Any use of music in this film complies with 'Fair Dealing' under the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act (UK), Sections 6(i) and 6(ii);
Fair dealing is a term used to describe some limited activities that are allowed without infringing copyright. Briefly these are as follows:
Section 6
i. Research and private study
Copying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or of a typographical arrangement of a published edition for the purpose of research or private study is allowed under the following conditions:·
The copy is made for the purposes of research or private study.
· The copy is made for non-commercial purposes.
· The source of the material is acknowledged.
· The person making the copy does not make copies of the material available for a number of people.
ii Instruction or examination
Copying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a sound recording, film or broadcast for the purpose of instruction or examination is allowed under the following conditions:
· The copying is done by the student or the person giving instruction.
· The copying is not done via a reprographic process.
· The source of the material is acknowledged.
· The instruction is for a non-commercial purpose.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Friday, 23 April 2010
Editing
Editing our piece was quite a long process for many reasons. As half the shots were done in widescreen we had to use a new programme that the editor and group didn’t feel very comfortable using. We had all had some experience using windows movie maker so moving onto premiere slowed the process down a lot as it took some time to get used to this new technology.
We had some more problems loading up the work we had saved each time we tried to open it which took quite a bit of time to sort out each lesson. However, once these problems had been overcome the issues we had were ones we had had practise overcoming such as continuity problems within the shots.In comparison to our storyboard and script, our final piece was a lot different because we altered and added our chosen shots to make it flow more and to make our continuity better. For example, we switched two shots around as our actress had on a headband on before we could see her picking it up and putting it on.
We also had to take out our original idea of having the titles on a music book as we realised that we hadn’t filmed them long enough or had them big enough on the screen to look significant. We, instead, put them on using premiere, choosing a pink starred font but still placing them in a separate shot like we had previously planned.
Overall, I’m happy with the final edit and think that I it's very good considering how much we had to change from the original script.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Main Excercise Commentary
In our group, we decided to go for the social group you would normally expect to see in a chick flick film. We felt that we were all familiar with what you would see in this group so when it came to representing it I thought it was quite easy to do and was shown clearly in our piece.
Each member of the group researched a film that had the same social group as ours such as ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Camp Rock’. Most of them have the same sort of main character who aspired to be more popular or successful. We then looked at how they were represented through how they were framed, what they were wearing, the music played in the background and so on. We considered each aspect we researched and tried to apply this to our own chick flick/musical film.
Hairspray
Camp Rock
We showed this ‘girly’ and overly confident representation through, firstly, her dress codes. The dress that we picked out for her was very over the top and feminine to suit the characters stereotype. We made her bedroom have a similar girly feel to it with posters on the walls which represented her age as well as her social group. Finally, the music we chose reflected our characters stereotype. With a woman singing quite a upbeat and feminine sounding song, I thought it helped to represent the social stereotype of a young, over the top, girly teenager.
We chose our audience to be similar to the main character of our piece. Aiming our piece to an influential age of musical girls in their teens, we thought that this type of film would get their attention. (Audience Research)
The films we researched were aimed at the same age so we knew that we would not only be representing a social group but it would be representing the age and possibly the personality of our chosen audience. The music chosen was picked out to sound similar to the modern music teenagers listen to and the clothes and style of the main characters, although is much more exaggerated would be similar again to how a teenager might dress.
The company that I would expect this film to be distributed by would probably be a company like Disney as most of their audiences’ age group and social group is similar to ours. Most of their films are near enough the same to the one we have made with a chick flick and musical theme.
After the preliminary task, we had decided to use a different camera so that there was less problems uploading the shots onto windows movie makers. However, even when we did use the cameras that we thought were necessary, there were still a lot of problems when learning about the technologies.
Filming with the cameras given to us worked perfectly fine during our filming and we had little trouble getting it to work other than small problems we easily got around such as changing the battery. It was when it came to uploading them onto windows movie maker that proved to be difficult. The entire group had had some kind of experience with windows movie maker so all of us felt confident about editing. However, we soon realised that we would have to use adobe premiere as half of our shots were filmed in wide screen.
Learning about this new technology was hard to get my head around as it seemed much more complex as windows. However, as we began to become more familiar with it I realised there were a lot more things on there to help us with the editing such as a preview screen. Uploading the shots was much simpler and over all the new technology proved to be very helpful.
