Production Diary

19/10/12- Lesson 1- Deligate roles between the four of us
 22/10/12-Lesson 2- Put eachothers plan down on paper
6/11/12-Lesson 3- Genre signifiers
7/11/12-Lesson 4- Individually planning the tasks
12/11/12-Lesson 5- Romance conventions reasearch and synopsis planning
13/11/12-Lesson 6- Soundtrack research
14/11/12-Lesson 7- Font research
 20/11/12-Lesson 8- Location planning and research
21/11/12-Lesson 9-Soundtrack choice
22/11/12-Lesson 10- Costume research
26/11/12- Lesson 11- Choosing actors, research
27/11/12-Lesson 12- Voice over script writing
3/12/12-Lesson 13- Mood board
4/12/12-Lesson 14-Title research, created a title
5/12/12-Lesson 15- Personality traits
6/12/12- Filming, costume choice, filming prep
EDITING THE FILM OPENING
FILMING THE VOICEOVER
12/12/12-Lesson 16- Possible questions for audience
18/12/12- Risk assessment for filming day two
SECOND DAY OF FILMING
EDITING
20/12/12- Start evaluation questions, put everything on the blog.

Evaluation question 5- How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience ?

Facebook Feedback

By posting the link to our opening on social networking sites we were able to find out what people thought about our opening. From this friends and family also then reposted the link to their own facebook and twitter pages to share it around. 'Yunji Kim' showed people she is with in Japan and all feedback was positive.This tells us that we have created a piece that will be enjoyed by all, even globally.

Risk assesment

initial pitch and presentation

Evaluation question 1- In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Here I will be using screenshots to describe how alike/different our media product is from real media products.

This is our first shot, it goes with the usual conventions of a media product as it is a pan and establishing shot. Media products often let the viewer know where they are before starting the story. We have adapted this usual convention in that we have made it a mid shot not a long shot, usually establishing shots are long shots so that you can get a view of everything, it is clearer than using a mid shot. Although we wanted to do a mid shot as we wanted our opening to be mid and close ups to show emotion and set a tone, make the viewers sense a closeness to and between the characters.

This is our fourth shot, it is very typical and conventional in that it is a close up to show emotions and create a sad tone which sets up the rest of the movie to be upsetting. But unlike usual media products this shot is longer than usual close ups. We did a longer shot on his face as we wanted to create alot of enthasis on the fact that he is the one upset. Although they would both be upset in a break up situation it creates an enigma, why is he more upset? Is he the one that hurt her or was it the other way around? We needed the viewer to see that he was more upset than our female character.

This is shot 7, it is unconventional to differ the credits between text on the screen and creative credits. We chose to do creative credits for both of the actors names as it introduces the characters on screen with their names, the viewer can then feel closer to the characters and get to know them more so before watching the whole movie. We were also unconventional in that we did a zoom blur, in that we zoomed in on the phone, then blurred it out to add to the visuals.

This is our 14th shot and is our first proper shot outside of the previous setting being the two homes. The shot is conventional in that it establishes that she is in a neighbourhood, it does this with a pan. You also get a feeling of where abouts she lives, what it is like. The house shown in this shot is very traditional looking. It is unconventional in that it then carrys on the pan to literally follow her as she walks.

 Close-ups of key aspects, just like in our opening

 Long shots

When creating our opening we had alot of inspiration from the short film 'Dear Claire; From Sonny' our inspiration is shown through the use of close ups and the travel aspect of the opening. Both our opening and the short film set a very clear tone, the sad side of love. However we developed the idea and made it our own through showing both the girl and the boys perspective. Being a short film, 'Dear Claire; From Sonny' is extremely artistic, we wanted to also show this through our opening and we do so through our focus to fade shots and close-ups on key aspects.

Evaluation question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?