Title Sequence of A Cinderella Story

Risk Assesment

I'm uploading this a little late, but this was the risk assesment we prepared before filming...

FILM PRODUCTION RISK ASSESSMENT

Production Title Starship Productions	Production Date(s) February 2011 – April 2011
Producers Names Lizzie Smith, Shereen Sagoo and Kayleigh Turner	Directors Names Lizzie Smith, Shereen Sagoo and Kayleigh Turner
Date of Risk Assessment 9h February 2011	Risk Assessment conducted by Lizzie Smith, Shereen Sagoo and Kayleigh Turner

Hazard	Persons who may be harmed	Property which may be damaged	Risk controls already in place	Risk Assessment LOW, MODERATE, HIGH, EXTREME (see table)	Further action required to control risk
Driveway/cars	All actresses and directors	Camera equipment	Pavement at the side of driveway and roundabout	Unlikely High	Warn all persons to take extra care.
Trolley for filming	Directors	N/A	Handle to control the wheels of the trolley	Unlikely Low	Warn all persons to take extra care.
Temperature/weather	All actresses and directors	Camera equipment could get wet	None	Unlikely/Moderate Low	Check weather forecast, ensure actresses are dressed appropriately
Road outside	One actress and directors	Camera equipment	Pavement	Rare high	Warn all persons to take extra care.

How our chick flick is coming along...

We have now edited all the clips we have so far and put them to the music (Dirty Little Secret by All American Rejects). Editing our filming was more enjoyable than monotonous which was good! We managed to edit very quickly which, I think, was due to the fact we filmed everything in one go and did not have different clips scattered around everywhere which would have made it much more time-consuming. The only slightly harder part was choosing which shots out of the ones we had recorded were our favourties, and which to include. We have to bare in mind that the continuity had to be perfect in order for our film to look believable. Once we chose which clips we were using we added our music and edited it so, mostly, the shots change on particular beats of the music. Last week Axel came in to have a look at what we have achieved so far and luckily he seemed to think that we were doing well so far which was great to hear! We are all very proud of our coursework so far and hope the finished piece is as good as we hope it can be!

Unfortunately, on the day of filiming there was a part we did not have time to film and due to circumstances such as weather, and availability of our actresses we have only just filmed it. However, it is a relief to think that now our filming is all done! We will now edit our final shots and put them into the film.

We have started to use LiveType to produce our credits and it is proving quite a challenge as we are not used to the programme yet! However, after watching some very useful tutorials we are now getting quite good and have manged to produce the opening credits which say 'Starship Prictures presents...'. Whether we will still be pleased with it next lesson is yet to be seen, but for now, we are moving onto making the 'A film by... Cosmic Productions'.

We have thoroughly enjoyed editing our film and hope it will be finished soon as we move onto our evaluation.

Costumes

For our production it was vital the characters were all dressed appropriately to ensure the beginning of our movie looked 'real' and not faked. To do this, Callie (the main character) wore a vest top with barbie on, heels, jeans and a coat as it was very cold! Obviously, this is not what a normal independent girls school pupil would wear, even in the sixth form, but we did this deliberately to make her stand out. The normal pupils from the school wore typical independent school uniforms - blazer, shirt, jumper and a skirt. We also featured some sixth formers and they were wearing suitable, smart clothing.

Callie's costume:                 Pupils costume:

Sub genres of the Chick Flick

Sub genres of the Chick Flick

·         Tearjerkers are gal-pal films, movies about family and emotional crises. They are traditionally ‘weepies’ and fantasy-action adventures, sometimes with powerful females and bonding situations involving families and woman’s issues. An example of a tearjerker is ‘The Notebook.’ 

Rom-com

·         Rom coms are films with light-hearted, humorous plot lines, centred on romantic ideas such as true love. Examples of a Romantic comedy are Bridget Jones’ Diary and What Happens in Vegas.

Guy com

·         A guy chick flick is a movie where feelings and emotions are discussed and/or dealt with, but from the guy's point-of-view, and with minimum sap.  They may contain things most guys enjoy, like sport, and strong language, but they are always about guys dealing with life, their futures, or relationships with women, family, and/or friends. Examples of guy coms are American Pie and The Hangover.  

First 9 Shots of Mean Girls

1) Cady Heron's mum and dad close up shot of them
     talking to Cady before her first day of school.

2)Close up of Cady. Over the shoulder shots

3) Cady's dad taking a photo of Cady and her mum

4)The photo that Cady's dad took off his camera

 5) Cuts to a spelling bee to show stereotypical views
      of "Home schooled freaks".

6)Another cut to more "homeschooled freaks"

7) Close up of Cady. She is homeschooled but her
 family is normal and she is not a freak, but she used to
live in Africa.

8)A snapshot, far shot of Cady's African life

9) Cut back to reality of Cady standing outside of her
     new school in America, saying goodbye to parents.
These first 9 shots shows the storyboard of Mean Girls
 for the introduction. Many close ups were used which
reflects typical conventions of a chick flick, so in our
2 minute film, we will also use close ups.