DJM Productions

Last Bits Filmed

2010-02-14T12:17:00.000-08:00

We have filmed our last clips for our short video for the coursework. When we uploaded the clips onto the laptop and sorted them out in order the opening was not appropriate as we have our main actor waking up in the morning. The problem with that was that we have not established where it was taken place. So we went out again and went on the top floor of a high building, this was because we wanted a clear view of the city (Canary Wharf), The reason why we wanted to film canary wharf was that most comedy setting are taken place in the city and we wanted to show that our opening of a film was located in London city. We zoomed into Canary Wharf and slowly zoomed out, then had another shot zooming into a window, this shows where our character is sleeping.

2010-02-09T06:33:00.000-08:00

As you all know we have been basing our opening clip on a comedy film. And as we were filming we had a lot of problems on how we were going to establish that our film was based on comedy genre. whilst we were having problems we had looked at many opening scenes of comedy films and we had realized that no comedy film opening starts off funny, it just builds up and slowly gets in to the mode of the genre.
We had filmed a scene and found that it wasn't really a scene you would see in the opening of a film, more of a scene that you'd see in the middle of the film. Fortunately we had realized this before the deadline and changed the whole scene and made it realistic.
Nasima,Khalid,Baki, And Ridhwan.

Music Workshop

2010-02-09T06:20:00.001-08:00

On the 5th of Feb our Group attended a music workshop with Mr Moore from the Music department and we tried to make a sound track for our film clip. We had started off with the drum beats and then worked our way through the music and the melody. We are still currently working on our sound track for our film and we believe that once we have finished, it will establish our film genre.
By Khalid,Ridhwan,Baki, and Nasima.

Problems

2010-01-29T14:30:00.000-08:00

At the moment we had to change our story twice. 1st is due to the fact that we never had the right equipment and not enough actors and secondly our other storyboard was not an appropriate opening scene, as we have so much going on in the opening scene and it is impossible to film everything in 2 minutes. Another problem with that is that this story line told us the whole story in 2 minutes which we dont want.

Change To Storyboard

2010-01-29T14:23:00.001-08:00

We had to change our story as we dont have the appropriate equipments and props. We also dont have enough actors to act for us, and this is a problem as we now have less than 1 week to record everything.
One of the thing we're missing is a car, as we have a car accident in our clip and it may be difficult to film the crash. So far we only have 1 actor but we need atleast 3-4. In our new story we only need 1 actor and we wont need a car, we have chosen to do this because of the time limit.

Representation

2009-12-17T04:37:00.000-08:00

We watched the opening scenes of American Pie, Police Academy and Meet the Parents.
The one we will be talking about is American Pie.

What did we see ?
In the opening scene of the film we see two people, a young male and female who are both white. They are both dopey looking and are dressed formally. The female has red hair.

Characteristics
Both of them are dopey and the female has slurred speech. She has funny facial expressions.

Young adults are being represented in this film.

Summary Of Lesson (16/12/09)

2009-12-16T02:40:00.000-08:00

In this lesson we carried on with our planning.
We have already planned out the possible locations and will choose ONE of the location as our main setting. We have also planned out the actors we need for our C/W.
In the following lesson we will continue planning and plan on the costume and props.

Possible Locations For Our C/W

2009-12-16T01:58:00.000-08:00

Here are all the locations that we have come up with to film in our C/W:

. Canary Wharf
. Mile End/Park
. Riverside
. Tower Bridge

We have come up with these locations because we wont need permission to film in these areas, these are also typical settings in a comedy film. Before we film our C/W we need to choose one of these as our main location.

Synopsis

2009-12-15T06:42:00.000-08:00

Please Vote For ONE Synopsis on the right hand side of the page. Thank You
Closing Date is 25/12/09.

Research Target Audience

2009-12-02T02:21:00.000-08:00

In our short film we decided our target audience will be aimed at teenagers and adults from the age of 13 - 25. This will appeal more to boys than girls because they tend to watch films that have sense of humour and entertain them. There's more of a chance of a person who's not so religious to watch our opening scene than someone who's really religious because they may get offended or show scenes against their religion. In terms of social class, we need to find a suitable audience to target and in Tower Hamlet we have a lot of working class people who are in a diverse community.

Typically, age ranges break down as follows:
- Kids 5-11 and mums
- Teen 11-14
- Teen 13-16
- 17-21
- 18-24 and 18-34
- 25-54
- 54+
These age ranges are important. A movie that entertains a 5 year old is not going to appeal to a 14 year old. The 18-
24 and 18-34 range makes up the largest movie-going segment.

