Self Evulation

What I have learnt

From looking at my work I have looked at what I have learnt from blogging and the different uses of sources I have used in order to make my work interactive as well as evaluating  how I can improve my blog to make sure it is to the best of my ability.

What I have learnt is how openings of films are made and the different stages a film goes through in order to be published for the public to watch which comes in handy for when we come to make our opening scene as we will be able to use our knowledge of the title opening in films to help us when doing our title opening and knowing what order to place them in.
Production Companies is also something that we discussed the difference between big production company that are used for well known movies with well known stars (Brad Pitt, Will Smith)and low production companies that produce small budgeted movies.
 Conventional themes is something we looked at also the different topics that we find mostly in teen films

• Relationships
• Peer Pressure
• Partying/Alcohol

We have looked at a few teen films such as Bling Ring, Mean Girls as well as me personally watching other movies such as Bring It On, White Chicks, St Trinians,Fish Tank, Adulthood and Kidulthood films that target teenagers and looking at the different techniques that they use in order to engage the audience

What I can improve

From looking through my blog post I have seen where I can improve my work by making sure that I use a range of different technology such as prezzi etc to make my blogs more interactive instead of using images all the time. As well as this I will make sure that I also use research that I have looked at in order to help me when doing my opening scene in groups so I can use my work and knowledge in order to help when coming to filming, blogging, editing our opening scene.

Planning of 'The Breakfast Club' opening remake

As a group , we discussed throughly all the micro features and things we wanted to focus on our remake , when discussing this we focused on the props , clothing for the characters and the locations of the film .

Characters :

When looking at the character of the opening we found The Jock , The Rich Girl , The Weird Girl , The Criminal and The Brain , when looking at studying these character we though about the clothing we would wear as these characters :

 ( In order from left to right )

The Criminal :
This guy is someone who isolates himself from everyone and everything , but others are not sure about him so do not converse with him , also he is someone who seems quite lonely, this may be because he has no family . This is why we will be giving this character a massive coat to suggest his scruffy self.

The Weird Girl : 
The Weird Girl in the opening , is a girl who doesn't conform to the normal societies dress code or how to act , this is why we are giving her a big bag to suggest a person who likes to learn also a big coat , with a plain top and trousers underneath to suggest her plain personality .

The Jock : 
When looking at the Jock we realised he would give the impression of the popular , sporty individual who was proud and known for their sporty achievements . This gave us the idea to show character by giving him a baseball jacket or a jock jacket to suggest authority of his status at the school , jeans and a prop to show his sporty side to give him a football to emphasis his sporty personality.

The Rich Girl :
Looking at the rich girl , you can see that she doesn't fit the high school working class society as she see herself as higher and more respected then other s , we wanted to show this through her clothes by making her wear a long coat , a blouse and a skirt and girly bag to suggest her young lady facades .


The Brain :
The brain is a character who is clever , and a high achiever in school however , shows that he isn't bothered about school and what it does . This is why we are giving him a causal look with a top , jumper and jeans , he will have a bag and be holding some books as well.

Locations :
The locations for our film is the street where the characters will be walking or driving in and also the main place , these school entrance/ building

Props :
For all the character we age them bags to suggest going to school however , each character have their own personal prop to suggest their personality and their facades they show .
For example , the jock had an football to suggest like for sports , the rich girl had her phone in her hand to suggest middle class personality , the criminal had stolen phone in his hand to suggest facades of a criminal , the brain had books and the weird girl had her diary t suggest her loneliness she has .

Shot By Shot Remake Task

For our task , we are going to remaking the opening of The Breakfast Club . In the opening  of this film , we as a audience are introduced to the main characters of the film , The Jock , The Brain , The Rich Girl, The Criminal , The Weird Girl , whom all enter the scene of the school buliding differently in terms of transport , which reflects the characters personalities and lifestyles .

Characters :

The Jock : The popular sporty type whose dream is to play a sport professional , father figure is plays a dominate figure in their life , who is stern with the idea of succeeding in sports

The Brain : The boy ho is the clever child , but doesn't act like he is , is constantly in arguments with his mother , usually his little sibling is the favourite , dependent on his mother who drives a quite old car  , could suggest working class family

The Rich Girl : The rich girl who is stubborn and snotty also spoilt, she is a daddy's girl who dads runs his own business , looks down upon people.

The Criminal : Lonely boy who many don't like , walking to school by himself quite isolated for enviorment and everyone around him , suggests his working class or even lower class status .

