ELLE AIME JOUER“She likes to play”

By Olivia Nelson

The ‘EVALUATION’ OF…

“In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions for real media products”

“Elle Aime Jouer” which means ‘She Likes To Play’.

In the style of a ‘FRENCH NEW WAVE’-

Relates to the narrative as the female character ‘likes to play’ with the males emotions, giving him mixed messages. We added a metaphor into our film of the female character playing the xylophone, as she is playing an instrument the male character is waiting for her. – Mise-En-Scene.

“Location”• “Location”- The locations we used deviates against the conventions- had to be English locations.• Limited on locations• Worsley and Salford Quays for tracking shots, establishing scenery.• ‘Greenland’ enhances the older styled era of the film.

This is our opening to the film on the left hand side, a tracking shot going down the road which has the mise-en-scene of trees and lights etc.

This is the opening scene to Breathless, you can see it’s a tracking shot on the car. We seen Breathless and got our inspiration for our opening from this.

This was set in Eccles, Ellesmere park area.

“Salford Quays”

The images above are screenshots from our film from Salford Quays area. As you can see its more of an ‘industrial’ area. Most of the shots we used here were tracking shots, they had interesting buildings and also symmetrical trees which I particularly liked about the area.FNW convention have plenty of tracking shots in various different areas.The image on the right hand side is a clip from ‘Breathless’ (A Bout De Souffle) this also shows an ‘industrial’ type area, with the similar buildings in a row at the back and also there is a lake like the clips from our film. We had a lot of inspiration from Breathless

“Manchester City Centre”Two iconic places within Manchester city centre, we used these to make it clear it was set in Manchester and that is was a ‘twist’ and our own rendition of a French New Wave.

“Manchester big wheel” “Manchester’s corner house cinema”

“St.Anns Arcade” We filmed inside St.Anns arcade in Manchester city centre, we decided to use this location because it had interesting features, such as the squared floor, and the glass rounded roof. Which we used as a form of ‘prop’ in our film.

“…Manchester”

We took these shots around Manchester city centre, the ones above are around a corner pub. We used the bench as a form of prop, seating her on the far right we did on purpose to create an unbalanced atmosphere. FNW creates unbalanced films which is why we decided to do this.the ones on the left are from an alley way around the Northern Quarter.

“Flower Shop” and

This is a small flower shop in the Northern Quarter of Manchester city centre and the one below is a small coffee shop. We used this flower shop and coffee shop in order to give the audience a clear idea of what was happening in the narrative, as this shows the female character walking of on the male as he try’s to give her some flowers and also in the coffee shop when she walks away from him. ‘Playing with his emotions’

“Coffee Shop”

The top image is a shot from Breathless, which shows him rubbing his lips with his thumb with a cigarette in his hand, this is shown in other French New Wave films and more throughout Breathless.

We replicated this shot and got our male protagonist to do the same. We did this to add more ‘French New Wave’ conventions, as this is the convention of the ‘close up shots’ and also the quirky style they intertwine in the films.

“Conventions”

“The Opening”- The opening scene starts with the company name and who created the film.- Leads onto the title and then introducing characters. (using cross fades)- . Conventionally we have added important credits and the beginning of the film.- Not clear its going to be a dysfunctional ‘love story’, although clear its going to be a older

styled film. – Black and white grain look etc.- Jazz music, conventional- -Fragmented story line- Conventions of French New Wave- Artistic audience would appreciate our film - The opening sets it up to fragmented also with all the different settings of tracking shots,

city centre to country sides

“COSTUME”

Tweed fitted blazer

Braces

White fitted shirt

Tight grey pants

Head Scarf

Fur coat

Nautical style top

Black High-wasted flared pants

- We dressed protagonists in the style of French 1960’s. With the actress in a glamorous fur coat contrasting with the casual but French iconic, nautical themed top, with the black fared pants. This give her an attractive and mysterious look- which fits in with narrative of the film. The actor wore the smart ‘suit’ look, although with a tweed blazer with braces to add a ‘quirky French style’.

We played to the conventions when choosing our protagonists and also the costumes, keeping to the ‘French’ look and theme.

“Props”

Convention- Smoking. Seen in many FNW films, left image is a shot out of Breathless, the right image is our take on it. 1960’s- one of the most popular and sociable activities.

“French Baguette” – iconicly French. - Shows a metephor of couple

fights when they fight with the breadstick in parallel to the birds.

- -couples argue over ‘ petty small things’

“Camera work and Editing”“Tracking Shot” – CONVENTION IN FNW’ we used tracking shots to establish the scenery.-operated the tracking shot in a moving vehicle to grasp a smooth but shaken long straight shot of passing scenery

One of the biggest conventions in French New Wave is black and white. -filmed it in colour and mantipulated it on Premiere.-made it more fitted to the genre.

