Film Logos

For our film logo we wanted to do some research into some popular and well-known film logos. Here are some of the logos that we found and used for inspiration.

Institutional Research/Film Industry

Juno

Production:

·         Director: Jason Reitman

·         Film producer: Mason Novick

·         Written by: Diablo Cody

·         Production companies: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Mandate Pictures and Mr. Mudd
·         Was shot on a budget of $6.5 million

       ·         Juno was filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia

·         Juno opening sequence was filmed over 7-8 months by a small design studio, Shadowplay Studio, based in      Los Angeles

·         Filming took place over only 30 days

·         Ellen Page played the lead role

Distribution and Marketing:

·         Multiple distributors: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Alfa Films, Bazuca Films, Fox-Warner, Golden Village Entertainment, Group Power, Mirovision, Odeon, Paris Films, Pyramid, Viva International Pictures, National Broadcasting Company and RTL Entertainment

·         Film won the Academy A

·         Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned three other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Page

·         Juno earned back its initial budget of $6.5 million in twenty days

·         Fox Searchlight sent hamburger phones styled similarly to that used by Juno in the film to journalists and critics to entice them to review the film

Exhibition:

·         Film was released to theatres on September 1, 2007 (007-09-01)

       ·         Film was released on DVD and Blu-ray disc on April 15, 2008

·         The film went on to earn $231 million

After First Day of Filming

This is our film so far, we decided to edit the section of the film that we have filmed first, rather than filming all of the opening and then editing afterwards. We filmed this during our media studies lesson at school. The scenes in this show Abby walking to school and having a conversation with her friend Ella. The filming for this scene took quite a while as we wanted to get as many camera angles and shots as possible so we could chose the best ones for our final draft. 

We still have a lot of filming to do from this point, the scene of Abby in her bedroom and waking up still needs to be filmed and also a scene where Abby and Ella go to the common room together.

We edited the film using iMovie on Georgia's Mac computer. This is a very rough draft and there is still a lot of tweaking that needs to be done.

Risk Assessment

Setting & Location Shots

 

Abby’s house

Abby’s house from behind

Abby’s bedroom

The walkway to Abby's school

The walkway from above

The bench where Abby and Ella have their conversation

 

                Abby’s school

The common room

Actors & Actresses

Each of our actresses/actors were chosen carefully as we wanted them to share some traits with the characters they were playing. I think we were successful in doing this and here are the actresses and actor playing in the film.

Charlotte is playing the character Abby, we chose her as we thought they are very similar in the way we imagined Abby to look (simple and pretty) and also isn’t too outgoing so the shy and unpopular trait doesn’t seem unusual when Charlotte is acting.

Ellie De Carle will be playing Abby’s best friend Ella. We decided to choose her as both Ellie and Ella both have very fun and quirky personalities. Charlotte and Ellie are also good friends so we were hoping that this would be present on camera.

Harry Shakeshaft was chosen to play Abby’s crush Chris. We chose Harry as we wanted to have a good looking, athletic character for Abby to fancy and Harry fitted the description well.

Vox Pop - Audience Research

For this task our group decided to ask around our school firstly, what their favourite film opening is and why, and also what they would expect to see in the opening sequence of a film aimed at people their age.