WELCOME MODERATOR.

Welcome moderator! I am Georgina Self 1160 and I worked as a team whilst making our film.
I hope you enjoy my blog, which contains my work on my G324 Advanced Portfolio. I chose brief 10, a short film which we named "CHECKOUT", with this we have created two other ancillary products including a poster and a radio trailer.

THE SHORT FILM: "CHECKOUT".

CONSTRUCTION: RADIO TRAILER.

PLANNING: THE RADIO TRAILER.

Below is the script we have created for our radio trailer:

Narrator: Once upon a time...
Librarian: Shh quiet in the library 
Narrator: There lived a girl who was young and looking for love 
Audio from the film: "Why can't real guys be like the men in my stories?"
Narrator: When one day love found her...
Audio from our film: "I see you got my sticky notes" 
Narrator: But not all is as it appears to be 
Audio from our film: "I love romance stories" "Ours is a better love story though, right." 
Narrator: The ultimate feel good film, a modern fairy tale. CHECKOUT. coming July 2015 

This is the plan for our radio trailer. We chose to have a narrator as this follows our theme of books. We start this as a typical story, relating to our theme of books and the library. The radio trailer help to give the listener an insight into our film and the genre, this works in promoting our film and portraying vital information to the listener. The radio trailer ends with a rhetorical question, leaving the listener on edge and wanting to know more.

CONSTRUCTION: POSTER AND WEBSITE.

Today I made the website, to go with our film poster. This publishing and advertising helps promote our film and enables people to watch trailer as well as access information about the film and directors, it also has a link to our twitter and facebook page. Before making the website and the poster we researched others to see how they were set out and how the information was displayed. From this we then planned our own poster and went on to make it, I developed this further by making the website that would be used to promote the film, bringing in viewers.

The Poster.

CONSTRUCTION: THE TITLE SCENE.

Today we made the title scene for our film, we tried doing this both digitally and physically. We took an image into photoshop and using the text tool right a single letter on each note to spell out the name of our film. We kept the same coloured sticky notes as this would show continuity with film in which the girl receives yellow sticky notes that have been stuck on to books with compliments on them that she received from her mystery man. We then trialled doing this in the shape of a heart using physical paper sticky notes in which we will see the title credits to the film. 

CONSTRUCTION: SOCIAL MEDIA.

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING THE NEW OPENING SCENE.

Yesterday we filmed the tracking shot that helps the audience to establish that the young girls wants a relationship like she reads in the books, proving that she is in to romance fiction and likes reading. The dialogue we hear the girl say proves that she is longing for love and shows the contrast between "guys" and "men". 

CONSTRUCTION: FEEDBACK.

Today we invited a selected audience to view our film. They gave us constructive feedback that will help to improve our film, ensuring that it fulfils its potential. This included:
- Deleting the music that ran over the library scene.
- Doing a voice over, over the first meeting of the player and the girl at the library as it is difficult to hear the  dialogue.
- Adding  in a short scene at the beginning where we establish that the girl wants a relationship and is into reading.
- Editing the stop motion scene where she is reading the book so that the smile at the end lasts longer to show how excited she is for the date. 

CONSTRUCTION: THE MONOLOGUE.

Today we made a monologue of the thoughts the girl was thinking when she found the sticky notes. We struggled to do this adlib and therefore wrote a monologue which would be said in time with the film. We filmed ourselves using iMovie on the Mac and then split the screen so that the viewer can see the film at the some point as the monologue. The image below shows how the screen is displayed. Here is the finished presentation of our monologue.

CONSTRUCTION: THE FINAL SCENE.

Today we filmed the final scene of our film. This included the girl bumping into the boy that really left her the sticky notes, we do this with a close up shot of the books the boy drops when walking, with a sticky note with the phrase "I see you got my sticky notes", this is the final scene of the film and ends with the tilt pan of the camera that rests on the girl and boy holding the book with the sticky note, gazing into each others eyes.

CONSTRUCTION: RE-FILMING THE DATE SCENE.

Yesterday we re-filmed the date scene as a result of a technical difficulty however due to the fact that we used a different camera we experienced a similar problem in which the frame size was 640x280 whereas it should have been 1280x720, we tried to resolve this problem by cropping the image however the quality of the filming was the jeopardised as the picture was grainy, therefore we shall attempt to re-film this scene next lesson. 

