Friday, 8 February 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
How our film relates to the conept of genre.
Here, I am going to discuss how the concept of genre was used to define and build my film opening.
My group and I decided to base the film on a mix of The Inbetweeners, and Gavin and Stacey. We chose this about 3 months in advance of writing the script. We also designed our company logo, Take 5 Productions, around this film.
The film is called, Our Holiday, and tells the story of 5 friends in education, struggling, to say the least! Albert, Jessica, Kel, Jason and Emily are all Year 12 teenagers who have just finished their first set of exams; so they decide to go on a spontaneous summer break abroad. Well that doesn't really turn out the way that they hoped, as Albert makes the decision to take his friends to Oxford - A place that he has been once before. There they meet people in Oxford, who are contradict the stereotypes that Oxfordians supposedly hold. Through a sea of hillarious parties, chortling trips and one very funny man, this film is the perfect film to see you through the summer.
NOW you REALLY want to see it eh? No? Okay.. let me explain some more.
From an ideological perspective, this film is to show the stereotypes of Essex habitants, and Oxford habitiants, and how they are supposedly from completely opposite ends of the social and cultural spectrum and how they are contrasted when the two come together and make friends.
However, there is an underlying theme throughout of love - and that can be added to the genre. So I guess the genre is a cross between Teenage Comedy and Romantic Comedy... so... RomTeen Comedy!
The film constantly reiterates the themes of power/control/friendship and love, and I wrote the whole film to play on these themes, to create comedy!
The use of binary oppositions is also used in this themes - as the steretypical opposites are brought together.
I hope that makes sense! If you haven't - check out the film opening! Get those views up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTqqZ1hR-gc
My group and I decided to base the film on a mix of The Inbetweeners, and Gavin and Stacey. We chose this about 3 months in advance of writing the script. We also designed our company logo, Take 5 Productions, around this film.
The film is called, Our Holiday, and tells the story of 5 friends in education, struggling, to say the least! Albert, Jessica, Kel, Jason and Emily are all Year 12 teenagers who have just finished their first set of exams; so they decide to go on a spontaneous summer break abroad. Well that doesn't really turn out the way that they hoped, as Albert makes the decision to take his friends to Oxford - A place that he has been once before. There they meet people in Oxford, who are contradict the stereotypes that Oxfordians supposedly hold. Through a sea of hillarious parties, chortling trips and one very funny man, this film is the perfect film to see you through the summer.
NOW you REALLY want to see it eh? No? Okay.. let me explain some more.
From an ideological perspective, this film is to show the stereotypes of Essex habitants, and Oxford habitiants, and how they are supposedly from completely opposite ends of the social and cultural spectrum and how they are contrasted when the two come together and make friends.
However, there is an underlying theme throughout of love - and that can be added to the genre. So I guess the genre is a cross between Teenage Comedy and Romantic Comedy... so... RomTeen Comedy!
The film constantly reiterates the themes of power/control/friendship and love, and I wrote the whole film to play on these themes, to create comedy!
The use of binary oppositions is also used in this themes - as the steretypical opposites are brought together.
I hope that makes sense! If you haven't - check out the film opening! Get those views up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTqqZ1hR-gc
Our Film - The Problems we overcame :) AND THE OPENING!
Hello!
Today I'm going to talk about the problems we had whilst filming our film opening, for AS Media Studies! But first... Check out this song!
Bit of banter to get you going this morning.. ANYWAY!
We came across a number of problems whilst filming our opening. The first one being the fricckin camera battery! It kept dying on us... But a croissant and a glass of squash later, we had the battery charges, and ready to go!
As you will see when I upload the finalised version, we had the weather on our side - the snow gave us an awesome effect which really added to the authenticity and uniqueness of this opening. It really looked great.
The second problem that we had during filming, was the stability of the camera shots. They were very very jumpy and unstable, so I thought on the spot and came up with a simple stabaliser, that I will share with you now.
I based it on some shoulder stabalisers that I had seen in the past.
I took my tripod and tilted the plate back so that it was facing towards the sky. I then attached my camera onto it, whilst putting a dumbell weight - about 2.5kg - on the feet of the tripod. Then, I put it on my shoulder and we got incredibly steady shots.
Other than that, everything went pretty well!
And here it is!
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