Looking back on my preliminary task, I think that I have come a long way in terms of understanding technologies and how much time and effort it takes to organise even a short film.
In our first practise, our organisation was already fairly good, as well as our group communication. However, I realised that there is always room for improved and used the mistakes from the first exercise to make the second one better.
Knowing what I missed out on in the first exercise helped me remember what the group is likely to forget in the main exercise such as outlines and photos of the locations, pictures of the progress of filming and editing etc. The mistakes we made in our first task such as technology issues, actors not turning up and so on, helped us deal with them early on in the process so they didn’t take up to much of our time.
Learning about the technology made a great improved when we began our filming and editing. Although our cameraman felt more familiar with the one used in the first task, when it came to editing our piece, there were a lot less issues uploading it as we did in the first exercise. Even though we did have some problems with the cameras given to us (having half the shots in widescreen), the technology was more familiar to our lecturer so these problems were easily overcome.
I think that the most important and most effective thing that I have learned in both the preliminary and main exercise is how important it is to stay in our groups and work together. By having such good group skills, we managed to stick well with our schedule and get everything we needed done before our filming on time and spread out evenly through the group.
Each member of the group researched a film that had the same social group as ours such as ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Camp Rock’. Most of them have the same sort of main character who aspired to be more popular or successful. We then looked at how they were represented through how they were framed, what they were wearing, the music played in the background and so on. We considered each aspect we researched and tried to apply this to our own chick flick/musical film.
Hairspray
Camp Rock
We showed this ‘girly’ and overly confident representation through, firstly, her dress codes. The dress that we picked out for her was very over the top and feminine to suit the characters stereotype. We made her bedroom have a similar girly feel to it with posters on the walls which represented her age as well as her social group. Finally, the music we chose reflected our characters stereotype. With a woman singing quite a upbeat and feminine sounding song, I thought it helped to represent the social stereotype of a young, over the top, girly teenager.
We chose our audience to be similar to the main character of our piece. Aiming our piece to an influential age of musical girls in their teens, we thought that this type of film would get their attention. (Audience Research)
The films we researched were aimed at the same age so we knew that we would not only be representing a social group but it would be representing the age and possibly the personality of our chosen audience. The music chosen was picked out to sound similar to the modern music teenagers listen to and the clothes and style of the main characters, although is much more exaggerated would be similar again to how a teenager might dress.
The company that I would expect this film to be distributed by would probably be a company like Disney as most of their audiences’ age group and social group is similar to ours. Most of their films are near enough the same to the one we have made with a chick flick and musical theme.
After the preliminary task, we had decided to use a different camera so that there was less problems uploading the shots onto windows movie makers. However, even when we did use the cameras that we thought were necessary, there were still a lot of problems when learning about the technologies.
Filming with the cameras given to us worked perfectly fine during our filming and we had little trouble getting it to work other than small problems we easily got around such as changing the battery. It was when it came to uploading them onto windows movie maker that proved to be difficult. The entire group had had some kind of experience with windows movie maker so all of us felt confident about editing. However, we soon realised that we would have to use adobe premiere as half of our shots were filmed in wide screen.
Learning about this new technology was hard to get my head around as it seemed much more complex as windows. However, as we began to become more familiar with it I realised there were a lot more things on there to help us with the editing such as a preview screen. Uploading the shots was much simpler and over all the new technology proved to be very helpful.Looking back on my preliminary task, I think that I have come a long way in terms of understanding technologies and how much time and effort it takes to organise even a short film.
In our first practise, our organisation was already fairly good, as well as our group communication. However, I realised that there is always room for improved and used the mistakes from the first exercise to make the second one better.
Knowing what I missed out on in the first exercise helped me remember what the group is likely to forget in the main exercise such as outlines and photos of the locations, pictures of the progress of filming and editing etc. The mistakes we made in our first task such as technology issues, actors not turning up and so on, helped us deal with them early on in the process so they didn’t take up to much of our time.
Learning about the technology made a great improved when we began our filming and editing. Although our cameraman felt more familiar with the one used in the first task, when it came to editing our piece, there were a lot less issues uploading it as we did in the first exercise. Even though we did have some problems with the cameras given to us (having half the shots in widescreen), the technology was more familiar to our lecturer so these problems were easily overcome.
