More Audience Feedback...

Once I was in the process of making my film, I continuously showed it to different people to get their point of view, some said it was great, however it was much more helpful when the audience gave constructive criticism of my work, and how I could improve it from the view of someone who had never seen it before.

Audience Feedback

Throughout the process of making my film introduction I sent out a survey to my whole school asking them certain questions about my chosen 'Chick Flick' genre. Here are some graphs showing the responses:

Unfortunatley all of the replies were from a female audience, so I was not able to get a complete perspective on the genre, however, they have provided me with information to help me in creating my introduction.

However, luckily the replies were from a very varied age range, with the most 16-18 year olds of whom my film is aimed at. 

I first asked what they expect from a chick flick film and the majority said boys and girls,  closely followed by love and jealousy with are both key themes of my production.

I then asked if they watched chick flicks, and clearly the majority said YES! This helped me to confirm that I had chosen a very female orientated production.

I then wanted to know who their favourite celebrity was, Beyonce was clearly the winner here, and is a perfect role model for young girls today. Something I wanted to pick up on in the film with a strong independent protagonist.

 Here, clearly the favourite chick flick is Mean Girls, which is the typical chick flick film of the recent few years. I wanted to take from these top films the idea of a new girl attending a school with some 'mean girls' who try to make it a struggle for her to fit in.

Finally, I wondered about the music genre which my audience preferred, they mostly said pop and rock, and I would say that the soundtrack to my opening is a mixture of the two,

We Finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Making of The Car Scene for Pretty Hurts!

Camera Work When Making My Film Opening

I learned how having three cameras in different locations to film one action is a much simpler way to provide a variety of shots. Whilst filming the car scene. I stood outside the school gate at first, with Jenny a little further away and Priya inside the car. We all then moved positions whilst filming the walking scene and once again during the classroom scene where there were 2 cameras on the action and one doing close ups.

New Storyline...

•        Pan starting on car (driving on packhorse road) into school drive, in a very typical Fiat 500 car in baby blue (a colour theme I continued throughout the film)
•     She drives into school, wearing a glamorous furry coat and carrying a large pink Ted Baker bag.
•     She then walks into the front door of a very traditional private school.
•     The scene then cuts to show her walking down a corridor, and meeting a girl who currently attends the school, she introduces herself as 'Priya' and we also learn that the protagonists name is 'Miranda'
•       The audience is then shown a very noisy classroom full of sixth formers, however the room falls silent as the new girl walks in. We also see a group of girls who turn around and glare at Miranda.
•       Miranda then is provided with a seat next to Sophie (the antagonist) who gives the protagonist a mean stare, which then contrasts Mirandas innocent look back.
•      Antagonist then slams her folder shut after saying  ‘let’s not have a repeat of last time', a sort of threat to the new girl and implies that something has happened previously between the two girls, yet no one knows quite what it is yet.
•      The shot then changes to show texting on an iPhone which shows Miranda texting a friend, saying how she is so shocked and worried that Sophie attends this school...

Another Attempt :(

Lets hope that FinalCut can fix our issue…

Todays Findings

WE GREEN SCREENED!
(but it didn't quite work…)

Next time we will do it on paper and see if it makes a difference if we use my camera...

Practising Our Shots

Here is a video of the shots that we have practiced..

Filming Day Today………..

Story Our Film Opening

The scene is set by a camera panning downwards onto a classroom full of writing schoolgirls. We then see a girl close up who is doodling in her notebook. We then see a very zoomed in notebook with animated titles of Director, screenwriter and producer. We then hear a school bell ring and the screen fades to show the film title.It re-opens again to show a view from the front of the same girl walking through a hallway with lots of girls saying "hi" in the hallways and interacting with the girl. The scene cuts and shows the girl looking in her locker. The actors name appears on a file. The camera view then switches to show a view from inside her locker and she then slams the locker shut. The scene then jumps to show the girl walking to get into her pink car but sees post-it's on the windscreen with notes like 'love the new car' alongside with other actors names. We then see her get into the car and the camera cuts to show the car from behind and it drives off and round the corner. The screen fades to black...

Story Board

Hazards For Chick Flick Opening

Here are the hazards that could occur in our opening:

Music Ideas

Here are some music ideas for my introdution:
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/volumedetail.aspx?volume=22155
-Hot Ash

Timeline Of An Introduction

Here is a photo of my timeline of Wild Child:

Possible Genres For Movie Introduction

• Action
• Comedy
• Family
• History? (maybe not...)
• Sci-Fi (would be very difficult)
• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Horror
• News
• Sport
• Western
• Documentary
• Biography
• Drama
• Game-Show?
• Musical?
• Romance
• Thriller

The genres that I would like to investigate more are: Adventure, Sport, Documentary, Game-Show, Drama and Thriller.