7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

shot of editing:
Concentrate on editing and camerawork.

Show what you know about shot types, edit terms and techniques.

Discuss the planning stage, storyboarding, and explain how this helped you to produce your opening sequence.

Make sure you mention the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot

Has your use of specific shot types improved? I.e. match on action, point of view?

Do you feel more confident with the equipment?

How successful do you feel your end product is as fulfilling the task?

6. How did you attract/address your audience?

Link this into your audience profile (I.e. what age and gender they are)

Are there particular points in your film that would appeal to a certain age or gender? If yes then explain them in detail.

You should refer to genre conventions, use of music, similarities with other movies and what you have identified as the Unique Selling Point of your imaginary film.

5. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Talk about the filming process. Were there problems you faced? How did you resolve these issues?

Did you get to use new equipment that enhances your opening sequence? I.e. the dolly.

Editing software - Final Cut Express. What have you learnt about editing?

Photoshop - What have you learnt about using the software?

Garageband - was it a useful programme for creating a soundtrack? What challenges did you face during this process?

above show shots of production, editing etc.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Consider the age and gender of your target audience.
(Link this to the narrative and style of your film.)

What kinds of taste might your target audience have : Where would they shop? What music would they listen to? What would their favourite TV programmes be? etc.

What other films are similar to yours? Who do they appeal to?

few shots

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

few shots then:

Would this be something that could be produced by a major Hollywood studio, if yes then why? Is it similar to existing products?

Would it be a TV movie?

Would it be an arthouse film?

Would it be an internet only release?

Why would it be released? Does it offer opportunities for franchises and/or merchandising?

Where might the money come from for a film such as yours?

What films are similar 'institutionally'?
(Name some films which would be released in a similar way.)

Link your conclusions to a discussion of the mise-en-scene (visual style) of your opening sequence.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Audience ?

Pick a key character from your opening. Think of one or more characters from other films with some similarity to them (but maybe some differences too!). Write about the similarities and differences in terms of appearance, costume, role in film etc.

So for example if you have a lone cop type character, look for other lone cops to compare him with...

few shots with titles.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e of film openings)

Our opening sequence is different and slowed down by a large amount. it shows the characters with there 'trademark sound' and a random background of a well known place.

This film is called Mazground, based on the king of the playground, Maz.
the location is in a school playground leading to a forest close by

It is all using physical characters and stop motion with the movement.

We worked on i stop motion to record this, one slide at a time, then moved it on the
final cut to change speed and edit credits and sound.

The style and background of the titles is random and also the text, this is what we believe interest children.

The story is a rivalry between the king and the evil Carl. We start with characters introductions and also intro's to producers etc.

The opening easily presents that the genre is a rivalry between two main people as the dragon roars then Carl follows him with stealth.


How does your opening sequence develop or challenge the conventions of an opening sequence?

Does your use of conventions indicate that other opening sequences have influenced your work?
If so, then be specific with examples.

Childrens film opening video final.

This is the video of the final Childrens film opening.

We did this (Maz and Michael) Carl did not turn up today, so we edited the last of it and have uploaded it, with a few new features. ;)

Stay tuned

Today we worked on the credits, music and final editing of our 2 minute intro.
Maz and Carl where doing this as unfortunately Michael didn't turn up today.

We produced the sound clip along with sound effects and produced credits for the end of the intro.
We named the children's film - Mazground.
We will be uploading a video very soon.

Stay Tuned.

Progress of 5/11/09

Today Maz and Michael worked on the credits screenshots of characters to be shown at the end of the introduction. Unfortunately Carl wasn't here, Again. So we took advantage of our time, and worked quickly and have got a lot of work done so far. Below are the stills of our characters:

Maz, the main protagonist.

Michael, Maz's Sidekick.

Ryan, Carls Evil Henchman.

Carl, The evil emperor.

We also edited the film all lesson, but may need to do some more, depending on the final specific ideas. The last objectives for the project is to produce some credits in which we will research and then debate what ideas are good and suitable for a children's film. Furthermore we need to create our soundtracks to the film, we have decided to have 3 tracks one for the intro, the chase and the credits. Stay tuned for more details concerning the children's film where we will release the details of the title of the film.

