questionaire summary

1.How did the film fit the genre?

overall most of our feedback was good.
although a couple of people didnt realise the genre was romantic comedy by looking at our film opening.

2. Does the film appeal to the chosen target audience?

Most of the people who took our survey thought the film appealed to the target audience because they thought many different ages could appreciate our film opening

3. What do you think would improve our film?
There wasnt any suggestions on how to improve our film apart from making the film genre more obvious.

4. Do you understand the concept of the plot? Is it believable?
Most of the people understood the concept of the plot, and thought it was believable.especially the past to present bit, which added to the concept of the film.
5. Do you think the titles work well with filming?
Everone thought the titles worked very well with the filming, showing everything they needed to, and fitting in well with the opening.
6. What did you think to the quality of editing throughout the duration of the film?
everyone thought the editing ran smoothly throughout the film and looked realistic especially the montage of shots at the end of the film opening where the woman is brushing her hair, putting her makeup on etc.
also the slow motion of the girl falling over added to the quality of editing.
the music was also said to have been edited perfectly into our filming.
7. Does the film connect to the audience if so how?
most people thought the film connected to the audience as there was humour added, which was directed at young adults.
8. What particular bits did you enjoy of the film?
our questionaire showed that most people enjoyed the girl getting tripped up at the start, added with the slow motion. and the end the montage of shots, which were said to be effective.

questionaire

We did a questionnaire to find out what people thought of our production. We gave the questionanaire to five people.Questionnaire
1. How did the film fit the genre?
2. Does the film appeal to the chosen target audience?
3. What do you think would improve our film?
4. Do you understand the concept of the plot? Is it believable?
5. Do you think the titles work well with filming?
6. What did you think to the quality of editing throughout the duration of the film?
7. Does the film connect to the audience if so how?
8. What particular bits did you enjoy of the film?

Evaluation

we chose to shoot our film in quite a busy place,

after changing our idea several times due to difficulties and set backs, we finally decided to film in the common room at school, i thought this worked quite well as our film opening shows a girl being bullied by the popular kids at school, and then later progressing to be a woman later on in age, getting up and ready for work. this taught me alot about the importance of shooting schedules and the timing. although we wanted the scene realistic with a few people in the background chatting and acting normally, we did want to get a good quality footage of the actors and also good sound quality as if there was too much noise in the background it would have been distracting.

Another aspect of the filming i have gained lots of experience in is how to direct the authors and to think about angles, mise en scene, i felt i was quite successful in this area when i filmed a montage for the end of the film opening, which followed a character getting ready for work.

the very first shot of this montage was the girl brushing her hair, and then applying her makeup, i felt that this connated the impression of a woman, getting ready to work, all grown up very sucessfuly as it is very clear that the character is an older girl, waking up in the morning, and getting ready for work as the character clearly says " Another day at work"!

During the editing process i became very adept at creating good continuity, learning exactly how precise i needed to be with cutting clips when switching shots, this was particularly important in the scene where it changes from Roxie and Sean talking, and the cutting to the scene of them walking out of the doors together, roxie infront and sean following shortly behind. if this wasnt dont well it wouldnt look very good as it should be shown as all one scene, but the camera changing angles.

our film plot is similiar to thirteen going on thirty with the idea of showing the girl at a young age, and then growing into a woman., i think our film opening follows the conventions of real media products closely, although i havent yet seen a film which starts off with a young girl getting bullied, which could actually challenge the general plot lines of romantic comedy, but the plot line still shows and follows the common plot line of real media products.

Our media product represents student typed teenagers,and growing adults as a particular social group, as the opening scene of our film all the characters are teenagers, and then changing into one of the characters being a growing adult, the film is based around romantic comedy, which is enjoyed by many social groups.

our media product presents students as immature, rude and nasty.

but also potrays one of the characters as a quiet, shy girl who gets bullied.

we adressed and entertained our audience by filming roxie being pushed over in slow motion at school, i think this adresses our targeted audience of young adults, as it is something to relate to from school, or something that most people would find quite funny.

we have clearly potrayed sean(jack naylor) as the school bully in the opening, and potrayed roxie(paige millington ) as the school geek.

the slow motion of the laughs in the background also sounds very funny in the film.

When I was working on the preliminary task the main focus was on continuity rather than plot line or character. overall the film opening continuity went well, although with room for improvement, we could of spent more time makeing the editing perfect, rather than rushing to get it finished. and getting the music added.

I think our Filming went quite well, with room for improvement, we had set backs of changing our ideas several times, which caused time problems, we had to rush to get everything finished, edited and burned on to a dvd.

We introduced all the main characters in the beginning of the film, to make it clear to the audience who the main characters were.

overall i think our editing skills were shown in our film opening,

we used transitions, and the title screens that already come with premier, we sucessfully added and timed all our music well with the scenes in our film.

I thought personally the fade ins and outs on our titles looked sucessful, as we spent time deciding what would look better.we also added a slow motion part to our filming which worked effectively.

I have learnt alot whilst working on the filming and editing, i have learnt how to effectively use my time, and how to construct the scenes effectively, keeping all the scenes, music and editing in good continuity.

I have enjoyed working on this task, and feel like i have benefited in knowledge from it. one thing i would change if i had the chance, would be to of used my time more effectively, and to have spent more time on perfecting the editing continuity.

set designs and costumes

After having to change our idea several times, we had to choose the option of their being no specific set design or costume design.

the setting was in the school common room, we chose a time which wasn't too busy, but still looked realistically  like a school.

Our costume design was just basically casual clothing which would be worn to school.

If we would of gone with our first idea of A party scene 

there would of been alot of set and costume designs.

Romantic Comedy Research

Romantic comedy films are light hearted, humorous plotlines centered on romantic ideals such as true love able to surmount most obstacles, Romantic comedy is a sub genre of comedy as well as of romantic and often have elements of screwball comedies.

Screwball comedy a subgenre of the comedy film genre. It has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres. 

romantic comedys.

My big fat greek wedding

sex and the city

hitch

pretty woman 

what women want

as good as it gets

knocked up

theres something about mary

Script

We havent got a script as in our filming there is hardly any speech,The only speech used is the group of girls calling roxie (paige millington) and laughing.
and then sean (jack naylor) goes over to roxie and asks her to go outside with him.