PLANNING: STICKY NOTES

As we will soon begin filming the library scene, as a group we came up with a variety of different things to put on our sticky notes. These sticky notes will be used to create enigma in our short film as the audience are uncertain as to who left the sticky notes for the protagonist to find. The sticky notes have compliments written on them to reel in the protagonist.

I have came up with the idea to present these quotes and compliments on digital sticky notes which I created on photoshop.

Some of the sticky notes will be placed randomly and others in specific places.
"Ma Belle": on a french dictionary
"Can you feel the chemistry": on a chemistry text book
"You make time stand still": a book about time travel
"Pretty as a picture": On an art book

PLANNING: FINDING A NEW LIBRARY

After planning to film our library scenes in the public Esher library we came across to many complications thus we have had to change where the library scenes will be set. Luckily we are beneficial and have a library at our school which we have been given permission to use.

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING THE DATE SCENE FIRST TIME FEEDBACK

We met up to film the date scene. This scene was located at my house and in my back garden. We created a mise-en-scene of a posh pub restaurant. The way that we did this was by having a small table laid out with glasses of wine and a table cloth to make it seem like it was posh. We also had a waitress dressed in an overall so that she would look professional for the mise-en-scene.

After filming this scene our focus group had said that the filming was way too dark and we agreed.  This was due to the poor lighting, because the filming was outside it got dark very quickly. We have decided to do this scene again and learnt from our mistakes of not having extra lighting.

Another problem with this filming was that the quality of the dialogue was not that good due to the fact that we could not get a microphone. Therefore when we refilm this we will also take this into consideration.

I created a Animoto to show the mise-en-scene which was extremely successful and to also show the mistake that we made of not having artificial lighting and how this made our filming poor.





What went well/wrong with our first filming

PLANNING: LOCATION RECCE SHOTS

I have created a Zoho Docs presentation. This is a presentational tool that lets you create presentations. This Zoho Doc is about different locations we feel could work with our short film. 

PLANNING: CALL SHEETS

We have made call sheets for each piece of filming we will be doing. This includes information of how to contact each other, who will be needed, where it would take place, who will be included and what outfits will be needed.

I have decided to present these call sheets onto SlideShare.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MY SLIDESHARE

RESEARCH: SHORT FILM TARGET AUDIENCE PROFILE

I have created a short film target audience profile after doing research on the BFI exit polls, romance target audience and short film target audience. This have given me a specific target audience that we are appealing for when creating our short films and the ancillary products that go with it.

RESEARCH: TARGET AUDIENCE

I have used Piktochart to present my research on our Target Audience. Piktochart is an exciting info graphic which allows you to add charts and graphs which is why I have chosen it as a presentational tool for this task.

This research has given me the chance to see why my target audience goes to see a film. The fact that it receives great reviews is the biggest reason for people going to see two out of the three films. However another large reason for people going to see each film is the genre. This is important as the higher percentage of people who took the part in the poll were women, showing us who our target audience would be, women. The age is also important as the bigger percentage of people asked is the under 35 category for each film. This also gives us a rough idea of the age of our target audience.

PLANNING: STORYBOARD

PLANNING 02/10/2014: STORYBOARD
Today we created a storyboard listing the shot number, shot type, action and the location. This is to help us to organised what is going on in each scene. These also help us to create call sheets to keep up organised when planning our filming.