Task 36: Updated storyboard/ animatic & address feedback from storyboard 1

For the storyboard, Dan liked our idea using Panic Room's title sequence shot, however he mentioned how it will be difficult to get a three dimensional affect. Also, Dan suggested we get clear shots of the main character walking during the title sequence so it doesn't get boring watching buildings only and it will make the youth drama more effective by showing the characters movements. He also said we needed to be specific in what type of shots we will be taking in each scenery.

Since it will be difficult to get a three dimensional affect against the buildings, we have decided to keep the text plain so it stands out against the buildings. Dan's suggestion was really helpful and useful, so we have decided to use this suggestion as we believe it will help the audience know the main characters attitude and movements more clearly. The location of our film will definitely be in Hackney and we will be using various shots such as establishing shot, wide shot, close up shot, long shot etc.

Final decisions in light of feedback.

The main problem in our pitch, was the role of the mother. Dan mentioned it would be difficult to find a character to play her role, who looks the age and can act it out realistically. Also, he had mentioned that it would be hard to make a different person, other than the group members to commit to our film. So, we have decided that instead of getting someone to play the role of the mother, we will use someone from our groups voice to show the argument between the mother and son. This will be done by a voice over, were the mothers voice will be heard but she will not be visible. We believe this will be easy to carry out, instead of going through the stress of finding another character. Moreover, Dan mentioned Zahed doesn't fit the role of a bad behaved youth to play the role, so to match the role we decided to use Shakayla's uncle who has agreed to take part. There were problems regarding our location which we have confirmed to be Hackney, most of our sceneries will be from that particular area.

Pitch Feedback.

Questions answered by our classmates:

1. what was good about the about the pitch/ ideas represented?

"I liked how they included a video to demonstrate how they would like to show it"

"The use of garage band to create the music for the opening sequence"

"Liked the prepared indents for the production companies"

"Good use of examples and liked the sound track draft"

"Detailed title sequence plot, showed inspirations"

"I liked how detailed they made the storyboard"

"Clear and easy to understand the basic idea"

"The detail of the storyline and location"

2. What would have made the pitch even better?

"Examples of the type of shots they would use in conjunction to the film that inspired them, which is attack the block"

"Could have made a TimePost for the production schedule"

"Plan specific dates for production using TimeToast"

"Give abetter understanding of how they want to film"

"Closer shots of the story board"

Questions our classmates asked at the end of our pitch were:

Are the two boys going to be from different areas?

No, they will be from the same area, but the area is not a specific theme or problem in our film.

What other locations will you be using? 

We will mostly be using the location of Hackney - East London as it is is a usual location for a British youth drama because it creates a "hood" atmosphere.

Do you plan on playing the same track for the whole title sequence?

At the start when the production companies are being shown there will be a different soundtrack. It's only when the main character Marcus puts his headphones in is when that track will begin.

Do you plan on using any special effects?

We plan on using special effects when inputting the titles on the moving image as we want the titles to appear as if they are within the moving image. 

Task 23: Which institution/ studio will produce your film?

For our film we chose to have it produced and distributed by 'Legendary Pictures'; notable movies that 'Legendary Pictures have produced are Inception, Dracula Untold, Gozilla (2014), The Hangover Trilogy, 300, Due Date and several others. However, we chose produce and distribute our film with a company we chose to make, 'Luxor Entertainment' this is because due to doing a Youth drama which majority of the time is produced by independent label, it will support the fact that independent labels produce and distribute Youth drama films. 

Below is the images of our production and distribution company:

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Task 28: 3 real media texts that influenced our film titles

Panic Room: we were influenced by the text in the title credits of Panic Room as it was very appealing due to the fact of how the text appeared on screen. The way we would be able to use them is if we take the same approach in our movie and display the names of the cast on footage of buildings .

Kidulthood: we were influenced by the text in the title credits of Kidulthood due to the title slowly increasing in size with a 'impact' like font which is simply but effective on a blank screen to focus the attention of the viewer. Ways we could use them is on our title and use the effect of zooming into the text gradually.

Ill Manors: the way the font for 'ill Manors' was portrayed influence us becuase within the font the lied an image of the city which the movies based in as well as the writing being bold and placed on a black background to emphasise the title. Ways which we would be able to use this is by placing the location of our movie inside the font of our title to show the whereabouts of the movie.

Task 37: Brand your blog visually

The visual look we had to change for our blog to adapt to our film/genre was that we had to give it a darkish look to correspond to the fact that the film is based on bad influence in a typical estate and how one of the protagonists is effected by staying with the wrong crowd which influences his decision making in the process and causes him to go astray.

We chose to place the film title/logo in the middle which has a ragged font style to show the upbring of the two protagonist as both come from bad backgrounds. The pitch black background behind the font denotes the fact that something bad will take face in the movie; the black background of the blog is to match the films storyline but no entirely. They typical graffiti font on 'Group 33' is to show one of verious acts which are commited in rough neighbours as where our film will be set.

Task 29: Create a sound design

Here is a screenshot of the sound design we created in GarageBand:

Foley Sounds: