Interviews

This is my survey of which films people enjoy, and together will with my group this will give us some good information to help us with our film. After carrying out this research, together with my groups i noticed that, both males and females enjoy comedies. Females generally prefer romantic films whereas boys would say that they gives a false preception of love. Boys generally prefer action or scary films. Most people, both male and female, said that the beginning of a film is important because it sets the mood of the film which means are openings must grab the audience and also be clear of what the genre is. In addition, there was 'umming' and 'ahhing' when we asked about the showing of memories in a film. Some people said this sometimes confused them, however if it is done well they thought it gives a better understanding of the character.

Improvement to our Idea

While Ciara was telling her dad about our film idea, she accidentally told it wrong. However after correcting her mistake, her dad said he preferred the first version she told and so did the rest of the group. Here is her explanation.

Market Research

We thought the following questions will give us good answers to grasp the current audience demand, demographics, contemporary topics of films etc to give us some information about is appealing.

1) What gender are you?

2) How old are you?

3) What is your preferred movie genre and why?

4) What is your worst movie genre and why?

5) What is your favourite film and why?

6) What is your leas favourite film and why?

7) How important is the opening sequence of the film in your opinion?

8) How effective do you think showing characters memories are in a film?

9) Does the actors in a film influence whether you watch it or it?

10) What are the things you look for in a film? (e.g. love, action, cars etc) 

Practise Filming

I love this however we forgot to mute the panning section, you can hear my amazing piano playing in the background, we now know not to make this mistake in our real film.

Filming and Editing

Filming with my group was fun and I think we work well together and bounce off each others ideas well. Doing our prelim,which was a scene from Mean Girls with our own twist. This was the first time using the cameras which got us used to using them and experimenting with different camera shots which gave us inspiration for our final idea. Also, it was my first time being on camera and 'acting' in front of everyone. 

Editing was good, there is so much you can do with iMovie and we only used a small amount of the many effects available. I'm excited to explore more of iMovie and I think I'll enjoy editing a lot. 

However, we horrifically thought we lost our footage but there was loud sighs of relief when we realised it was a false alarm, phew.

 

Unexpected Pitch

This is our initial thoughts and ideas for our two-minute film opening. We pitched it to the class for some constructive criticism  however they all liked the idea we came up with and Miss Foster gave us the 'green light' which was a relief.

Mac 4- Prelim Outtakes

I had so much fun filming and editing this and I feel like a movie star watching it back.

Mac 4's Prelim

It is finished!! Filming it was so much fun. Editing was a bit of a struggle but with some help from our new best friend Google we got it done in the end.