Prop and Location list

Props that will be used in the film:

1. Work books
2. Bag with stuff sprawling out of it
3. Rugby posts
4. 2 mobile phones

Location list:

• Field
• Canteen
• Classroom
• Numerous corridors
• Outside canteen
• Car park

Timeline

This is the timeline for our Children's film, we have divided the 2 minutes up into 20 second bites.

In each interval we will include: dialogue, sound, props and character actions.

Our roles in this epic Children's film will be as follows; Andrew- the friend, Matt- the other friend. The cameraman will be Oli. We will all have say of the details in each shot.

Our Idea

Our film will be about a child who goes missing. Our opening sequence is to make the audience identify with the prospect if loosing a loved one. It will be action packed!!!!!! The film will show the process of our heroes finding the lost orphan.

The shots will vary from inside to out, the missing child will be around 10 but will not be shown fully in the opening sequence, the only visible part will be his feet. The older characters (the friends) shall both be 16.

Practise Storyboard

We had to make a practice storyboard for the opening sequence of Back To The Future, to help us prepare for the planning of our own opening sequence.

Oli worked on the sound, Andrew worked on mise-en-scene and Matthew worked on character positions.

PG Classification and Childrens film choices

For our Children's film project we will be filming for the audience of a PG certificate.
This means that the film will be aimed for children over 8 years old. However if they are younger than 8 then their parents can decide whether it is suitable to watch. We are allowed to include discrimination for educational purposes if we want to. If we decide to include drugs then there must be an anti drug message in the film. Horror must be short and not intense. Mild bad language may be used in the film if we choose. PG means that there could be a more adult storyline used e.g. domestic violence.

Genre: We have chosen to make an adventure Children's film. We will use live action camera shots. the clip will last around two minutes.

We decided to do a fantasy Children's film, a Muppet's Christmas carol.

You can immediately tell that the movie is a seasonal fantasy due to the titles and soundtrack used at the intro. Whilst the titles are showing there is snow in the background and the titles are festive so you can link this with Christmas. The soundtrack reminds the audience of fantasy also linking the film with this genre. The majority of the characters are 'Muppet's', these are famous notorious children's TV characters, they are bright and colourful suggesting them to be good. They are the binary opposites to the evil character Scrooge who is dressed in all black and is in a permanent bad mood. The storyline is already known because of the famous book, this book and the author is highlighted in the opening titles.

The genre, Fantasy, is represented by the characters being puppets. It gives the story a bit of a comical twist. They are treated as if they were humans, which adds to the fantasy element. You can tell it's a fantasy from the titles, because it gives it an unreal feeling as it is snowing at Christmas.

Evaluation

On the preliminary task I learned a variety of things.
I have learned how to shoot different camera angles correctly, using the correct distances is vital in making the shot look realistic. Putting the camera angles in the correct sequence was also important in making the sequence look good, before this task I never realized that it mattered so much but if its not in the right sequence then the clip looks wrong and it becomes confusing. In order to plan the sequence we used a storyboard. This helped a great deal in planning what the shots would look like and made the filming easier.

The 180 degree rule requires a lot more editing compared to the rest of the shots. You must edit it so it looks as if the characters are having a real conversation so there must be no pauses in dialogue and the conversation must flow. This resulted in a lot of work put into the slicing of the shots. We also had to make sure that we didn't 'cross the line' so the viewers perception didn't change so we avoided confusion.

This preliminary task has prepared me for children's film because I now have a better understanding for camera angles and editing, I realise how important flow is in the sequence. Storyboards are very important because they help with the planning. I also now know how to use the camera equipment and Final cut express to a better knowledge.

Video-preliminary

Storyboard

this is our storyboard for our preliminary task

A storyboard is used visually planning shots. In our case the storyboard will be used ofr planning our 6 shots in our preliminary task.

Continuity editing first task

We have been set a preliminary task to demonstrate the match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. Adam and Matt will be staring in the film, Andrew will be directing and Oli will be doing the filming. Firstly we will be doing an establishing shot followed by a close up shot then a match on action shot. This will be followed by a Reaction shot, then a long shot then finally a shot reverse shot.

We will be using Final Cut Express, to edit our film.

We will shoot this in the college, in the sports hall. We will be shooting tomorow and will be editing on Friday.