Preparation and Filming - Day 12

Filming - Day 12

In the week before we broke up for the Easter holidays, alongside the ongoing work for our title sequence myself, Kann, Kallum and Tolani started to prepare for our evaluations. In both lessons we used the green screen, a tripod and camera to record two videos for two out of seven questions as part of our evaluation. In addition, we also recorded an answer for one of the questions on soundcloud as part of using a variety of ways in documenting our evaluation.

Preparation and FIlming - Day 11

Preparation and Filming - Day 11

Over the weekend, Kallum took home a camera and tripod to film his brother doing kick-ups and reacting to parts of a football match. This is to give a better idea of the narrative and to give some further background knowledge of younger Jack's story and upbringing. In addition to this, we will film myself doing kick ups as well to show the transition between younger Jack and older Jack.

Preparation and Filming - Day 10

Preparation and Filming - Day 10

On this day, Kaan took home a camera and tripod and decided to film a few of his football shirts and some trophies and take some shots of those. In addition, he also drew a picture of a football player in a scrapbook. this was in response to the feedback we received during the lesson and this was to make the narrative clearer by showing a bit of background on younger Jack.  

Preparation and Filming - Day 9

Preparation and Filming - Day 9

On this day, myself, Kallum, Kaan and Tolani went to the changing room in dance to continue with our filming for the title sequence. Myself and Kallum went to the PE department to get some shirts from the school football team, this is because we needed to film the back of the shirts (the numbers). This was so we could show the transition between the younger Jack's shirt and the older Jack's shirt. We put the number ten under the light to show that that shirt was Jack's shirt. We hung the other shirts around the main shirt to make it look like a football changing room. After we had set the scene, we did an over the shoulder shot of myself looking at the shirt using the camera and tripod.

Feedback

Feedback from First Screening

These two sheets are the sheets that we received from our first screening to the rest of the class. Two other groups filled these out and gave us some constructive criticism. We felt as if this was very beneficial and necessary because they were the demographic that we were trying to appeal to and getting possibly improvements would give us an indication as to what would make our product better. We did receive good feedback and we made the recommended changes in order to get more people to be appealed to our product. Some of the feedback included:

Emphasise the narrative more- This was due to there being a clear lack of narrative and we tried to improve this by adding more scenes of Jack growing and developing as both a footballer and a person. 

Font - Both the colour and type of fonts needed to be changed. The colour needed to be changed because in some scenes it clashed and therefore it would make it harder for the audience to read what was said. The type of font also needed changing because we had selected our main font, Jersey M54, but we did not use it throughout all of the credits and the feedback stated that we should use it for all of them. 

More football shots - As this was a sport film, it was suggested that we needed to add more football shots to establish the genre further and we took this on board and did this by including some shots of younger Jack and older Jack doing some kick ups. 

      

First Draft/Screening

First Screening

This is the video in which is our first draft for our title sequence, The Journey. We showed this to the rest of the class and received constructive criticism. However, it is not our finished title sequence and this is evident due to their only being thirty seconds worth of footage. Our main focus was on the soundtrack as we found that the hardest thing to find and we wanted to make sure that the feedback was positive with regards to the soundtrack. 

First Screening

Feedback 

On Wednesday 22nd, we showed our title sequence to the rest of the students in the class as well as Miss McGrath and Meredith. Each group filled out a feedback sheet and this included; things we needed to improve on, things they liked and things that were good but needed to be developed further. People said they liked the soundtrack and thought it went well with the video and the contents. However, people said they did not have a clear clue on what the narrative was and that we needed to make it clearer. As a result of this we plan to include more shots that show the transition between younger Jack and older Jack.

Editing Session 2

Editing

Today, as a collective we were incorporating pieces of footage we had gathered recently. we did this as a group because thus far we had not sat down together and analysed and evaluated the footage we had. we also used this opportunity to get to grips with final cut pro and this consisted of us using it on our own and trying new things as well as Kaan showing us and helping us on how to perform certain actions on Final Cut Pro. this is since Kaan had extensive knowledge of Final Cut Pro from the continuity sequence and in the early stages of the title sequence. actions we performed and learnt how to do were; adding transitions on to the clips and moving and changing the font in order to suit our needs. we also discussed as a group today what positioning of the titles we felt was best and in addition to this what colour we felt would be best for certain scenes. 

