Feedback From First Draft

After a showing of the first draft, we received both positive and negative feedback, to help us improve the opening further. 


Positive feedback we received:

- In the opening there is a good range of camera shots and angles which make it interesting and relate to the characters well.

- The storyline and genre is made clear, which helped really helped by the codes and conventions that we have put in place

- The titles we have used are clear and smart, and fit in well with the opening and don't look out of place.


The negative feedback we received will now help us to improve the film. From the feedback we now know we need to sort the following:

- The diegetic audio is uneven in place, so we need to level out the audio, by increasing/ decreasing audio gain on each clip so all clips match each other. Also music underneath speech needs to be made quieter to make the dialogue really clear. 

- The establishing shot is slightly shaky, so this needs to be stabilised in premiere pro.

- The fire effect needs to track the hand movement better as it looks to unrealistic at the moment.

- Some shots of Jess and Zoe need to be shortened slightly to make sure we keep the audience's attention throughout.

- Music needs to be re -written in places to make it less repetative, as it makes the opening too boring otherwise.

Production Company Title Card

For our production company title card, we plan to create something simmilar to the marvel title card, seen above but replacing it with our name 'Super Nova'. We do not want to copy the exact same style but have something which is similar.


This is because the title card of the production company will be either the first or second thing that appears on the screen during the two minute opening, so this will enforce the codes and conventions of the genre, as the audience will see and recognise a similar styled title card and will link it to the superhero / comic book genre straight away.

The logo will look like this:

Classification

What classification would your film be and why?

We think our film will be rated a '12' by the British Board of Film Classification. There are a few justification points behind this decision.




1. The '12' Certificate is awarded if it meets the following criteria:







Discrimination

Discriminatory language or behaviour must not be endorsed by the work as a whole. Aggressive discriminatory language or behaviour is unlikely to be acceptable unless clearly condemned. 

In Our film there is unlikely going to be any 'Discriminatory' language or behaviour, although we are looking at three different classes of people - they are not going to be looked at in a 'bad' way or in a way that would offend people who are in a similar class.

Drugs

Any misuse of drugs must be infrequent and should not be glamorised or give instructional detail

There is going to be no drug used in our film.

Horror

Moderate physical and psychological threat may be permitted, provided disturbing sequences are not frequent or sustained.

There may be some horror used in our film, but it will not be frequent or sustained.

Imitable behaviour

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied, or appear pain or harm free.  Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

In our movie there will not be any suicide or self harm. And any 'powers' used in the movie as weapons - will be prominently fantasy.

Language

Moderate language is allowed. The use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’) must be infrequent.

There will be moderate language in our film, however no strong language will not be used.

Nudity,Sex &Theme

Mature themes are acceptable

Nudity, sex and theme will rarely if not at all, be used in our film. Mature themes will likely be used, but nothing too extreme.

Violence

Moderate violence is allowed but should not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood, but occasional gory moments may be permitted if justified by the context. Sexual violence may only be implied or briefly and discreetly indicated, and must have a strong contextual justification.

Any violence in our film will not be to gory or dwell on detail, there may be fights with their 'powers' but this will all be 'fantasy' and will not be too realistic to be to strong.

2. Many other films from the same 'superhero' genre generally have the same BBFC rating.


For example:


Iron Man Films: 12
X-Men Trilogy: 12
Hulk: 12
Batman Films: 12
Spider man 2&3: 12


If we are using similar codes and conventions in our movie, the likelihood that our movie will be rated a simmilar age rating is very likely.

Logos/Colours

Logos and colours are fundamental to identifying a superhero and are a main part of these kind of movies, for example Iron Man obviously has an Iron tinted logo and armour, as they all link together.

This is seen by the pictures above, the logo takes on a similar set of colours to his suit and also link to the name 'IRON Man' 

Another example of this is The Green Lantern, who's logo, suit and name all link together. This seems to be a trend throughout most superhero movies. So  this is something we must carefully consider when creating our logo/identity for our opening.

Filming to Start Monday

Now we have completely finished the planning of the task, tommorow (Monday) we will start filming during the double lesson.

Production roles as follows:

Ash - Acting

Jess - Acting

Harry - Camera

Pete - Directing/Sound

Hopefully we can get most - if not all filming completed, as it is only a short sequence.

Photos of the filming in progress will be posted on Tuesday.

Below is a few examples of the sound effects and music we may put on during the edit, but these are not final, just some research.