Planning-Presentation Pitch And Feedback

This is our PowerPoint presentation of our research and planning for our film opening. We designed and planned our PowerPoint as a team taking equal responsibility for different parts of the PowerPoint to ensure we covered all areas of the brief.

When we presented our blog to the class I was absent however I contributed by making the slides on the PowerPoint and helping to plan the opening of the film. I did the settings and characters and helped to use different fonts and colours to make out slideshow appealing.

We received a lot of feedback on our presentation for example the rest of our peers in the class felt like our first draft of our company production logo didn't have enough relevance to our film. After the presentation we then decided to change our production logo to 'Oscar productions' as we felt like this would be more suited to our production company

Above are screenshots of the PowerPoint presentation that we presented to the class in our pitch. As a group we used teamwork to work together to add in all our ideas so we could create a detailed PowerPoint including all of our planning. We brainstormed beforehand to discuss ideas so that we all agreed on every aspect of the film.

Synopsis

The basic story line of Busted focuses on a young teenage girl who attends her local secondary school, Longsands Academy. The first scene shows that this young girl is picked on for not being popular enough in her year.  In order to capture this I plan to use a long shot of a classroom showing the main character sat on her own showing other students who are sat on the opposite side of the class room laughing at her and throwing pens and pencils at her. However the main girl has had enough of having no friends and decides to make a Facebook event inviting a few people from school round for a gathering. She does this as a result of  her parents going away for the night. In order to show the Facebook event I plan to use different editing skills, which will allow the audience to see the Facebook notification and also see the reactions of the different characters at the same time. I will do this using a split screen effect. The opening of the film will then transition onto the different genders of teenagers getting ready for the party. I will film this using lots of different fast pace tracking shots in a few different teenagers bedrooms. This will mainly focus on the stereo and counter typical ways in which the characters are being displayed in the opening of my film. This will help the audience get a feel to the characters personalities. 

The story then continues to the party and how the invite went viral on social media, leaving her throwing a massive house party. Half way through the party and the plot of the story starts to unveil. The main character's parents come home from their over night trip as one of them left their mobile phone at home, I plan to show a slow motion close up of the mobile screen showing lots of miss calls from the main characters parents. This will happen whilst the party scene is going on, all the fast pace transitions, bright flashing lighting and loud music will create built up tension whilst the scene flips onto the mobile phone screen. This built up tension will also help when the next scene happens. The main girls parents come home half through the flow of the party. The mum goes up the speaker and cuts the music and everyone leaves in embarrassment for the main character. The opening of my film will then come to a close near the two minute mark, I will close the opening by zooming in on a clock at the main characters house showing the time that the party ended. This shot will then transition into another clock displaying the same time however this will be the school clock in the same classroom that the characters originally started in. So the opening of the film would have been in reverse from the night before, I am going to demonstrate this by using rewind sounds and to display a rewind button on the opening scene. I also plan to have a voice over of the main character explaining what is going on and how life as a teenager is, this will only take up a few seconds of the opening of my film.