feedback

We gained Feedback by showing our rough cut to a random selection of our peers from sixth form, a mixture of year 12's and year 13's. We asked the audience to be as critical as possible whilst remaining constructive. In their criticisms there were several recurring themes. These were; Sound, Music, Cutting, colours and the lack of a production logo. I will now go through each of these in more detail.

Sound- The sound quality on the rough cut was very poor, far too much camera noise ad other unwanted background sound.

Music- There was no music on our rough cut and our test audience said that music inkeeping with hegere of the film would improve it.

Cutting- Some of the scenes in ou rough cut wern't cut at all and therefore in some of the clips you could hear the director calling action an som laughter and televiion noise i the background etc.

Colours- Several membe of the tst audience suggested that our film may look better and suit the intended genre better if it was in black and white rather than colour.

Production logo- Our rough cut didn't have a production logo. clearly, we needed one for the final cut.

rough cuts

The Group

Our group is me and Alex Jowet.

editing

As our crew only consisted of meand Alex we had to degate the jobs beween us. Alex had far better knowledge of computers, so he was in charge ofany matters IT and due to my past expeience of drama and camera work I played a key role in that side of the producton.

Director- Matt Lowe
This job consisted of organising actors during filming, making sure lighting was correct, organising the setting to create good miss en scene.

Producer- Alex Jowett and Matt Lowe
This job consisted of choosing what the final cut should look like, organising production schedules, finding the cast and setting, and creating a Production Company

Editing- Alex Jowett
This job meant being in charge of the editing proccesses and being able to use the software in order to edit the final cut.

Sound- Alex Jowett
This job consisted of finding good music, and sound overs to go into the production

Camera Crew- Alex Jowett and Matt Lowe
This job meant having to film the production and posistioning the camera where the cinematography told them to. They where in charge off all the hardware.

Writer- Alex Jowett and Matt Lowe
This job meant having to write the plot then create a Storyboard, Screenplay and Final Idea sheet. Also it meant working with chnages made during filming.

cinematography

Cinematography- Matt Lowe
This job meant making sure that evrything being recorded looked how it should and had a good 'flow' to the production. Miss en Scene was monitered by this job.

software

The software we will be using to edit our film will be i-life, i-movie.

equipment

The camera we used was a Canon MD 101.

We also used a Fuji film finepix A900 tripod, we used this to keep the camera steady and to avoid a hand held and 'shaky' effect to some of the shots.

locations

cast

neither me or Alex were ever going to win an oscar for our performance in our film clip, so we enlistd the help of a friend from sixth form to act in our film. Jojo Bonham played the part of `Matt`. Jojo had done GCSE drama and has also had experience in an amateur dramatics group.

production schedule

Production Schedule

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Prelim Task

For the preliminary task we had to split into groups and produce a short film clip comprising of a short pice of dialogue between two characters. The short clip had to contain several elements of camera work and editing, these included; shot-reverse shot, 180-degree rule and match on action. I was in a group of four with Alex Jowett, Joe Shrimpton, Theo Wightman and myself.

For a first attempt at using the editing software I think I had done a fairly good job on my preliminary task. However, if I was to improve anything in my video I would add music to the opening and closing credits. 

initial group idea

Team America - Opening 2 mins

 

Introduction

*Directed by Trey Parker.

* Hybrid genre, comedy/political satire.

*Released in the UK on 14^th January 2005

*Budget of $30 000 000

* Tag-line, putting the `F` back in freedom

* From the makers of South Park

Logos

*Not visually altered to suit film. However, the music is changed to a military style beat. [Long notes and quick notes]

* Paramount Pictures explodes, helping to provide anchorage to the preferred reading of the film genre.

 

Start of film.

 

·       Non diegetic music starts, stereotypically French music.

·       Watercolour in background Eifel tower and the arc d’ triumph giving exposition.

·       Further exposition provided by the wording on screen.

·       Puppet show within puppet show.

·       Sacre bleu! Stereotypically French thing to say.

·       Frere Jacques. Ditto.

·       Berets.

 

Asian character enters.

 

·        Camera angle cutting off top half of Asian characters body attempting to represent him as a `monster` from the child’s perspective.

·       Non-diegetic music changes to a stereotypically Asian style.

·       Staring eyes, beard etc.

·       Inter-textual reference to OBL.

 

 

Team America enter.

 

·       Music changes to a much faster pace, siren in background.

·       Team America logo, inter-textual reference to Thunderbirds. Team America, world police and Thunderbirds, international rescue. Also links with the use of puppets.

·       WMD-reference to Iraq war, first glimpse of political satire in the film.

·       Gun fight starts, civilians getting shot, another reference to Iraq war, is the film trying to make a political point?

·       Irony? `he’s getting away with the WMD` when the Team America Guy is carrying a rocket Launcher.

·       Team America Knock down the Eifel tower, more harm than good? 

new idea

subject in chair is woman in wedding dress and a veil, thereore masking her face. The woman is in her mid-twenties. The character who enters he room is a male in a black tuxido. The scene is filmed in the most part by using an over the shoulder shot of the woman looking down a long, corridor style room at the man who is walking towards her. The only sounds you can hear as this is taking place oare both diegetic. One being the noise of the man's shoes on the wooden flooring and the other being te gentle sobbing from the female character. The scene ends jus as the male character reaches the female and her veil flies up and reveals some sort of horror/gorey character.

coursework task

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/ reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the title and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidates (s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.