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Mise-en-scene

The costume for the main character was meant to appeal to mordern teen fashion, and also appeal to the sterio type that teens who wear a hoodie is up to no good. The black cloths also help to enforse this steriotype. However we still wanted to have middle class look to kelly, having her wearing clean cloths, without any holes, but even without the holes the outfit does not look new.
The locations chosen may appeal to some tren and adult audiences for there are park and religious locations. We chose the location of thr church because we though it would look dramatic in comparison to the death of one of the characters. We also chose the location of the park because it is somewhere that teens are likly to hang out and also because it is a public location and we have no budget money to spend on renting a location to film in.

Actors

The main character is a 17-18 who fit the age profile needed for a youth drama, and the hair colour would appeal to a more unique audience and realates to the many young people today that have coloured hair simular. The hight and gender of kelly also has many simularites to the average teenage girl living in london. 

The angry male character played by morgon gorden tompson, he did drama courses and was more impresive in his acting abilities then some of the othere actors included in the title sequence. Although he was only shown on screen for a few moments he makes a large impreshion by hitting the  main character, knocking her to the floor towards the camera. 

The murder is a female actor however for the purpose of the storyline we wanted them to be a male character in the scene, as they kill another character on screen. She did a amazing work on camera making sure her hood never moved to reveal her face and the large jacket cover her slender female figure.

Story line

-Our storyline is shown from the point of view of Kelly. Showing all the events that happen to her or that she is aware of, like the film is all being told from diary entries, which we were going to include but we ran out of filming time. We chose this view because it is similar to other media products out there like ‘Angus, Thongs and perfect kissing’ which already has a large teenage audience and would help give us inspiration on how to appeal to that audience.

-Kelly used to be a normal teenage girl; she used to have friends, a home, in education and most important of all she used to be safe. But then something happens and she is thrown into a life where she is beaten up by drug dealers for money and get phone calls informing her about murders.
-We had a bit of trouble thinking how to show this in a short title sequence and yet not give away too much of the film in the process, what we first came up with was that we would find Kelly dead in a bathtub and then rewind though the film to the beginning of the story. Almost like in the ending of Donnie Darko they go back in time to scenes shown earlier in the movie but they show a difference in how the events turned out having Donnie die instead of live. However we wanted to have a similar effect for the beginning of our media product and not the ending, but having this work as a base we knew what the base characteristics our product would need to have to appeal to a similar audience.

Production and distribution comanies 

-Our production company already have a young target audience, consisting of indepented fans and also fans of Andrew Lee Potts who starred in many TV dramas and Film that appeal to teenage/young adult audiences. So they are a perfect choice for a production company that know more about our target audience then we do with their experience.

Also for our distributor we have a larger mainstream company that would be able to distribute our product over a larger range of platforms and locations. This would be better for our product to be seen by both mainstream and independent film fans, also it would show how diverse our product is to appeal to both audiences. However when choosing our distributor we also looked at what kind of films they have released in the past and Icon Film Distributors have very similar target audiences and sub-genres to our product.

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Our Kelly Website

Check out or Kelly Website

• candimedia4.wix.com/kelly
  

Last Day Of Filming!

Day 2 of Filming

Day 2 of filming was the killing scene. Our shot were tilt ups, long shots, mid shots and over the shoulder shots. We used these shots because we felt it really captured the atmosphere of the scene.

Our next scene will hopefully be the bedroom and bathroom scenes which are the most important in establishing the actual opening. 

Our feedback from this was that while Lily was hanging over the dead boy, it looked as though she was trying to get his blood on her. We decided we may have to re-film this scene again.

Timetoast -title credit order

StoryBoard draft 1 with feedback

FEEDBACK

• More detailed - shot types we may use, specific scenes we may use especially the rewind 
• Good story line may be to complexes to accomplish 
• more images- to give a more visual idea 
• use a story line template  

Rough Cut Edit 1

After finishing our rough cut, Marisa gave us some feedback on our scenes. To begin with, we need more match cuts and different shots for all or scenes. Because we're being marked on the smoothness and quality of our film, we shouldn't really follow characters and just have many different shots instead.
She gave told us to have Lily fall into a shot, because that would be a good shot for us to have in our film.
There was a shot that Lily went out of the view of the camera. Marisa advised us to reshoot that section.
She also said for our first bedroom scene we shouldn't do a 360 pan, it would be better to just have different shots in the scene.
We will need to figure out a way to integrate titles into our film.

Planning Post 22; Initial Ideas

The Sub-Genre we decided on was YOUTH DRAMA;This is because, we as a group felt that it would much more fun and interesting to create a youth drama as we enjoy many of them such as:

 These films are all centred around conflict as a young adult which is what we wanted to incorporate into our film. 

Our initial plot was to begin the film with the ending and show our protagonist dead or unconscious in a bath. 

As there are only three of us in the group, we wanted to limit the characters in our opening to only one or two. This meant that our social groups that we had to introduce were only going to be troubled teens (the main character).

Day 3 of Filming

Our group was assigned to film during the half-term because we didn't get through any filming during the weeks before. Marisa was quite worried about how we would manage to finish our film but we were determined to make a good opening.

Initially our bedroom scene was going to be a 360 degrees pan, however after careful consideration we decided against it because we wouldn't be able to be still and smooth enough for it to look authentic. 
We decided the filmed scenes in the bathroom and bedroom would consist of still mid shots of different feminine objects to create the character of our film.

Our feedback was positive.

On this day we were also meant to shoot the outside of the house and shoot and traffic scene because we didn't want to run out of shots. However, we didn't because the weather on that day was very poor and we didn't want to get the equipment wet.

Planning Post 30; Location For Our Film

We thought this location would be a good idea because it looks dark and could be quite mysterious if filmed in the evening. At this location, we filmed the bloody death and our character getting blood all over herself. 

Our improvements for this scene would be to add more cuts and different angles to make the film look more professional. We could also shoot later in the day to make the film look more authentic or add a filter when it comes to editing our film.

Planning Post 27; Sound Activity

Post 39: Pitch Feedback

Planning Post 42: Photos from out filming

Planning Post 28; Media Texts That Influenced Our Film

The film Vantage Point influenced our decision to incorporate a time-lapse rewind in our film. Although it was quite fast and difficult to really see what was going on, we decided to that we would alter it a little and slow ours down.

Although our character will already be dead in our scene, the suicide of Will Smith in Seven Pounds really inspired us to not only begin the film with the ending but to also include flash backs and our character dying in a bath











S7ven inspired our title sequence as we really thought that scribbled hand writing would be appropriate for out film. Not only this but how the titles were placed strategically against the back drop, we thought of using this idea with our own.