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.