WELCOME MODERATOR

Welcome, moderator! I am Josie Dean 1470 and I worked with Megan Sedgwick 1472  and Ally Macleod 1473.

I hope you enjoy my blog, which contains my work on my G321 Foundation  Portfolio. We chose the video brief, the titles and openings of a fictional thriller film which we named Unforgotten. My Preliminary exercise is immediately below.

I took specific responsibility for filming the scene with Emily putting the flowers on the grave, the two sisters doing make up, the both of them on the swing and the scene with the mother and the daughter and the scene of the number being typed and when Emily answers the phone. I did some editing mostly with the sound back ground music and we all directed.

My evaluation questions are above.

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

PLANNING: FILM OPENING CREDITS

Studio that is distributing the film: Metrodome
We chose this distributor because it based in London and well known for distributing films made by independent and new film producers. They wanted to reach a young, urban audience known as Urban Genre.

Production company: JAM
We thought this fitted well as a production company as it is an acronym of our names.

Film title: Unforgotten

Featuring: Jane Sedgwick, Megan Sedgwick, Ally Macleod

Casting by: Josie Dean

Editor: Megan Sedgwick

Based on the play (novel, graphic novel) by: N/A

Screenplay: Ally Macleod

Director: Josie Dean

PLANNING: PADLET

Today my group created a Padlet which is a type of presentation format. My whole group is in the Padlet where we can all contribute to the page.

PADLET LINK

PLANNING: WRITING THE VOICE OVER

We decided to write a voice over to give some information to the viewer about what was happening when watching our film opening.

Our script: 6 months, the worst 6 months of my life, I miss her so much, my sister, my best friend. 

This would give context to each scene showing who the sisters are talking about. 

RESEARCH: BIFA

CLICK HERE FOR BIFA

I have recently been looking at the BIFA, I especially wanted to see how well the film American Honey was doing as it had been nominated. When I went to the BFI study day, The film was mentioned and talked about as a British independent film. Rob Miller, who presented An Introduction To The Film Industry on the 2nd of November 2016, cited American Honey as an example of UK independent films. At 2.7m budget which is relatively cheap, it had posting unpopular characters apart from 1 slightly more famous character. It also has mainly just young people, according to it's website the film shows how young people these days are defined.


At the BFI study day I learnt that American Honey counted as a British film be a use of its British director and the cast and key organisations involved.
Andrea Arnold the producer of American Honey is also well known for producing Fish Tank at the cost off 1.3m (this is cheap compared to Star Wars).

American Honey's key themes involve youth and their life style which are themes and issues not usually covered by main stream cinemas. Likewise there were no expensive sets as it was shot outside on location rather than in a studio. A part of the way it created the sense of social realism is by the style of filming such as the hand held cinema technique depicting free youth.

In my film I also have a low production value, shooting on location and using unknowns. Also I have similar themes such as youth, realism and love.

PLANNING: SHOTLIST

In our group we made a shot list to plan out what we were filming and how we were going to edit the clips.