Post Schedule (Update)

Production Schedule

Initial ideas

Submarine 2

We chose a different piece of music for the same clip to give a different feel of the opening.

Sound - Submarine Clip

We used Creative Commons to find the right music for the opening of Submarine. Creative Commons allows you to get music that isn't copyright, as it if we used copyrighted music, it would be against the law. We found eerie music that we thought sounded right for the clip and so used that.

Editing the remake of The Breakfast Club

Last week we had a limited amount of time in which we had to finish editing our remake of 'The Breakfast Club'. Due to the pressure of timed conditions to get the editing done we was not able to complete it to the best of our ability which ended with our remake not being that great. This was because the voice over went on for too long and overlapped the first speaker in the opening and the music did not play all the way through from beginning to the end, it cut out when the voice over was playing. 

However, today we were able to sort out these problems as we were given more time to finish editing which resulted in our remake of 'The Breakfast Club' being much more better than it was before. The music and voice over problem was sorted out as we shortened the length of the voice over so it did not over lap the first speaker and the music now plays from the beginning to the end. 

Shot by Shot remake - Editing

The first round of editing was all about just getting our footage in the right order, and this was fairly easy. We followed our storyboard and got the footage in the right order. However, when it came to getting the footage in-sync with our voiceover, it was difficult, but because of limited time, we had to upload a not in-sync opening.

The second round of editing was much more successful as we were able to get the voiceover in-sync. Though we had to remove the long silence in our original voiceover and lengthen our shots in order to get them both in-sync. The audio on our video dialogue was low, so we had to make the audio louder and lower the music of the background music enough for both to be heard. 

Shot By Shot (TBC) - Comparison

Shot by Shot Remake - Comparison

Final Shot by Shot Remake of The Breakfast Club

Here's our attempt to remake the opening of The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club - Filming

As much as I love filming and The Breakfast Club, filming the opening was difficult.

On screen and to the audience, the opening looks very simple and you'd think 'it doesn't look that hard to film', but when it's your turn to film it, it's difficult.

Before the characters are properly introduced, we see different shots of the school e.g. a long shot of the hallway, close up of the trophy cabinet, the camera pans down a graffitied locker. Then the characters are introduced differently by their mode of transport, most of which are cars.

We're 16/17. We don't drive cars.


So to overcome that little problem, we had to use toy cars but the toy cars came with their own problems as the characters are filmed inside a car, and obviously humans can't fit in toy cars. So we had to zoom into the cars (pretending someone is in there) and then film us in a separate shot, pretending as if we're in the cars. And once again, there was another problem.

There's one part where two characters are introduced in the same shot, and it was difficult to film this part. Instead we had to use our perspective and film from a different angle to make it seem like the actor was walking in front of a car. For the other character, we just filmed a different type of entrance for them.

There are only three of us in the group, and there are 5 characters in the film, so two of us had to play different roles.

In terms of the beginning of the opening, it was a lot easier to film in non-sequence as it saved us a lot of time by not having to go up and down the same stairs.

Shot by Shot Remake Task - Planning

Our task is to remake the opening of 1985 film The Breakfast Club. To start this off, we had to  create a digital storyboard of every shot in the 5 minute opening.

All the characters arrive in different modes of transport all to the same place: family car, expensive cars, a pick-up truck and by foot.

Planning
Characters:

• The Princess - Rahena 
• The Criminal - Shenaya
• The Brain (+ parent) - Yashima (+ Shenaya)
• The Basket Case - Yashima
• The Athlete (+ parent) - Shenaya (+

Locations:

• Outside the college
• Front entrance
• Shots of:
• the college
• the time on the clock
• the corridor
• the canteen
• the bulletin board
• the plank of wood
• the lockers
• college newspaper
• the wall
• trophy cabinet
• graffiti on the wall
• litter on the stairs
• stage
• notebook
• 'man of the year'
• computers
• locker room
• artwork
• 'prom queen'
• 'open this locker'

Clothes + props:

• Princess - girly outfits, toy car (Ferrari), phone
• Criminal - baggy clothes, sunglasses
• Brain - big jumper, hat, toy car
• Basket Case - big jacket, long skirt, toy car
• Athlete - sports kit, bag, toy car

This Is The Storyboard

My Progress

My Progress

Pros:

• Keeping up to date
• Detailed posts
• Animated blog with GIFs and embedding videos
• Bright and colourful

Improvements:

• Have a wide range of ICT - adding in vlogs, prezi, interview people, using camtasia

My Progress

 My feedback from my teachers has been very positive as I have made sure that I have done all the blogging tasks that have been set and keeping up to date with the work in the class.

