Pinewood opening sequence

Contributions to the Production Process

Overall for the Childrens Film Project I have contributed as much as my media knowlege will go. I have:

• Offered idea's for filming and idea's for story line.
• Helped in the editing and idea's for editing of the final film.
• Helped choose location area's and idea's that we could film on the spot.
• Helped with development of the story line.
• Helped with research into film clasification for our film.

Target Audience

Who is your target audience?
Our target audience will be the parents of the children who would want to go see the film as they are the ones who will be looking at the marketing before taking their children to see the film.


Who is your target market?
Our target market will be children (Aged 6-12) and both male and female as these will be the people mostly probably wanting to go see the film and this is the age range that the film will cater for. We want this to be the age of people coming to see the film as that is who we have aimed it for.

Would the film be just for children?

The film will mainly be aimed at children but it will also have to appeal to adults who will be taking their children to see the film. We have done this by making the film idea less of a childish film and made it a little more serious for the adult viewers. There will be no adult humour in the film as this would not be appropriate for the children who the film in mainly aimed at.

BBFC Lesson

In this lesson we looked at the clasification of UK shown films. We began by looking at the clasification for the U category on the BBFC's Website (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/u/) and made a poster on this (shown in a previous post). We then discused with other groups the clasification for PG films and shared with the class (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/pg/). This lesson helped up to know what films are clasified by and how each claification is decided. This will help us with our project as it means that we know what it appropriate for our film as it is aimed at children.

Back to the Future storyboard task

During one lesson we had the task of producing a storyboard for the opening sequence for the film 'Back to the Future'. We began by analysing the film by taking notes on key parts of the opening and then sharing them in our groups. We then decided on key parts and put them into a story board. This helped with our drawing of the storyboard for ou childrens film. We learnt that storyboarding is an essential part to the making of a film.

storyboards

We are going to film it in the order of the storyboard because that is the most efficient way. This is because none of the shots are similar in area so there isn't much point in filming them in an order other then in the order of the storyboard.

Planning/spider diagram

Narrative:
start with different shots of a forest and each shots fade in and out, then we have a pan shot of the forest ground but then quickly picks up somebody running. there are various shots of somebody running through a forest in panic, as if they are running a way from something or someone.

Characters:
in the film there would be many characters, but for our opening sequence there will only be one character and that is a teenager who will be running through the forest.

Genre
The genre we have decided that fits best with our sequence is adventure, we chose this because our sequence is held in a forest and it is a bout a teenager travelling through a forest to find a way out but has an adventure on the way.

Themes
our theme is childhood imagination, it is mostly about a teenager who has forgotten his child hood and ends up being lost in a forest with strange creatures that he is scared of but then becomes his friends, the theme will be in a forest so there will be mainly green colours. it is an adventure so some parts of it will be fast paced shots.

Mise-on-scene
we will not need any props for our sequence, the costume for our teenager is a simple clothes such as jeans a hooded jumper and trainers. the lighting we will be using is just natural light as we want that natural effect. there is only one actor in our opening sequence and that person is ben who is also a group member, acting isn't really involved in our opening sequence, ben only has to run.

Camerawork
our camera shots are going to be quite fast paced to show an urgency or panic like feeling. we are really going to be experimenting with our camera angles an shot types. some of our shots may not work but we are going to try our best to make the best out of our situation.

Editing
our main editing subject will be putting the titles in the right place on our scenes, also with editing we need to make sure the shots are cut and put together to make a fast paced sequence but to also be clean and smooth.

Sound
we will be using natural sound through out the sequence but at some point we will have a track in the background it will probably be a fast track but we need to see what will fit with the sequence.

Special Effects
in our sequence we have special effect and that is the text on the trees. and then at the end of our sequence the shot ripples out with music

This is our poster on the bbfc's certification of U films.

Childrens Film Analysis (Garfield The Movie)

The film begins with the camera pans down to the left to show a home, and at this point the title roles in. It then fades to a close up of photos of a cat and a man. The camera pans across many photos of the two together. Next the camera pans slowly past a man asleep in a bed and finally pans onto something asleep under a cover. You can hear snoring and then an alarm clock rings. The camera becomes a mid shot (cat wise) of the cat waking up and he repeats his quote ‘I hate Mondays’. The camera then tracks the cat climbing onto the main bed and up to the man’s chest. He then tracks back and up a chair, some books, a TV and a book shelf. It cuts to an over the shoulder shot of the cat looking at the man asleep in bed. It then cuts back to the cat just before he jumps. It then cuts to an extreme long shot of the cat jumping onto the man’s bed. This wakes up the man. This shot slides off and the new shot of the bath slides in. It then pans up from the bath to show a shower. It then cuts to the cat sat on a toilet then it zooms a little to show the cat flush the toilet. It cuts back to the shower curtain moving, implying the person behind is moving quickly. It cuts to a new scene of the kitchen and a close up of some corned beef. It then cuts again to cat food being opened, and cuts again to the food being scraped into a bowl labelled ‘Garfield’. Cut again to a microwave timer just stopping and the cuts again to the man’s hand removing the corned beef from the microwave. A match in action occurs as the microwave is closed it cuts to the man closing the microwave with Garfield next to him.

This opening gives the idea that it is a comedy film and it shows that the main characters are the man and the cat. The mood of the film would be a light one.

Storyboard back to the future.

Evaluation of Gwuaning

We were asked to make a short film using many different filming techniques. We used techniques like shot reverse shot, the 180 degree rule and match on action. Problems encountered included things like laughing during filming, positioning of the camera (not getting the right height) and distractions. This task will help with future filming projects such as our childrens film project by giving us the experience of using the camera and it gave us a wider range of techniques to use.

introduction!

Hello our names are Rufus Henderson, Ben Norris and Adam Stronge. we have a keen interest in media. This is our video called Gwuaning, we enjoyed making this small edit as we had to follow guidelines on what shots we should use e.g. 180 degree rule and match on action shot . we also enjoyed this task because it was our first time of preoperly filming a sequence.