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The Bitter Truth - Evalulation

Amandeep - This evaluation process helped us to recognise how our film opening was successful within the genre of our choice: Teen Rom/Com. Examples of film openings we researched were these…

Amandeep - From these openings, it gave us a deeper understanding to the codes and conventions of films in this genre. One film in particular, mean girls, for example, followed a number of stereotypes such as themes, stock characters, and stock settings. In our film opening, we have followed the typical conventions that mean girls also follows.

Samia - The boy/girl conflict, for example, is one of the typical themes that runs throughout mean girls. We have included this theme throughout our film. We chose to do this because we decided to anchor the idea of a stereotypical Teen rom/com.

Danielle - Here, are the stereotypical characters from our film. The ‘geeks’ are shown, by reading books and doing work, the one girl also has glasses on which represent the stereotypical geek by them selves that is shown in some of our researched opening clips such as The Princess Diaries. The ‘plastics’ are shown as plastics, by them wearing layers of make-up, trendy clothes, and the actions they are doing, for example, the one girl is texting, and the other is looking herself in a mirror. The popular boy and girl are sitting together talking, as they are stereotypically dating, this is shown by the affection that they have towards each other in the action.

Samia - These images show the main girl in both mean girls, and our film, as both a geek and a ‘plastic’. This shows the similarity between our own stereotypical interpretation, and the stereotypes in the successful film Mean Girls. By showing the change, it shows how different people are when they go to school, to when they are at home, which is the initial idea for our film, contrasting personalities and peer pressure.

CLIP OF CHANGE!!

Amandeep - This is a small extract of our film, in which it shows the change between our character’s personalities.

Amandeep - The institution we chose to distribute our film was Paramount pictures. As it is a vertically integrated company, we would work along side Paramount pictures all the way through making and distributing the film. We felt that this company would be appropriate because it has created and distributed many films that are under the same genre of ours including Mean Girls and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging which are both quirky teen rom/coms. 

Danielle - We have sped up the titles for Paramount; however, we think this works as we have put music over the top of it, to lead into our film.

Danielle - Our target audience is mainly teenage girls, when we analysed our questionnaire results we concluded that they would most expect to see pop music in our genre of film. Therefore, choosing the songs we have used would be suitable because that is what our target audience expect to see, and as we were following typical conventions in this genre, we had to ensure that we stuck to what our audience expected to see/hear.

Samia - From our questionnaire, our audience told us, that they would most likely expect to see a high school scene in our film. Therefore, we have based our film in a high school setting. However, due to our plot, we have shown a lot of our opening scene in the protagonist’s home, showing her getting ready for school. However she then goes to the school, and we show that the part of her getting ready is leading up to the setting of the scene in the main part of the film, being the school.

Samia - We attracted our target audience, teenage girls, by using not only the pop music that they asked for, but we also used the characters that they expected the most.  We did not create a ‘villain’ character; this is because due to our questionnaire, not many people expected to see one. Therefore we were less likely to confuse the audience by putting in a character they weren’t expecting.

Danielle - We included a slap at the beginning of our film, and then went back by 15 hours, this creates an enigma for the audience because they don’t know why the girl got slapped, and it is explained that the girl is her sister. This may confuse the audience slightly and therefore make them think about why it happened and what happens in the 15 hours in order for the sister to slap the protagonist.  As our demographic are teenage girls, the enigma is more intriguing for them to carry on watching because they can relate to the characters themselves and will wonder more about what happens.

Danielle - Whilst editing our film, we used both iMovie9 and Live Type. iMovie9 was where we edited the whole film; we changed the lighting in our film, at the party scene, to a hard light. By doing this, we learnt that lighting is a key element when filming because it changes the atmosphere and feel of the film. We were able to edit our clip down to 0.1 seconds and therefore it gave us more of a clean cut to our shots.

Samia - Live Type is an editing clip for creating titles for our film. We had never used this before so we were able to learn how to create interesting titles that had effects that would match with our film. We realised how important titles were by seeing the difference between titles/no titles, and how important colours and fonts were which add to the final product. 