The Weird girl : the weird girl who everyone thinks is a loser , is isolated from her family , is driven to school and then straight  away left to be alone , no acknowledgment about her in her family or school .

From the opening of the film , you can see bits of locations that suggest a school environment before introducing the characters . For example , the sounds of the school bell ringing , and then a jump cut to the outside of the school building showing the kids entering and leaving . also , the view of the clock before this to suggest for the time for the bell . This image of a school is also shown through the modes of transport the character take such as cars , and walking , even though the are the same , all character have a different experience of it .

Traveling and Arriving Storyboard

This is our storyboard we created for a character meeting his friend in the other side of town . We followed this character with adding its travel and arrival , from this we considered all the micro features Camera work , editing , cinematography and sound , which we explained about who they experienced their journey.

Explanations of orders of titles

Orders of Titles 

When considering the order of how titles are placed , you can see that the most important people or companies are placed and go in a hierarchy of those who contributed to the film 

Order of titles :

• Distribution company
• Producers / Production company
• Written by 
• Main characters 
• Title
• lighting , costume , special effect ( who help with visual aspects of film)

For example , the distribution company "paramount" came up first , this is as the money is supplied by them also this gives the distribution company a promotion and a label to the film . this is also followed on by the producers / production company , written by and the main stars of the film . This conventional order of the titles allows the audience to see who and what companies are involved , this may lure the audience into watching a specific film as the companies such as paramount might have distrubted another film that was in their interest , this again promoting them and to their audiences .

This is similar to showing the stars in the credits , this attracts the audience and fans into the film as the are familiar with the actors or actresses and want to see what they do in a movie , this gaining more views .

Teen Film

Teen Film

Camp Rock is a musical teen movie that is focused on the protagonist Mitchie, a teen girl who desperately wishes to spend her summer at the famous camp which is especially for the arts (music and dance).

The most known actors in the film at the time were:

The Jonas Brothers

Mitchie is only able to attend the camp if she is willing to help out in the kitchen as one of the cooks. 

While at the camp she is overheard singing by the teen pop star Shane whose uncle owns the camp, but is not seen. 

Shane after hearing her then goes on to do everything in his power through the movie to find the mystery girl (Mitchie). But before any of that can happen Mitchie has to overcome her lies, face her fears and become the real her.

  

This is a tale of lies, friendship, romance and hate.

but one thing one cannot forget is that is is a tale of MUSIC!!

The twists and turns throughout this movie portray the themes in an excellent manner.
the themes are:

• Friendship
• Lies                                                                                      
• Betrayal                                                    
• Romance   
• Fame                                                                
• Family                                                      
•  Dreams/aspirations  

                                             

 

The whole film is based in a Camp site but within the camp site there had been other little hangouts for the characters to explore.

As with every teen film camp rock had to have at least one scene with the black guys rapping or dancing.

Along with that obviously there had to be that one emotional song where the protagonist finds themselves (in this case it had actually been sung by the character rather than played as non-diegetic sound).

Good: The ending was not obvious 

Bad: The cheesy lines

So all in all this had been a success as many teens are able to relate to some of the issues that arose during the move such as: dreams, friendship and betrayal etc. This had been a teenagers life all packed into a movie (well without the music).

Teen Film

                      BRING IT ON:ALL OR NOTHING

Bring it on all or nothing is shown to be a teen comedy movie based on the life of high school student Brittney who was a popular cheerleader and her transaction of moving schools and continuing her cheer leading dreams entering competitions in order to win the grand prize of being dancers in Rihanna Pon De Replay video. 

                                  Themes

Partying and Music

Relationship

Friendship

Dreams

Friendship is one the themes that is used in the movie as we see that Brittney finally discovers her true friends in the end of the movie and loses some long the way of her transaction

Relationship is another key them in the movie as we see that at first Brittney has the pitch perfect relationship with her boyfriend Brad which begins to drift once Brittney leaves Pacific Vista High School to move to a more low key school as Brad begins to spend more time with Winnie which later on prom night i revealed how she slept with him behind Brittney back whilst this is happening Brittney forms a new friendship with Jesse 

Key Characters

Brittney-White Girl

Brittney better known as White Girl is shown to be a cheerleader who is popular and has a jock as her boyfriend 

Camille-Captain

 Camille is at first Brittney nemesis as she feels at threat due to Brittney's good cheer leading techniques leading to calling her White Girl but as the movie goes on they develop their friendship further

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