Afterwards!

Since filming and looking back at our evaluation i have noticed small things i would like to add!!

We forgot to cut the music which means that the final cut of our film ends up being 5minutes long however, the action is only just over 2 minutes long so fingers crossed this does not affect our mark!!!! :)

I am so happy with what me and Soriah achieved and the way we was able to show the contrasts between the good times and bad times and the happy couple to the arguing couple! :)

Runaway Love Film Evaluation

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Final Film - Runaway Love

Where are we?!

We have now completed filming and are more a less finished editing, just small touches need adding. Filming our film went to plan, and I was very pleased with our final result.

When i began to edit our film opening, I did find this quite a challenge!

However, after finally getting used to using the Macbook this was not a problem and i enjoyed playing around with all the tools to add to our film.

Further Character Analysis! (2)

The female teenage character is going to be portrayed as a bright girl, who does well at school, but is derailed as she gets more involved with her new boyfriend. When thinking about this character we had influences from the character of Chlo Grainger in Waterloo Road.

Further Character Analysis!

The male character in our production is going to be portrayed as a stereotypical bad boy character who hides away his emotions. When thinking aobut this we was influenced by characters such as from characters such as Cook from the E4 drama Skins, and also Bolton Smilie from Waterloo Road.

The male character in our film opening, has traits of these characters. They both retain bad boy images, but are actually not as hard as they make out to be. Cook from Skins is very influential to us, because his whole manner, and fashion sense, is the way we envisioned our character to be.

Our film opening links to Kidulthood!

Before filming we watched the film, 'Kidulthood', this gave us an idea on how to film our film. This film is based on a bunch of teenagers from West London, and our film is based on two teenagers who have run away from home so we were able to make links between the two. We could definitely use this film as a huge influence. Two of the teenagers from Kidulthood, "Trife" and Alisa, are facing relationship problems, because she is pregnant. They are stereotyped teenagers, and so are the teenagers in our film opening.

The picture above shows "Trife" and Alisa, as they are reaching breaking point from their relationship problems. This links with our teenagers also facing problems due to their relationship leaving them homeless and scared.

Kidulthood is also a big influence for us as the film is produced using the vocabulary and music which appeals to the younger generation which is what we are trying to achieve with our film opening.

Update

We have recieved our cameras for filming but cannot film due to weather conditions. - Bad snow and ice.
Hopefully the weather is going to clear up so we can begin filimg.

Questionnaire Results

1. Which one of these would you most like to see in a dramatic romance?

Death 8
Violence 2
Happy Ending 1

2. Are you male or female?

Male 7
Female 4

3. How old are you?

Under 16
16 or Over 11

4. What kind of characters would you like to see in a dramatic romance?

Gangsters 3
Villainous 4
Soft characters 4

5. What kind of music would you expect in a dramatic romance?

Slow 4
Up tempo 4
Modern 2
Old fashioned 1

6. Do you prefer silence or music to build up tension?

Silence 3
Music 8

7. Do you like Dramatic Romances?

Yes 9
No 2

8. Who would you go to the cinema with/watch a Dramatic Romance with?

Girfriend/Boyfriend 7
Family
Friends 4

These are the results of our questionnaire's that we handed out to people, this information will help us make choices to with our film opening as we now have opinions on what people prefer to see in the genre we have chosen for our film opening. x

Update

This is just an updte to show where I am at so far:

Questionairres have been produced and we are just waiting to get the results to post on here.

Our storyboards are nearly complete.

Filming is going to begin early next week.

Actors are to be confirmed and a list drew up on here.

We need to do a health and safety/risk assesment of our locations.

Storyboard so far...

These are our storyboards so far, we have planned the majority of our film opening but are just working on a way we can bring it to an end.

(Timinngs still to be confirmed.)

Update

Just an update of where I'm at with all this at the moment.

We are just beginning to produce our storyboards and create questionnaires.

We will also need to do our risk assesment of our locations and confirm actors before beginning filming for our film opening.

To Do List!!!

1. Detailed Story Board
2. Planned locations
3. Organised Actors
4. Produced questionnaires
5. Update Blog
6. Risk Assesment of Loacations
7. Your blog has comments from a number of students from different groups

Completed Preliminary Task

Our Preliminary task is a simple short video showing someone walking through a door, walking into a room, sitting down and having a conversation. This showed that we could demonstrated simlple filming rules.

When filming our Preliminary task, i found we had no problems and filmed everything needed to make our preliminary task what it needed to be. However, when it came to editing i did struggle as i had never used a Mac Book to edit before so it was very fiddly and took more time to edit than it did to film.

Overall, i am pleased with our preliminary task, although the editing is not perfect and there are a few jumpy moments in there i feel my group did a good job for a first attempt. It helped us begin to get used to the editing equipment and prepare us for what we are going to have to do for our final film opening production.

Ideas for the Plot

The beginning of the video should feature home videos of our actors when they were little kids. Then it will flick to the scene with them sleeping rough, and keep flicking flicking between the home videos and the teenagers at present. This will show them as happy innocent little children and then will show them as young teenagers running away from home.

Possible Sound Tracks

This seems to be a suitable sound track for the beginning of our film because it helps set the mood. The song starts slow and speeds us which compliments what is happening in the film as the teenagers are first shown sleeping rough and running away.

Location Hunting 2

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his location will be used as the old derilict building that the teenagers are running from.

Location Hunting 1

This is one of the locations for our film to be placed in, our ideas of locations were, an old derilict building, a deserted park/forest area, and a dual carriageway.

Similar Film Product 3

Titanic is my final similar product as it also portrays forbidden love.

Similar Film Product 2

We chose Romeo must die as our second Similar product as it has the same theme as our film with forbidden love.