Educating Katie 1st Edit

Evaluation of our first edit-

The first obstacle we came across when filming for our film opening, happened to be that our filming was lost due to difficulty with technology. This happened due to the fact that we used our home camera for the first filming and that we had some problems with the camera. We found that we had lost all of the filming that we had already done and we had to re-film all of the shots. This made us learn to back-up the shots after every filming session due to the fact that it could get lost again. Saving it twice on two computers allowed us to ensure that we would never lose the shoots again.

Once we had finished editing our first edit of 'Educating Katie' we found that the film opening was too short and that we would have to make up some more shots to have the acceptable time for our time opening. This was because we hadn't planned our story board 100% successfully and found that some shots were shorter than we had planned for them to be.

Lastly, we found that the music used wasn't acceptable for the film opening either as it was a copyrighted popular music track. This stumped us massively as we through that the track chosen was perfect for our film opening, but after changing it and looking further into other tracks we found that we could have a changed, un-copyrighted version of the track which would be suitable for our film opening. 

We found that our titles had not been planned very well. We noticed this when re-editing and watching over that we had not ordered the titles in the way we had planned too and also that we had included two "produced by" titles. This is not what we had planned to do and meant that we would have to reorder the titles and even some shots.

Question 5 - How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

Question 4 -Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

For our film opening we realised we had a specific target audience, who are youth ranging from 15+ to 21. Whereas we do not rule out that we have a secondary audience ranging from 21+  through  to early 50's. As we thought more into Katie (who is our main character within the film) and things she learns and thrives on in the film, we realised that in terms of reliability it would be easy for our target audience to be teenagers. We decided this as they were more likely to understand the thoughts and emotions that Katie goes through within the film opening. It may be similar to their feelings in their current life, also young Katie is quite naive in the sense that she doesn't have any wisdom or experience in this matter and this whole aspect is new to her. This meaning that the situation that our main character is facing can be daunting for young teens as it maybe something they can relate to. In our film we touch upon a close to heart subject, that Katie's hatred of love stems from her parents extremely messy divorce. Some teenagers may be able to relate to this and uphold similar views to our character, this having a large effect on the amount of people who will interested in our film. However we have not ruled out the possibility that older audiences may relate to Katie's situation as it may be nostalgic for them as they remember their experiences at Katie's age. This gives a warm feel to the film as not only can everyone enjoy it but at some point in the possible audience's life everyone has felt like Katie and can relate to something they may see on screen. For Example..

Name: Sara Carter

Age: 17

She is within our target audience age range for our film, also by having actors and actresses the same age  in the film help the audience relate back to the film and put themselves in their situation.

  

Interests/jobs: Sara enjoys shopping, fashion, downloading and listening to music, watching films at the cinema or at home and also is at college participating in a course in Musical Theatre.

Film preference: Sara's favourite genre is romance because she likes the happy endings, she also likes how she can relate parts of her life to the films she watches. Her favourite films are The Notebook and Sliver Linings Playbook. She likes these films as there is so much drama in order for there to be romance in the end.

As Sara is a student she likes to watch TV programs and films online as her lack of money she would wait until the films become available on 'Love Film' rather then go out and spend more money on the DVD's.

Behind the Scenes: Educating Katie

These are some of the photographs from the filming stage of 'Educating Katie'. This show the making of some of the shots, such as the card, the love letter and the cake. This was a very fun thing to do when making our film opening as we felt that it was more creative than just having general every day shots. Secondly, using not speech was interesting as it helped us to create enigma through these items that we created to link with our character. The enigma was "who is this girl?" and "who loves her?" and lastly, "what is her story?".

Character Planning

Character 1: Katie :-
This is the main character of the whole film. She is used to show that she doesn't agree with love, she may have had a bad experience with it in the past.
- She will be in the opening scene bumping through a couple.
- We have chosen this character as she is a simple everyday person that you wouldn’t expect something like this to happen to. Doing this means that it makes her relatable to the audience








Character 2:-
This is the second character that is not a key character within the film. She is used to show the main characters attitudes towards love.
- She will open the film with her ‘boyfriend’ as they walk hand in hand.
- We have chosen her as she is the perfect tall blonde girl. Doing this helps to highlight the fact that the main character is jealous and hates love because she feels she is not perfect like girls like this character.










Character 3:-
- This character is not a key character, but is simply used to show the main characters attitudes towards love.
- He will open the film by walking hand in hand with his girlfriend. We have chosen a realistic couple to show everyday life, rather than showing the “perfect” couple.
- We decided that we wanted him to look like an inviting person, doing this will show the difference clearly between the couple and the main character.







Reflection: In our final film opening we only used character one as we felt that the ideas we previously had in which we used all three actors did not really represent the idea that we wanted to get across and it didn't particularly create any sort of enigma which we felt was crucial to our film opening’s success. 

Character One was always planned to be our main character however when we used all three our main character wasn't as obvious and neither was her hatred of love as she looked like an extra used in the background. After some thinking we changed our entire aspects we watched a lot of film openings and really like the Napoleon Dynamite idea of using the main character to create enigma by not showing her face just objects she comes across