Fade into the shot taken from what looks like a forest. It's in the middle of the day and we can see trees surrounding Edwardo, Edwardo is writing in his note pad about the worst day of his life.
V.O. Edwardo: Hi. I’m Edwardo Frederico (What was my mother thinking, right?), andthis is me, the joke of my entire school. I’ve decided to run far, far away. And if you’re wondering why I’m here, I’ll show you. I’ll take you back to the beginning of the worst day of my life.
Scene two:
Flashback to earlier that day, Edwardo is walking to school alone, from the surroundings we can tell this is the school drive. In the shot we can see two girls pointing and laughing at him.
Stupid Girl one: Oh my god,(laughing hysterically) like what is he wearing?
Stupid girl Two: Like come on, I have an idea.
The two girls run off camera shot as Edwardo continues to walk to school.
A snowball appears out of nowhere and flies towards Edwardo’s head. Then the titles appear after Edwardo has fallen to the floor, ‘High school Loser’ appears on the screen.
Scene Three:
Cut to Edwardo walking up the stairs and we hear Edwardo talking:
V.O Edwardo: You see I’ve got a dark secret, darker than my hair, which is totally cool, right? And I’ve had to live with this secret since I was five years old.
There is a group of girls stood at the top of the stairs, they laugh, point and call him a loser. Then we cut to Edwardo walking down the corridor where he bumps into Arnie.
Arnie: Oi! Loser! Give me your stuff now!
Edwardo runs away
Arnie:Oi, where you going!
Arnie chases him.
Edwardo stops after realising that Arnie had his coat
Arnie:If you want your stuff come and get it.
Edwardo slowly returns to Arnie to fetch his coat believing he would get it back.
Arnie:Give me you bag now (pause) Bag!
Edwardo drops his bag with a little scream and runs away leaving his coat and his bag with the bully.
The bully puts on his coat and picks up his bag.
Arnie:Very nice.
Scene Four:
Edwardo is stood in the corridor, he is upset and looking down he doesn't see the point in going to lesson since no one notices him or likes him, so he sees no point.
A group of lads walk out a class room talking to each other.
Then they notice Edwardo stood on his own.
Bully 1:Oi! You owe me money.
Edwardo:That's funny, that's what your mum said last night.
Bully 1:You what!
Hannah appears out of nowhere and punches Edwardo's bully in the face. He falls to the ground. It Freezes mid-punch and Edwardo speaks,
V.O. Edwardo:That's Hannah, she's my best... well... only friend. And. I'm secretly in love with her.
Continues...
Hannah stands there laughing whiles the other bullies are checking to see if their mate is okay, suddenly the headteacher walks round the corner.
Mrs Bigg:Miss Smith, step away from Mr Bent, and get over here now!!!!
Mrs Bigg winks at Edwardo. Edwardo shivers as he is disturbed.
V.O. Edwardo:That’s my mom (pause) she is the head teacher of this hell hole. Don't ask about the hair, it just grows and grows and grows, then it all gone.
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Shooting schedule
We included:day/date scene int/ext day/night shot descriptions/summary location characters.
SHOOT DAY 1:Tuesday 10th February - 1400-1430
2 Ext/day EDwardo walking into school being laughed at,school drive,Edwardo and Girls 1 and 2.
SHOOT DAY 2:Wednesday 25th February - 0940-0950
1Ext/Day shoot Edwardo in the bush,writing on his own,Bush,Edwardo
SHOOT DAY 2:Wednesday 25th February - 1000-1025.
5Int/Day Edwardo walking through the school hall being beaten up,school hall,Edwardo,Alfred,Hannah,Head Teacher
SHOOT DAY 3:Thursday 5th March - 1040-1200
Int/Day Edwardo walking through the school being picked on,Edwardo meets one of the school bullies and has his bag and coat stolen,school hallway,Edwardo,Bully,Group of girls
SHOOT DAY 1:Tuesday 10th February - 1400-1430
2 Ext/day EDwardo walking into school being laughed at,school drive,Edwardo and Girls 1 and 2.
SHOOT DAY 2:Wednesday 25th February - 0940-0950
1Ext/Day shoot Edwardo in the bush,writing on his own,Bush,Edwardo
SHOOT DAY 2:Wednesday 25th February - 1000-1025.
