Final Film Opening

This is our final media opening. 

Our Actors

We used four actors for our film opening.

Eleanor Tar ( Genette Tate)















Millie Swales (teenage girl)
















Lissy Moore  (teenage girl)

















Matt Ross ( kidnapper)













We used Millie Lissy and Eleanor because they are about the same age as Genette and the teenage girls and are natural looking and we used Matt because although the kidnapper was a middle-aged man you don't see his face and so we thought that it would be ok to use a 16 year old. I feel like this may be a downfall in our filming but we had no other actors and using Matt helped us when it came to filming because when we needed him to film he was always available and we could all go after school to film.

How Our Film Is Different To Our Animatic

We made a few changes to our film from our original concept one of these being instead of doing a shot of Genette going past the White Horse directly we included it in the background of the shot where Genette picks up the newspapers at the bus stop. We changed this because of where the bus stop was and we didn't want our actress to cycle on the busy main road.

We also changed the last shot at the end which originally was supposed to be of a newspaper with an article of her on it to just a shot of the bike and newspapers with Genette nowhere insight. 

Audience Viewing Habits

I asked students at school what their favourite type of genre was out of the following.

Comedy
Thriller
Chick Flick
Horror
Action
Drama


Male
Comedy           3 people
Thriller             1 person
Rom Com        1 person
Horror              1 person
Action              1 person
Drama             
Sci Fi               1 person

Female
Comedy           2 people 
Thriller             1 person
Rom Com        2 people 
Horror              1 person
Action
Drama
Sci Fi

I also asked what they thought of films with the genre of Drama because are film is a Drama. This is what people said.

"I like them although the genre isn't my favourite I'd still go and watch it."

"They make me very emotional cause of the story lines"

"There are not many films in the category that have grabbed my attention"

"Pretty interesting"

"They are great"

"I enjoy watching it"

"Love it"

"Its good and intriguing"

"I enjoy watching drams if there are good characters you can connect with and lots of twists to the plot."

" I like the genre because its intense but also has good storytelling."

"I haven't seen that many but its looks good"

Our Distributor

We chose for our distributor to use Film4 because they are British digital television channel and we wanted a distributor from the United Kingdom. They have distributed films such as Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and Four Weddings And A Funeral. All of these films have various genres to them but they all include the genre of drama and this is the genre of our film opening. 

Lighting Workshop

We had a lightning workshop at school that taught us how important lighting is in a film to convey a certain atmosphere or mood. Below is a some lighting techniques.

Low key lighting 
This type of lighting gives a shadowy effect to a scene in a film they are mostly used in horror and drama films. 

High key lighting 
This type of lighting is most commonly used in musicals and comedies emphasises happiness.

Back lighting 
This is the process of illuminating an object or character from behind, this creates a glowing effect. The lighting shown below gives a sense of intensity to the piece.

How To Edit Sound

I watched youtube videos about editing sound to help me when I tried to put sound in on our opening. I found it helpful as it showed me tips on how to edit sound on premier pro, before watching this video there was criticism over the sound in our piece so when I watched this I hoped it would help me when I came to try and fix those problems.

Below is an image of me finding sound for our piece.