Reflection Post

What has been completed

. As a group we have completed our storyboard
. Deleted unwanted footage so far
. Equipment booking form for the coming Tuesday or Wednesday

What needs to be done 

. Remaining of film
. Blogging
. Editing

Filming Locations

College Entrance-










College Hall-

Kitchen

Canteen

Angel station

Hallway near lifts

outside college

outside college

Library

Storyboard and target audience

Target audience: ages 15-25 and teen movie enthusiasts

We have chose to create an opening primarily for young adults to enjoy. Our film is centred around two characters who later fall for each other and have trouble prioritising their school life and love life. People between the ages of 15 and 25 are ones who are likely to be able to relate to such conflicts, hence why this is our target audience.

This short video is a series of images displaying the order of what is to occur in our film. Enjoy.

Characters

We have decided to focus our opening to our teen film on the following characters.

Warren:
The popular boy in school.He is wearing casual clothes similar to everyone else in the school, which helps create the element of surprise that he is poor.Warren does not share his situation with anyone in the school until he and Jennifer begin their friendship.He is a very boyish character, who is into sports and girls.

Costume:
Black Puffa Jacket
Hat
Black Sweatshirt
Blue Jeans
Trainers

Jennifer:

This is Jennifer who is prettiest girl in the school and all the boys like her although she tries her hardest she just isn't very intelligent.

Costume:
Scarf

Blazer
Boots

Jennifer(updated):

















Warrens Friends:

Planning Our teen film opening

TITLE:Love and Education
Brief outline

We have decided to do our short film opening about a boy who is living on the poverty line in London but is very popular ,who has no money lives on his own because his parents left him. A girl who is the prettiest girl in the school all the boys want to be with her but she has a secret she is very intelligent.The opening will show the two characters as they enter the school.The boy will see his friends and then attempt to steal something from the canteen, we will also have a flashback of him looking inside his fridge to reveal their is nothing inside.The Girl walk in and have the boys watching her, then we will have another flashback to earlier that day when she is applying her make up.The two characters will find companionship due to understanding each others misgivings.

If we were filming the whole film

If we were filming the whole film, we would have shown more locations than just the walk in to college,a kitchen and the bathroom.Although because we are not shooting the whole film,we decided these were the key elements of our teen film which a wanted to include to give the audience the clearest idea about what our teen film is about. A lot more characters would have featured within the opening.

Thinking behind our idea

When we were brainstorming ideas for our teen film we decided we wanted to follow ome of the similar conventions of a normal teen film but wanted it to be slightly different. So when creating our characters instead of having the popular guy be really rich and have the perfect life we would have him being poor and struggling financially.The prettiest girl in school normally stereotyped as the bimbo or cheerleader, we wanted her not to be like this but to actually have a secret of her own being she is extremely intelligent;but she hides if from everyone so she is not labelled a geek. 

Inspiration

Cady Heron is one character which inspired our character of Jennifer, because she comes to this new school and becomes friends with the most popular girls in school, who are bimbo's but she is extremely smart.

So we decided our character would be heavily made up like Cady Heron and she would almost cover up how smart she is in order to be popular.

Planning final project - Production Schedule

I decided to create a short movie clip (using iMovie) to present a production schedule for our new opening sequence.

Reflection Post

What has caused us to fall behind?

Miscommunication 

- I believe a lack of communication has caused us as a group to fall behind. People are unsure of what to do, who is to do what and this has been very time consuming. Also, the miscommunication between practical work and theory work has also proven to be an issue because there are many situations where somebody may do the practical side of a media task and not blog about it. Another person may blog about it and not tag the member who physically done the practical side of the work and this would cause strife between members. 

Storyboard crisis - roles

- We have also debated about who is to complete what, especially with our pitch task. There has been confusion and disagreement of who is putting in a substantial amount of effort for the pitch presentation. The days we have been unsure and in disagreement were days we could have been blogging or coming together as a group to finalise things or plan accurately. I believe this has also contributed to us falling behind. 

How we can recover from falling behind?

Contact

- To respond to all of our of texts and calls at a reasonable time to confirm dates to meet up or to be clear about who is to what for each task, practical or theory.

Blog

- Aim to blog individually at least 3 posts a week. I believe this will avoid conflict or disagreement with members of the team. A sense of satisfaction will arise and we would catch up quicker than we think.