Audience responce-

We recently showed our plan to our class on witch we took on criticism shown in an earlier post. more recently we showed a final draft on which there is still room for improvement. The main areas we can improve on in filming with shots are the connoting that our antagonist is Irish & related to the female in the bed and finally clarifying that it is a female in the bed rather than a house mate of some sort. In post production we need to work on the cut into Shot Yourself In The Foot Again and the actor names appearing in the opening as these were seen as tacky and cheap.
To combat the filming problems we decided to film today. This went well and managed to look the same as the previous day we filmed on as not to confuse the viewers with continuity errors. However we had to find a new actress as the one previously featured was not able to attend the filming session. Now we have the final footage we can finally finish our media project and make it as clean and professional as possible allowing us to focus on our evaluation.

12 Hours Plan Feedback.

Bellow is our rough media opening, its basically a plan for the camera shots and rehearsal for our actors it should also be good for feedback on dialogue, costumes and sounds
After showing the rough opening to an audience which was basically our target audience for the film we received a lot of constructive criticism. The chosen sound track (which hasn't be edited on yet) had good response as did costumes and the actors however we have now debated added a sequence of the antagonist in the morning due to feedback stating that the opening lacked tension and was boring at points. The night scene went down well with our audience and therefor we've decided to keep that basically the same.
we will re-film all the shots in half term and edit quickly as to reach the deadline.

Film Opening Update-

The filming for our rough edit has now been finished however we are yet to edit it which is a worry. Once the rough editing is completed we've decided to re film the entire footage because although it will work for a rough edit as it outlines the basic plot of the opening, yet setting up the rest of the plot throughout the entire film, but we would ideally like a better quality final piece with a more in depth introduction to the protagonist and a larger variation of more advance camera shots and angle.
The fact that we will re film all the footage is also helpful because our peers will be able to give us feedback on our rough edit allowing us to fine tune sound, dialogue, locations, mise-en-scene and camera shots. Hopefully this in turn will give us a better final piece that is more in keeping and representative of our skills and aspirations as a group.

Despite the newsreel opening 'This Is England' has a ver similar narrative and characters to our opening '12 Hours'. In theory it has a similar target audience, young people, to our film. Its because of this i believe they could both be put in the Genre of Coming Of Age. The link between the films is established by how the protagonist is of a similar age, ethnicity and background (location too is not dissimilar). The opening shot, post newsreel, is very similar with subtitles also being placed in the bottom half of the screen. However the openings will differ in the way the opening shot is established because unlike 'This Is England', '12 Hours' is set 12 hours after the very very opening of our film.
Another clear links comes in the form of the mise-en-scene of Shaun's (TIE) room with that of Joshua's (12H), both rooms are shown to be scruffy,unorganised and in a sense creating a stereotypical boy of that age. Camera shots are massively similar, for instance the establish shot at 4:25 though to 4:33 are a long shot to medium this is unlikely to be down to the reasoning on genre but more so that of conventions on a film opening. Narrative itself for the openings is similar because it represent the awakening of a teen, almost metaphorically establishing the fact both young teens are awakening for childhood to adulthood this allows the target audience to in turn relate to the protagonist. Overall i think both openings represent the awkward young person stage of life, no longer a child but not yet an adult, this is done by use of establishing shots that allow the protagonist to move toward the camera (moving towards adulthood) and mise-en-scene that fits in with stereotypical representation of that specific age and gender (scruffy and boyish teen).

Sans- Serif Vs Serif.

Nearly all fonts can be divided into two groups, Serif and Sans- Serif. There is one basic difference that can divine a font from these groups this is the curves at the end of each letter, Know as 'feet. For example a Sans-Serif font such as 'Arial' has no feet however a Serif font such as 'Courier' does have the 'feet' at on each letter.

The reason behind the difference is so that one may be able to use it for different purposes in turn also defining the purpose or perhaps formality of a text. As an example if one is writing a document that you’ll print out and give to someone to read you should use a Serif. Whereas if one is sending an email or writing a blog entry you should use a Sans-Serif font this is because its clearer and easier to read.

