Monday, 24 March 2014

Institution Research: Choosing Our Distributor

Question 1)
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

After researching several distributing companies that could work with our 'independent' film, we agreed that Fox Searchlight Pictures was the perfect choice. Fox Searchlight Pictures are owned by the huge American company 'Fox' and specialise in distributing independent and British films to American audiences, and internationally. This is crucial as it widens our audience and forms attachments to the Hollywood industry, perhaps allowing a chance for our film to be successful in the box office internationally if it becomes popular enough.,

PREZI PRESENTATION: 


Wednesday, 12 March 2014

The Final Product

After many late night editing sessions, we finally completed our opening for a teen romance drama film.

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Changes During Production

Change in script:
At first, we made changes to the scene headings so that they matched up to the storyboard:

Then we changed it again during the filming process as, in our first attempt at filming, we found that the dialogue did not achieve the right effect and sounded a little strange, so we made Harry's opening line more casual, sounding less weird. In addition, we altered the opening sequence so that her reflection was in a bathroom mirror as we were not able to get a shot of her through the window of a classroom without a reflection of the camera:

Change of casting:
During the filming process, we encountered problems with scheduling due to our actress for Emma coming from another school, which meant that we had to work our schedule around her, which was not always easy. We discussed the possible solutions and agreed that we should re-cast the character of 'Emma' and use someone from our group, so scheduling would be easier to manage. As a result, we cast Katie as 'Emma' and re-filmed the train station scene that we had already filmed, changing our production schedule.
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New character profile for Emma:



Change of Storyboard:
During the filming stage of our production, we decided to change the very beginning of our opening from a classroom to a school bathroom, as that way we would not need as many people, and it would be easier to work with less people. Plus, the lighting and colours were better in the bathroom location than in the classroom. We decided to alter the storyboard after filming just to show what we wanted it to look like and how we executed it.