Costume Ideas

We have decided to use these pictures as a template for Stephanie's characters to create a believable stereotypical geek. the glasses are our main idea to portray this.

A Walk to Remember Trailer

We understand that this is a trialer for the film A Walk to Remember but it gives you a better idea of the characters and their relationship. This reflects our film as both characters are from opposite ends of the social world but still manage to find a way to build a relationship. The boy is the popular one in school who cares about his reputation weras the girl is the 'loner' who does not care about the opinions of others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96uhfQ0x9A

She's the man film clip

When deciding on the characters we wanted to involve in the story we wanted to make sure that we portrayed Steph's character as a geek. A charcter in the film She's the man called Eunice was thought of when planning our idea. We did not base our character's look on her but her awkwardness around boys and her clumsiness. This videos shows numerous clips from the film which involves Eunice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqDkEXg4Rfg

Inspiration for our film opening

We have based the ideas of the characters and their stereotypes around the ones involved in the Taylor Swift music video- You belong with me. We are aware that this is a music video and that we are making an opening for a film but we have just used the basic consepts involved to help aid our planning. The girl played in this film is similar to the one we have created for our opening. She is awkward and socially excluded from her peers. she has a strong friendship with a boy at her school but the boy is unaware of her true feelings. Our film will differ to this characters story as the boy will not have a girlfriend in our opening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Mjp0ozGLo

Treatment

Treatment: The opening minutes of the film will be based on teenage girls want for acceptance played by Stephanie. She is the stereotypical geek in school, with big glasses, awkward conversations, and her head in a book at every waking moment. It’s a typical college love story; the only problem the boy has no idea how she feels and only sees her as a friend. The opening outlines their friendship and her want for more. We see a girl in the opening who we suggest is bullying

Steph. The opening then goes on show how the Steph's character wants to be like her peers. The opening is seen through the eyes of the girl, as she struggles to find a way to tell him how she feels. We see her trying to change her image to match her peers. Hopefully the voiceover that we will include in the opening highlights the girls true personality and her sense of humour. The voiceover will be a reflection of her thoughts as the action takes place and will give the audience an insight into her true personality. It ends with Ryan and Stephanie on the doorstep and leaves it open so that the film could continue on

Preliminary Task Evaluation

What did you learn about the cameras and editing software during the preliminary task?

When making the preliminary task all the people in our group were unfamiliar with using a video camera so at the beginning of the task we tried experimenting with the different camera angles that we have perviously been studying. We wanted to experiment with this to get an idea of how filming looks when compared with our initial thoughts on paper. This would help us when planning our main task. It was also the first time that anyone in our group had used Final cut Pro so after we had shot the footage for our preliminary task we learnt how to use the basic techniques that it involves, such as, Log and capturing. this would make it easier and more effective when we came to edit out main task using the same software.

In the filming and editing of your project, what worked well and what could have been improved?

We thought that the opening of our film worked well as we made sure that when editing the footage later on the shots linked together seemlessly. We did this to create a professional overall finish to the task. The opening of the door shot worked well as me made sure that the door was open at the same point on either side so it made the audience belived that it was filmed with two cameras at the same time to create a seemless finish. During the filming we tried to use a number of different camera angles to get to grips on where the camera needed to be iin place in order to create a professional finish which would help with our main task. However there were a number of problems with our preliminary task. The video camera that we used to shoot the footage did not pick up any sound so when it came to editing the film you could not hear the dialogue between the two characters. We also broke the 180 degree rule during the conversation. We shot the conversation over the opposite shoulders of the characters, breaking the line. We only realised our mistake when it came to editing the film.

Give a detailed,specific example of how you have used a shot/reverse shot combination in your film.

Within our preliminary task we used shot reverse shot during the conversation between jordan and Jermaine in the canteen after Jermaine had entered the room. We did this to highlight the expressions of the characters to make the film more interesting. We started with an over the shoulder shot of Jermain so the audience could see Jordan's face as he was the one who began the conversation. The majority of our film is shot/reverse shot of their conversation as we wanted to get to grips with this particular feature in case we wanted to use it later in our main task.

Give a detailed, specific example of how you achived match cuts during the editing process.

We used a match cut to film Jermaine walking through the doors and into the canteen as we thought that this was the best oppertunity to use this feature. We began by filming hikm walking up to the door and starting to open it. We then placed the camera inside the room that he was entering and filmed him walking through the door, making sure that the door was open as much as it had been in the previous shot, and walking into the room.

How did you make sure that you didn't break the 180 degree rule? Or if you broke it, what have you learnt from this?

We did break the 180 degree rule but we only realised this when we began to edit the film.

We decided to still use this shot for the task but we wanted to make sure that we highlighted the fact that we knew this was a continuity error within our film. We realised the by filming the shot reverse shot from opposite shoulders of the characters in the conversation we had crossed the line and therefore broke the rule. From this we have learnt to film all of our footage from one side of the action in our scene ot make sure that the rule is not broken within our main task.

Preliminary Task

Notes

Due to a lack of compatability in our original group, we found it hard to work together in a productive way. Because of this we were unable to create a film that was up to the standard that we all wanted. We thought it would be best to start again in pairs to make sure that we make a film to the best of our abilities. That is why we started later than everyone else because we wanted to make sure we could do the best we can.