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Filiming

We decided to do the biggest parts of our filming over a period of one night. (For example shots we couldnt get done in school) So we managed to get Toby and the whole cast together and go to beths house to do the filming of the split phone calls and the girls preparing themselves for the dates. After a couple of takes and exploring a range of different shots we were happy with the outcome we got.



When we got back to school we also filmed our opening shot which is a establishing shot of the school and also the three different sets of girls walking down the corrider with their friends. We used two different corridors and an outside pathway to represent the types of girls e.g the way the walk, what there friends are like etc. We also filmed at one of our houses as planned by using the same bed for the split screen but putting different things behind the bed and on the bed frame to make it look different for each girl. We then swapped around the split screen so where the boy and girl is isn't a continues flowing bed so it looks more realistic. For example, for my character is a foreign girl therefore to make that more obvious we used the italian flag and put it on the bed frame and for the posh girl Klaudia we hung a designer hand bag on the side and fluffy cushions.



Luckily we didn't have to re take anything as we were happy with what we had filmed and were excited to put it all together to create our opening sequence.

Story Board

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We have got quite a bit of filming done so far and what we need to do now is go to one of our houses and film the three girls doing there individual make overs to perfect themself for chase. We also need to do a corridor shot of Chase walking down the corrider looking at all three sets of girls and there friends. Due to me being away in the half term the other two members have arranged to come into school during the holiday and collect the camera and try and film a bit at one of there houses. We have the arranged to meet the last saturday 26th and sunday 27th of half term to finish the filming we need to do at one of our houses. We then just need the corrider scene which we will do the first lesson on monday 28th febuary. If we are satisfied with what we have then we will just edit it until its perfect and go and re film anything we feel isnt good enough.

Screen Play.

We only have a little bit of dialogue in our opening sequence which are the phone calls between chase and the three girls.

(PHONE RINGS)

Chase: ite babe
Aaliyah- Yh you kl.
Chase: you still free?
Aaliyah: yeah I'm still free Saturday.
Chase: Nandoes at 7? see you then

(HANGS UP)
(PHONE RINGS)
Chase: hello beautiful
Klaudia: why, hello darling
Chase: were still on for Friday night I'm hoping?
Kladuia, yes daddy and i went to the Ritz last weekend and it was marvelous, and maybe we should check that out?
Chase: Oh sounds right up my street? ill meet you there at 7?
Klaudia: seven sounds perfect!

(HANGS UP)
(PHONE RINGS)
Esmee: Chase! Ive been trying to call you for the last 10 minutes!
Chase: oh sorry babe, Ive been err busy
Esmee: i was making sure that were still on for Sunday?
Chase: yes, for the forth time its still happening be there at 7. Got to go now bye
Emsee: oh OK, ill text you in a bit.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker and he is known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho.

In this opening of "The man with the golden Arms" it is shown that saul bass has the creativity to apply the credits different to any other opening of a film to make it unique and stand out. For example making four straight lines and placing the credits to fit in between the little box shape created (picture 1). I also thought that saul bass' designs were quite simple yet they kept me drawn towards it to keep looking at it for example the use of lines the way they kept moving and the writing would change place on the screen to fit around the lines and it will still look good. (picture 2). A final moment i liked in this was when the lines got into a picture and it looked a bit like a claw shape figure which shows saul bass is trying to use pictures and different designs to try and keep the audience attached. (picture 3)

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The next video i looked at was called the "Anatomy of a murder" and straight away within the first second i was very impressed with how the title was presented on top of body parts because that gives the viewers a taste of what genre it could possibly be without seeing any characters or any dialouge being spoken. (picture 1). I like the way that the theme of using the body parts carried on throught out the whole credits because again it keeps the views attatched making them want to watch it because it is unique from any other film because normally people do not watch the credits but here you want to look because of the different use of pictures (picture 2). I thought it was good when the hands and the legs were being chopped up into peices because it made me question what the storyline was because it is quite obvious it is some kind of a thriller/horror but then this gave me an idea of what it might actually be about (murdering someone and maybe chopping up there body parts?) (picture 3)

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The final video i looked at was from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". I thought it was interesting how they would say the persons name and then it would become all strambled because when you read the title of the movie it makes you think about the mental element of someone, and how it must be a bit twisted which is metaphorically shown in the "scrambling" of the names.

