planning- our final idea?

From a lot of feedback and thinking we have decided to put the 3 main idea's together in the opening. Many rom/coms are filmed from the womans point of view, so to make it more quirkier we thought to film it in the males POV, it may be hard to find a male to act for us but were sure we'll manage to find one.

We have decided to not do the diary idea as we think it may be quite hard to find a boys bedroom and it may not turn out as effective as we hoped it would.



Storyline
We've decided on doing the main character as an intern journalist, who is the only male in his department who works for a female magazine, he's been given an article about dating women, if it is successful he'll get a full time contract.

 It starts with him at his desk struggling what to write, we thought the montage could include short flashbacks the character is having whilst thinking of ideas to put in his article of all the 'bad dating experiences' with girls he has had. He then decides that could be a bad idea and turns out most of his previous dates with girls have all been terrible. This also brings quite a comical mood to the film as they are funny bad experiences which will hopefully draw the audience in.

Meanwhile, from the start of the opening were going to use a monologue in the film explaining to the audience what he is doing for his article etc and his thought process.

He then gives up, until he recieves an email from a colleague, he finds her really attractive but knows she is definately out of his league. Despite this, the male tries his best to win Kates heart which he decides is what he will write about in his article.

preliminary exercise - final clip and evaluation.

EVALUATION

I thought my groups final piece was effective for the time we was given and the storyline was rather clear. Once filming we realised it wasn't as easy as we thought, so we set up two cameras and chose the most effective shot, this helped us a lot because we would get more done and film things on one camera we may have missed out on the other.

We planned our PE thoroughly, making post it notes, A3 posters and scripts for one another which we could learn ready for filming. We would film in our free periods and sometimes in dinners just so we could get it done quicker, most of our editing was done after school as it took us a long time to get our heads around the software.

The shots and angles we were provided with helped guide us through our filming because we knew what we had to include and to make sure we didn't miss any out we planned all the shots on our post-it notes before we started filming. 

The location was pretty simple, we needed a classroom where the first character would find the note and then a library where she would meet the 'mystery boy', so we thought we would use the new resource centre in our sixth form which has just been built and use it as a meeting place.
We didn't really have a set costume for our task as it was filmed as if the people were at school already so we just kept our everyday clothes on.

I think what we need to learn from filming this exercise would be to give ourselves more time to plan out the way we would film and what our storyline would be and that we didn't rush into things as we had to restart it a couple of times before we got the final piece. However, all in all I think we completed this to our highest standard and was very effective for our first time.