Location Research

2009-11-25T01:51:00.000-08:00

In a comedy film most settings are located in a busy area such as the city. As you can see in this picture, it is surrounded by buildings and and people around. These are typical locations in a comedy film.

As you can see again, the area is surrounded by buildings and cars, our location will need these sort of features for a proper comedy locations.

Character Research

2009-11-25T01:36:00.000-08:00

This is Stu Price from the film hangover, as you can see from the poster Stu has a tooth missing and doesn't know how this has happened. This is a typical character that you would expect in our genre due to the fact that comedy characters tend to look idiotic. We will be trying to find a person that has similar characteristics and has a quirky look, we will also be trying to find similar costumes to represent our character.

This is Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Jim Carrey plays as a madman who is a pet detective. He solves the crimes of animals and solves one in this film. As you can see he is dressed very silly and his hair style is very funky, which is not usual.

Group Evaluation

2009-11-24T07:07:00.000-08:00

As a group we believe that we have produced our preliminary exercise very well because we all stuck to our roles and preformed them to the best of our ability. We all took part in the production and worked effectively as a group. We think that this is the reason our work had been better than we had expected it to be. In our opinion there wasn't a lot of problems that occured except for the fact that there was a lot of problems with meeting up to try and fix the problems we had with the first shoot. We also had problem which were we had extra people hanging around, causing distractions and noise. But we had sorted these problems out by moving to a much quieter environment. We believe we can avoid these particular problems by being more aware of where we shoot for our main task as well as what time we shoot.

Khalid and Nasima

Genre Research (Comedy)

2009-11-19T07:44:00.000-08:00

Our five most popular films in comedy are:
1.Hangover
2.Scary Movie
3.Crank
4.Mr Bean
5.Mean Machine

HANGOVER
- On the IMDB website they class this film as a comedy. It is set in Las Vegas which is a city and a typical setting for a comedy genre film. The main characters are male and are not as good looking as a male would be in a romance film. One of the men is in love with a female character who is good looking. These are conventions that we found in this film.

SCARY MOVIE
- On the IMDB website they class this film as a thriller/comedy. Its location is set in a rural area, with the main character being a young teenage girl. She is being stalked by a serial killer. The narrator in the trailer has a common scary voice to get the audience thrilled. The shots are really quick but he funny shots tend to be slower.

CRANK
- On the IMDB website they class this film as a comedy/action/thriller. It is set in the city of New York and the main character is a male who also is not that good looking. Love is also presented in this film as the main character has a very attractive girlfriend. The sound is loud and quick because it is also classified as an action/thriller.

MR BEAN
- On the IMDB website they class this film as a comedy. The film is set in Los Angeles which is an American city. The main character is also not very attractive and is a lonely, dopey and really stupid man. Love i not presented in this film because he tends to live alone and very independent.

MEAN MACHINE
- On the IMDB website they class this film as thriller/comedy/crime. The main character used to be good looking, rich and powerful but lost it all and became the same as everyone else. The director the crime scenes as funny as possible, which hints out comedy.

Preliminary Exercise

2009-11-19T07:39:00.000-08:00

This is our preliminary task, which we had to take on our own role to create this short clip. These are our roles:

Baki - Camera Man/ Editor
Khalid - Editor/ Actor
Ridhwan - Camera Man/ Director
Nasima - Producer/ Actress

Comedy (Genre)

2009-11-12T04:08:00.000-08:00

Comedy is a type of genre that is humorous and amuses the audience.
Here are few characteristics of comedy:

.Humour
.Stupidity
.Funny
.Cheerful/Clumsy characters
.Setting usually in cities

Most comedy films are based in cities and usually about someones life. The main character is usually a male character (e.g. Chris Tucker & Will Smith). The woman is likely to be in love and the minor character.

we have been focusing on the comedy genre and we have found five typical aspects from comedy genre and they are shown below........
1. comedy films are generally made to amuse the audience.
2. Certain characters are used for particular parts of the film.
3. It is to provoke enjoyment.
4. Comedy genre humourously exaggarates the sitution such as language, action and characters.
5. They always have a happy ending although some of the humour may even have a serious side towards it.

A typical situation in a comedy is when the main which is usually a man falls in love with a woman he cannot get but in the end he eventually gets her.

Location-a typical location of a comedy film is in a city, as there are a number of people this enables character interaction. You would not expect a comedy to take place in a rural environment because these are the sort of frames you would expect to find in a horror/thriller film.

Hangover Trailer (Comedy)

2009-11-12T03:59:00.000-08:00