Evaluation: Question 7

Evalution: Question 6

When constructing my title sequence technology is involved in all three areas: Pre Production, Production and post production. I was very familiar with the equipment as I already have past experience.

When filming the title sequence I decided to film with a Canon 600D. I chose this camera because I knew exactly how to use it and also the image quality it has was perfect for my title sequence. However I did look into using a flip camera to record but I decided that the image quality might not look the way I wanted it to be. I then used Mac computers to upload the footage. It was the easiest way/computer to edit my footage with. Luckily, the Mac computers at school had the following programs on: Photoshop, After Effects and Final Cut Pro. As a result of having these it was much easier to create the most professional title sequence possible.I used the online website Da font to get a font that is similar to the ones used in romantic films. I then used Final Cut Pro to create the rest of the title, using the programme was stress free as it was very simple to edit the footage, add sound and put the titles on.

Evaluation: Question 5

Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

I decided that the target audience would be females ages 15-21. I imagined the film would be rated 15 as there would be scenes unsuitable for a younger audience. My secondary audience would be you young couples age 16-21, I say this because couples would consider watching a romantic film on a date . Furthermore, my audience would fall under Group E , as my audience is mainly students they are more likely to spend money on leisure activities e.g. shopping, cinema, live shows etc. I did some audience research to see what my potential audience would expect to see in the title sequence and film. The feedback received was very positive and was inline with my initial ideas.  

Evaluation: Question 3

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

Evaluation:Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups ? 

Evaluation: Question 1

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

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Editing

   

Throughout the process of making a title sequence I really enjoyed working on FinalCutPro. I have used FinalCutPro in the past but not in depth as I have for this project, which has been a great as I have learnt more about the programme and editing in general . 

The images below show the process of editing the title sequence. Firstly I had to load all the footage onto the computer, after I had to use MPEG to convert the files to DV as it would be easier to use on FinalCutPro. Once that was done , I then drag the correct footage's onto the timeline  and arrange them in order.  When all the scenes were put together I then started to add the video transitions, being that the title sequence is a Romantic Comedy there wasn't a huge variety of transitions to use as Romantic Comedy title sequences tend to have a cross dissolve and fade in/ fade out transition. I mainly used a cross dissolved as it worked well with the changing of time and day which was perfect. After all that was done, I then added my font , I decided to use 'Apple Chancery' which I shall be changing to due to the feedback given. Also, I used to the colour blue on my font which I shall be also changing as some of the tiles are hard to read. 

There were many video filters that I tried to use on the sequence but none of them looked right , some were too dark , to bright etc. I am still looking for a filter that will work well. However, I increased the brightness of some of the scenes for example the corridor seen was way too dark so Increased the brightness and lowered the contrast. For a more naturalistic look and tone. 

There wasn't much to do when  it came to editing the music. The only thing I  needed to edit was I had to cut down the track as it was longer than the sequence and I placed an audio transition for the music was to fade out at the end of the sequence. 

Feedback

In yesterdays lesson we all watched each others title sequences, it  was a good opportunity to see everyones work and also view  things that could i could add to my title sequence. There were a few problems with my sequence, i need to change my chosen font as is it need to be more in line with the Romcom genre. I need to change the colour as it is hard to read some of the titles. Also if there is time i need to film a short scene of the main girl and the school boy so that  the audience know they end up they end up together  later on on the film. 

 

Teachers Feedback

This video is a summary of the feedback we got from our teachers and things we plan to work on .

The feedback given from our teacher was mostly positive. However she told us that we had to make changes to our storyboard as the narrative was not clear enough. 

Mise- en - scene in title sequence

I have created a brainstorm of the props we shall be using and camera shots and angles that will be used in the title sequence. This is  so that we have a clear mind set on what we need to do when filming in order to save valuable time.

Roles

When making a film there are specific roles given to everyone in production. We have put together roles for everyone according to their strength.

Esther - Producer. Editor. Sound Editor. Cameraman. Director of Photography.
Chloe - Storyboard Artist. prop designer.Researcher.
Nicole - Costume designer. Actress

Typography Options

In class we went on the website 'Da Font' to see what fonts we could use for our title sequence . We also looked at other title sequences from the same genre. 

After looking at the fonts we decided to go with the seventh one because it is simple but still has that Romantic Comedy look to it . We didn't want to go with something like the fifth one as it look to cheesy and fairy-tale like. As our title sequences is sort of breaking the conventions of a romantic Comedy  , as the characters, setting etc are not your stereotypical  romantic comedy Mise-en-Scene. 

Update: Second Filming

This video is a summary of the group and I second time filming. 

We had to film again as some of the footage was blurred and the camera was shaking in some scenes. The second filming was done in school which was easier for us as we did not need to arrange a time for us to meet up. Overall it was successful as we  filmed all the scenes  we needed under one hour.

