Filming

Filming

04.07.12

Today we filmed the majority of our comedy movie. Due to our trouble with actors, I had to (with great difficulty) persuade my sister and her friend to act in the movie, and I had to act in the movie rather than film it, which I wasn't too happy about.

We filmed the whole of the movie apart from the interrogation scene, because that would have had to be filmed in the drama studio at school, and I felt like my actors had done enough for that day. we will possibly be filming that another time.

Here are some of the clips which we filmed:

Preparing for the filming

27/06/2012

Group: Raliat and Funmi

Genre: Comedy

Actors/ress :

Location : Bevaerwood school

Props: Pizza box, Pizza, Cap, Pizza delivery uniform, sofa, money,

Time of the day:

Scenes:

Sounds:

The script

The Script

27.06.12

Comedy film by Funmi Adebanjo and Raliat Adenuga

‘FUSSY EATERS’

CAST: PIZZA BOY, FUSSY GIRL, HUNGRY GIRL

(The pizza boy is walking along a path with a pizza box in his hands. His phone rings, with Justin Bieber ‘Baby’ as his ring tone, and he fumbles to balance the pizza and answer the phone.)

PIZZA BOY: Hello? *sighs* I know I know I know I’m late, but I just have one more pizza to deliver… don’t worry I’ll be five minutes… yeah I’ll be as quick as I can, just gives me five minutes…

(The pizza boy gasps and stops walking)

PIZZA BOY: The final episode of Desperate Housewives is about to start?! Get a box of tissues ready for me! ... Thanks… love you too mum.

(The pizza boy puts his phone is his pocket then pulls out the receipt for his next delivery and looks at it)

PIZZA BOY: [under his breath] woah, long receipt…

(The pizza boy looks up at the house in front of him and begins to walk towards its front door. Then it cuts to two girls in the house. They are both sitting on the sofa and hungry girl is holding her stomach)

HUNGRY GIRL: ooh… I’m so hungry

(They hear the pizza boy knock continuously on their door)

PIZZA BOY: [shouts through door] pizza delivery!

HUNGRY GIRL: *gasps* the pizza’s here!

(The girls answer the door)

PIZZA BOY: [hurriedly] hi, here’s your pizza, nice and warm…

(The pizza boy shoves the pizza forward)

PIZZA BOY: now if you could just give the money and I’ll-

FUSSY GIRL: woah… slow down!

(The fussy girl pushes the pizza box back towards the pizza boy)

FUSSY GIRL: First I wanna check if you got our order right!

(The hungry girl shoots the fussy girl and angry look, then turns to face the pizza boy, who has raised his eyebrows in reaction to the fussy girl)

{The camera zooms in to the pizza boys eyes and then the screen cuts away to his imagination. He is in a dark interrogation room sat by a table with a lamp above him, shining in his eyes. The fussy girl stands over him and slams her fist on the table shouting ‘Answer me! Answer me!’ Then the camera zooms back out of his eyes back to reality}

HUNGRY GIRL: [awkward laugh] don’t mind her, erm, let me get the money

(The pizza boy gives a sigh of relief and the hungry girl rushes into the house to fetch the money)

PIZZA BOY: Look. I can assure you that your pizza was made correctly-

(The pizza boy sighs and pulls out the long receipt)

FUSSY GIRL: (Makes a movement with her hand that indicates for the pizza boy to shut up) First question. Is the ham separated from the sweetcorn?

PIZZA BOY: (looks up and down receipt) Erm… yes.

FUSSY GIRL: was fresh, sliced mozzarella cheese used?

PIZZA BOY: um, yes.

FUSSY GIRL: did you mix barbecue sauce and sun dried tomato sauce on the base?

PIZZA BOY: yes.

FUSSY GIRL: is the lettuce shredded not chopped?

PIZZA BOY: yes.

FUSSY GIRL: was the pepperoni cut into stars?

(The hungry girl rushes back with a handful of money)

HUNGRY GIRL: here is the exact amount.

(The pizza boy lets out a sigh of relief and shoves the receipt in his pocket before reaching out to take the money from the hungry girl. However the fussy girl jumps between them and interrupts)

FUSSY GIRL: Hello?! I’m not finished!

(The hungry girl and the pizza boy both roll their eyes and drop their hands back down. The pizza boy reaches back into his pocket and pulls out the receipt again)

FUSSY GIRL: now, I’ll ask again… was the pepperoni cut into stars?

PIZZA BOY: (sighs) yes.

THE SCREEN FADES OUT TO BLACK, THEN FADES BACK IN TO INDICATE A SKIP IN TIME

FUSSY GIRL: Were the onions pre-fried in sugar before being added to the pizza?

(The hungry girl is sitting on the floor leaning against the wall, and the pizza boy is leaning against the door frame with his head back, both of them clearly tired)

PIZZA BOY: (through his teeth) yes.

FUSSY GIRL: was the meat taken from the thigh of a baby lamb?

(The pizza boy whipped his head round to face the fussy girl and shoot her a concerned/shocked look)

PIZZA BOY: what?! (the fussy eater gave him an impatient look, and he quickly looked down at the receipt) erm… yes…

FUSSY GIRL: Good. Was the dough slapped around your face three times?

PIZZA BOY: what?! No!

FUSSY GIRL: hahaha I was only joking! Well then, it seems as if you’ve got our order right.

(The hungry girl jumps up off the floor with an eager smile on her face)

HUNGRY GIRL: so does that mean I can eat the pizza?!

(the hungry girl looks at the money in her hand, then starts to pass it to the pizza boy. As she passes it it changes to slow motion and plays the slow motion running song/the hallelujah song before

HG: he certainly gave you a pizza his mind

FG: Oi! Don’t get saucy with me!

