Framing

After watching a tutorial about how to frame well and get the best out of filming different scenes , I have learnt a lot of ways to make my filming the best it can be . The tutorial ran through numerous of ideas and techniques that would improve the visual aspect of filming :

Pitch - Costumes and Props

Costume:

Urban school uniform consisting of some or all of the items below:

• Black skirt/ trousers
• white skirt
• Hooded jumper
• trainers/school shoes
• tie

we chose these items due to that fact that they do not represent a  real school but can still be identified as school uniform.
Also a vast amount of students (not only those who reside in urban areas)  do not wear their uniform to regulation until they actually enter their school environment, therefore the way in which we have chosen wear it portrays this.


(possible) Key Features:

• Bag
• Books
• Kettle
• Door
• Stairs
• Lip gloss / mirror

Camera Tutorial

Camera Tutorial

We had our camera tutorial which was very informative as Mickey the technician gave us lots of useful tips about how to film. He told us what we should do and not do and also what we should look out for while filming. Even though as a group we have filmed before it was essential in learning new tips but also refreshing our memories about ones we learnt a few months ago. Many issues seemed like a common mistake many people could make which could make the footage look less . We watched examples of videos after every tip which was useful as we could see what was happening.

Pitch- Storyboard

In order to film , we had a discussing on the different shots that we would use , focusing on what emotions and feelings we wanted to convey Sanaa to portray as the main character Shannon , after this to make filming as efficient as possible we decided to make a storyboard outlining our different shots and camera movements so we know as a group how are opening is going to run .

Pitch - Planned Location

Locations :

 When thinking about what kind of locations we could use for our opening scene , we had a discussing thinking about different types of locations that could meet our initials idea of a Teen Drama :

•School
•Estate
•Balcony
•Homes ( Flats)

After reviewing back our ideas of a Fish Tank /St Trinians inspired film ,we decided that School , estate and Homes would be the best way to represent our Teen Drama opening .

School :
 We have decided to use a school to film part of the opening of the film ; as for the school we choose a old rural school which we though best represented a deprived area .


Estate:
The use of estate will help present our film as a british urban drama as it is associated with those who are culturally and material deprived , also estate's are usually considered to be areas which are used to trouble
 

Pitch - Sub-Genre

Our film sub genre will be teen drama this is because we felt that through a teen drama we will be able to relate to our target audience as this will enable us to touch on subjects pertaining to the everyday lives of teenagers today. We explored various types of sub genres that we felt would fit with our opening such as:

•Comedy film ( White Chicks)
•British drama film (Fish Tank)
•Crime comedy ( St Trinian's)
•Action film (Fast ad Furious)

Films that have inspired us for our opening

St Trinian's :

 From St Trinian's we will be adapting the common British school concept as in the movie we see that the location is a British private school located in a rich area of London, from this we will be getting the school concept as we will be filming outside a school in London, this will help us when coming to filming as we will be able to use similar objects from the St Trinians movie.








Fish Tank :

We are basing our opening on the Fish Tank where we see a normal girl living in a estate in the middle of London, trying to fit in a certain friendship group we will use this as our setting is going to be based in an estate in London which is comparison with the Fish Tank movie.  

Fast and Furious :

From fast and furious I will be adapting the opening title as we see that in the opening of Fast and Furious the scenes are mixed with the titles which makes the opening look more engaging and wasn't us to watch more we will adapt this technique to our opening to make it more engaging.

The Title of Our Opening Scene and Treament

 Title of opening scene :

"NEW GIRL On The Block"

After discussing our initial ideas our film , we came up with the name 'New Girl On The Block' as this would follow a character who was new to her surroundings.

The Treament :

Our film opening will be about a teenage girl Shannon ,who is new to the area and is trying to fit into her new surroundings. However she has a hard time doing so as two girls are persistent in prohibiting her from fitting in , this also being the reason why she has moved before .

If this were to be presented as a full movie we would showcase the ideas of friendship, heart break, aspirations and social challenges. The way in which we would show these ideas is through the characters journeys throughout the movie, as they would have gotten into certain situations that would show any one of the previously mentioned ideas. For example we composed a mock scene where the main character and her enemy become friends over a period of time whilst spending a certain amount of time together in detention. Within our film opening, we will show the main character about to experience  her first day at a new school however before she arrives at her new school 'Shannon' gets flash backs of the bullying she encountered whilst at her old school, this later shows her journey to school, as well as incorporating the things she sees on her way there such as the two girls who she later has conflict with.