High School Drama - Rough Edit 2

Working on Motion for production and distribution idents.

Working on Motion

This particular template was a rough idea of what are final idents can look like. It was an alternative, incase we decided to download a title from youtube. I placed the production and the name of the film on the titles. This can be seen as a more simpler alternative, but from a personal perspective on one I found, I like the combined effects applied from, to make it look like a clever design. I downloaded this particular template from Youtube, and placed the production titles "Group 27, while also applying a fast paced soundtrack over the top. The fonts used is called "Comic sands TM". It's a relatively basic effect used with a type of turquoise colour. 

This particular template was for the distribution ident. It can be seen as metaphorical because the branches are spreading and distributing, in the same way we are attempting to distribute our film and share it.

This particular template was for the production ident. Using the "Hatcheck" font, and applying a red colour, It flows along with the red vines, but also adding a retro feel.

Motion

Motion templates

For our film template, we are considering using two types of template. One of them is creating our template on the editing software "Motion", and secondly using a downloadable template from the internet. In the opening scene credit, one of the template we are using is themed on "Skyline"with the title of the film being labeled "Typical High School". 

In terms of fonts, we are contemplating using several. One example, is the font called "El Valiente". We could use this because of it's funky and retro design, also applying a red coloured font to match the flowing red pattern swerving through the buildings in the template. Another font which could possibly applied can be the "Dripping Marker" font. They both seem conventional for a high school based film, especially the dripping marker because graffitiing can be seen as a hobby from high school students.

As an alternative, We might decide to download a title from youtube, while placing the production and the name of the film on the titles. This can be seen as a more simpler alternative, but from a personal perspective on one I found, I like the combined effects applied from, to make it look like a clever design. I downloaded this particular template from Youtube, and placed the production titles "Group 27, while also applying a fast paced soundtrack over the top. The fonts used is called "Comic sands TM". It's a relatively basic effect used with a type of turquoise colour. 

(This is one of the titles we could use.)

Film Shots

This is a shot of me walking into college, long shot.

This picture shows Jake filming the 'new kid' from a different place for a close up of me entering through the automatic doors.

This is a picture of the 'new kid' coming in through the doors, a shot which can be used as a matchcut.

Jake is still on the camera, filming just the 'new kid' approach the camera.

This is a picture of the college sign as that was one shot was going to be taken to give a sense of where we are.

This is a shot of Suad and Jake trying to get a nice clear shot

This is a picture of Jake and Suad adjusting the camera so it gets the sign through using the toggle button, reviewing footage and Suad holding onto the tripod as it was unstable and needed to still in order to record.

This is a picture of the camera shooting the 'New Kid' from behind to get part of his face and a bit of sign to which he is looking at.

This is a picture, of Jake getting a close up of the 'New Kid' from the side to show more clearly he is looking at something.

This is a picture of the 'New Kid' entering the college as the weather of this day was different to how it was for shots that were taken another day. Thus the shot was taken again.

Tweets

Using the social networking, Twitter, I was able to spread the news of the title sequence me and my group are working on. It also helps increase people's awareness of my group's title sequence and the difficulties associated with filming.

These are some tweets of shots that were taken when filming still images, and responding to the pitch feedback that our teacher had given us in terms of what can be improved and what sill needed to thought out.

This is a tweet of me working on creating the original soundtrack for my group's film, as I feel it would seem better if it was an original soundtrack rather than a non-copyrighted track.

There were some problems when filming, one of which was the weather as it was pouring with rain which would be impossible for us to record in as the equipment would get damaged thus we had to withdraw from filming that day. Aside from that, there were shots that took quite a while to do, for one shot that took long was doing a shot of the college sign to show where we are.

Timetoast of title credits

Diary Entry

So far: 

Although we have completed most of the shots from the storyboard, there are still that need to be redone. After evaluating most of the shots, we found that that we were unhappy with some of out shots because they did not display a large variety of shot types, focus of structure and we also found that some of our shots were blurry. As a result of this, we reshot a lot of these but we still have some shots that still need redoing. We will start editing this week and will continue to do so during both lesson and workshop hours.

Filming Shots

We filmed shots of the college hallway to give the film a' high school' vibe.

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Questionnaire

Institution/ studio

Planning for studio

Buena Vista Distribution Company - They are part of the conglomerate 'Disney'. In the past, Disney films were distributed by Columbia Pictures but a dispute among the two companies led to the formation of Disney's own distribution company. The main reason as why they are a good choice for the distribution of our film is because they are a well-known and extremely successful company. In addition they have many films which have surpassed the $1 - billion mark in worldwide box office.