Brainstorming Ideas

21/06/2012
Our two minute film project:

QUEEN:
The Queen and Prince Phillip get a delivery containing a letter which says she is no longer a queen.

PRANKING:
Two friends are pranking each other at one of their houses. Then the third friend enters the door, bringing in a package which he claims was left outside, that turns out to be an ultimate prank on both of the friends.

FUSSY EATERS:

The delivery man makes a quick phone call to his friends before delivering his last pizza of the day, saying 'I know I'm late but I just have one more pizza to deliver, don't worry don't worry I will meet you in five minutes, I'll be as quick as I can', then knocks and enters his last delivery destination (the house of two people). The two people are very fussy and ask the delivery guy loads of questions about the food e.g 'is the cabbage diced not cubed?' 'is the sweetcorn and ham separated?' 'was organic ham used?' 'is the cheese sliced fresh mozzarella?'. As they ask more and more questions the pizza delivery guy evidently gets more frustrated. Then finally when they feel like their order was completed right, they except the food. Then just as the delivery guy begins to leave they shout 'wait!...' making the delivery guy angrily turn around, then grab the fussy eater and hold him up against the wall and angrily ask 'what now?!?'. The fussy eater then shakily pulls a fiver out of his pocket and says '...you forgot your tip'

Holy cookies:

Someone is in their house peacefully, when two girl scouts, selling cookies knock on their door, pestering for them to buy their cookies. However the person the houserefuses to buy the cookies unless they perform a talent. The two girl proceed to show their talent (singing a gospel song). Which makes the person get emotional leading them go give away unnecessary amounts of money.

Research

20/06/2012
The genre that me and my work partner have chosen for our 2 minute film is comedy. We have started our research by watching and briefly analysing short comdey sketches, on Youtube. 
We typed in 'Short comedy Films' We recieved a variety of clips.
The first video we watched was called the 'Elevator'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-TQQE1y68c
It had little dialogue, the humour was mainly in the image and gestures, this video has brought to our attention the importance of selecting the most suitable actors, which will influence the actors we select to complete our short film

The second film we watched was called 'No offence'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6US4AyvEO_A
The film only used two actors, yet still managed to consistently entertain us, throughout the entireduration. It also used diegetic and non diegetic sounds to deliver humour

Reflection On AS

Reflection on AS

Click here to open the Learning Skills audit
You first completed this at the start of the year. How would you rate yourself now?


Evaluation of AS Foundation Production module  

Consider the following and give honest and realistic answers.

·       How successful was my research of real media? How could my research skills be improved? My research of real media was very successful, in terms of me gathering reliable and valid information, which was beneficial to my advantage when I was creating my media products. My research skills could have been improved by me extracting my information from a variety of sources, for example my research could have been gathered from reading books and many more.

•       How successful was my audience research? How could I have made my results more meaningful in order to take them into account when producing my media product? My audience research was very successful, due to the fact I used primary research (questionnaires) and secondary research (magazines etc). This provided me with a range of opinions and facts. I believe my results were 100% meaningful, this is because I gave my target audience a chance to project their opinions, and moreover made rational decisions to merge all opinions when producing my media product.

•       How successfully did I keep my blog up to date? How could I have made better use of its multimedia capacity? At first I did gather all my daily blog ideas onto Microsoft power point, and as time went on I then transferred them onto my online blog. This was only due to the fact that I did not have daily internet connection access in my home, due to my parents were  decisions on upgrading our broadband services.

•       How successfully did I manage my time? How could I have organised my production more effectively? How could I have improved my planning and drafting process (and showing evidence of these stages for the examiner? I managed my time, by using my revision time table to finish my work in a set time period. I did this daily. I could have organised my production by simply just planning more. I tried my hardest to present an effective plan, I do not know how I could have improved my drafting, because it was my original idea, and improving my draft will only decrease my originality and exclude the ideas from my audience feedback. However I don't believe that my drafts were not as detailed as they could have been, so next time I will make my drafts more detailed.

•       How successfully did I follow the conventions of real media? Where could I have improved? I was very successful at following the  conventions, as I did merely replicate many hip hop/ pop genre magazines (as that was my chosen genre) such as VIBE magazine. Vibe magazine is a very successful magazine, so I thought by following these conventions, It may increase the success of my own media product.

•       Which technology skills did I learn and develop? Which skills do I need to improve/learn in the future? I learnt how to use Adobe Photoshop CS4, before choosing media, I had no idea how to operate this software. I do need to improve my skills on blogging online. In future I hope to have learned how to successfully blog without any difficulties, however I am already learning how to successfully blog.

•       How successful was my creation of my media text? Could I have improved or been more creative? My media text was very successful because i followed conventions of a typical Hip hop/ pop magazines. This was presented by my secondary research. However I think it could have been improved, by my planned layout being more creative, and moreover changing my colour scheme to be more consistent throughout my entire magazine

•       Did my text fulfil the requirements of the brief in terms of Audience, Representation,Genre? Yes, I do believe that i fulfilled the requirements in terms of the audience; I believed that it was fulfilled due to my audience feedback, which were very positive. This clearly shows that it was successful. I also believed that mainly images represented my genre extremely well. My audience feedback, shows that they clearly recognised what my chosen genre was. My genre was easy to present through my media product, with the use of current famous Hip hop/ pop artists which was used to give my audience a clear idea of my chosen genre, moreover so that fans of these famous artists can be more interested with my product.

•       How detailed was my evaluation? How could you have improved your discussion of the success of the finished product? I personally believe that my evaluation was very detailed, it contained every detail of how I accomplished the research to how I produced the finished media product. It also included what I will change, keep the same, whether my finished product was successful, and many more.

•       Anything else? No.