Research into the same genre

For our opening we discussed as a group and all decided on the genre of our opening to be a drama. We

researched other dance films such as street dance, footloose, step up and Billy Elliot, and we were

influenced and inspired by these movies. In our opening we wanting our shots to tell a story and follow each stage of preparing and attending the audition. Classifications

for our opening in a PG as its suitable for young children.

Planning our opening.

• Characters: young teenage girl that’s attending a dance audition at a dance college as she wants to become a dancer.

• Locations: girls house, dance college and dance studio.• Props: we decided not to use any props as we felt that it was

not needed. • Costumes: girl at the beginning of the open is in casual

clothes( hoodie , jeans ,coat and yellow trainers.) this was done to represent the character as a cool laid back, confident individual . Other costume is when the girl is doing her dance audition she is wearing dance clothes. We chose to change the costumes during the opening as it makes it more obvious to the viewer than it’s a dance audition.

Drama conventions.

As our opening consist of the genre drama it shows that our film deals a lot with emotions of people, for example our opening shows the emotions of the teenage girl preparing for something that could be life changing to her. To show this we did a close up of her face just before she began to dance, this close-up also lasted for a couple of seconds and this was done to show the intensity. Drama’s are usually serious , tense and portray realistic characters. The theme that our opening is based upon is a realistic , real life situation.

Representing different social groups and target audience.

Dance movies and our opening represent lots of different social groups not just one in particular. For example, hip-hop movies typically represent the underground culture , drugs and gangs. Whereas, ballet/ contemporary movies represent groups that enjoy watching dance and the beauty of it. The main target audience for our film opening is teenagers and young children. The target audience would be more females than males as the main character is a female herself. Teenagers that are female would defiantly relate to this opening as they can relate to the character as she's around the same age and they can relate to her feelings. people that our dancers themselves would also relate to our opening more and may find it more enjoying to other people that are perhaps not dancers or performers.

Media institutions

- Social networking sites as young people are constantly using social networking sites compared to magazines and newspapers these days.

- YouTube as this is where young people are always searching for videos and watching new trailers of movies, as its free and easy to use.

How did you attract /address your audience

• Made the opening modern and to the viewers interests and dance movies are popular at this current time.

• Interesting as it shows a good story line• Chose to use funky backing music and

themes.

What I have learnt about technologies from the process.

• During the process of constructing our opening , I have found that I have become more similar with the flip camera and find it much easier to use now

• Movie plus x6 – learnt how to edit by using the software movie plus. Every time that we edited our opening I learnt something new every time, I now feel confident and enthusiastic with this software but would next time like to experiment by editing on the Mac and I think that would be an exciting challenge for me.

Process for preliminary task

• Looking back at the preliminary task I feel like I have learnt so much and have seriously improved.

• Learnt new camera angles and how to make them effective and striking to the viewer.

• Editing- changing colour of the shots, fading in and out, adding music, adding captions and cutting shots to make them shorter.

• Since the preliminary task feel like it has been easier working as a group as we know now what each one of us is good at.

Camera angles we have used.

• Close-ups on the characters face to see facial expressions and makes it tense for the viewer. Also close ups of the girl dancing .

• Long shots, for example girl walking and dancing so the viewer can clearly see everything that is happening in the shot.

• mid shots• Tracking, of the character walking and dancing• Close up of the other character in the opening who is

playing the role of the judge this was done to make the audition realistic as possible.

Overall , I have really enjoyed the process of making our film opening.