Evaluation

In this project we were asked to create our own short film about secretes in a group of three. We all had to come up with our own idea for the short film and then we were put into our groups. In the group that I was in was me, Reece and Sam and the final idea for our short film was Reece’s which was about this boy who lost his virginity with this girl and only managed to last a minute. But the girl told someone who told everyone that he knew so as he was walking along the path and someone comes up to him.

We had to do quite a lot of research for this short film because it can be such a sensitive subject for some people. To start with we had to research with what target audience our short film was for so we chose 12A so we started to research more into what we would be allowed to show in a 12A so that was secondary research because its already someone else’s work what we were looking at and then we were told to do some primary research where we made our own questionnaire on www.Servermonkey where we had to create our own questions that will help us get research so we know what sort of film people want to see.

As we got further into our film ideas we had to start planning which one we were going to do in our groups out of the three different ideas. We ended up choosing Reece’s so we had to plan how we were going to shoot it.  And also we had to fill out specific paperwork such as:
Call Sheet
Story Board
Location Regge Sheet
Audience Profiling

Tips and Tricks Evaluations

1. Introduce the project - 
For this project we were asked to... 

2. Research & what did we do and why
Primary and secondary 
Secondary - Someone elses work online
Primary - Our own research (Questionnaire) 

3. Planing and pre-production 
Ideas for plans
Brainstorms
Specific paperwork

4. Production
What we did?
What we used? e.g 
Type of camera
Type of camera shot
Name each kit used

5. Post-Production
Finalizing your work
Edits

6. Conclusion 
What would you do differently next time
Areas for improvement 

7. Pear-Feedback
Getting feedback from no less than two people in class
So you can see what other people think about your work
So you can see what other people have done that you haven't so you can make your work better. 



Target Audience 
What type of people?
Age rating?
How age rating related to target audience?


Short Film Terminology 
Use the professional terms 

Copyright
Tools 

Short Film Tips
Details on how specific work has inspired you- Directors?
Additional research images?
Pullout specific examples?
Terminology?
Final production
Planning scheduled

our first filming session for secrets film.

At the start of our lesson we watched this short film called 'It's Your Future' by 'Gary Turk' and while we were watching it we had to fill out a sheet where we had to say all the shots and the compositions that were used in the film and then we had to answer different questions about the film:

After this we went out to film as a group but we couldn't really get the shots that we wanted because we were all filming together so we didn't have much time to get our done so we had to do it over break but the light started to get darker so were going to try and re film everything next week.

When we got back we had to asses other peoples work:

group short story

We are choosing the short story to be a 12a because it is going to be about sex but it doesn't actually say anything about sex and no sexual words and the most sexual word that will be in our short story would be a 'v' meaning vaginity. But it is also suitable for children because it teaches them.

BBFC and Film rartings

BBFC stands for 

British 

Board 

Film

Classification 

Its independent

Non governmental 

Set up in 1912 (Been around for 103 years)

Passed the video recording act in 1984

(When looking at game it will be PEGI)

BBFC.co.uk

Rating U:

• E.G: Up
• 4+ 
• Mild language
• Mild violence 

Rating PG:

• Parental guidance
• E.G: Saving Mr banks
•  Mild language: Shit, Son of a bitch
• cheeky but you wouldn't know it until your older and understand the things they are referring to.

Rating 12a&12:

• 12a: Aduly supervision
• 12: 12+
• Aloud to use fuck 
• Moderate language
• Occasional gory scenes 
• Minor drugs 

Rating 15:

• Frequent strong language 
• Sex scene but not aloud to show and parts apart from side boob.
• Aloud some discrimination
• Historical facts
• More extreme 
• Nudity is aloud but no strong detail
• Strong violence but not too graphic
• Horrors can be 15 but not sadistic or sexual affect  

Rating 18:

• Adults so 18+ (50 shades of gray)
• some may be harmful to adults
• No theme us prohibited for 18+
• Very strong violence 
• Very strong language
• Strong horror
• strong gore
• Real sex
• Strong/ detailed nudity/ explicit 
•  An 18 film/ video can contain real sex but not a porno
• Not promote drugs.

http://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/guide-recognizing-your-saints

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints 

director: Dito Montiel

status: 15 Uncut

Year: 2006

The main issues with this film were:

• Strong language
• Strong sex references
• Soft drug use
• Violence

They said that 'It rapidly became that a 15 classification would be necessary because of the regular use of strong language by the film's young characters.'

http://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/attack-block

Attack The Block

derector: Joe Cornish

Status: 15 Uncut

Year: 2011

The genre for this film is:

Comedy

Horror 

Science fiction

The things wrong with this film were:

There was over 50 uses of the word 'Fuck' 

Some uses of the word 'Motherfucker'

http://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/hot-fuzz

Hot Fuzz

director: Edgar Wright

Status: 15 uncut

Year: 2007

Things wrong with the film: 

Several uses of strong language

two used of very strong language 

Violence and Horror

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is basically licenses to copyright something it lets you choose whether you want people to use it and if they do then they can't say its theirs and copyright it them self.  

