Production Log Week Four

Week Four:
I had done three individual tasks: film opening analysis, elevator pitch and the genre/subgenre. Out of the three of these I had found the film opening analysis the most difficult. This was due to the extent of detail I had to go into, especially when I had to include MECS (Mise-En-Scene, Editing, Camera, and Sound). As this consumed a lot of my time. I had done my film opening analysis on PowerPoint and uploaded it via slide share. The ones I found fun and easiest were the elevator pitch this was easy because you had to simply just use 25 words and it was fun because you had to basically recreate your ideas using images.

The two pitches were pretty easy and not time consuming. One of my ideas I had was chosen for us to actually make as our final piece over winter. It was about a man who wakes up from a coma and the whole country has just disappeared. Therefore I had to make sure that it all made sense and all fit in under out chosen genre. This was in case
it didn’t and we started
recording, this would be a huge waste of time. For my pitch we needed only one character and only one major location with one minor location for a small scene. Genre and sub genres was slightly harder because we all want to make our audience laugh which would make them like the opening scene. However we knew that as a group we would not be able to do such a script because comedy is such a cliché movie which meant we would have to make original jokes. As a group we saw this as pretty hard. In my own time however I did search up about comedies but learnt that they are really hard to compose due to the millions of comedy movies. So we ended up with a thriller because I thought that it would be much easier for the audience to recognise the genre at ease. Not only that but making a thriller is much more easily compared to a comedy. Therefore we had chosen a psychological thriller.