Location shots

We had to discuss what locations we were going to use to film our opening scene in. Obviously we needed a suited environment to our scenario which is a "typical high school" which is perfect as we already go to one therefore we are going to film in our school. We did think about filming elsewhere and going off grounds to actual restaurants in London and we even thought about going to the savoy hotel to film the scene with Klaudia and Chase, but the furthest we are going is to our houses which are only about a 10 minute walk from school. We decided not to go off that far filming because as i said with the casting shots because we want the best mark we can get we are definitely going to be re- filming a lot of scenes to get it perfect there for we do not want to shoot scenes were we have to travel far because it will be a lot harder to re film and might make us leave it as it is because of a struggle to get to the destination where we first filmed a scene.




- We will use the school corridor to do a establishing shot of "chase" walking down the corridor with all of his friends and he will pass each of the girls as the camera is following him just to show the seperation of the girls how they are not friends.



- We decided that we need to show a way to represent Chase' character and how he is so popular so we had an idea and is only just an option so far that chase could walk passed to canteen and one of the dinner ladies could chuck him a free water bottle or something but we haven't let made a certain decision.



- The front of the school is where we are going to have the first shot where we will start of at the sky filming with our music playing and the title appearing "chasing Chase" and we will then lower the camera going down from the sky whilst the credits are appearing and introducing the front of the school to the audience.

Casting Shots.

For our cast we decided that we would play the three main girls because i am a drama student and the other two have also had a drama experience and we all felt that we would be able to portray each character quite easily. Another reason why we thought we would use ourselves to play the girls is because we are very different from each other in looks and personalities which is exactly what we need to represent in our opening. We also felt that because we are trying to get the highest mark possible we know we will have to keep filming again and again until we get are shots perfect therefore it will be too much of a hassle to keep asking people who are not in our media class or do not go to our school to re film things because there is a risk they could drop out which would effect our whole production. The only other character we struggled with casting was the boy (chase) because we felt that if we wanted our storyline to work of an arrogant player to be represented we needed someone who could pull of the role. So we observed some boys in our sixth form to get an idea of who would best fit the role, and a boy called toby sylvester gained his place in our opening scene because straight away even just getting his picture once we told him our storyline he represented a player by his poses and actions. so we think it will make our film more realistic.


Starting from the left top
Leanne Shillingford- Esmee
Rebecca Spencer- Aaliyah
Toby Sylvester- Chase
Beth Francis- Klaudia

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Target audience- Chasing chase on Prezi

Opening music.

At first when we started looking at music we thought it would have to be R&b for an english school because we thought its quite young and modern and would work really well however when we found some R&B unsigned artists it did not go at al with what we wanted to do. So we looked at the opening again of john tucker must die and discovered that all chick flicks that start of showing around a high school (just as we are doing) normally have quite rock music rather then R&B when showing around the school. So we clicked on guitar on the website "jamendo" and came across a song we think will be perfect for our the opening credits showing around the school. It fits perfectly with what we want to do therefore we have decided as a group this is the perfect music that we want for the very start.

Influences- John Tucker Must Die, Mean Girls and Crossroads

The first film that came to mind when we was building our opening sequence was john tucker must die. Our groups idea is to have a chick flick with a boy who is playing a multiple number of girls which is similar to John tucker but yet so different from ours. In john Tucker he ends up falling for one girl who is giving him a taste of his own medicine by playing him where as our film ends up with the player (chase Smith) being gay and is trying to over come his sexuality. However, we are still using JTMD to help with our opening sequence for example because we want to make it look like a typical high school and we are trying to get the right kind of music to fit the scene, so we are listening to the soundtrack of JTMD to get the correct genre to make it work. We are also trying to keep our film as different to john tucker as we can because we do not want examiners to feel we have stole there idea. For example, we are trying to keep the three different girls different from eachother but also different from american movies therefore we are staying away from the typical cheerleader, Clever girl and the pretty girl that are always put into american high school chick flicks. So, we have made it look more real life in a british way for a london high school to make it look more of an english film to make it look realistic. So are viewers will be introduced to Aliayah an urban rude girl, Esmee` an italian clingy girl and finally Claudia a little rich posh girl living of her fathers money.



A big way how we have used mean girls as an influence is that we have always said from the beginning when our player "chase" is talking to the girls we want to have him on the phone with a split screen. He will stay on the left side of the screen and the three girls will talk to him individually and as the girl changes the right side of the phone call changes just to show his methods of how he is basically saying the same things to all of the girls. It is a clear way of showing how he is arranging the same times with the girls and just different days. It also gives close ups of each of the main girls to show how different they are from each other and what they are doing etc. The way we got our phone call split screen idea was from mean girls where they have a four way conversation however we want it to be just a split screen to show two people having a conversation.



