Evaluation(Part 8)- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Strength: I think that a strength of the preliminary task is the continuity, as when the character was walking from the park towards the other male character the camera had cut from a long shot, to his feet then to an over the shoulder shot and I believe that when we had cut each shot we had cut and changed shot in the correct place. (0.13)
I think that another strength of our piece is that we had made an original narrative for a preliminary continuity task, as due to the music it feels more romantic, yet the surprise is that our main character (walking) wants to buy concert tickets.
I think our general rules were met, and were not broken, such as the rule of thirds and the 180 degree rule. 

Weakness: A weakness of the practise exercise is that when one character is speaking there is no wind and the dialogue is clear, and when the second character speaks there is a lot of wind, making it harder to hear him speak. (0.21)
I think that some of the continuity was damaged, as we had not ensured that all of our possessions were out of sight, as at 0.20 we see our bags, where we had not seen them when our main character was walking up to character B.

Improvements: The improvement that we could have made was watching over the shot to see if the shot was good quality, and then refilming to ensure we have a contingency/back up shot if needed.

How the preliminary task affected our main opening sequence:
In our main task, we had taken care with the continuity, as we had a lot of scenes where we needed to use match on action, such as when our protagonist Jay is opening the gate, walking down the stairs and opening the main door into the boiler room. In our main task we had kept out possessions out of sight and had kept items in the same positions, such as when Jay puts the box down, we had made sure it was in the same position for all of the shots.

Targets: 
Next year my targets will be to evenly spread my workload out, and to create a plan of when to complete certain pieces of work to the best of my ability, and taking feedback from my teachers on boards instantly, to improve my work. I would also like to try out different shots, and learn how to use more advanced features within Imovie and Final cut on the Macs. 

Evaluation(Part 7)- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation (Part 6)- How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation(Part 5)- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation(Part 4)- In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation(Part 3)- What impact did the media institution Film4 have on each production stage and why?

Evaluation (Part 2)- Who would the audience be for your product?

Evaluation(Part 1)- Brief

The brief that we had worked to was;
"You have been approached by Film4 to make a new British Social Realist film aimed at British 16-24 year olds. To give Film4 an idea of how your film will develop they have asked you to produce the first two minutes of the film, providing a clear sense of the graphical, editing, and musical style of your film will use. To protect Film4's reputation as a leader in British cinema the film must conform to the conventions of the Social Realist genre, and meet all audience expectations for this type of film. Finally, to keep costs low, all visual and audio material used in the film must be entirely original, with the exception of stock sound effects."

Our title was "Framed", clearly this relates to an event set up, that will put them on the wrong side of the law, another meaning that the title has is that physically a frame consists of four boarders, and this could symbolise a prison cell, connoting that this character is trapped and the picture is already painted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG89tcElrN4
In our opening sequence (0.11) we see Jay (our protagonist , who is played by an actor who is 17 years of age- so that he relates to our 16-24 year old target audience, working delivering packages, we see him looking slightly puzzled about where he is going, he walks down some stairs (0.21) into a dirty, dark, empty, enclosed room where he delivers the package (1.02), he then receives a phone call from his anonymous boss (1.20), where he is told to "run", instantly a undercover police officer bursts through the door (1.29) and finds Jay with a box full of drugs (1.42). We then see Jay though a CCTV camera in a interview room... (1.43)

We had met the brief as we had conformed to the conventions of a BSR movie, we did this as we had kept it low budget, as we had used a unknown actors, we had used locations that were locally available to us and we had used themes that personally relate to British 16-24 year olds, such as poverty and drugs.

Our film "Framed" contrasts to the film "Ill manors", as the main theme is poverty and drugs, here we have a similar shot where the main theme is established, the theme being drugs, but we had decided to show it from a different perspective, that being, people who are indirectly involved with drugs and face the consequences of someone elses actions.

Production Log Nine

This week was deadline day. We had to finish our whole opening sequence, this had meant tightening up all of our shots, making sure it had continuity, picking and putting the music onto the sequence, and then finally adding our graphics onto the piece.

