Question 6Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

At the start of the year when i started media studies i think my knowledge was very limited, however through the year my technique and understanding of media techniques and industry is wider.

Evidence of this can be shown with my preminilary task and my 2 minute opening sequence 

p task 

from this you can see that the compared to our earlier task the i have registered how to compact an over the shoulder shot in other to save space and for it too look more professional 

from this i think over time with more knowledge it became to my understanding that in other for a shot too look professional it needs to be steady and not blurry this first shot is a blurry shot which looks immature whereas the shot below looks more professional as its steady 

overall i think i have made a very distant improvement when handling the equipments establishing shots, lightning and angles 

question 5 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

in our movie two main social groups  are represented.

i think we might have also potrayed a stereotypical idea in our movie in the sense that the homeless guy represents men in society  and also the only other man we see is a thief. this portrays  men as a lower class in society. however our female character portrays a business like lady therfore portraying women as being  prim and proper in society

uestion 4 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

tripod

during the course of time i lerant how to use a tripod 

A tripod is used as a way too make the camera steady and also helps the ball helps with camera movement such as tilt and pan this is very useful because it helps make 

the footage look steady and very professional.

 camera

basically without the camera theres no footage, the camera is very useful obviously. we are using this camera and although its little  its very high tech and produces good image however a tripod its needed because it can be very hard too keep a steady hand.and i learnt lots of new techniques in handling the camera.

phones 

this was critical in other for me too keep in contact with other people in my group incase of any change of plan or information needed. 

 

 apple mac 

the apple mac was very useful in creating our movie because i learnt many vital things such as using i movie garage band and also using itues. the mac was very useful in protducing our movie. 

live type 

I used this to experiment with making credits for the opening sequence.it was fun and i would have loved to include it in our movie if we had more time.

blogger 

i thnk during this course blogger as being my own personal diary i had never blogged before but during this course i became familiar with it and found it very useful in keeping information and presenting my work.

   

facebook 

 i used this to keep in contact with my other group members.

 youtube 

I used YouTube to find and analyse other opening sequences that related to our genre  This was an important to do as it helped me recognise the conventions of a romantic comedy and how to follow or challenge them.

 

 

imbd 

imbd was very useful in terms of  gathering research on our specific genre.

 

 

google 

google of course in terms of research and also any pictures or we needed it was very useful and i learnt how to really keyword my research in ther to find the information i really needed.

art of title 

this is an internet database in which i was able to get many idead for an opening sequence it was very useful.

question 3 In what ways does your media products use, develop or change forms and conventions of real life media products? (i.e. of film openings)

 How are the characters introduced?

 conventinally most romantic comedies always follow the narrative of two characters as shown in our comparative movie just my luck there is a female narrative shown and also a male establishing characters in our opening sequence we folowed convention by  introducing  both of our characters as shown in screen grab 4 with a split screen this is very useful as its a intresting way for the audiences too immediatly compare the characters.

costumes and props.

These two elememnts though they might seem veery minor are very useful in the production of a movie. in our comparative movie we see many props being used in other to reinforce the charcaters like the bag she carries is used to reinforce wealth and fashion wheras the male character the glasses are used to reinforce geeky and unlucky. we made use of props and costume in our opening sequence by enforcing a large gap of style and class.our female character is dressed more smartly and neatly and is carrying a bag that looks rather posh however our male character as a prop of a slepping bag to enforce hes homless and also hes clothes unlike our female charcter is dirty and scruffy.as shown in screen bag 5 and 6.

 story and how the opening is set up.

our story is very conventional.reinforced in our comparative movie just my luck its a typical boy meets girl both they both have large diffrences of class.how its set up is also convetional as both characters are reinforced immediatly in our opening sequence.

title font and style. 

in refrence to the title i think we followed convention in the sense that our title had its own sort of theme like many other romantic comedies. however i think we challlenged convention in the sense that normally the titles of romantic comedies are colourful however ours is just white.as shown in screengrab 2 

setting and location. 

