Monday, 28 November 2011

Shooting schedule

Rachel and i aim to get all of our filming done in one day  , wed 30th novemeber.

-shot of the sunrise from top of the east hill
-when its light  a panning shot of hastings  and seafront from the top of the east hill.
- At the stade shots of different funfair rides
-panning shot of sea and pier
- shots of the ice skating rink and christmas lights
-shots of hasting town
-ms of the boy walking through oldtown
-ls of him walking past amusments with girl in the amusments , she spots him walk past and goes to chase him as he carries on walkin gout of shot knocking into things to show her character as clumsy
-tracking shot of her running through old town and trying to get his attention 
-cu of him walking we see he has headphones in
-ls in front of her  running after him stll trying to get his attention
-shot of the from of him , he is to the right of the shot  we see her in the background on the left side of shot  he still hasnt noticed her  we see her get closer then walk straight into a lampost because she was preoccupied with getting his attention he carries on walking same shot camera moves to a close up of teh girl laying down unconcious

Research on chickflick / romcom openings - Angus thongs and perfect snogging

Angus thongs and perfect snogging- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-Um3L2S3g
This is a British romcom/ chickflick. I chose to look at this particular film opening as it starts of along a seafront just like we want ares to . This film however opening with diologue rachel and myself didnt want any diolgue in ours  only a sountrack  but in this film the sound track doesnt come in till about a minute and a bit in. However their titles appear over the picture  just like we wanted  are to . this particualr film titles  start of with the title of the actual film then goes on to say the actors names and some of the technical crews names.
 and the producers last. The titles are te colour white , white is often used for innocence  so this maybe deliberate as it the film is about a innocent teenager. The choice of music is a very lightheartd song  so creates a very happy mood and it emphasis  the comical image of the girl running along a seafront in an olive costume creating a happy/funny mood.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Coursework with Rachel

Genre - Romcom / Chick Flick
Title - That should be me
Synopsis -   The story of a girls life as a average teenager and how she's fallen for someone whos already been taken.
Narrative- About half way through the film Holly would have some form of fight with Amelia resulting in Robert seeing how horrible Amelia is and ending with Holly and Robert being together.
Location - Hastings Seafront
Audience- Teenage
Music- ?
Costume - Light brown parker , dark jeans  and boots (everyday sort of clothes) -holly
Jeans and leather jacket with boots -Robert
Dress and jacket- Amelia
Characters - Holly ,16 year old girl ,medium height dark brown hair.  Robert 17 year old boymedium height short brown hair. Amelia ,Boys girlfriend(stereotype  popular girl)blonde, thin tall.
Opening titles- Producer - Film4 funded  by national lottery
' Rachel Howe and Natasha Kingscote Presents '

opening scenes - shots of  hastings town and seafront. A few shots of the main male character walking through the town . Then a few shots of both of them. the end of our opening is of the main character Holly walking into a lamp post  with the title of the film coming up above her.

There wont be any dialogue within our opening as it is setting the scene  so we dont have any form of script for it.

Preliminary task

For the preliminary task i worked with Rachel , Jonny and jonno. We worked pretty well as a team and because we got on well together and understood eachothers ideas  we where able to get the work done quickly and reasonably well , considering it was our first time doing  this. The camera we used was a flip camera  , we didnt use a tripod with it because we felt handheld shots would be more intimate and feel more like reality to the audience. The only challange really struggled with was the continuity of the different shots but when we realised that we wernt sticking to the 180 degree rule it made it much easier to get the cintinuity right :)

Friday, 11 November 2011

Submarine

Director -David Ayoade
Writer - Richard Ayoade (screenplay) Joe dunthorne (novel)
Starring - Craig Roberts , Sally Hawkins and Paddy Considine
Taglines:A comedy that doesn't let principles stand in the way of progress.
Box Office

Opening Weekend:£244,476 (UK) (20 March 2011) (60 Screens)

Gross:$466,702 (USA) (14 August 2011)


Submarine is a british film  in the opening of the film it the credits show that it is a film 4 film and funded by the national lottery funds.It is also a optimum film. The genre of the film is black comedy but also can be catagorised  as a romcom. The atmosphere created in the begining  is a very dark , they create this in the opening by using many shots of the setting at sunsetwhich makes it also feel quite eery and with the nice ssoft sounding music in the backgroud it contrasts with the images and makes teh atmosphere feel even more dark and eery . It  is also created by making the film looke reasonably homemade in some shots e.g using  handheld camera shots this also make it more realistic.Also the use of handheld shots and close up makes it feel intimate.The atmosphere as the film goes on turns comical as they use happier music and make the main character Oliver a very stereotyped teenager . This gives the impression that the films audience is the for people of the same age as the main character 15/16 because they can relate to it.
Mise en scene-
The use of Jordanna wearing a red duffle coat  could be a symbol of a danger or passion or it could relate to little red riding hood which is a story about temptation.however the use of the duffle coat on Jordanna and Oliver could aslo be a symbol of innocence as there quite child like which gives the impression of protection , which the audience can relate to.

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Preliminary work plan

For our preliminary task we planned what the scene and dialogue is going to be.

Dialogue
man1- "ill be there in a bit"
man2-"Ive got something to ask you"
man1-"course mate ask me anything"
man2-" well basically..."
waitress-" can i get you anything?"
man1-"ill just have a coffee"
man2-"im good"
man2-"as i was saying, you know im getting married in july. well i want you to be my best man"
man1-"course i will"

Set in a cafe .