Final Cut For School's Out

Our final cut.

Evaluation Question 3 - Distribution of My Media Product and Why

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

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This is my Prezi for Coursework question 3

Film poster 

I think for my chosen distribution company i would choose warp as they are a small indie company and will like my creativity  that i have used filming this as it is different from a standard Rom-Com which all follow the same theme.

My film is comparable to Submarine (Ayoade, 2010) which follows some of the same themes.

Evaluation Question 4 - Audience For Your Media Product

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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This is my coursework question 4 

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. 

Q3 Draft Notes

distributors

UPI
warner bros
fox

http://www.launchingfilms.com/links/

What is a distributor and what do they do? 

a distributor is an individual or an organisation who will represent your film at festivals and markets around the world, and will attempt to sell it to television airlines and other companies who may show short films. A distributor normally is an organisation who will handle the theatrical realise of a film in a particular country as well as marketing.

Directing Actors

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

Second Rough Cut for School's Out

our second edit of our film opening

Audience Feedback For First Rough Cut For School's Out

This is Poppy giving us feedback on our first rough cut for School's Out.

First rough cut of school's out

This is our first rough cut of our film opening. 

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.

Idea 4

The scrapbook has been eliminated

location - school - follow the main character and love interest on their journey to school cut between the two so we give the impression they are destined for each other.

At school they are going to meet and the love interest is going to be going out with someone who is not an outsider and who is typically sport etc. Embarrass her by tripping her up and then her friends are going to humiliate her.

characters are going to be between 16-18.

for this we are going to get inspiration from
trick or treat for the humiliation
heathers for gang
napoleon dynamite for diegetic titles
pretty in pink for the outsider

3 main characters - protagonist - love interest - antagonist
2 sub characters - friends of the antagonist

love interest is going out with the antagonist

antagonist and protagonist are enemies 

the protagonist is treated as an outsider

this all created the love triangle

voice over to be delivered during the opening sequence when titles are present

Diegetic Title Ideas

Ideas we have to use diegetic titles in our short film opening. 

1. advert on bus 
2. mirror condensation 
3. pillowcase
4. t shirt
5. bus shelter 
6. food 
7. computer 
8. train/bus ticket 
9. eggs and soldiers 
10. textbook 
11. mobile phone 
12. menu 
13. lipstick on mirror 
14. dirty car 
15. dustcover on hardback 
16. bottles and containers 
17. food wrapper 
18. cereal 
19. flyer style junk mail 
20. tv 

CW: Narratives In Party Off

Our film, Party Off!, is a romantic comedy it takes inspiration from many different romantic comedies, including Love Actually and Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason. We have taken guidance from both these films and also from the narrative theories that we have looked at; throughout our film and its opening these narrative themes will be set up.

Narrative Enigma:

In our film we plan to use narrative enigma. We hope to be able to keep the look of the main character a secret. In order to do this, but still make sure it is clear that she is the main character we will have her voice first, as the voice over. When we do introduce her we will show her coming back up after clearly being sick, we plan to have her look as unglamorous as we can, by having her cry before hand and have her mascara running, to make this obvious.

This choice was made after reflecting upon the opening sequence of Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason. In this one of the early shots of Bridget, who has previously been set up as the main character, is of her about to jump out of a plane. We thought through what the director was creating with this shot and figured that it was to establish some form of relate-ability between the character and the audience, the fact that Bridget is no seen as glamorous all the time makes her, as a character, more relatable.

Todorov’s Structure:

We will follow Todorov’s narrative structure, but not strictly. We will create the starting equilibrium through the scrapbook, showing the happy times before the start of the film and, through the scrapbook, we will move towards the disequilibrium. By having a pre-established equilibrium that is only touched upon through the starting sequence we are somewhat mirroring Love Actually. The characters in Love Actually have a back story proceeding the events of the start of the movie; we pick this up through the start of the opening and throughout the film. By having the equilibrium pre-established we save time in the opening, meaning we can include more content within it.

