Final Cut of Tatted Gen

This is the final cut of the film opening, i acted on feedback and here is the end result.

Film Poster

This is our film poster that would tie into the Marketing campaign, using this poster on social media to appeal to our target audience.

I feel this poster is good because it includes the companies we worked with, tells you whose film it is and then the title is big and bold so people know what the film is and by the title they can maybe guess that it is a documentary (if not they will notice the producers) and lastly the still behind is included in the film, I thought the close up on a persons eye catches peoples attention and maybe provokes thoughts of looking into that persons eye and knowing the story of the film.

I got feedback on the poster above from my teacher Mrs Brookes, she said that the image in the poster didn't have enough to do with tattoos and made it look more like an indie arts film or something not tattoos so I must try and make the image behind more artsy, this meant i remade the poster on Photoshop with a screen cap from one of the clips from filming in the tattoo parlour. The shot was a reflection on a class cabinet which contained tattoo ink and I pulled focus to focus on its reflection and luckily in line with the cabinet was a tattoo artist tattooing a woman. So in the image you can see little bottles of ink, tattoo supplies, an artist, tattooing being done and all the posters of tattoos on walls. I think this portrays that the film Tatted Generation is definitely about tattoos.

This is my remake of the poster :

New Script

After the feedback from Mrs Field that had one point that our script focused too much on that every one conformed to the norm and that we weren't really presenting that the documentary was about expression within society and that sometimes the use of big words can become pretentious and bore the watcher/listener. There fore we re wrote the script, keeping it simple and with the key values of the documentary in mind.

Peer Feedback

This is feedback from the media classes on my First draft of my opening sequence for media

Holding Shot steady where appropriate
Everyone said this was excellent, that all my shots were steady where appropriate, that the camerawork was excellent.

Framing a Shot
All the framing of the shots was said to be excellent including everything that was relevant and appropriate.

Using a Variety of shots & Distances
I used all the shot types (extreme close up, close up, mid, long shot, extreme lone shot) and did so at different angels (high &low). I used the shots appropriately keeping interest through the montage but apparently there were too many close ups, I will look at a way of taking out some of the close up although some said that the close up were like-able.

Using Titles Appropriatly
Titles were seen to vary from Proficient to excellent, they were known to be appropriate in style, font and colour, the simplicity of them shows how it is a high budget film and goes along with the documentary feel of the film but it was thought the spacing of the titles needed to be looked at.

Mise en Scene
The mise en scene of the tattoo parlour helped with giving to the topic of Tattoos being focus very clearly. The colours overall of the films were apparently very nice, it wasn't all the same colour throughout making it nice to look at but some people said the constant light to dark changes of the shots was not very good.

Editing so that the meaning is apparent
My editing was applauded and appropriate for the genre of a documentary. It was said that the opening starts more generally around the subject and then gets to the point, that the shots are in a good order. The interview is a bit too long though because it feels like it is the end of a film.

Shot transitions and other effects
Shots cut a lot because there are no real transition effects on the narration montages but apparently this goes well because it goes along with the narration and what the narrative that is trying to be put across and because of this it flows well. Also because of the transitioning from shot to shot being fast it gave the film pace which is what I wanted I wanted the fast pace top replicate the craziness of society and then to slow down once the complete narrative had been dropped.

Using sound with Images and editing
The music is really good and sets the atmosphere but sometimes the narrations. The tattoo parlour sound is loud and what is being said can barely be heard, something needs to be done here to improve. Subtitles could be used during the interviews.

Teacher Feedback on First Draft

Mrs Brookes

WWW - Camera shots, Editing and Mise En Scene.
EBI - link between intro and tattoo where is that? Voice over a little to complex maybe shorter and shorter. When you walk into the parlour, you need intro. Job title needed. Lower tattooing sound. Cut out "yeah". Need more tattoo scenes.

Mrs Field

WWW - Shots are very well done. Editing is good.
EBI - Need to simplify the narration at the beginning of the film opening. Improve sound of the tattoo noise. Job titles should be added. Need to remove the constant "yeah".

Mr Amato

Really like the titles but can be positioned better.
Feels TV Documentary rather than a film, this could be because of the instant voice over. More instant talking and change the font that you use as it goes on and on and I do not like the late titles. Subject matter hands you some potentially beautiful shots that wait really evident.

Improvements from Feedback

It is clear we need to make the link between the montage and the tattoo parlour footage more obvious or apparent. Mrs Bond as said we could do this by focusing on the script of the narration, to simplify it maybe so it doesn't get lost in the big pretentious words that we used. It is also clear that we must remove the "yeah" responses from the video because they constantly come up and maybe distract from what is being said by the person being interviewed; this is easily done through using the background noise recorded in different shots to fill the space where the "yeah" used to be. I am afraid there is not much to be done with the background noise in the interviews, we can lower the sound but then we do not want the dialogue to be lost so we are going to put subtitles onto the interviews, this may play in our favour making the piece look more like a documentary.

My Ideas for a Title Sequence

Documentary or Indie Film Opening?

Doing a Film Opening Sequence?

My basic idea for a opening sequence is about an ocd teen who doesnt like the fact that the things in his life dont make sense and are in order like things in his room or the city etc.

