Storyboard - Animatic

Here we have created our storyboard animation, which shows what we plan to happen in our film. In order to create this animation we made a story board on a storyboard sheet, which we had to draw each shot of what is going to happen in our film. After drawing out each shot. We then took individual pictures of each shot that we had drawn and and put them into the adobe photo shop to crop out the picture so they look more clean and tidy.

   When we were were using Photoshop we took each photo that we took and used the crop tool, to cut the photos to the size of our choice, taking out any boarders that showed up on the photo. After we cropped all the photos we saved them as a JPEG image in our own area onto the computer. To put together the animatic we used adobe to put it together. We started selecting the quality of our footage, so we chose to put it at 720p, which will give us the standard quality of our animatic. We then saved a new folder for this task, before we started. We then uploaded all the photos from the computer into adobe and on the right hand side was each shot that we took, in total we had taken 40 shots. With these shots we drag them all on to the timeline, putting them in shot order of how our opening should go. Then we started to crop the each shot, which would represent the duration of each shot that we intend to have in our film. Each shot was around between 3-4 seconds long. Afterwards we started to put in transitions which would show the change in scene and shot within our opening scene. We used the black fade into next shot for the first two shots at the beginning of film, which were the titles which compliments the film. We also had some of shot which directly cut from one shot to another, to show the journey of the protagonist during the day. This will allow the audience to follow through each scene and follow the protagonist through her journey to school, and this will make them feel involved.  After adding the transitions to our footage,  we played the footage back and we decide to add the the non diegetic sound over the background of the opening scene that we had story boarded. After adding the non diegetic sound, we played it back and we though we needed to put the volume down in order for the audience to hear the voice over (which we have not included in the animatic). But whilst editing our opening we will include the voice over in. After we started to fade out some of the music at certain points within the shots to represent awkward moment between the male and female protagonist, which is shown when they first see each other on the streets. This will allow the audience to a part of what is going on between the protagonist, leaving an enigma code for them knowing that there will be some sort of connection between them. After the introduction of the tow main protagonist the music is faded back into the shot and continuous through the rest of the opening scene. The non diegetic music stops as the protagonist meets the friend and the dialogue begins, after the music comes back as they travel together to next lesson and the opening scene closes along with the music as well

What went well about our storyboard animatic is that we were able to fade the music to where we wanted the music to stop to show the awkwardness between the two protagonist, and being able to crop the photo successfully through photoshop, giving a cleaner image.

To improve we could make the clearer image of the shot, this could be done by hold the camera still whilst taking the photo. We could also have the voice over included in the storyboard animatic to make that there was an outcome to see how the voice over would fit in.

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Representations and stereotypes in our film

The female protagonist will be shown in a stereo typical way, because the female protagonist will come across as very shy and will talk about her feeling and experiences that she has gone through in past. so the voice over will talk about how she has been moving schools, so she has never experience having close friends, as she keeps on moving around a lot. This shows the audience to feel sympathetic for her as she may not fit in as this has not been the first time of moving schools. The female protagonist will come across as vulnerable and innocent. Stereo typically women are presented as innocent and this case linking to the codes and convention of a romance film, we would expect the protagonist to be attractive looking, in which the audience will follow throughout the film.  The personality of the protagonist will be shown as they will come across usually as hard to get with as the male protagonist would usually be doing a lot, just by getting the female protagonist's attention. The costumes which the protagonist as show will be wearing a coat, this will show the audience that the female protagonist will have a hidden personality and its something that may be revealed through. from the audience analysis we found out the they would expect the female protagonist to be shy, cute and friendly, which in the opening we will be able to see a friendly side of the protagonist as she will talk to the friend and will show that they will get along in the film, So these expectations will be met in the opening as the protagonist will show this through the voice over as she interacts with audience telling them about her life.

