Teen angst film opening, filming

Since we have made both of our PowerPoints, we have started filming our film opening, and we started filming the shots where our main character is walking through the corridors of school, where there aren't many background characters, so we just got some of our friends that were free to do various things in the background to make the school look more populated, and we have started filming some of the shots where our main character walks across Priory Park, with some of the first person shots and scenic shots. We plan to shoot the classroom scene during a lesson when all the required people are free, so that the school does not look empty, and so that it looks as if it were in an actual classroom.

We were hoping to film during lunch time and break time so that the school looks busy, but we have mainly done our filming in lessons, and have changed it so that it is after an after school club, but there are still a few people around. We still need to film some of the shots with our main character walking across priory park, and the classroom scene, although we may not include a classroom scene in the finished film.

Teen angst film opening, storyboard

For our film opening, we needed a storyboard, as all films do. Initially, I created a storyboard on Publisher, printed it out, and drew a rough approximation of what our storyboard would finally be, before printing out another copy, and letting Josh draw the actual thing, as he has much better drawing skills that I do. We then photographer the Storyboard, and were able to get it back on the computer.

I don't know why this picture is on it's side...

Teen angst film opening, Shooting Schedule

For filming our film opening, we initially planned to film at lunch time, or as school finished, so that there would be a lot of people around, but later realised that it was a lot easier to film where there weren't many people around, so we changed it so that our character was coming out of a 'detention'.
We did however, rope in a few of our friends, to do various background tasks/actions, to make it look like there were still some people in the school. This meant that we were mainly filming during our Media Studies lessons, or when we had free periods.

Teen angst film opening, Script

For our film opening, we obviously needed a script, and Josh went about writing ours, with input from Myself and Jack.












The script starts of in the classroom, although we have since removed this scene, and the rest of the script is narration, which will be played over our footage. Josh, who is playing Max (our main character) was the person who will be narrating as he walks through the school.  To record the narration, we went to the Music Tech department and used their recording studio, as I took Music at GCSE, and briefly took Music tech at A level, which is how I knew they had a recording studio. Although we could've just recorded his voice normally, I knew that the audio quality would be much better if we used the recording studio, and there wouldn't be any background noise.

Teen angst film opening, Cast

For the cast of our film opening, we initially intended to have a female main character, but switched to a male main character as our original main character wasn't free to film too often and it was just easier to film with our male main character. We have been casting any friends that have been around when we were filming as background characters to make the school seem less empty, and we have 'recruited' other people to be in our film, but we haven't filmed a lot of those parts yet. We have hanged our minds about some other cast members as well. For the teacher in the classroom scene at the start, we were going to cast one teacher, but he wasn't available to film when we were, so we had to change to a different teacher.

Teen angst film opeing, Risk assesment.

For our film opening, we were shooting in two different places, Longsands Academy and priory park, so we needed two risk assessments.


















The Red risk assessment is for while in Longsands, and includes how to avoid falling down stairs, slipping and walking into students, and the green risk assessment is for while in Priory park, and includes how to avoid slipping over. tripping on uneven ground, and being attacked by a dog.

Teen angst film opening, Props and Costumes

For our film opening, we originally wanted fairly generic things, with out main character and their friend wearing what they would usually wear to sixth form and we wanted to have our 'bully' and their friends wearing somewhat expensive looking clothing. As for props, we were going to use most of our props for the classroom scene, at the start of the film opening, but we decided, for the draft at least, that we weren't going to include the classroom scene, as we weren't able to get everyone together when needed.

Teen angst film opening, Logo

The logo of our film, Lonely Life of a Teenager, Jak designed our logo, and we had a small amount of deliberation about the font that was going to be used, but in the end we decided on one we liked.

We also changed our 'company' logo a few times. We started off with what looked like a wolf howling in a snow globe,

 Then we removed the bottom of the logo,

Then using PowerPoint animations as a basic animation tool, I made on that 'moved'
It started out with a gif of a wolf howling, the isolated the wolfs' head, then the moon faded into the background, and the company name appeared.

