Final Educating Katie - AS Media film opening

Moderator Note

Dear Moderator,
Thank you for taking the time to look through my blog, I hope you enjoy it and our film opening.

Grace Flame
Candidate Number- 8067
Centre Number- 16121

Feedback on our Film Opening

We decided to get feedback on our film opening for what we can improve next time we do course work. we told the respondents what words they needed to know such as enigma and also told them we didn't want them to be bias towards us but to be truthful with what they thought about the opening so we could learn and improve more.This helped us to highlight what we could improve and changes needed within our work. We told the respondents what words they needed to know such as enigma and also told them we didn't want them to be bias towards us but to be truthful with what they thought about the opening so we could learn and improve more. Doing this helped them to show us an understanding of the feedback to which we would get from our target audience and how they felt about our film opening and ideas for 'Educating Katie'.

Educating Katie Storyboards

First Ideas-

This was the first set initial ideas of shots that would be in our opening.

We didn't use a storyboard to start with as we didn't have a set idea on the order of shots so we put down some ideas on paper and then figured out the order. Then, when planning in more depth we would add different ideas for different shots.

MAIN STORYBOARD

Here is the storyboard for our opening. This gives the shots we plan to do and the order we want them to appear in. We have tried to make this detailed, so it will make our filming much quicker and easier. We made a storyboard of what shots we wanted because when it came to filming, we was more organise and knew what shots we had to film next and how long they was meant to last.

After knowing that our first ideas of shots wasn't long enough we came up with more ideas for shots that could make our opening longer. We filmed all these shots them uploaded them to Premiere and then edited with the shots that flowed best with our opening.

Making Our Production Logo

Research into Production Logos

Research into Foley Sounds

Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production.They include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking ect.
This clip helped explain the importance of Foley sounds and why the industry use them and what they use to try and recreate the sounds.

Shot/Titles Comparison to Napoleon Dynamite

Music

For our opening we wanted two pieces of music that completely contrasted. Firstly, we wanted a romantic piece of music to set the genre and make the audience think they are watching a romantic film then we wanted to put our own twist and change the music. For this we added a disk scratch and imported a cover of Teenage Dirtbag . We thought it was a good choice as it highlights the genre shift and makes the audience question the genre. Instead of Teenage Dirtbag we originally had All Star by Smash Mouth and soon realised that we couldn't use it as it was copyrighted. This was disappointing for us as we thought the music really made the opening and clearly represented our characters was feeling.

These is the music we used:

Film Openings - Titles Research



Down With Love



Young and Wild



Moonshine Kingdom



Napoleon Dynamite



Meteo+

For our film opening we research many different film opening and found a mixture of things.
Our findings:
- Colour schemes to fit with genre
- Speech/Dialogue used- Upbeat music
- Colouring to show time that set (Moonrise Kingdom) This was done by using a filter
- Key links to the character and story


After looking further into film openings, we found Napoleon Dynamite and thought that it was an interesting take on a film opening. They incorporated everyday objects/symbols into the opening which created a lot of enigma. The enigma created made the audience want to know more and want to find out who Napoleon Dynamite is.We took inspiration from this film opening by also using everyday objects including titles which linked/highlighted our main character. For example, we took inspiration from the plate on chicken nuggets but linked it to our character by using a slice of cake.

Shooting Schedule

The first shooting date was when we first filmed our film opening. Unfortunately after editing all our shots taking a fortnight to do it was deleted off the computer by mistake, therefore we had to plan to re shoot all our shots after the Christmas holidays. The third and fourth shot dates were added as we wasn't happy with some of our shots as they looked unprofessional and we didn't want to lose marks because of this, so we redone some of our older shots and added new ones which we thought suited the genre better.