Evaluation of Storyboard

We created our storyboard to express a clear vision of the film opening which we wanted to clearly portray with specific ideas of: camera angles, sound, mise en scene and editing. We stuck to most of the shots which we planned on using such as: when Aubrey was filmed walking down the street late at night drinking from the alcohol bottle and when Aubrey came into the house and proceeded to have an argument with her mother.
There were however, a few shots and scenes that we included that were not talked about on the storyboard such as: When Aubrey was running out the door and away from home and the last shot when she is breathing heavily and the screen goes black. 
We did not film the scene that we originally planned on using at the start where Aubrey and Riley were supposed to be holding hands and dancing together at the concert as our desired location and setting was unachievable to film in. We also did not film the scene where Riley and Aubrey met up in the field just as the sun was coming up because when filming, we could not get the lighting quite right and also, the film opening would have been too long if we had included it.

Costume and Makeup

In this blog post, we have uploaded all photos we took during the preparation and filming process of our film opening Untamed.

Here is the final look for Caroline Herrington. We decided to draw on wrinkles around the eyes, mouth, neck and forehead to match the skin of a mother (40-50 years old). additionally, we used a dark powder to make the face look slimmer and lose the effect of a young face  

We also sprayed dry shampoo around the hairline to give the effect of grey roots to match the age. Overall, we used makeup to make the actress for Caroline Herrington look "like a mum".

For the protagonist, Aubrey Herrington, her character profile portrayed her to be a wild, reckless and rebellious teenager who had just been out at a party/concert with her other rebellious friends. to create this look, we did a makeup look with a bright lip to reflect her wild personality and black eyeliner to create a more "party time look" to show to the audience where Aubrey had previously been. We decided to smudge the eyeliner and lipstick to portray that she had just been on a big night out.

Furthermore, we made her hair look messy to match the character and the story line. 

 

Above is an image of the preparation process. Here the actor for Caroline Herrington is spraying the dry shampoo in her hair to create the look of grey roots coming through the artificial dye to give the effect of the actor looking older.

 

 

Above is an image of the protagonist having her makeup done during the preparation process.

Here is an image of the final costume and makeup choices for Aubrey and Carol Herrington.

We decided on ripped jeans and checked shirt on top of a tight striped vest top as it is a carefree, teenage look, fitting with the character profile. additionally, it is suitable dress code for the event she was previously at.

For the mother (Carol Herrington) we chose to dress her in pyjamas to emphasise she late hour which she came back home. She is wearing unfitted clothes to show her role of being a mother in her 40s-50s.

Risk Assessment

Titles

NIGHTTIME PRODUCTIONS presents

an Ellis production

a Dunning film

'Untamed'

Lead cast- Holly Connell

                 Charlotte Ellis

Supporting cast- Anneka Williamson

                         - Katie Dunning

Casting director- Katie Dunning

Music composer- Anneka Williamson

Costume designer- Charlotte Ellis

Associate producers- Holly Connell

Editor- Anneka Williamson

Production designer- Charlotte Ellis

Director of photography- Katie Dunning

Executive producer- Holly Connell

Producer- Anneka Williamson

Writers- Charlotte Ellis

            - Anneka Williamson

            - Katie Dunning

            - Holly Connell

Director- Charlotte Ellis

Moodboard

This is our mood board, this is a collection of photos from movies which are in our genre (teenage movies). These images are inspirational for how we would like our cinematography to look.

Titles Research

Throughout our film opening, we used the same font, Folio Std Bold.  The way in which we decided this would be the most suitable font was we listed the word 'Untamed' again and again all with different fonts and basically reduced this list on readability and how it this could relate well with diverse genres in the film.  The reason we wanted large bold text is to represent Aubrey's rebellion.

Before we picked 'Untamed' we had been contemplating other titles such as 'Wild', 'Free' and 'Loose'. We really wanted to convey to the audience that this story is about with how a teenager girl deserts her home and runs away and we wanted to associate this plot in the film with the title.  Another advantage of using shorter title than a longer e.g. 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is that it's snappy and easy to remember which could increase popularity.

We selected a white background for our titles because it stands out ahead of the dark background at night, also it can be associated with Aubrey's innocents as the colour white is usually connected to something angelic.

 

 

 

Here is the film poster for Mean Girls. They used a similar large, bold font - just like Untamed. We used this poster in the research period whilst choosing a font for our film opening title as it is also in the genre of a teen drama.


















This is he film poster for the film The Duff. This film belongs in the genre of teen drama and so does Untamed, hence why we used this film in t he research period. This film poster has the title written in a bold font, which shaped our reasoning for using the bold font for our title.
 

Shot list

Night Time Productions- 0:00- 0:08
Wide Shot of Aubrey - 0:08-0:11
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey- 0:11- 0:15
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey 2- 0:15-0:18
Close shot of Aubrey's face, UNTAMED title- 0:18-0:26
Tracking shot of behind Aubrey walking- 0:26-0:29
Tracking shot of side of Aubrey walking- 0:29- 0:37
Panning behind shot of Aubrey walking to front door- 0:37-0:39
Still Side shot of Aubrey dropping bottle in bush- 0:39- 0:41
Close up shot of Aubrey unlocking door- 0:42-0:48
Aubrey walking in door from behind (exterior)- 0:48-0:49
Aubrey walking into house from front (Interior)- 0:49- 0:52
Side shot of Caroline looking up at Aubrey- 0:52-0:52
Tracking shot of Aubrey looking around house- 0:52-0:55
eye level mid long shot Aubrey talks to Caroline- 0:55- 0:57
Still right mid shot of Caroline- 0:57-0:58
LS left track of Aubrey walking to sofa- 0:58- 1:01
MLS front of Aubrey sitting on sofa- 1:01-1:02
Over shoulder shot of Caroline- 1:02-1:03
MS  of Aubrey- 1:04-1:05
Long over shoulder shot of Aubrey- 1:05-1:08
MS of Carol- 1:08-1:10
High MS of Aubrey- 1:10-1:10
MS of Carol- 1:11-1:12
LS of Aubrey standing up- 1:12-1:14
Tracking shot of Aubrey walking away- 1:14-1:15
Tracking shot of Caroline walking after her- 1:15-1:17
Tracking shot of Caroline chasing Aubrey up stairs- 1:17-1:18
side MS of Aubrey and Caroline on stairs- 1:18-1:21
Over shoulder MLS shot of Aubrey- 1:21-1:22
Over shoulder MLS shot of Caroline- 1:22-1:25
LS of Aubrey-1:25-1:26
Over shoulder shot of Caroline- 1:26-1:26
Over shoulder shot of Aubrey running up stairs- 1:26- 1:31
Tracking shot of Aubrey walking into bedroom- 1:31- 1:33
Tracking shot of Aubrey packing- 1:33-1:34
High shot of Aubrey packing- 1:33- 1:38
tracking shot of Aubrey- 1:38-1:41
Tracking shot of Aubrey- 1:41- 1:44
Tracking MS of Aubrey running our door- 1:44-46
Tracking high shot of Aubrey running down stairs- 1:46-1:49
Tracking shot of Aubrey putting on shoes and running out door- 1:49-1:52
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey running on road (exterior)- 1:52-1:53
Behind tracking shot of Aubrey running on road- 1:53-1:57
Front tracking Close up shot of Aubrey running- 1:57-1:59
Long shot to Aubrey running- 1:59-2:01
Long behind shot of Aubrey running- 2:01- 2:03
Side mid shot of Aubrey stopping at gate- 2:02-2:04
BCU of Aubrey's face- 2:04- 2:06
Black screen- 2:06- 2:09


