Production Log 1

This week, I learnt about Mise-en-Scene and how it is looked at when making a British Social Realist Film. To help me understand what that is, I found some examples of some films.

I learnt that all films from this genre have a specific guideline.
They all are about everyday working class people.
Majority do not have a happy ending.
And also they have an urban look to them.




I also learnt a mnemonic to help me remember what is included when looking at miss-en-scene.

P-production design (sets, props,costumes etc)
L-Lighting (Artificial/Natural)
A-Actors (performance/Screen time)
C-Colour design (through production)
E-Era (how is time and place represented)

What have you learnt this week from looking at the mark scheme and peer assessing previous work?
This week I watched the previous years work and gave them a mark according to their strengths and weakness and what I think relating to the mark scheme. I then found out what mark they actually got from the teachers. Some of the marks I gave were close to the real mark and some were far off. This means that I had a slight idea to what key conventions get you marks. However I also learnt that petite things such as the location and the lighting is on of the key factors into getting marks.
For example 'Damaged Goods' only lost a few marks due to lighting but their story line consisted of going out in the night so this made me realise that this will not be as easy as I thought.

How will this impact on your production?
By finding out the strengths and weaknesses of the previous years work, and by finding out what they lost their marks from, I will refer back to them in time when I do my film my own work in order to prevent repeating the mistakes they made. This is so that I can achieve the highest marks possible. I will try and use their strengths to inspire my my own idea. For example some of the work we looked at had a clear story line such as 'Drained' and 'Suffocation' and I will use this to see how they reveal their story line without giving away too much information about their film to inspire my own ideas.

What will you try to emulate/avoid?
By looking at the strengths of previous years work, I will make sure that the music I use relates to the theme of the film and not too upbeat. However I will avoid making the music too loud as this will overlap the dialogue like shown in most of the work done previously. Another thing I will try to emulate is the graphics. I will make sure that they are on the footage and not on a blackout shot. This is because it is one of the BSR conventions. I will also try to emulate the various of shot types and try to avoid too many long shots. I will defiantly avoid too much happening in my work as I have learnt that most BSR films start of simple and that not a lot happens and I think some of the previous work done shows this really well!