AP: Podcast 6

Amber tells you about the most recent shoots, and the issues surrounding them

Shoot No. 2 Review

We think that this shoot went very well and we shall definitely be employing the practices, such as the shot list, that we employed here in future shoots. We are very happy with the results that we say from this shoot and feel that, with all the shot variety and repeat filming of scenes, we have more than enough shots to choose from.

Here is some of the raw footage that we filmed:

Planning for shoot No. 2

For this shoot, we will be filming after school. As we don't want to keep actors any longer than we want to we decided to plan out the shots and what order they would be shot in. This was a very basic list and doesn't account for the different angles that we want to shoot at but we hope it will help us to work as efficiently as we can.

The first shot list

The second shot list

The third shot list

Location and Set Dressing for School's Out!

Before we consider filming dates, we are researching possible places to film. We want to have a shot of the bedroom and of (the inside and outside of) the school.

We plan on using our school, IGS, for filming. We hope to film after school, as this will mean that we have the most control over who is walking down the corridors and what is happening while we film.

For the bedrooms, particularly the girl's bedroom, we plan to have a space that we can pan by, but this is not a deal-breaking requirement. We hope that the bedroom has an en-suite, as this would make the transition while the character gets ready.

Shoot No. 1 Review

This was one of the first sessions we filmed for School's Out!, we worked with lauren in order to film the sections of her in the house for the starting sequence. As you can see from the video below, we filmed multiple shots, some of which we did not include in our rough cuts and, ultimately we won't include in our final cut. Looking back at the shoot, we realise that we need to plan better for the shoots, we plan on doing call sheets for out next session.

Some of the raw footage that we filmed are in this video:

Shoot Session 1 Planning

For this session we need to get the shots of Lauren's character in her house getting ready for school. We also need to film some diegetic titles. We have rough ideas in regards to what we want to get shots of, but we are still unsure in how to implement these, how they will work in the film and how we are going to film them.

After doing this shoot, we will need to film the sections in school and then we shall have the required shots that we want.

Rough Cut 2 for School's Out

Our second rough cut, featuring speedier titles and idents.

Target

johnny english, rated U would have a target audience (based upon this and my knowledge of the film itself) of 6-12 year olds, there were obviously some parts meant to ensure that the adults would enjoy it, but it's clear that the primary audience were of 6-12 years old, younger would mean that some of the film is misunderstood, and above 12 doesn't seem to fit.

The character was based off of a series of barclaycard adverts. the trailers present the films almost as if it's just another mr bean film, and so it can be said that the film is drawing in a secondary audience of Mr Bean fans. The original Mr Bean program ran from 1989 to 1995, therefore this secondary audience can be placed with an age range of 20-30 year olds, who would have been of the 6-12 age range for the TV Shows release. In countries such as China and Brazil, the film was actually marketed as a Mr Bean film.

The film clearly spoofs the James Bond series, and so it can also be said that they are trying to appeal to that audience as well, It's clear from the trailer that the film is a spoof of the bond series

The tagline to the film was 'he knows no fear, he knows no danger, he knows nothing', clearly emphasising the spoof/comedy side to the film.