T 22 Below is an animation made by Professional to show the basic making of a movie. The above video is our own attempt for our movie, obviously we do not have the animation software for this, so it is not going to look quite the same.

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T 21

We have used the soundtrack "I dont feel like dancing" by the Scisor Sisiters. We have chosen this as it is a fun active song that will keep the audience happy, and also fits with the lifestyle of the girl in our film.

T 19: How our story fits the theme

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Below is a Prezi presentation presenting narrative theories.

T17:

Titles - Directors, casts etc.

• Keys on keyboard rearranged
• Written on sign in bathroom
• Steaming the mirror up and name in mirror/ write it on the mirror in pen
• Niona's name should come up with a medium shot of her
• Tag of a suitcase/Name tag

Production Company - BBC Films

Distribution Company - Focus Features

Perky Partridge Logo

Music - catchy girly music

Show the plot

Mise-en-scene

• Setting: In a girls bedroom & outside
• Costumes: pyjamas and uniform
• Props: School Bag, Toothbrush, Hairbrush.
• As she goes into the bathroom the sinks are fukll so she claps and they all run away

Cinematogaphy

• Over the shoulder looking into the mirror of girl washing face
• Follow her feet walking to the bathroom
• Fuzzy when she gets out of bed showing fuzzy vision
• Follow her as she leaves the house

T 14: Defining the perfect audience member

Alice and I did some research on the UKtribes website to see what our perfect audience member would be.

We think that our audience tribe would be casuals.

Clothes they wear

Jeans
Strappy Top
Pumps

Music they listen to

Girly music - Girls Aloud, The Saturdays
The Beatles

Food they eat

Cupcakes!
Salad with cherry tomatoes
Apples
Occasional slices of Pizza

T13

We have done some audience research to see what films have good openings, what attracts people and what puts them off.

 

A film should grab you right from the start, it should introduce one of the story lines and should use catchy music, and good editing.

There should also be an element of suspense with in it.

There needs to be a sense that something really exciting is going to happen and that they do not want to stop watching it.

It puts people off when there is just a long section with titles, with nothing interesting happening but just names across a screen.

 

After looking at lots of websites, Jaws comes up as lots of the number 1 opening sequences, because it is gripping.

T12 Below is our mood board, it is meant to portray the feelings that a person would get when they watch our film that we are gong to make. Our film is going to be happy, but a bit mysterious. It is going to be very girly hence all the pink as that is the stereotype girls color. It beguins with a girl climbing out of bed in her dorm at school, so there are other girls around and she is primping here self up for school. The heels and and lipstick is what she might have in here room, and the cocktale is what she might want her life to consist of once she has left school, ie, glamorous.

T15

We did some research on the Pearl and Dean website to see how they categorise their audiences.

We then considered what sort of audience we thought that our film would fit into, and these are our ideas,

 

 

• Its aimed for 15 years olds.
• It will mainly attract girls as it the main protagonist is a female however it may appeal to boys aswell.
• It will be more aimed at the middle class, but class doesn't really affect our ideas very much.

T16: What institutions might distribute, produce, and exhibit our film?

Well I think our film will have similar characteristics to the film "My summer of love".  This is a perfect film to compare it to as it is also an independent film. According to IMdB the below production companies produced the film "My Summer of love". Also, it was distributed by "Focus Features" meaning that it Focus features would take there type of film, they would probabaly take ours.

Production Companies

• Apocalypso Pictures
• Film Consortium, The
• BBC Films
• Baker Street
• Take Partnership
• UK Film Council

Distribution companie

• Studio Canal
• Optimum Releasing
• Focus Features (most suitable)

So in this case I think if we were to find production companies to invest in us to make our film, we would start with the above ones. This film is similar because it is based in the UK, and has female protagonists, This is just like our film will be. There are many other film companies that would produce our film, and films alike. BBC Films is the one that stands out the most though, for example it invested in the film Ginger Rosa, which is also a similar style film to ours. I think the BBC would invest as they do such a wide range of films.

To exhibit our film we would ask large cinema companies like Odean, View, and Ciniworld. We think these companies are suitable as they target a wide range of audiences. Particually teenagers, as they often go to see films in the holidays.   

T10  This is England, Textual Analysis

The movie this is england was made in 2006, but is based around the year 1983.

The opening credits consist of showing all the significant and memorable parts of the year. For example, The Faklands war, the minors strike, the famous computer game "godzilla", and the marriage of Princess Diana, and Prince Charles.

The film starts with the camera tracking along some nasty buildings with graphite all over, the title then comes up, and says "This is England" this gets across to the watcher what housing was like back then, basically, it was rubbish. Showing this, really gets across how some people were living. 

The sound is music the whole way through, it is cheerful music which is pleasant to listen too with a good beat. It is called "54-46 was my number" written by the toots. 
The clip has been edit in a way that it goes from happy times to violent times to memorable times to significant times. This show our country in positive and negative ways.
The clip keeps flicking back to Margaret Thatcher who was the then Prime Minister of the 
country, it is almost like that she is being blamed on what is going on in the clip.

The editing in this clip is done so that you can see both sides of the persons view, so if it is a riot, you see it form the policemen side, and the rioters side, as shown below.

                     Rioters point of view 

                      Policemen point of view 





The clip is edited to see significant time frames, ie the lead up to the riot, the riot, and then the damage after the riot. The clip is also edited to fit to the music for example when the bomb goes off killing the terrorist the music pauses and a drum is hit. this signifies the bomb going off. This clip is edited to show you both sides of everything. By doing this it shows england in a fair representation. For example it is edited to show what women do, then to show what men do, and then a man and a women together.                                                           

The Mise-en-Scene in this clip is what tells the whole 80's story. By the cloths that the characters are wearing, it sets the mood, and helps tell the story. For example the men fighting in the Falklands are wearing army cloths, therefor we know they are in the army. As this clip is showing Britain, it needs to show the things in our country, ie sheep in the fields, the British flag, and the nasty looking houses etc, and that is exactly what this clip does, and what are all these things? well, they are Mis-en-scene, without these, the clip would be very different.

T 11: Screen shots of key moments

Below are 9 key shots from the film Dirty Harry

This shot shows that it is something to do with the police

This is the first shot of what is basically a mini story, first there is a man with a gun, guns are dangerous so automatically the audience is griped. 

Then we find out who the gun is being pointed at. The audience now knows who the un-lucky person is.

now we know where the gun man is, and were the girl is, the man is high up, and the girl is on a roof top swimingpool

Of the killing sequence, this is the last shot, it is a bit like "who, what, why, when and how." it explains the basics of the situation.

This shot is the first time we see Clint Eastwood. But we want to know what he is here to do. As he is the main character, we might as well follow him.

He goes to see the body, he doesn't look remorsful, with his glasses on, in a suit and tie. This almost says with no words "i will get the man that did this"

This shot is of the tall building that the shooter was in. It signifies the sheer enormousness of the task Dirty harry is facing to find the killer.

The end of the credits are him finding the bullet shell. The story carry's on from their with him trying to find the killer.

T10: The below clip is the opening credits of the film "This is England". I will be doing a full textual analysis on it, commenting on things like sound editing, and mise-en-scene. This is for task 10 on the AS coursework checklist.