Fonts Used - By Syed Hussain

Types of Fonts Used

Final Storyboard - By Syed Hussain

storyboard

Recce Pictures

Storyboard First Draft - By Syed Hussain

storyboard -

SWOT Analysis - By Syed Hussain

SWOT Analysis

Equipment List - Chris Phillipou

Equipment List for Comedy Film

Week 7- Atul Sharma

As our concept and script is written for our short film, the next step is to make a storyboard. A storyboard visually tells the story of an animation panel by panel, kind of like a comic book.

The storyboard Syed created conveyed some of the following information:

-What characters are in the frame, and how are they moving?

-What are the characters saying to each other, if anything?

-How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?

-Where the camera is in the scene? Close or far away? Is the camera moving?

Creating a storyboard will helped plan our short film from shot to shot. We can make changes to our storyboard before we start filming, instead of changing your mind later. We were also able to talk about our animation and show our storyboard to other people to get feedback on our ideas.

Chris created an equipment list of our production. The purpose of the equipment list is to be aware of all the resources we require throughout our project in order for our production to be successful.

Syed also completed the SWAT analysis. This is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses/Limitations, Opportunities, and Threats involved in our project.

Strengths: characteristics of the project team that give it an advantage over others.

Weaknesses (or Limitations): are characteristics that place the team at a disadvantage relative to others.

Opportunities: external chances to improve performance in the environment.

Threats: external elements in the environment that could cause trouble for project.

Location Release Form - By Syed Hussain

Location Release Form

Actors Release Form 5 - By Syed Hussain

Omar

Actors Release Form 2 - By Syed Hussain

amarpreet

Actors Release Form 1 - By Syed Hussain

Arm Ani

Actors Release Form 4 - By Syed Hussain

arran

Actors Release Form 3 - By Syed Hussain

neena

Budget - Chris Phillipou

Media Film Budget

Health and Safety - By Syed Hussain

Analysis of Title and Credit Sequence- Atul Sharma

Analysis of Title and Credit Sequence

Week 6- Atul Sharma

This week I analysed other short comedy films title and credit sequence. I used YouTube to analyse the credit sequences. By doing this research made me aware of the codes and conventions that we will need to follow in order to make our production as professional as possible. Also I was able to gain ideas on how to challenge specific codes and conventions.

Syed created a Health and Safety Risk Assessment table. This was to make the actors and production team aware of any risks that may occur while creating our short film production. We briefed our acting crew about the health and safety risks that they may encounter while filming.

I created score notes for short film production. I listed all the potential sounds we may use for our production. I shared the sounds with my group members and asked for feedback. We also asked our target audience for their feedback on the sound we had chosen.

We also created Location and Actors release forms which allow us to use the footage without any repercussions.  Also I would help us void with any problems of using the school premises outside school hours.

Chris created a budget for our short film production. This allowed our group to be aware of how much our group can afford to spend on each aspect of the production stage.

Letter of Permission - By Syed Hussain

Letter of Permission

Shooting Script: - By Syed Hussain

Shootingt Script

Script: Final Draft - By Syed Hussain

E Lax Final Script

Location Notes- Atul Sharma

Location Notes

Cast Notes- Atul Sharma

Cast Notes

Prop Notes- Atul Sharma

Prop Notes 1

Costume Notes- Atul Sharma

Costume Notes

Script: First Draft - By Syed Hussain

Script: Occupied First Draft

Week 5- Atul Sharma

This week Syed created the first draft of our script on an online programmed called Celtx. As a group we read the script and critically analysed it thinking of ways to improve and make it more interesting for our target audience.  We also got our actors to read through it and ask for their feedback. We also asked for feedback from our target audience and they suggested ways to make it funnier.  After we have improved and was happy with the script, Syed created a second draft of the script.

