Results from feedback sheets

Our film certificate

The current BBFC system is -

If our opening turned into a full film I feel as though it would be rated as a '12' due to its slight thrilling and scary nature. However is suitable for most audiences however deemed most appropriate for children aged of 12 years of age.

Exemplar work for evaluations

I have been basing some of my research and plans off the exemplar work which was posted on Miss Foster's blog to help us plan for our evaluations. I have watched them over and decided that I will present my evaluation question answers as vlogs, as will allow me enough time to expand on my answer. The points which this blogger made were extremely well thought out, which I admired and took inspiration from for some of my own planned answers.

The call

Initial release: 15 March 2013 (Brazil, Russia)

Director: Brad Anderson

Budget: 13 million USD

Box office: 68.6 million USD

Story by: Jon Bokenkamp

The call (2013) is about an veteran operator for an emergency call-center, Jordan (Halle Berry) who saves lives daily as part of her job, but when a young woman's frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan is devastated. She decides to pack it in on the front lines and instead teach others the ropes of the high-pressure job. But when a call from a kidnapped teen (Abigail Breslin) comes in, Jordan takes charge as never before and turns the girl into a partner in helping to save her life.

The Call kept my interest and had myself wanting to scream at the screen and tell the characters what to do and urge them along. The characters would alternate between overcoming their emotions and rising to the challenge and falling prey to them at just the wrong moment. Watching this film was a thrilling experience, with constant ups and downs, being frequently put on edge. It stayed continuously in my mind the following few days focusing on the realism of the films storyline and how it can easily happen to anyone in there daily ordinary lives. 

Feedback from our opening 2

Would you continue on watching the full film knowing the main protagonist of the film was female?

Feedback on our opening

The showcase

At the showcase both AS 1 and 2 media groups presented their projects. For each project for AS 1, the group came up first and announced the opening, giving a brief synthesis of what the opening they made was about and what would happen it if went on to be made into a full film. As for AS 2 the projects they made were music videos, which we'll be our future project for the following year. All the openings and music videos which were presented were extremely well done and applicable due the amazing editing skills. For our opening I decided to speak on behalf of my group, which was exciting feeling to be able to represent all the hard work which we have done, the audience's seemed intrigued afterwards which was exactly what we were hoping for.

Film schedule

This blog filmed by our other group member, discusses our original plans for our filming schedule. This proves to say nothing goes as planned!

The main character

Our plot only required two actors, one was not faced and the other was the main centre of attention. The main actress was myself playing a mysterious character who has just discovered classified information. The other is a character who is only shown the body of as the person's identity is a secret to the audience and will later be revealed in the film.

Title

We decided to title our film as 'Classified'. This is because of related meaning to criminal activity which is highly anticipated within the footage that was filmed. As well as relates to the rest of the film which is based on the main characters secret knowledge of information that she shouldn't have relating back to the word 'Classified'.

Camera angles

For our opening we had to learn the particular types of camera angles which are most commonly used in films, to make our project look as professional as possible. Here are some examples of camera angles which we learnt:

Eye level -

High angle - 

Low angle -

Undershot - 

Overshot - 

Showcase date announced

We have now finally scheduled a date for showcasing all our media productions. The date which has been chosen is on the 31st of this month. For the showcase one of the members of our group will have to bring a camera in to film us announcing our opening and record the audiences reaction to it. We are all thrilled to see what the rest of the school thinks of our project!

La La Land

I just watched 'La La Land' (2017, UK release date) for the first time this weekend, and I felt as if I just had to talk about its superb cinematography.

 'La La Land' is an American musical romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film's title refers both to the city of Los Angeles and to the idiom for being out of touch with reality.

The entire way the movie was filmed was based off the 1930s works of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. The director of the film wanted the film to emulate the widescreen, CinemaScope look of 1950s musicals such as 'It's Always Fair Weather' (1955). Consequently, the film was shot on film (not digitally) with Panavision equipment in a widescreen format, but not true CinemaScope as that technology is no longer available. However this cinematography added a more theatrical feel to the film, and made it a more unique type for the era that it was filmed in. The way that the movie was filmed and the locations that it was based in gave me an old fashioned movie vibe, even though the film was in based in the world of today, including mobile phones and modern day cars. It still had a beautiful feeling about it, representing a glimpse of nostalgia to the early film era.

As of February 26, 2017, 'La La Land' has grossed $140.9 million in the United States and Canada and $228. As well as 1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $369 million against a production budget of $30 million. 'La La Land' was also met with critical acclaim upon its release, with critics praising its screenplay, direction, performances, musical score and musical numbers. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 93%, based on 332 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. 

The Life Of David Gale

The top picture is of our own project, as for the bottom is from the beginning of 'The Life Of David Gale' which we based our establishing shots off. We used the inspiration of the long shot from the beginning of the film to use as our own, as we thought it created a suspenseful atmosphere, and mystery of what the character is running from.

We also used some ideas from the different running angles which was used in their opening for our own. We felt as if both the film and our own movie concept quite suitably fitted each other, as in both scenarios the characters are running due to new information they have discovered.

Evaluation questions

The questions for our evaluation are as follows:

1)  In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 
2)  How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3)  What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4)  Who would be the audience for your media product?
5)  How did you attract/address your audience?
6)  What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7)  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I will have to complete all of my evalution questions by April 28th 2017.