Evaluation

Me, Jack & Kyle decided to open the film with our own designed production logo with some upbeat music. The film then opens with a fade in diping out of black and the volume of the non diegetic music gradually gets lower and then eventually goes. We thought we would open the film with a long shot of the class mates arguing over their coursework. This shot allows the audience to spot the mis-en-scene as by the props around the characters in the location. The argument also lets them immediatley know where they are located. There was more to this part of the scene, but because of the limit of time we had for the opening, we had to cut parts out to shorten it, but i think it worked well and did a good job of it.

The camera gradually zooms in into a mid shot to show the body language of each characters, you can see Jacks body language shows that he is fed up and not happy by the way he moves his arms and shrugs around the room, I act behalf of Jack as i let him do most of the talking and then i just tell the other two to get out. This shot works effectively because it allows the audience see our face expressions. As Hannah and Chris are sent out, mine and Jacks teacher then steps into the room after hearing the loud shouting from another room. As she steps and starts to give a lecture about how dissapointed she is with mine and Jacks work. The audience now know that the guys are in trouble. This part of the scene we also have our titles of the actors and actresses names. We used suitable font for a title as we thought we need something bubbly and bold so it stands out and gives hints out to our audience that this is a comedy film.

When the film then uses a dip to black fade in an says "the following day" this part is done at a normal pace, this is to slower the pace of the film to show that theres no rush to the change of day. The establishing shot of the school gives a hint out to the audinece about the mis-en-scene with the students playing ball, we kept the diegetic sounds in the background because we thought it gave the shot a realistic look with the birds twittering. Theres then a close up of me and Jack talking about our coursework, again we tryed to keep the setting realistic as possible so we worked in a busy environment with alot of students around in their free time, so there was alot of noise in the background so our recording didn't come out as we expected. Mine and Jacks audio come out quiet poor due to people talking in the background, but because it took time too shoot that scene we didn't have much time to do it again as we had more fiming to do.

Usualy in romance films both protagonists do not know each other, i think in our film we managed to come up with the same concept where both characters don't know each other unitl one see's the other and couldn't keep his eyes of her. As jack starts to walk to towards laura the girl he likes we didn't put any non-diegetic sounds in the background becasue we thought we would try to make the scene abit interesting by making him look like a loser, whist when the camera then changes its view to Laura theres then some saucy non-diegetic sounds that also gives the audience a hint of what her personality, and they type of person she is. The shot where jack falls over we thought we would use the camera as its looking through Laura's eyes so its like from her view. Soon as Jack then falls over there is then a quick cut to the title of our film "Falling For Her" we thought it would be appropriate to use that name because the film is about a young guy who starts to fall in love with a girl and used the title as he fell over in front of her. This would also be easy for the audience to know why we gave that name to our film. We also used non-diegetic sounds again when the title comes up, we used a more upbeat kidish music to go with the genre of our film, we didn't want something miserable, slow or too fast because it wouldn't fit in or suit the genre of our film.

Our film "Falling For Her" converges with two different types of genres, we have gone with a comedey and romance, we thought we'd like to give the audience a film that would keep them ammused. Comedies are made to deliberatley to amuse and make the audience laugh by making a situation and a failing relationship. Usually the plot for a romance comedy is that two protagonist a male and a female would meet each other by either arguments or accidents and then go through a harsh time together and then eventually get together. We've gone for a simple way which is when a male see's the most gorgeous girl he has ever seen and he cant keep his eyes and mind off him and as he makes a move to get to know the girl he then makes a complete fool out himself. We have also used non-diegetic sounds to make the scene much more amusing, we have used sounds which you may not hear in alot of romance comedies, but we have used it to go with the scene and we as a group decided it goes perfect and also gives the scene abit more atmosphere.