I created location, cast, and costume and prop notes on a Microsoft Word document and then uploaded it on Scribd, which allowed me to embed the document on Blogger. The location notes I created clearly showed the various locations we are going to use throughout our short film and why we chose these specific locations. The cast notes clearly showed the actors and actress we are going to use and the reason we chose this specific cast. The costume notes showed the reasoning behind the costumes the cast are wearing. Finally I created prop notes which stated all the props we were going to use in our production and the significance of them.

Syed created a shooting script which is used during the production process of our short film to help communicate the filming process to all crew members and actors involved. The following factors make up a shooting script for the production portion of a short film project.  Syed also created a letter for the head teacher stating what our group are aiming to do and asking for permission to use specific locations out of school hours.

Pre Production Questionnaire Graphs- Atul Sharma

Pre Production Questionnaire Graphs

Pre Production Questionnaire- Atul Sharma

Pre Production Questionnaire

Users and Gratifications Theory- Atul Sharma

Users and Gratifications Theory

Production Logo - Chris Phillipou

This is the logo for our company "Light Sphere Productions". I followed a tutorial which allowed me to replicate the 'sphere' shape of the logo, i then changed the colour scheme to make it relevant to our group production. I made it unique and added my own emboss and glow tools from blending options in Photoshop CS3 to give it that desired effect.

Target Audience - By Syed Hussain

We based our target audience on a few factors such as the age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class and status. We felt that by selecting a group of people under each category we will be able to select our target audience properly.

Target Audience:

Based on the concept of our short film and the language and images used we felt that the age range should be aged 8-18 but our film certification would be 12. We felt that people younger than the age of 12 would be badly influence and it would be unsuitable for them to watch a film with the language that is used. Our film was mainly targeted at 12-15 year olds as we felt it would appeal to them and relate to some in a way. 

Gender:

We haven’t really specified what gender the film is aimed at, but as it is quite comical and raw it would appeal slightly towards the male side; but we would like to get it out to both genders. The film is more clildish on terms of the scenario and the sound effects used, which is why it would appeal to more of the male gender than female.   

Sexual Orientation:

Our film doesn’t really portray to a specific sexual group but as all our characters in the girl are all heterosexual; it would be classified to the heterosexual sex group.  We are happy to have our film open to all sex groups, as it doesn't potray any stereotypes of any sexual groups and it doesn't discriminate any sexual groups.

Ethnicity:

The film hasn’t been aimed at any particular ethnicity group as we feel it is open to any and every type of ethnicity. The film doesn't have any scenes which would hold back or restrict any religions rom watching our short film. Our film is based in Britain and it will target the British audience which has a variety of ethnicities and religions within it.

Socio Economic Group:

Class and status is a key part of out target audience as we feel that by trying to open to all of them than we can expand our film, but it is mainly open to the lower class and working class; but we have slightly aimed it at the middle class. In terms of socio economic group we have aimed it at C1, D and E; so the lower scale of the soci economic group as we feel that they would find it funny and be able to relate to it. 

BBFC:

The bbfc that we chose was 12, but we felt that it would appeal to slightly younger students as well as slightly older. We would keep it to the 12 as there are scenes that would be innapropriate for the younger audiences.

Genre Research Follow up - Chris Phillipou

For our short film project we have decided to combine embarrasing scenes with laughter, making it a cringe comedy, we have decided to create laughter/comedy through the use of products such as laxatives, which we feel will have an effect on the audience, and might want to make them turn away, especially in the lavatory scenes with the disturbing sound effects. This genre was influenced through a variety of films such as Dumb&Dumber and American Pie, in which they involve similar embarrasing scenes. The use of the laxatives will create embarrasment for one character (Arran) and laughter for the other characters as they will laugh at his expense, combining laughter and embarrasment.

These are the scenes I looked at for my comedy genre research.





he scene within the film Dumb&Dumber inspired us for our short film, this scene is about 5 minutes along, which also helped us make a whole 5 minute comedy film based on a similar scene. The disturbing noises of Harry relieving his bowel, is reminiscant of our film when Arran takes laxatives without knowing, and is left to fight the consequences.

Another film that inspired us with similar conventions was the scene involving Finch in American Pie (1999).