Preliminary Task

In our opening scene for the preliminary task we used a few techniques to make it as good as possible. The main and probably most noticeable one being when an object is passed between the two characters, in this case it is a I.D card. There is also a close up of the object which makes it seem important as there is a shot only concentrated on the card. The passing was created using a match on action shot which is an editing technique that shows an action happening in two or more shots. This type of shot helps to keep continuity in the scene as the same action is still happening but just from a different angle.

During the same part of the scene there is another technique used which is an eye line match and it shows the two character looking at each other through an over the shoulder shot, which showed Amy and then it followed by a close up of Ryan which indicates that that is where Amy was looking. This technique helps the audience understand everything in the scene.

Another technique we followed was the 180 degree rule which is probably the most well-known rule in the movie world as it is very important as it keeps the continuity and if it wasn't followed then it could cause confusion for the audience. The technique is when you can only stay on one side of the characters or 180 degrees so that it doesn't look as if the characters keep swapping sides. So in our opening scene the camera stayed on the right side of Ryan so that he was always on the left, whilst the two characters were talking.

We had to create a storyboard during our planning so that it would be easier to record as we would know what we are doing however our planning was not as detailed as it could have been and it caused our recording time to take a bit more than it would've if our planning had been more thorough. However even with this the recordings still went very smoothly I think that that is clear in the actual opening scene as we managed to get a wide range of different shots incorporated into it. Also during editing only one member did the majority of it as they were most experienced with the software used, however that did give the rest of the group a chance to learn how to use it and all about the different things you can do on it. But if we could do this task again then I would like to have been a bit more hands on when it came to the editing rather than mostly just learning from watching, also I would've liked to have made the storyboard more detailed.



Opening Scene Script (First Draft)

Time's Up script

FADE IN

INT. HARRIET'S HOUSE - HARRIET'S BEDROOM - EARLY MORNING

Harriet lays in her bed, she is waking up. She is wearing her pyjamas. She's sixteen. She shuffles around in bed a little and out of bed now and opens her eyes slightly and rubs them.

She sits up. She goes to get out of bed and puts her slippers on.

INT. HARRIET'S LANDING

Harriet walks to the bathroom and closes the door.

CUTS TO WHEN SHE IS READY AND DRESSED.

Harriet opens the door and walks out.

INT. HARRIET'S STAIRS

Harriet walks down the stairs, looks at herself in the mirror. She grabs her diary and walks out the door.

(CREDITS PLAY OVER THIS SCENE)

EXT. OUTSIDE CAFE

Harriet walks into the café. She looks nervous.

INT. INSIDE THE CAFE

Harriet buys a coffee from the waiter behind the till.

Harriet - Can I have a coffee please?

Waiter - Yeah, sure. What kind would you like?

Harriet - Just black please.

Waiter makes the coffee and hands it to Harriet

Waiter - There ya go

Harriet - Thanks.

Harriet walks to a spare table.


[V.O] - Harriet writing in her diary

Harriet - Today's the day. I can't believe how fast the time's gone. I can't even describe the nerves I'm feeling right now. What if I'm not what they expect? I really hope I'm right, I really hope she's a girl. This is all I've been thinking of for the past couple months. She's all I've thought about. This timer...it's felt like a slow-ticking bomb, ready to go off in my face...

Harriet looks around and looks back down again. The waiter walks over to Harriet.


Waiter - Can I get you anything else?

Harriet - Umm, no thank you.

Waiter looks at timer on Harriet's wrist.


Waiter - Ooooh, not long now. You excited?

Harriet - More nervous than anything really.

Waiter - You'll be fine. I was the same when my timer was close to finishing but it was all fine in the end. I'll leave you now dear. Good luck!

Waiter walks away. Harriet looks back down at her timer and sees it's only 10 seconds.


[V.O] - Harriet's thoughts


Oh my god, it's happening. Just breathe. Breathe


Harriet looks around the room nervously. She flicks her eyes to the door and sees a young girl wearing light coloured clothing and makeup on her face. Their eyes meet across the room. Harriet gasps.


SCREEN CUTS TO TITLE (TIME'S UP)

Analysis of BFI data

This table shows every genres number of releases, the percentage of all releases, cross box office (£million), the percentage of total box office and the performing title. The main conclusion we can get from the table is that the comedy genre was the most popular in terms of the number of releases in 2013 (in the UK and Republic of Ireland) with 153 but only produced 158.2 million. Whereas animation only released 33 that year and managed to make 246.6 million,  the top performing title being 'Despicable Me 2'. This shows that the animation genre is actually more popular even though less of the films were created.
This is also shown in the horror and thriller genre where 64 thrillers were made with a profit of 29.1 million and horror made 37 and 57.5 million was made, which shows how horror is more profitable.

The second table is showing each genres, number of releases in 2014, the avaerage number of sites at widest point of release (so at how many different places it was shown) and at the gross box office(£ million).  It also shows the total of all of these, with there being 698 movies released and a profit of 1,153.7 million. Concluding from the table the comedy genre had the most releases in 2013 with 153 and was shown in 102 different sites and made a profit of 158.2 million, however this table shows how the number of releases does not mean it will shown in the most places or that it will be the most profitable as, again, animation only released 33 movies that year and earned 246.6 million and was shown in 273 different places. However Sci-fi was the genre that was shown in the most places with 422 even though only 9 western movies were released that year with a profit of 87.4 million. 

 This table is representing the performance of each genre in 2013. The most successful money wise being animation with a total of 246.6 million  out the 1.153.7 million made that year and had 27,383 averaged box office per site  and a total of 9,004 sites, however animation did not have to highest numbers when it came to their average box office per site, that was the adventure genre which only beat them by just under 1.5 thousand although it only had 2,004 sites.

For thriller and horror it shows how horror did better even though it has less total sites than thriller, by 300

Table 4.4 represents UK films released in the UK and Republic of Ireland in 2013. It shows how each genre did in the number of releases it had, the percentage of the releases, the gross box office (£ million), the percentage of total box office and the performing title. It shows how action was the most popular genre of 2013 of UK films with Fast & Furious 6 being the most successful and earning 39% of the genres total of 64.1 million. The worst UK genre based film was Drama which only earned 1.3 million (only 0.5% of the total box office makings.)

Thriller and horror shows again how horror did better even though thriller released 10 more movies that year but only got 4.1 million compared to horrors 14.8 with the most popular horror movie being 'World War Z'.

Table 4.5 is showing the UK independent film genres released in the UK and Republic of Ireland and how well they did in the box office compared to how many releases they had in 2013. The table shows how documentary's was the biggest UK genre release with 31 films where as the adventure genre only had 1. However documentary's was not the best performing genre as comedy ended up earning the most money even with it only releasing 24 movies or even Biopic which had only 6 releases in 2013 and managed to earn almost 22 million, only 6.2 million under comedy which released 4 times the amount of movies.

With the thriller and horror genres we can see that horror had 6 releases and earnt 0.2 million whereas thiller released 14 and got a total of 2.1 million.

Figure 4.1 shows how many of each genre was released in three different categories, all films, UK films and UK independent films and how all these did when it comes the the proportion of box office. It shows how UK independent films got quite a big percentage of the box office with comedy films getting 28.1% of all UK independent films, where as only 14.8 of all UK films. An even bigger is shown with the Biopic genre where the independent films had 21.9% of all the independent films percentage of box office, however UK films only got 6.6% and all films had 3.5%.

Figure 4.2 is showing the proportion of releases by genres of three different categories, again, all films, UK films and independent UK films. So it shows how the adventure genre had very little releases in all of the categories with only 0.8% UK independent films being adventure. Whereas documentary is 25.2% of all documentary releases

Mr Judge Feedback

Medal: Well done Ella for completing the following tasks you have done so far.  Good work on Film noir and opening conventions etc concept and getting some tasks finished to a decent standard    

Mission: What we now need is to see is your evidence for designing and creating studio logo's and your understanding of the correct conventional title orders as studied in class. Some images are also required to enhance the look and design your blog. 

We are still also missing the opening of Seven analysis, the opening of a horror analysis and the evaluation of the preliminary task. Things tasks are an absolute must in order to get a good grade for coursework.

Please provide feedback, in the form of a new post, how and when you hope to achieve the tasks. 

Time's Up prouduction schedule

2nd December
Vicky and I will to start to plan everything for our opening scene, from the different shots to the music we will use. To help us with the codes and conventions of romance films we will look at other examples of this genre, also films that include the representations that we are going to include in the scene, sexuality and age.
Next we will consider the main characters and who is going to portray them,  Also we will need to decide on how we can create and enigma that matches our storyline, so the audience will want to keep on watching.


9th December
Vicky and I are planning on beginning the storyboarding of the opening scene, we will do this so that when we start recording the production of the scene will be a lot smoother and easier when we come to do it.
In the lesson we were taught on how to create opening credits so that we can use that when we need to do it for the actual thing.


18th December
This is the first day me and Vicky are hoping to record, we will borrow the equipment needed from the school. The filming will be at Amy's (Louise's) house as this is what we are using as Harriet's house, and also the café. We are hoping to get at least all of the shots of Harriet waking up and leaving the house to go to the café. Due to our planning of the storyboard we know the range of shots we will need to get, including a tracking shot, close-ups, POV and medium shots.
If we do not finish this we will have to organise another to finish, in case of people being unavailable etc.


8th January
This is when we hope to finish the recording of everything as we plan to do the final recording of Harriet's voiceovers as she is writing in the diary. After this we plan on being able to just edit it all.