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Due to the struggle of finding the right people to collaborate on my film opening, i have changed my idea slightly. I decided to just have the main character on my film opening instead of various characters, this is because I personally think its better to keep the audience interested in the main event, if i decide to have various characters i my film opening the audience could lose the focus on the main event and become distracted. I also decided to do this because by having only the main character in the film opening, it will make the context much more dramatic and the audience will not loose the focus.  I am going to keep my idea of the main character getting bullied, but instead of having to show the girl getting bullied at school, i am going to show the girl dead in the woods, i decided to do the because it will create suspense and it will be attention grabbing. 

"Bully" I decided to research deeper into the theme of bullying to show my understanding of the context and to have more ideas for my own film opening. I looked at various films online, I used google and film websites to help me find the best bullying films and instead of a film i found a very interesting documentary that helped me with my own ideas and gave me inspiration about different shots and camera angles.  The colours and font used in this image are very attention grabbing, the yellow and red combined create an alarming image, as if it is a warning.  The connotations behind this image is what really matters and what it conveys to the viewer.  This image captures the audience's attention straight away, it helps to convey the warning of the situation.  This additional research has really helped me to develop my ideas even further and to understand the context of different films. Once I start shooting my film opening, the ideas and the inspi...

Due to the changing of the weather, the filming had to be re scheduled for christmas holidays , also because some of the people participating in the filming process will not be available due to school and work, so the filming will start during the christmas holidays because it is accessible to everyone.   My main idea slightly changed, firstly i was going to do a film opening where i had different characters on it, but i thought that by just having the main character in and not revealing the other characters would keep the audience more interested. I also decided to change the setting, props and costume to fit around the new context of my film opening . In this video above I explain all the details and further ideas and updates:

The first and most significant prop of my film opening is the main characters Diary , here are all her secrets. This diary represents who she is , and when is taking away from her, it affects her in many ways.  Diaries have the connotation of a book in which one keeps daily record of events and experiences , it is to be kept a secret. This prop symbolizes very much to the film opening because it is one of the main reasons that causes conflict between the characters on the film opening. The phone symbolizes the bullying in my film opening so it is really important to show the impact that it creates on all of the characters to then be able  to convey the  main idea of what my interpretation  of what bullying is . The phone also represents   my  intended audience because, mobile phones are mainly used by teenagers that are constantly texting each other, and using their phones to do different things throughout ...

One of the first and important locations is a school , as the main character in my film is bullied I need to show where it starts and why. Most bullying situations occur firstly at a school so my idea was to have my first shot be at a school and then build into the climax to keep my intended audience interesting on what was happening. This is also a good way to show mise en scene and the impact of it.  This location was supposed to be for my other idea, of my media product. As my idea changed, I changed the location in order to be able to create another context for my media product.  This is the updated version of my new chosen location. I thought it would be better to change the location to a more urban setting, to highlight my context and the story line.  Changing the locations has been affected by the change of weather yet I have chosen carefully dates and times to be able to shoot my media product.

Animatic are animated storyboards. They are used for various purposes depending on the medium for which they are being produced. Animatics are used every day in the advertising industry to test commercials. They're used to preview scenes of live-action films before they are show. You'll also find animatics in the pre-production stages of animation and in the video game industry.  Once I tried to create my own Animatics, I had so much fun with working with different tools and just watching is as a real film opening. The music that I added to it, it the music that I will be using for my own film opening so I thought it would be good to just dd the music to make it seem more like the real thing.