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Edit 3

Edit 2 and Audience Response

After showing our first edit to a focus group of our target audience we took on board the advice we received.

Final Edit

This is the final version of my coming-of-age film opening sequence.

Shot List and Storyboard

Shot List

Storyboard

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Transcript:
Hi, I am Emma and I am 16 years old, and currently doing my A-levels at school. I enjoy watching films that I can be immersed in an where I can relate to the story, as I find them more believable.
I am a part of the target audience for the coming-of-age film 9 o'clock. Even though this film has a male protagonist, I feel that it is relateable for anyone in the age range the film is aimed at. Because the main character is the same age as me, I can relate with him because we are going through the same struggles in life (e.g. school and emotions.)

What have you learnt about technologies from the press of constructing this product?

Script

In this task we finalised our script which helped us picture our opening sequence in full. We then gave the script to our actor as well as a simplified version of our storyboard so he can have a clearer idea of our concept.  

Edit 1 and Audience Response

Thing to change/do

Add last day of footage
Add all credits
Change size of title
Add a definition/statistic
Change the producer of the film
Change the colour/font/size of the days

Tester Footage

We decided to go into the corridor when there were no people in there to try different ways of how to film it.
First of all we tried putting a tripod at different points, and filming it in sections. We then decided that this would make the opening sequence to static, and tried holding the camera steady and moving backwards, this created a rustic feel to the footage and we thought it would convey the protagonist emotions more.

Fashion Planning

 Monday (17/12/15)
Emotion - angry

Dark grey hoodie, dark trousers: We chose these clothes as they are comfortable/normal teenage clothes, and they don't really adhere to any stereotypes meaning that the audience won't pre judge the character. But they are still dark colours so they connote his anger.

Tuesday (11/01/16)
Emotion - friendly

Lighter grey sweatshirt, blue jeans: These were chosen as they were brighter colours than the previous day, to show his shift in mood, but are not too drastically different therefore he seems like the same person and is more relatable for the audience.

Wednesday (12/01/16)

Emotion - happy

Red jacket and light blue shirt: The red and blue is a sudden contrast to the other days, which shows that he is not just acting, but is genuinely happy. 

Thursday (13/10/16)

Emotion - shy

Filming Diary - 11/01/16

When filming on Monday 11th of January we decided to have less extras in the scene, which helped with manoeuvring around whilst filming hand held walking backwards. It also made the scene less busy and easier to focus on the protagonist. I think this contrast between the days is good, as it makes this scene appear lighter and he can interact with everyone, but in the pervious day it seems darker and he cannot interact with everyone making him seem isolated. This day of filming made us realise that we need to do more takes of the same scene.

Filming Diary - 17/12/15

On Thursday the 17th of December we started the filming for out new idea. Overall the filming went well. We need to work on making sure we have enough room to edit at the start and end of the take. And making sure that Patrick (played by Matt) Is the centre of attention and the camera doesn't turn to anything else.

As all of our new opening sequence is made up of interior shots, the weather didn't matter much, apart from the establishing shot, and the first shot of Monday. The establishing shot needed to look fairly neutral weather wise, but we also wanted to have the two exterior shots next to each other, therefore they needed to be filmed at the same time for continuity.
We were filming both of these shots in the morning, so for the establishing shot we made sure to film it in a sunny spot, to make the shot more neutral.

Location

Sixth form school - corridor

This was chosen as the corridor is quite small, but long, meaning that we can have some people as extras and the corridor will be full, and he will either be seen as isolated (by everyone else being high energy, and him being sad/angry, shown through body language) or can easily show friendliness as people are close to him, the length of the corridor helps as it means we have enough space for the protagonist to walk without the footage seeming forced and choppy. 

Character Profile

Patrick Simons



Age: 17
Gender: Male
Nationality: White British
Class: Lower middle class

Appearance:
    Hair Colour: dirty blonde
    Eye Colour: blue
    Height: Average height (he doesn't look intimidating to smaller people but also doesn't          appear to be vulnerable around taller people - easily relateable)

Religion: Agnostic
Nickname: Pat, Patty, Sim
Job: Student (wants to be a therapist)
Friends: No close friends (people he hangs out with but no one close - people don't understand him)
Relationship: Single

Family:
    Parents: Divorced (lives with Dad)
    Siblings: 2 older sisters (he has a lot to live up to)
    Grandparents (paternal) : Grandmother - Deceased
                                             Grandfather - lives with him

Hobbies: IT
               Video Games
               Rugby
               Playing piano

Dislikes: Football

Audience Response: