Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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Preliminary Task

One of our tasks towards the start of of course was to create a preliminary short film sequence. In this we had to have someone walking into a room, having a conversation and then leaving.

We apologise for the characters sudden change of appearance however we were told this would not matter as the task was to see our camera work skills.

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Health and Safety

We felt it was important to look at Health and Safety to ensure the smooth running of our film

Actors
Not putting them under physical/ psychological  strain
Rests between running scenes
Making sure our location was close to public areas (not isolated)
Make sure the area was a safe one

Location
Carpark was empty (as possible)
Had high visibility clothing between shots and if filming

Equipment 
Car turned off so it couldn't move

Title

As a group we have finally decided on our films name ...

BELLGRAVE PARK

We drew inspiration from the tv series 'Broadchurch'. We liked the idea of using a location as a name as it makes it more personal and therefore more intimidating to the veiwer. We also wanted the location to mean something sinister eg) grave. We researched into haunted and crime filled areas in the UK and Bellgrave came up. We used the 'park' due to our filming in the Calvery Car park.

IT'S A WRAP!

Well an exciting journey has come to an end! We have finished filming officially for Bellgrave Park! We have more interesting blogs to come so please carry on veiwing! 

Please carry on following,liking and sharing our film opening!

Credits

In a motion picture, television program or video game, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. When opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence (such as the familiar James Bond and Pink Panther title sequences).
List in order: (Due to our play only being 2 minutes we are focusing on the top 5 credits)

Director

Producer

Executive Producer

Top Billing Actors

The Movie Title

Key Cast Below the Title Billing

Screenplay Writer

Director of Photography

Film Editor

Original Score Composer

Production Designer

Costume Designer

Special Effects/Visual Effects Supervisor

New idea

After gaining positive and negative feedback we have chosen to improve our overall piece by putting our feedback into play. We have drawn up a storyboard of our new opening and are re-filming this weekend.We are using more close up's to increase tention and increasing the pace of the running to make it more believable.We have got into contact with a local musician and are recording a classical piece tailored to the moments of fear and suspense in our opening. 

Questionnaire feedback

We were given feedback on our questionnaire, which we then evaluated by re watching our film opening and creating a Prezi and commentary to show this feedback. Enjoy.

Our Prezi

Logo sequence

This is our 'Logo sequence' to go at the beginning of our film opening. It is the first thing the audience see and allows them to understand who the production company is behind the movie.

Here is an example of Universals one:

 Interestingly Warner Brothers change their sequence slightly for each film they produce. The logo is the same, but the colours, background and music changes slightly. Here is and example of some:

Here is Paramount's one:

Here is Polaroid Productions:(ours is a little shorter but just as effective)

First Draft feedback questionnaire

We had a first draft showing of our film opening and in order to get feedback  we created a questionnaire.

Production company logo sequence (first draft)

First attempt to create our production company logo sequence to come up before our film opening...

It's a little shaky and not quite perfected yet..but it's a working progress :)

Filming car park scene

Filming continues

Filming

Twitter posts

We have been tweeting about Polaroid productions - take a look at our twitter page @polaroidP

Early Facebook Posts

The early Facebook posts from our first filming session and horror make-up for our opening.

Makeup

We had our first filming session today and we were filming the section involving makeup on the girls neck to make her look as if she had been strangled and it was bruising.

The process:  

Makeup by the wonderful Milly

Initial narrative

This is our initial narrative:

1. We start with a black screen, fading into a girl looking round the car park with a torch. All you can see is a basic outline of a girl, holding keys also, the torch light is flashing round the screen.
2. She is running through this dimly lit car park, looking around her very scared as if something is chasing her. She runs to her car and struggles to fit the key in the lock, her hands are shaking and she is very scared.
3. A shot of her keys is shown as we see her drop her keys on the floor within her panic.They are under the car.
4. We then cut to a bathroom scene. We see a women in a bath (but do not see her face) and we see her painting her nails a dark red. There is a laptop on the loo, watching CCTV which is an online game.
5. We then cut back to the eerie car park and there is a shot looking under a car to see keys and her hand reaching for them. But then another hand reaches across and grabs her hand.
6. We then cut to the back to the bathroom scene and see the woman picking at her skin which makes it bleed- the blood drips down her arm and she watches it drip down into the water and spell out our title 'Immersed'.
7. It then cuts back to the car park to see a creepy smiling man looking at her from under the car.
8. It then cuts back to the bathroom where the woman is in her towel getting out of the bath, she goes to the laptop- it then zooms into one of the CCTV screens of a girl on the screen. On the CCTV screen we see the girl lying dead next to the car and her neck is bruised where she has been strangled to death.
9. After realising it is her lying dead in the car park (the audience does not yet know that it is her, apart from subtle hints throughout).
10. It cuts back where the girl in the bathroom is stressing out and switches the laptop off immediately. 
11.  In the suddenly black screen reflection we see her face and she is the girl from the car park and behind her is the same man from the underneath of the car.
12. The screen goes black and the credits role.