Group photos

Here are the group photos we took during all stages of making our film opening.

Group pictures from Charlotte Revell

Because of them Facebook page

We have created a Facebook page to help with the marketing of our film and to make it more accessible to our target audience.

The link to our Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/becauseofthemfilm/

On our Facebook page we have included our film poster and a link to the opening of our film on YouTube.

Production Diary

Monday 7th November

Today we were told who was going to be in our groups and were briefed on what our task was going to be. Our group included - Leah Harte, Lorna George, Jess Burdon and Charlotte Revell. 

Tuesday 8th November

Today we exchanged ideas on our genre and plot. We came up with several ideas and then developed our favourites. 
One idea was a woman in the 1900s, who is a suffragette, and a woman in 2016. The girl in 2016 is the great great granddaughter of the woman in the 1900s. The woman in 2016 does not appreciate the rights that she has today until she comes across a photograph of her great great grandparent and has a visions/flashbacks of what her ancestor went through in order to get her the rights that she has today.

Another idea was a family film about a teenager that goes to an arcade and ends up getting 'sucked' into an arcade game. They then have to try to get out of the machine during the rest of the film. 

We also thought of doing a crime drama where a woman finds a dead body down an alleyway and telephones the police. The film then follows the police investigation. 

Our final idea was another period drama where a teenage girl gets pregnant and is thrown out by her parents. She and her friends must travel far away to a place where they are not known by anyone to raise the baby. 

Wednesday 9th November

We decided to use the suffragette idea because it was the one that we though was the most doable and interesting. It is also the idea that we had developed the most at this point. 
We then began to get our ideas together and build a presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint that would become our film pitch to the rest of the class so that we can get their feedback on our ideas. 
We began to think of the practicalities of our idea first- where the best location would be for us to shoot the scenes and what would need to be organised in order to get everything done. Most of our time was spent working on our presentation.

Thursday 10th November

Today we worked on our presentation. We finished writing all of the slides and then proofread the slides to ensure that there were no spelling or grammatical errors. We then decided to upload our presentation from Microsoft PowerPoint onto Emaze to make it more interesting. 

Friday 11th November

We proofread our presentation again to double check that we had not previously missed any errors that were made. We then presented our film pitch to the class and received written feedback on various aspects of our film idea.

Monday 14th November

Today we uploaded our film pitch to our blog and sorted through the feedback that we received from our peers, uploading this onto our blogs also. We then discussed what we thought of the feedback we received and made changes to our ideas accordingly. We also took some time to develop our ideas further where some people said that things were not clear. 

Tuesday 15th November

Today Lorna called Chelmsford Museum to try to arrange a date for us to film in their museum. We also began to make our shot list which includes all of the different shots that we are planning to include in our film opening.

Wednesday 16th November

Today we continued to make our shot list. We also began to transfer information from our shot list onto our storyboard. We decided to make our storyboard out of post-it notes so that we can rearrange the order of our shots or remove them if we change our mind about something or have a better idea. 
We also began to make a prop and costume list so that we can begin to gather the items that we will need for our opening. We realised that this would need to be done soon because we would need to ensure that we are able to get hold of all of the props we will need so that we still have time to purchase them if we need to.

Thursday 17th November

In this lesson we finished the storyboard and shot list. This meant that we transferred our ideas from post notes to our story board. Leah then recorded a voice over to explain what happened in our storyboard. For the shot list Charlotte went through the storyboard and wrote out the shots needed at each location. This meant we had shots for Oakland Museum, Train station and Charlotte's House.

Monday 21st November

We started the risk assessment and did the character representation. This meant that we looked at the different characters and what sort of personality each character should portray. 

Tuesday 22nd November

Today we did Institution. This means that we looked into different companies that would produced our sort of film and that weren't too big. As a group we came  Film 4 as they help with a lot of smaller films however did produce films like 12 years a slave and Suffragettes. 

Wednesday 23rd November

Today we started the marketing campaign and finished it all apart from our poster. This meant that we looked at how we would advertise our film . This meant that we looked at social media and how we could use that to showcase our film. We then also looked at more traditional methods of advertising our film like buses and newspapers/ magazines. 

Thursday 24th November

 Today we went to Charlotte's house and filmed some of the 2016 women. We went in Charlotte's House and went into her attic. Lorna filmed in the attic and Leah filmed Charlotte coming down the stairs. We then went into her room and filmed Charlotte in her chair at multiple different angles to make sure we had a choice when we edited the scenes in.

Friday 25th November

Today we looked at film titles and decided font and the title because of them. To decide what film title we looked at films like Jane Eyre and the Suffragette. We decided on  Andalus we chose this because it looked like the font of old fashion film which is what we wanted.