Target Audience '12 Hours' -

Our active audience for '12 Hours' is mainly in the bracket of 16-24 yr olds. Our project should appeal to them in a similar way to that of Kidulthood & Skins this is due to it being clearly set around the lives of teens and their actions. Seeing as teens are represented a lot in our film this should be evedent even in the opening 2 minutes. Although it is aimed at 16-24 yr olds we feel the film would be better suited to an 18+ certificate, this is because we would like to achieve and almost gritty feel such as Kidulthood does. Seeing as the certificate would ideally 18+ we think that 16 & 17 yr olds would still watch it as the majority of them wouldn't care about this certificate, this fits in with the theme of rebellion that is evident in our film.

Mid Production Film Update -

We are currently half way through filming '12 Hours' opening scene. So far it hasn't gone particularly well due to issues with scheduling, a few technical difficulties and locations. However tomorrow we are having our 3rd attempt with completing the filming portion of the project so we can start with editing this Wednesday.
To brake down the problems we've had at first it was finding a time we were all free with a willing female actress. Once this problem was tackled and had our 2nd filming session however the footage was to dark in turn this led us to think we should have one final attempt at filming.
Hopefully tomorrow we will iron out the problems such as lighting and acting thus allowing us to finally complete '12 Hours' opening scene.
On the upside location, costumes and actors are now secure so we only need to film witch with all the planning shouldn't be to complicated.

Similar Opening To '12 Hours' #2-

 

Although this is a TV opening, thats used in every episode, SHOWTIME often use film tecnequies as they have very high quality openings and would fit in on the big screen as well as the small screen. The reason i like this so much is because of the morning routine aspect. Although i wouldnt copy this exactly i like the idea behind it. The way we see him as an everyday normal guy that nothing eventful will happen too because of the adverge Joe feeling we get due to his 'routine'. i would really like to achive this in our film however with a more film feel. On the other hand 'Dexter's' routine is fairly sadistic and this foreshadows the main idea behing the program, this is because of the almost threning sound of the boot lace's, the taught floss and the knife movments (this sadistic feeling is something i wish not to attain in my opening. 

Mine And Pete's Story Boards For '12 Hours'-

 My Story Board (No annotations or dialogue)

Pete's Story Board

Complete Plot '12 Hours'-

The film opens with the end. This is Joshua being beaten up by Seamus. Sharply we cut to black whilst also cutting back 12 hours. The viewer is immediately introduced to 2 of our main characters, also we learn more about WHY Joshua was beaten up. These 2 characters are Joshua the leading male and Ciara the leading female. The entire film is in a way about their relationship due to the ‘Montague’s & Capulet’s’ aspect of the relationship.

Once we are introduced to these 2 characters we establish how dysfunctional the relationship is, neither know where they stand. It almost seems like both of them are just in it to bide time. It soon becomes apparent this is partly true; we discover this once we are introduced to Joshua’s conflicting love interest Jane. She is far more similar to Joshua with similar upbringing and tastes. Despite this her and Ciara are still good friends through school, neither know of the others relationship with Joshua.

The relationships are beginning to cross paths and in an unpredictable series of events both Ciara & Jane turn up to Joshua’s little gathering (this is due to Joshua’s Mum leaving to visit her parents up north). The part gets underway and before we know it Jane and Joshua have found their way into his bedroom, the inevitable happens and Ciara walks in. She certainly wasn’t expecting this and is so distraught that she leaves quickly whilst in tears. Jane goes after her trying to explain all of the events however Ciara has already got home.

Once Ciara’s brother (Seamus) gets home to find his little sister in tears he turns vowing to get revenge for Joshua’s rash actions. Midnight is nearing and we are aware of what is soon to happen.

At Joshua’s party supplies are running low, this is what leads Joshua to leave his house and go to the shop. Seamus is waiting and as soon as Joshua leaves it’s back to the beginning.

Joshua is beaten up and we cut to the hospital where Ciara is waiting. She’s concerned and the two make up and end up getting together.