Preparation and Filming - Day 8

Preparation and Filming - Day 8

On Friday the 17th I had to teach a year 8 PE class as part of my sports studies coursework and my group took advantage of this by bringing a tripod and camera to the astro turf and filmed the students during the lesson as we could use this in our title sequence having younger Jack in training. Also, the group filmed a student walking into the changing room acting as younger Jack and this will transition well with the scene of myself walking into the changing room. we will be looking to replicate the transition we added when we had close ups of myself and younger Jack dribbling at goals.                                                                                               

Finding the Soundtrack

Soundtrack Search

Today,  as part of constructing our title sequence and starting to prepare and gear towards the first screening of our title sequence, myself and Kallum started to look for a suitable soundtrack for our title sequence, The Journey. Our aim was to find a touching and smooth song with the characteristic of a build up. This is because our title sequence is a comparison between younger jack and older Jack and we felt a build up in the title sequence would be very suitable and receive positive feedback. We firstly found The xx - Intro but however this soundtrack is copyrighted so unfortunately we could not use this soundtrack. 

Preparation and Filming - Day 7

Preparation and Filming - Day 7

On Wednesday 15th myself and Kaan went to the drama studio and in the changing room to film a few scenes for our title sequence. Firstly, we went to film myself walking into the changing room with my boots on and then Kallum will go and film his brother (younger Jack) doing the same thing to show the transition of Jack through the ages. In addition, we filmed myself opening my bag and taking out my new stuff from Tottenham as a result of myself signing the contract. 

Editing Session

Editing

Today, myself and Kallum sat in the mac room at school and went through some of the footage we had recorded at goals the day before. This footage included me dribbling towards goal and shooting at goal, with Kaan being the goalkeeper. It also included myself doing some kick ups and some more footage of Kallum's brother (younger Jack)  doing the same things as me so we could show the transition and time lapse. Myself and Kallum edited the footage by adding some titles, choosing the fonts and colours of the titles and adding cuts. This was very successful since Kaan, the main editor of the group, agreed with the majority of our choices and decided to leave them in for the first draft and screening of our title sequence to the rest of the class.

Preparation and Filming - Day 6

Preparation and Filming - Day 6

In preparation for our first screening, myself and Kallum sat in the mac room and was editing our title sequence to ensure our narrative, story and genre are clear to the audience. We had to delete some scenes and remove some titles in order to have the best possible title sequence and as well as that we added some titles and effects to our footage to show the time period of when it was set in. 

Typography and Titles

In this lesson we looked at the order in which titles should appear in our title sequence. We did a task in class where we had to predict the order in which the titles appear, the title  sequence we used was 'Catch Me If You Can'. Here is the order in which the titles should appear in our title sequence;

Typography/Titles

1. Studio name
2. Main star - star power
3. Co-star
4. Title
5. Secondary actors
6. Side characters
7. Casting director
8. Co-Producer
9. Music
10. Costume designer
11. Film editor
12. Director of photography
13. Executive producers
14. Screenplay
15. Director

Title Sequence Design

• Genre
• Style/Mood
• Possible narratives
• Production values
• Themes

Notes

Notes

• Genre

• Narrative
• Iconography 
• Characters
• Settings

Skyfall -Action and Adventure - Spy

• Narrative - Tombstones - foreshadowing death 
• Iconography - Costume (suit), soundtrack (orchestral conventional of action)
• Characters - Narrative enigma created by the protagonist shooting shadows, which signifies that their are antagonists. Sexualised women (conventional of both the genre and the sub-genre).
• Settings - River red mist - shows their is danger ahead for the protagonist. 

Deadpool - Action and Adventure/Comedy - Superhero

• Narrative - Established by writing on the screen, gun and flipped car on fire shows action 
• Iconography - Props were comical eg Hello Kitty lipstick, this is conventional of a comedy as well as a contrapuntal soundtrack
• Characters - Deadpool and villains, shows superhero genre (protagonist)
• Settings - Title sequence set on the motorway in the city, it is conventional for a city to be the location of an action and adventure film because that is where conflict happens and there is a threat of the civilians' safety.

Preparation and Filming - Day 5

Preparation and Filming - Day 5

On Wednesday 7th of March myself, Kallum and Kaan went to goals in Bexleyheath to film myself in the football scenes of our title sequence and we also filmed Kallum's little brother, who is plays younger Jack in our title sequence. In addition, on Wednesday myself and qualm also filmed the scene of Jack walking into the changing room and siting down with his boots on. We will also film Kallum's little brother (younger Jack) doing this as we will continue to show his progression as he grows up. As myself being in charge of props and costume, I brought the kit in for myself which included a Tottenham shirt, adidas shorts and adidas boots.

            


        

Preparation and Filming - Day 4

Preparation and Filming - Day 4

In addition, on the Friday myself and Kaan re filmed the scene that consisted of me signing the contract. We found a year 10 student who looks similar to Jack and would portray a young Jack well to sign a pretend contract whilst in class. This is to show he aspires to be a footballer and it will show the progression of him when we fade it into the scene of myself signing the contract.

