Original Practise shots

These are practise shots that two members of our group filmed in Long Road's Library, these shots pretty basic and are unedited. We've decided that we need smoother movement rather hand held effect, as this cheapens the quality of our film.

Target audience

Our target audience are of no particular age group, although teenagers would be able to relate to it more than a younger/older audience would; as our characters are all teenagers. They might also have the feeling of pressure in social classes and stereotypes more so. Therefore may be easier for them to empathise with the main character.
Most recent and less temporary films that have been out during the latest decade, have been using a lot of political issues, such a serious orientated topic will obviously give an intresse to a more aware generation,some of these may educate young teens. Amazing masterpieces such as "This is England",

Costume

A prop which contains good imagery is clothing. Our opening sequence projects modern day society,gender and age.
Most of our costumes may just be day to day clothes,reason being our sequence introduces the main character's average, boring typical day. However our main character must pursue a vibe which judges and influences members of an audience to associate him as a weary and sceptical person.
Our main character shall wear so called "lower class" clothing eg: sports clothing which includes hoodies,tracksuits and reebok trainers.

The mp3 player also adds to the modern appearance of teenagers, and we will use one as a prop to display chisanga's style a lot clearer to the audience.

Location

In order to create a specific style type in order to reflect our genre;being British social realism, image is essential.
In our observation of location and mise en scene, we have decided to film our opening sequence mostly in Cambridge,simply because Cambridge has a strong social class influence, even if there may be some exceptions.
On a plus side Cambridge is easily accessible to all members of our group. Our genre and main focus is to reflect ethnic and social minorities, good images and locations are neccesary.
The two main locations are the housing estate and a Cambridge niversity . These show the contrast in the life our character leads and pursues.Between our most important shots a few shots should be taken in unidentifiable streets which could belong in any city or country until the icebraking shot of our chosen University. Our main plan is that our chosen locations will be situated in outdoors;there are the issue that we have no control on light, space or weather but these are just things we have to deal with.

Feedback from other groups

Positives :
* Effective and detailed shot list
* Useful research into soundtrack ideas
* Research into director
* Everything is there
* Good shot list, detailed mentions props etc.
* Good sypnosis
* Good shot lists, very detailed
* Lots of colours, detailed shot list
* Lots of notes

Areas for improvement :
* No animatic on blog
* Mood board rather empty
* Not much practical information
* Mood board is weak (not many images)
* Analysis of 'This is England' should include video of opening sequence, not just a picture.
* Not many posts
* No animatic sequence
* Only 3 or 4 blogs
* Lots of videos but not much analysis
* Undetailed mood bored
* Not a lot of posts


Our group has learned that we have a very strong shot list, which has been a positive comment many people have made. However there are many improvements that need to be made, which we can see from the feedback, e.g - create more blogs, improve our mood board (adding more images and commentary about our ideas and reasons for designs it that way), and writing more about how we plan to interpret our ideas and inspiration from our research into creating our sequence. We also need to add our animatic storyboard onto our blog, as without it the people giving feedback found it harder to understand our ideas.