Evaluation Q2

How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups? 

The key characters in our film are Danny and Omar, who are the two best friends which the film is based around. We tried to represent the two characters differently by having them react differently to different situations. Starting with Omar, we tried to represent him as a student who isn’t the brightest and hates going to school (hence him bunking the lesson). An example of this is the soundtrack we used in the background; we used a slow “comedic” style tune to get across to the audience that Omar wasn’t the brightest of people. He also lacks common sense as he actually thinks that he and Danny will be best friends for the rest of their life, when realistically, it’s probably not going to happen. Danny represents the kind of student who is influenced by other people, as seen in this sequence, Omar is influencing Danny to miss his classes and do stupid things with him, and because they are such close friends, Danny feels as if he would be causing a rift in their friendship by not being with Omar. I think that Omar is a lot like Ben from the film “Knocked Up” as they both have quite an irresponsible nature to them, for a start, Omar hates school and misses a lot of his lessons, and Ben from Knocked Up, just parties and gets high, so they are very alike in that sense. I think Danny is a lot like Marisa from the film “Maid in Manhattan”, as he puts a lot of effort into his football, just like Marisa does to her work at the hotel, however he gets influenced to do things by his friend Omar that he probably shouldn’t, like when he goes crazy with him which is shown in the opening sequence, this is very similar to Marisa who tried on one of the guests clothes because her friends influenced her. The social groups we are trying to represent are regular students who have a best friend and tend do a lot of things together with this person. The point that we are trying to get across is that these friends will do anything together. The social group being represented here can easily relate to this if they have a best friend with whom they do a lot of things together.

Feedback

This was the feedback we received - It didn't feel like an opening sequence - Feels too far into the story progression wise - Too much going on with the girls, happens too soon - Have the friends in the scene for longer and then bring the girl in at a later time - Follow the conventions of a ROMCOM more closely - It looked good technically - Conversation starts a bit too early

Final Opening Sequence

Evaluation Q1

What kind of media institution would want to distribute your film?          

 I think the kind of media institution that would want to distribute our film would be an independent British film company on a small scale, rather than a huge film studio. The reason for this being that our film is something that has also been filmed on a small scale, so it wouldn’t capture the interest of a large studio to begin with. We also didn’t have a large budget with millions of pounds to spend which films that are shot on a much larger scale have, there also wouldn’t be a lot for them to market as they would be taking a risk investing their time into a film no one has heard of whatsoever. The distribution company also would have to decide how many copies of the film to create, for a large American studio, because they would probably produce the film in larger quantities, they would not know whether or not they should because it could make them a substantial loss in earnings, whereas with a smaller independent company, they will only produce a few copies and their budget would usually be a lot more reasonable for the type of film.

            There three independent film distributors who I think would consider distributing our film are Warp Films, Soda Pictures and Metrodome. All of these are independent British film distributors. The reason for choosing these distributors is because they are relatively small distributors of who would accept a film like ours.           Starting with Warp Films, I think this studio would distribute our film as it is the kind of film they usually distribute, one example is “Dead Man’s Shoes”, which they filmed in only 22 days on a tight budget, yet it was nominated for various film awards. They also have experience of making a successful film that doesn’t stretch the budget too far, I think because this film is also quite similar to ours in the fact that it follows a group of friends and contains a lot of humour, so they would not feel like they were jumping into something completely new and different, which I think would help not only with the actual distribution of our film, but also things such as marketing.

            Soda Pictures is another distributor which I took into consideration as they have distributed films that are on smaller budgets but not huge budgets meant for box office success. I think this would probably be the most ideal studio because they have distributed quite a lot of films and had reasonable success with many of them, the only downside I could see to distributing through Soda Pictures is that they haven’t created many comedies or ROMCOMS so they may not feel as confident distributing a film that they aren’t used to.

            The final distributor I looked at was Metrodome, a small London based independent film distributor with experience in both Hollywood films but also smaller scale indie style productions. I think this would help because the company have experience distributing small and large films.  

Shot List/Shooting Schedule

Photo Storyboard

Feedback

·         Be wary of tracking

      

·         Shoulder to head shot (camera positioned this area) for reaction

      

·        Have less talking to make it more like a title sequence

·         See the girl, one of them talks; try to make sure that the other friend doesn’t see they are looking at the girl, trying to avoid each other

·         Two friends messing around make the story fun

·         Both seeing her around the school, trying to make sure the other guy doesn’t notice hes looking at her

·         How you tell the story

·         Both of them looking at looking at the last shot, have a gap between them , this is where the titles can go

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