Creating the Logo Transition

When creating our logo we wanted it to look professional and interesting. We created our moving logo 'Wired Productions' using a programme called LiveType. Using this programme enabled use to use moving words to make our logo more interesting and memorable. The effect that we used was called 'Barrel Jump'. 

Final Draft of Script

We decided that because our script from before we filmed our film opening was so different to what was actually said in the real film opening that we would create a final draft of our script.

Film opens with an establishing shot of central protagonist, Abby’s house. All lights are off except for her bedroom, which is giving out a dim glow. It then cuts to a medium shot of Abby in bed, asleep however it is clear by her muttering of words such as “stop” and “please” that she is having a dream. The shot then dissolves into her dream where a point of view shot follows the vision she is enduring. In the dream, she is in the school common room and her rivalry Nancy are bullying and throwing things at her and her friend. She then storms out the common room in an attempt to get away from this nightmare however on the way out her love interest Chris trips into her, a picture of Chris falls out of Abby’s pocket. Abby then wakes up and a medium shot portrays her sudden awakening.

Abby: (In a confused tone) Woah

Music begins to play over a montage of Abby walking to school. At this point, music is still playing and the titles are on screen. As Abbey arrives at school, she takes her earphones out to greet her best friend, Ella.

Abby: Hey

Ella: Heya you alright?

Abby: Yeah you?

Ella: Yeah, stayed up until midnight finishing the English essay, you done it?

Abby: (In a glum tone) Oh damn, no I haven’t

Ella: You alright?

Abby: Yeah just, just annoyed I didn’t do the essay

Ella: Abby, you wouldn’t get upset about a stupid essay, I know you, what’s the matter?

Abby: It’s just… I had a really weird dream last night. It…it felt so real

School bell rings

Ella: There’s the bell, we’ve both got a free shall we go to the common room?

Abby: Okay

Walking into the common room where her dreams start to become reality

Nancy: Did you see her Facebook status last night? So lame. Oh, there’s the sket (starts to throw things at her)

Ella: What’s going on?

Abby: I… I’ve seen this before

Ella: What?

Abby: Let’s just get out

(Chris bumps into Abby on her way out of the common room. A picture of him falls out of Abby’s pocket.)

Chris: Sorry, sorry. What the hell is this?]

Abby: Um

Chris: What’s going on? You creep!

Abby stands there speechless.

Our Production Logos

We wanted our film to have a professional feel to it, so we created two film production logos to make it look more realistic and professional. The first was 'Wired Productions', there was no specific reason as to why we chose to use this picture or call it wired productions but we thought that together they both work well and it conveys a young, edgy film production company that works well with our films genre of a young protaginist.

The second logo that we created was 'Deluxe Studios', again there was no particular reason as to why we chose this but we thought that it gives the film a very sleek and professional feel and also isn't as eye catching as the other logo so it works well.

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.

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