Friday, 8 April 2011

Question 4

A Chatroulette Love Story

Still Life Review


A review I did for the short film Still Life by Jon knautz.

A Chatroulette Synopsis

Our film “A chatroulette Love Story” is about a boy who spends the majority of his time in his house, online trying to escape from a world unfamiliar to him. When one day on returning from the toilet there is a girl awaiting him on other side of the chat window on Internet sensation “Chatroulette”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatroulette

He is instantly attracted to the girl and tries his hardest to make himself seem impressionable to the girl, in his attempts to do so he makes a fool of him self. After many hours of conversation the girl tells the boy that she has to go because she has to be up early to go to Redcar. To the boys delight he realises that he might get another chance to interact with the girl, as Redcar is his hometown.

The next morning the boy gets up and attempts to clean him self by getting a shave and plucking some unwanted hairs. He dresses up and puts on a bow tie grabs a present and heads for the door.

After getting the bus into town he begins his long wait for the girl, after a few hours of waiting he finally admits defeat and heads for the bus to go home. When he gets on the bus he realises that the girl he had just waited hours to bump into had arrived by now it was to late to leave the bus so he waited until he got to the next stop and at a steady pace headed back into town.

When he finally arrives back in town he starts to cross the road to where he had seen the girl whilst putting on his boy tie, which he had removed after suffering some abuse from a local member of the youth when he is struck, by a vehicle. At this point the screen fades to black and then dissolves back to picture with a shot of the boy in bed who sits up wrapped up in bandages and the film ends with the boy smiling facing toward the camera.

Thursday, 7 April 2011

A Chatroulette Love Story Board

Filming Schedule

Target Audience.

15-24 year olds
• 37% of 15-24s go to the cinema with friends, being 38% more likely to do so than the average cinemagoer
• 96% of 15-24 year olds watch the ads before the film
• 15-24 year olds have an average party size of 4
• 72% of 15-24 year olds will watch a film at the cinema during the first 2 weeks (excluding any previews)
• 23% of 15-24 year olds are heavy cinemagoers, going once a month or more



Our Target audience

The target audience for our short film is in the age range of 15- 30 these are the main audience for our film, wich focus on internet users, with the appeal to the male gender with the use of comedy and the Romance genera to appeal to female's. This will allow the film to act as a hybrid genera.

Coursework Brief.

You are to create a SHORT FILM in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following ancillary task options:
A POSTER for the film.
Either a RADIO TRAILER or a FILM MAGAZINE REVIEW PAGE featuring a review

Practical work: 60 marks (10 marks poster, 10 marks article or trailer, 40 marks film)
You will receive a copy of the mark scheme detailing how the work is assessed.
For the poster and article / radio trailer it is essential that you participate fully in the creation and production of the work. If you wish to make your own that is a very good idea. You can produce one per group but you must work on the tasks together and prove that you have participated fully.

Research and planning: 20 marks

Types of things to go on blog for Research and Planning:
Genre and narrative research,
Mise-en-scene / lighting,
Comparative textual analysis of posters, short films and reviews and film magazines,
Extensive audience research (interviews, focus groups, surveys (videos of vox pops, online surveys), Practice tasks,
Reviews of short films,
Market research,
Industry based information,
Drafts of work (all tasks) including storyboards, scripts, mock-ups, etc.
Sound practice,
Risk Assessments / Recce checks,
Filming / production diary (How about setting up a twitter account to tweet about what is achieved each day and link it to your blog)
Cast list, crew list, props, locations.
Photos documenting planning stages
.
Evaluation: 20 marks
Using your blog - or creating a DVD extra - you will produce an evaluation covering informed responses

Pith

Question 2:

Question 1: Commentary

Permissions.

In our short film there are three tracks:
Wishery - Pogo
Piano B - Phildel
Some cheesy garage band music.

(To the left) Is the email we sent to the composer of wishery's booking agent. The other two tracks are royalty free.

Poster Draft

This is the draft design for the first poster, we had the idea but before we could apply it we first had to plan how the final piece would look.

The second poster had no plan, I decided instead to go by trial and error, which meant I produced around 5 posters before deciding on a final design.

Magazine Article


To the left are is the double page spread for our short film "A Chatroulette Love Story" typical magazine article featuring reviews, snippets of publicity the film has received and stills from the film its self. I used CS4 for the design of the pages.

Short Film ideas

Second Poster Analysis


The first poster we designed we felt seriously lacked an actual poster feel with very little information to offer and an unclear representation of what the film may entail, despite the fact it was quite an original idea if I might say so myself. (first poster seen right)

So post production and back where we started we put our heads together and came up with a new design. (seen below)





The production of the poster was very easy it simply involved combining an image taken during shooting and another image taken of an old computer not during production. I used the threshold tool on photoshop CS4 which is the effect used on the male, then a black and white filter for the computer where the boys face is. I also added an olive green/ or a piss coloured yellow for the background depending on how you see it. After which I added an mirky overlay. The font used was Inai Matchi, a font which is quite popular at the moment according to our boss. The simple design combined with its ability to imply meaning means that the poster is quite successful.


The poster was used to promote our focus sessions and during the sessions and the time before we were informed that that poster looked fairly professional and it did well to advertise the film.