Film Indent

On my rough cut I didn't have the chance to include my Film Four indent at the beginning of my film. This is going to be added so that the audience are aware of the distribution company and also as it is known for  a particular style and genre, may give the audience an instant indication of what the film is going to be about. Film Four are known for their British Film involvement and for distributing low budget films. So this was a big reason as to why I chose Film Four. They also distributed Trainspotting and and I have taken a lot of the inspiration from that film so this also helped me to choose Film Four.

Representation in my film

The representation in my film, is quite focused on social class. The chosen class I have put my character under is working class. I found that this went perfectly as it links to all of my research on Birtish Film and the industry and how I want my film to be perceived. The films i have researched are also focused on the representation of social classes in Britain and the regional identity. I have chosen my storyline to follow a young boy growing up in the North East in a working class background. I have used the stereotypical view of the North of Britain to my advantage and how there are alot of working class and 'common' areas around. The character is into drinking underage and taking drugs which also represents the type of upbringing he has had and also his surroundings.

ROUGH EDIT OF FINAL PIECE

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Music and Voice over

Tonight I am finishing off organising the music and voice over for my video so I can add them tomorrow in lesson time. I have had to add some script in as it was too short and didn't match up to the length of my full video. The music is being put together so it is merged into one music clip and goes together in the clip smoothly. The boy who is helping record it wont be finished till later on tonight so I will update you on the final choices of songs that will be used in the video soon.

Target Audience

The Target audience I had in mind for my film, would be mid teenagers up to early twenties. I have chosen this as they would be much more likely to relate to the storyline and connect with the character. The films I analysed have the same type of audience and the ages are very similar. My story is about a teenager so it makes sense for the characeristics and habits and way of living of the character to be similar to people in real life. I have tried to reach out to this particular audience by creating a story line that would perhaps relate to them. The choice of casting also played a huge part in this. My use of mise-en-scene also helped me to create the style and relevance to the audience.

Scenes not used in my Video (outtakes)

There were a lot of outtakes I had left over in my footage that were not all sutiable to include. As you will see in the video of the clips I have created, it was very difficult to manage to keep everyone in charcter and to not get distracted easily. Jonny, the main character, particurlarly took quite some time to focus and get his scened right. Also alot of frustration went on so there is swearing and shouting haha, but who can blame me, when trying to control a room full of people with a single camera! Some of the scenes are just not filmed properly and have errors which obviously restricted me from using them in my final piece. Some of the point of view shots accidentally inclused the main character by accident so I had to redo this a few times. The main character at times lost focus and would move which ruined the continuity so I also had to redo these scenes until he finally got it right. Another problem on a few of the scenes there is light beams over the screen which appear on the clips which I unfortunately could not include either.

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of the titles I have included in my video. Here as you can see, I have chosen simple and quite dull colours. I have also put the video in black and white effect, as it links to the story and represents the it very well. Aswell, you can see the production name I decided on 'wheelhouse productions'. Here in the screenshots I have included the shot of him lighting a cigarette as it highlights the whole idea of the video and emphasises a teenager being rebellious. Alot of teenagers nowadayss, smoke and have bad habiyts, and this helps connect to the target audience of teenagers and young adults. I have aimed to create a representation of roughness in my video by making the charcaters hair look very messy, he has bags under his eyes and looks very tired and run down. I filmed very early in the morning so that he would naturally look tired and exhausted and the coldness of the weather made him unhappy, creating that kind of mood from his body language.

Editing

Throughout last week I began and continued making a rough edit of my video. I have taken time to look through all of my footage and carefully pick out the shots and clips that I want to include in my video. I was quite diffuclt as I wanted to make sure that every clip was good enough. I had to crop some of the footage and alter the duration they played for it to fit perfectly together. I found this quite easy to do but it required good concentration and focus. I decided that I wanted my film to be in black and white effect as It is similar to the film 'Control'. I applied this to all my clips and have altered the brightness and contrast. I have defcdied to include the two main actors in my film on the opening titles and not to include the extras as this would usually be included on the end credits. I came up with a production name 'Wheelhouse Productions' and added that to the titles. It was quite difficult to come up with a name and I found myself overthinking this alot, when really I just needed to simply pick a name. Still, it wasn't as easy as it looks.I have chosen a simple black background with an off white text for my titles. As it is very dull land represents the film completely.

Music

As now I will start my editing tomorrow, My friend is going to complete recording the music for my opening sequence so I can see how well it compliments my video when all of it is put together. I have chosen the same song to be throughput but he is recording two seperate versions, changing the sound completely and pace of the song. I have chosen this particular song as it is originally by a famous British indie rock band who are quite young. It fits in well as the music links well with the style the character is and also as the film being very typically british, a song that is also british and the people being teenagers aswell, represents the character himself.

Collection of Footage

I have now got all of my footage to begin my rough edit. I have filmed all of my shots for my separate scenes. My choice of outside setting went really well and I'm quite pleased with how the quality of the camera turned out. Which is absolutely fantastic.