Thursday 5th january 2012

At the beginning of the lesson sir had discussed with us what we was going to do in today’s lesson. In the first part of the lesson we had to create a Google calendar. We are going to create a Google calendar because it is a way of setting our deadlines. We will be setting dates for when we will be completing things in our film. We as a group will have to decide what dates we reckon we will get the things completed. We will try to equal it out per task otherwise we might rush some things. I think that Google calendar is a good thing because it helps us out a lot. We will know what we are doing and what other things we have to finish off. Google calendar can be good because we can use it as our evidence for our coursework. We can add each other who are in our group, therefore everyone in our group will know the deadlines and what we need to do.

In the second part of the lesson we had started to finish off and finalise our ideas for our storyboard. Our group had to start again because there were things that we had to change. We had changed a few things in our storyboard and we had also checked with Shaun if it was to a good standard. We had also went onto the computer and started to look at some music that we will be using in the background. Unfortunately the music that we had liked had copy right. So we asked Shaun what could we do, he said that it is very easy to create a track like that and he will show us how to do it and we will then create the background music. After we had clarified that we had decided what the voice over notes will be, so we wrote about a paragraph, on what we think the voice over notes should consist of. We have come up with a lot of phrases and we will record a voice and put it in separate shots.   

How to write up a pitch for something to an audience.

1.      The introduction in your pitch should be very brief not giving away to much.

2.      The pitch should not be longer then 8-9 minutes but it should be over 5 minutes.

3.      The pitch should be telling the audience about the film but try not to give too much away.

Make sure you have answered all of the questions before you present your pitch. If you answer these questions there are no way that you will be stuck on the spot if someone asks a question. If you answer most of these questions then you have given out a good pitch.

1.      What genre is your film?

2.      What other genre’s have inspired your film to be similar to this?

3.      Who is the target audience?

4.      When will the film be released?

5.      How much it will cost to create?

6.      How much income you will receive from it?

7.      Which characters will be in it?

8.      Who is the director?

We in our groups had to answer these questions that had been given in our presentation. The presentation will be on the film idea we have come up with for our title sequence. We have to present it to the class and listen to their feedback.

Our presentation for Groundhog Day, our ideas for a new title sequence

In this lesson we as a whole class had to present our presentation in our indivual groups. The theme was a British edition of Groundhog Day. As a class we had judged people presentations and had to give them a mark out of ten for there initial idea and the presenting skills they were using. After the group had finished presenting their idea we had to give feedback to what was good and what was bad in the presentation. We had to give good reason for what we think why the people have used that type of typeography and pictures in their pre title sequence for Groundhog Day.

Our presentation was okay, it was not great because we gave too much a way. The feedback that we had got from people in the class and the teacher made us understand that we had made it look like a trailer rather than a pre title sequence.

Blogging

In this lesson we were given a chance to update our blogs and get them to a good standard. I was behind in my blogging but I had managed to get more of my work onto my blog and get it posted. I had asked my teacher to check what I have missed out to put on my blog and they had told me what to do.

Groundhod Day - Our Own Idea For A Pre Title Sequence

This is the image and typography that my group have used for the film Groundhog Day. This image would be seen in our version on the Groundhog day title sequence as it communicates the three main points that we have aimed to acheive which is;

• Romance - which can be seen clearly in the picture between the man and women.
• The British theme of the film -  having the picture be in London, the capital of England. London can be seen in some romantic comedy's as this is where the love happens.
• Comedy - as you can see they are on an ice rink and this is where we will communicate the comedy to the audience.

We had to come up with a new idea for Groundhog Day which we had to present to the class when we had completed it. There was a male character who is feeling the real heat of Groundhog day he has fallen in love with a woman which he keeps on bumping into. In many different funny ways. But every time he bumps into her she doesn’t know who he is because he is the Groundhog Day, all the time he bumps into this woman he asks her out. We had to use this and give this idea out to the class, using typeography and a screen shot of something. So we worked in a group and we went onto Google and found a picture of two people in love. Then we had gone onto Dafont and found a font that we had put on top of the picture.

Typeography and design

This is the order of which Catch me if you can goes in- Firstly it says which Studio had created it. Then the next type of typography is the Stars, it mostly is shown in the order of most fame. Then the name of the film is then shown. After this it shows the members of the crew who had created this film and what job roles that they had. The Producer and executive producer’s names are then shown. Finally the director’s name is shown last.
The typeography that had been created is a sort of wavy text like it is liquidy. The typeography throughout the whole clip is the same. Off some of the letters there are lines coming off them, this then takes it onto the next shot and it is like a cycle which keeps going on throughout the clip. There is always one character that keeps on appearing and he seems to look like a mysterious guy. It looks like he’s is doing a lot of things, which can kept the audience thinking what is going to happen next. There is mysterious music being played in this clip and that can give away what type of genre the film is about. E.g. if the film is horror there can be rock music or spooky alerts. The title "Catch me if you can" can give away what the film is about because; straight away people will think that a person is on the run, or escaping.

Logo

This is our logo for our film production company. We thought of the name HARJ as it is an acronym of the people in our group. We had put the film reel because this film company will represent any type of genre. We had come up with the company name of "HARJ" because it represents everyones name in my group. There is H- harj, A- aaron. R- Ryan and J- James.