The First Reflective Main Exercise Blog Entry Thing!

Due to the unfortunate circumstances of the preliminary exercises, Lee thought it would be good for me start a fresh with a new group which after joining, I felt immediately comfortable in as they were so understanding of my absenses. To avoid problems that had occured in the preliminary we exchanged numbers so to prevent poor communication which was a problem with my last group.

In a group discussion we decided that we wanted to do a 'chick flick/musical' opening sequence in which our target audience would be young females. We then researched codes and convensions from well known filsm of this genre such as 'Camp Rock' 'Legually Blonde,' 'lizzie Mcguire,' 'Freaky Friday' and 'Hair Spray.' With my assigned role of being editor again I decided to do early preparation because I felt confident that I had the support of my new group and could successfully achieve a good outcome.



One of the films I personally researched was 'The Lizzie Mcguire Movie.' One of the main idea's we picked up from it was although a slightly different opening to the other films was the use of close ups on specific objects which keeps the audience in suspence as to what is happening for example,

That idea of mystery we agreed would be a good opening for ours maybe not in the exact way but using the close up for when the character was getting ready would be really affective and I think that it went successfully. Another idea we had got from the movie was the use of incorporating the titles in the film, a similar way to how it is done in the Lizzie Mcguire Movie for example,

We tried incorporating the titles in a music book adding our names where the
composer would usually go on top of the page, at the time it looked like it would work but whilst editing we decided that it wasn't up to the standard of the rest of the shots we had got so we decided to electronically do the titles.





In order to acheive a successful and believiable opening sequence we decided on making a brief storyline for the film so that gave us an idea of exactly how we wanted it to go.
Once we got our story line sussed we started to brain storm possible names of what we wanted our film to be called! - Becoming Bella Bright. We used alliteration in the title to make the film memorable and we all agreed it had that 'cheesy' factor that we wanted our film to be.