Final Cut For School's Out

Our final cut.

Evaluation Question 5 - Attracting Audience

How did you attract/address your audience?




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Our Sixth Rough Cut For School's Out

We have improved the audio and soundtrack and added more layering

Our Fifth Rough Cut For School's Out

This is our fifth rough cut, for this we added our soundtrack and also changed the layering of the locker slam scene so that there are 4 parts that are revealed in a dallas-style entrance.

Our Fourth Rough Cut For School's Out

this is rough cut number 4 we have now fixed the timing issues and also audio problems that occurred.

Our Third Rough Cut For Schools Out

We have made a few improvements that we wanted to make, such as improving a few title and audio issues that occurred before. we want to add our soundtrack in the next rough cut. 


what we have changed:

we have improved the diegetic title quality 
added more school scene scenarios and reshot them for better image quality and shot variety. 
and improved the exhibition. 

CW:Shoot Number 3 Review

Our sole intention with this shoot was to get the shots that we were missing, such as the entrance into school and walking through the corridors. The shots that we were filming were very basic, but we still used lots of shot variety and framing techniques like we did for the 10th of march shoot. This shoot went very well for us and we got more than enough footage to use.

Here is some of the raw footage we shot:

CW:Shoot Number 3 Planning

The second side of the call sheet

The first side of the call sheet

These are the Call Sheets for Shoot 3, considering how helpful they were for Shoot 2 we decided to do some for this shoot as well.

This shoot is solely for the shots of 'Uber-Conal' walking through school and into school. We plan on including as much shot variety as we can and have even planned some of the shots that we want to vary and how we shall vary them

CW:Shoot number 2 Review

We think that this shoot went very well and we shall definitely be employing the practices, such as the shot list, that we employed here in future shoots. We are very happy with the results that we say from this shoot and feel that, with all the shot variety and repeat filming of scenes, we have more than enough shots to choose from.

Here is some of the raw footage that we filmed:

CW:Planning For Shoot Number 2

For this shoot, we will be filming after school. As we don't want to keep actors any longer than we want to we decided to plan out the shots and what order they would be shot in. This was a very basic list and doesn't account for the different angles that we want to shoot at but we hope it will help us to work as efficiently as we can.

The first shot list

The second shot list

The third shot list

CW:Shoot Number 1 Review

This was one of the first sessions we filmed for School's Out!, we worked with lauren in order to film the sections of her in the house for the starting sequence. As you can see from the video below, we filmed multiple shots, some of which we did not include in our rough cuts and, ultimately we won't include in our final cut. Looking back at the shoot, we realise that we need to plan better for the shoots, we plan on doing call sheets for out next session.

Some of the raw footage that we filmed are in this video:

CW:Shoot Session 1 Planning

For this session we need to get the shots of Lauren's character in her house getting ready for school. We also need to film some diegetic titles. We have rough ideas in regards to what we want to get shots of, but we are still unsure in how to implement these, how they will work in the film and how we are going to film them.

After doing this shoot, we will need to film the sections in school and then we shall have the required shots that we want.

Directing Actors

This is a series of short clips that we have produced demonstrating our directing skills towards our actors.

Deciding Our Cast

For our film opening we wanted to cast a character that we could use to signify a character that is an outsider, for this we chose lauren as we wanted someone with ginger hair, who enjoyed acting and someone that was willing to dress and perform in a way we wanted. 

The chat to show our decision into choosing lauren 

Film Poster 

character style we took inspiration from 

We also wanted someone who was similar to the character in Pretty In Pink (Deutch, 1989)  this is the style that we tried to take by this we mean the difference in clothes compared to the time and things that don't particularly look great together. Meaning we took more inspiration from this rather than copy it. 

Rehearsals

For our film opening we did not need to conduct any actual rehearsals as we felt we had enough evidence from our previous idea and our rough cut to know that Lauren who plays our main character was going to be good enough for our new idea and the real thing.

Mise-En-Scene For School's Out

This is what our protagonist wore:

film poster

We chose this because we thought it reflected her character and we took inspiration for her costume from Pretty In Pink (1986)

We liked the film as it wasn't a conventional rom-
com but had a love triangle between the 3 characters.

-----> this is what she wore in pretty in pink

We also used inspiration from pretty in pink for the other protagonist. He wore this: --->













which we took inspiration from this --->

Rough Cut 1 [working title party off]

our first rough cut for party off. 

Idea1

Scrapbook Idea

For the first opening scene I hope to be able to open with a a photo album where photos of the protagonists friends and life will appear along with the titles that will come up on screen fading in and out as this is one of the things we realised was popular with rom com films when conducting our research. 

From the photo album some of the images will seem to 'come alive' turning into flash backs of her efforts to get her love interest for the rest of the opening. As i hope to create a love triangle between 2 best friends and a guy. And then this to cause conflict therefore creating tension etc.

CW: Opening EG 4: The Truman Show

The Truman Show

Peter Wier, 1998 (Sci-Fi/Drama, PG)

Produced by: Paramount Pictures

Distributed by: United International Pictures

Budget: $60M

Box Office:$240M (worldwide) £9M (UK)

Trailer, Wikipedia

Rotten Tomatoes: Scored 94%

Opening Length: Approx. 5 mins

Opening Shot:

The fake credits

The opening shot shows the creator of the Truman show, christof, in an interview. It is solely him on screen. This shot is very basic, designed to set up the movie as a documentary of sorts. The next shot is of Truman talking to himself, this shot has been edited to appear as though it is on a TV. The shot has clutter, such as perfume and other toiletries, along the bottom of the shot. This is atypical to the types of shots often found in reality shows and has been made to show the way in which the camera's are placed on the show. We then see some fake opening credits, they introduce the characters and the character's characters. Clearly this has been set up like this so that the people watching the movie feel like their watching the TV show instead. 

The cluttered shot

Later Shots:
When the light falls the camera is at a slight high angle, this shows truman's worry and powerlessness over the situation. As he goes to examine the light the angle moves to ground level, showing that Truman has now realised the light poses no threat. The next shot is of truman in his car, this shot has been edited to show numbers infront, highlighting the hidden camera style of the show. The shot is now low angle, this shows that truman is calm and seems to be back in control. By gradually changing the camera shot (going from high to middle to low) it demonstrates that truman isn't instantly in control but is instead slowly regaining control, in a tentative manner.  

The slight high angle

Mise-En-Scene Film

 

Hacker 

Group Idea:

to create narrative enigma and to build up tension within scenes 
Narrative:

for someone to appear in a work environment and try and 'Hack' the computer system
Feedback:

I really enjoyed working in one big group again as i like how all our ideas put together always come up with something good. I liked how it turned out and how we worked well in our team.

Reflection:

As a group we found it very difficult to keep within the time schedule because we had so much to film and they were in all different locations which some we had to wait for to become available.