I started researching title sequences seeing how they worked, I already had the idea in mind that I really want to make my opening sequence indie, to make my audience think, to get hooked on good visuals and an interesting character/story. I knew for both of these I should look at Wes Anderson opening sequences with his intricately shown stories noticed by the audience only if they connect the dots and work out the story. I first looked at ::::

Moonrise Kingdom (http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/moonrise-kingdom/) - This story is very intricate, at least the genre is hard to grasp and the audience guesses that it is about a family of kids but that is all you get, I would like to incorporate some ideas from this such as a narration over the op setting up the story or helping it out - for example in this one Wes Anderson used The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra to metaphorically introduce us into the other parts of the family by using the parts of the orchestra family. I then started jotting down ideas (insert image of rough note/ rough story board) and decided a monologue would work well once the main character is seen to make more of a connection between watcher and the struggling protagonist with in the story. So I looked to monologues from famous films, I started with ::::

Ferris Buellers day off --- After the initial setting up of the story of Ferris staying at home after faking being ill he does a monologue to the camera and therefore to the audience this makes him seem like one of the audience making a connection between him and the real world making us want to see what he says next and what he will do with his interesting story. 

Submarine (Ayoade) --- To have a relate-able character that is interesting to the audience to listen to, that is superficial in anyway.

Doing a documentary for an opening sequence? 

I have thought about doing a Documentary title sequence because I like documentaries more than anything, I feel this would be easier to shoot and make it look good but include everything that is needed for the marks, I have begun a film pitch presentation on emaze and am going through the ideas of how to hit every aspect of the mark scheme in the opening sequence.

I feel it is easier to film a documentary in the long run because it doesn't need many different types of shots but it can include them but it may look weird with the common mid shot interviews and random filler shots of "not interview things". I feel it will be hard to engage someone, as one should with a film opening, in a documentary because most of the time people are watching a doc when they already know what it is about and are watching it purely for information/education/pre-conceived  interest. 

For the intro, the basic idea is that we have to have enigma created and just hit the 
criteria. Our doc intro will be on tattoos and how they can impact our generation in the work environment in future. We will just have to make it look more film like with artsy shots. With doing this documentary all the mise en scene would already be there because it is a real world, so would the characters - it wouldn't look like acting because it isn't.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

Technical Skills Juno Task

• What technical skills either camera or premiere did you learn? How does it compare to the original?

My Camera work was a bit more shaky compared to the original this would be because the original Juno was most likely filmed using steady cam or tracks on the ground to roll the camera along to get a nice steady shot where as ours was shot just on a tripod relying on my steady hand which will never be as steady as a professional steady cam. I did learn that for low shots like filming the legs and then having to track them walking it was much easier to film if I held the tripod and camera upside down and used the reversible screen to see what I was filming, by doing this I could get a much lower angle.

I held the tripod similar to this(for perspective)

When editing with premier I was unable to find any video effects that looked similar to the cartoon likeness that was in the Juno Film so this is one disadvantage that came with the editing. some shots I had to slow down to make them work with the timing of the walking of the original and the was very evident when watching the video, where as in the original they would not of slowed down any of the shots or if they did it is very hard to see. Some transition in between shot were hard to copy for my video but I got some of the simple ones like the wipe and all my shots are in time with the cuts, I made sure  to use markers on the timeline and in the viewing window so I could cut them appropriately.

You can see my markers on my timeline that I used for reference.

Summary of Juno Task

Summary

• Did you get all the footage you needed?
• What went well - What I learnt - What I will take with me to the next production

What went well overall was that we managed to get all the necessary shots to make a video that was very similar to the JUNO Intro, we worked well as a team - everyone had their roles and stuck to them and we just flowed through the filming process, we finished filming within the hour of our lesson showing our efficiency in filming, had the necessary costume etc this made it possible to make the video happen to its full potential.

What did not go well was that I did not put enough detail on to my storyboard which hindered us in the future filming when we didn't have access to watching the Original Juno Video to copy the shots and I did not stick to the timings that I had made on my storyboard for the urgency that we needed to film I chucked out getting the right length of shots.

So now in future productions I will make sure to know my shots in and out, have the detail on the storyboard of shot length and the composition of the shots etc and finally to understand sometimes you have other days to film.

Film Pitch

Time Gone By | film pitch from hentonmedia

Feedback

1. The Title was seen widely as relevant to the story/genre and intriguing to how it applies to the story line. A good film title.
2. The character could appeal to anyone, the choice of having Robert De Nero worked well because he is an older actor that OAP's would maybe of seen in other films.
3. Interest was created for the audience use of enigma codes such as the question of what will the character change? What would I change? How does this affect the characters future?
4. The narrative is suitable for our audience and will apparently attract much interest with its originality of story, revolving around an older characters life.
5. Narrative fits the genre loosely so would be better to advertise as a sci-fi hybrid with dram or something. The only real sci-fi part to the story is travelling through time and how it affects the future.
6. People said it is like about time but the only similarity between our film and that one is time travel, by this logic it is like all films and shows that involve time travel, but the majority said it was different sort of film and i think this stems from following an older character for a change.
7. The marketing and advertising of the film in places where OAP's would see was taken well, for example bus stop billboards, on day time t.v and just generally in newspapers and magazines.

Overall the pitch was taken well we provided all the information that was needs except for amood board and overall we didn't include much visual aspects to the presentation like with images, it was very text based which doesn't keep attention of watchers.