Update: Holiday Filming

This video is summary of the filming that my group and I did on the half term holiday 

During the half term my group and I met up to film our title sequence. We chose to film in Danson Park and Welling School as the are the perfect location for our chosen film genre. We filmed for 2 hours in Danson Park we were able to film everything we need. A majority our title sequence is filmed in Welling School as the narrative is based upon a teenagers school life.   

Napoleon Dynamite Timeline

00.00 - 00.01 = red carpet
00.01 - 00.06 = plate with food and 'fox searchlight pictures' written in sauce
00.07 - 00.07 = plate taken away
00.08 - 00.09 = white carpet
00.10 - 00.14 = plate with food and 'paramount pictures presents' written in sauce
00.14 - 00.15 = plate taken away
00.15 - 00.16 = blue carpet
00.16 - 00.21 = plate with food and 'in association with mtn films' written in sauce
00.21 - 00.22 = plate taken away
00.23 - 00.24 = shot of wallet
00.25 - 00.29 = shot of UFO abduction card, with 'starring Jon Heder' on it
00.30 - 00.36 = preston high school card
00.37 - 00.38 = green carpet
00.39 - 00.44 = plate of food with 'Jon Gries' written in sauce
00.44 - 00.45 = plate taken away
00.45 -00.46 = green carpet
00.47 - 00.48 = mustardy carpet
00.48 - 00.53 = plate of food with 'Aaron Ruell' written in sauce
00.54 - 00.55 = mustardy carpet
00.56 - 00.56 = green flooring
00.57 - 01.01 = tin of food with 'Efren Ramirez' written in sauce
01.01 - 01.02 = tin taken away
01.02 - 01.03 = green flooring
01.03 - 01.04 = mustardy flooring
01.04 - 01.08 = food with Tina Majorino
01.09 - 01.10 = mustardy flooring
01.10 - 01.11 = wooden flooring
01.12 - 01.15 = ninja star with 'with diedrich bader' written on it
01.16 - 01.16 = wooden flooring
01.17 - 01.17 = blue patterned carpet
01.18 - 01.19 = books placed on carpet
01.19 - 01.20 = book opened
01.20 - 01.26 = takes out library book return card, the card says 'casting by Jory Weitz'
01.26 - 01.27 = put card back
01.27 - 01.28 = open new book
01.29 - 01.34 = takes out library book return card, the card says 'music by John Swihart'
01.35 - 01.36 = put card back
01.36 - 01.37 = pushes books away
01.37 - 01.38 = carpet
01.38 - 01.42 = box of sweets placed on carpet, the box says 'Edited by Jeremy coon'
01.42 - 01.43 = box flicked away
01.43 - 01.45 = beige carpet
01.46 - 01.53 = lip balm with 'Production design by Cory Lorenzen'
01.53 - 01.54 = blue carpet
01.55 - 02.01 = drawing placed onto screen with 'Director of photography Munn Powell'
02.01 - 02.02 = blue carpet
02.02 - 02.03 = beige carpet
02.04 - 02.09 = drawing placed onto screen with 'Executive producer Jory Weitz'
02.10 - 02.11 = mustardy carpet
02.11 - 02.12 = stripey carpet
02.13 - 02.17 = 'produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, Sean Covel' appears on the screen
02.17 - 02.18 = stripey carpet
02.19 - 02.19 = laminate flooring
02.20 - 02.30 = pencils, rubber and protractor placed onto floor with 'Written by Jared Hess and Jekusha Hess' written on it
02.30 - 02.31 = pencils, rubber and protractor wiped away
02.32 - 02.33 = blue carpet 02.33 - 02.37 = plate of food placed down with 'Directed by Jared Hess' written with sauce on it
02.37 - 02.38 = burger bun out on top of burger
02.38 - 04.01 = black screen 

Looking at the Napoleon Dynamite timeline was very useful as it gave me ideas on what I could do on my title sequence . Furthermore, the timing of the titles and the order was also helpful as it was a guide to us on placing the titles in order. Also the title sequence was also good to watch as it attracts a young teenage audience, which is also our target audience . The use of the bright colours and objects related to the main character also showed us ways in which we could make our title sequence more engaging and  more appealing to our target audience .

Update

During lesson we went through our schedule and decided what days we were going to re film. Today we are all up to date with our blog.

Unfortunately we were not able to keep inline with our calendar as there were many issues in the group. This was due to some members not being available for  to re-shoot , which caused a delay in editing as I needed the new clips to finish of the sequence. In addition, It was a struggle to get the group together to go through the sequence as some had lessons to attend or were busy after school.

