British film institute

We visited the bfi today on southbank for a lecture/presentaion all about film openings. Our examiner Pete lead the presentaion and as well as talking through what to do and not do in our film openings he also had a 2 guests that talked through their work in the industry of film.
Pete gave us a very useful website which i have added to my 'Extra Website' coloumn on the side which has a huge variety in different film openings and it also sets the openings out in several or the different frames that are within the films opening.
He also went through the 6 most common film openings,(luckily ours is not included) a few of them are:
*Saw- Someone tied up in shed
*Scream- A man following a young girl then killing her
*Wake-up- The process of waking up, brushing teeth ect.
I did find his presentaion on his blog which i have posted below if you wanted to have an over view of the different topics in which he discussed with us.
The day did have it's negatvies due to the repeated mention of animation which i found to be very time wasting due to A.S students not being ale to do animations due to the specfication specifically saying that we must include different acmer angles, although this may be possible in animation for pros, as A.S students i felt it a bit wasteful.
Other than that i found the presentaion to be very knowledgeable and productive especially when he went through what not to do and fnding that we hadn't done any of these mistakes yet.
Idents where also mentioned which are the production company's such as 20th Century Fox and Universal, which i found very insightful as what is most effective is the use of Foley which we can also use in our actuall opening to ensure that the sound bridge between the birds tweeting and the song is done smoothly.
Overall it was a really enjoyable day and i feel that as a group we can now add the different techniques that he mentioned such as Foley and Ident which will improve our film and overall grade consideratley more.

Film openings event

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Representation of age presentation

Here is our representation of age using different film clips from Eastenders and Family guy.

Font

I was watching the film 'Horrible Bosses' and I really liked the font they used which got me thinking about the font we should use for our credits.
It needs to be simple but quirky!

Joely's Comment

Miss showed us this really nice comment that one of the year 13's posted about our film opening. It's great to get some positive feedback even for our first draft!

Age

Within Mrs Fitzjohns lesson were have been looking at the different represenations of age. Along with this we are going to be making our own clip of our representation of age. Much like this one:

Question

I was watching a football match today and there was a really interesting editing technique and I was wondering if it had a name. The camera zoomed in when the goal keeper put the ball down but whilst he ran to kick it the camera zoomed out, it may seem about as simple as zooming in and out but it went with the action and had a really Good effect.

Glossary of terms

I have recently added a list of links which lead to different slide shows that i have made. Each slide show conatins a list of key term under a different topic. The most recently added link is a general glossary of key terms in media but there are two others which com under the category Age and Gender.

I have also been looking ate the weather for tommorow in hope that we can do some more filming.

Fog could be a good weather to film in and i think we should get out there as soon as possible due to the more footage the beetter.

Research Homework

Marxist Media Theory on Prezi

First Draft

We uploaded and did some editing in our lesson today and ofcourse this is only our first section and there is always room for chopping and changing things but so far i think the group as a whole is pleased with the progress we have made.

Photos from filming

Here is the bike we are using in our opening. It sits perfectly in our opening due to its vintage and indie vibe that it gives off.

Here is the team hard at work with not only the camera filming but archiving on the film as well as Sophie's camera taking photos such as this one.

Here is Elisha having a break from the everlong cycling and our attempt to create a dolly out of one of Sainsbury's trolly. Yes it was uncomfortable but we did get some great footage.

The length we went to in order to get a birds eye view. We did end up getting a great shot for our opening but in all honesty it is higher than it looks!

The balancing game.. this is our attempt to get an over the shoulder shot of the ipod playing the backing song. Apart from the glare on the screen, which gives the opening a more realistic side, it turned out well.

First filming!

We were the brave ones this week and took the plunge into getting our free pass to do some filming during our lesson today. The filming went really well and we have got some really great shot including a birds eye view, literally, as i climbed a tree to achieve it! We also managed film the wheel, the opening part and we also fashioned a dolly/tracking device out of a trolly in order to get those much needed moving shots.We did come across a minor hic-up when we found that the handel bars to the bike are curved so instead of the opening beats to the song being along with the hands on the handel bars we sed the thumb to the bell on the bike. Overall the filming was really sucessful and I can't wait until we get back on the bike and camera!

Storyboarding

Here is a little clip that Miss Foster took which explains our story boarding ideas so far!

Song choice

We have come up with the song that we are most probably going to use which is 'run' by Vampire Weekend. The opening beat gave me the idea that at each beat the colours of Elisha's nails change colour symbolising the continuos continuity we hope to portray through out

Age in the Media

A few examples of how the youth and elderly are represented in newspapers such as: The Mirror, The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph and The Sun.

Representation of age within the media

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Filmed location

Just walked through were we are filming our 2 minute opening and will apologise now for my dog and running commentary!

Location?

Really colourful autumn leaves good location for our film with the bend and trees?

Song