Added the characters names in a cross fade on their first appearance. -Audience can become familiar with them.- Only two characters, can build a

connection with the audience. - Feeling of knowing the actors.

“Sound”

“Diegetic sound”

As our film is all silent and also set in the 60’s, we decided to have 60’s jazz music featuring in the background to our film. The music fitted well with the narrative as it starts of deep and slow when the tracking shots start and as the pace within the film picks up so does the music.

The only diegetic sound we use is when the female protagonist plays the xylophone you here her playing.

“How effective is the combination of your main product and

ancillary texts?”

“Poster”-My poster aim is to advertise our French New Wave film. -I have researched French New Wave posters, such as Breathless, Les 400 Copes and Jules Et Jim, to give me Inspiration and ideas for when creating mine. -To reflect my film, I used the large image of them smoking, a convention of FNW’, I also used three other Images from my film in the middle as a ‘story board’ format, to give the audience an idea of the narrative.

This poster complements my main product, the film, as it highlights conventions and also a narrative of the film, which is what i set out to do. These help make my film a finished piece, as it has advertisement to promote my film and it will also have a magazine review to create a more professional image for it.

< image used. -Added a darker shading and also a grain to give it an older styled image.

My finished piece...

“Magazine Review”The magazine review is aimed at artistic film lovers, with plenty of text review, a synopsis

and credits. I have added 4 images and the poster within the magazine review to make it more professional, and give more information about the film without telling the reader what the film is about, it gives them room to guess and think about the film.

I have explored the use of highlighting quotes within the magazine.I used this one underneath the image of the protagonists, and highlighted it using italics and red colour. - I have seen this being used in ‘Sight and Sound’ magazine reviews, it is a convention within their reviews.

Adding credits onto the magazine review I believed created a professional finished effect, as all films want to mention the main roles in creating the film. I have mixed up some of the credits so there wasn’t a repetitive trend throughout. As myself and my partner completed every aspect of the film as a pair, apart from the character roles.

“Sight and Sound” – I took a lot of inspiration from this magazine, I looked into the reviews, and I noticed they had this at the beginning of an article, I replicated it in my own style, forming to their conventions.

The finishedMagazine Review.

“What have you learnt from audience feedback”

Mary, Molly, Scott, Charlotte and James took part in the focus group. Olivia(Myself): Thank you for taking part in the focus group, I would appreciate any form of feedback you have to give. Mary: Overall it was a very good piece; I really liked you kept it black and white, and also adding a slight grain aged it really well. Molly: I agree, although I did find it to be slightly blurred at some points, but i also fit with the style of film.Charlotte: I loved how you kept them looking French! They also would make a perfect couple (Laughs).Mary: (Laughs) I agree, they had a really good on screen romance.Scott: I liked how you added humour to the romance of it, it made it easier to watch and enjoy.James: I got a bit confused throughout the middle, I didn’t quite understand how you were making it ‘Parallel’ until it got further to the end, but in a way it made me more interested and made me think about the film more. Molly: Yeah I agree, although I really liked how I didn’t quite understand it at first, it’s the style of French New Wave.James: That’s true although it could be improved, it could of been more clear to those who are not familiar to French New Waves. Mary: I liked how you used places which are iconic in Manchester, like the corner house and the big wheel; it was good how you didn’t try to set it in France because I didn’t think that would work. Olivia: Thank you for the feedback, I understand it can be slightly confusing, although that’s the effect we wanted to give.

“Focus Group”

“How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?”

“Premiere” To edit and put together our film once captured all of our shots we used the workshop programme called “Premiere”. Before creating this film me or my partner had never used this before, therefore we had to learn from the beginning. We had a short taster lesson on it learning the basics, such as importing the clips and shortening them down to what we want and then putting them on the timeline to create the film.

<Learning how to import clips, to put in our sequence film.

The time line, which we drag and drop out clips onto once edited. V

‘Render work area’ – once happy with our work, we would render the work area to make our film clear.

“Photoshop”I had to refresh my memory on Photoshop from my AS level, on how to open files, open new files, changing settings etc. I used Photoshop to design and create my poster and magazine review.

I used tools such as grain, changing levels etc.

I had to refresh my memory on Photoshop from my AS level, on how to open files, open new files, changing settings etc. I used Photoshop to design and create my poster and magazine review.

I used tools such as grain, changing levels etc.

Adding a grain to my images, to create and older styled effect, I clicked onto filter, then

noise and added noise which added the grain onto my image.

I have used YouTube to upload my video onto it to gain feedback from the general public.

I have also used it for searching for French New Wave clips, from films like Breathless.

I will be using sound cloud to upload my voice recording of my evaluation.

Slide share is what i will use to upload my power point evaluation onto, so its an easier smooth way of looking through it.