Planning - Production Company Logo

This is our film company logo, we choose the name Mise-en-power because of the important media term mise-en-scene and we the changed the word 'scene' to 'power'. This connotes that our company makes good quality films and the stars also connote this along with we are a big company. We decided to have one big star with little stars under the main writing to show that we can compete with other big film production companies and to suggest we create energetic films. The black writing is distinctive against the yellow of the stars in which promotes celebrity/stardom. 

Our tagline, "Giving energy to film" connotes that we are involved within the industry and that we think highly of the business. It also shows that we are always looking to improve and thrive to create fresh, new ideas within film. In addition, energy links in with the word power which is within our main company name.

Planning - Cast & Roles

Cast:

Taylor-Eve - Madsion Young

Taylor Grimes - Ethan Wells

Viki Keighley - Jennifer Hill

Ian Greene - Bullied nerd

Tom Bennett - Ethan's friend

Tom Hoy - Ethan's friend 

Roles:

Ian Greene - Director

Taylor Grimes - Editor

Viki Keighley - Music

Taylor-Eve - Producer

Planning - First draft

This is our draft for our film title sequence and opening scenes - just turned eighteen.

Planning - Titles

Taylor Eve as...
Madison Young
Victoria as...
Jennifer Hill
Edited by Taylor Grimes
Music by Victoria Keighley
Produced by Taylor-Eve Osborne
Directed by Ian Greene
Taylor Grimes as...
Ethan Wells
Also starring...
Tom Bennett
Tom Hoy 
Ian Greene

These are the titles we used in our film as listed above in chronological order. We put the actors and actresses first as this was relevant to the scene in the film and then we put the cast and crew. Overall the director is most important so we left this for a separate scene. Lastly we put the also starring, these were some of the minor actors in the film so we left them till the end. 

We put the titles in a certain order so that it was in time with the film. We thought that the actors name should go first as these are some the most important people in the film and who would be recognised. We used a different colour for each person as this gave them a unique look and fitted with their character personality. We also gave the cast and crew different colours as we decided it would look good instead of just white and that it also went with the previous colours of the actors and genre.  

These were shown onto the film by simple fade in transitions, these are very simple transitions but we thought these went well with the genre and also it does not distract the viewers from the film itself.  

Planning - Pitch/PowerPoint

PowerPoint - just turned eighteen

We gave a pitch to the class through a powerpoint to show them our initial ideas for our film. This gave us the chance to find out what people thought who are within our target audience and of our narrative. Also to give us their opinions on our title opening and see if it would actually attract them as if they were a viewer. It gave us the opportunity to see what wouldn't be effective and what could be done to improve and seeing what they thought of our narrative, music and character, etc. 

After we had pitched our powerpoint we had feedback on it and got told what people liked and what they didn't like. This came in handy as a few things we got told about should be changed, one of the main things that we got told to change was the "jock" title to socialite as "jock" was too american as the film is meant to be set in a english setting.

Planning - Storyboards

Planning - USP & Target Audience

Our target audience for our film is aimed at females between the ages of 13-18. This is because girls of this age can normally relate to what is going on in the film to their real lives but can also get entertainment out of it. We felt that this age was suitable for people of this age because many girls are experiencing problems like this of their own and also because of situations that occur in the film like relationships and arguments. 

Our USP (unique selling point) is that we are a low budget British company making a British film in an teen angst style. The film contains a popular athletic socialite and a bossy rich teen with a suck up best friend. The different social groups in the film mean that the audience can relate to this.These are some conventions that we thought of when creating our film.