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Our Final Movie opening

2010-02-24T10:49:00.001Z

Editing...

2010-02-17T10:34:00.002Z

Today its Wednesday in the half term holiday but we still have come in to college to edit our movie opening.We adding transitions to our opening to make it flow more. We will also be adding the music that we created ourselves in to our movie opening and today is the last day of editing so we will finish everything that is needed to be done to complete the opening of our movie.
Nazmin and nishad...=]

BACKING TRACK...MUSIC

2010-02-17T10:23:00.003Z

Today in lesson we made our music for the opening of our movie. We made it completely from scratch using garageband.We wanted something that people could identify and relate to the batman tune but we didn't want to copyright so we used the bases of the batman tune but changed the keys slightly to make it our own.

Nazmin..xxxx
=]

Today lesson- Going through our footage..

2010-01-20T10:05:00.003Z

In today's lesson we are going through our footage and editing bits that we think we might use in the final piece. We are looking through any errors that we can find so that we can shoot them again next time and improve the shots.

We are also going through our storyboard and planning what day we are going to film what shots so that we are able to film everything we plan in the time set.

We showed our footage that we did on Saturday to Mrs and she told us to get the shots that we we took from different angles so that we could use them in the movie opening to make it look more realistic and professional.

Nazmin...xx =]

First day of filming

2010-01-20T09:29:00.002Z

On Saturday the 16th of January me and Nishad decided to film in our spare time. The location where we decided to film was in Brady street in the building Heath pool court. We practiced tracking but after watching the film over we realize that it was not as easy as we thought because the camera was not very steady and didn't look very professional or believable.

We than found a trolley in the building an used this to help us get clear and steady shot. We placed the tripod on top of the trolley and decided to film this way because while we were tracking the camera didn't shake and it looked better when we filmed with the trolley rather then the walking and filming.

After watching through everything we filmed on Saturday we decided that we will film most of it again because we want to improve bits that we thought weren't very well filmed. Also next time we need to remember to get an opening shot of the building before we show the inside so that our story made sense and flowed well.
Nazmin ...=]

Change In Character

2010-01-13T19:51:00.002Z

We have changed the character on the scene, now instead of having Spider man; we are going to use Batman. This is mainly due to our budget issues, the batman costume is much more cheaper than the spider man and also spider man costume is out of stock at Argos

Silly String

2010-01-05T21:47:00.002Z

We are going to use Silly String for the web, spiderman will use. One problem we are going to face using Silly strings is that it is multi coloured which means it will look quite un-realistic however due to the fact that this is a spoof comedy film opening we might be able to get away with it. we will be able to buy silly strings from sainsburys costing us only £1.99 but we will look for silly strings that are white.
>>Nishad<<

Traget audience research

2010-01-03T20:49:00.001Z

A target audience is the primary group of people that the movie is aimed at or appealing to. It can be of a certain age or gender. Our movie is a Spoof movie therefore it will have a wide variety of audience that we will be able to target.

Our target audience would be anyone starting from the age of 5 so that they will be able to understand the humour off the movie. The genre that we have chosen to do the opening of the movie is Spoof and this has a will have wide age group that we will be able to target therefore it isn’t targeting a certain age group or gender. It will be more of a family type movie that all age groups will be able to watch and enjoy.

From checking out other Spoof movie reviews I have come to realise that with this type of genre there is no specific target audience that these movies are aimed at. Some spoof movies normally just have a certain rating just in case it is not appropriate for a certain age group but spoof movies are just made to make people laugh and aimed at families to enjoy together.

Nazmin.xxx =]

Location-- Found

2009-12-22T17:36:00.001Z

I have found the perfect location for the opening scene. It is going to be in a building, which is a council flat located in Brady Street. Due to the fact that it is a public place, we can use this location whenever we want. We are going to use the corridor that is on the 4th floor. The corridor is very long and narrow making it the perfect location for this scene and it also has a window at the end of the corridor.
Nishad

Storyboard

2009-12-22T16:54:00.001Z

We have chosen the storyboard that we are going to use for the opening sequence. Now what we have realised is that the opening sequence is quite long and when we start editing, it will get even longer. To overcome this problem we are going to cut out superman from the opening scene.

Summary of todays lesson

2009-12-16T10:42:00.003Z

Today we selected the storyboard that we are going to use for our opening scene, which had the most votes from our classmates. We also got our schedule filled in for filming. I and Nishad both discussed our free periods to see when we would be able to film and whether or not after school hours is needed.

Synopsis

2009-12-15T15:09:00.003Z

NOTE* This is not our final storyboard, changes will be made.

Comparing two films

2009-12-07T18:06:00.002Z

The genre I am researching and also the genre I am going to use for the opening scene for my coursework is spoof comedy. The two films that I am going to compare are “Meet the Spartans” and “Epic Movie.”

