Mahida Javed: Evaluation

Film Synopsis

The sequence/story of how the film continues from the shown death.
1. girl dies
2. 3 days earlier we see her walking out of work and stands outside waiting for something/someone.
3.A woman walks out of the office and says goodnight and walks down the road, a car pulls up, scarlet gets in.
4.Her best friend is driving the car, established through friendly dialogue. The friend is a typical stereotype of a near,glasses, skinny which provides comic relief.
5.They pull up outside a block of flats and get out the car discussing scarlet running for the marathon and jake (the best friend) teases her about it.
6.They go inside and the camera becomes point of view suggesting someone is watching them suggesting that person is the murderer.
7.The next day scarlet is shown getting ready to go out for a run leaving her ipod behind which shows the audience this isnt the day that she dies.
8. She jogs around and then sees a strange man staring at her from down the path.Scarlet stops and runs onto another path as the man has scared her.
9.It then cuts to scarlet leaving the woods and going back to her flat.She comes in and Jake tells here theres a message on the phone for her because he missed it. When she plays it, she can hear the sound of footsteps running, she look towards Jake and tension in built then Jake suddenly turns and laghs dismissing the call as competition for the marathon trying to freak her out. Scarlet doesnt look convinced .Scarlet goes to work and we see her walking towards her desk.
10.Days pass and its in the morning where the audience see's Scarlet get ready for her jog. she is wearing the clothes she wore when she got murdered which can suggest to the audience that this is the day that she gets murdered.
11. Jake figures out who the murderer is, which makes him the hero as most teenage films use (best friend as the hero). The audience with Jakes help find out that the murderer is infact a psychopath women .
  --> This challenges a convention of a thriller because normally the murderer is a man.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh 

Peer's review

Over the past week i showed our opening scene to a few of my friends and i asked for their opinion.
I got all positive feedback which i am really glad about because we all have worked very hard on making this perfect.

My friends really loved the music and the camera shots/angles. And they really got into the movie and they wanted to see/know what happens next. I am very happy that they got into it because that is what one of our aim was, to draw the audiece in, and i believe we have accomplished that.

Mahida

The Last Run

This is it! The Last Run

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

What we need to do

Now that our opening scene is complete, we now have one week to start and finish our evaluation!
I was looking through what we have to do, and I dont really want to do a podcast so i think i will do a presentation!

Mahida

AAAHHHH

Screaming!
In friday's lesson after composing our music we realized that we still needed to find the perfect scream! and for that Becky, Sarah and I went out to the school field and recorded each one of us scream until we found the perfect scream!
For the scream we used my scream, i had to do it a few times to get it to be exactly right!

Mahida

Deadline

We met the deadline!!! Wohoo!
On Friday it was our movie deadline, and when we showed it to sire, he loved it and was very pleased. On Friday's lesson we finished off composing our music, it didnt take us that long and once it was done, it sounded great!

Mahida

What i've learnt...

Since starting on our project I have learnt a lot, For example my creative skills have developed a lot as i have learnt how to plan and research detail before work and this, in the long run, has a better turn out on the final work we do.

Mahida

Friday 11th

In lesson we where sorting out the titles. We had a problem because, at lunch Sarah and Becky done some titles that not everyone liked and we couldnt get rid of them. We got Mr. Robberts help through the lesson and it took us a whole lesson to get rid of them, during lesson Sir also showed us different ways to apply titles. He also told us about different programs we can use to get titles onto our opening scene.
So next lesson we will be starting on the titles again, but this time we will be using different programs.

Mahida

What we have left to do:

Last night i was thinking of everything we still have left to do, and which we need to do all with in the coming week! These things are as follow:

• Finish off the titles
• Do voice-over (the most important thing of all)
• Finish off the music
• Add the music to our opening movie scene
• And finally, turn the presentation of the opening scene into a letter box

Mahida

Deadline confussion

So yesterday we got to lesson and we were panickig because we thought the deadline was the 11th March, we had a confusion, and during lesson we found out that we still have a whole week left! Thank god because we actually still have quite a bit left to do! And so in yesterdays lesson we started on the titles, where to place them, what they should look like and how many titles we should have over-all.