CONSTRUCTION: RE-FILMING THE BEDROOM SCENE.

Today we re-filmed the bedroom scene as we found that at this moment the film seemed to lose momentum and as a result of feedback we found out that viewers were not as engaged in the film as they were at other points such as the date scene. I took responsibility for filming today and used a variety of different shots in order to keep the viewer engaged.  I used shots such as a pan from right to left, a close up shot of the phone ringing and of the main actress playing with the library card.  We took many different takes to give us a wide variety of filming to choose from in order for us to pick the highest quality take. We also re filmed the crane shot for more clarity and so that the dialogue within the scene was short and snappy. When filming we did experience some technical difficulties with the camera, for example the camera was set to a smaller frame size which meant that the the final film take was a smaller size than we had been filming in before, I also found that quality of the filming using the smaller frame size was not as high as the larger frame size.

Therefore we ended up with a frame like this.

Instead of a frame size like this.

RESEARCH: SNAPCHAT STORIES.

When filming today I made a snapchat story of photos showing the process that we undertook when filming. Having followed the work of Casey Neistat, we felt that this idea would too benefit us as it is a breakdown of everything that happens whilst filming. This has been used with large scale events such as the Golden Globes in which many photos and short videos were posted of people turning up, their outfits and the service, giving a breakdown and sharing with the general public what the evening entailed. 

The first photo of my story was three seconds long showing the mise-en-scene when filming.

This photo was three seconds long and the second in my story, it was ken just before filming and shows the cameraman preparing. 

This photo was the third in my story and shows the actress looking at her reflection in the mirror, the camera shows the finished filming of the last scene. 

This was the the final photo in my story and shows the finished item. 

PLANNING: EVALUATION QUESTION TECHNOLOGY.

RESEARCH


PICTOCHART- An infographic tool with a wide variety of templates including useful charts (pie charts, bar charts taken in through Excel) which means we can present our statistics in a  more aethetically pleasing manner. 

BLOGGER- This is a free presentation tool that allows students and teacher to present and share this work and what they have achieved throughout their product. It is like an online diary, making it easy to document my progress. 


TWITTER- We have used Twitter to keep up to date with other short films and to promote our own, keeping the followers updated on release dates and posting our film poster and snippets of filming to engage the audience and further promote our film.  

NewHive- I used NewHive to present my research on short films and what they entail. 

YOUTUBE- We have used YOUTUBE to conduct research on other short films and to display our work, inviting feedback from the public. I aslo used this when conducting research on radio trailers, seeing which had the best feedback and which was the most effective.


GOOGLE DOCS- This is a useful tool for collaborating on projects as it enables us to contribute and share ideas on to one document from many different computers, keeping our 
information stored in one place. 

SLIDESHARE- This is useful when making presentations as it enables us to upload on to a template and make it more visually pleasing for the viewer. It also means we can share our work with the public.  

PLANNING 




TRELLO - This is a useful tool for keeping up to date. It is an interactive to do list which enable us to categorise our work into "TO DO", "DOING" and "DONE" helping us to keep on top of the project.

EMAZE- Like Slideshare, Emaze presents work visually with beautiful graphical tools and accepts PowerPoint uploads. I used emaze to present my research on Ridley Scotts film  "Life in a Day" and for my feedback on filming one of the scenes throughout our film.

FACETIME- We can talk as a team using this apple video tool.

 


 


iPhone- this can be useful for keeping in touch with your group, for planning & location shots, for playing your track while out and about?









CONSTRUCTION


DIGITAL CAMERA- This is vital for the construction of our film as the camera needs to be good quality and have the required feature in order for us to get the desired effect.

 

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP- We used photoshop to create the film poster and present our feedback in an aesthetically pleasing manner for the viewer.

 





 
 YuDu- This is used to make dynamic page-turning leaflets. I used YuDu to present my research neatly on the subject topic of narrative theories.

 
 FACEBOOK
To organize shoots by contacting cast and crew with details of an 'event'. This enables us to promote our film, by making a page and inviting people to it. 

 



EVALUATION



NEW HIVE enabled me to present all my evidence about how I used technology in a visually exciting and logical way with images, text, embedded video and audio.

FACEBOOK- We used Facebook to invite feedback about our production and to promote our film to a wider audience being the general public. 

 




YOUTUBE- We have used YouTube for  inviting feedback on your own video work. 

RESEARCH: AUDIENCE.