Target Audience
The targeted audience for “Meet the Spartans” was teens that were over 13 years old because of the crude and sexual content throughout, language, and some comic violence. Although it references many movies, TV shows, people and pop cultural events, it focuses mainly on the movie 300. Which is why people who liked the film 300 might go and watch it, they may want to see how the directors of the film make a spoof of an excellent film. The budget of this film was $30,000,000

In the same way, Scary movie 3 is also rated to be seen by teens that were over 13 years old because of the crude and sexual humour, language and comic violence. The whole spoof comedy movie is based on the films Willy Wonker and chocolate factory and the chronicles of Narnia People who liked these two films as well as people who dislikes the films might go to watch it and see how the director makes a parody of the films, although everyone over the age of 13 are welcomed. The budget of this film was $20 million.

Audience Consumption
Meet the Spartans opened number 1 at the US box office, earning $18,505,530 over its opening weekend. The film dropped 60.4% in its second weekend earning only $7,336,595 but expanding to 2643 theaters while ranking fourth at the box office. The film earned $38,233,676 in the United States and Canada and $45,787,889 internationally, adding up to a worldwide total in foreign countries of $84,021,565.

Epic Movie debuted at number 1 at the box office with a gross of $18.6 million over the opening weekend. As of May 8, 2007 the film has received $86,865,564, with $39,739,367 of that amount earned nationally, despite negative reviews from critics. The film was an economic success for its producers not least because it had a comparatively low budget, estimated at $20 million (the same as Date Movie).

Audience Interpretation
The audience went to see these two films because they wanted to be entertained and also they wanted to see who the director turns problems seen in the films The ring and chronicles of Narnia into spoof comedy. When the people go to see spoof comedy films they expect to see situation being exaggerated and mockery of typical genre plot.

Audience Response
Meet the Spartans received almost common negative reviews from critics. “Rotten Tomatoes” ranked the film 25th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 2%. “Metacritic” reported the film had an average score of 9 out of 100, based on 11 reviews — indicating "extreme dislike or disgust" and being the worst received film by the director on the site. On January 21, 2009, the film received five nominations for the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Picture, Worst Supporting Actress (Electra), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel.

Epic Movie was a financial success despite its extremely negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 21st in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 2%. LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle thought "only a complete idiot could think Epic Movie is remotely funny or worth making at all. In the Los Angeles Times, Alex Chun called the film "nothing more than a disjointed series of scenes and references lined together as a backdrop for immature humor.

Target audience

2009-12-02T09:40:00.004Z

Due to the fact that we are students we have a really low budget to spend on the movie therefore special effects and use of high technology will be limited.

Our audience before we get others to see our opening would be our teachers and other media students to get their opinion on how we could improve the movie opening.
Our main target audience would be people in the Tower hamlets community, because it is such a diverse borough we need to cater the whole community meaning we need to get people from different classes and also get people with different ethnic backgrounds to represent Tower hamlets. Our audience would be other media students and family members to get their opinions on how we could improve our movie opening.

If we were to do screenings they would be private and done in a cheap location like going to genesis and ask them for a local screening, however if we were to turn this in to a professional movie and we were Hollywood producers we would be able to have our movie in cinemas nationwide and our target audience would be ages 12 and over and parental guardian.PG-12A.

Research on characters

2009-11-25T10:02:00.006Z

This is Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura pet detective. Looking at his hair style we instantly know he is playing a comic role and when some people look at his facial expressions they start laughing because he looks very "dopey" and silly. The character we will have in our opening scene will have funky/silly looking hair.

This is an image taken from the film little man. The type of character we are looking for is a person that wants to be serious but because of the way they look everyone laughs at them. In the same way in this film people always take Little Man for a joke even when he is serious.

Preliminary Task- Nazmin

2009-11-24T14:41:00.003Z

My role in the group was to originally to edit the video but because Aminur was not in I had to take his place and do the acting for the preliminary task. Everyone in my group worked really well in making the preliminary task.I think everyone in my group worked really well in doing the task and took it very seriously.

There were 5 members in the group but only 4 took part. Me,Zakiyya , Shahina and Mariam were only there when doing the actual filming of the task.I also helped edit the video. we tried to follow the storyboard but sometimes we forgot and got a bit carried away filming shots we thought looked good. in our group we had 1 problem which was that one of our team members Aminur which wasn't bothered to attend half the time. We haf to replace him in the acting position for myself because he wasn't in an the day we planned to film.

The finished article was okai but the opening shot was not very clear and miss told us to shoot it again. due to this problem we decided to film the wholetask again to make it look better. we saw this as a chance to improve our preliminary task and also gives us an idea of what problems we could try to avoid while doing the actual coursework.