Reason for change and changed of script.

Today - Marzuq Azam (22/10/09)

Unfortunately Carl and Michael have not turned up to work on the filming today, and therefore I have no props. So i am going to have to adapt the script and characters slightly, as we do not have some animals and scenes.

First I will change the script accordingly to the available props.
Then I am going to do the filming as this is the most important.


Below is the adapted script. Adapted bits in red.

Certificate - U
Filming type – Animation
Characters and Scene – Play Dough/toys and Crafted Scene.
Film Scene – School Building/Playground/Jungle

Characters –
Ryan – A little red and yellow man, who can teleport, sometimes.
Maz – A Dragon, the king of the jungle with super human strength.
Carl – An evil stealth frog.
Michael – A flying cow.

Narrative Ideas –
1. Close up of Maz the dragon face roaring. Zoom out Maz is on school building and jumps onto the playground where he then strolls into Jungle.

2. Carl sees Maz go into the forest and then close up of his evil eyes. He leaps from the building straight into the jungle.

3. Ryan rams his car through the forest; the car hits Carl. Carl then returns to the playground where he tells about his plan to takeover the jungle.

4. During the conversation Michael the cow flies over and hears the plan and rushes to tell Maz.

5. When Maz hears the news he turns into superMaz and he roars and charges off.

6. Introduction credits start to roll.

Credits analysis

Marzuq Azam:
After seeing this clip, I have analysed and decided that if we done an overlay of credits whilst the film plays, it would look very good and blend in with the film.
So I have decided to do the credit at home and overlay it over the animation with a lower opacity. My aim is to work out how to do this, and have it ready for the first or second filming lesson.
This clip is a very good example and i think it is very good, and this is why this would be good for our film clip too.

Credits Draft

This is a quick draft of what the credits will be like.

Call Sheet

Marzuq Azam.
I could not do any filming today because none of the other people from my group turned up, nor did any props. Without the props i could not do any filming whatsoever.

I will use the next two filming lessons to catch up and improve what I have missed because of this. This will mean that I will have little time to do the filming and this may lead to less quality work, so to avoid this, I will plan and bring props and equipment to the next lesson, so if my group do not turn up again then I can do it by myself and efficiently. I will bring my animal characters and scene backgrounds, in order to keep up what i have missed, I will do the music for the film at home.


Call sheet for 22/10/09 (Thursday)

• Filming the animation
  
• Day 1 of a 2 day shoot
• In Class
• Using iStop Motion
• Scenes to be shot for the day - at least 3 out of 6. (see storyboard on other post.)
  
• Broad schedule
  
  • Call times - 10.50
    
  • Scenes 1, 2 and 3 (maybe 4)
    
  • Travel - N/A in class.
    
  • Breaks - None
    
  • Estimated wrap time - End of lesson - 12.20
    
• Weather forecast - Raining, but indoor.
  
• Details of the local hospital - Addenbrookes Hospital, accross the road.
• Equipment details - Tripod, clamp, camera, scene, props, characters.

Call sheet for First lesson after half term (Tuesday) 1.05

• Filming the animation
  
• Day 2 of a 2 day shoot
• In Class
• Using iStop Motion
• Scenes to be shot for the day - 4 to 6 out of 6. (see storyboard on other post.)
  
• Broad schedule
  
  • Call times - 1.05
    
  • Scenes 4, 5 and 6
    
  • Travel - N/A in class.
    
  • Breaks - None
    
  • Estimated wrap time - End of lesson - 2.40
    
• Weather forecast - Sunny, but indoor.
  
• Details of the local hospital - Addenbrookes Hospital, accross the road.
• Equipment details - Tripod, clamp, camera, scene, props, characters.

Mazground Storyboard & Timeline

Above is the storyboard, created for our Childrens Film Intro (MazGround).
the story board is a basic view of our ideas for our film. we have the idea of animals with super powers who are at conflict over the throne. there are both good and evil in the film and out intro is mainly based on the introduction of the characters.