Amandeep - In our preliminary task, we crossed the 180° rule. Due to this we had to flip it around so that it had continuity and made sense, however due to the flipping it made us confused because the layout of the common room was different to how it was in real life, therefore we would have to re-do the filming to make it so that it didn’t look weird for both us, and the audience.

Samia - Due to this mistake that we made during the making of our preliminary task, we had to ensure we did not cross this line again when actually filming our film. We did actually have to re-film the common room scene in our film, however, we didn’t have to re-film it because of this reason, it was because we had rushed it and therefore it wasn’t the best it could be.

Danielle - If we had more time to our film, such as 2:30 minutes, we would probably include a more appropriate full shot of the main character and focus on her image more because this is one of the main themes that runs throughout our film because it focuses on her image and how it changes throughout the film. To focus more on her image we may have included a few more long shots of her or maybe even a few more close ups on her make-up and outfit.

Amandeep - In conclusion we are quite happy with how our film opening has turned out, however we do believe that if we had more time in our film slot, we would have been able to put more detail and focus more on the main part of the film, her different images. 

The Bitter Truth - Opening Scene

shooting schedule

Wednesday 2nd March

- Morning period 1&2

- Camera and Tripod needed

- Amy is the only character needed

- Props of make-up, pyjamas, glasses needed

Wednesday 2nd March

- Afternoon period 5

- Camera and Tripod needed

- Amy and extras (party scene) needed

- Props of make-up, party clothes needed

Friday 4th March

- Afternoon periods 3&4

- Camera and Tripod needed

- Amy and extras needed (geeks and plastics)

- Props of books, make-up, work needed

Preliminary task

Character Profile

Name: Hannah

Costume:
Bedroom - Mixed pyjamas - uncoordinated, big hair (backcombed)
Party - Sparkly top with jeans, colourful jewellery, natural hair
At school – Skirt/dress with tights, High heels, make-up, bracelets, necklace, earrings, bag

Characteristics:
Geeky
Clumsy
Clever
Pretty
Emotional
Nice

Gestures/movement:
Falls down the stairs/off bed
Stumbling walks out house
Ignorant towards the geeks, just passes them

Representations:
Stereotypical geek in a ‘plastic’ world
Average teenage girl
Social issue of acceptance and status
Peer pressure

Name: Adele

Costume:
Party – lots of make-up, fashionable dress (jeans/leggings), straightened hair
At school – make-up, scarf, jeans, top, jacket, bag

Characteristics:
Bitch
Jealous
Mean
Controlling
Bully

Gestures/movement:
Slaps her sister
Doesn’t wave back at her sister
Angry eyes

Representations:
Stereotypical bitch who tries to be the best
Expected to see in this genre
Shows different social groups.

Name: Plastic 1 and 2

Costume:
Lots of make-up, skirts, tops, jewellery, high heels, bag and folders, and mobile phone.

Characteristics:
Mean
Bully
‘Pretty’

Gestures/movement:
They laugh at her
They use her to get tickets
They point and stare

Representations:
Stereotypical plastics
Bitches
Followers not leaders however are shown as leaders to Hannah

Name: Geek 1 and 2

Costume:
Glasses, lots of books, no make-up, jeans, big t-shirts, hair tied up.

Characteristics:
Smart
Lonely
Victims
Outcasts
Good guys

Gestures/movement:
Look at Hannah as she walks past
Studying – actually doing work
Reading

Representations:
Stereotypical geeks who are outcasts
No one talks to them
Gets the best results

Story Board

The Bitter Truth - Script

Synopsis - The Bitter Truth

A teenager girl aged17, named Hannah popular pretty girl, who everybody in the high school envies, because they want to be her. She’s clever and intelligent, and she looks confident however things under the surface aren’t so pretty. Her older sister, Adele is extremely pretty and has recently one Miss Britain 2010. This brings Hannah down and therefore wants to be like her.  Adele however wants Hannah to stay as she is because she looks prettier next to an ‘ugly’ sister.