5Int/Day Edwardo walking through the school hall being beaten up,school hall,Edwardo,Alfred,Hannah,Head Teacher
SHOOT DAY 3:Thursday 5th March - 1040-1200
Int/Day Edwardo walking through the school being picked on,Edwardo meets one of the school bullies and has his bag and coat stolen,school hallway,Edwardo,Bully,Group of girls
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Questions for the audience
What genre do you think the film is and does it contain typical elements of that genre?
I would say the Genre is comedy or more accurately teen comedy.it contained alot of the typical elements of the genre such as:a main character that is an outcast,teen girls bullying him for his appearence,bullies,the typical high school look of the buildings and the attitude of the students.
Did the film opening grab your attention and make you want to watch the rest of the film?
Yes after watching the film opening it looked like a typical teen comedy as it was packed full of comedy and theree was lots of action in it.Also the characters were explained early on and clear information was given on who they were,how significant they were and what they might bring to the storyline of the film.
Does the start of the film flow well?
Yes i thought that the film flowed well and everything was explained and you werent left wondering who was doing what or who they were.
Could you tell who the characters were and did they fit their stereotype?
Yes the characters were explained well and you could clearly put each character into a stereotypical class.Edwardo for example,you coiuld easily tell he was the main character and that he was the loner or the outsider.Also you could also tell who the bullies were and the teenage girlsanjd popular ones are.
Was the editing done successfully?
The editing was done really well,there were'nt any gaps in it and it was smoothly pieced together.The title screen was done really well,with bright and vibrant colours making it stand out and fitting the genre perfectly.
I would say the Genre is comedy or more accurately teen comedy.it contained alot of the typical elements of the genre such as:a main character that is an outcast,teen girls bullying him for his appearence,bullies,the typical high school look of the buildings and the attitude of the students.
Did the film opening grab your attention and make you want to watch the rest of the film?
Yes after watching the film opening it looked like a typical teen comedy as it was packed full of comedy and theree was lots of action in it.Also the characters were explained early on and clear information was given on who they were,how significant they were and what they might bring to the storyline of the film.
Does the start of the film flow well?
Yes i thought that the film flowed well and everything was explained and you werent left wondering who was doing what or who they were.
Could you tell who the characters were and did they fit their stereotype?
Yes the characters were explained well and you could clearly put each character into a stereotypical class.Edwardo for example,you coiuld easily tell he was the main character and that he was the loner or the outsider.Also you could also tell who the bullies were and the teenage girlsanjd popular ones are.
Was the editing done successfully?
The editing was done really well,there were'nt any gaps in it and it was smoothly pieced together.The title screen was done really well,with bright and vibrant colours making it stand out and fitting the genre perfectly.
Was there anything that could be improved?
No in my opinion there wasnt anything that could be added to the start of the film to make it flow better.All of the characters that were needed were included and the storyline was very clear.
questions that must be addressed
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
When making our film we studied lots of teen films to try and pick out certain aspects of the genre that we could use in our film. we looked at films like american pie, old school and road trip.We created typical characters from a teen movie such as the jock or bully, the geek/loner and typical high school teenage girls.We started the film with a flashback, so the main character was the centre of attention from the very start.We started off with a voiceover while the camera zoomed out to show "eduardo" fully.We then told the story in reverse, from the day before.
We used lots of different camera angles, zooms and fades. We also made use of blackouts so if "eduardo" was humiliated we could see his face and fade away, which symbolises how he feels.
One of the typical features of a teen comedy are boobs, parties and drunkeness. Due to the limited settings and time we were'nt able to encorporate these into the film, but given more time we would be able to make a longer film and include all the conventions of a teen comedy.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We tried to focus on our characters and realy emphisise the stereotypical views that other people have of them. The loner "eduardo" was a typical geek and a goth. We can see he always gets picked on, has no friends at all, soesnt go to lesson and has ran away to avoid everyone.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I did a bit of research into which institution would be best to distribute my my media product. I am using the website http://www.boxofficemojo.com/ it's a very useful website which deals with how much money movies make.