The main particular social group our film represents is teenage students, for example at the start of the opening when the teacher is telling the students off shows the location and mis-en-scene that we're now at school, the appearance of the actors also show that they are young students. The girl who plays the gorgeous girl who Jack falls in love with shows that shes a young, hot and flirty, this suggests that shes an average teenager wanting the boy to come over and talk. Comparing the girl to todays girls they are both modern, stylish and very casual. Alot of female teenagers like to keep up with the latest looks and Laura who plays the flirty girl also represents todays girls.

Romance comedy is a very popular genre and appelaing to alot of audiences. Its very common and because it is well known it may influence any big media institutions to distribute our film. I researched the top 5 romance comedy films are all distributed by different comapnies, so this gives me an opportunity to pick one out of many rather than one specific distributor thats monopolizes the industry. The top 5 romance comedy films w'ere "My Big Fat Greek Weeding" which was distributed by IFC, the second was "What Women Want" which worked with Paramount, thridly "Hitch" which was released under Sony, fourth was Pretty Women by Bueno Vista and fifth was "There's Something About Mary" this was distributed by 20th Century Fox. These are all different types of industries that realsed top comedy films and may be intrested in releasing our film.

If i was to pick a media institution that would distribute our film, i would pick a film that worked with one of my favourite romance comedy films. One of my favourite romance comedy films is What Happens In Vegas, this is produced by 20th Century Fox, which has produced one of the most money making romance comedies, but it hasn't produced alot of romance comedy films as other big well known names another film that are in this category that i enjoyed watching was Knocked Up, this film is in the top 10 and Universal Pictures thats produced this have made some top films in romance comedy sector such as The Break Up and Notting Hill, bothe these films are in top 20. I would go with Universal if they were to distribute my film product.

Our film be targeted to audience aged from 12 and above, but specifically 15 to 20 and gender. I think that because its a comedy with some romance it wouldn't have a targeted specific age becasue its a film for everyone to enjoy and everyone likes a laugh and comedies are to make people laugh deliberatly. I specifically think that ages between 15 to 20 will be more intrested in the film because its based on a simliar life to them and so is the narrative becasue it includes school, students, love and some fooling about. I think the age certificate for the film would be a 12 because theres no violence, drugs, sex but there maybe a little bit of strong language.

We got the attention of our audience by using characters the same as our audience. We used student/teenagers as our main characters and a teacher, this then gives away the mis-en-scene as we have teachers and students. We also got the attention of alot of male viewers by using the male gaze, this is when we use laura to play the flirty character and she then is able to attract boys to keep an eye on her, this is one of our ways we attracted our audience. We also used characters that we're able to act in the busy environment, and i think all the actors did they're part very well and may of grabed their attetion there as well.

I feel i have become more stronger on my editing side, i didn't know much when i first started i didn't know how to use Photoshop or Adobe Premier, but because we had Kyle who knew how to use alot of this from past experience we didn't just let him do all the editing but he did teach us alot soit gave me and Jack a part in this and we got more engaged to editing as we got help from Kyle and as we learnt more and more we started to do alot more editing. I learnt that just filming a product and finishing it from there is not a finshed product, i understood why its is inportant to cut parts out and put non-diegetic sounds. I also learnt how important it is to put in transitions to rather using cuts all the time, it give the film something different and it enables you to use different transitions in certain parts such as you can us cuts to build up pace and fade in's to slower down the pace. I also understood to use breaks while filming rather than jst film with our any breaks, it give us time to continue shootin from different angles, and to use different types of shots.

Looking back at my preliminary task, i was pleased with what we had created and i thought we couldn't produce one any better, but after learning to use new transitions and to use non-diegetic audios and others i think this has help us to produce somehing more better, but there were some parts where we should of learnt to become stronger on, i think we could of worked better on our audio as both sounds were not good quality. I am satisfied with what i have leant in this task, i have learnt how to do many adjustments such as applying music, cutting scenes, creating titles and much more. So in the long run its helped me and the team to gain new skills and i think we have made a good opening for a film and we're all satisfied.