Our third influence when coming up with the storyline was crossroads. Cross roads helped us because the way we want to have all of the characters characters different to each other is what they did in there storyline. So we was wondering how we was able to show all of our girls being different from each other rather then just changing accents and looks. This movie helped us realise that the script is a big part towards that in the way they act for example in cross roads the popular girl is saying "we look so hot" to all of her friends so that straight away lets us know her character and what she is like. The setting is also a big part for example the popular girl "kit" was at a graduation dance in nice pink dress and the other girl "mimi" was hanging around in some park. So it is generating ideas how we can show our three girls being completly different within the first two minutes.

chasing Chase- Synopsis

Chase Smith is the schools heart throb with a deep secret, in attempt to hidehis true feelings Chase builds himself a reputation of being a ladies man. Dating three girls simultainously, we are introduced to the three stereotypical girls from different clicks of the school.
Esmee, the beautiful but clingy Italian stalian, Klaudia the up tight posh totty with all her daddy's money and Aaliyah the urban rude girl no one wants to mess with. After a sumer of multipledating and secret keeping, the three girls are placed in the same media studies class, they soon discover what Chase has been doing and how he has tried to play each one of them at the same time.
They are not ammused and decide to take things into there own hands by a a very public argument between the three girls Esmee, Klaudia and Aaliyah and the one boy Chase in the common room Chase then eventually reveals his homosexuality secret whilst breaking down infront of the three girls and everyone else.
There is then a cut to three months later showing how each of the girls and chase have moved on this time Chase is still up to his old tricks but dating three guys at the same time instead of girls as he feels he only had a problem letting people know his sexuality he doesnt think that dating more than one is an issue as the truth is out.

chasing Chase- Target audience

Target audience

Pleliminary Project Video

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Discussion of 3 opening sequences

In class we watched the first 2 opening minutes of 3 different films. They were three very different kinds of openings but they also had some similarities, such as the credits of the actors/designers/directors names and all of them had an opening title logo such as "20 fox century".


Opening sequence one was called office space. It opened with the title logo "20 fox century" and when it says "20th centuary fox presents" you know within the first 22 seconds it is probably a comedy or a drama because the font is quite bubbly in a bright blue colour and its not really dark and gloomy therefore that give you an idea on the genre. The soundtrack is also another important part when setting the genre because it is upbeat jazz music. The scenery is introduced with an establish shot and it shows busy cars to give us an atmosphere that it is in and at  45 seconds it goes on to introduce the first character with credits still appearing with actors names. At 1:51 seconds the music is changed to quite rap music to introduce us to the second character and it lets us as an audience already know that he is completely different from the first. The music then goes back to the jazz when it goes back to the first character just to show the comparisons of the two. I like in this opening sequence how slight humour is involved straight away with the old man passing the cars with his walking stick because it got straight into the film and didn't drag on.


The second opening sequence was called Train spotting and it started out the same being introduced by universal and it also says channel four films presents however with this film we get straight into a man running with an over voice as his thoughts. There is shots about what he is talking about for example he talks about his football team and it shows a game that was played. The first shot when the voice over is being played is the introduction to the first character so the audience get to know a lot of information  about him by listening to what he is talking about. When we was introduced to other characters such as "sick boy" there was a freeze frame to introduce them so we have a clear view of the person. We are introduced to a lot of setting in the first opening two minutes because he is talking over time as it is going threw various stages of his life therefore we was introduced to the police, heroin and also as mentioned before the football team. In my opinion i thought it was really good how it got straight into the storyline because the worse thing when watching a film is for it to drag on, however i found it quite hard to understand what the voice over was talking about because it was not very clear. 


The final opening sequence was called Sweeney Todd and my personal favourite. It starts of with the names of the production companies of warner brothers and dream works pictures presents with the camera following down the sky. It was absolutely different to the other two openings because it had a dark horror genre. The camera was following the skyline to introduce us to the roofs of some houses whilst having the credits of the actors names appearing. The whole way threw is the follow of blood which rather then introducing us to characters it lets us know about the story by it going down the window and into the oven because it attracts you as an audience because you want to follow where it goes. The blood is also quite animated but it fits into the real life scenery as it turns into water like blood  in the stream rather then the thick ruby red blood in with the pies. The theme is continuos threw out the whole opening of just the blood running around the scenery. 

Media studies brief

The set brief for our Video project is to create the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. This blog will document the pre-production, production and evaluation stages of this project.