The reasoning behind our logo is that the wolf is 'alone' as is our main character, who is portrayed as lonely, with not many friends.

Teen angst film opening, USP

The USP (Unique Selling Point) of our teen angst film is that it confronts issues the a socially anxious teenager would confront. It shows how lonely some people can be, compared to how popular fairly similar people can be. If this were to be a full film, our main character would confront various situations to do with their social anxiety, and they would have to overcome them.

Teen angst film opening

For our Teen angst film opening, we got into groups and started planning. I was in a group with Josh and Jak, and we started planning a film opening about a teenager with social anxiety. We worked together over a few weeks to make a PowerPoint, and then presented it to everyone else on our course.
Here is the video of our presentation:


After we made our presentation, we made a second presentation with details about further aspects of planning, such as: cast, costumes, risk assessments.

Here is our PowerPoint for further planning:

 

In the presentation, this is what we covered:

Slide 1: We included our title for our teen angst film and our films logo, as well as who it is by.

Slide 2: We Used PowerPoint animations to make a moving logo, to give a feel for what our final logo will be.

Slide 3: We go through our characters and who we want to play these characters.

Slide 4:We go through our costumes that we want our characters to wear, and some basic props that we may need.

Slide 5:We have made risk assessments for both of the places that we will be filming in, Longsands Academy and Priory Park.

Slide 6:We added pictures of our script as well as a link to the word document with our entire script on.

Slide 7:We included details about when we want to film our film opening, including details about what time of day, the weather and reason for these.

Slide 8:We included pictures of our storyboard and a link to the Publisher document where the whole storyboard could be seen in one document.

Preliminary task (The invitation)

Preliminary Task

 

 

What we did:

In this task, we split off into groups, and in these groups, we went off to different locations to film a short scene. In our scene, we filmed Josh walking away from a classroom, remembering something, walking back into the classroom, and talking to Jak about a party at his house at the weekend. Jak asks when the party is, and Josh replies, with Jak closing the conversation and the screen fades to black. In editing, we learned how to use Adobe Premier pro, and about different editing techniques that can be used. My role in this task was mainly camera man, although I had a small role at the start of the film, where I walk past the end of the corridor to make it look like it is a somewhat busy environment, not just an area set up for filming.

 

What we learned:

In this task, we learned about different camera angles that are used when filming, and how they are filmed, we learned about how scenes have to be filmed multiple times so that there is a choice for the editors to choose from, and if someone makes a mistake that isn't noticed when filming, then there is a second choice to use as a backup.

 

Shot Reverse Shot, 180 Degree rule, match on action:

 In this task, we learned how to use Shot reverse shot, which is when there is a conversation between two or more characters, and when a character is speaking, they are the main thing in shot, as the camera is over another characters shoulder, with that character in the foreground. We also learned how to use the 180 degree rule, which is when there is an invisible line along the ground, and when you are filming Shot reverse shot, you shot not go over this line when filming the other characters speech. Match on action is when the camera changes form a shot where there are a lot of things happening, and then is goes to a shot where there is only one thing happening, and so that is the main focus of the shot, e.g. when a door is opened, there is a close up of the persons hand on a door handle.

