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Q1. Forms and Conventions of Teen Films in "Bleeding In Love" By Harrison Parker

In our teen film opening, we incorporated typical teen film forms and conventions to make it live up to that genre.

Here are some examples:

Setting: College

Many teen films are set in a high school/college. This is the case as teens spend the a lot of their time at college.

(Breakfast Club 1985):

(Our Film):

Characters: Teens

The main characters are teens.

(Breakfast Club 1985):

(Our Film):

Theme: Obsession

Obsession is a common theme in teen films, maybe not as common as themes like; alcohol, crime, etc - but it's certainly an interesting one.

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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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Who would be the media audience for your media product?

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Representation in this case means the way that the character is shown or portrayed in the film to give the audience an insight to what the character is like without necessarily knowing them.
I represented these characters in my film in many different ways:
-Rachel (main character): for Rachel we used dim lighting in the bedroom to show that she was in a dark mind set and slightly dangerous. Her clothing was all black as to fade into the background and we used a slight high angle on the camera to make her look smaller to the audience.
Harrison (the heartthrob): we showed him to be a normal teenage boy, his clothing was colorful but casual and to smile in the scenes to show friendliness.
-Solange (the girlfriend): she was represented to be a pretty and popular girl that had the perfect boyfriend. We showed the was bitchy in the way that she completely ignored Rachel.

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(made by me (jaya) on solange's prezi account (thats why it says her name on the actual prezi))

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How did you attract/ address your audience?

I also created a facebook page to target a specific age group.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bleeding-in-love/1464676507095669

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Deadline editing

I went to the editing room at around 1:30 pm and the deadline was at 3:00pm that day so that meant that I had to get everything done in a very short amount of time. No other group member came until Rachel did at around 2:30pm. in this time. I wanted to put all of the credits on 'Motion' but was told not to do that as it would be boring to watch. Some of the movie had been moved around and cut up. We had to match up the shots again and needed help with this as we didn't know why this had happened and how to get it all back to normal. We had to delete unwanted sound so that that video all connected together and run smoothly. Then we had to fit in the opening sequence and then lay the text of all the credits over the film. We did this then realised we had to fit it into the filming frame so then had to rearrange it all. After this was done we could finally save it and say it was completed.

Editing during/ after lunch

Everyone went to lunch after our lesson but there were still a few things that I wanted to the film before I left it to do the next lesson. At this point I wanted to start on the credits and the idents. I wanted to make them different to all the others so showed Dan (my teacher) the opening sequence to 'The butterfly effect' which was an inspiration for our movie and opening credits. He said I could make ours similar in a program called 'Motion'.

 

He opened the program for me and told me it was reasonably easy to use then left me to figure the rest out for myself. This scared me a little as had never even heard of the program before but I was still going to try and work it out. I watched the beginning of 'The butterfly effect' again and noticed they had a quote right at the beginning before the credits even started which started the film of in the perfect mood. I went onto Google and searched 'mental health quotes' and found this.

I thought this quote fit perfectly into out film and made the mindset of the main character clear to the audience. I went onto 'Motion' and chose a I put this quote before the production and and distribution ident. I just quickly made up these names from the top of my head and put them in and saved  it. that was all i had time for.

Deadline day.

On our last day of editing, Jaya & I stayed after our lessons until our deadline was due. (3pm). In this time, we had to finish up the final touches and we tried not to rush. Otherwise we knew we would make mistakes. We did have a few difficulties with getting the credits onto Final Cut Pro. However, we worked it out in the end and we are happy with out final outcome. 

Editing and filming in class

Last lesson was a three hour one so gave us time as a group to all be together and see how the film was getting on. We watched the film over and over correcting any mistakes we could spot so that the film flowed smoothly throughout. We then saw that once again whilst filming another group was in the background with their camera on show which looked really weird in the back of our shot. We had to then tell our teacher who at first said that there was no filming allowed on this day as it was almost the day of the deadline. After talking to her and explaining that we only had one shot to do which would only take a second to film she said we were allowed but I decided to do some more editing before we went to film. I swapped all the clips around that needed to be changed and arranged the voice over to fit the video.

