Interview Final - Short Film

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Little White Lies Annotation

As you can see from this annotation of a actual Little White Lies review page we have noted the measurements needed to make sure that the review page looks exactly like a Little White Lies review page. We have also included information on what needs to be included in certain parts of the review page.  

In Design Mock Up Of Layout LWL

Here is a mock up of the design template we will use to add our little white lies review to, the image and text are obviously temporary until we finish finalising the review we have written up.

Typical Structure of Little White Lies Review

Lexis
The Lexis used in Little White Lies reviews is normally quite complex and whitty, we think this is because if the language used is complex than the audience begins to trust the opinion of the writer as they feel that they must be smart and well educated, this subsequently has the effect of validating the opinion of the writer, which helps to achieve the goal of the review which is to persuade and inform, and in this instance it persuades the reader by validating the writers opinion.

Structure

The structure of a review in the Little White Lies magazine is that there are between 5 and 7 paragraphs, however most of the time there are six. the first and/or second paragraph would be an introduction to the film and how the film was made, the third and fourth paragraphs are most likely to talk about the cast of the film and discus the movies basic plot with a short opinion, the final paraghraph/s is normally a review/conclusion on the film as a whole, this is typically where the writer signs off witha witty comment relating to the film to leave a lasting thought in the readers head almost like the strap line of the review.

Rating System
Rather than star ratings, Little White Lies rates films based on three things: Anticipation, Enjoyment, and in Retrospect, this allows for a broad and thorough review of each film that the reader can understand and enjoy as well as trust and relate too, it is hard to truly understand how good a film is based on 5 stars as everyones opinions are different and you can never see just how good the different main aspects of each film are, however this rating system is broad and covers all the aspects that a film lover (their target audience) would love to hear about.

Jordan's Design Analysis for Little Whitle Lies

The design layout for the 'Little White Lies' magazine is a very unique and important part of the magazine, in every issue the style changes with the theme of the magazine, for example the front cover of the '1994' issue and the 'Django Unchained' issue is so different, with the colours and text. 

As you can see they are two very different images, however they still share the same iconic 'LWL' logo. When you go in the magazine you see a similar pattern and that's that its not all just text then image, then text then image, its more bold words and art followed by illustrations on a double paged spread, so there design is such a unique one because no one else uses that kind of design.

But when you get to the review half of the book we start to see more of a structure; a set of about 5 - 10 pages of reviews with all the same layout, they use three column structure with the title in bold above it and then a picture of what this film is, then down the side is a rating of each part of the film.

The different fonts, sizes of fonts and use of bold and italics make this extremely clear to read, especially as every page is like this. For example the first word in the review, 'Remember' is so clear, and such a powerful start, all because of the drop text 'R' at the beginning gives it such a bold start off to the review. The title itself and text too is written in a very clear font that is easy to read, however it is a plain font making it look a little more sophisticated. I believe that the review page is designed like this because with the Big picture of the film at the top, it will be the first thing you read, then you would read the director, cast and release of the film and then on to the review. So the further down you read the more it becomes clear what the film is about, and what film your reading about, a very good way to captivate the readers, by putting the easiest thing to look at first because it makes you want to read on.

This design and layout really captivates the magazines target audience because of bright colour, complex text and beautiful art design, people reading have no choice but to be captivated in the art and beauty of the magazine, not one book has a boring, or similar design so it would never get old, the reason there never the same, and to why it captivates the audience so much is because they are always themed after a certain film, and as the audience that would be purchasing and reading these are filmmakers, filmgoers or students in film, this would suit them very well.



Wire Cutters Poster Analysis

Media Language

When you look at the poster you instantly think of loneliness. This is what 'Wire Cutters' is trying to achieve a sense of loneliness and it portrays this with the dull grey colours and the only unatural thing in the picture is the little metal box, other then that theres no man made, or man objects or characters around. I think that the audience for this film would be for an older audience, just by looking at the poster, multigender ages 16-40 i would say. From what we can tell the narrative is just something to do with that box and the wire attached because its called wire cutters, the rest remains an enigma. i think the genre would be sci-fi because it doesent look like earth and its something we havent seen before

Layout

The layout of the Films Title, and its reviews and awards are both very low down and out of the way of the main image which gives the poster and image dispayed alot more room then it would normally have, due to the simpicity of the title, just a white font and bold text, it just allows us to get a wider perspective on the picture itself so it feels like a bigger space, representing lonesome. 

 

Jordan's Poster Mock Up

Permission

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Applying Audience

Applying audience

The audience that we are going for in our short film are teenagers as a lot of people our age can relate to this, as they would be getting jobs and going for interviews but also because some people might have a younger brother or sister that has ADHD, so they can relate to this even more. the reason we haven't gone for an younger audience is because they wouldn't really get what is going on and they wouldn't understand it. Our short film isn't really gender specific as it can happen to anyone which means a lot more people can relate to this, which means we have a better chance of our audience understanding where we are coming from in our film. Our social class for this particular film is middle class. Our platform that we will screen our film on would probably be youtube as people our age use youtube more than the older generation and our target audience is people our age. Also it'd free to watch on, also our social class that we are going for would have access to youtube. For example, we would also like it to be shown in a short film competition as it is different and unique and i haven't really seen any short film or film that has this type of problem in it. Most people there would also be able to relate to this.    