Creativecommons.org is a website where it allows you get a license for something you have created such as a piece of music, photographs and website names. So no one can use it without your permission and so they cant try and copyright it their self's.                                                                                                           

links where we got our information:

https://www.gov.uk/copyright/overview

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

                                                                            

Music and sound in short film copyright?

• You could accidentally criticize other peoples work.
• You can copy from the library.
• You can copy for educational purposes.
• You cant directly copy the work.
• You cant rent and lend the copy to the public.
• You cant use sound that people have copyrighted without asking their permission first.

How to get permission for a still image?

• Ask the owner to be allowed to use the image.
• You can use the image under educational purposes.
• The copyright ends after 70 years and 50 years if the artist/ photographer dies.
• Its now 2015 so you'd be allowed to use photos and videos from 1945 and earlier.
• Check sources of where the image is originally from.
• You can go to prison for copyright.

Clips and images?

• Permission from the company/ person who the image belongs to.
• Royalty fees.

call sheet

story board

location regge sheet

Questionnaire Analysis Plan

What type of research did you do?

Primary research because it was our own questions and we got feed back from our questions.

What type of information did you gather?

We gathered information about our target audience and what they would like to see in my short film.

Who was your target audience?, Why?

16-18 year olds because that is about the age that the rest of the students are in this course and they will be the ones that will be seeing the short story

How could this information help improve your short film?

It will help us find what the target audience will like to see more overall.

Below give a summary of your results: (remember if you have ten responses that means each answer is worth 10% of your overall feedback.)

what age group do you fall under?

For this question i fould out that 84% of people in the class were 16-18 years of age and 7% are 19-21. 

Would you be interested in watching a multi genre film?

For this question i put a yes and no tick box and the majority of people answered yes with 76% of the votes.

Look at your results, what do they say?

that people would like to watch the same genres that my idea is about.

How will you present this information?:

My survery

What gender are you?
Male/ Female/ Other

What age group do you fall under?
16-18   19-21   22-30   31- 45   46+

Are you Employed:
Yes/ No

What hobbies are you interested in?


What film genres are you interested in?
Horror
Romantic
Adventure
Action
Comedy
Drama
Crime
Mystery

Are you satisfied with this survey?
Very satisfied
Satisfied
Neutral
Unsatisfied
Very unsatisfied

Key Research Terminology

What is a Primary source?

it is original and something that you did yourself without anyone else's work

Example:

Asking people different questions with a questionnaire that you have made

•  So you don't use any of anyone else's work and just your own.

What is a Secondary source?

Resercing things that are already there and that other people have researched. A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. 

Example:

• A journal/magazine article which have other peoples research in it
• A history textbook that has other peoples research on the topic in the history textbook

What is Market Research?

Research into your target audience so you can improve your product so you sell more of them and about the target audience's needs and preferences.  

Example:

• Shoes
• Clothes

What are Quantitative results?

Information that you get back that could be fit in a graph from the target audiences feed back so if half are saying something which would be 50% then the other people that answered the questionnaire were 50% 

Example:

What are Qualitative results?

Survey with text boxes instead of tick boxes and the information that falls into percentages or quotes from peoples writing

Example:

Long sentences on a servery instead of tick boxes which people wont be able to put their own opinion in the box so you wont get as much feedback of what people think about it.

Audience Profiling

Demographic -
Basic information about people:
Religion: N/A
Location: Mapperley
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Employed: No
Psychographic -
Student
Hobbies-
Ice skating
Bike Riding
Gaming - GTA, Call of Duty
Golf
Photography - Photoshop
Socio economic -
Unemployed
Public transport
Holiday per year UK and or abroad
Lower Middle Class

You will identify the audience profile of someone who watches CBeebies:
Demographic: 
Riligion:N/A, because any religion can watch it
Location: N/A, because anyone will be able to watch it 
Gender: N/A, any gender can watch it
Age: Little Children, because older children like more fascinating things to watch  
Employed: No
Psychographic:
Nursery because little children will go to nursery 
Going to the park
Love watching tv
Socio economic:
Unemployed
Public transport
Lower middle class  

 You will identify the audience profile of someone who watches Grand Designs:
Demographic:
Religion: N/A
Location: N/A
Gender: N/A
Age: Mostly adults because it shows people building their dream houses
Employed: No and Yes 
Psychographic:
Love watching tv 
Like seeing people happy 
Fascinated by the concept of building peoples dream houses
Socio economic:
Employed and Unemployed 
Public transport

Own their own car

Proposal

Story; My story that i have thought about doing is going along the lines of two people that have one of the biggest secrets ever and they have to try and hide it from everyone. They both started off by getting bitten in their sleep one night and then a couple of days later they changed into something different and weird. The first things the noticed was that they were both much faster and stronger than everyone else and then they found out that they can hear a more than anyone else, they could both hear the heart beats of everyone around them and they could sense if their feelings and also at night their eyes changed colour into a red and yellow colour.
There will be two actors and we will have to go and buy some new fake contact lenses and some new fouls nails to use as claws. The story will be multi-strand so it will be told by more than one person because there will be two people in the story. Also the story will be anti- realist because it cant really happen in real life. I will use both diegetic and non- diegetic sounds in the story to make it more intense. The story will be non-linear because i will put flash backs to that night that they were bitten. At the end of the story i will leave it open so the viewers will have to use their own imagination to end the story.

Content: The effects that i might use are split screen so i can put both the people on the screen at the same time when they change and i will also use slow motion and transitions when we go back to the night that they were bitten and then they change into something different.

Sound track: I will use a soundtrack that i would use a dramatic and intense sounds to make the viewers hear beat faster. And i will use both diegetic and non-diegetic sounds like the heartbeats of people and i will do a voice over when they can hear people thinking so the voice over will say what they are thinking.

Who is your audience: My target audience would be for teenagers because it is a mystery and the people in the advert would both be teenagers so it would relate to their imagination and dreams.  

Short film

Today we watched two short films:

Narrative Structures:

Linear (or sequential) - Runs in order

Non Linear (or non sequential) - Has flash backs

Realist - Can happen in real life

Anti-realist - Can't happen in real life

Endings:

-Open - Leaves questions

-Closed - Finishes the film

Multi-strand - Told by more than one person

Single-strand - Told by only one person

Dietetic - Sounds you can see and hear

Non-dietetic - Sounds you can hear but not see

We also had to create a spider diagram of for our short film where we had to write things about the film for example we had to put how long the film was aloud to be also what props were not aloud to use guns, knifes, drugs and were not aloud to swear in the film. 

Then we were given another spider diagram to fill out when we were watching two different short films so we had to say what they used while filming it.

 

Ideas for out short film about secrets

 These are the two ideas that i have came up with to show my group that we will be put into next week to produce the short story that we have chose and with these two ideas i think that the first idea is the better one because i think that it would be more interesting and its to do with the supernatural.

Ashes by Sophie Black short film and The truth about meeting women by TJ Misny

In this lesson we were asked to watch a short story called Ashes and we had to write down notes about the film on a piece of paper.

1. Shots: Mid shot of the guy sitting on the bed, Close up of the man and girl in bed, Cut in of the girls hands tied to the bed, Two shot of them both kissing each other and also a Noddy shot where the girl is sitting up in the bed thinking about what just happened. Also a Medium Close Up of the blood on the walls and on the woman's mouth.
2. Sound: The sound is really important in this film because it sets the scene for all of the different shots. Also it created tension between the woman and the man by making the music fast paced and dramatic and when the man is on top of her it was like you could feel her heart beating.
3. Emotion and meaning: Towards the start of the film it shows the words 'Your happiness blinds you' written on the wall in blood which means that shes too happy with him and isn't listening to the danger signs that her friends are giving her. 
4. How might it inspire your own shots? Its inspired me by showing how we can use different emotions for each shot.

In this lesson we watched a shot film called The truth about meeting women by TJ Misny.

1. Shots: mid shot, close up, cut in, Cutaways and Two shots. Each time he was a girl he saw what would happen between them and also each time he was in a different place.
2. Sound: they used sad and happy songs throughout the film and the happy ones when he was with the girls but then when they said it was over it went straight to a sad song.
3. Emotion/ Meaning:Its saying that hes making excuses not to talk to the girls and has a fear of what will happen to them if they break u and each time he went to a cutaway the relationship ended in different ways.
4. How might it inspire your own shots? Its inspired my by showing how you can use the different shots like cutaways how he went to different placed each time as soon as he looked at the girls.