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Geeky character wore glasses and a shirt where as the popular girl wore make-up and was always on her phone. We exaggerated the fact she was always on her phone, its the reason she bumped into the geeky boy. 

We tried to emerge the two different worlds this made us go away from the stereotype as the popular was meant to go out with the popular boy and the geeky boy doesn't have a girlfriend. Therefor we changed it by making them fall in love with each other. 

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This a Facebook profile of someone who i feel would watch strange connection.It shows movies which she watches and likes

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This a video of a member of my target audience.

What i think appeals to my target audience is the style and look of my title sequence as it has this elegant but fun a simple look to it which mid-late teens enjoy. Also the fact that its set in a school environment so they can relate. The actors don't look to glammed up however they do match there role perfectly. Teens love to believe they can be movie stars so making the actors look like normal people the audience feel at one with the actors. Also the actors were not experienced so the film could get a real kind of feel. The story line allows the teens to understand that its kay to like someone thats is outside your social group or comfort zone. The film name was short and catchy (STRANGE CONNECT) its quite secretive and doesn't give anything away which is a good contrast considering we had a narrative type of title sequence. Disney always distributes movies like this so it was only right we used the company for distribution and production.

The rough cut was extremely useful in terms of getting feedback it allowed us to change the music up a little because people said it was to repetitive which made the film sequence seem long and boring. so we changed it to keep our audiences attention.

There was a cinema preview aimed at students we used youtube, Vimeo and DVD in terms of where it was distributed.

We definitely aimed our movie at a wider audience such as 18 plus. These were for the people who are still into these movie or want to bring back childhood memories of movies in there day also mothers who bring their children to watch but also enjoy the movie too.

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Blogging Health Check

I had a blogging health check with Marissa and was told I needed to make changes to my blog on 'categorising title sequences' as the previous one I did was picture i took of written work , that i imbedded in to the blog and ended upside down. she said it didn't look professional and was extremely hard too read. so i changed it into a table format using ICT.
Marissa also said that I need to blog more

Favourite Film analysis

The Hunger Games 

The type of title sequence this film uses is Titles over Moving Images.

They incorporate alot of moving images in this title sequence. The credits are less dominant and the animations seem to be more important. As I've watched the movie i know that the mocking jay is a very important feature in the film. They use black, white and grey scale for the moving images and the type face is black.  

This title sequence creates suspense, tension whilst adding a fast tone to the overall film. Which links to the film.

Categorising Title Sequences

1. Narrative title sequences

The titles are integrated into the moving images in some way and begins as the film itself begins. It goes straight into the plot. Inter cut, top of the screen. This might be as a long establishing shot. Getting the audience straight into the film.

2. Discrete title sequences
The titles are integrated into the moving images but it is not entirely clear about what the films plot/story line is about. this kind of title sequence helps to set the tone and gives what could happen later in the film. This type of title sequence is common when the film doesn't want to give anything away.

3.Stylized title sequences
The title sequence are integrated with filters, animations and visual effects. The can be a mixture of the other 2 sub categories in terms of what we see. However the moving images and the credits have been stylised (using filter , motion etc) to create a combined effect. 

My preference out of the 3 is narrative because i prefer to not about what I'm about to see. 

Production: Title Design

Here we are designing the titles:

Production: Filming Photos

Production: Rough Cut 1!

Here's our first rough cut!

We haven't as of yet added any credits (except for the title of the film) and we intend to have them over the moving images and they will be narrative.

We will also be creating our own idents for the beginning.

Feedback:

Some match cuts felt a bit jumpy.

Going to re edit them to ensure all match cuts are smooth.

We slightly broke the 180 degree rule.

Rather than waste time re-shooting, we will use another one of our shots that we filmed.

Some shots felt like they lasted too long.

We will consider re-editing them again to use different types of cuts.

The music felt a bit repetitive.

We may change the music slightly or, as it is an instrumental, add some vocals.

Production: Twitter Feed!

Tweets by @candi_as_11

Planning: Updated Storyboard

This is our original contact sheet with descriptions now.

Planning: Storyboard and Feedback

We were told that using a contact sheet is ok but it would be better to use a proper storyboard with descriptions of each shot.

Planning: Costume Pack

We will be using these (or similar) costumes:

 (Geek)

Popular Characters

Planning: Pitch Feedback

The feedback from our film mainly stated that we were thorough and were very detailed.

We needed to improve by all speaking equally rather than one or two of us taking over. Furthermore we needed to reflect more of what our film was about. In addition a more focused Target Audience.

As a group we decided that we will be adding some posters and thinking about marketting for our film to increase awareness of what the film may be about. We also decided that we should improve our target audience and focus our film more towards 14-16 year olds.

Planning: Pitch Presentation

Planning: Opening Plan

For our opening we plan to show a popular character bumping into an unpopular character and her social group confronting her about it.

We will show different social groups and the divisions between them - as do many High School dramas.

We may also have a scene where the popular character is writing in her diary (with a voiceover) with here stating how she wants to break away from her social group and break the restrictions of certain stereotypes.