Q4 - How did you use media technologies in the research and planning of your film

Q3 Ancillary technologies

This video shows the different technologies and tools we used for the creation of our ancillaries.

Q3 Audience feedback

This video shows two people who watched our short film now answering questions on the short film as well as the ancillaries.

Q2 Emaze

Question 1- How do our short film and ancillaries use develop or challenge forms of conventions in comparison to real short film and ancillaries

Ancillary research

Luckily this can stay the same as our ancillaries won't be too far off what we were planning to do before. Mainly just a different photo to represent the new film and what we are trying to promote from this film. The photo we aim to take will have to include the car as well as the main actor who will be Jack as he has access to a car, making it easier for us to film regularly. We just need to stick to many of the typical short film poster and double page spread review conventions. Such as the billing information at the bottom of the poster and the main thing to do with the film in the centre of the poster.

Target audience

For our new film we believe that our film will be able to target a wide array of ages and classes but mainly people of the age 15-24 and a class of C1. This is because of the age of the actors in the film as well as the situations that arise in the film. People of the age 15-24 will probably be able to relate to the film the most however most people will probably be able to therefore the chances of our target audience expanding to include people from above the age of 24 is quite likely. While classes are quite open but once again people of the class of C1 and above or just below may find that they can relate a lot easier than others.

Inspiration for our new idea

With our new film idea involving the change of a teenagers social life after he passes his driving test we mainly drew inspiration from another students short film by the name of "Orange Drive" from this short film we noticed that it was all done in one shot and seemed quite a simple but effective idea to just show the main character always in their car. As we didn't have much time to complete our new idea we believed that this sort of film may be easiest.

A change of plan

After having an attempt at the bucket list idea we realised that the film that we had created was rather boring and just wasn't good enough. We spoke to our teacher about this and she agreed. We then proceeded to come up with a new idea as the previous bucket list idea didn't really have too much potential. The new idea that we have come up with is about a teenager who has just passed his driving test and can now drive his car independently. He then picks up two of his friends but at one moment he has to choose between seeing them and a girl who has had a crush on but has never been interested in him, until he could drive.

Audience Feedback Video

In order to get feedback we showed our video to the class. Then at the end of the viewing the class then gave feedback on the film. Our first draft of the film received mostly negative reviews with a lot of people noticeably looking bored throughout the 6 minutes and questioning whether the ideas we came up with where actually life changing. To be fair the audience was correct so we sat down with our teacher and then we spoke about what should change.

We came to a conclusion of that we should start over on our film. This means that we will have to: Plan, Film and Edit our film in a smaller amount of time. We were fine with this as we weren't pleased with what our last film was like in the end.

What we learnt from the audience Feedback

We learnt from the audience feedback that we should take into account the weather on the day of shooting. We will be looking at the weather now for both our main task and for the ancillary task. Not only for the quality of the Mise en Scene. But so that the equipment doesn't get damaged. We may also want a particular type of weather such as Overcast or Sunny. As well as coming up with better bucket list ideas which are not only more enthralling and interesting for the audience to watch but to also actually be life changing which is what a bucket list is all about.

During the Editing stage we will have to incorporate the: Actors names, Title, and Release date. Previously we didn't do this as we where running out of time. Hopefully with a bit more time we can input these things which will greatly improve the opening of our film.

6 Bucket List ideas for our film

These are the 6 ideas that we have came up with for the character to take part in - 

• Ghost pepper challenge with others
• Sightseeing (Windsor Castle)
• Driving
• Learn to say hello in 5 different languages
• Conquer a fear
• 11-a side football

Ancillary task inspirations (Double Page Spread)

The reason to why i believe that this is an inspiration for our film is that it fits in well with what aim to do for our film review page where we plan to use a number of images with less emphasis being put on the text of the review. I also quite like the structure and layout of this review and hope that we could possibly replicate it to a degree with our review.

This poster is also an inspiration for us as it is similar to what we aim to do for our poster with the main character being the focal point of the poster. The layout of this film poster is simple but noticeable something which we aim to do as we only have a limited time to create this poster.

This students work is near enough what we are looking for with quite a few images and a bit of text at the bottom. 

Ancillary review review

This is an example of a students review of their own short film. As you can see from the above image this poster includes many images from the film with the largest image showing a girl who can probably be judged as the main character. 

In the top left is the name of the film while there is an overall judgement with quote from a reviewer in the top right corner. This gives the film authenticity and if the person or company giving the review are a big name then it can influence people to go and see the film.

With this double page spread this group has opted to include more images with less writing and in my opinion the images they have chosen are both clear and gripping. Which gives a good impression to the audience who are reading the article to go and watch the film.

This review however is quite basic with only a basic level of text and colours being used showing that not much effort has been put into this ancillary task though this could be put down to a number of things.

Costume/Props/Make-up Planning (Ancillary)

In regards to costume we will be using the same clothing that the main actor will be wearing during the filming. This is due to the link of the film and poster. To have the actor wearing the same clothes it allows the audience to instantly recognise the main character from the clothes that he wears.

With props we may use a piece of paper with the words "bucket list" written at the top of it. This obviously directly links to our film and would not have any other words written on it. Having this as our poster will easily grab the audiences attention and will easily convey what our film is all about and who is acting and filming it.

The poster above is an example of the type of clothing that is similar to what we may use for our ancillary poster. It is quite ordinary clothing for someone around our age. Though this may not be the best poster it does give us some idea as to how a basic poster can be rather effective at getting the image of the film across.  

Ancillary task schedule

Due to a delay in filming for various reasons we had to delay the creation of our ancillary task to around the beginning of February.

Shot list

 

 

Typical conventions of film posters

From many of the posters I have seen both professional and student there seem to be similar conventions for them all.

• The largest text is usually the title of the film. Standing out so that the audience will be attracted to not only the poster but the title first.
• The main character is usually in the centre and the main image on the poster this is supposed to allow the audience to recognise straight away who the main character in the film will be.
• Posters also usually have the names of the actors in the film as well as who directed it and the name of the company that produced and financed the film.
• There also tends to be some sort of slogan that usually relates to the film sometimes like the film poster above there is a fact that says a bit either about the director or main actor.
• Other examples are below:

Ancillary task research

• This persons ancillary task of a magazine cover has them directly in the centre. The reason to why she's probably in the centre is because she is the main character of the film.
• The largest text on the magazine is the title which is expected. The title is also No.1 Films which the person is trying to link with their film being rather good.
• To attract an audience the person has decided to put a box circle with "WIN" in large capital letters. By doing this the person hopes that a potential audience will be attracted to the prospect of being able to win a trip to Florida.
• The background of this magazine cover being brown with a bit of yellow allows the other parts of the cover to stand out more such as the supposed main character and the interview section of the cover.

Target audience