The sisters go to the same school. Therefore she sees Hannah as both characters, at home and at school. Adele tries to uncover Hannah’s real identity; she does this by inviting everyone to a party. However, Hannah hasn’t taken off her make-up so looks the same. Adele’s boyfriend then likes Hannah and breaks up with Adele for Hannah. Adele finds out and wants revenge…

The main character is a bit of a nerd at home, she wears make up and fashion to fit in wit the crowd, which is what makes her popular at school. At school, she gets tests back as F’s, however in actual exams she gets A*’s because she is really clever and therefore the rest of her ‘friends’ don’t realise that she is clever. This is what her sister Adele, wants to reveal about her so that she can stop being pretty and her sister gets more of the attention at school as well as at home.

The boyfriend of both sisters has no idea that they are sisters when he first meets Hannah. This is why is able to break up with Adele because he doesn’t think he will ever see her again.

The film is from the main character’s point of view; it goes through in and out time to show previous things that have happened to explain what happens at the very beginning of the film… The sister slaps Hannah, the ’12 hours earlier’ and it goes back to when the main character is originally getting ready for school transforming from a ‘nerd’ to a ‘pretty girl’.

Throughout the whole film, it will be going back to the present time and back to the past of that day. Throughout that day, Adele will be trying to crack Hannah so that she gets caught without her make-up. Eventually at the end of the film, where it shows the present time that will be when Hannah is then shown without her make-up on because it has ruined her relationship with her sister. The boy then sees her as herself and she doesn’t want him to see her, however he prefers her with no make-up because she is pretty as she is. 

The End.

ST TRINIAN’S - Opening Scene

St Trinian’s

The first we see is how produced and who distributed the film with al their logos. We know it has been funded by the National Lottery and it be Ealing Studios, UK film council and Entertainment Film where the distributors of this film.

Then we see this shocking pink colour and from this we know the film will be quite girly and most of the actor may be all girls. From even seeing the film title St Trinian’s it seem quite girly and posh too.

The colour pink and black are mainly used just for the introduction and we get the feeling the theme is quite punky and rock chick, we knows punk for being violent and the little images resembles people being violent to one another this add anchorage to the shots.

The text of the titles of the film seems quite old Victorian stencil print text,

There is edit and zooms in into a burning car  which add more violence and this makes the viewers think there will be violence in this film , so one theme crime and violence liked to the younger generation.

A girl who well presented, quite posh is disturbed by the site of the car and it seems as though she does not fit in this place. Tracking is used to follow the continuation and this also helps the viewer follow the actions and shows that not just the car but viewers are heading to same destination but is unsure and unaware to expect of just like the girl in the car. The first few characters that are shown in the opening scene tend to be one or the other main character through out the film.

A pan is used to show the car driving inside the woods it seems quite enclosed and the girl may be represented as to feeling quite trap and does not belong here, just a long winded  road and never ending.

You see a low angle point of view of the whole school and this makes viewers seems quite intimating and not a very nice place to be at especially for new girls who are joining the school. Tracking is used to follow the car and see the action.

We get the feeling the girls in the school miss behave quite a lot especially when we see the table falling out of the window behind them. The Dad over looks and still wants the daughter to go to this school. This is another situation that hits the younger generation … parents not listening to teenager and doing what they think is best for their child. Even though the child does not want to do it so being forced into things they don’t feel right about or being pressurise into things.  

Questionaire Results - Graphs

Age

16     (8)

17     (4)

18     (4)

Male/Female

Male           (4)

Female      (12)

Genre

Rom/Com   (7)

Indie            (6)

Drama         (2)

Romantic    (1)

Cinema

Never     (3)

1 to 2      (12)

3 to 5      (0)

Six +       (1)

Settings

High School      (10)

Home                 (1)

Social

Places                 (5)

Characters

Geek                           (12)

Girl                             (10)

Boy                             (13)

Parent/Teachers        (6)

Friends                       (10)

Popular                       (7)

Bully                            (7)

Villan                           (2)      

 

Watching

Illegally        (2)

Legally         (0)

Online          (3)

Rent             (4)

Buy              (4)

Cinema        (4)

With Who

Family      (1)

Friends     (12)

Partner     (3)

Own          (0)

Themes

Drugs                (6)                            

Sex                     (7)

Studying            (2)

Group Clash     (10)

Crime                 (2)

Peer Pressure    (6)

Love                   (14)

Bullying             (6)

Shopping           (6)

Music

Rock           (0)

Classical     (0)

Pop             (12)

RnB            (3)

Metal          (0)

Techno       (1)

Age Range

Under 13      (0)

13 to 15         (2)

16 to 18         (14)

Older             (0)


Here are some of the results from our questionare in a graph format


This a bar chart showing what the most sterotypical character you would likely to see in Indie Teen Rom/Com

Here is another bar showing the most genre you would likely to see in teen film.

