getting ready to school. Since our film genre was a teen horror, Katie "the nerd" is packing to go camping with her friends. The place that they will go camping is in the woods and this is similar to another film 'Cabin in the woods'  "Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for"(IMDb). Our characters also follow the conventions of a teen film because the movie opening starts off with "the nerd" then goes to "the athlete" followed up by "the princess" and our last character is "the weird kid" that no one likes or in a conventional horror, he is "the killer".The athlete is wearing a baseball jacket to represent that he is into sports and he is fit and strong but also like conventional teen films the jock is likely to be stupid. The princess is wearing a dress to make her role look more believable but her dress isn't pink like a princess instead it is black to foreshadow what will happen later on in the film. Black represents death so it  foreshadows just like in a conventional horror film, the pretty is always the first one to die.

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.

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.

Character profile: Katie

Katie who is played by Rusne is a girl who's outgoing,adventrious and ambitious. She's what you would call a "nerd". She's always been a perfect student in school. In school she always contributes to group discussions but work better indepdently. This is because she knows where she wants to get in life and what she needs to do to achieve it. Her ambition is to become a doctor and that is why she spends so much of her free time studying. She has a big group of friends but her bestfriends are Jack,Chloe and Aaron. She's always been close to Jack even when he was involved with conflicts with Chloe and Aaron. In school there used to be a lot of conlicts between the three of them and Katie always used to be in the middle of them. Because of this she does not tell Chloe and Aaron that she invited Jack on their camping trip. When they find out Katie invited Jack i'm sure they'll be angry but it'll be worth it because all of her bestfriends will be in one place.

Filming day 4

Today our whole group met up at Angel station. What we wanted to do in the morning was to re-record Safia's scene because when watching our footage back yesterday we thought of a different way to film her scene. And also yesterday we did not have a suitcase but today we brang a suitcase so that Safia can use it as a prop. As Safia plays the character of Chloe who is the princess, who dresses up inappropriately for a camping trip. Then we travelled to Highgate woods so that we could finish filming the scene where the three characters meet at the woods and where Katie texts Jack saying to meet them at the camp site because he is running late. Afterwards we got on a bus so that we could film the ending scene of our opening where Jack receives the text from Katie and he has a smirk on his face because he knows what he will do when he gets to the camp site. Today we have finished filming all the parts of our film, now from Monday we will be editing our film. Below I have created a video of all the photos from today that we took to use as evidence.