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Hopefully this should be my commentary!

Blog Finished

My directors commentary still won't work, I will keep trying and put it on a memory stick and try again at school. 

Evaluation Q6.

Looking back at my preliminary tasks, i have learnt that you must shoot everything because the first draft we did we found that we didn't have enough footage to put the film together. It helped a lot that we did other tasks before our final piece to get used to the software and the camera because at first I found it difficult to understand at first. I also found that the research we did - like the questionnaires - helped a lot because that's how we got quite a lot of our ideas. Like using more females in our action film and using more guns. Although we do feel more confident with the cameras and the software there are still some more things we could improve on, like the continuity. While filming we sometimes forgot where we were stood or other details like that, next time we should mark the ground so we know where to stand and the continuity isn't off. 

Directors Commentary

My clip of the directors commentary won't upload onto the blog, it keeps saying error but i will keep trying to upload it. 

Evaulation Q5.

I definitely think that while filming our final piece Kelly and I were both much more confident with the camera and the editing software. We experimented with different shots and angles like the close up on the feet while running and when the gun is coming from right next to the camera.
During our practises and other opening sequences we used a lot of fades but in our final peice we changed it and the chase scene cuts very quickly, this gives the idea of it being a fast chase scene and the change of time as well.
We shot all of our film twice because when we did it the first time the dialogue wasn't right and it looked unprofessional, by doing it twice we learnt even more about the software and different effects, like in the first try we didnt put the heartbeat or gun shot noise on, but in the final attempt it looks funnier and better.

Storyboard of Day One

Evaulation Q4.

While making the opening sequence of Day One we thought a lot about how we could attract and address the audience. Our primary audience is teenage males so we thought of things they would be interested in stereotypically, like guns. The two characters you see at the beginning of Day One are both women with guns, when we did our research with questionnaires a lot of people said they would like to see more main roles from women and more guns used, straight away we use the guns and see the characters. Day One is a spoof and we wanted to show that in the opening sequence, we did this by exaggerating the chase scene and the shooting. When Louise gets shot it is repeated and we put a heartbeat effect on. Using an upbeat, well known song (Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry) helped up show that Day One isnt as serious as other action films, also films with a good soundtrack are often seen as more enjoyable and popular.

Evaluation Q3.

The audience for 'Day One' would be a mixture of men and women. The primary audience i decided would be men around the age of 14 to 30, however because we have used female actresses in this film it could appeal to women to go and see the film. We did consider the fact that there aren't any men in the opening of the film so the male audience may not be as large as other action, spy or spoof films like Mission Impossible or Johnny English but when we looked at other films on Box Office Mojo we saw that Lara Croft did very well, grossing $274,703,340, even though the main character is a female - going against the stereotype. Lara Croft also made video games  and toys, using synergy could make sure we made more money for the film, we could also bring it out as a video game or a soundtrack, using merchandise could give us a wider audience because it would make 'Day One' more popular.  

Evaluation Q2.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
We chose Paramount Pictures to distribute our film because when we did our research we found that they had distributed many action or spy films, for example Top Gun, Mission Impossible 1, 2, 3 and 4 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider. Top Gun grossed $353,816,701, Mission Impossible 1,2, 3 and 4 together made $2,093,734,671 .

Evaluation Q1.

How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our opening sequence uses props which other real media products would use, for example guns. When we did our research we saw that all action films use weapons, most of them being guns. We also challenged stereotypes and conventions of real media products because there are no men in the opening sequence. The British agent in our film is a female which isnt usually done in action films, it is usually men who is the main part. We challenged this stereotype because when we did our questionnaires whilst planning, we found that a lot of people said they would find it interesting to see more of females as main roles and involved in the action. Lara Croft Tomb Raider is a film which supports our representation of women as she is the lead role. Paramount also distributed this film which is the reason we chose to use it. Lara Croft did very well at the box office grossing $274,703,340.

