Marking Scheme

Here is the marking scheme for our opening of a film.

G321 Marking Criteria

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We can now look at what needs to be obtained to achieve the highest possible marks.

Preliminary Exercise

Today we filmed and edited our premilinary exercise.



Analysis

The prelimiary exercise is only a few seconds long but must involve someone walking through a door and holding a conversation with a second participant. It must also involve a variety of camera shots/angles.
I filmed the exercise whilst Beste and Lana acted out the lyrics of Lady Gaga - Bad Romance.
Originally, we didn't plan on editing our exercise but as we had never used iMovie before, it seemed the perfect time to experiment with it. Also, due to our genre of comedy, it seemed the right time to try it out.
The ends of some of the words are cut off throughout our exercise and this is due to it being the first time we have used iMovie. As the number of times we use iMovie increases, so will our skills of editing.

Test For Continuity

Here is a sample of Beste walking. We was worried this idea would look too "jumpy" in our film opening so decided to try it out on the Flip Camera in our lesson.

Lesson - Monday 18th October

Today we began to storyboard our idea with some final ideas. Although this is not our final one, it is roughly what will happen..

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Lesson - Friday 8th October - Proposal

Here is our groups proposal.
Im not sure why I use my hands so much when I speak!

Our Proposal

My group have taken on the challenging task of making an alernative/indie/comedy film. The plot is simple but should be able to bag a few laughs.

The film starts with a pitch black screen. A cigarette is then lit (the only source of light) and the hand lighting it is covered in blood.

This will decieve our audience into thinking that the film is infact a thriller however these ideas our shattered as the male chokes on the cigarette (element of trying to act cool) and the camera zooms out to see a young male with shaving cuts on his face (the blood on his hands) sitting in a shed. A light will come on and this is the point where we realise that it is infact a comedy. He leaves the shed and makes his way to his bedroom where he gets ready for his day.
As he gets ready, he "attempts" a work out in which he praises himself for doing three pull ups on his door frame but awarding himself a sticker on his "workout chart". As he gets ready he puts a random selection of objects in his bag, confusing the audience. He is in his own world and as he leaves his house for his destination, he is confident. The camera zooms in on his feet but as it zooms out he is on a busy main road.
It is here we realise he is prehaps not so confident and we see his "awkward" character. The rest of the two minutes will be spent by the character trying to make it from one end of the road to the other, in which comical happenings occur. He then reaches his destination (however you never actually find out what his destination is) and says a line that again confuses the audience. The scene ends and the audience are left wondering where he was going, why he had these objects and what he was doing.


1. Our idea is practically possible to film as it doesnt involve any difficult scenes. The only possible problem would be cars on the main road we are using for the final part of the film, however if we time it correctly it will be possible.

2. Our film will definately show off the strengths of all the members in our group. We each had our own contribution to the plot of the film and due to our different interests, we can each show our strengths. For instance music, creativity and fashion.

3. It can be easily storyboarded as we only use 3 locations and there is nothing too complicated occuring.

4. It can be reasonably shot and edited in the time given as the scenes shouldnt take too long to shot - their concept is simple.

5. We can easily get access to the locations as we are using our actors own house and a public street.

 We chose to use Camden Town for our main road as it's well known for being unusual and perculiar. We believe this will highlight the characters "awkwardness" and he will be able to react off of the people surrounding him.

6. Lighting should not be a problem for any of the film as for the first scene of the film as we are using a shed and the intentions is that it is dark. When in the characters bedroom, there should normal daylight and we will be filming early morning in Camden Town. Sound may be an issue in Camden however that can be eaily edited out.

7. We will be including dialogue in the film however it will be kept to a minumum. In the first two locations the sound can be filmed at the time however on our final location the sound will have to be added in.

8. For our main character we are using our friend James Mansfield as we feel he will fit the character well. He is reliable and therefore continuity will not be an issue. Our character is inspired by the actor Michael Cera as he portrays the "awkwardness" of the character perfectly.

We may also use extras however they are irrelevant and it will be down to who is avaliable at the time.

9. The credits and the soundtrack play a huge part in portraying that film is an alternative indie film. We are hoping to have animated credits like that of Juno and Superbad.

Opening Credits of Juno


Opening Credits of Superbad


Diana Vickers video for The Boy Who Murdered Love also contains some really good animations which have inspired to make our credits similiar.

Diana Vickers - The Boy Who Murdered Love



We have also thought about the soundtrack which will play as the character leaves the shed and gets ready for his day.
We have friends who are willing to cover songs if not we will get in touch with people who have already made covers and ask if we may use theirs.
Here are a few songs we are interested in using.

The Kinks - Wonder Boys



Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips



Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams

Lesson - Friday 1st October - Story boards

Today we looked at story boards and how important they are. We story boarded a previous media student's preliminary exercise as an example.
This exercise illustrated how much work goes into a simple 2 minute clip and highlighted their importance.
We have now formed groups and are gathering ideas on plot/locations etc for our opening of a film.

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