Title Sequence Soundtrack

In our title sequence there is no talking so music is a key feature. During one of our double lessons while I was editing the footage , Nicole and Chloe went to find some music that we could use. They first tried YouTube for uncopyrighted music but didn't have much luck. Next they went on soundcloud & freeplaymusic.com to look for something that would be appropriate for our sequence, they managed to find  a few that they liked. They came across the artist 'Lisa Jaeggi'. After spending a while listening to all of her songs, they decided to pick the song  'Better The Devil You Know' and we all agreed that it fitted our sequence perfectly. We are sure that this song is uncopyrighted however they sent an email to  Lisa Jaeggi herself to see if it was perfectly okay to use her song, unfortunately we haven't had a reply back from her but we have done our research and can find no reason to not use it. The email we sent read:  

'Hi, 

      We are Welling school pupils and for our A Level Media coursework we are making a title sequence for a film that we have created. We were instructed to use a piece of either uncopyrighted music or music we have had permission to use by the writer. We found your song 'The Devil You Know' on the website https://www.freeplaymusic.com/ and were wondering if you could grant us permission to use your song, which fits in really well with our sequence. 

  

Many Thanks, 

  

Chloe Ridley 

Nicole Simmons  

Esther Sole' 

Filming Journal Part 3

We did re- filming  in school. This time it was very difficult to film as Chloe and Nicole did not plan properly the filming times and the extras/ cast we needed were not available. This happened more than once. We managed to sort out dates and  times between us and the extras/cast in our sequence and  managed to film everything we needed. Overall I found the experience of filming during school time more difficult than Danson , however we managed to successfully overcome these issues as a group.

1st Draft

This is the first draft of my title sequence. I think that the colour and font needs to be changed and also I need to film and end scene so the audience know that the girl and boy finally date each other as the narrative is not really clear.

Danson Park re-shoot

While editing the footage we shot at Danson Park we found that some of the shots taken didn't turn out the way we wanted . This meant we had to re-shoot & get it all done as quickly as possible.
On Friday after our Media lesson Nicole and Chloe got permission to leave school early to go to her house to get the costume & props that we needed, we met at Danson park at 3.30. Overall it took around 1 hour 30 minutes to shoot everything we needed. we are all very pleased with the way the footage we filmed has turned out.

Group Research

In our free period the group and I started thinking what sounds/ music we would use in our title sequence.

Below are some copyrighted tracks that we might consider to use as our soundtrack.
We decided to go for a acoustic original sound as is it fits in perfectly to the codes and conventions of our title sequence. However, we were not happy with the song choices below, which meant we had to look for another artist on a different website.

Main Character Costume

 The main character in our film is a teenage girl in her last year of secondary School, she is a very a popular girl and gets along with everyone in the school. In her spare time she listens to music and likes to spend allot of time with her friends watching movies and attending social events . However,  when she's not with he friends she loves to spend her time on social media websites e.g. Facebook , Instagram & Twitter. Her fashion sense is very care-free ,she wears tshirts made by her favorite bands and TV shows which also reflects on her personality as she does what she wants.  She also owns many, many pairs of converses and likes to wear a different pair everyday. 

Filming Journal

We began to film our title sequence on Wednesday 19th February. We chose this day because it was the beginning of half term and if some of the shots were't so great we could easily just go back out later on in the week and re-shoot them, luckily there was no need for this as we managed to get all the shots we needed that day.

We had all the costume, props and camera equipment we needed, and managed to get all the shots we could do in a matter of hours, we also had a lot of fun and got to know each other a bit better.

As a group we decided to meet at 11.30 at Danson Park, which is where a majority of our sequence takes place. We decided that Danson Park would be a good place to film because its a big open space but it is still quite central so if we needed to get anything it would be easy enough for one of us to go home/go to a shop and get whatever we needed, luckily we were all prepared for the day ahead and didn't need to waste any time running around getting things we may have needed.

To film our sequence we used my  camera, we came together as a group and decided to use my camera because it is the best quality camera and we would always have access to it if we needed to film  anything again. We also used a tripod to make sure none of the shots were shaky and that we made sure the camera quality was at its finest, unfortunately it was a fairly windy day so some of the shots were a little bit shaky, which meant we had to go back to Danson Park at another date and re-shoot some of them to make sure they were the best we could do and the best shots we could get. 

Luckily we managed this and also got some extra shots we had been advised to do, so in the end it turned out to be a good thing that some of the shots were shaky otherwise we wouldn't have had the shots at the best quality.
We all worked together as a team to get the shots we needed. Nicole plays the main character in the film so she was acting, she also provided the costume. I provided the camera & tripod and Chloe bought the storyboard and other papers that we needed.

Overall I think it was a successful day filming, even though we will have to do some of the shots again it was still really good to get an idea of how we well we would work together when we are filming and how long everything would take and how well the shots would turn out. 

Production Company Logo

This is our production company logo which was made on Photoshop. Overall, I am happy with the outcome of design as it attracts our target audience and relates and highlights the romcom genre. As a majority of our target audience would be females we waned to go for a more girly/ teenage look  .

Production Plan

We decided to make a production plan as it would help us a lot better with organising days to film, edit and re-shoot.