Rachel, Harrison and I then went downstairs to the hall to quickly shoot the last clip we needed. I was not wearing the same cardigan and when filming so had to find someone with a black cardigan to borrrow and wear in the film. I found a stranger who was kind enough to do this. After this we went back upstair into the editing suit so I cold fit the clip in.

 I then asked the group of the final choice of music to go in the background to the film. They told me their final choice was the song we had all originally agreed on 'your a psychopath'. I then went to sound cloud and found the song to download it and transport it onto final cut pro where we all listened to how it sounded. The whole group agreed that it didn't sound right in the background and didn't create the mood we wanted for our film. We listened to it again and realised we all agreed that the opening to the song was good and wanted that in the film. Rachel asked me to cut the beginning and replay it over throughout the film. I was able to do this but it was hard to match the parts up but in the end it was done.

Re-shooting "Bleeding In Love" (Monday)

On Monday also, we decided to re-shoot the majority of the college scenes. We decided to do so as we needed to re-shoot some scenes already due to editing issues, as one of the people who was in our original footage was not available, so we filmed it all again. In the orginal, there were other people filming in the background, giving our footage an unproffessional feel to it.

Teen Film Opening - Draft Feedback

On Monday, our teacher gave us feedback on our draft of our teen film opening. It was generally positive, however we needed to vary the shots to add variety. They suggested putting in extreme close-ups to show facial expressions more. We could do this for the main character, as it would work well best with portraying her emotions and feelings when at college. We also need to vary our camera angles more.

Positive feedback:

- The slow-motion scenes worked well with emphasising a significant part of a scene i.e. when the main character's crush sits down next to her.
- The black and white fuzzy effect was effective, giving the scene a sense of serialism
   (however it was suggested that we put a black outline on the fantasy like scenes, to make it appear more dream-like).

Editing in class

In todays lesson we planned to continue editing but this is not what happened. We watched through the clips that we had filmed last lesson. We then realised again that another group was filming in the background and that in again didnt look right for there to be a big camera in the background of out film.We wanted to quickly re-film the one part that we needed but we were not in the right clothes so it wouldn't fit in with the film so decided to record the voice over for the opening. We hadn't planned to do this so had nothing prepared but i though it best to watch the opening a few times and quickly come up witch a monologue for the main character to say. I then wrote a short paragraphy on solanges phone (which she has posted). Rachel and I then went to get a camera to record this, after searching for an empty room we finally found one. we then went in and closed the door so that no outside noise would come in. Rachel read through the paragraph then said it aloud fo me to record. we did this a few time so that she could truly get into characer. I assisted her with this but telling her to stress on curtain words and pause between some for dramatic effect. I told her to lower her voice and slow down when talking so we could understand what she was saying. We wanted her to sound more sinister and a little bit haunting.

Filming day three

Before the next lesson I told the group that they had to wear their filming costumes again as some of the shots had not been filmed which they did. As soon as the lesson started I showed the group what I had done with opening and the part that we was missing. We then got the camera and tripod to take downstairs to refilm. The prolem we faced was that we didn't have the friend that had helped us first so then came to the comclusion that we would have to re-film all the parts that had her in it. I took her place which was fine but meant that no one would be behind the camera. We had to set the record button then run to be in the film which was time consuming. This was fine but meant we had to do more cutting when editing. When we got downstairs we remembered the way we set everything out and redid everything. This was done by the end of the lesson, longer than we expected. I put the new shots on the hard drive so we could retreive them the next lesson.

Editing after lesson

After everyone had gone home after thursdays lesson I thought it would be a good idea to stay behind and see if I could get started with editing the clips that we had. I pulled all of them into final cut pro and sorted the clips from what we shot  in and out of college. I havent used final cut pro many times so was still unsure of how to do everything I wanted to. I wanted to use slow motion on curtain parts of the film but didn't know how to so went onto youtube and searched how to do this, they were very helpful but I unfortunately couldn't understand the persons accent so didn't find out how to do this. I then just worked on making sure everything went in order and fit well with each other. When doing this i realised that one of the shot that we had re-filmed had not recorded properly. The camera was film when we thought it was of which means that the footage was not recorded. This meant that we had to film once again but the lesson was overr so the group had gone home. I told the group before the next lesson what had happened and so to wear the same clothes as in the film to shot in the next lesson.