 Certain things that are needed for me to do is to add more images, presentations, moving images and embedded videos to my blogs in order for it to look more visual and pleasing to the eye.

Opening of The Breakfast Club

Because the Breakfast Club is about five main characters from different cliques and backgrounds, it would take a while to give them each a scene to establish who they are. So the arrival and mode of transport helps the viewers to establish the characters.

The Brain: 

• Travels by a normal, family car
• With his mum and little sister in front seat - close with family
• Mum expects him to 'study' though you can't in detention - pressure from family

The Basket Case:

• Travels by really nice, wealthy car
• Probably with her parent(s), though they drive off without saying bye - not close with family/don't care about her
• Travels in the back seat - distant relationship with parents

The Criminal:

• Travels by foot - alone
• Almost gets run over by car - 'doesn't care' attitude

The Athlete:

• Travels in a classic American pick-up truck - typical transport of a 'soccer mom/dad'
• Seats in front seat with parent - there's still family connection (unlike The Basket Case), but still distant
• Athlete doesn't face his dad often during conversation - difficult relationship

The Princess:

• Travels in an expensive BMW - comes from a wealthy family
• Dad drops her off with a shopping bag - spoilt

Storyboard on Travelling + Arriving

Travelling and Arriving is a major part of teen films as it not only tell us about the location of the characters, but it is usually the first time the viewers see the characters and is where they make their first judgement of the characters. 

For example, if you see a character arriving in a BMW, you would assume they came from a rich family and was spoilt.
If a character travelled by skateboard, you'd assume they were part of a skater clique or by scooter, you'd assume they are retro or against the idea of the stereotypes. 

Who is in the car with them will also gives us a background story for the particular character. If the character arrives in the front seat with their family, it could suggest they are close or a lot of pressure. However if the character is sitting at the back of the car, it could suggest a distance between them and the parents.




We attempted our own opening include a character arriving to a location.

Our character arrives by skateboard, but rather than focus on the skateboard itself and assuming things about the character, we decided to reverse it and focus on the character and giving him the skateboard as a prop, which links his character to the typical stereotype a skateboard is usually noticed by.

Donnie Darko - Analysis

Donnie Darko 

Mise en Scene

The location of the film is in a school with kids dressed in uniforms. There are parts of the opening when some parts of the opening the characters are moving in slow motion and in fast forward. Certain situations are focused on more and have more camera time for example the boy who is taking drugs. Some of the characters come across as troubled or depressed. There are lots of props used such as the teacher carrying books and the students carrying bags and books. The lighting in the hallway is quite dark and dim which gives the opening a very serious feel, there is a big contrast to this when the teacher  and the student go through the door and there is a strong beam of light. 

Editing & Camera 

The editing in the opening film varies from being in slow motion, which at first gives off a chilled feel, but working with the Mise en Scene, it makes the scene very surreal, to being fast motion and the contrasts between the slow and fast motion tells the audience that something isn't right as it messes with the viewer's eyes and mind.

The very first shot is of the characters at a tilted angle and then moves into a normal eye-level shot, and along with the slow motion editing automatically tells the viewer there isn't something right, psychologically. Also, the whole scene is one continous shot of all the characters which makes it easy to establish all the different types of characters, but could tell us they're all united and the same in one way.

Character





Troublemaker - the type of character that will end up in big trouble or go down the wrong path or die.










Good boy/Teacher's pet - seems like the type that is very helpful towards teachers and other students.


Fat girl/Loner - seems like she has no friends and gets picked on a lot.



Stoners - the type of people that everyone goes to and has everything for everyones needs. he's the 'go to' guy.

Pretty girl - seems like the type of girl that goes out with bad guys but at the end of the film, end ups going with the good guy.













Strict teacher - seems like the type that no one likes.

Young Cheerleaders/Wannabes - young girls wanting to become cheerleaders. they're very enthusiastic and jolly. 