i looked at the following films:
Road trip - $68,540,777 (Dreamworks SKG)
Old School - $75,585,093 (Dreamworks SKG)
American Pie - $235,483,004 (Universal)
Superbad - $169,871,719 (Sony)
Legally Blonde - $96,520,674 (MGM)
How High - $31,178,740 (Universal)
From my research i can see that there isn't a single dominant institution that would be best fitted to distribut my product. To find out which one would be best i needed to do a bit more research into the main distributors. Because the genre is so popular, a big production company would naturally be best to distribute it because its well know and will get the movie into the right places to be sold. I can see from my list that Dreamworks SKG is a popular company and has distributed many major bestselling films. Therefore, from my research i have found that Dreamworks SKG is actually owned by Paramount pictures so naturally this would be the best company to distribute our media product.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The main audience for our media product would be teenagers or young adults, unless some older adults have a younger mind. We did some research into who of these age groups would be most willing to watch our genre of film, and the age range of 16-23 was the most popular. We tried to relate the characters as accuratly as possible to real life people so we hope that most people that watch our product will feel connected with the people in it.
How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience by creating characters that people can relate to. If people feel more connected to characters in a movie then they would be more willing to watch it because they will enjoy it more. We also tried to make the films special effects as bright and attractive as possible so it would catch people eye more easily.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your product?
When filming the actual film we didnt have any problems with the cameras or getting the fight shot and angle. it was when we came to editing the film that problems arose. The programme that we used was adobe premier elemnts 3.0.There were a number of techniques that we used. first we had to split the clip and add/delete parts that we did/didnt want. When we hadc the film in the right order wh had to add special effects and titles to the screening. If theres one thing that we learnt about the world of film editing is that its complicated!! but when you've got things in the right place you can do just about anything with it.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to the full product?
From starting the preliminary task i feel i have learned that there is alot more things you need to plan for, like camera maps, so you can get everything in the right place and if its not then the film wont flow as well because the camera will seem to be jumping all over the place and that there is not thinking behind it and it will appear random. Like i said i found that planning is the most important part of the filming and is what i needed to drastically improve before moving from my preliminary task to the actually coursework.
media products?
When making our film we studied lots of teen films to try and pick out certain aspects of the genre that we could use in our film. we looked at films like american pie, old school and road trip.We created typical characters from a teen movie such as the jock or bully, the geek/loner and typical high school teenage girls.We started the film with a flashback, so the main character was the centre of attention from the very start.We started off with a voiceover while the camera zoomed out to show "eduardo" fully.We then told the story in reverse, from the day before.
We used lots of different camera angles, zooms and fades. We also made use of blackouts so if "eduardo" was humiliated we could see his face and fade away, which symbolises how he feels.
One of the typical features of a teen comedy are boobs, parties and drunkeness. Due to the limited settings and time we were'nt able to encorporate these into the film, but given more time we would be able to make a longer film and include all the conventions of a teen comedy.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We tried to focus on our characters and realy emphisise the stereotypical views that other people have of them. The loner "eduardo" was a typical geek and a goth. We can see he always gets picked on, has no friends at all, soesnt go to lesson and has ran away to avoid everyone.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I did a bit of research into which institution would be best to distribute my my media product. I am using the website http://www.boxofficemojo.com/ it's a very useful website which deals with how much money movies make.
i looked at the following films:
Road trip - $68,540,777 (Dreamworks SKG)
Old School - $75,585,093 (Dreamworks SKG)
American Pie - $235,483,004 (Universal)
Superbad - $169,871,719 (Sony)
Legally Blonde - $96,520,674 (MGM)
How High - $31,178,740 (Universal)
From my research i can see that there isn't a single dominant institution that would be best fitted to distribut my product. To find out which one would be best i needed to do a bit more research into the main distributors. Because the genre is so popular, a big production company would naturally be best to distribute it because its well know and will get the movie into the right places to be sold. I can see from my list that Dreamworks SKG is a popular company and has distributed many major bestselling films. Therefore, from my research i have found that Dreamworks SKG is actually owned by Paramount pictures so naturally this would be the best company to distribute our media product.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The main audience for our media product would be teenagers or young adults, unless some older adults have a younger mind. We did some research into who of these age groups would be most willing to watch our genre of film, and the age range of 16-23 was the most popular. We tried to relate the characters as accuratly as possible to real life people so we hope that most people that watch our product will feel connected with the people in it.
