Title sequence - Final Edit

Title Sequence- Final Edit

This is the final edit and final version of our title sequence, The Journey.

Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts

I believe that at the beginning we struggled a lot with time management and sacrifices, we did hardly any work as a group and we failed to do work together but as time progressed we saw that working together was the best way to get work done and get it done to a reasonably high standard. I believe that now we are a much better group and the work that we have produces is much better than we all expected.

As my blogging and evaluation goes i think that at the beginning I did not put in enough work and was on track for failure but then I realised that not putting effort into it will only lead to nothing so I started to work harder and hopefully it will pay of as I believe that overall I have done a good job in both blogging, evaluating and contributing in the group projects whether that be filming or planning

Evaluation Part 7

Evaluation Question 7

Question: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?This is the last of our evaluation of our title sequence project, in this audio we discuss what we believe we have learnt from filming our preliminary task to now finishing our final task.

Evaluation Part 6

Evaluation Question 6

In this video we discuss which different media technologies we used in the process of creating our title sequence as well as what we have learnt whilst using them.

Evaluation Part 5

Evaluation Part 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Firstly, I believe that we attracted and addressed our audience by creating a character that appealed to many males of different ages as the different problems that he faces are some that most boys will have to face and what men have most probably already encountered. In The Journey we see our protagonist Jack portrayed at two different ages one when he is 12-13 and the other 17-18, this helps us attract a wider audience as it will appeal to boys aged between 10-20 as the younger audience will want to see what they can become if they work hard and the older audience can see what they could have done differently. All of this could be related to real life issues, the common interest of football or having dreams of being successful. In addition to this our media product could also attract an older audience as the story line may bring a nostalgic feel of following dreams and aspirations they had when they were younger.



Furthermore, the star power that we have in the movie, with Tom Holland, (who plays our protagonist) who is due to play Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider Man film and Jacob Tremblay, (who plays younger Jack) who featured in Smurfs 2. We felt that these two up and coming, young actors would be perfect for or film as they will relish at the chance to be in an independent and niche film such as ours. We do believe that have these actors featuring in our media product we will attract a wider audience as they are not only young but well known and well received actors to.

On top of this we also asked the groups in our class to watch our title sequence and give us feedback on what they thought went well and what we could improve on. As a whole the feedback was not very positive as most people didn't understand the narrative. We found the feedback beneficial as we knew what we had to improve on and what will help attract and address our audience.

Evaluation Part 4

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3 from kallum kafesci

Evaluation Part 3

Evaluation Question 3

In this Youtube video we discuss the fact the our film is an independent film and as a result this will limit our options on distribution. This is because we haven't got a big enough budget in order for us to advertise and release our film to a mass audience.

Evaluation Part 2

Evaluation Question 2

How Does Your Media Product Represent a Particular Social Group?

My media product can represent a few different social groups, but the main one has to be the working class.

This is because the main focus of our film is to show how Jack can go from a single parent household with the one source of income which is clearly not enough to support the family to a successful rich footballer that can support his mother and still afford many expensive luxuries for the both of them. Once Jack became the famous and wealthy football star his personality had a drastic change for the worse he went from being very humble, caring and passionate young man to a egoistic, arrogant and very boastful of his talent which shows how much fame can change someone.

In addition to this, working class individuals usually seek immediate gratification thus our protagonist being deeply passionate about football however he did have a begin to doubt his ability in the sport which was furthered by the hostility of his "friends". As a result of this, similarly to young working class kids today, it is likely that Jack would've given up on his football dream in order to pursue an average 9-5 job. However due to the support of his coach who was a father figure in Jacks life, he was able to guide Jack in the direction of his dreams and keep him motivated and passionate which essentially led him to his success. This is also a great example of the elderly social group that is seen as very wise and inspirational.

