Research & Planning & Conventions
During the course of Year 12, i undertook many different research techniques, researching existing BSR films and their themes and the target audience for my specific BSR idea: Faith. During the research stage, one of the first tasks we did was critique past students BSR opening sequences, which allowed us to find out what the brief was really asking us to do, and see real pieces of work from A grade - D grade pieces. This also gave us a few ideas whilst planning our own idea, as we had never really seen a BSR film, or even heard of the genre. This benefited us hugely and kick started our creative minds.
To find out if our audience liked our ideas, we devised a few questions to ask people of our target audience, every day normal 16/17 year olds, and recorded their answers using Vox Pops. These allow the audience to give a long answer regarding why they like/dislike our ideas, and they gave us constructive criticisms. Also during our researching period we designed a 'person' who we think would watch our film as a target audience. We then improved on this a few months later when we created two other people for our exam preparation, and ideal audience for both Disney & Film 4 films.
During planning we created Call Sheets, Location Recces and a Production Schedule to make sure the whole filming of the production went as smooth as it could have done. I feel with down to the minute planning, this was a positive thing and the filming was fine, but sometimes there are things that you miss out of your plans that you can not account for, e.g. knowing when everyone is available.
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Production Schedule
Location Reccies
Shooting Script
Cast List
Location List
Call Sheets
When we made our BSR film we made sure we stuck to the themes of the genre, such as Lighting, Mise-En-Scene and the camera work of a typical BSR. we made sure we used lot of close ups, straight on angles, and natural lighting. I improved on this from earlier in year 12, from making my Continuity Editing Exercise. This allowed me to experiment with weird camera angles, the pace of editing, and various camera shots such as Match On Action. Through researching of BSR films, i found out that all of the colour pallets are blue, which allowed me to make my film look even more realistic, and an actual BSR. The locations we used for our Continuity Editing Exercise were in school, so in our film we explored other locations, such as railway bridges, graffiti covered alleyways. We stuck to the conventions of a BSR in using 'rough' looking actors to play characters, used costume to make the characters look believable. We got to film our opening sequence in the cold, so they grey skies showed some pathetic fallacy.
Creativity
During year 12, we read newspaper articles, secrets on postsecret.com and time out London's 'things overheard on the tube' article on their website, as well as watching a range of BSR films. These creative tasks allowed us to kick start our treatment ideas, and the sense of having a real storyline behind our BSR opening, was appealing to us. By using real stories, it helped create the best opening we could, and allowed us to focus on topics which are going on in the media at the moment. I feel like we have come a long way from the continuity editing stage, as myself and Danni made the idea up on our own love for music and it wasn't as creative as it could have been.
Post-Production & Digital Technologies
So this year in Post-Production we focused on making a BSR film with amazing continuity. We used Livetype to create professional looking graphics for our opening sequence, which means that i proved to myself this year that i can use other software on the Macs, enhancing my ability to learn other skills and allowing me to produce better assignments in the future, for my educational benefit and outside of school. We used iMovie for 90% of the production process and then on the final day we added music and our graphics to our opening sequence. This meant that we got to use Final Cut and learnt how to render the clips and render the film as we went a long. I feel accomplished for using these programs, as they have benefited me in year 13, by having basic knowledge of them. Allowing me to be somewhat confident starting work this year.
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