How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience by creating characters that people can relate to. If people feel more connected to characters in a movie then they would be more willing to watch it because they will enjoy it more. We also tried to make the films special effects as bright and attractive as possible so it would catch people eye more easily.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your product?
When filming the actual film we didnt have any problems with the cameras or getting the fight shot and angle. it was when we came to editing the film that problems arose. The programme that we used was adobe premier elemnts 3.0.There were a number of techniques that we used. first we had to split the clip and add/delete parts that we did/didnt want. When we hadc the film in the right order wh had to add special effects and titles to the screening. If theres one thing that we learnt about the world of film editing is that its complicated!! but when you've got things in the right place you can do just about anything with it.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to the full product?
From starting the preliminary task i feel i have learned that there is alot more things you need to plan for, like camera maps, so you can get everything in the right place and if its not then the film wont flow as well because the camera will seem to be jumping all over the place and that there is not thinking behind it and it will appear random. Like i said i found that planning is the most important part of the filming and is what i needed to drastically improve before moving from my preliminary task to the actually coursework.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Analysis of "Stormbreaker"
Recently i analyzed the opening of the film "Stormbreaker." I looked at Convention, representation, audience and the title screens. i looked at how these are all layed out and how a few certain characters are represented.
Conventions:
Enigma codes
Explosions
Chases
Goodies and Baddies - who were dressed in black
Action sequence - attention grabbing
Flash cars
Secret identities - (parallell editing)
Cool, calm suave main character
Weapons
Dangerous settings - winding country lanes on mountain tops, sheer drops from a clifface.
Gadgets
Stunts
Audience
Appeals to kids and teenagers.
childrens version of james bond
The protagonist is a teenage boy
Set in a school
Romantic element
Good looking protagonist
Titles:
Traditional title sequence
Fade in of the first chase scene with the motorbikes
Sound bridge to link it all together
Representations:
Alex is a different social class to his class mates.
We can see clearly that he is middle class because of his accent, his smart appearence and the fact he has a housekeeper
The other pupils in the class clearly resent him and are most likely quite jelous of him.
The film opens with Alex's uncle (The secret agent) just pulling off on a bike and being chased by about four other man on similar bikes with huge explosions in the background. This adds a huge ammount of drama to the opening scene. From these first few seconds we can see that he is the typical secret agent: cool, calm, hardened, great sense of adventure and has lots of high-octane, supercharged adrenaline rushing chases. He gets hunted down by these other men(the baddies) and uses some flashy moves to escape them by hiding under a boat.(Yes...thats high tech i know) little do we know that he isnt really under there and adter they shoot throught the boat and lift it up to check that he is dead, he speeds off in a BMW away from the danger.
The next scene is him speening along in his car along a sharp mountain road while he is on the phone to his nephew(alex.) From nowhere the bikes are back on his trail, and he takes them out by firing a rocket at them from out of his car exhaust.
Conventions:
Enigma codes
Explosions
Chases
Goodies and Baddies - who were dressed in black
Action sequence - attention grabbing
Flash cars
Secret identities - (parallell editing)
Cool, calm suave main character
Weapons
Dangerous settings - winding country lanes on mountain tops, sheer drops from a clifface.
Gadgets
Stunts
Audience
Appeals to kids and teenagers.
childrens version of james bond
The protagonist is a teenage boy
Set in a school
Romantic element
Good looking protagonist
Titles:
Traditional title sequence
Fade in of the first chase scene with the motorbikes
Sound bridge to link it all together
Representations:
Alex is a different social class to his class mates.
We can see clearly that he is middle class because of his accent, his smart appearence and the fact he has a housekeeper
The other pupils in the class clearly resent him and are most likely quite jelous of him.
The film opens with Alex's uncle (The secret agent) just pulling off on a bike and being chased by about four other man on similar bikes with huge explosions in the background. This adds a huge ammount of drama to the opening scene. From these first few seconds we can see that he is the typical secret agent: cool, calm, hardened, great sense of adventure and has lots of high-octane, supercharged adrenaline rushing chases. He gets hunted down by these other men(the baddies) and uses some flashy moves to escape them by hiding under a boat.(Yes...thats high tech i know) little do we know that he isnt really under there and adter they shoot throught the boat and lift it up to check that he is dead, he speeds off in a BMW away from the danger.