Saturday 26th November

Today we filmed at Chelmsford train station and Oakland museum. Today Leah and Charlotte filmed at Chelmsford train station the one shot they needed. Leah's Mum then drove Leah and Charlotte to Oakland's museum where Lorna joined them. They first filmed Charlotte outside shot first. Leah then filmed the inside shots for Charlotte then Lorna. We then went back outside and Charlotte filmed Leah and Lorna outside the museum.

Monday 28th November

Today we started editing and found are film logos off you tube. Charlotte and Lorna started to decide which clips to use in the film open. Leah looked on you tube for a film 4 logo and got it off you tube and gave us the clip it import into the beginning of film opening. Lorna also gave us our film opening the solar production.

Tuesday 29th November

Today we continued to edited and added film logos and music. Today we started to look at the timings for and what order the film clips would go in and what transitions would work with our film genre.

Wednesday 30th November 

Leah and Charlotte carried on trying to order the film clips and decided film transition. Lorna worked on the production diary by adding detail to the first part of our production diary.Thursday 1st December
We continued to edited and discussed key ideas in the group to make sure it had all our influence in it.

Friday 2nd December

Today Leah and Charlotte filmed the office shot in a classroom in Great Baddow High School. We also researched what music we could use in are film opening. We had the problem of trying to find non-copied righted music.

Monday 5th December

Lorna and Charlotte added non-diagetic music. Leah researched different film posters so we could make our film posters as good and close to our film genre as possible.

Tuesday 6th December

Today we watched the first drafts of the classes film openings and wrote down feedback.

Wednesday 7th December

Today Charlotte wrote up are the classes feedback about the film opening. Lorna worked on our film posters.

Thursday 8th December

We edited are titles by changing the colour to black. We also changed the size of our titles. We then also created all the titles and added whole of the crew to the film opening. Lorna continued to work on the 2 film posters.

Friday 9th December

Charlotte continued to edit. Today she looked at the sound and how that could be improved. Leah also look for sounds of protesting for votes for women. This mean that she went onto you tube Lorna finished film posters

Monday 12th December

We added our sound of the women protesting for rights we also changed are titles to make them clearer.

Tuesday 13th December

In this lesson we updated are blogs. Leah also wrote the blog post about what age rating will be and she started our website. Lorna continued to edit. Charlotte updated the production diary and recorded a voice over.

Wednesday 14th December

Today Lorna and Charlotte continued to edited we move are film title from the end to into the film opening more. Leah worked on the location shots and continued to work on the website.

Thursday 15th December

Today Lorna worked on charging the titles so they are easier to see Leah continued to work on the website. Charlotte worked on the production diary so that the detail so each day was there.

Monday 19th December

Today Leah finished our website. Lorna finished editing our film opening and put it on you tube.
Charlotte  finished the production diary and spell checked her blog.

Because of them website

This is the website that we designed for marketing our film. It includes lots of information about the film and also includes connections to our film opening and social media sites.

Our Web Address -  http://hartounnoushiansl1.wixsite.com/becauseofthem

Institution

Here is are research about institutions

Because of them- Age Certificate

Here we have discussed why we have given our film the Age Certificate of 12.


Our film will include discrimination against women however it will be clear that this is wrong and the main character will be fighting against this discrimination. We will also include some mild violence but most of it will be implied only. There will be no gory details in regards to violence. There will  be some moderately disturbing scenes but the film as a whole will not have this tone. There will be no use of drugs or strong language; there will be moderate language only. There will be no sex scenes and sexual acts will be implied only.

Our film would not be able to have the certificate: Parental Guidance (PG) because it includes discriminatory behaviour towards women and there will be some intense threatening scenes for the characters which could be difficult for children to watch. There will also be moderate language which will not be suitable for children.

Our film would not be a 15 certificate because it does not include the use of drugs, strong sex scenes or strong language. Dangerous scenes will not be in  a great amount of detail and very frightening and intense scenes will not be long or frequent. The violence in our film will also be moderate only and not strong.

Film poster research

Here is our film poster research.

Film Poster Research from Leah Harte

Our first draft of our film opening

In this blog we uploaded our first draft of our film opening.

Final film titles

Production company-
Film4 
Solar Productions 

Charlotte Revell

Lorna George 

Because of them

Leah Harte

Jude Pettyfer

Casting by

John Ranch

 

Produced by

Ben Home

Music by

Gavin Luke

Edited by

Roger Brown

Produced by

Emily Hall

Director of photography

John Deadwood

Written by

William Field

Directed by

Todd Haynes

Film posters

These are the film posters for 'Because of them' these will be used to promote the film.

Location Shots

Chelmsford Museum Interior (Downstairs Interior)

 We used the museum as our main location because we thought that we could use aspects of it in a modern way but also emphasise the more historical features for the scenes set in the past.