I think that the most important and most effective thing that I have learned in both the preliminary and main exercise is how important it is to stay in our groups and work together. By having such good group skills, we managed to stick well with our schedule and get everything we needed done before our filming on time and spread out evenly through the group.
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SWOT
Initial Ideas
Name Ideas
Roles and Ideas
Research into audience, codes and conventions
Research into opening sequences
Props List
Draft Scipt and Script Ideas
Storyboard
Location
Location Pictures
Risk Assessment
Call Sheet and Production Schedule
Filming Pictures
Editing Print Screen
Cd Cover
Copyright Information For Music
Initial Ideas
Name Ideas
Roles and Ideas
Research into audience, codes and conventions
Research into opening sequences
Props List
Draft Scipt and Script Ideas
Storyboard
Location
Location Pictures
Risk Assessment
Call Sheet and Production Schedule
Filming Pictures
Editing Print Screen
Cd Cover
Copyright Information For Music
Monday, 19 April 2010
Filming
When it came to filming our piece there were many problems that came across which meant that it took a lot longer than originally scheduled. We were first planning on filming on 19th however, our actress had trouble getting there so had to reschedule it for the 26th. Although this gave us more time to adjust our script and find a location for another scene we were planning on doing, it meant that there was less time for editing and organising our files.
We filmed the following week. Although we were pretty well organised, with all the scripts and props ready, other uncontrollable things got in the way of our filming. The weather, which we had wanted to be sunny for the mood of our film, was quite dull and rainy. This didn’t cause a huge trouble though as we shot the outside shot lower down so the cloudy sky wouldn’t be noticed.
We also had small problem with the camera as it ran out of batteries as soon as we started filming which did take some time to get sorted out and meant we didn’t have as much time at our second location.
Our actresses caused no problems at all and even though we forgot to get another actress to do a small part in our piece before we started filming, this was quickly overcame as we managed to find one without it turning into a big issue.
Once we began our filming, there weren’t any major issues in our first location (a music room) and the group discussed each shot carefully allowing our director to ensure we were on the right track. The filming went quite smoothly and managed to finish on time for our second location.
We had all organised how we were going to get to our next location, however, again there were problems that we couldn’t avoid such as traffic jams and road works which took a huge chunk of our time away and was left with a very small time to film in our second location. Although we did managed to film a couple of shots, we were no where near finished so decided to set another date for the group to film on.
Again, we chose to wait until the next Thursday so that everyone was able to be there. This time we managed to get everything we needed done, including adding a few shots we thought would look good. We ensured that somebody was taking pictures of everyone doing there chosen jobs.
Altogether, the process of filming was very slow and resulted in a lot less time to get our editing done, we shot everything we needed to our satisfaction and hopefully wont have any problems editing what we have.
We filmed the following week. Although we were pretty well organised, with all the scripts and props ready, other uncontrollable things got in the way of our filming. The weather, which we had wanted to be sunny for the mood of our film, was quite dull and rainy. This didn’t cause a huge trouble though as we shot the outside shot lower down so the cloudy sky wouldn’t be noticed.
We also had small problem with the camera as it ran out of batteries as soon as we started filming which did take some time to get sorted out and meant we didn’t have as much time at our second location.
Our actresses caused no problems at all and even though we forgot to get another actress to do a small part in our piece before we started filming, this was quickly overcame as we managed to find one without it turning into a big issue.
Once we began our filming, there weren’t any major issues in our first location (a music room) and the group discussed each shot carefully allowing our director to ensure we were on the right track. The filming went quite smoothly and managed to finish on time for our second location.
We had all organised how we were going to get to our next location, however, again there were problems that we couldn’t avoid such as traffic jams and road works which took a huge chunk of our time away and was left with a very small time to film in our second location. Although we did managed to film a couple of shots, we were no where near finished so decided to set another date for the group to film on.
Again, we chose to wait until the next Thursday so that everyone was able to be there. This time we managed to get everything we needed done, including adding a few shots we thought would look good. We ensured that somebody was taking pictures of everyone doing there chosen jobs.
Altogether, the process of filming was very slow and resulted in a lot less time to get our editing done, we shot everything we needed to our satisfaction and hopefully wont have any problems editing what we have.
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