The 'Popular' girls location

The location Victoria and I have decided to use for the ‘popular’ girl is my house in Leire, my house is fairly large and nicely decorated, this will contrast entirely with the house we have chosen for the ‘unpopular’ girl. Also an advantage of the location being my house is that there will be no problems when it comes to the days and times we need to use it. Featured below are some shots of my house:

Mood Boards

I generated a mood board for each of the binary opposite characters we are trying to create in our opening sequence, I did this so I could get a deeper knowledge and understanding of the characters, I did this by thinking about what they would wear, what activities they would enjoy, who there friends would be, what music they would listen to etc and hopefully by gaining this depth and information I can portray this to the audience also through mise en scene.

25 word pitch

We were asked to produce a piece of writing, consisting of 25 words that would sum up our entire film and enable the audience to understand the plot fully. This is what we came up with:

“A romantic comedy aimed at teenagers, which revolves around two female binary opposites and how their high school cliques operate.”

Examples of interesting shots

The Blurry shot that Olivia and I will use is similar to this one. This shot will look effective in our media for when the 'unpopular' female puts her glasses on. We will do mainy practice shots to achieve our final overall 'blurred' glasses shot.

I believe that this blurred shot will look effective and will flow well with our romantic comedy genre - the element of subtle humour of the character not being able to see.





This clip is usuful for inspiration for the getting ready scenes in our film opening. My idea was to use something similar to this however when Demi Moore (the actress in the film clip) puts her underwear on we will use a close up/ extreme close up, (for our credits) using name lables in the seams of the briefs.




This 'Birds eye view' shot can be used effectively in the bike scene of our film opening. The bike scene is when the 'unpopular' girl bikes on a dirt path, gravel road to school: she goes under a tunnel and i had the idea of standing on the top of the tunel and film her going through it.

Pitch Feedback

Our whole class agreed that our film should fall under the genre of Romantic Comedy and that it should be aimed mainly at a female audience, however there was some deliberation over what age the target audience should be and underneath I have created a pie chart to illustrate the outcomes. As you can see the over riding vote lies with the ages of 13-19, this is the exact age we were planning on aiming our film at and our class affirmed this idea for us.

Positives
Well thought out characters
Would attract a large audience as many people enjoy the genre/type of film
Well planned out pitch
Very easy to understand and will be very easy to watch, this will attract many people
Love the location choices and think there realistic but at the same time totally contrasting
Been influenced by many different shows and characters (intertexuality) this shows it has been well thought about

Potential Problems
It will be hard to use cross cut editing
Continuity may be an issue, for example the weather will need to be consistent
Could be made more original as there is already a lot of films out that are similar to this
Having to change location constantly may be hard due to weather and it will take up a lot of time
The editing will have to be very slick for it to have its desired effect
You will have to make it overly clear the difference between characters as the audience may get confused easily.

This feedback proved extremely useful, we are going to take all of these positives and potential problems and reassess some of our ideas so that non of the issues raised above will be solved.

Pitch

This is a powerpoint we created to present to our class so we could recieve feedback and constructive criticism as to how we can impove and advance our ideas.

our pitch

Shot List

After vast research we have come up with several ideas our film opening. We want the opening and the credit to be fairly quirky and unusual...



Credits


• When the two binary opposite characters are getting dressed I had the idea of using name labels, for the director’s credits.


• Also whilst the less fortunate (Unpopular) girl is rushing getting ready and doing homework at the same time, she could type her name at the end of her work.


• Whilst both the female leads are eating breakfast, we could use some credits on the food boxes.


• Some of the credits could also look effective with post coming through the door.




Interesting shots


• When the un –popular girl wakes up using a soft focus shot to make the shot ‘fuzzy’ then she reaches for her glasses (the shot is a close up of her hand); the shot changes to a close up of her face (still fuzzy): as she puts her glasses on the shot becomes clearer.


• The camera is put in the fridge, the fridge is then opened and there is a close up/ mid shot of one of the female leads, however this shot is going to be repeated with both of the females –the mise en scene represents the binary opposites.


• When the (un-popular) female is biking to school, she goes under a tunnel – we believe that a bird’s eye shot would look effective here.


• When the females are eating breakfast we had the idea of zooming into one bowl of cereal in the un –popular girl’s house then when it zooms out the shot is in popular girls house: same bowl of cereal.


• The first shot of the ‘popular’ girl begins in an extreme close up of just her eyes then zooms out to a long shot.


• When the ‘popular’ female steps out of the car (at school) – beginning with one leg then the other. A close up of the heeled shoe should be used then a zoom out to show the leg then a tilt shot should be used. This shot connotes her sexuality –Laura Mulvey’s male gaze.