Untamed story board

This is a storyboard which our group have created using 'Emaze' and have added a voiceover explaining in detail each shot and scene we are trying to achieve in our film opening. This helped us in getting our thoughts for the opening scene in order to see whether our overall desired effect would be possible.

Girls Can't Play Prelim

Our finished prelim, called 'Girls Can't Play'.

In this lesson we reflected of what went wrong in our prelim.  To improve our movie we could have analysed our shots more, we should have uploaded the videos straight away.  The reason why we do not have great deal of different shots is because we ran out of time and had to use the ones we had.  Over the few days shooting we all wore different clothes and that could easily confuse the audience, also we should have used better use of our time and create a more detailed plan.  When we filmed on separate days there was completely different weather in the
background for example at the beginning the sky was quite grey then at the end of the video, the sky was a shade of blue, this  made it obvious we filmed at different times of the day.  Because we found it quite difficult to get the same lighting in every shot we could have filmed it all in the main basketball hall, as we had previously planned.  Finally the last part which I believe could be changed is the issues we faced with our equipment, for example some parts we filmed included quite a shaky frame we could have improved this if we had used the tripod for all the shooting.

Props- Film Opening

Props- Film Opening

The following items are going to be featured in our film opening to make the sequence seem realistic and give the best effect:

- Beer bottle
- Cigarette
- Phone 
- Dry shampoo
- Wine glass
- Rucksack 
- Clothes to put in the bag
- Lighter

Costume -Film opening

Costume -Film opening

 

The following costumes will be used in our film opening to portray the different characters realistically and make it clear to the audience what type of person they are:

- Denim shorts
- Plaid shirt
- Cropped top
- Superstars
- Dressing gown
- Slippers

Shooting schedule

Shooting schedule

This is our groups shooting schedule for our final film task. We have drawn out a table to show where we have time to film and where our commitments are. We will stick to the schedule as well as creating an imessage group chat to arrange any other filming dates and last minute arrangements.

Individual Film Pitch

As a group we discussed movie opening ideas, we decided on the idea of a teen drama film as we felt this was relatable and would, therefore, know our target audience very well.
We looked at other films such as Perks of being a wallflower and Fault in our stars for inspiration. 
Here are our individual film pitches for the film opening... 

Katie's film pitch: Young teenage girl struggles to fit into high school life and soon realises that her close friends are not who they say are. A film about lies and mystery. A mystery/ thriller/ teen drama.

Charlotte's film pitch: Teenage girl fancies most popular boy in school, however, he is also dating the most popular girl, little does she know he is gay and feels he's living a huge lie.

Holly's film pitch: Young rebellious girl runs away from home and experiences a life with no rules or a society to fit into. 

Anneka's film pitch: A young smart girl gets in with the wrong crowd at school she begins drinking and taking drugs it ends up with huge life changing consequences. 

After hearing all of our initial ideas and feedback, we came up with a film opening that almost combined our ideas. For example, we used a young teenage girl and incorporated the theme of rebellion with drinking/alcohol we also worked on the basis that our main character would feel excluded from society as she would be gay and feel the tension and hatred within her family home life.

Film Opening Pitch

This is our emaze presentation we pitched to the class.

Feedback we received
For our film pitch we got many mixed reviews in the different categories. For the category 'clear genre, themes and messages?' we got 6 positive reviews and 1 negative. The majority of the statements said that the film had a clear narrative and was vey relatable to the target audience but the one negative comment stated that there is not much enigma to the story line.
The next category was 'interesting characters?' which we received 10 positive comments saying 'interesting and can relate to reality' and main character had an interesting back story and 3 negative comments stating 'not original and traditional characters' which means that the film opening could be seen as predictable to the audience.
 For the third category, 'is the target audience suitable' all 13 pieces of feedback were positive saying things such as 'the target audience is perfect for this film' and 'will relate to the target audience because it relates to teens. Overall, our film pitch received mainly positive feedback with a view negative comments. I believe that this is mainly down to the relatable narrative and characters.