Mahida

Creating Titles

Our lesson today was a bit caotic because we all had ideas and we felt a bit stressed because we thought the due date was today, when in fact its due in for next week.Anyway in todays lesson our teacher helped us with the titles and showed us how to use LiveType and how there are different styles of fonts which can make the titles seem more interesting than just plain white. There was a difference in quality of the film when we added a title from LiveType which can be seen as an issue. Towards the end of the lesson we were debating on whether or not to add in the special style of the titles because we would rather have the film in good quality than better looking titles.If the quality of the film stays the same with the special effects of the titles then we will use it but if not then we will stick to the normal plain white titles.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

What the film should be called?

As everyone knows its hard to come up with  a name for a film. Its easier to figure out the name once you have come up with the storyline of the film. I came up with the name 'The Last Run' because the opening sequence is of the girl running and ends up dead, which illustrates her 'last run'. I told the rest of the group the name and they liked it so i felt happy to have come up with the name because its not as easy as it seems. There were other alternatives such as 'Run', 'The Run', 'Her Run' , but they didn't seem as catchy and have a sense of suspense when saying it, like 'The Last Run' does.
So the name of the Film is 'The Last Run'.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

Re-Shooting

So on Friday we went back to our location to do some reshooting. We managd to get everything done, but we did have a few techniqual hitches. We thought the camera was charged, but after reshooting 3 scenes, the camera died on us! So we went back to Sarah's house and we waited for it to get charged, we didnt have to wait for it to be charged fully because we only needed to shoot one more clip. After it was charged for a little while we went back and done the final reshooting. Now we are just hoping that we dont need to re shoot anymore! We now have to finish off editing and composing the music, once all that is done, we can add our titles and we will be done!

Mahida

Editing Day 1

Today was the first day of editing. We uploaded all the footage onto iMac and imported it into iMovie.As it was the first day and we didn't have much time we watched the footage and put the clips in order of the sequence. As Only 2 of the group members knew how to work iMovie (Becky &Duresh) they were the ones who sat down and edited. Sarah and Mahida were there to help and give any advice on when to edit, delete so they had an input into the creation of the final sequence.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

Day 1- Filming

So today we started filming our opening scene, and overall i think it went well! We managed to get 5 clips done, and when we looked at them again at the end of the day, they looked greate. And this time we gave ourseleves enough editing options, we shot each clip minimum twice and from different angles.

P.S- Not to self: for when we are filming next, wear proper shoes- my shoes got totally ruined because of the mud, and bring gloves- It was freezing! and bring tissues and a carrier bag to carry everything :)

Im looking forward to filming again. And this time we will be more prepared!

Mahida

UK Film Council

The UK film Council is the Government backed lead agency  for the film in the UK. These films are effectively represented at home (UK) and abroad. The UK film council was created in the 2000. Sinces its creation, the UK film Council has been the funder of many cultural films. They have backed more than 900 films and entertained more than 200 million people and have helped to generate 700£ million at the box-office, worldwide. Tim Bevan- co-founder and co-chairman of WTF is also the chairman for this.
TimCagney is the managing director. We work with a lot of different partners, for example: BFI, Skillset, First Light and FILMCLUB. With there support, new film makers get the funds they need and creates a wider choice of films for the audience, they also invest in training, promoting Britain as an international filmmaking location and raising the profile of British Films abroad. They have 15million a year to invest across the development, production and completion of feature films.

Mahida

Dead Man's Shoes- Textual Analysis

The poster of this movie has only 3 main colours: Black, Red and White, and these colours are very dominant! The word "dead" is writtien in red across the black shadow of a man who is holding an ax weapon! this makes the word even more strong and meaningful. When i see this poster, staright away i know that this movie is going to be a thriller.

Mahida



Audience research

We have decided as a group that our opening sequence will be targeted at 15- 25 year olds. It attracts both genders as the character relates to both girls and boys. We have decided to create our character as a normal girl (we define normal as: she is concerned about time, gets everything done on time, is sporty- can also be related to boys and she is confident). Also sometimes there are moments where she is naïve as she is at the stage of becoming a young adult. The film will be rated 15 so that young people can watch it in cinema.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

Character Name

We have had a brain storm of names for our main character. This is what we have come up with:

• Charlotte Rivers
• Josie Rivers
• Emma Jones 
• Scarlet Jones
• Scarlet Lee
• Scarlet Rivers

As a group we really like Scarlet Jones as it sounds normal but is memorable. Scarlet also has connotations of red and can suggest blood. 

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh