Opening Sequence

We have decided that this will be our opening sequence:

• Tilt from feet upwards on the business woman walking down an alley on her way home from work\
• She walks past a homeless man, who notices that she is being followed by a group of boys
• As she is about to walk out of the alley way one of the boys grab her bag and run 
• The homeless man shouts and starts to chase the boy who stole the bag
• There will be a short montage of the homeless man chasing the boy he finally manages to get the bag back
• He gives the bag back to the woman 
• The woman thanks him, gives him her business card and tells him meet her in her work place
• There is a slow motion shot of the man and woman smiling at each other 
• It ends with the woman walking away smiling 

Audience Research Survey - Romance

Here is a questionnaire we made to find out our target audience

Questionnaire

Audience Profile Research Survey

These are the 5 survey questions i come up with individually:

What is your favourite type of genre?

How do you find out about new movies coming to your cinema?

Are you in a relationship?

What tv shows do you watch?

How many times do you go to the cinema a month?

never      sometimes    often     all the time

Our discussion after the pitch

after the pitch we all come together as a group and decided that we need to change our idea or change the type of genre we are going to do as our pitch wasn't very successful.  So we all decided that we all would individually think of a genre and come up with a new opening sequence for it and then decide from there on.

Self Review of pitch

Today we pitched our idea to our teachers and class mates. This is my opinion on how we got on:

Strengths -
I think our strengths were that we were able to recognise our weaknesses and errors in our coursework idea we also took in the feedback well and took things seriously and understood what we had been told.

Weaknesses -
I think the main weakness in our pitch was that we were a bit unprepared.  We wasn't prepared enough for our pitch to be successful. I think that we needed to think about the genre we chose and do more research than what was already done, as we ended up getting the wrong idea of what a Thriller is supposed to be like, but we pitched a horror without even realising.

Opportunities -
Because of the comments made in our pitch i don't think we have many good opportunities as we have decided to start again and re think our idea.

Threats -
The only threat that is clear that we are behind  compared to other groups. The other threat is that we made it seem like we were pitching a horror movie instead of a Thriller and it's also low budget it would be hard to video the ideas we have put together in the dark, and because it is winter, it is dark early.

Prelim evaluation

Overall, I think we worked well as a group.  We made sure that we each had equal amounts of tasks and time spent on those tasks.  At one point we all had a go of both videoing and editing but each of us showed strengths and weaknesses with different parts of the process. We all decided to use Michela's Story for our prelim task.  Renee drew up the story board as we told her what shots and ideas we wanted use. We also naturally done more of what we were best at in the task.  For example Renee had strengths in both filming and editing from previous experience, I focused on sound and editing more than filming but i still had a go at filming.  Michela focused on the plot of the video and contributed to sound too. and Finally Teni did a lot of filming and showed good ideas in the different editing techniques such as the choice of transition and text. Although i spent more time on Editing that Filming i did have my turn on filming some parts .



this is the shot i filmed.  this shot went on to zoom in onto the phone so the text message was clear








The brief was to show:
match on action
The 180 degree rule
a person walking across a room and sitting down
dialogue between two people
and it had to be 30 seconds long

We tried our best to  meet our brief as best as we could.   For example

match on action

Match on action shot 2

180 Degree rule

180 degree rule shot 2










The 180 degree rule shows the conversation between 2 people.  I think we showed all of the points of the brief.  The only thing we didn't meet in our brief is the time.  The brief says we have to make the video 30 seconds long, although ours is 48 seconds, i think we did well for fitting everything in and only going over the target time by 18 seconds.

Prelim