Here is  pie chart showing what gender Male or Female would like to come and see a Indie Teen Rom/Com genre film.

High School Musical 2 - FIlm

 

Themes that occur in High School Musical 2

-          Love

-          Jealousy

-          Hate

-          Clashes

-          Break ups

-          Part time work

-          Sports/ drama group

-          Popular students

-          More serious about the future (financially)

The cover of the film you can tell it’s a group of teenagers that share a deep relationship. You can tell it’s a happy film because of the bright and bold colour used. You can tell they are students and also it’s a musical “High School Musical”. The setting of the characters has been positioned and centred not randomly the main two characters Troy and Gabriella are in the middle while the other characters go boy girl boy. They are wearing all summer clothes and the background resembles the texture of a swimming pool maybe hints they are on summer vacation or break away from school

High School Musical shows different situations that student have to go through once they finish high school. The main overall situation is that how are they going to afford they expenses in the future and also education expenses. To cover the costs they all get a job at the same place through they see different expectations of life. As Troy must decide does he want his mates, girl friend or a sponsorship for his skills in basketball? He makes compromises to keep and make everyone happy but he finds many hurdles to pass through first.

Sound

High School is a Musical so there was a lot of diegetic sound, so music, singing and dancing through out the movie.

The pace and rhythm generally through out the movie is quite slow but the build up the pace before a song start. The pace and rhythm of the film become a bit more fast paced. They all seem like can not wait until their vacation starts but they still are stressing about not finding a job. But they still keep their hope saying they will still do the things they do in the free time like going to the cinema and skate

Genre and Audience Presentation

Institutions

Foundation Portfolio: Institutions

What Production Company?
We have chosen to use the American production company of Paramount Pictures. It is one of the most grossing movie studios and is in fact America’s oldest existing movie studio.

Why are they suitable?
This company is suitable because are known for producing quirky films and have produced a wide range of films in different genres.  After knowing that they are the oldest existing movie studios, this shows that they must be good at what they do, therefore it shows that we have made the right decision in choosing them as our production company.

What other films have they successfully produced?
They have produced Angus Thongs and perfect Snogging (another British Film), and Stardust, which were hugely successful, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite and School Of Rock.

Why is that significant for your film?
These films are significant to us because they have the codes and convention of a quirky Teen Rom/Com genre that will attract our audience to come and watch our film. We have actually research a few of these films whilst doing our analysis, this shows that the genre that we are looking towards doing is a good genre that Paramount Pictures might take on.

What distribution company?
We have chosen to use the distributor company of Paramount Pictures. This is the same as the company chosen for our production.

It is part of a vertically integrated organisation?
Yes it is part of a vertically integrated organisation, which we have used for the production company. The distribution part of the company was in partnership with Universal studios for 25 years and this was originally how the films distributed internationally however it is now an independent company within itself.

Why is that significant?
This is significant because we are then able to make more of a profit because all the revenue from the films success is going back in the company itself.  This means that we don’t have to worry about payments to lots of different companies and people separated from this company, therefore it is easier to split money into shares and we will gain more as we don’t have lots of companies wanting the same amount.

If you are choosing an independent company, why?
We are not using a independent company because all though it would be slightly be beneficial we believe that using a vertically integrated organisation we will be able to get a wider audience because they will able to sell more of the film because cinemas are familiar with this company.   

What other films have they distributed?
The films that they have distributed are Footloose, Series of Unfortunate Events, Save The Last Dance and Mean Girls.

How does that tie in well with your film?
These films are all quirky Teen Rom/Com’s those are the films that we accept some of our target audience to have seen (at least one of them). Therefore it shows that using this distributor is the right choice as they have distributed many film of our genre. As our research includes similar codes and conventions to these films we are able to know that our idea for our film will sell well because it is a popular genre in the type of films that Paramount Pictures sell to the audience. This is what the audience expect to see particularly in this genre from Paramount Pictures.