Chelmsford Museum (Exterior of House)

The exterior of the museum gave us a paved road to walk on and some green fields. This was perfect for all of the shots that we needed to film outside.

Student's House (Attic, Hallway and Charlotte's Bedroom)

We needed to use someone's house so that we could sit on a chair in a bedroom and use a loft. We wanted the bedroom to be more modern because we believed that a person in their twenties in the present day would not want a very old fashioned bedroom, even if their house is very old.

Classroom (Office)

We decided to use a classroom for the office because we needed a computer for Charlotte to type on and the classroom provided a desktop computer. The desk was also very plain and wooden, like you would see in an office and the room provided good lighting to film in.

What we are going to do going forward to improve our film.

On this post we looking at how we are going to go forward to improve our film opening.

• Sort the volume of the sound.
• Add speech.
• Sort the titles out.
• Maybe add a suffragette voice over in the black and white scenes make the genre more known.

Timeline of Film Opening

This is the timeline of our opening. It includes the times in which everything happens, what is happening in the shot and which titles are shown on the screen at the time.

Timing In Opening	What’s Happening in the Shot	Titles
0-8 seconds	Film 4 Logo	-
8-13 seconds	Solar Productions Logo	-
13-20 seconds	Worm’s eye view shot of ceiling and window	-
20-29 seconds	Charlotte walking down stairs	Charlotte Revell
29-42 seconds	Lorna walking down the stairs	Lorna George
42-46 seconds	Freeze on stairs	Because of Them
46-54 seconds	Charlotte putting on coat	Leah Harte, Jude Pettyfer
54 seconds-1.00 minutes	Leah and Lorna walking along front of house	Casting by John Ranch
1.00-1.07 minutes	Charlotte walking along on the phone	Producer Ben Home
1.07-1.16 minutes	Charlotte using computer and writing ‘To Do’ List	Music by Gavin Luke Edited by Rodger Brown
1.16- 1.24 minutes	Lorna holding baby	-
1.24-1.30 minutes	Lorna cleaning in the house	Produced by Emily Hall
1.30-1.38 minutes	Charlotte getting box out of the loft	Director of Photography John Deadwood
1.38-1.52 minutes	Charlotte looking through box and at photograph	Written by William Field
1.52-1.59 minutes	Shot over Charlotte’s shoulder looking at photograph	Directed by Todd Haynes
1.59-2.04 minutes	Black screen – Sounds of suffragettes shouting

My assement of another group's film opening.

In this blog post I will review the film opening "Outlaw"
The genre is action.
First I commenting on what I believe is good.

• The first comment I made was that the locations were good.
• I also stated that the film opening created a good cliff-hanger which made me want to watch the whole film.

I then stated what made the opening sequence confusing or missing.

• The first idea I wrote was about where the titles where.
• I also stated that the music could be more interesting. This is because they only had one song playing though the film opening and changing it up a bit might make it sound better.

Then I said what could be improved.

• I said that the music was a bit loud. 

Group self assessment on 1st draft

What we believed went well as a group.

•  The footage mostly flowed well.
• All the footage was in the right order.

What we believed should be improved.

• The volume of the sound.
• Check the spelling of all the names in the titles.
• Need more titles as we don't have everyone.
• Script should be added.
• It could be longer.  

Feedback on 1st draft

In this blog post we are writing up the feedback on our first draft of "Because of them".

Firstly we learned about what people thought what was good about are film opening. Here are what some people thought.

• They was a good range of shots.
• A lot of transitions where good.
• Good shots from the bottom of the stairs.
• A lot of people thought the locations where good.
• Another good aspect was the different editing effects.
• They was also good costumes.

Then we learnt about what people found confusing.

• Some people said the scenes jumped .
• One person didn't understand the storyline.
• Someone said it was boring.
• A lot commented on how loud the sound was.
• One person said there was too much enigma.
• Some people mentioned that the titles where in the wrong place.

Then we got told how we could improve our film opening.

• The titles needed to be a different colour.
• The sound needs to be louder
• Maybe some speech to make the storyline clearer.
• The titles need to be re-ordered.
• Maybe a suffergate voiceover to make the genre clearer.
• lighting and colouring could have been adjusted.

Titles

PRODUCTION COMPANY-
Film4

OTHER PRODUCTION COMPANIES
SOLAR PRODUCTIONS

CAST:
JUDE LAW
ALEX PETTYFYER

EXTRAS:
LEAH HARTE

WITH
LORNA GEORGE
AND CHARLOTTE REVELL

MUSIC BY
GAVIN LUKE

EDITORS
ROGER BROWN
ELENOR BROOKES

PRODUCER
EMILY POOL
MATHEW SMITH

WRITTEN BY
WILLIAM FIELD
JESSICA BURDON

DIRECTED BY
TODD HAYNES