Order of Titles

It's something that you don't notice or pay much attention to, but every film has order of titles/opening credits. Watch any film, not just teen ones, and most of them will follow this pattern:

• Ident(s)
• Production title
• Distribution title
• Film title
• Stars (and other actors)
• Casting director
• Costume designer
• Music 
• Production designer
• Executive producers
• Editors
• Writer(s)
• Director

Most times the director is left until last, though sometimes they do appear before the film title, like the opening credits of Juno.

Take The Lead - Analysis

Take The Lead

 

A teen film from the 21st century.

Fantastic!

 

                This film is considered a teen film as the majority of the film is based around a

group of teens that are in detention all

the time (you see this throughout the film).

Most of the film is based in a high school

where the teens go which is something that

teens that are watching the film can

relate to.

 

 

 

 

The school does not have a good reputation because it is known for being in a bad area, having lots

of troubled teens that go there and not having many academic achievements.

Now these teens do not fit the typical character stereotypes that are in typical teen films, the main teen characters come from broken homes, abusive backgrounds and rough neighbourhoods. As the teens never do anything constructive during their detentions the principal of the school decides to bring in a dance teacher to teach the teens ballroom dancing.

 

Now to introduce the main characters, we have...

 

Jason 'Rock' Rockwell - The young brother of          

 a teenager that died from drugs, his father is an

alcoholic which is caused him to move out and

live at school for a while without anyone

knowing, he is very antisocial, him and LaRhette

are rivals but ends up falling in love with her at

the end.

 

LaRhette Dudley - Her mother is a prostitute                        

which means she has to care for her younger

siblings most of the time, she is nurturing but

can also get very aggressive, this is seen when

Rock talks about her dead twin brother's death.

 

Ramos - A cocky, flirtatious, proud person       

who is good at dancing has love interest which

is Sasha.

 

Danjou - Insecure about his dancing, a quiet

person, he also has interest in Sasha which

leads to fist fight between him and Ramos

 

 

Sasha - The pretty girl who is a good dancer

and is involved in a love triangle with Ramos

and Danjou

 

 

 

Caitlin - Clumsy and awkward, she feels

pressure from her parents' expectations

of her and feels out of place compared to

the other students in her ballroom classes

Eddie - Very childish, knows everything about

everyone, also a talented dancer who can also

DJ and loves to make a lot of jokes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Egypt - A very talented dancer, she has a bit of

an attitude problem and she dances with Eddie

in the competition

 

                   Kurd - Thinks of himself as a 'player'

                   and is frightened of his sexual urge and has feelings for Big Girl 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Girl - Loves to dance, the other teens

refer to her as 'Big Girl' because

of her size

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All these characters make Take the Lead a

teen film, it is all full of drama, rivalry, fights,

conflicts and romance and is really worth watching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Order of titles - The History Boys

Order of Titles - The Roommate

The Breakfast Club analysis

The Breakfast Club. 

80s teen film. 

Love it. 

What makes this film a teen film is the typical high school setting. A high school building is something teenagers are very familiar with, and as the film is based around teenagers in detention, this is also a situation a lot of teenagers can relate to...

Another reason for this to be a teen film is the characters.
In order for a teen film to be either a teen film or successful is to have teenage characters. Otherwise, it's not a teen film. And what makes these five main characters special is that they all belong to different cliques and have their own personal secrets. The clothes they're wearing and how they are presented are what tells us what clique they belong to.

• Andy Clark, a jock who hates his father because he is forced to push himself to prove himself to his father

• Claire Standish, the popular girl who is a virgin 

• Brian Johnson, a nerd who was close to suicide because he got a F

• John Bender, a rebel who comes from an abusive family

• Allison Reynolds, a weirdo who is a compulsive liar 

All these attributes not only make The Breakfast Club a teen film, but it makes it a 'cult film' - easily quotable, talked about frequently and even has some clothing for it. It's worth seeing.

Binary Oppositions

Binary Oppositions

A binary opposition can be considered as opposites of each other, two things that wouldn't be put be put together because they are so different from each other.

Princess Diaries

Binary oppositions can be seen throughout 'The Princess Diaries' between the main character, who is a ordinary teenage girl and her Grandmother who is a glamorous queen. Mise en scene shows many binary oppositions between the teenage girl and the Grandmother such as the teenager is clumsy, she lives in an apartment, rides a scooter and wears a school uniform. The Grandmother is very posh. poised and elegant, she gets driven around in limos, lives in a mansion and dresses formally in suits and gowns.