Intial Ideas

In our group we had a few ideas for our film, originally our film was going to be complete different from what we have now, the genre was going to be Drama/thriller, it was going to be about a guy who dates to girls at the same time ,makes them fall deep in love with him, he likes the both of them but dosen't want to let any of them go. One day when all the girls have to go to a girls camp there are two girls that find out that they are dating the same guy and from there seek revenge on him, our similar text to this was the film 'John Tucker must die'.

We didn't continue with this storyline because of lack of things, like we didnt have a boy to play the male charater and we knew that after a while it will be difficult trying to make a film like this. This also resulted to us not having a boy in our actual film.

Film analysis (Hard candy and Traning day)

In class we watch two films and we had to analyse them the first film we analysed was 'Hard candy.

This film was directed by Patrick wilson, Ellen Page and Sandra Oh, the film rating is an 18.

When the film started it had music playing in the background whilst the first scene started, t

he music was quite flowly but had a tense beat which made it sound like something was going to happen very soon. we know there was two charcter from the beginning because they were talking on the msn chat they had colours and images to represent them, the girl had the colour red and the man had the colour blue, by seeing the images on the msn pictures we knew what the man does for a living

, he had a camera as his picture so we knew that he was a photographer

and his name was 'Lensman' which could do with the camera lens or maybe he wore glasses. there was several camera shots as soon as the film began, the first camera shot was a mid shot which showed us the audience everything, there was then a zoom which built intensity to the scene.

we knew the man was in control already because of the questions he was asking the girl and what he was saying to her for example when he said 'we'll finally hook up baby' and she says 'Im not a baby' and he replies 'I'll have to see for myself'.

Props

The next scene opens up with an establishing shot, this shows us where the charcters are, where the scene is being set.

It then shows a plastic fork, the plastic fork symbolizes she in a shop as she using there equipment, if it was at home we would know as the fork would be metal, she then eats a chocolate cake, the chocolate cak

e symbolizes something sexual and when she says 'Umm' that is a very sexual sound that she has just done.

The girl is wearing a red hoodie this red hoodie shows alot of things for example 'Little red riding hood' and the colour itself represents romance, passion,love and lust but it can also represent danger and blood. the man is wearing black which could represent negativeness and sinister

When the man and the girl meet all the shots are at eye level because he see's her as the same level as her its almost like a fair game, the background of the set is blurry as the film makers want the audience to concentrate of the two main characters and not anything else. the director films the, in seperate shots because thy haven't broke the barrier yet, he is wearing glasses and that is the barrier between his world and hers. the man then makes a joke and then it makes the two in the same shot, the camera shakes when its on the girl, this shows a sense of vunrability. the young girl and the man met in a coffee shop , the majority of young people do not go to the coffee shop on a regular basis only adults go to coffee shops to meet with people, this shows that the girl wanted to look older also she told him she reads 'Zadie smiths' books which showed she was matu

re. When the girl talks she has like like a white light shining on her face this give a

n impression of her being angelic and innocent.

Training Day

The film training day is directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer, the genre is Crime, drama and thriller, this film stars Danzel Washington who acts as a dodgie policeman he works with a man known as 'Jake', denzel brings him to a house where its full of a portugese looking family which ook dodgie, in this scene there was lots of girls, then in the kitchen were three men, Denzel leaves jake there and goes, things get tense and time goes by the men then tell him that its a fix, denzel a dodgie cop and he purposly ditched jake, jake trys to do a runner and the men want to attack him when thia it come then alot of shots are seen, we can see he looks betrayed and scared, were seeing things that he's not seeing, this makes us know something is about to happen, the shots get closer whch makes us know it's getting tense. when the three men beat up the guy and throw him in the bath tub its a low angle shot which show that the men are in control, they turn on the tap and its ruunning in real fast pace this indicates that real time is runnging out, the bath curtains have to colours onse side is blue and the other side is white, the blue one means 'Cold' and metalic and the 'White' shows Angelic and good choice, so its like two consciences one good and one bad. The uncle phones his neice and when they show her in her room it's a high angle shot of his neice when she's lying to him, then as soon as she says the truth the camera rotates and comes closer to her.

peliminary Task

In our peliminary task we was asked to film a person opening the door, walking across the room and sitting down opposite the other character. In my group we filmed someone walking through the door and standing facing the opposite character, they exchanged several words and one of the characters slapped the other and it ended there.
what went well was that we filmed the person coming throught he door, we also got a good shot of the 180 degree rule when the characters were standing talking to eachother and the slap shot.
what didnt go so well was some shots took ages to film and went wrong which caused us to do alot of editing, we took quite long on many of the facial expressing shots and the acting was quite poor which made us take really long.
When doing this peliminary task i personaly was trained to use a camera and learn't how to do most of the camera shots such as the 180 degree rule especially and how not to break this rule, as a whole we learn't how to use a camera better than how we knew it and the things you can do with the camera.
We learn't how to edit our peliminary in final cut express the editing programme which made it easier for us because we got to choose bits we wanted in the scene, so if the scene was like 5mins long we got to cut and selcet the part we wanted which could be like 3secounds which was interesting we just use the In and out button to select what bit we wanted, this was a good advantage for us because we learn't things that i didnt know before and how editing can really change a film and make it better than it is.

Brief

We were asked to do a preliminary task which bascially was to film a person opening the door, going across the room and sitting down on a chair opposite another character exchanging a few lines, we had to include like the 180 degree rule and reverse shots.


In our media class we've been asked to make a fiction film of our choice which should be 2minutes minium and 4minutes maximum,It can be any genre of our choice, we can only have four people in our group, but we can still use other people as characters in our film. The film has to have an opening title to introduce our film, we have to include the sort of camera shots in our film so that it shows we've understood how to use a camera properly for example things like 180 degree rule, cutaways, close-up's, medium shots and etc. we have to do original scrips and storyboards. In our group we decided that our film genre is going to be based on Drama/romance, our current title is 'Love is Hate' and our storyline is about a young girl of 16years old who comes from a strict background lives with her single mother ,her father comes and goes out of there life, she's just began college with her secoundary school love, and on her 17th birthday she finds out she's 6weeks pregnan,t from this point on she's confused and scared as she knows her mum will be furious with her, but that isn't the only thing she should be worried about as her so called high school love turns a blind eye on her and ditches her when he finds out she's pregnant. our film is going to have a open narrative so that it leaves our audience eager to know more. My concerns for our film is if our open narrative will work, if it would make our story better or if we should just give it a proper ending. Another one of my concerns are if the people in my group will be reliable and if there attitudes will change to do certain things which will lead us to get more actors instead of using people in our group.
Also that everyone in the group should be able to understand how to use the camera properly so that everyone can have a chance on filming and not only one person.

Intro

My name Laura-Jayne ulume i am 16 years old turning 17 on june 16th , i'm in my first year of of 6form, i attend Harringey sixth form in white hart lane, i'm currently studing Alevels in As.English Lit/lang combined As.Media productions and As.Textiles.

As you can see in my subjects i am a very fun bubbly talkative person, I chose textiles because im really into fashion, i LOVE shopping and making my own sort of style, I chose media because I wanted to learn more about films and how it happens. in future i want to be a Model or a Gournelist, my back up career is a midwife/nurse.