FINAL CHILDREN'S FILM

Here is our final version of our children's film.

Its called 'BEARNAPPED!'

Enjoy!

FILMING OF CHILDRENS FILM DAY 1 - FRIDAY 3rd DECEMBER

Today in our first filming day we recorded the classroom scene. This scene had The main character Poppy and the teacher Miss Darch. In this scene we see Poppy packing her things away after her lesson, being the last student left in the room, and Miss Darch wiping the board from the last lesson. Poppy then starts to pack away and discovers a mysterious letter on the top of her bag, which she opens and examines. Poppy is worried and anxious and Miss Darch senses Poppy's mood and wonders what is wrong and why she is still in the class room. Miss Darch confronts Poppy, and poppy says that nothing is wrong, and hurridly starts to leave the room.

HEALTH AND SAFETY:
Throughout our filming we had to consider possible problems that may occur.
The general health and safety routines we made sure we took to account were:
. That we didn't create excessive noise which would distract classes or anyone around us who didn't want to be disturbed.
.We had to make sure when filming our product, that the area was clear and that no one who was not involved in the scene being filmed was in the way or was accidently captured in the scene and not wanting to be in the scene.
.We had to make sure the location that we want to film around was safe for us to film, this meant the area had to be secure with no possible traffic being created by us or to be around us in general. If parked cars were around us, we made sure they weren't harmed whilst passing through. When filming in the woods we checked there were no sticks or rubbish which could of caused injury whilst filming, especially the elf running across the screen.
We had to take into consideration the safety of using the camera itself. We had to make sure we:
.Made sure the camera is securely in the bag whilst travelling to different locations to film.
.We made sure we kept all the equipent together and carried and set up the equipment correctly as demonstrated by the teacher when we first began the task.
.When filming different shots on different days, to make sure the tape is rewound so that you don't tape over your previous work.
.It is advised to shoot more then one shot within a scene, this is so there are no possibilities of unwanted people within the scene and no mistakes.
.Lastly we had to make sure we didn't leave the camera on or carried on filming unwanted scenes by accident when clearing the equipment.

Review
Our first filming day went well, we had some difficulties getting used to the camera, we experimented different camera angles and practised zooming in and out on the camera to create a close-up or a long shot. Once we had got the hang of using the camera the filming went smoothly.

FILMING OF CHILDRENS FILM DAY 2 - Friday 10th December

Today we finished filming our childrens film. We filmed the mysterious Elf scene in which the elf runs through the forest, and by using a mid/long shot it makes the Elf character appear unidentifiable, as a mysterious character in the clip.

Today we also filmed Poppy walking to into school which is to be used at the start of the film showing her entering the school. We also filmed Poppy looking at the mysterious letter and photograph she found in her bag. An over the shoulder shot was used to film this.

Review
Over all the filming went well, we were able to film the scenes we needed to complete our media product. It helped having all of us there to help get all the scenes done as we played the characters in our film, so having everyone there made it easier to get scenes finished more efficiently.

FINAL CHILDREN'S FILM PLAN - costume, props and location research.

COSTUME

The two main characters identifiable in the scene will be the main character Poppy, aged 10, and the teacher Miss Darch.

Poppy will be wearing an everyday normal outfit for somebody of her age.



Miss Darch will be wearing a fairly smart outfit presenting her as a well presented teacher, with a tidy appearance.



The other character in the sequence is an elf, who will only be seen for a short amount of time. The elf will however be wearing a green outfit, with a pointy hat.



PROPS
The props which will be used in the children's sequence will be:
.School bag for the girl

.Letter

.Picture of a teddy bear for the letter

.Books and pens for the class to make it realistic in the scene in the class


LOCATION:
The main location settings in the children's sequence will be the school and the woods as they're the main locations where the story will be taking place, for our opening sequence of the story the main location shown will be the school, however there is a short scene which shows the woods and introduces one of the characters with in the sequence.



A woods location in many children's films such as The spiderwick chronicles often give a mystical theme to the story which blends in with fantasy. In our opening sequence we have included a woods which has myterious characters wondering between the trees, this creates excitement.



The school location emphasises the fact it's a children's film as the main character being the little girl makes the story appeal to a child as the behaviour and language used will be of a young child's level.
Children can relate to this film as the location of the school is an environment many children are familiar with themselves which helps them create their own imagination towards the film.

FINAL CHILDREN'S FILM PLAN - STORYBOARD AND SHOT LIST

STORYBOARD
Here are our two storyboards, showing all of the shots we were originally going to use. We now however have decided to shorten this to use up to shot 8 in order to keep it an opening sequence rather then including too much of the story and to keep the limit of two minutes for the sequence.









GROUP CONCERNS
As a group we had concerns about the length of our planned children's film, as we thought that the story that we had planned and created a storyboard about was too long to use for an opening sequence. We then discussed, and decided that we would shorten our children's film and storyboard in order for it to fit the time limit, and also the elements of an opening sequence. We therefore decided to shorten our storyboard to stop at shot 8, instead of the previous 15, and also shortened the length of our children's film plan. The shorter edited version is listed below.

Panning of the first character running down the road, writting of the name of the film and the director, producer and first character's name are shown over the top of the scene as the tracking of the girl continues. Her movement towards the school zooms out to get a long shot of the school which outlines one key location. The non diegetic music is fast to flow with the movement of the girl rushing to school. The scene fades into a shot of the woods, the non diegetic changes to a mystical tone as you see a fast shot of a green image of the second character swipe across the screen, this builds tension yet is not continuous so is appropriate for a PG. The following scene is a cut of the girl sitting in the class room doodling in her book. The third character is then introduced as the teacher with her name in the corner of the screen. As the teacher continues to talk to the class, her voice the diegetic background sound as you get a mid shot of the girl writting in her book. A close up zooms into her bag where she finds an old letter mysteriously there. It reads a riddle which leads her to the woods after class, showing a picture of her beloved teddy which she had previously misplaced. The close up of her face shows her curious and anxious.