Technology

One part of technology we used on live type. This is where we made out titles. Live type was a very useful programme to use because none of us had used it before, but we was soon able to pick up how it worked. The way it worked was just to type in what you wanted, pick a font and then how you wanted it to appear. A good advantage to using was that it was also on a time line so that made it easier for us to import it in to Final Cut Express.

Conventions

This is a mid-shot of both characters together sitting on the bed. This conforms to the conventions of a teen film because it shows both characters laughing and gossiping this shows there friendship and is something all teenage girls do when they get together.

The production company logo comes up at the very begining of the film as it does in all teen and other genre films. This is what the audience will first see. We decided to use this logo because it was the most eye-catching and original logo.

Production Company Logo

For our production company we decided to use a name that would fit the teen film genre. So I came up with the idea for Half Moon Productions and created the logo using photoshop.

Distribution

When researching for a distributor that we would want to distribute our film we did some research. We found seven well known teen films and looked at their distribution. From doing out research we found out that:

• Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging: Paramount Pictures
• 10 Things I Hate About You: Touch Stone
• Juno: Fox Search Light
• Mean girls: Paramount
• 17 again: New Line Cinema
• Never been kissed: 20th Century Fox
• Clueless: Paramount Pictures

From doing our research we discovered that Paramount Pictures was a very commonly, and a well know distributor. We thought that this distributer would best suit our film because of it very good reputation and status in the Film industry.

Conventions

This is the title shot from our film and it conforms to the traditional conventions of a teen film. We chose to do the titles this way because it looks more fun and wacky, like titles that would be seen at the start of a teen film. We also chose to use the background image because it's the opening shot of the film and where the characters first encounter.

This is a two shot of our main character Anisha, and her best friend Sarah sitting on a bed. It conforms to traditional conventions of a teen film because it's something that would normally happen within the narrative. Two best friends sitting around in one of their bedrooms and gossiping.

Kelly's conventions

This is the first shot that the audience will see. The location is a park. This is a convention of a teen film because of the location. Most teens hang about outside, with their friends even if they are not doing anything. Also the time that we filmed was planned because may teens hang about in night time, e.g. 10 things i hate about you. (The lines at the top is from where the screen shot is taken, its where the titles are about to come up)

This is the second convention shot. This shot complies with conventions because of the titles because they come over the middle of the shot which is seen in many other teen film where text appears over the film and also the characters. This is because both of them look happy and look like they are having fun, also because the phone is in the middle it makes the audience think that the girls are talking or texting a boy.

Filming and editing

For our filming we ran into a few difficulties. Our first difficulty was that because our location was outside and the days we wanted to film,

• the weather conditions where bad so we could not film.

• Another problem we ran into was to our cast, when we actually went to go and film, they dropped out at the last moment saying they could not do it. This put us in an awkward position as we had already done a little bit filming. In the end we decided that we had to change our actress so that we could get the filming done in time for our deadline.

• When we had uploaded our film, we had even more problems, first of all after we had done some editing all of our footage got deleted beause of a problem with them mac's.

• Our final problem was whist editing after re-filiming, it would not save and some of the footage went weird and we could not use it

we feel that if these problems had not happened then we would of had more time to work on our film opening, which could of mean that certain things could be improved.