Reading of our film/ Directors commentary

 READING OF OUR FILM

We introduce the opening to the locket by the production credit, which was called 'cloud productions'. It was then complimented by G321 FILM as the secondary title, which was the image of an old camera from black and white fading into colour. We then added paired titles to introduce the film; with this it shows production credit showing the audience on who was involved in the production of the film. Whilst the production credits are shown, the non diegetic sound also starts to play. We have decided to use the acoustic guitar, as it allows the audience to identify the genre of the film being a romance film, so this would be conventional toward what they would usually expect from a romance film. To introduce the titles of the film we faded them in and out for about 2-3 second, as this would allow the audience to identify the main characters of the film and who else has been involved in the film. The non-diegetic sound continues to play throughout the opening and then the audience are introduced the title of the film ' The lost locket', The font used to create the Caslon bold italics in the size 54, We thought this would a suitable size for this frame as this would allow audience to identify what the film is called. The colour red which has been used for the word 'locket' leaves an enigma code for the audience, as this will be an important feature in which the audience will have to focus on as this will a feature in which will be involved the protagonists relationship. The words "The Lost" has been shown in the colour white in bold, as this would represent calm and innocence's which would reflect on the main prop which will be significant within the film. The title then fades out into introducing the opening scene.

The opening scene begins with a the long shot of the female protagonist entering in to the pathway, this allows the audience to get an glimpse of what the female protagonist is like shown through her appearance and costume and presents herself, giving the audience sense of what the female protagonist is like, so with the coat is allows to show the audience that she has a hidden personality in which may be reveal throughout the film, which is then followed by an over the shoulder shot, however the female protagonist the walks away from the camera, We have used this as it starts to shows some of the protagonist personality, of not being overly attached, and allows the audience to get involved with the film, so as the female protagonist walks away from the audience, showing that she doesn't really want to get too attached. Then another long shot is shown of the protagonist as walks toward the camera, this shows that camera tries to get back in contact with the protagonist and find out more about her, the non diegetic sound fades out as the voice over is introduced. The voice over introduces the protagonist and starts to give an overview of what she is like and gives a background of her past. This allows the audience to find out more about the protagonist and her background. A small introduction is shown of the male protagonist as he looks over the road toward the female protagonist and the female protagonist does it as well. This leaves an enigma code for the audience as it start to show connections towards other characters in the film. Alongside the voice over the female protagonist continues her journey to college, we then cut to shot where the female protagonist signs into college, and this is shown through a close up shot of her signing in, allowing the audience to relate to the film as they will have experienced doing this thing when they come in to school. The medium shot of the female protagonist looking at the display boards allows to show the audience how she tries to show interest in the school as she is new will try to find out as much as possible as doesn't know that much about the school. The voice over starts to fade out and brings back the non diegetic sound of the acoustic guitar creating a calming atmosphere and portrays the female protagonist as innocent along with her costume of her coat allows to show that she is nervous and shy showing that she has a hidden personality as she starts a new school, the audience would be able to relate to this, as they may have experienced this before. As the non diegetic sound continues to play we are shown a close up of the female protagonist looking directly at the audience making them feel apart of the film as she takes them along with her on her journey to college. 

We then cut to the common room as the female protagonist enters, complementing with a long shot showing the location of the common room. The audience would be familiar with the setting as they may have experienced it before, so they will be able to relate to the protagonist as she enters this location. Along shot has been shown as the female protagonist makes her way to sit down on a table on her own, this allows the audience to continue to understand what is going from a different perspective. Then we cut to a table where its shows a group of people talking, allowing the audience to be introduced to new characters in the film. We then see a medium shot of the new character who will make friends with the female protagonist and will take her along with her and show her around the school. The non diegetic sound fades out and the dialogue starts between the friend and the female protagonist. However the background music is too loud making it difficult for the audience to hear what is being said. Then the two characters come out of the common room and the camera follows them out, this allows audience to follow with them so they can be apart of experience as well. We then have them going up the stairs and the cut to a high angle of them coming up the second set of stairs so it shows that the audience understand what is going as they follow them. Match action takes place as friends opens the door and we get a close up of the hand pushing the door open. The audience would be able to continue with understanding with what is going on. Then as the medium shot shows the two characters entering into the room, there is a slight jump cut as the friend invites her to come over and sit with her and so the female protagonist joins her. We then cut to show an introduction of the male protagonist as he enters the room takes a few glimpse at the female protagonist, and the female protagonist does the same and we are shown by the cut in the scene. This meets the conventions of a romance film as it starts to show the connections between these two characters, and leaves an enigma code for the audience so that they can continue to watch the film to find out what will happen between these two characters. A two shot has been shown as the friend and the female protagonist start to talk about the guy and the female protagonist take interest in him buy asking about him.


DIRECTORS COMMENTARY

We based our directors commentary on our reading of the film, however we shortened it to make it more of an overview of the film, as it would go on for too long, The commentary will include some of the features that we have included in our film and talk about the story line briefly. So what we did is that we took turns in talking about a feature, then after we would upload it onto computer. Then we brought up our film and deleted the audio, music and voice over and replaced it with our commentary.