Above is the timeline, created for our Childrens Film Intro (MazGround).
the timeline is a format breakdown of our children's film it is broken down into 20 second intervals and is explaining what is happening in each section and the characters that are involved .

Storyboarding Back to the future.

we had to watch a the opening clip of back to the future and analyzed the opening sequence looking at the sound effects, camera shots, the mise-en-scene and the character position and converted it into our own storyboard.
Carl done the Sound effects and character position, and Maz did the Camera shots and mise-en-scene.

Childrens film opening scene ( Mazzaground )

Certificate - U
Filming type – Animation
Characters and scene – Play-dough + crafted scene.
Film Scene – Playground

Characters –
Stevie - a hyena that is jolly and laughs at everything, annoying laugh.
Drew – a chimp that can fly.
Rhian – a rhino, just a rhino, he teleports, sometimes.
Mazza – Lion, the king of the jungle with super human strength.
Carl – Evil stealth panther.
Michael – Shape shifter. Originally an elephant.

Narrative ideas –
(Bright and cheerful) Mazza starts with a big roar. Then jumps from building to building.
(Dark scene to intro) Carl see’s him chasing him, runs away whilst Stevie laughs.
Everyone good cheers for Mazza…
Everyone evil runs away with Carl, and Carl cries, whilst Stevie is laughing back at the good scene.
Drew flew and Rhian teleported to Carl’s evil lair. They scheme to invade Mazza’s playground.
Mazza decides to send Michael in to infiltrate as Rhian, so they can find out there evil plan.
Whilst Stevie is laughing.

^Current Progress of script^


CHANGED TO:

Certificate - U
Filming type – Animation
Characters and Scene – Play Dough and Crafted Scene.
Film Scene – School Building/Playground/Jungle

Characters –
Rhian – A Pink Rhino, just a rhino, he teleports, sometimes.
Maz – Lion, the king of the jungle with super human strength. His cape appears when help or evil needs to be sorted out.
Carl – An evil stealth panther.
Michael – A shape shifting elephant that can’t shape shift his trunk.

Narrative Ideas –
1. Close up of Maz the Lions face roaring. Zoom out Maz is on school building and jumps onto the playground where he then strolls into Jungle.

2. Carl sees Maz go into the forest and then close up of his evil eyes. He leaps from the building straight into the jungle.

3. Rhian rams the school buildings door down and it flies into the forest; the door hits Carl. Carl then returns to the playground where he tells about his plan to takeover the jungle.

4. During the conversation Michael the shape shifting elephant flies over as a stork (but with his trunk) and hears the plan and rushes to tell Maz.

5. When Maz hears the news he turns into superMaz and his cape appears, he roars and charges off.

6. Introduction credits start to roll.


Script

Continuity Task

Continuity task.

Maz: My names Marzuq but everyone calls me Maz
Michael: My names Michael
Andrew: My names Andrew

We are currently working on a continuity task before starting the main task of creating a children's film. Maz will be filming, Michael will be sitting down, and Andrew will be walking down a corridor talking to himself. We will be filming it in the "G" block and in the room "G7". The script is shown below:

Script.
Andrew: This corridor is so long!
Andrew: Why am I talking to myself?
Andrew: Where is this place, oh, here we are…
Michael: Dude, where you talking to yourself?
Andrew: No.
Michael: Ok. Good, because if you where, that would be strange.
Andrew: Well good, because I’m not strange.
Michael: Thank god for that. Anyways
Andrew: So what you doing?
Michael: Watching… I mean studying.
Andrew: Great what you studying?
Michael: Just learning about the economic problem.
Andrew: Well what would that be?
Michael: Well The economic problem is most simply explained by the question "How do we satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources?" The premise of the model of the economic problem is that human wants are constant and infinite due to the constantly changing demands (often close related to changing demographics) of the population. However, resources in the world to satisfy human wants are always limited to the amount of natural resources or human resources (human capital) available. The economic problem, and methods to curb it, revolve around the idea of choice in prioritizing which wants can be fulfilled. Although by increasing resources with things such as new technology, the economy grows with its maximum possible output. ;)
Andrew: Well cheers mate, you jus spoiled my day.
Michael: No problem.

Welcome