Freaky Friday - Film

Themes that occur in Freaky Friday

Falling in Love

Hate / Clashes with other peers

Parents and Guardians – Major (Mother)

Family commitments

Family (Annoying Little Brother) – very stereotypical

Band/ (Indie)

Studying – Detention

Rebel Student

Typical teenager

Freaky Friday is film that shows the typical teenager and what they go through every day. From home to high school it shows different elements and how a teenager tackles each problem that comes up. Anna (Lindsay Lohan) the typical teenager wants  to lead her life the way she wants and she tends to clash with her Mother every time she wants to do something, he little brother does not help with the situation either. She is not the typical student either she keep on getting detention and fails in essays.

Costume

Anna – she mainly wears black and red, this colour connote dark, powerful, not trust worthy and dangerous. But the colour she wears contradicts as person her self as her Mother over rules her and her Mother has more power then she has. So maybe the colour she wears are trying to show she is powerful but really deep inside she is not. She got look of an indie/rock chick and this also links to the idea she is in a band her self and she plays the guitar (very stereotypical).

Anna Mother – she is busy person generally, she tries to balance work life and also he home life. Through out the film she dresses smart and also at home this may link to idea she bring work home to and she never has break from work life. As she is councillor she tries and helps people deal with their problems. She tries and interferes in Anna life and tries to help her deal with her problems. This is another element that happens parents try and understand with their young adult problems. But they do not understand how to deal and resolve the problems and this can create more arguments and misunderstanding between the adult and the teenager,

Questionnaire - Teen Drama (Indie/RomCom)

Questionnaire – Teen Drama (Indie/RomCom)

What age are you?  ______

Male/Female

What is your favourite teen genre of film?

Rom/com [  ]   Indie [  ]   Drama [  ]    Romantic [  ]

How many times do you go to the cinema a month?

Never [  ]  Once or twice [  ]  Three to five times [  ]  Six + [  ]

What settings do you expect to see in a teen movie?

High school /college [  ]  Home [  ]  Social places [  ] 

What type of characters do you expect to see in a teen movie? (Tick more than one)

Geek [  ]  Beautiful girl [  ]  Beautiful boy [  ]  Parents/Teachers [  ]  Friends [  ]  Popular crowd [  ]  Bully [  ]   Villain [  ]

How do you watch teen movies? (Tick one)

Download illegally [  ]  Download legally [  ]  Watch online [  ]  Rent [  ] Buy [  ] Cinema [  ]

Who do you go to the cinema with the most? (Tick one)

Family [  ]  Friends [  ]  Partner [  ]  On your own [  ]

What themes and situations would you expect to see in teen movies? (Tick more than one)

Drugs [  ]   Sex [  ]  Studying [  ] Group clash [  ]  Crime [  ] Peer pressure [  ]  Love [  ]  Bullying [  ]  Shopping [  ]

What type of music would you expect to hear in teen movies? (Tick one)

Rock [  ]  Classical [  ]  Pop [  ] RnB [  ] Metal [  ] Techno [  ]

What teenage age range would you expect to see in a teen movie? (Tick One)

Under 13 [  ]   13-15 year olds [  ]   16- 18 year olds [  ]   Older [  ]

Out of these film, which would you rather watch? (Tick one)

Juno [  ]   Camp Rock [  ]   A Cinderella Story [  ]   10 Things I Hate About You [  ]   Harry Potter [  ]   Twilight [  ]   Scott Pilgrim vs. The World [  ]

What factors made you want to watch the film you chose?

Storyline [  ]   Characters [  ]   Settings [  ]   Themes [  ]  Issues [  ]   Age [  ]

Grease - Film

Themes that occur in Grease

-          Love

-          Jealousy

-          Pregnancy

-          Studies

-          Cars

-          Fights

-          Peer pressure

-          Groups/ Clashes

Just by seeing the cover you can tell the film is going to be about a couple falling in love or in love. They seem a couple from the younger generation. They have quite a deep and close relationship and we can tell this from their gesture and the posture. 

