Jelly Baby Work

In one of our Media lessons our group was asked to create a short opening to a film using jellybabies as actors. We had to comment on things like Shots, Timings, Sound and short descriptions of the shot. Our opening included 5 different Jelly babies

ONE ATTRACTIVE LADY

ONE ATTRACTIVE MAN

THREE AVERAGE GEEKS

The basis of our story was a Romantic Comedy about three boys. The boys weren't your average popular kids, they were the extremes of geek and unpopular. one being fat, on super tall and one sterotypical geek. The opening started with a close up of the attractive ladies feet and then tilted up to her face, to then zoom out and backwards track her. A razor cut then goes to a long shot showing the 3 boys. jump cutting to a arc to show mid shots of the boys. As we wanted to include stills in our final production, we decided we would experiment with this in our jelly Baby work. So there are then three stills of the boys, which is where the actors names appear. To show the comedy side of the piece we wanted to include there facial expressions as the girl 'walks towards them'. There is then another long shot which includes the boys standing on one side as the attractive lady walks towards them. As she walks closer the title of the film comes up behind her. It then goes onto show the woman walking through the boys, showing the audience she was never walking towards them when in fact she wwas walking the the attractive man, this is where we were going to use a point of view shot from the boys, to the lady as she happily walks with the attractive man into a nearby house. A razor cut is then used to show a long shot of the boys, then a pathetic fallacy is used as the boys are upset its starts to heavily rain.

As the other part of my group were creating most of the storyline i decided to write up the angles, shots and timings for the opening. To make things easier we used postit nots to begin with, so if we had to change anythign we easily could. I created a line of postits for the different shots used, then another line to create timings. These were our first nots on the piece:

We then we onto comment on the sound. Together our group decided we wouldn't have any diegetic sound in the piece, this lets the scene take more of an impact on the audience as the absence of sound is more effective than sound itself. We then decided we wanted a upbeat fast and slightly rocky soundtrack.

After we had decided for definite the opening sequence another member of my group wrote up the exact timings, shots and descriptions of each part as we all discussed the piece. This showed that we worked well together as a group as everyone had a say and we all had the same sort of ideas. The write of this can be found on the group blog (Green Productions)