Anamatic (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Below is the link to mine and Danielle's anamatic:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=869435756449071&l=5272313928763230397

Shot List (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Tilt of tree

Pan of Christmas decorations and candles

Close up of slippers

Close up of feet in slippers getting out of bed

Close up of feet moving

Extreme close up of music being turned down

Close up of hand grabbing diary

Tracking shot of her sitting on her bed

Over the shoulder shot of the diary

Zoom in to the page she turns to

*flashback plays*

Two shot of couple putting on tinsel

P.O.V shot of Alan blowing snow towards camera

P.O.V shot of Anika dusting her hair and reaching her hand towards Alans face

Camera movement representing Alan's face getting slapped

Zoom out as Alan hugs Anika

*flashback ends*

Cut to close up of the book

Establishing shot of page being turned

Close up of next page in the book

*flashback plays* 

     Lock down shot of couple walking towards camera

E   A mid-tracking shot of couple walking, followed by a tilt of them sitting down

     A two shot of Alan looking over at Anika

    Shot of the couple sitting on the bench followed by camera movement directing the camera towards the sun

*flashback ends*

Cut back to establishing shot of diary pageMaster shot of her shutting and throwing the diary

Close up of the diary falling to the floor

Close up of the card coming through the letter box

Mid shot of Anika walking out of her bedroom door

Mid shot of her turning the corner of her door and walking down the stairs

Tilt of Anika walking down the stairs

Reaction shot of her looking suspiciously down at the card on the floor

Point of view shot from letter of Anika grabbing it

Over the shoulder shot of Anika picking the letter up

Side view of letter opening

Over the shoulder zoom in of the words in the card 

Blurs out into title screen

Plans for shooting (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Costume:

After researching into current teen romance movies, the costumes that the main female character has been dressed in is usually baggy/casual clothing that tends to require minimal effort. Their outfits are relaxed and cosy rather than formal and sophisticated like females in older romance movies. When it comes to young male actors, they tend to also wear casual clothing such as jeans, jumpers and baggy tees unlike older men who would wear suits and more formal outfits. Me and Danielle are responsible for choosing all of the costumes that our characters will be wearing.

The costume for the bedroom/house scenes (female character): 

- Red jumper

- Black leggings

- Fluffy socks
- Slippers
(All actors own)

The costume for the winter walk (female character):

- Light skinny jeans

- Black long sleeved baggy top

- Dark grey coat

- Black beanie

- Scarf 

- Gloves
- Black heeled boots
(All actors own)

The costume for the winter walk (male character): 

- Black skinny jeans

- Plain white tee

- Black fluffy hooded coat

- Gloves
(All actors own)

The costume for decorating the Christmas tree (female character):

- Grey roll neck jumper

- Black skinny jeans

(All actors own)

The costume for decorating the Christmas tree (male character):

- White baggy tee

(All actors own)

Hair and make-up:

Me and Danielle will be in charge of all of the hair and make-up features. We will direct our female actor how to style her hair and make up in the bedroom scene, but in the ice skating scene we will be curling it for her. Our male actor shall have his powdered face done by us also but he will be required to style his own hair himself. All make-up products will be purchased from Superdrug to be used as coverage for our actors.

The hair and make-up for the bedroom/house scenes (female character): 

- Straightened hair

- Minimal make up e.g. Mascara, eyeliner and powder

The hair and make-up for the winter walk (female character):

- Wavy hair with the top bit covered by a beanie

- Same as the bedroom scene (mascara, eyeliner and powder)

The hair and make-up for the winter walk (male character): 

- Powdered face to reduce the shininess

- Quiffed hair

The hair and make-up for decorating the Christmas tree (female character):

- Straightened high pony tail

- Minimal make up (the same as the winter walk and bedroom scenes)

The hair and make up for decorating the Christmas tree (male character):

- Powdered face to reduce shininess

- Quiffed hair

Lighting:

Due to our filming schedule being filmed throughout the day, it is most likely that we will be relying on a natural light source from the window. We will apply further light sources such as lamps and filming lights as additions to our shots to enable our film to have consistently good lighting. 

When we film the winter walk scene, the paths shall have a varied amount of daylight shining on the surroundings which is what we will be relying on at this location.

When we are filming the Christmas tree scene, lights will be found throughout the whole shot (on the christmas tree and on the curtains). Light in the room shall also be an additional light source as there isn't a lamp covering the bulb so this light is bright enough to cover the whole scene that will be filling the frame. This scene will include low-key lighting in order to set a romantic, Christmassy soft atmosphere.

Props:

The props that we will be using will be appropriate in portraying our film opening as a romance movie. These props will be used to conform to the genre-specific conventions and contribute to the key aspects found under mise-en-scene. 

The props that we shall be including in our film opening will be: 

- A Christmas card (the crisis)

- Lighted candles

- Fairy lights

- Christmas decorations

- Christmas tree

- The diary

- Pictures on the wall

- Cup of tea
- Snowman ornament
- Tinsel
- Reindeer Christmas tree topper
- Fake snow
- Christmas bauble's
- Samsung Tablet
- Phone

Shot Types:

We have previously practised shot types during Media lessons to provide us with a taster of the kind of shots that we would like to include in our film opening. This gives us a slight inspiration for the shot types in our film opening, and we decided that we shall be using the following:

- Tilt (tree)

- Pan (Desk organisations)

- Close up (Diary)

- Match on action (Decorating the tree)

- Reaction shot (Tearing)

- Shot reverse shot (Looking at each other whilst decorating the tree)

- Establishing shot (Winter Walk)

- Long shot (Winter Walk)

- Mid shot (Actor walking down stairs)
- Two Shot (Decorating the Christmas tree)

- Extreme close up (Decorating the Christmas Tree)

Locations:

We have two locations that are being introduced in our film opening; my bedroom/house, and Harlow Town Park. The travel to the Town Park can easily be done by a bus and a little walk. 