The next scene is him speening along in his car along a sharp mountain road while he is on the phone to his nephew(alex.) From nowhere the bikes are back on his trail, and he takes them out by firing a rocket at them from out of his car exhaust.
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Movie Genre Analysis
Today i looked at the movie "American Pie" and looked at what features make up a teen comedy. I looked at the Conventions, how the titles are layed out and what audience the films appeal to.
Conventions
Sex - Many, if not all of the scenes shown have sex, or some sort of sex reference in it. Either in a club/Party or in someones dorm room.
Embarrasing parents - stiffler's dad tries to het him layed, but is not successfull. He also produces a list of all the women he has slept with, and stiffler's friends mum is on there so both he and his friend get very embarrassed.
Embarrassing encounter with a girl - stiffler uses the toilet in the coed bathroom, and after a girl he meets gets in the shower he accidentally urinates on her shampoo and himself because he is watching her friend walk accross the bathroom naked.
Enemy Sides - The Beta house(Jocks) are clashing with the nerds or geeks as to who throws the best party and gets the best girls.
Drinking - Beta house shows all of the students getting drunk and dancing with the girls while club and dance music is played loudly. stiffler vomits over one of the girls he is dancing with.
Embarrassing incidents - Stiffler's new dorm buddy is having sex with a girl when he walks in. She starts to choke and he gets behind her to push the chewing gum out and his dad walks in and from the back it looks like he is having a threesome with them. allthough he knows this is a complete misunderstanding.
Titles
"Big Brown" The name of the company is shown rather than the actors real names.
The american Pie logo is also shown.
Representation
The students are all shown as sex mad.
It gives the impression they're always at a party and never seem to be doing any work, even
though it is said throughout the film that its "All about the education."
Audience
The age range that this film appeals to is generally the late teens (around 16)to about the age of 25. This is because we are seen as doing alot of these thibgs, and generally we are so it makes the ideal film for young people because they can realate to it.
In the opening scene we see stiffler and his best friend being driven down the street to colege by their dad, and the first thing wee see is lots of young hot girls. This sets the scene for the whole film. We can see that this is going to be the basis of the whole film. Showing these girls from the beginning draws the us in, as stereotypically we are doing the same things as the people in the film. The idea being that we can't look away from them and get drwan into their world of sex, dancing and all night parties and absolutely no work!
Conventions
Sex - Many, if not all of the scenes shown have sex, or some sort of sex reference in it. Either in a club/Party or in someones dorm room.
Embarrasing parents - stiffler's dad tries to het him layed, but is not successfull. He also produces a list of all the women he has slept with, and stiffler's friends mum is on there so both he and his friend get very embarrassed.
Embarrassing encounter with a girl - stiffler uses the toilet in the coed bathroom, and after a girl he meets gets in the shower he accidentally urinates on her shampoo and himself because he is watching her friend walk accross the bathroom naked.
Enemy Sides - The Beta house(Jocks) are clashing with the nerds or geeks as to who throws the best party and gets the best girls.
Drinking - Beta house shows all of the students getting drunk and dancing with the girls while club and dance music is played loudly. stiffler vomits over one of the girls he is dancing with.
Embarrassing incidents - Stiffler's new dorm buddy is having sex with a girl when he walks in. She starts to choke and he gets behind her to push the chewing gum out and his dad walks in and from the back it looks like he is having a threesome with them. allthough he knows this is a complete misunderstanding.
Titles
"Big Brown" The name of the company is shown rather than the actors real names.
The american Pie logo is also shown.
Representation
The students are all shown as sex mad.
It gives the impression they're always at a party and never seem to be doing any work, even
though it is said throughout the film that its "All about the education."
Audience
The age range that this film appeals to is generally the late teens (around 16)to about the age of 25. This is because we are seen as doing alot of these thibgs, and generally we are so it makes the ideal film for young people because they can realate to it.
In the opening scene we see stiffler and his best friend being driven down the street to colege by their dad, and the first thing wee see is lots of young hot girls. This sets the scene for the whole film. We can see that this is going to be the basis of the whole film. Showing these girls from the beginning draws the us in, as stereotypically we are doing the same things as the people in the film. The idea being that we can't look away from them and get drwan into their world of sex, dancing and all night parties and absolutely no work!
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