28th January 2013

Today we uploaded our video that we had made of the focus group and we started to edit it so we could put it on our blog. We also looked through all the videos we had made to see what scenes need to be done again. We went through our story board once again but we did feel the need for Inoshans presence at this lesson as he was absent.
Today was a lesson to give us a chance to catch up on our blog work as well as some paper work.
I believe we have enough work to be doing to make sure we stay on time with our work as well as our recording.

25th January 2013

Today as group we decided that we will refilm the scene which we filmed earlier, this was decided because the shots weren't as good when we attempted to edit it.

We set her and Alaa the assignment to re-film the shot as they knew what to film and how to film it. Whilst Inoshan and Fahad remained in class amending the storyboard as we had made drastic changes to our initial idea.

We decided that after the lessons today we will gather outside and film the house shot as a group which we will require later. This was decided because it would save time and we could film all the shots before we edit.

22nd January 2013.

In our meeting we decided not to film outside due to the snow, as well as it affecting the scenes ahead when we are editing. We've also decided to add our credits into the opening sequence as it would fit in at the start than the end.

We decided to change our initial idea as the new idea suggested by Inoshan was better.
The main reason for changing the initial idea is that it didn't sum up the film.

Our new storyline is that the character runs around the building until he encounters the bullies, he then gets beaten up and the scene changes into the character

As a group we have decided a soundtrack to fit the role of the scene and the mood of the character, this will ensure that the viewer will understand the emotions of the character in the tensed situation. However, we will have to research soundtracks that will fit the scenario, and have to use the correct volume when required.

17th January 2013.

Today as a group we decided to film our opening scene to the sequence.

We changed our idea from having a faded flashback into a montage of the main school of our "Victim"

Codes and conventions of our Genre

our Genre is Action, this may consist of chase and adventure.
codes are the tools the director may use to make the film this may include camera angles, music, costumes, framing, script and many more. conventions is the way the tools (codes) are used. This helps us understand which character is playing what role in the story. Indeed, the way these codes are used can manipulate our feelings towards a character and also show importance of each character in the story.
Codes and conventions of our chosen genre:
Our chosen genre is action, codes and conventions of this genre:

• violence,killing,guns
• chases
• powerful violent heroes 
• big/exotic locations
• luxury, cars, clothing accessories
• good triumphs over evil
• hero uncovers/solves a problem
• risk taking
• hero is mostly male
• close ups , key lighting
• fast paced editing
• predictable chain of events - cause and effect
• dramatic sounds

all these codes and conventions may be a part of our title sequence.

First Day of shooting- credits

                                                              17/01/2013

Today we started shooting our title sequence and we started off with an establishing shot which will include the credits, as a group we agreed on one idea for our sequence and we will be continuing to shoot more tomorrow. We will be doing more research on our genre and the story line to relate to our original idea. Today we also decided on a name for our sequence which will be, 'victim' , we chose this name considering our genre and story line. this relates to the genre and also gives an idea of the story line.

Location

Location

As a group today we had decided upon our location, which is a vital key for our succcess in this unit as a group. we had initial shortlished a couple locations to film upon, we then came to an agreement that we will be starting to film in new malden, becasue it was a favourtised destination for the members of our group and it was a location that we knew very fund of. 

Location is a key place where a scene's foundation is bulit around, the scene is the one thing that our group has considered a main key to this task, the scene initially establishes the role of the character.  Location is the place or point that something is at, so therefore we will have to consider every location put for every scene is correct and fits the role of that scene.

 

Outline plan of Costumes

Outline plan of Costumes

As a group today we had come to an conclusion that we have found our ideas of costumes and props to use in the film opening sequence in this unit of coursework. The characters will be dressed by stereotypical ideas of how the public see the role and the action the character who plays the role of the character.  

Bullies - hoodies, baggy jeans and Nike shoes 

Person being bullied - Glasses, shirt tucked in and clothes worn by this person will generally be out of fashion.

Brother - dress smart, suit to show hes a man with class and liked by many.

Students- dressed in uniform, look smart

These ideas we came up initially as a group and we have agreed to go ahead with these plans, because they suit the role of play in this particular sequence. We had come to the decision because we had done some research and found that audience prefer to see sequence built to the average day of life, and with stereotypes this shows that it fits into that category.

we as a group have decided to conduct a research in order to find out target audience in the market, who we wish to target our opening film sequence towards. we are hoping to gain positive results so we will be doing a random sample in order to gain this approachable research. we had the initial idea of a questionnaire because we wanted to see what is more favoritism in the market today, in order to find these results we as a group came to the conclusion the best way in finding these results we would have to conduct a questionnaire for the public.   

Film questionnaire 

what is your age group?

-Under 12    [  ] 

- 12- 15        [  ]

- 16-18         [  ]

- 19-25         [  ]

- 26-40         [  ] 

- 41-49         [  ]

- 50+

which gender are you?

- Male          [  ]

- Female       [  ]

what is your two favorite types of genre?

- Action       [  ]

- Adventure [  ]

- Comedy    [  ]

- Drama       [  ]

- Horror       [  ] 

- Sci-Fi         [  ]

- Romance    [  ]

- War Films  [  ] 

what is your favorite way in watching a film?

- TV            [  ]

- DVD         [  ] 

- Cinema     [  ] 

- Online      [  ]

BY fahad hussain and group