Preparation and Filming - Day 3

Preparation and Filming - Day 3

Next week on Thursday, myself and Tolani found a location in school and filmed two scenes that we will include in our title sequence. We filmed myself signing the contract that will make Jack a Tottenham Hotspur player as well as filming Jack receiving his new equipment as a result of signing the contract. He received, shin pads, boots, shorts and a spurs shirt and it shows Jack presenting it and then it goes into a shot of the equipment he had received.

Preparation and Filming - Day 2

Preparation and Filming - Day 2 

On Wednesday at school, Tolani, Kallum and Kaan went on the field to film students from the younger years playing football whilst I was writing up the pitch in which we will present to the class. After this, Tolani was looking on dafont.com to try and find the suitable font for our title, which is called 'The Journey'. We chose the font called Jersey 54. In addition, Kaan will start to edit and upload the animatic of our storyboard, which Tolani drew.

Release Date

Release Date

We have chosen the release date for our film to be Friday 14th of April because it is during the easter holidays and therefore this will mean kids are off school so we hope that this will increase the gross overall and the gross during the opening weekend. We have also chosen this time of year because it is just before the summer, which means that film festivals will be looking to nominate films for awards. We hope that our film will be considered for nomination and even possibly have a chance at winning an award. This is because one of the main successes for an independent film is to feature at film festivals and receive awards. In addition, many film critics will be at the film festivals and independent films also look for positive critic reception.

Director

Director

The director of our film is Frank Darabont. We chose this director because he has proven himself as a very successful director with directing films and series such as The Shawshank Redemption and The Walking Dead (2010-2011). His successes in drama was vital to us because that is the main genre of our film and some of his other works have been with films with small budgets. This proves that he can make a good film with a small budget. His success with films and series with different sub genres also attracted us to use him because it proves that he is not limited to one sub genre and is very flexible.

Budget

Budget

Taking into consideration that the average budget of an independent film is £1,000,000. We believe that the most suitable budget for our film is £3,500,000. We believe that it is a suitable amount in order to make a successful film and our target in the opening weekend is £1,500,000 and we hope the final total gross to be £4,000,000-£4,500,000. We hope our multiple production companies will market our film successfully as well as organizing for our film to feature at at least two film festivals, which would hopefully lead to a positive critic reception and nominations for awards. 

Audience Profile

Audience Profile

As a football film, the target audience of the movie will be young male teenagers. The main reason being that most teenagers play football and always dream of becoming a footballer. Teenagers will be the primary audience as well as football fans. I would argue that the secondary audience of our film will be young adults. This is because the films' sub genre is drama, so they will take the film a bit more seriously compared to young teenagers who would mainly be going to the film because of its sports genre. We also believe the secondary audience of this film would be young adults because some of the issues in the film could be similar to things those people are currently going through/have gone through and they can relate to the charter in he film.

Here is the audience profile I created on photoshop for our film.

Appointing Cast Members

Cast Members

—Jack (Protagonist) – Tom Holland
—Young Jack – Jacob Trembley
—Iris (Love interest)– Candice Patron
—Mr Jackson (Jack’s PE Teacher) – Alan Shearer
—Jeremy (Bully 1) – Miles Teller
—Kaan (Bully 2) – Ahmet Calik
—Director/Producer – Frank Darabont (Tolani)
—Costumes/Make-Up – Lindsey Pugh and June Brickman (Jack)
—Cinematographer/Lighting – Maryse Alberti (Tolani and Kallum)
—Editor- James Haygood (Kaan)
—Music Advisor – Jason Alexander (Kallum)
—Graphics Editor – David Carson (Kaan)

We chose these actors because we felt as if they would realistically feature in this film and other films such as 'Swiss Army Man' have managed to attract big stars, such as Daniel Radcliffe, to star in their films.

Genre and Similar Films

Genre and Similar Films

Our film fits in the genre of a drama and it fits under the sub genre of sport. We believe that it is a drama because the film includes scenes that focus on issues such as single parenting, lack of financial support and bullying. it also includes a romantic sub plot in which the protagonist has to choose between his girlfriend and his footballing career. Examples of similar films to ours are;

• Goal Trilogy 
• Creed
• Fight Club
• Moneyball
• Bend it like Beckham

Production Company

Production Company

Our film is an independent, British film and this means that there will be multiple production companies in order to generate the funding for the film. We chose these production companies because we believe that these will both fund and market our film effectively and successfully and help us be successful at film festivals and at release. The production companies we have chosen to produce our films are;

• Antenna Pictures
• Baby Cow Animation
• Creative England
• Grass Roots Media
• TVE