EVALUATION- Question 1

Evaluation - Question 4

EVALUATION- Question 2

EVALUATION- Question 3

EVALUATION- Question 5

EVALUATION- Question 6

CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGIES WE USED IN OUR PRODUCT from Martyna Przybycien

EVALUATION- Question 7

 LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT? 

When viewing the timelines, hoover over each date to view the extra information. 

43. Reflection- CHANGES

CHANGES

- One of the changes we made was the changing who the main characters were. At first Valeria was meant to play the lead role along with Bilal. However, when we started editing we realised that Dilara had more shots. Instead of filming again, we just used Dilara as a main character. This allowed us to establish the main characters by letting them have more air time. This means the audience will find it easier to realise who the movie will be about. 

- Another thing we changed was the location of the school shots. At our first location (after importing on the computer) we realised the shots were out of focus. When we changed the location, we realised this was for the better as we found this fit our movie type more. There was also better lighting at the second location. 

- We also changed what type of shots we were using. We didn't quite stick to the storyboard as when trying to film the planned shots, we found they were trickier to get right. Therefore when filming, we changed some bits around and then followed through with the rest of the characters to show continuity. 

- During editing, we also changed the placements of some shots. This allowed us to get more match cuts in, which then improved the quality of our overall product as the slightest of changes made it seem seamless. 

43. Reflection- LOCATION

LOCATION

During filming we faced a lot of problems with our location. 

- One of our problems were to do with the lighting where we originally wanted to film Dilara and Bilal. When we looked back at clip on the camera, we thought it looked fine. However, when we imported the clips on the Mac, it was very dark. You could barely see what was going on in the shot. To fix this, we had to film all the shots again. 

- At first we also had trouble finding a school that was willing to let us use their corridors in our scenes. We needed special permission to film at some schools and we really didn't want to film at college. When we did film at our first school location, we found the footage to be out of focus. This was a problem we didn't notice until we had already put the clips on the Macs. However, luckily, we found another school within the last couple of days. This location was much better than our first one. An upside was it was still light, which meant there was natural lighting on our shot (making it look much better). 

- We also realised during shooting that we choose too many locations. This made filming much more difficult as none of the locations were close to each other which meant we had separate days for filming each setting. This was very time consuming. If we had to do it again, we would limit the amount of locations we had. 

28. Media Texts That Influenced Us

From looking at different high school drama opening title sequences, we personally liked 10 things I hate about you as we have seen it before. In the title sequence, we saw how the text here was made specially for the movie and we haven't seen it anywhere else. We liked this because it was creative and personal. The colour green, seen here seems to create a contrast against the blue sky. This shows how the editors seemed to consider all elements when creating the media text. The text also looks sketchy, which makes it look handwritten in a way, again making it look even more personal. 

Another high school drama text we looked at was Mean Girls. Again, this was another personal favourite of ours, The font seemed to reflect the movie and what it is about. In particular, the word 'mean' is put in bold to put emphasis on what the movie is about. The colour pink, also reflects the movie as it is mostly female dominated (hence the name). Everything that was used in this media text reflects back to the film. For the text to connect to the audience, it needs to have relation with what the film is about. 

12. Analysis of the Order of Title Sequences - Similarities and Differences

Reflection (Costume and Location)

Our costumes were very successful we didn't have to change any of the main outfits when we got a chance to reshot some people decided to change their pyjamas but overall our outfits were very successful we didn't have a problem with people not being able to bring their clothes in or not being able to find it which was good because we wanted our title sequence to look as seamless as possible and having different outfits wouldn't make sense or add up so we're really happy with our outfits outcome. However for our location we weren't as lucky this is because we had problems such as two peoples houses were being done and couldn't be used for filming till later on and when we filmed at Martyna's school we realized that the shots were dark and blurry therefore we had to re take  it and instead of retaking it in Martyna's School we decided to use Dilara's School, this is because it's much more lighter and we had a range of places we could use as the school was much bigger.

Our Website

Our official website for our film:
http://ohmygoditsdee.wix.com/tbhurnotallthat

40. Revision to pitch feedback

Most of our feedback was positive. The audience who viewed our pitch said several things. Here is what they said.  

POSITIVE

- The detailed production plan. Allowed them to see the dates of each stage of production. From this, we can see that we need to stick to the plan as it is important we have enough time to follow through with all the steps. 

- The layout of our pitch. We were told that our pitch was laid out really well and that we showed each step really clearly. It was a clear concept and people got our idea.

- We were also able to explain the different skills we felt confident in. They showed the viewers that we will be able to complete our product successfully. 

NEGATIVE

- Lack of storyboard. As we are behind the idea of our title sequence, we know in our heads how it will look like but other people don't. This is why we need to create a storyboard to show other people our ideas. Creating a storyboard will also help us with the shots we need for each character and not just make it up on the spot. 

- More detail about the audience. We didn't have much information about what type of audience would be drawn to our film. We think that, while filming we need to think how we want to connect with audience via the representation of the characters. 

- Not appealing to over 30s. As this film is a high school drama, we are not really worried about connecting with the over 30s. However, we see how even the title (TBH UR not all that) can not relate to the auidence. But, we feel like if in the film we somehow try to explain it (for example, one of the characters say what TBH stands for very slyly). 

Costume Pack

The costume for the main geek:
 
We have used a batman top and simple jeans because we wanted our film to have stereotypes this would mean having geeks in marvel clothes and glasses, so we decided to dress one of them in a batman tshirt and glasses.

Costume for the main popular guy:

We wanted our popular guy to look rich with his clothes which is why we decided to have him wear expensive clothes and a chain.
Costume for geek number 2:


Like the previous geek we wanted to be stereotypical so we made the other geek dress in a superman tshirt and simple black leggings.
Costume for popular girl:
 

The popular girl wasnt going to stand out as much as the boy but still look good in her clothes which is why we decided that she should wear clothes that stands out and how she acts brings out the character more.

Location Pack

We had a variety of locations, one of the locations was Valerie's bedroom we also used Martyna's house outside and Dilara's bedroom.
We also used Dilara's old secondary school, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Different characters had different rooms to make it look different, we changed some of the things around or added things or made sure certain people had certain things, for example Bilal's and Martyna's characters are considered to be rich therefore they had a double bed to show part of this. However the nerds/geeks had either a single bed or slept on the couch.

Editing

This is evidence of us editing we used the mac with three screens which helped us a lot and we got a rough cut done and this helped us realize the order of the shots and where we wanted the characters.

Filming (Dilara's Scenes)

We had to re shoot Dilara's bedroom scenes as well and decided to do it in her house instead and we did it much better this time as we were more prepared and the lighting was more convenient in Dilara's house which meant we didn't need to use a top light.

Filming

We had to reshoot our school scene and we ended up having to change our location to Elizabeth Garett Anderson. This was one of our best scenes that we took, it was quick and much easier as we knew that this time we had to check if the ND filter was on and if it was focused or not.

Poster

I created this poster on Photoshop, I used two of the characters and put them onto a blue background and then added our title 'TBH UR NOT ALL THAT' which is short for To be honest you're not all that, I then added a pair of glasses which is a stereotype for geeks and made it seem as it is hanging down the title.