Costume

Danny – He wears black leather jacket, black trousers and a black tee shirt. The black may connote dark, strong, bold, not trust worthy, dangerous, brave and quite masculine. Danny has a quite a tough character, he has no weaknesses and he the leader of one of the main gangs (T-birds). Everyone looks up to him and he has a lot of girls after him, which makes his ego much bigger. He is a different person when he is with his friends and when he is on his own. This is another factor that the young generation goes through. For young male’s ego and trying to be all hard and putting an act can affect lots of people. In this case the girl he loved Sandy he hurts her and he tries and show his mates he someone else just to impress his gang the T-Birds.

Sandy – She wears skirts and summery dresses which is quite girly the colours of the clothes are bright, white and pure which represents pureness in her self. She ties her hair up similar to a young girl. The clothes she wears are quite long and not much of her skin is showing, she even wears frilly socks, this may represent childlike. Through her costume and her hair she seems innocent and pure.  Sandy is completely the opposite from Danny. She is much more caring, she is quite emotional person and can get persuaded easily by others (peer pressure). She has been pampered so much and she does not know the real outside world. So when things get hard she can get affected very easily quickly. She does not have a strong character as much as Danny has. She is more inferior and more intimidating compared to Danny. Here we can see the dominant ideology and who is dominating in the film the most.

Sound

As Grease is a musical there are many parts though out the film where they sing and dance. This may attract more of a younger generation to come and see this film.  There is catchy beats through out the film and memorable song and lyrics. There is a lot of diegetic sound where the groups of friend sing along and dance together.

Camera shots/ Camera Movements  

There are mainly long shots used in the film. As there are so many main important characters and they mainly stay in big groups and also this also helps set the setting and see the whole atmosphere in the frame. Close up have been used to show expression this helps the audience connect more with the actor from the film.

Tracking has been used when they have a car race this helps the audience flow the action.  

10 Things I Hate About You - Opening Scene

10 Things I Hate About You

The opening Scene (2 minutes)

We first here non- diegetic sound rock music this could connote the theme and what the film type cold be emo/ indie. This also helps the camera shots flow together then be shot coming together bit by bit.  The name of the production come up too Touchstone Pictures this logo is more formal.

We see the Touchstone picture again in the after shot, the way this is presented is more teenage style, informal, scruffy and the colour green this could be done to attract more teenagers towards the film. The green text really stands our from the background colour black, this could connote to show teenagers are bright and bold and they stand out. 

The first few shots are quite artistic and sketchy as we see a sketch it’s from a birds eye view this could show the main setting where the film going to take place in.

You see the title of the screen 10 Things I Hate About You in the informal and teenage style – sketchy style.

From this you see a pan shot of the area the film going to place in.

You see the names of the actors in the sketchy and informal style in different colours not just the colour white or black this could represents each person being different in they own way.

You see some of the areas and part of the street it seems neat and tidy so the film setting might take place in a good neat area not in a gritty and poor area. This could link the characters and what they going o be like stereotypes.     

The Non- diegetic sound becomes diegetic sound in the film where there car full of girls listening to the music. This is become very stereotypical and shows teenagers being loud. The first car full of girl’s shows that they care about they looks and they look quite well represented. Now day if girls are good looking they tend to be more popular and have more friends. While in the other car there is only one girl in the girl… who does not care about her looks … so not that popular with other people. The diegetic sound from the second girl car represents as the song says I don’t care about my reputation and it just represents her so well. She does not care what other people think. The girls look down on her as if she does not belong in the area but she does not care. This is one of themes that tend to be seen on teen rom/com girls clashing with one another and who is better? 

We see a shot of boys playing hockey and this could be represent hockey is not for girls. Patriarchy is seen here. They are not wearing any safety gear this could represent teenagers as to break rules and they don’t care about rules from you can see the film is set in place where students study.

The clothes and cars are bit back dated and the colours or the lighting are not bright it’s quite dull and boring the building look ancient and old. You see a mid shot of the building this helps us see the setting where the film is going to place and you the film based around students.

You see the same girl from the second car this may help the audience think she is one of the main character… a tracking shot is being used here to see and follow the action. You see one of the teachers talking to a student think help us understand the age range set for the film. You can also see the gesture and posture of the student and teacher. How the student seems quite intimated by the teacher talking to him.

Mainly straight cuts have been used.