Propp’s Archetypes:

We do not have many of Propp’s character archetypes. This is because, throughout the examples we have looked at and through our research we have not seen many examples where a Romantic Comedy contained these characters.

The link that we have been able to make, however, to Propp’s archetypes is between the main character, which we have seen is comparable to the hero, mainly because they commonly get the prize/prince/princess. We have also found a comparison to the villain, a commonly occurring character that often tries to steal the prize, they are also somewhat comparable to the false hero. Finally, we have found links to the helper, we originally thought that they could be the friends. We have not been able to find links to the donor or dispatcher.

Binary Opposition:

The most common and obvious binary opposition that we have seen is between the main character and their love interest. In all our examples and almost all Romantic Comedies the two are male and female. There are not many other binaries that we have noticed.

In our film, we plan to also have the binary opposition between the love interest and the main character. We have also made a binary opposition between the main character and her friend. The friend will be a popular, sporty and a stereotypical cheerleader type person whereas the main character will be unpopular, dorky and stereotypically nerdy. This will create conflict, naturally, later on in the film.

Rough Cut 1 [working title party off]

our first rough cut for party off. 

Final Cut Pro X (PT3)

Since my last post on Final Cut Pro we have learnt how to make our clips more organised so they are not all spread out where they can become lost and become untidy. Therefore we were shown on final cut how to make tags onto our clips to make them easier to find as they would become catergorised and therefore organised. We made the tags in accordance to where we had filmed them and the characters that were in the scenes. 

we also learnt how to layer things below using clips so you get the same sound but the clip cant be seen which can be very useful if you cant record the sound of your own that you want or you cant import one from the library on final cut but you do have a sound of your own that you like but its the wrong clip for the scene. 

 we also learnt how to layer things like what you can see in the shot here. ----->

Sound: Key Conventions Observed So Far....

Whilst researching films for my genre (Rom-Com). we started to notice a recurring in the music chosen.

The music usually has a pop theme or contains some sort of wind instrument, percussion like a piano with a guitar or other string instrument. which fits nicely with the happy theme that usually runs with a rom com film.

Researching Rom-Coms

I watched this video as it shared my genre of rom-com i liked the fact that they used interesting titles, such as the cheerio box and the steam from the mirror, we can see from the series of shots that the guy in the film is late, this is signified by him rushing about and swearing as well as making mistakes due to carelessness we also get the impression that he is quite disorganised as he leaves his book and ultimately he is late as he gets up late for what we presume is work. This is also signified by the suit with a crisp white shirt tie and black shoes as well as a briefcase. Towards the end of the film we see he falls over a stereotypical action performed by actors to make the character look inferior.

Things I will take from this:

interesting titles

Things I will learn from:

Continuity editing - at times it became jumpy and were different speeds in which the actor performed but editing could have helped improve this.




Although this opening didn't directly link to my chosen genre I think it works as it is a romantic drama which in someways still has a lot in common. From this video we have an impression that it is old due to the pixelated footage and because it is in black and white, the clothes that the girl is wearing are not typically from this generation also signifying that it is old, in addition the music is slow with slow notes played on a piano this suiting the moment and the opening perfectly. We move on a couple of shots and find there is a man standing with an army uniform but not one that is recent so still signifying its an old war so possible ww2. If the man standing there was her husband she would run up to him but se doesn't instead she walks slow possibly connoting the fact she is going to receive bad news which in the end she does, as she find out that her husband has died.

Things I will take from this:

The use of appropriate music
Wide range of shots
Narrative enigma as we do not see the soldiers face

Things I will learn from this:

Lack of titles
black and white - if he/she wanted to show it older they could have used sepia to create a better effect





I Liked this rom-com opening because I liked the way they have used interesting titles which personally i think are better than the ones I saw in the first opening as these are more refined 

Practise Shoot

This is a practise shoot of the scrapbook to see how it would work when using the scrapbook in the film. Seeing how long it would take and also see how it would look and fit with the full film idea.

Mise-en-scene Vodcast

This is our mis-en-scene for our film party off to show our ideas for how we are going to portray the characters without using words.