The week had started off well, as we thought we would finish on time, but we had received feedback from our teachers to make our character look more curious about where he was going and to use close ups to show his emotion. Taking this on board we had refilmed during our lunch, hoping to have the piece strung together by the end of the day. The problem that we had faced was that our SD card was corrupt, and our footage was showing up, but we was not able to import it onto IMovie, we had tried many things to try and import it, such as try it on different Mac's, try to import it from a camera directly, and after a long time we had to make a decision to refilm or use what we had, Finally we had decided to refilm, which had taken us one hour, and then we imported the new footage into IMovie, we had put a third of the footage together before we had to leave as it was 7pm. The next day we had managed to put all of the footage together, we then decided on our music and had chosen "Flux" - By Ahab and Black market pharmacy, we had found the music on "BeatPick.com" this music was slow paced at the start and builds tension and it gets faster when we have the police kicking the door open.



The final problem we encountered was that in Final Cut the graphics that we had created had outpoints on them, so then we couldn't increase the duration of the graphics, this had affected all of our graphics as when creating them we had kept one template, typed into them and saved each credit individually so the outpoint was on all of the credits, to resolve this we placed all of our graphics and credits onto the timeline on Final Cut then had fixed each graphic individually as LiveType and FinalCut work together, so when we had fixed the issue in LiveType it had also changed on FinalCut enabling us to increase the duration of each graphic.
Once we had finished the graphics, we had our teacher examine it, so that we could export and put it onto Youtube, we had exported a low quality version so that it would upload onto YouTube quicker, and so that we could embed it onto our blog and a High quality version for the examiners.




On the final lesson that we had this week we had started a group analysis of each opening sequence created by our peers, getting feedback from other groups will help us later in our evaluation as we well have quotable negative and positive points to talk/write about, from having feedback from our peers, we will gain rich, honest opinions on where we could have made improvements, what they had liked about the composition and what they disliked.

"Framed" - Low Quality Version

"Framed" - Opening Sequence Draft

Production Log Eight

The key issues of the post production this week was that we was told to refilm the whole of our piece as our main characters costume was too bright, and we had not used a range of shots and that we had packed 4 different scenes into a two minute opening sequence.

To overcome these issues we had decided to change our main characters costume to jeans, a white t-shirt and a plain grey jacket. As there was too much packed into our sequence we had to make a important decision on what we wanted to keep in the opening sequence, finally we had decided to have our first scene where we have our main character delivering the package and getting arrested and the the second scene a police interrogation/interview. When we had refilmed we had used a wider range of shots as our character is walking down the stairs and into the room. We had then put this together, then created a draft opening sequence.

We had then started working on our graphics, and we had to make a decision about what kind of font we wanted to use, as it had to fit our narrative, we couldn't have a very posh font, but it couldn't be too graphic, so to match our themes and issues we had decided to go with a very block, boring and plain font as this would be readable and represent our character as ordinary and innocent. The font we finally decided on was "Ludica Grande" 

Production Log Seven

This week we had almost finished filming and putting the, but then we had to refilm a few shots where we had needed more dialogue as this had stopped us making any progress to our opening sequence, this was the only issue that we had faced this week, and once we had resolved this issue we could make progress onto our opening sequence.

The issue was that we needed more dialogue, so to resolve this we had decided to refilm the scene, which hadn't taken us long to organise and film the shots that we had needed, when refilming we had decided to change the shooting location as we had thought that the previous location was not suitable for our interview/interrogation scene, as the new location had seemed more plain and confined compared to the previous location. 

Call Sheet 2

Date and time: 18/03/13:      9.25-10.10 Location: Interview Room (Chadwell Heath Academy) Script scene no.s: Scene 24-29 (interview room/office) Contributors: Amandeep Sall, Jaspreet Kaur, Satveer Degun, Hardeep Panaser Contributors Contact Details: Amandeep Sall – amandeepsall686@gmail.com Jaspreet Kaur – jaspreetkaurrai28@gmail.com Satveer Degun – satveerdegun123@gmail.com Hardeep Panesar - hardeeppanesar16@gmail.com

Crew:

Amandeep Sall, Jasprret Kaur, Satveer Degun, Hardeep Panesar
Equipment:

Card box Box, Pen, Clipboard, Tripod, Camera, iphone 

Travel Arrangements:

Walked to interview room in Chadwell heath academy

Production Log Six

This week we have started filming, we had filmed the scene where Jay is delivering a package. Jay, our protagonist delivering a package, so he walks across the car park, opens the gate leading into the basement, walks down the stairs to the door. We have filmed him from a higher angle and have used levels (stairs) to show how he is a weaker character and is unknowingly getting himself into trouble. The issues that we had faced was keeping the continuity of the car park, as we have no control over the cars that are in the car park, another issue was the weather as it is unpredictable, when we had filmed it was extremely cold.

The decisions that we had made to overcome these issues we had tried to film the shots we needed and extra shots just in case we need them during the editing process, we also had a contingency plan, so if we were inable to film, we could create our graphics, and also had other actors on standby as some may not be available when we need them.

Prodution Log Five

The key issues that we have faced this week when prodcing our narratives, and shooting scripts have been deciding on a narrative, and adapting it to the british social realism conventions. Once we had created out narrative the next issue that we had faced was deciding on possible shooting locations, we had to think about what found locations that we had available to us. Another issue was the two minute time limit, where we had to put the content of the narrative that we wanted into that limit without putting too much into it and too litte, but just enough to keep it interesting.

The decisons that we had made were that our protagoinst is an ordinary individaul who finds trouble in a part time job delivering packages, when his employer was using him to do his dirty work, when our protagonist Jay isn't guilty he is arrested and sentenced to jail. The shooting locations that we had chosen where the school carpark, leading to the basement, as the basement is "scary" and dark and dirty which fits the BSR location conventions.

Shooting Script

Production Schedule

Call Sheet 1

Date and time: 14/03/13:      12.00-13.10 Location: Car Park Script scene no.s: Scene 3-5 (car park) Contributors: Amandeep Sall, Jaspreet Kaur, Satveer Degun Contributors Contact Details: Amandeep Sall – amandeepsall686@gmail.com Jaspreet Kaur – jaspreetkaurrai28@gmail.com Satveer Degun – satveerdegun123@gmail.com Crew: Amandeep Sall, Jasprret Rai, Satveer Degun Equipment: Card box Box, Pen, Clipboard, Tripod, Camera Travel Arrangements: Walk to Chadwell Academy Car Park

Location Recci

Location 1:

The Chadwell Heath Academy basement.

Reason:

The reason why we picked this location was because the interior of the basement is very dark and gloomy - much like a British Social Realism movie. Its abandoned, not much happens in it which makes it an ideal place for the opening sequence due to the actions that take place. The whole point is that it is meant to be quiet so it seems like a place where potentially drugs can be sold.


Problems we might have:
One of the main problems we may have is the accessibility of the basement. We will have to ask the caretakers when the basement is available because other students may want to use it too. Other problems we may have is the lighting in the basement. The lights in the basement may not offer the type of image we want for our opening sequence. We may not have enough time given to film in the basement so might have to come back a few times.


Location 2:

Car Park (basement exterior)


Reason:
The reason we chose this location is because in our opening sequence we need to include someone looking from outside witnessing the protagonist being arrested. It also gives the audience someone elses perspective of what is going on and also provides the audience a better understanding of where the location is.

Problems we might have:
As it is a car park, it may be busy a lot of the time and there may be a lot of noise in that area too. This means we have to shoot at the least busy possible time to make sure there is no interruptions. We will need a car parked in a specific position so we can film from an over the shoulder position of the car. For this we might have to get permission from someone we know so they can position their car in the place we need it.


Location 3:
Hall

Reason:
The reason we chose this location was because at the end of our opening scene we see the protagonist going to court and being sentenced.We thought that the hall resembled a court room really well and was an ideal choice.

Problems we may have:
There may be exams or assembly's in the hall which means we have to be careful what time we film. Also we have to make sure that it is quite outside the hall too as we need there to be silence when filming in the hall.

Location 4:
Reason:We needed this room as it resembled an interigation room which we need for the opening.

Problems we may have:Availability as we have to make sure no one is in the room when we are filming.