Despite Jack letting fame get to his head he continues to posses both traits from working class and upper class man. Although he becomes quite conceited, everything he's revisited by his past he becomes very humble and emotional. An example of this is where in one scene he's looking at his football top from his childhood team and he is very sentimental and deep in thought. This shows that he still remembers where we came from and the struggles he faced to get there.

Evaluation Part 1

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Firstly, I believe that our media product, The Journey, definitely uses forms and conventions of real media products. For example all the equipment we used throughout the process of filming our media product, such as: cameras, tripods, dolly cams, steady cams and lights that were all provided by the school. we used equipment such as the steady cam so we can get a steady shot of an over the shoulder shot of Jack admiring his football shirt. Also the software that we used also uses forms and conventions of real media products, The software that we mainly used includes programmes Final Cut Pro X and Motion. Our main editor was the one person who spent the most amount of time using these programmes. We used these programmes to edit or footage, Final Cut Pro X was used to actually edit the footage, so cut it up and add the soundtrack etc. As for Motion, we attempted to use this programme to add moving and just overall better looking titles. Unfortunately, due to time we were unable to spend much time on this and adding interesting titles. All of these things are used in both Independent and Hollywood film companies in order to produce their film, without these programmes and equipment companies would not be able to make their media products.

Furthermore, our media product does use some forms and conventions of real media products. This is because film companies that produce Drama/Sport genre films and most of the time going to be independent film companies, such as Channel 4 and BabyCow productions which is our film company, this follows this convention because our film is an independent film. It would not make sense if our film was a big Hollywood film as it is rarely seen that a sport drama film is produced and funded by a Hollywood company, which would certainly goo against the forms and conventions of real media products.

However, I do also believe that our media product goes against the forms and conventions of real media products because our media product is a drama with a sub genre of sport which is very rare in the film industry because there is very few films that have a main genre of drama and a sub genre of sport the few that I know of is Bend it Like Beckham and the Goal! Trilogy.

Evaluation

Evaluation Questions

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3.What kind of media institutions might distribute your product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product

5. How did you attract/address your audience

6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Filming Day 16

Filming Day 16

On Thursday 13th, Jack and Kaan got the train to White Hart Lane, home of Tottenham Hotspur, to get some footage around the ground and of a poster inside the Spurs shop. We did this because older Jack does sign for his boyhood club, Tottenham and we felt it would be a good idea to include some footage, and an over the shoulder shot, in the title sequence. We took a tripod and camera with us.

Title Sequence First Edit

This is our first edit of our title sequence. I like this first edit as is shows a bit of rawness and passion linked in with the soundtrack which is what we were really aiming to achieve.
However a criticism is the lack of titles which we intend to add in later. It'll help in creating a house style for our film. Another criticism is lacks in explaining the narrative which is essential for our title sequence as it is, as well as being a title sequence, meant to show the beginning of our film.
As you can see it is very short. We need to film more scenes, preferably football scenes and images that will help in understanding the narrative.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Unfortunately the soundtrack that we previously chosen was not suitable for the footage that we filmed so, today, as part of constructing our title sequence and starting to prepare and gear towards the first screening of our title sequence, myself and Jack started to look for a suitable soundtrack for our title sequence, The Journey. Our aim was to find a touching and smooth song with the characteristic of a build up. This is because our title sequence is a comparison between younger Jack and older Jack and we felt a build up in the title sequence would be very suitable and receive positive feedback. We firstly found The xx - Intro but however this soundtrack is copyrighted so unfortunately we could not use this soundtrack.

Filming Day 15

Filming Day 15

Today I filmed my brother ( who plays younger Jack) watching a football match in the living room on the TV and filming his reaction to the game to get a real sense of the passion that Jack has for the game. I also filmed my brother walking up to a set of trophies that were arranged and sitting in front of famous footballers such as Messi and Neymar, i also placed the ball we used at goals and for the kick ups at the centre of all of this so he can go up to the call, trophies and the pictures and pick up the ball.

Filming Day 14

Filming Day 14

Today I filmed my brother (who plays younger Jack) doing kick ups in the garden with the same ball we used when we filmed at goals, then with the footage we are going to get Jack to do the same in my garden again to show narrative and time progressing. the only problem was that the weather was not the best so we may have to film again if it does not suit the title sequence.

Filming Day 13

Filming Day 13

Yesterday, Kaan was able to film at his house. he filmed trophies that the younger Jack won and a book that younger Jack drew in and drew the animal that represents the club that Jack supports which is a lion and also had a picture of jack wearing number 15. However there was a problem with the pan of the trophies which is you could see Kaans name on some of them so we may have to re film this and make the shot wider.

Feedback

These are the feedback sheets from two of the three groups that analysed our first edit.

Feedback

1st viewing Feedback

After our first viewing to our class we got feedback from other groups and our teacher.

The main feedback we received was that there was no sense of narrative. Because our title sequence is meant to set up the story line, leading into the main plot of the film it is important that it tells the story unlike other title sequences that may be quite abstract. As a result of this feedback we plan to film more football related shots as well as shots that establish the different settings. Another interesting idea we could do to make the narrative clearer is adding dialogue so the audience will know exactly what is going on. Or better yet we could include images that will be inter grained in the title sequence whilst telling the audience what is happening e.g. newspaper reports. 

As a result of this feedback we are going to use our best efforts to improve our title sequence and make sure that it has a strong sense of narrative.

Filming Day 12

Filming Day 12

Today we went back to the dance changing rooms. We hung football shirts on the pegs all around the room to create mise en scene. We placed the football shirt with the number 10 directly under the light as it was jacks number when he was younger and his number now that he's signed. We did a pan around the room showing all the shirts until finally stopping at number 10 where we did a over the shoulder shot with jack looking at the shirt. we also got another angle that we could possibly use to add a title on, when we got jack to walk past a few of the shirts then stop at his and stare at his future.

Filming Day 11

Filming Day 11

Unfortunately our plans for filming throughout the weekend fell through when on Sunday we discovered the tripod we rented out was faulty so we tried to film jacks football match with a handheld camera. The footage came out very fuzzy and shakey so we couldn't use it. Also on Sunday my mum was going to film my younger brothers football match as he plays the younger jack in our film. Unfortunately due to lack of consent from the other kids and their parents playing in the match, we did not have permission to film. We have come up with a new filming schedule in which we hope to get all the footage we will need by next Friday.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack

The soundtrack we finally decided to use is very orchestral. with simple piano chords at the start then violins come in to quicken it up and then even more violins and drums. There is then a short break in the music then a rumbling of the drums introduce the crescendo of the soundtrack making it reach its loudest and most atmospheric point. I'd say our soundtrack is very inspirational and fitting to our film because the very simple and almost timid beginning of the song correlates to the attitude of our protagonist at the beginning of his journey and then he grows and grows until finally reaching a crescendo which in our characters life would represent him signing his football contract and becoming such a well respected sportsman and most importantly finally achieving his dream.

Filming Day 10

Filming Day 10

Today we will film on our schools huge football field. Conveniently Jack had to teach a year 8 PE class so we will film the kids playing a football match as if it was young Jack playing football in his unprofessional football club before the fame with all his peers.

Editing

Editing

Today me and Jack edited footage that we filmed yesterday in the dance changing rooms. Me and Jack sat down together in the mac room, and both went on the same mac then we went onto final cut, opened up what we have filmed so far and added the changing room scene onto the edited footage, once we were happy with putting the scene in the right place and adding transactions and effects onto it, we added titles in spots where they looked suitable. Also because the other footage did not yet have titles on them so me and jack added titles onto the previous scenes as well.

Filming Day 9

Filming Day 9

Today we went back to the dance changing rooms and filmed Jack taking all his new shiny football equipment out of his expensive training bag. We laid it out in a line and filmed across the clothes so titles can appear on them.



The camera was sometimes out of focus and blurry therefore we may need to redo some of the scenes.