CONSTRUCTION: BIKER BOYS

Today we filmed another scene for our opening sequence which were the biker boys. To add to the stereotypical biker boys effect, one of them was dressed wearing a black leather jacket, whilst the other one was wearing black boots with his legs up on the table - which is something you wouldn't do or see in a restaurant.

We put up a green screen on the wall behind them to make it easier for us to edit the interior of a cafe on to it.

CONSTRUCTION: FILM POSTER

Here are some of the different posters we edited in photoshop for our webpage, Twitter and Facebook pages.

CONSTRUCTION: TWITTER PAGE

To advertise our film opening to the public, we created a Twitter page in order to maintain interest within our target audience, particularly in relation to information about the film - such as the release date, competitions, daily updates etc.

By creating a Twitter page, we are essentially interacting with our target audience; keeping them informed with information relating to the film. Additionally, the fact that we have uploaded multiple posters on our Twitter page gives our target audience an insight into our film, as we are providing them with a visual image.

CONSTRUCTION: ZEST TITLE

This is the photo we edited in Photoshop to have as our main title in our opening scene.

CONSTRUCTION: ZEST OPENING SCENE

Location filming in Esher of ZEST establishing shot outside restaurant. Jo, Esme and I went down to Esher to film the first bit of our opening scene. We set up the camera on the other side of the road for filming the opening shot of Esme walking into the shot.

• Australian female gap year student arrives outside restaurant, 
• checks phone to verify location 
• and appears to enter
• CUs of restaurant window, advertising board etc to provide material for cuttaway shots

CONSTRUCTION: SPOT LIST

Today I made a spot list for my opening scene and put appropriate information under each sub-heading so that it is clear who is in each shot, how the camera moves and what sound / voice-over accompanies each shot.

PLANNING: OUR VIEWER PROFILE

Today I started making brief notes about the target audience for Zest.
Age group: 15+, the majority of age groups
Gender: Both male and female
They are likely to watch TV programmes such as Friends, My Family, MasterChef, Come Dine With Me.
They are likely to see films at the cinema such as Ted, The Change-Up, Meet the Fockers.
In their leisure time they will go on YouTube, Netflix, iTunes, video games, meet up with friends, go shopping, drink Starbucks and Costa, eat at McDonalds, Dominoes, TGI Friday's.
Clothes: Topshop/Topman, RiverIsland, H&M, Urban Outfitters.
Media: iPhone/Blackberry - fast internet usage, Macbook/iPad - watch movies, play video games

PLANNING: DIALOGUE

We are planning on asking three different social groups to act in our opening scene to make the film more humorous. These different social groups include: Upper class husband and wife, biker boys and two celebrities.

Script: Upper class lady - 'I'm worried about the meat here, I don't want to be eating horse. This isn't like the Ritz.'
Upper class husband - 'Well I'm worried about my cholesterol.'
Biker boy 1 - 'Oh, so no bats on the menu, this ain't a good place for Ozzy Osbourne then.'
Biker boy 2 - 'Well Freddie Star ate his hamster!'
Celebrity 1 - 'This is so not like LA. Omg..my hair extension.'

PLANNING: STORYBOARD

 Here are pictures of our storyboard we drew for our film opening.

PLANNING: CALL SHEET

A2 MEDIA STUDIES CALL SHEET- ZEST

Track: 

Length: 1 minute 30 seconds

Shoot Day: 7th February onwards

Location: High St. Esher, Surrey KT10, UK 

  

11.45 to 13.00

Crew: Ellie Walton                elliewalton@gmail.com         07989603545

Crew: Joanna Lewin             jojo@hotmail.co.uk               01932354676

Cast/ Crew: Esme Finch        esmef@gmail.co.uk              07989604887

Camera Equipment: HD Camera (Cannon D550)

                            - Cannon camera 

                            - Two batteries 

                            - 1 memory card (16GB)

                            - Tripod stand 

                            -  camera bag and protecting lens

                            - collapsible dolly 

Props:                   -Samsung phone 

                           

Wardrobe: Costume (Esme Finch) Danii

Outfit 1- Black and Blue Diesel jacket, bohemian scarf green and grey, sand desert boots, black tights, white shirt.

Makeup- hair down, natural makeup, Bobbi brown gold dust eye shadow 

PLANNING: RESTAURANT INTERIOR

We've decided that we are going to use the school canteen for the interior location shooting. We think it is suitable to use this for our opening scene because it looks authentic and has a similar vibe with the other restaurants we looked at.