in our comparitive movie for this task the scenes are all used to establisgh something baout the character likewise our own movie. in our opening sequence we mad use of two main setting and location which are extrreme contrast to one another. theres a home and a dirty looking hallaway. the girl who is of higher class is in the nice looking house hower the homless guy is on the dirty street.

camera work and editing.

in romantic comedies example just my luck both charcters are shown in other too introduc them to the audiences. one way in which we done this is by editing. we used a split screen to enforce both charcaters and also quite a few cross cutting too show both point of view. we also used camera work in the sccenes where both characters come together. we used long shots in  the hallaway to establish the female charcter and also the male charcater about to meet up.

genre and how our opening sequence suggests it?

right from the very start of the movie there are connotations that our movie is a romantic comedy. like in just my luck we made a title a theme that is romantic comedy. our title name itself "lost and found" has a romantic fairytale feel to it. then the use of musiv also reinforces the romantic elements to the movie. aswell as the way we introduced both charcaters.

 

Question 2- How did your film attract your target audience?

  

 Lost and found directors script

the movie lost and found is its typical rom com movie

the first scene and introduction to the narrative had that soothing fairy tale feel to it, this is very conventional for rom com.

The title of the movie at the begging of the sequence was a way in which I thought would drag our targeted audience immediately isn’t too cheesy but exactly what is expected

then we also had the voice over of the main charcter giving a sort of typical once upon a time narrative but in form of a horoscope

at this stage the music had also changed to a more fast paced pop that many of our targeeted audience could relate too

the idea of the split screen I really liked because its builds the characters of too main characters and alos keeps the audience entertained as there are two characters too feast upon

the character of amy is the typical next door girl so to enforce this we showed her doing what a typical girl would do such has make up, however the use of the red lipstick also enforced the idea of posh and businesslike but not too enforce the business like too much, because of our targeted audience she let her hair down

the other side of our character the homeless guy, he’s character was shown by giving him a sleepin bag and also having extra actors giving him some money.

When the music stopped the lightning of the scene dimmed reinforcing a sign of danger and alos with the added silence and location of the hallway she was walking in

then the music turned to a dark and quite taunting one further reinforcing the danger of what was about too happen

then the sound effect I wasn’t too sure about and there were lots of disagreement but it was added to reinforce the comedy part of this narrative.and I guess it is quite funny so it does it part

Then the equilibrium of achieving the bag back from the mugger was backed up with another soundtrack that the audience could also relate too

the hug also reinforced a new begging and the angle showing amy walking into the sunlight reinforces this

then the final moment when the homeless guy finds the card it sort of gives the target audience that itch to want to see more.

our final product

                                                                lost and found

question 1-Who would be the audience of your media product?

Targeted audience for rom com media project 

Thursday 9 feb editing - credit and titles

unfortunatly we couldnt spend as much time as we would have liked too on out titles, because tummorow morning was the deadline that our opening sequence needs to be submitted.

because of this i asked to be allowed too work on our project in my last lesson.

as we were rushing anyway i couldn't use the software that was recommended, so instead i used i  movie  

romantic comedy opening sequence credit and title

this is the production company logo its very important as it represents the company its normally at the begging of the movie









and also the name...

The main character is very important to the movie its one of the main attraction as you can see rom com starts off by already giving the impression of being bubbly as shown in the colours.

then the name of the movie appears for this rom com the tittle is very simple in terms of the text however the colour is girly and eye catching

and oddly enough in the rom com the director and producers are the last however it also implies that  they are the very important because they had the most prevalence

permission to use music

so we are planning to use music from youtube for our opening sequence and because of copyright issues it is required to ask for permission from the users.

in time hopefully the user would give us the permission giving us the all clear

Thursday 9 feb editing - voice over script/music

New message

amy, ever since you've being a little girl  you've being waiting for your prince charming 

someone who will love you for who you are and treat you like the princess you are 

well today you will find your prince charming 

but... no matter what treat him right 

because love can be lost but can it be found?

our opening sequence needs a voice over message but we hadn't planned what the message would be so we all wrote something and decided on one.

after we included voice over we moved on too inserting our music clip

this is one of our music footage now we have to cut the part that we need out of the soundtrack theen after that we include it in our opening sequence.

editing on wed 6th/7th

on wednesday i had two free lessons and decided that because our deadline is close we need to finish our editing.

what i done today was to put our footage in order 

with all the footage in oder we can now carry on too putting effects such as our split screen too show the point of view of two charcters. sir showed us how too do this in the previous lesson so i had a good idea of what to do

Tuesday 7th feb, first day of editing!

Finally!

we have all our footage and we can start editing.

the software in which we are using is called final cut express, this software at first was very challenging but we got the hang of it by the second half of the lesson

the first thing i done was to upload our footage.

with our footage uploaded next lesson we can start to put them in order ready for editing.

wednesday 1st feb filming

Today unfortunately i was unable to join the group with filming because i was required to be in a lesson that we planned on filming in. 

geting back to class on thursday i am glad that the team worked well and they were able to get all the footage  that are needed to start our editing.

Editing 26th january

so today there wasn't really much to do because we had no actors required for our filming so i thought i would familiarise myself with the technology in which we will be making our movie in.

in our editing we will be using live type software in which many professional movie maker also make use of. This software is great because it has a different range of effects that are goof for our title production 

im really excited to start editing because of this software, i haven't really used a software has advanced as this so im really excited too see the length of this software in developing or opening sequence 

Proposal for filming extension

To, Miss O'del 

  

        Miss we are unable too meet the deadline required for us too finish filming because our actors are unable to help us today leaving is at a big disadvantage. I  would like to ask for an extension which will allow us too film till thursday,by this time we hope too have gathered all our footage and are ready too start editing. please consider our situation as it is required your approval would be very much appreciated. 

Thank you. 

Filming 26th january

Today our schedule involved editing and filming for both media lessons today, unfortunately our main character has fallen ill and also our other main character is not in. This as lead to a hole in our plan because the deadline for filming is tomorrow! so we are in a bit of a mess to be honest however what we plan on doing is writing a proposal for an extension to miss which allow us to film till thursday.

Filming 24th january

Filming on the 24th was a success!

we where finally able to carry out some progress with our filming schedule.

filming evaluation 

this time i think everything event well because of three main reasons 

1. we made use of the tripod 

2. we followed by our storyboard

3. we worked together as a team communicating effectively.

im really happy with the footage that we got even though the day didn't go all too successfully as we couldn't film all our shots 

