EVALUATION Q7 (COMPLETED)

EVALUATION Q6 (COMPLETED)

EVALUATION Q4 (COMPLETED)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Love-Teen-Movies-Hooray

If you follow the link above it will take you to a fan page of teen movies where some really wonderful people have written some really lovely stuff about teen movies.

EVALUATION Q3 (COMPLETED)

EVALUATION Q2 (COMPLETED)

EVALUATION Q1 (COMPLETED)

A Convention is something that you expect to find in a film, in this case a teen film. this can be anything to do with camerawork, mise en scene, editing and sound.

This high angle camera shot shows Reggie lying on the ground. This shows him as an inferior character as he is at a low angle. This would be a typical camera angle for a nerd character.

This use of editing may not be typical of a teen film however street fighter, video game element about it could be used as a reference to the nerd characters love for video games. I think this was a clever way to represent Reggie's brutal beating by his brother.

This mise en scene is a classic example of a teen film convention. The jacked up trousers, checked shirt and tie are all items of clothing you would expect to find this character wearing in a typical teen film.

For sound, i think the voice of Reggie is a good example from our film as a typical convention for sound. i used a well spoken, sometimes stuttering voice to portray this nerd character. i think that i probably considered the stereotypical voice of a nerd.

Overall, i think we stuck to the conventions of a teen film. The area where we excelled in this was probably mise en scene, specifically the costume as i feel if a complete stranger glanced at that charater on the street they would instantly think they are a nerd. the area where i think we could have improved the conventions was probably the camerawork. i think we could have incorporated more high and low angle shots to show how inferior the nerd character is.

Evaluation Q5

Last day of editing

Wednesday was the deadline for the for the film so as expected pretty much every student in City and Islington who studies as media was cram packed in each and every room which had a mac with final cut pro on it. I was one of those students, since I was the only member of my group editing  and doing editing for like the 

4th time it felt like going through hell and back twice and going back again because you left your oyster card.
But this was probably one of the easiest editing sessions as I only had to add the titles and the ident which were relative easy when I got the hang of it. I found out that I worked and used a lot of sound that i thought I actually did as i often had to change the volume of the sound and add fade in and out makers so it would flow with the video. Overall filming was a 

hard process at the start but as I editing more it became like and extension of my arm being able to use final cut pro easily without

having to ask any teachers for help which I'm a very proud of because I'm pretty sure all the teachers are stressed from helping over 250 teenagers edit.

What it feels like when everyone is trying to give their project on deadline.

Ms's feedback

On Thursday we had feed back  from our teacher on our rough cut she gave us good points and improvements that we should consider after. She found the rough cut really enjoyable to watch as she was really pleased from the standard of humor mainly due to our main actor Devon.She also mentioned that she enjoyed the story however if we could develop it more to make the story more understandable.She also said to fix up our shots  to make them more clear and smooth.Overall we are pleased with the feed back that miss has given us as we thought our rough cut was poor and didn't meet our full potential.

After finding out our rough cut wasn't bad.

FINAL FILM COMPLETION EVIDENCE

Group 30 confirming we finished our film

EDITING 3

Shots are put together in order

Choosing sound effects for our film.

ROUGH CUT FEEDBACK

Last lesson we got our rough cut feedback from our wonderful media teacher Rebecca. Overall she said she really enjoyed it and she was absolutely thrilled that we had already improved our film in the areas she had identified. Some of these included addressing the accidental jump cuts and the poor mise en scene which we had already done due to us re-shooting our whole film. She also said we need to add a voice over to make it slightly clearer for the audience.

Overall she was very pleased with what we had produced.

Final Project - Order of Titles

Final Project - Order of Titles

Reggie Bernard's High School Survival Guide

Order of titles:

1. Production Ident - Columbia Pictures
2. Distribution Ident - 21st Century Fox Home Entertainment 
3. Distribution in Title Sequence - 21st Century Fox Home Entertainment - This title will occur within the first shot of Devon in bed, waking up as Reggie Bernard.
4. Production in Title Sequence
5. Actor 1
6. Actor 2
7. Film Title
8. Actor 3
9. Actor 4
10. Actor 5, etc.
11. Casting
12. Costume
13. Music Supervisor
14. Music By
15. Edited By
16. Production Designer
17. Director of Photography
18. Executive Producers
19. Written By
20. Director

EDITING 2

100 BLOG POST CELEBRATION

WE MADE IT TO 100 BLOGS!!!!!!!!!!!! HERES TO ANOTHER 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HERE IS US CELEBRATING!!

Sound

 After having an succesful video shoot and now that me and Devon are editing  we have to bring sound into focus as this is our most important in our video because it brings a scene to life. Sound is great, we need it in our life. Without it, we would not be able to hear things.

Our plan for the sound was to have that banger of a classic we found on soundcloud entitled 'Hip Hop House Party (90s Throwback)' if you havn't heard yet here it is:




For the scene where Reggie encounters his bully we needed some dramatic, gangsta music to match with the character portrayed. The music we have chosen to use is:


By adding this music, it will add lots of tension and suspence to the scene.

Evidence of rough cut

Rough cut

This is our rough cut that we have made ,over during the process of editing we realised that our film has some flaws that need to be fixed such as the lighting becuase in somes scenes the lighting changes which is very unpressfessional. Also some scenes are patchy and don't flow into the next which is a major downfall as it can confuse our audience. We need to make the ending clear and start to work on voice overs and adding music so we can develop  story which an audience can understand. Camera positoning  has to be on point and should always be used on a tri-pod so that the transitions are clear and perfect. Lastly we have to make a better effort in introducting the supporting characters such as the Jock and Sweetheart  which we will do with voice overs.

During filiming tomorrow on the 5th of march 2014 we will take all these  mistakes and create a much better film.

REOCCURRING PROBLEMS WHEN FILMING

During our recording process i noticed a few problems that kept turning up uninvited. As much as i love to solve a problem, this was not the time or place for it. This will highlight those problems and the possible ways they could be solved.

• Time keeping: For some strange reason we kept running out of time when filming, which ultimately meant we lost our outdoor light which was extremely unhelpful when we were filming the bike scenes. To improve our time keeping we should try to minimise the amount of disturbances and distractions during filming and also try to start earlier so we get extra time anyway. We also need to allow time for any travel disturbances.

• Poor Mise en Scene: This may sound crazy but despite us being such excellent media students, we failed to keep good Mise en Scene. When we reviewed our footage it seemed multiple times that someones head would pop up in a shot or a bag would be left in the background. To eradicate this we simply have to be more analytical when filming, making sure that the shot is absolutely perfect before we push that big, red button.

• Rushed shots: It seemed as the filming process went on, the time spent on each scene decreased. This was because we were rushing to get it done and not staying relaxed like we should do. This meant we couldn't get multiple shots of one scene from different angles to allow us to have variety when it came to editing. To improve this we need to relax when recording as well as stay focus to make sure we can get multiple shots.

FACEBOOK PAGE

I created a Facebook page for our teen film opening to help promote it:

https://www.facebook.com/MEDIAGROUP30?skip_nax_wizard=true