Preliminary Task- Nishad

2009-11-19T15:35:00.003Z

In the preliminary task, the role I took, was acting and producing the scene. I was one of the main characters in this scene and when Nahim was editing I also helped him out.

One of the problem that we faced was that, two of our shots did not match. In one shot we had Shaidul's hand next to the door and also he had headphones in one ear then in the next shot it suddenly vanished. To overcome this error, we had to re-shoot it to correct it.

I personally think that our finished article looks high class. The editing looked almost professional and it had a real impact on the video, making it very enjoyed to watch.

In our main coursework we will regularly check what he have recorded to prevent re-shooting later

NAZMIN & NISHAD

2009-11-19T12:56:00.001Z

Genre of our opening scene

2009-11-18T19:14:00.005Z

The genre that we have chosen for our opening scene is comedy/thriller. These two genres are almost the opposite of each other which is why it will be brilliant we put them together. We are going to make a spoof movie.

Spoof comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending. Here are few characteristics of comedy
.Humour
.Stupidity
.Cheerful/Clumsy character
.Setting usually in cities
.small problems being exaggerated

Thriller on the other hand is more action packed with heroes battling villains in order to save the world from being destroyed. Thrillers normally have high stakes, non-stop action and plot twists that both surprise and excite. Here are few characteristics of thriller.
.villain and hero
.action packed
.Narrative Saving,helping people someone close to them
. Trouble, Danger
.Typical settings are in are the city in a busy area to create suspense of the question who is the villain?. It can also can be in a deserted area.

Spoof comedy is a new genre in itself. It takes over the whole genre of comedy and has become a genre of its own.
Top spoof comedy flims we like are:
-Epic movie-The superman scene when there's a bullet being shot a superman and the bulet goes in slowmotion and then superman ducks but then starts to scream because the bullet went in this eye.

-Scary Movie 3-Brenda is gettng the popcorn ready and goes in the living room alone then when she walks past the tv i automatically urn on then she switches it of then it comes on gain she call her friend but she thinks shes messing around. Then the girl from the ring comes out the screen and brenda gets scared she sits on the sofa eating popcorn which loks really funny but then they start kickboxing in the living room with the girl from the ring.

-Meet the Spartans-THey talking like grown ups trying to solve a problem then they start having a dance off. Also the costumes there wearing looks really fun because they do hip hop dancing and the clothes are very ancient looking.

-Disaster Movie- When the man is running in the field away from something. The camera shots are at a very wide angle. It looks very serious but then when the mans running he loks back nd then gets stepped on by a huge feet of an animal and is stuck to the bottom.
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Research on comedy/thriller flim- opening scenes

2009-11-17T12:32:00.002Z

The genre of this film is thriller and comedy which is what we want our film opening to be. The film starts off with a drum beat and a bird’s eye view of buildings, this makes us, the audience feel as if the movie will be tragic and listening to the music we instantly can tell the genre is thriller and also that something big is being planned.

The suddenly we hear someone singing in a very high pitch voice leaving us wondering for a few seconds, who could it be. When we find out that this person is actually a traffic warden (Chris Tucker) dancing around while telling which way the cars should go. This is when we establish that the genre of this film is also comedy.

Next we see a policeman on a motorbike and a 4x4 car guarding a car while it moving making it obvious that someone that has a high status is in the car. Inside the car there are two characters, a FBI agent (Jackie Chan) and the ambassador of china. Here again us the audience feel that some is being planned because the ambassador says “stay close today Lee, we’re making history.” We still don’t know if something good or evil is being planned, which is why the tension builds and makes the audience feel the need to know what might happen and keep watching the movie.

In these few seconds of the opening the director has already shown the audience that the genre of the film is thriller/comedy. The atmosphere keeps on changing from being serious to comic and it blends in together. The director ends the opening scene at almost a cliff-hanger making the audience want to watch on and find out what happens next in the movie.

Research on comedy flims- opening scenes

2009-11-17T11:11:00.010Z

The main genre of this film is comedy. The film starts off with a very dramatic music being played while mountains are shown and then a red helicopter flying past making it obvious for the audience that they are looking for someone that is stuck on the mount. Watching the first few seconds the audience can decode that the genre of this film might be adventure.

Next we see an extremely long range shot of something climbing the mounting. The camera man slowly starts to zoom in and we the audience realise that it is a man climbing the mounting without any ropes. The director did this to show that this character is very adventurous and also to get us amazed and eager to find out why he is doing this.

After the camera zoom into a mid-shot of the character, (Jim Carrey) he turns around looks at the camera and the red helicopter and say “you know...you could put somebody’s EYE OUT with that thing.” Hearing this we instantly know this character will be playing a comic role and also another genre of this film is comedy.

Just like “Rush Hour 3,” in this film, the director starts off the movie with a very dramatic music making us feel as if the film will be humourless and tragic and then suddenly a character says or does something comical.