Voiceover

As a group we decided that we should add a voiceover for our clip, we use an iPhone to write the script up and the camera to record it. As a group we decided what we wanted in the script and that we needed a killer line - 'Even kill for'

Editing - Progress

Today we were in the middle of our final edit:

- We had a  rough version of the film opening finished last week (see other blog).
- We recorded some other scenes last lesson too, as we had to change them because of editing.
- We are working on he voice over today

Continuing with the editing and blogging

As we recorded all of the second half of the clip we had to edit even further and remove the clips we did not need and replace them with the clips that were accurate. We continued using FinalCut Pro as our main programme to edit as we were getting the hang of using it. One of our team members took some time to continue editing at lunch time and I went along to a workshop to blog about the feedback we go of our rough-cut. 

A problem we faced was that as we recorded the end of the clip again it meant some bits were not in sync with the clips that were used previously so we had to decide as a team to record yet again in the coming lesson as we couldn't do in the lesson we were in. This was due to the fact that the main character Crystal/Rachel was not in the costume needed and did no have her hair straight. 

Second day of filming

Because we didn't have all of the team at my house when filming during the holiday so we had to wait until the whole team was together to film the last part of the opening. We got the camera and tripod and took them down to the main hall in college. This was in the morning so there were hardly anyone there which was good as thats meant that there would not be so many background noises. We filmed many different shots from different angles to give the film more diversity. We asked one a friend to be in our film as we needed an extra person which she agreed to. all the footage we needed was done by the end of the first lesson.
When we went back upstairs we put of the footage onto the hard drive and showed the teacher. She realised that in the background there wereother teams filming and they were in the background with there cameras, this looked out of place and wrong so we were told we had to shoot a few scenes again. When we went back downstairs we realised this would be more difficult than before as more people had gathered in the hall so the background would look different and it would be louder. We also had to find our friend to help us again but didnt know if she would still be avalible. We eventually found her and started filming again. We shot the clips we needed reasonably fast and went back up stairs to put the new footage on the hard drive. By this time it was the end of the lesson so everybody went home.

The process of editing

After the process of filming our clips we finally finished and edited all of our clips on FinalCut Pro where we were able to cut certain areas of a clip that we did not need. We could add effects, improve the brightness, lighting and the speed at which the movements where made. 

In the editing room we were given a computer as a group to edit and add all the things we needed such as sound and what not. This helped as we had 2 screens and it was less of a hassle as it was clear and organised. 

Feedback about 'Rough-cut'

After showing our teacher our  rough overall she was very pleased as she said it had a 'charm' to it. However, there were still areas where we could improve for example our teacher noticed a jump-cut that was unnecessary. She also told us that the lighting we used for a scene was very creative and hard to do which pleased us. As we re-shot all of the ending of our clip she saw a rough copy of our finished piece but we need to add the shots that we re-filmed.

Rough cut of "bleeding in love"

Issues - Filming

Continuing the rest of our filming in college went well overall. However, we did face ourself with some issues which we had to go back to and improve on. For example in one of our scenes which we thought went great turned out to be not as great as we thought. We showed this clip to our teacher Marisa and she helped us by saying that the scene didn't look very professional and we had to improve on it. This was due to the reason that in the clip we had a student walk behind with a camera and tripod in his hand which we thought was good as the scene looked realistic. As a group we decided to shoot that scene again as quick as we could.

Although, we were faced with some challenges we also had some bonuses as we had the help from a pupil at our college by agreeing to be in some of the recordings and scenes as an extra actor.

Timing was also an issue as we ran out of time with some of the recording we needed to do but we worked as hard as we could to get all of the filming needed.
With the equipment we also helped each other out to set it all up, when filming took place everyone contributed by helping to film scenes which they were not in.
As we are getting an experience with this task and the filming, there was times where we had to re-shoot certain scenes as we lost our focus of our character.