Call Sheets (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Meeting - Location Change

Unfortunately, we are unable to film at Van Hage ice skating rink like we originally planned because they require us to film before the Christmas holidays which begins 18th Dec. We originally planned to film during the actual Christmas holidays but this is not appropriate for this location any longer. Van Hage is unfortunately closing on 5th Jan which is when we will be returning to college, making it impossible for us to shoot our ice skating scene. 


Van Hage was our first choice to film, so we considered perhaps filming at the Natural History Museum's ice rink instead as these emailed us back on the day that the Christmas Holiday's begun (as shown below).

After having a discussion about the practicality of filming at an ice rink during a busy period (Christmas), we decided that it probably wasn't the best idea. We'd have to transport all of our actors and background actors to the ice rink, and the travel for this location was a lot more difficult than the travel for Van Hage. We thought it would be inappropriate to carry two tripods, a camera and a dolly on a train for an hour and a half. 

Concluding our meeting, we have decided that in replacement of the ice rink locations, we will be filming a romantic winter walk instead along a path at Harlow Town Park. Every other scene that we have planned to shoot in shall be remaining the same as there have been no difficulties or struggles with these locations, as they are all based at my house. 

Codal Analysis

Location Scouting Sheet (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

We created a Van Hages ice skating rink location scouting sheet for when we planned to film at this location. This ice rink will be appropriate to film at because it has large open space and an area for us to place our camera and tripod etc.

17/12/14

Unfortunately after a meeting me and Danielle had (http://ellieg321.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/location-change.html), we decided that we wouldn't be able to film at Van Hages after all and therefore decided to change this location to the Harlow Town Park and film a winter walk instead. Below, are the two scouting sheets we created for Harlow Town Park and my house, with site photographs.

Constructing an opening, engaging the audience (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Main Character

The main character is key in a romance movie because the audience need to become attached with their personality and overall characteristics. We decided to use a teenage girl as our main character because this has proven to be common in many romance movies, for both the younger and older audiences. Females are more stereotypically portrayed as becoming attached and in love with a person a lot faster than a male, so it would allow most of the audience to relate to her as they may find her situation relatable and therefore engaging. Furthermore, after researching audiences for romance films, we realised a majority of them are teenage girls. So having a main character at the same age, allows them to connect with this certain individual on a personal level. 

Crisis

For the crisis, we decided that this should to be on a high scale of drama, so we chose a terminal illness. When the audience discover that a character has a serious illness, they instantly become sympathetic towards them because it's upsetting for a viewer to experience   a fellow persons misfortune; especially when their life is on the line. This crisis engages the audience to continue watching, enabling them to explore the storyline of the main characters further as they will most likely be intrigued as to what happens to the character with the illness. The crisis will be exhaled to the audience through a narrator that will be introduced throughout the first minute of the film opening. 

Enigma Code

Towards the end of our film opening, the main character will be receiving a Christmas card. A close-up shot will be inserted at this point to reveal the message printed inside saying 'I need to see you asap, it's urgent!' and it will immediately cut into the film title. This results in the audience feeling anticipation and will therefore continue to watch the film.

Everyday life

As we're only filming the first two minutes of the movie, everyday life of the main character will take up a majority of our film opening, as this is what you typically see at the start of a film. The female character will be displayed doing her typical morning routine - from waking up, to making tea, to even checking the mailbox.

Classification screen and company logo screen (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Risk Assessment (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Audio Permission (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Considering we have not yet chosen what style of music that we want to include in our film opening, we have decided to create a 'dummy' audio permission. 

"Hello, 

Danielle and I are two AS Media Studies students that would like to include your piece of music '________________' in our 2 minute film opening. We will credit you in the titles, however we would require the music to be free or charge as we are not professionals, just A-Level students. 

Thank you,

Ellie and Danielle"

We decided to use music from Royalty Free, and below is a screenshot giving us permission, just so long as we credit the musician Kevin MacLeod.

Meeting 7

After constructing our audio permission template, we originally didn't know what music we wanted to use. A couple of discussions later, we decided that it would be appropriate to use a soundtrack from incompetech.com royalty free by Kevin MacLeod. The image below is proof that we are able to use his music for free just as long as we credit him in the titles. 

The song that we would like to use is Jingle Bells (calm version) as we felt that this would fit perfectly with our genre and the season of the movie.

Talent Release Forms (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Location Release Form (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Our Production Company Logo (Work completed with Danielle Fletcher 9627)

Our Logo

Below is our logo design that we created on Photoshop. We altered the background of the logo and the title colour to create two different examples. We created the white one to use on white documents e.g. talent and location release forms. We then created one with a black background because this will be less harsh on the viewers eyes when it comes up on their cinema screen; white would probably blind them.

Existing Logo's

Below are three existing logo's that consist of only the colours black and white. This is simple, neutral and subtle rather than bold and in your face with colour. We felt that the black and white theme had a slight tinge of romance in it through 'Deli' being in the squiggly font. So romance is portrayed slightly even without the colours red/pink that are stereotypically associated with love.

After studying a variety of existing logos, we felt that we should keep our one simplistic and stick with the theme of black and white. This allows the black writing to stand out against the white background and vice versa.