Props

We all went to hobbycraft in the february half term to buy the equipment to make our main prop that leads the narrative: the year book, as we were unable to film in this time due to our title sequence being set in a school. Once we had bought everything we need we spent time in our half term going round to eachothers houses and decorate the book and each page that would feature in our title sequence. Each page decoration connotes the content of that page and the character on it. For example on the geek page we decorated it with badges,books and a 'success' banner these features are conventional of the 'geek' stereotype. The Jock page has trainer stickers and a basket ball sticker which connotes their athletic characteristics. Then on the title pages we added stickers that will illustrate the crew members jobs, for example on the editing page we used a pair of scissors, on costume design a dress sticker and on the sound page an ipod sticker. We have 3D letters which we bought from hobbycraft and used as one of our main fonts throughout the title sequence and as the actual title of our film 'Welling High'.

Pitch Info

Me Brittany and Jazmine had to come up with a pitch including character allocations (who we chose to cast for each character), a brief overview of our storyline (including an equalibrium, a disequalibrium and a new equilibrium), a log line, the budget of our film and the revenue it would make based on the research we had done on similar films of the same genre, a release date, a chosen production company and a director all with explanation as to why we chose them. We divided the slides up between us so each of us wrote 3 slides however we all gave input on every decision made as a group.We then presented this pitch to our class and gained feedback on what had gone well and what did not work so well. I have embeded this presentation from Brittany's slide share account.

Pitch

Music choice

As a group me Brittany and Jazmine decided that we wanted our copyright free music not to have any vocals, we also wanted it to have a lot of guitar riffs and to almost be soft rock, as this music genre would be listened to by students in an American high school and therefore this music type would be conventional to our title sequence genre. After identifying the type of music me was looking for,for our title sequence we began looking on copyright free music websites and found that Ben Sound had a good variety of music that would fit our criteria.With a poll on both mine and Brittany's blog, we gained the opinions of other people to see if they agree with our music choice, and which one they think suits the genre of our title sequence best. This reassured us that we were making the right decision and allowed us to come to a conclusion of the exact track we would be using which ended up being: 'Happy-Roc'k which happened to be our favourite anyway so it worked out perfectly. 

The 'Jock' scene

For our main Jock we chose to use Jacob.We recruited him as he fits the conventions of the role due to him being physically fit and athletic looking as well as tall. Brittany then recruited 2 year 11 boys to be Jocks in our title sequence and ,like Jacob, they both look physically fit and athletic however they are not as tall as the main jock or as built up this is deliberate as the need to look cool and fit but subordinate to the main Jock as he will be a main character within our film and they will play less prominent roles. For the main Jock we got him to wear a basketball jersey with black shorts as he is a semi-professional basket baller and the other Jocks are wearing white t-shirts and tracksuit bottoms to fit the conventions of them being athletic and 'cool'. When me and Jazmine were filming the boys video's I suggested that Jacob should hold a ball to connote his role as a Jock and i directed him to spin the ball on his finger in his video and then catch in and look straight into the camera so he came across as cocky and confident. With the other two boys, I directed Tommy to brush through his hair with his fingers and look into the camera and Oliver to stroke his facial hair and look into the camera i directed them to do so as it makes them come across as full of themselves which is the stereotype of a Jock. Then me and Jazmine filmed the main Jock walking into the sports hall to open the Jock page in the book, we decided to do it in the sports hall due to the mise-en-scene being conventional to a Jock. 

Feedback from initial screening

Feedback presentation from bronte Humphreys

As a group me Brittany and Jazmine gained some constructive feedback from our first screening in class. Our peer group filled out these feedback sheets (in the presentation above) which illustrated to us what had worked within our title sequence, what needed to be improved and what didn't work at all. In general the main elements that people thought worked well was our soundtrack, the editing, the overall narrative ,miss-en-scene and our use of titles. The things that we needed to do to improve were: having the shots that include the videos in the book on for longer so they can be seen more clearly, having the pictures of the characters in the book before the video's appear in order for there not to be any blank spaces on the title pages and the pace needed to be increased by introducing some match on match action shots. The thing that didn't work and would need to be reshot were the pages with blank spaces, in order to change this we have decided that we need to stick the photos of each character in the book and then re-film all the shots that the book was being opened in. Overall this feedback allowed us to identify the improvements we needed to make and eradicate any mistakes that we may have made meaning our title sequence will be better quality. 

Story Board

This is the story board of our title sequence which is being used as a guideline whilst we are filming.It draws out our idea of the year book introducing the cast and crew of our high school film.This is demonstrated with the themed pages such as: The geeks page, the elite page, the prom page, the freak page and the graduation page.On each page it has either a picture of the actor followed by their name or the name of the crew member and their responsibility e.g Directed by B.Humphreys.