shot list

Shooting script

Amy -

homeless guy - luke Silvia

thief-

ShotNo	Location & Cast	Action	Shot Set-up/ Framing etc.	Sound	Lighting	Props/ Costumes
1	Stevie's house(group member) AMY	Red manicured nail varnish is seen tapping away on a black keyboard	Birds eye view close up	Pocket full of sunshine	Opaque lightning	Red nails keyboard
2	Stevie's house(group)member	Camera lifts up to the computer screen	Close up	Pocket full of sunshine	Opaque lightning	Computer
3	Stevie's house(group)member	Writing on camera	Close up	Dialogue from amy “ prince charming” (excited)	Opaque lightning	Computer
4	Stevie's house(group)member amy	Turns around waking away without face revealing	Medium shot	Dialogue “singing along to music”	Opaque lightning	Red coat
5	Stevie's house(group)member	She does a little excited jump dance	Medium shot		Opaque lightning	Red coat
6	Stevie's house(group)member	Grabs a black stylish bag	Close up		Opaque lightning	Red coat
7	Stevie's house(group)member	A door is seen fro floor level	Medium shot		Opaque lightning	Door
8	Stevie's house(group)member	Door opens	Medium shot		Opaque lightning	Door
9	Stevie's house(group)member amy	Red stylish shoes	Medium shot focus on shoes		Opaque lightning	Red shoes
10	Stevie's house(group)member amy	Bag	Medium shot focus on shoes		Opaque lightning	Black bag
11	Stevie's house(group)member amy	Coat button	Medium shot focus on shoes		Opaque lightning	Coat
12	Stevie's house(group)member amy	Finally on Amy face as she smiles	Close up		Opaque lightning	Amy weraing make up
13	Barking street amy	She takes her first step but unsuccessfully makes it look smooth and trips on her heels	Long shot	Dialogue “great”	Opaque lightning	Red coat black bag red shoes
14	Barking street amy	Walks out on the street stylishly	Long shot| from the other side of the street	The sound of her heels	Opaque lightning	“”
15	Barking street homeless guy	Sitting on a floor, resting on a bin biting on he’s nails	Medium shot		Dull natural lightning	Dirty black coat a hat and dirty face
16	Barking street	Guy is sitting on the floor starts to whistle	Close up shot		Dull natural lightning	“”
17	Barking street	Amy Is seen across the street from where homeless guy is in slow motion	Long shot/ point of view shot / time remapping		Opaque lightning	Amys custome
18	Barking street	A guy (the thief) is running towards amy	Point of view shot		Opaque lightning	Black clothing
19	Barking street thief and amy	Guy grabs amy	Medium close up		Opaque lighntning	Both Amy and thief’s costume
20	Barking street thief and amy	Guy and amy fight over bag	Meduim close up	“don’t you dare this bag is worth more than your life”	Opaque lightning	“” bag
21	Barking street thief and amy	Guy sneezes	Medium close up	“sneeze” thief “give the bag to me woman”	Opaque lightning
22	Barking street	Amy lets go because she s repulsive by hes germs	Medium close up	“ewww” Amy dialogue	Opaque lightning
23	Barking street	Thief uses the opputunity to run with her bag	Long shot	Amy screams	Opaque lightning	Bag
24	Barking street homeless guy	Realization of the event that is occurring between ay and the thief	Medium close up		Opaque lightning
25	Barking street	Homeless guys runs after thief	Long shot		Opaque lightning
26	Barking street homelss guy	Knocks thief out and grabs back amys bag	Meduim close up	Thief “this isn’t any of your business”	Opaque lightning
27	Barking street	Amy hands in head mutterring uncontrollably to hersle	Medium close up	“not today, not today of all days, and where the hell is this prince”	Opaque lightning
28	Barking street	Tap on Amy shoulder	Medium close up	“ma’am”		Ripped gloves
29	Barking street	She looks up to see her bag	Medium close up / point of view of homeless guy	“ here you go ma’am, got your bag back”
30	Barking street	Amy startes at him dumbfounded	Medium close up	Stammers, you... you.... prince... the love of my life?... charming?”
31	Barking street	Homeless guy just stares at her confused	Medium	“ what you talking about< I just got your bag thats all”
32	Computer scren	Computer screen of horoscope flashes
33	Barking strret	Amy sighs and faints		“lady lady” distant voice
34	Blank	Blank	Blank	Blank	Blank	Blank

End of shooting script

we done this al together all taking specific parts i researched the music and filled in the tables  while we all discussed how we wanted the shot number to go from the storyboard  

filming on 19th

so our production plan today failed as we where awaiting the storyboard because the original was left at home but wasn't brought back in time. 

for this not too occur again we found that it would be essential for everyone in in the group too have a copy of their own storyboard. 

Our filming plan for next week, TUESDAY 24TH, we hope that this would be possible because i think that we are really behind on our production 

on tuesday we will take the whole of the day too be used for filming 

period one and two _ first scene of female main character

period three- looking back and seeing what else needs to be redone from our first footage 

period 4 start with the mugging shot and film on the streets 

period 5 look over all our footage then decide what else needs to be redone for thursday 

i think hopefully this goes has planned, we should get started on editing by monday :)

movie company logos/ film logos/titles

FILM company logos 

company logos are symbols which represents the image of the production company`, conventionally its at the bigginingg of the movie and only lasts for about 10 seconds the name of our production company is MRSA