Day One Presentation

Extra Editing! 7/03/12

We had a free on the 7th March so Kelly and I decided to come back into the classroom even though there was a lesson going on and work on our editing again before the editing of the opening sequence needed to be complete. Using this time we trimmed some scenes and made our chase scene faster. A few days later we added our titles then last of all we put the music and sound effects on.

Evaluation Interview

What is Day One about?

Day One is a Spy/Action Spoof film. It is all about MI5 hunting down a notorious Russian Spy, the British Agent (in black) is chasing the Russian Spy's acomplice (in pink) and at the end of our clip a mystery character apears and kills the british agent. In the rest of the film it is left open for MI5 to hunt down the Russian Spy especially now that he has killed one of their own agents. It is going to have twists in this film and in the end the audience will find out that the one in black thought to be the British agent is actually a spy themselves and everyone is corrupt.

Day One Presentation.

Final Piece!

Soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0TxOBgKeHc 

Hopefully we will be using this cover song of ACDC's Shoot to Thrill, I have to email the person on a youtube account that I will set up tonight, hopefully he will reply fairly quickly as it is in for Friday.

Me and Kelly Senior have made friends again, filming and editing a film can be very stressful so we take it out on eachother but i apologise for what i said and we are going to work past it and try and make our film good

NEW INFO. ME AND KELLY SENIOR HAVE FELL OUT SO WE NOT DOING THE THING ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Music!

Me and Kelly were originally going to play 'Walk The Line' by Johnny Cash at the beginning of our sequence with the running shots but we realised that the music doesn't match the mood of the film because our final project is a spy/action film. Instead we have decided to try 'Taper Jean Girl' by Kings Of Leon because it fits better with the genre but because of copy right we can't use their version so we have asked someone who had a cover of that song on Youtube if we can use their song for our project and they said its fine that we do. We will put it with our sequence and see if it fits nicely or not, and if not we will have a look for other songs but hopefully it will work so the music will be sorted and we can just focus on editing the clips because we are behind with the editing because of having to reshoot the dialogue scenes, which will hopefully be done by Monday's lesson.

Call Sheet

Meeting times	Saturday 21st January Saturday 28th January Sunday 19th February
Location	Wharton Park
Cast	Kelly Senior, Ellie Snowdon and Louise Browbank
Props	Toys guns
Extras	Catherine Kirk as a stand in

Slight problem because we have to reshoot our dialogue but Ellie is in London and i dont know how we're going to do it this week.

Rough Cut

This is the rough cut of our final project but we havent finished it yet and the dialogue bit is not very professional so this week we are going to go out and film the dialogue scenes again and add more running footage. 

continued.... in half term me and kelly are going to go back to our location, Wharton Park and shoot the dialogue scenes again because the continuity and camera angles were not very good. The only worry is that it has snowed since we first filmed and Ellie has had her hair cut so there might be more continuity than even before.

Because of the continuity being so bad me and kelleh have decided to reshoot our final peice just the dialogue bit though and we gonna add more running scenes .......to be cointunied

Continuity!

We are trying to edit our footage and it looks good so far with the running sequence at the beginning but when the dialogue starts the continuity is really bad and it jumps because we had to shoot the dialogue scenes so many different times. There is only like two to chose from aswell because we kept on laughing or there was people around in the park and we didnt want to act it in front of people because we were using guns.

Reviewing The Footage

I reviewed the footage we shot and some of it is very good with the camera angles at the beginning when Ellie and I run up the stairs at the entrance of Wharton Park. We had the chain on the gates rattling and swaying from side to side before we come in the scene to show the mystery and creepiness on the movie.

Me and Kelly have decided to have a scene before the opening credits. This idea is taken from the film "Juno" where there is a scene where she is talking infront of a house then starts walking, the music starts then the credits come on.

Me and Kelly have now decided after discussing ideas of our film that the best and most effective thing we could do is not to make it a spoof and have it as a proper action spy film. We have realised from doing our research into spoof films that it would be very hard and time resourceful so we're just going to make a normal action film now.

This is a possible location for the opening of the film because it is dark and eary, perfect for an action film. We have decided to film in Wharton Park Durham, i will post a picture on in due time.