Editing Progress

This is the first screenshot of the progress made when I was editing. I started at with Katie and I's idents. They are Kernow Distributions and Price Productions.

Evaluation - NOT IN USE

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4.Who would be the audience for your media product? 

5.How did you attract/address your audience? 

6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 


Teens comedies are typically set in a school or places of social gathering such as a bedroom, the park or beaches. Also, most are filmed in American high schools as the comedy genre is 2 in popularity. However, as we targeted the Cornish teen populated, we filmed in locations that With the camera work, its mostly naturalistic. It normally shows none to be more superior to another. Katie and I chose the beach as our filming destination. The music normally used in teen comedy films are upbeat pop songs. We took this into account however, due to potential copyright infringement we cannot use well know songs like . We can though use similar tunes that will that give us permission. A website we have used for this is Bensound.com. The types of people that are starred in teen films are Cheerleaders, Nerds, Emos, Loners, Stoners, popular people which are always good looking and people who aren't a clique (these people are usually the protagonist of the film) (Isabella_Milne 2013)


If we were to be distributed by a large company, I feel that Buena Vista Pictures would distribute our film. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. is a motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by The Walt Disney Company. This is because they distribute a lot of teen comedies like 'The Princess Diaries' and ' 10 things I hate about you'. Buena Vista Pictures. However, we are only a small film so that suggests we would have a privately owned British company distribute film. This would mean it wouldn't get as much publicity but its still getting distributed. It doesn't need much publicity as its we are only targeting the Cornish. 

The target audience for our teen comedy film is aimed at the ages of 13 - 18 years of age. Most of our audience will be females. Our main character is a white female so we are aiming are film towards white teens. The filming will take place in Cornwall so are target audience will mostly be based in Cornwall. In Cornwall, the white population is 95.7% of the whole Cornish population. This is the reason it is mainly aimed at white British. Our main character in our movie, is someone who is aspiring to become popular. So is someone who thinks that if she isn't popular then she has no friends. She is someone desperately wanting to be accepted by her peers and the people around her. Also, with her name, she wants a power image which is wanted by her peer friendship group. And wanting a status which sees her as a popular person in her school.

In our title sequence, Katie and I attracted our audience by using the general genre conventions of our genre which was teen comedy and applying them to our video. Like the aspect of being outside and having fun. We did by this going to the beach. We filmed in Newquay.
My ident is based on the Cornish logo with the sea in the background. My company is called 'Kernow' which is directed towards the Cornish population. 'Kernow' meaning Cornwall.


 I have learnt there is a lot of technology involved in making a movie. Even though i knew that there is a lot, I didn't know what every bit did. Through out this process, through research i have learnt what most pieces do. When going to the beach  we took a mic, which was to record the sound of the waves and hopefully the sound of a seagull. 


I have learnt that there are many components to making a good filming. In the preliminary task, we never moved with the camera so we only had to focus the camera once. In this task, it is based on the point of view of the actor. This means that we had need to be focusing on focusing the camera constantly as the actor will be moving. I learnt that this was a hard job which Katie done very well. I also learnt that your surrounding can make your filming significantly harder. This being said, because we were at the beach we would normally have wind, animals and the sea being a problem with sound but we didn't need audio. The sun was always going to be a problem and thins isn't something i had learnt as u was aware it would make filming harder. Another thing i have learnt is that editing is a lot more difficult then first anticipated. The preliminary task didn't require great attention to editing so it was a big step up to edit this title sequence.

1st Draft

This is our first draft of our title sequence. There is many improvements needed to make it the final product. For example:
Mine and Katies first thoughts
It needs to be shortened to 2 mins. It is currently at 3 mins.
We need to change the music as it doesn't flow with the film.
The title at the end needs to be changed. It is unclear at the minute so i can either change the colour of the title or we can go to the beach and write it in the sand.
Facebook and teacher comments
Look at changing the 1st ident
Add the new 2nd ident
add in opening graphics on the door
try cutting out towel and paper part
add in music provider
zoom into production designer
match font sizes and maybe colours

Film Shoot Reflection

Shooting Day 1-


For the first day, we went down prepared with our camera, tripod, storyboard and steadicam. As we were shown footage before hand of what we were potentially filming, we knew are aim when we got there. However, due to things missing out the store that we needed, we had to think on the spot for replacements. For example, we wanted a rack of surfboards so we could look from them and have a credit on one of them. However we didn't have a rack so we used ones that were on the floor.
UPDATE: The second shop went to had just what we wanted so we used that footage instead. 
Another issue on the day was the radio, however after good thinking, Katie came to the conclusion that mobile phones were more common to teenagers. And I feel that this worked very well.

Film shoot evidence

On Day 1 and 2, Katie did the filming.
On the first photo, you can see Katie writing the title for one of the credits. This we thought would make the film look my professional as not every clip would be graphics. On day 3, I filmed as Katie was un able to be with me.

This is Katie writing a title name

This  is Katie filming

Film Shooting Day 1

This is the first day we went out shooting. We went to Escape shop which we had a storyboard plan for when we arrived. We stuck to the storyboard when we could. However, when we had to we change due to stuff not being there we did that.

Equipment List:
Canon 6d
Steadicam
Tripod

Locations List:
Escape Surf School
Towan Beach
Path down there

Cast List:
Jess Jenkins  Brooklyn Ash

Crew List:
Sam Scott - Co
Katie Price - Cinematographer

Credits

This is the order in which we will show on the title sequences

• Kernow Distributions logo
• Price Productions logo
• Kernow Distributions presents
• A Price Productions film
• Starring: Jess Jenkins
• Joe Jackson
• Mariah Delany
• Callum Rickard
• Casting by: Sam Price
• Costume Designer: Emilee Gage
• Music by: Ben Sound
• Edited by: Sam Scott
• Production Designer: Katie Scott
• Director of Photography: Katie Price
• Executive Producers: Emma Macdonald, Jessica Jenkins
• Produced by: Sam Scott
• Written by: Katie Price, Sam Scott
• Directed by: Katie Price
• Surfing, School and So Much Drama