Titles

A CONNELL PRODUCTION

HOLLY CONNELL

ANNEKA WILLIAMSON

KATIE DUNNING

UNTAMED

JODIE PETERS

CHARLOTTE ELLIS

AARON ELLWOOD

HARRY FOORD

ELISE BECKETT

CASTING BY    OLIVIA TUCKER

MUSIC BY    ISABELLE MCCABE

MUSIC SUPERVISOR    LISA WISEMAN

COSTUME DESIGNER    SHONA EKINS

EDITOR    LUCY HOCART

PRODUCTION DESIGNER   EMILY SPENCER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY    RICHARD SMITH

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS    NICOLE ROBINSON

SHANE WILLIAMS

PRODUCED BY PETER RODGERS

JORDAN WHITEHEAD

CAROLINE MARDEN

SCREENPLAY BY   MILES PETERSON

LIA MARSHALL

DANA HAROLD

DIRECTED BY    KEITH BRUSSELL

Props

Props- Film Opening

The following items are going to be featured in our film opening to make the sequence seem realistic and give the best effect:

- Beer bottle
- Cigarette
- Phone
- Dry shampoo
- Wine glass
- Rucksack
- Clothes to put in the bag
- Lighter

Shooting Schedule 2

Filming went well. We ran into very little issues, only lighting issues and the camera battery dying - which was easily fixed. The filming process was very swift (overall, filming took 6 hours over the two evenings), mainly due to sufficient planning, such as scripting and having this shooting schedule.
Although, it could have gone better due to Katie being absent in the first filming day (25/11/16) due to a last minute inconvenience, therefore we had less help which prolonged the filming. Additionally, as it was our first time filming to a professional standard, it took us some time to figure out how to make the camera work as good as possible (lighting, settings, lens, zoom, panning, shots).

costumes

The following costumes will be used in our film opening to portray the different characters realistically and make it clear to the audience what type of person they are:

- Denim shorts
- Plaid shirt
- Cropped top
- Adidas Superstars
- Dressing gown
- House Slippers

Shooting Schedule 1

The image attatched is our shooting schedule, showing all of the days we are busy and when we are free to film for our film opening. We will stick to the schedule as well as creating an iMessage group chat to arrange any other filming dates and last minute arrangements and talk about the film opening process in general.

film titles

TITLES- CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

directors: 0-3 seconds

screenplay: 4-7 seconds

producer: 7-9

exec producer: 9-12

exec producers 12-15

exec producers: 15- 18

based on- 18-21

co producer: 21- 24

associate producer: 24-27

director of photography; 27-30

product designer: 30-32

edited by: 32-37

costume designer: 37-40

visual effects supervisor:40-42

visual effects producer: 42-44

music by: 44- 47

casting by: 47-52

actor 1: 53-56

actor 2: 56-58

actor 3: 58- 1:00

actor 4: 1:00-1:02

actor 5: 1:02- 1:05

actor 6: 1:05- 1:08

actor 7: 1:08- 1:10

actor 8: 1:10- 1:13

actor 9: 1:13 – 1:15

actor 10: 1:15- 1:18

actor 11: 1:18- 1:20

actor 12: 1:20- 1:23

actor 13: 1:23- 26

actor 14: 1:26- 29

actor 15: 1:29- 31

actor 16: 1:31- 34

actor 17: 1:34- 37

actor 18: 1:37-40

actor 19: 1:40- 43

title: 1:43- 47

film opening institution

'Night time Productions' is the institution company which we shall be using to distribute our film opening 'Untamed'.
We created this production as a group and will be shown before the opening to the film.

Film Opening Pitch

This is our emaze presentation we pitched to the class. 



Feedback we received 
For our film pitch we got many mixed reviews in the different categories. For the category 'clear genre, themes and messages?' we got 6 positive reviews and 1 negative. The majority of the statements said that the film had a clear narrative and was vey relatable to the target audience but the one negative comment stated that there is not much enigma to the story line. 
The next category was 'interesting characters?' which we received 10 positive comments saying 'interesting and can relate to reality' and main character had an interesting back story and 3 negative comments stating 'not original and traditional characters' which means that the film opening could be seen as predictable to the audience.
 For the third category, 'is the target audience suitable' all 13 pieces of feedback were positive saying things such as 'the target audience is perfect for this film' and 'will relate to the target audience because it relates to teens. Overall, our film pitch received mainly positive feedback with a view negative comments. I believe that this is mainly down to the relatable narrative and characters. 

Untamed Script

SCRIPT

Aubrey is walking home from a party where the girl who she likes (Riley) just was. She seems absent minded due to being drunk still from the previous events but with a slight smile as she is reminiscing the enjoyable night she just experienced. Aubrey is seen stumbling and kicking puddles distractedly.

(Aubrey arrives home and drunkenly stumbles into the house)

Mum: Where have you been?

Aubrey: (drunkenly puts her hand over her head and sways whilst she speaks. Speaks slowly and stammers slightly. Says aggressively) I told you were I was. You know I had a party.

Mum: (speaks with an overall disappointed tone) I told you 11 at the latest. It’s 2am for goodness sake, what were you even doing?! (long silence, begins to speak slowly and sternly) You were with that Riley girl again, weren’t you?

Aubrey: who cares who I was with

Mum: I know whatever this is, is not just friends and I do not in the slightest approve of it. You are a child of God

Aubrey (Looks straight at mum, begins to answer but then gets cut off) it’s not what you think… and even if it was like that, I don’t see what’s wrong with it.

Mum: (tears in her eyes, straight face and stern voice) I’m sick of looking at you. Get out of my sight now.

(Aubrey storms up to her room. A short clip is shown of her packing her bag and slamming the front door.)

(Aubrey runs towards a field, wiping tears from her eyes)

(Upon arrival at the field, she slumps down to the floor and puts her head in her hands for 5 seconds. She then looks around in a distressed manner; she spots Riley walking towards her from the distance- long shot)

(Riley caringly approaches Aubrey, sits down next to her and grabs her hand – emphasis on this moment -)

Riley: (quiet and lovingly) I heard you slam the door.

Aubrey: (wipes tears from her face) Its nothing. My mum just doesn’t understand

(Riley lights a cigarette and has a puff, then passes the cigarette to Aubrey)

Riley: I understand, my dad doesn’t approve either

(long silence and stare longingly at eachother, background music builds up and gets louder, then stops all at once. Black screen with title shows (untamed))

Markscheme

Film Title: CONNECT FOUR
high band 3, 47 marks.
It was original and the titles were unique and were clear and with high clarity. There was controlled camera work shown and good editing - creating a well finished piece.
The setting and characters fitted nicely into the theme.

Film title: DOUBLED
middle band 3, 42 marks
The story line was good, but not the most original, quite generic.  The sound track fitted with the genre and theme well.
The camera work was slightly shaky but overall well done.

Level 1 0–23 marks The work for the main task is possibly incomplete. There is minimal evidence in the work of the creative use of any relevant technical skills such as:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.

Level 2 24–35 marks There is evidence of a basic level of ability in the creative use of some of the following technical skills:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.

Level 3 36–47 marks There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.

Level 4 48–60 marksThere is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
• material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set;including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
 

What went wrong? Prelim

In todays lesson, we reflected on our process for our prelim tasks and what went wrong. This is what, as a group, we came up with.

• We should have checked the footage whilst in the filming process. Should have downloaded footage ASAP. Due to some clips being too shaky/ off colour
• should have filmed the audio separately due to the wind making the dialogue illegible.
• We originally planned to film inside but we did not book the sports department in advance, therefore we had to film outside

Theories

In today's lesson, we learnt about the 5 theories of narrative: Barthes, Aristotle, Propp, Todorov and Srauss.

Barthes  suggested the text may be "open" which means unravelled in a lot of different ways, or "closed"  (there is only one obvious event ) he decided there were 5 main codes in a media text and every one will have one or more of his 5 codes.
Barthes codes:
enigma (hermeneutic) code - what is happening/what will happen next, when clues are dropped but there are no clear answers, makes the audience want to know more, unanswered enigmas frustrate the audience
action (proaireti) code - sequential themese of action, add suspense
semantic code - parts within a text that suggest or refer to other meanings, elements of semantic code are called semes, these have a connotative use and add additional menaings to a liteal meaning.
symblic code - uses oposites to create contrast, create gender meaning, tension and character development.
referential code - a part of text that refers to an external knowledge such as a historical, scientific or cultural idea.