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Reflection Post

I understand that I need to put in more work on the blog outside of the classroom, especially independent work. I will put more effort into doing just this as I still want to attain a grade B on my next progress grade and Blogging Health Check.

Evaluation of Rough Edit

• Font needs doing
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• Filming was blurry for some the shots that come later on in the clip - We need to redo these. 
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• More variety of shots
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• Mise en scene for chess set scene.- match cut of geeks moving chess piece. Move chess pieces closer to the camera. Chess book with the chess geeks.
• Bully needs introduction.
• still images should correspond with actions
• transitions
• Camera angle for loner - show his perspective or looking down on him. 
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• Mise en scene for drama queen. Her acting matches the role but her clothing does not. Preferably something pink and frilly. 
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• new shot of classroom. Also other places like classroom board, college hall and 
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• structural change focusing on classic opening.
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• over the shoulder shot of Miraj/new kid looking up at the college.
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• Post on classic opening.

This is a picture of some feedback that was given to my group in terms of what needs to be improved in our High School Drama film from looking at our rough edit.

High School Drama - Rough Edit

Rough cut done on Final Cut Pro, need to change many things in terms of the titles and the order they appear.

Reflection Post - Blogging Health Check

I have read through the feedback I have received from the Blogging Health Check, I will work on location and props to add better annotation describing what is happening in the picture. There are various props that have been used for each of the characters. Although many of didn't need props/ I will add better annotations to the group post on influences and intos as well.

High School Drama

Using various images by doing screenshots of footage that was recorded for the High School Drama, I used Photoshop to incorporate these images in that program and put them together to create a picture which can advertise the High School Drama me and my group are working on.

High School Drama Schedule

High School Drama: Soundtrack Vlog

This is a picture of me working in the music department making the soundtrack for the High School Drama, that I am making for my group's High School Drama. You can see my hand on the mixing desk which I am using to adjust some of the sound levels as well as listen to tracks louder so I can pick the specific parts of the track which I may need to change.

Above you can see a vlog which is a very rough recording explaining the soundtrack I have started creating for the High School Drama Film, such as specific software instruments I have used. This was all done in Logic, as there is a lot more you can do the sound with Logic. This is merely a brief description of what I have go so far.

High School Drama - Font Choices

The Fonts that we have decided which we may use are 

Harrington 

HatCheck 

MostWizard 

Rysky Line

High School Drama - Costume

Bully
-Dark clothing preferably black
-Black top, black skirt/jeans

Dark grim feeling, very oppressive

New Kid
-Blue checkered shirt
-Blue jeans
-Grey Shoes

New clothes for a new kid type feel

Nerd
-Jumper
-Glasses
-Maths Books

Glasses and Maths book to show his character and a jumper for a typical nice guy feel who is smart

Drama Queen
-Very vibrant clothing, very colourful
-Lots of make up
-Handbag

Shows she can overreact, be very over the top

Teacher
-Dark clothing, preferably black
- Black Top, black skirt/jeans
-Scruffy

The teacher wears similar clothing, to the bully as they are very close to each other as they are friends which is proof of that by the clothing they wear

Each of the choice of clothes were decided by their character and what a stereotypical character of their nature would wear. This also shows their personality through the clothes they wear which is often done in some teen drama films deliberately

Titles & Credits - Blogging Task 25

Director - Jake

Writer - Suad

Cast
Bully - Fauzia
New Kid - Miraj Uddin Abbas
Drama Queen - Nicole
Nerd - James/Michael
Loner - Michael Elcock

Sound By- Miraj Uddin Abbas

Casting By- Miraj uddin Abbas

Costume By - Suad

Camerman - Jake

Blogging Task 23

Institutions and Distribution Companies

The type of film that my group is creating is a High School Drama which is a sub-genre of Teen Drama. The instituitons that are likely to produce this type of film is perhaps Paramount Pictures.

The reason why Paramount Pictures can possibly make a film like this is because of the fact that they produced the Teen Movie, Mean Girls which showcases various stereotypes which is also present in my group's film as well.

Another Possible instituion is Universal as they have created and distributed various films from Horror to Teen Dramas. They are also a huge instituion therefore they may create a mainstream High School Drama film like the one my group is making.