Se7en opening credits

0:02-Image of a book with the pages open
0:06-Still image of a book with the writing "New line cinema" also on the screen
0:10-Image of a pair of hands, distorted and in black and white
0:14-Actors name appears on the screen "Brad Pitt". Black background with white creepy writing
0:18-Close up of fingers with blood and mud on them and holding a small silver blade
0:22-Flashing across the screen an actors name "Morgan Freeman"
0:25-Title "Se7en" flashes over a black screen wit h white font, fades to black
0:31-Shadows flash across the screen as well as another actor's name "Gwyneth Paltrow"
0:34-Close up of a pen writing on paper, 2 images of this image overlapping, so one looks like a shadow. One more actor's name "Richard Roundtree"
0:37-Red filter over camera, slightly blurry picture with bits of random writing flashing across the screen.
0:41-Image of scissors  cutting up photography films and lots of shadows in the shot.
0:46-Small photograph of a child in black and white, this is over more photographs and pages of writing
0:50-Close up of as newspaper cutting in a birds eye view, drop of blood splattered on the page
0:56-Actor's name "John Cassini, Reginald E Cathey, Peter Crombie"
1:00-Extreme close up of a thumb smudging ink on a page of black writing
1:02-Black  marker pen crossing out words on page
1:07-Writing in the background, blood like smudges in the foreground with black marker pen on top of that
1:11-Black background with an image of a boys face (drawing) in the right top hand corner, black marker pen going through his eyes
1:14-Red filter over the camera again, boys face in the same place again but completely crossed out this time with black marker pen and red over the top
1:17-Top half of the shot has a red filter, image of photos (darkroom) bottom half of the image is upside down of a pen writing
1:27-Close up of dirty thumbs and a line of tiny hooks, writing in the foreground "production design"
1:30-Books of writing with a page of handwriting on the top, the page is upside down
1:34-Photographs in the background, clear filter over the camera which has black smudges, marks and dots all over it. Reminds me of looking through a microscope or spattered blood
1:39-Extreme close up of dirty thumbs playing with a needle, black background
1:43-Lots of flashing images and quick cuts
Last 15 seconds- Lots more flashing images more writing including "produced by..." and "directed by"
2:08-Film starts, end of title sequence

Easy A opening scene

there is a non diegetic style of music, and the film title comes up on screen in a different style and font to the rest of the opening credits. the music and editing show that the style of the film is a comedy and a teen angst, but unlike Juno, the editing of this opening scene is a lot slower paced.

Juno Opening scene

Juno has a cartoonish style for its opening scene, filled with bright colours, catchy, upbeat music. It includes a teenager walking around a town, going along streets, through parks, and shops, and this reflects the chaotic lifestyle of a teenager. The editing reflects teenage life as well, and reflect that the film has a comedic style, and this is also reflected in the music and general cartoon style of the opening credits. the opening sequence shows Juno wearing stereotypical teenager clothing, and this helps inform the audience that the genre is also teen angst.

Teenage Angst Films

Teenage Angst Films

Grease-1978:

Directed by: Randal Keiser

Grease is a film about a group of young adult in their last year at high school, and The two main characters (Danny and Sandy) are scared that they aren't going to see each other any more because Sandy is moving back to Australia. Sandy and Danny fall out because of Danny's behaviour in front of his friends, and they stay fallen out, but still in love with each other for the majority of the film, and make up at the end, while singing 'you're that one that I want' and declaring their love for each other.

Footloose-1984:

Directed by: Herbet Ross

Footloose is a film about Ren McCormack, who moves to Bormont with his mother, to move in with his Aunt and Uncle. Soon after arriving, Ren befriends Willard Hewitt, and from him learns the city council has banned dancing and rock music. He soon begins to fall for a rebellious teenage girl named Ariel, who has an abusive boyfriend, Chuck Cranston, and a strict father, Shaw Moore, who is a reverend at the local church. After a game of chicken with chuck, Ariel is grounded and Ren and his friends want dancing to be allowed again. Once Ren has taught Willard to dance, Ren talks to the council about removing the ban, but is denied, and so their school prom takes place at the end of the film, outside of Bormont, where everyone can enjoy themselves.

Fast times at Ridgemont high-1982:

Directed by: Amy Heckerling

Fast times at Ridgemont high is a film about Brad Hamilton, who is a popular senior who is looking forward to his last year of school and almost has his car paid off. After losing his job, and his girlfriend, Brad stops a robbery at his new job, and is promoted, and brads sister, Stacy, a fifteen year old virgin, lies about her age to a 26 year old ordering pizza, then loses her virginity to him, but then never sees him again. She then starts flirting with Mark Ratner, and has sex with him, then tells him she's pregnant, and he wants nothing more to do with her. She gets brad to unknowingly drive her to the abortion clinic, then tells mark, that she won't tell either of their parents.