Applying Media Language to our final idea.

Applying Media Language 

We have applied media language to most of our shot. There are a lot of techniques that we have used in our shots, for example, we have used a range of different angles and shot sizes in our short film. there is one scene where Jordan's character Ted is looking at a paintball gun, in this shot we are having a side on close up on Ted's face to show his facial expressions but also so the audience can see the gun and know what he is looking at. The first shot of our short film is going to be on the side of a car and this technique is a really good but effective as it is different but also you get to see where the car is going and this will help the audience understand where it is based. We have also thought a lot about our characters and how to construct them. For example Ted is someone who has ADHD but tries his best to keep focus and he also tries hard to impress, this has helped us with creating a the character. Harry is a childhood and best friend of Ted and has always put up with Ted so he understands what he is going through. These descriptions of the characters helped us with the mise en scene of our characters, Ted is going to be wearing a smart casual suit but not to smart, Harry will be wearing a hoodie and jeans as he is in the car and so is not going to be seen by anyone else but Ted. So all together media language has helped us with the shots and angles but most importantly creating a character through using media language.  

Genre

Our short film 'The Interview' is a comedic drama. It has a lot of comedic aspects throughout we are going to use the relief theory of comedy to make the audience laugh this will work as the comedy is very relatable to our target audience and so they will find humour in the silly way the protagonist is acting. The drama aspect is important as we want to relay a message to our audience that there is a job out there for all types of people and we are going to do this by having underlying messages of thruth and emotion from our characters throughout pivotal scenes. This coupled with the ending of the film (which is Ted getting a job somewhere creative) this will help to reinforce the underlining message that theres a job for everyone no matter what your talents are. This is a relevant message for our target audience as they are of the age of job hunting and choosing there future and so will relate to this on a personal level, especially as the world os starting to recognise people with different abilities and finding jobs for them.

'The Interview' Script

Audience Feedback

This is feedback from our targtet market allowing us to know they're thoughts on the idea and what we could potentially fail at doing if we dont pay close attention throughout production.

Animatics 2

Jordan edited and wrote the script for this animatic and me and Tom spoke and recorded it.

Applying Narrative to our final idea.

 Applying Narrative

The narrative for our final idea is that our story is linear. it does have a structure to it and it does have a story and the audience will get what we are trying to put across. At the begining of our short film the audicne will find out who Ted and Harry are and what their relationship is like. The audience will then slowly find out what ted is like and how he starts to day dream and how Harry deal with it. The story is that Ted is trying to look for a job and if he can get a job becuase of what he is like. As we get further into the story we find out that Ted can't help the way he is and Harry has an understanding of that. There are two main shots that foreshadow something later on to happen. The first shot is the shot of Harry and Ted in the car and this shot is shown 5 times throughout the short film, this shot mainly happens after each interview, This is so we can see what each of the characters are feeling at that point in time and what they have to say. The next shot which foreshadows something later on to happen is the shot of Ted sitting in the interview waiting room, this shot is shown twice throughout the film the first time it does not go so well so the second time that the audience see this they will think back to the first time and think that it is going to go wrong again. We want the audicne to feel for Ted and understand what it is he is going tbrough and by having these shots we can hopefully get the audience to understand and feel for Ted. We also what them to understand the way Harry feels when he has to deal with Ted.    

Representation in our Film

The main social group that we show off are the younger groups, espessially the jobless youths because our film is about a young man trying to find a job however, all the interviews are a failiure for him and he can never succeed in finding a job. This is because ur character finds it hard to focus and is always loosing focus on the interviews and ends up screwing it up for himself. We are representing being young and jobless as a struggle, however the meaning to our film is that everyone is special and i you search in the right places, hard enough, you're meant for something out there, and its also to restore hope in younger people minds, as our main character, Ted, finds a job in creative marketing, which is what he specialises in as he has such a wild mind. 

The main issue is that it becomes harder and harder for people with disablilites to find a job, and this is not their fault no one can help a disablity and so we want to adress in our piece that actually anyone can get a job, so for our Character Ted, who suffers with ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and is constantly loosing focus and thinks about different things; he gets a job in creative marketing which is perfect for him because he could go on and on with ideas. This film should be inspiring or younger audiences and we hope thatthis encouroges people that they actually are speical.

Daily Objective

Todays objectives:
Sam's

• Finish storyboard
• Finalise shot duration
• Take pictures of storyboard 
• Upload onto Mac and import into final cut 
• Edit images 
• Export into group folder 
• Upload onto Youtube 
• Embed onto Blogger 

All of the objectives were met by the end of the lesson.

Jordan

• Draw all the costume designs 
• Take pictures of them
• Upload all of the pictures to the blog

All objectives were met.

Tom

• wrote up the locations that we are using and the health and safety involved. 
• uploaded to blogger.
• wrote up the sound designs and what foley sound we are going to need. 
• uploaded to blogger. 

All objectives were met by the end of the lesson.