The male protagonist will be shown in a stereo typically way, because we have represented him as confident and outgoing. This will be shown in the opening scene because the male protagonist will notice the female protagonist show that he makes the first move, which shows his confidence, which allows the audience to find out more about his personality. From the questionnaire analysis the public would expect the male protagonist to be flirtatious and friendly. This shows that audience's expectation of what the male protagonist's personality should be like. we will show small part of this in our opening scene, as this will create an enigma code for the audience, as they would expect a set personality for the protagonists, but would be revealed during the film. Stereo typically, the male protagonist would be represented for the audience to shown as attractive and strong, this will be shown from the appearance of him. The codes and convention of what the male protagonist should be like, is that they should come across as strong, usually quite dominant as they will come across as confident which the audience will expect to see within a romance film.      

Day 2 of filming

During day two of filming we filmed the scene where the protagonist meets the friend and  journey towards their next lesson. before starting to film, we started by getting consent from people in the common room as there were a lot of people in the common room and needed permission to film them.

We started to start where we finished off from the last filming which was when Bronte entered into the sixth form block. To film this we took a medium shot of the sixth form block title. We decided to shoot this because it would allow the audience to recognize where the protagonist is going, and the audience can also relate to the experience of the protagonist, as the opening shows the protagonist first day at college. We then filmed the female protagonist entering into the common room, we used a medium shot, and using a tracking shot of Bronte, as we followed her until she goes sits down. In this scene the voice over will stop and will focus more on the common room crowd, so the non diegetic sound of the voice over and the soundtrack will change to diegetic sound of the crowd in the common and the start dialogue between the characters. After following Bronte, as she goes to sit on a table on her own, the camera cuts to introduce the friend, with some other group of people. We introduce the friend with medium shot of her talking to her other friends, and starts to see the protagonist on her own, then we cut see a the friends perspective of of the protagonist. we then filmed the meeting of the protagonist and the friend starts the dialogue which then after we film a shot reverse shot of there dialogue. We then filmed them walking out the common room and towards there next lesson, and we filmed a medium shot of them coming out and going up the stairs and the we cut to when they are coming towards the second set of stairs and we filmed a high angle shot of them coming up the stairs.

What went well is that we were able to to get the dialogue in this filming scene, so we thought that the shot reverse shot went well as we were able to see the characters clearly and so the audience will know what is going on and who is talking. Also the the high angle shot that we had filmed came out clearly as the lighting was good within this scene as the footage was clear or the characters showed up well in the lighting. However to improve we could make sure that we get the dialogue bit clearer, so that the audience find out what is been spoken about, so that they can feel apart of the film as well.

Day 1 of filming

During this day of filming, we managed to get the consent from the actors which we did not interview so that we could film them. This included the groups in the classroom and also the male protagonist.

We then began to film the classroom footage. This included Bronte, our female protagonist, walking into the classroom. We showed this through match on action and also a medium shot, keeping into the 180 degree rule. However, we needed the footage of the meet up between the female protagonist and her friend, so that we could get an idea if they were walking in together. This will be done in the second day of filming. We have also filmed the conversation between the female protagonist and her friend. We used a shot reverse shot and also the rule of thirds. We have done this so that it show the two characters talking to each other but in an effective way. The lighting for this scene was good because you could clearly see each character due to the natural classroom lighting. We also put extra concealer to hide the imperfections on Bronte's skin so that the camera would pick up on the flawless skin. We also filmed Oliver, our male protagonist, entering the wrong classroom and this is the first time they realise that they are in the same school.

We then went outside school where we filmed Bronte walking down the road which proved to be difficult because we kept on getting other people behind. We then called Oliver so that he could come and do his footage. We made them stand on the opposite side of the road where we got the to look at each other. We filmed Oliver first where he looked at Bronte across the road. We the filmed Bronte doing the same. It was difficult to work out the 180 degree rule and so this took us a few tries. We had to also make sure we left enough time so that the voice over will fit in with the time of her walking.

We then walked back into school where we asked the lady on reception if it was okay to use the sign in book and to film at the front desk. She agreed and so we filmed Bronte walking into school. We then decided to use a close up where we filmed Bronte signing in. She then suggested that she looked at some posters on the wall so she is taking the new surrounding in. We liked this idea and so decided to use it. We then filmed Bronte walking down the hallway. This took multiple times because children kept walking past and getting into shot. We then filmed a high angle shot of Bronte walking up some stairs to make her look vulnerable. This is where we stopped because we ran out of time as it was lunch and so we kept on getting other school children which we did not want.