PLANNING:LOCATION

Today we walked down to our local town to look at possible restaurants we could use for our opening scene. These two pictures are the exterior of our two final choices. The restaurant on the left is more posh, whereas the one on the right  holds a more cafe like atmosphere which is ideal for the restaurant we are trying to portray in our own opening clip.

PLANNING:CHEFS DIALOGUE

Today we researched quotes of Heston Blumenthal (our inspired chef)  which gave us ideas into the dialogue of our own chef. This is what we came up with:

Molecular gastronomy is the way to go....

If it's good enough for Heston, it's good enough for us.

I’ve got prawns with a soy foam and fruit noodles.

I’m planning a medieval feast complete with blood sauce and sea foam

On the menu tomorrow, beetroot meringue and snail porridge

Now where’s my blow torch?

PLANNING:TARGET AUDIENCE

I created a mood board which shows my target audience and their interests.

Age:15-30
Gender: Both
Television: Faulty Towers, Friends, The F Word, Hells Kitchen, Master Chef
FIlms: Bridget Jones Diary, No Reservations, The Inbetweeners, Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Restaurants: Pizza Express, Nandos, Caluccios, Gordan Ramsey's restaurant and ZiZi's
Clothes: River Island, Topshop/Topman, H&M and Zara
Media: Iphone, Blackberry, Ipod, Ipad and Macs
Books: Jamie Oliver"s Cooking Book, Nigella Lawsons Cookery book and Cooking by Colour

PLANNING: DIALOGUE

Today my group and i started filming the dialogue. Most of the exchanged dialogue comes from our customers to create comedy, however, we have one scene where we see dialogue between the chef and gap year student.

Script: upper class couple-

Wife: I'm worried about the meat here, this isn't like the Ritz

Husband:  well i'm worried about my cholesterol

Biker boys-

First Biker: Oh so no bats on the menu, this aint a good place for Ozzie then

Second Biker: Well freddy star aint his hamster

Celebrities- 

Second Twin: Oh my goodness my hair extension

Fat Girl and her Mum-

Fat: I have a thin girl inside of me just waiting to get out
Mum: Are you sure dear?

PLANNING: MUSIC

Today we listened to a variety of music that would fit well into our opening Zest. Our first option for our music soundtrack was Nancy. Nancy was an upbeat instrumental music piece which fit well with the atmosphere of our restaurant, however it simply didn't deliver what we required. We re-evaluated our music style and came up with Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson. 

PLANNING: TREATMENT

CREATING IDEAS FOR COURSEWORK

My group and I looked at previous AS media students to see what conventions they had used to receive their high marks. This helped us with what we needed to do and the different steps we needed to take to come up with our finished product

Today we got into groups and started planning ideas for our coursework. We weren’t too interested in making a thriller opening as it had been done so many times in the past. We wanted to create something different that would challenge us and push boundaries.

·      We came up with the genre of comedy that would be based on a restaurant/cookery film.

·      The comedy would come from the different costumers that dine at our restaurant.

We decided that our treatment narrative needed a focus that would tie it really clearly to our target audience. We are making our narrative from the point of view of a 18 year old girl on her hap year. This allows our video to have a main story plot focussing around the new girl, serving as a waitress, on her gap year. We are going to have an over voice playing over the clip that allows us to understand the point of view of view of the waitress.

Characters:

Waitress: Gap year student who tells the story

Main Chef:  Heston Blumenthal inspired chef(a perfectionist)

Customers: Biker Boys, Two celebrity twins, Two stuck up old people and a fat girl with her mum

Location: Local restaurant

Treatment:

·      Australian Gap year student who is working as a waitress in what we are portraying as a quirky local restaurant

·      To emphasise this individuals we use customers that are very much dissimilar from one another to create tension and comedy

·      The celebrity characters are portrayed as stupid and materialistic

·      In contrast we have costumers such as the “Biker Boys” portrayed as being the “rough” guys with their leather jackets and boots

·      Posh couple are sitting opposite the celebrity’s to show contrast creating comedy

·      The chef is portrayed as the inspired chef Heston Blumenthal with the scientific qualities and characteristics he possess.

·      We get a mid shot of him working in the kitchen with his lab coat on, preparing food – presented as a sharp man, coming up with the most intreging menu plans

·      To emphasize this experimental/scientific quality of Heston Blumenthal our mise-en-scene and props consist of test tubes and lab coats. 

Research:Social Satire

Satire is the  use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices. Today we looked at a variety of social satires including the Daily Telegraph and social stereotypes. The television comedy Absolutely Fabulous helped us look into, and understand better of these satires as it portrays a variety of different stereotypes.

 Other films that show satire include:

Little Miss Sunshine shows a family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant, taking a cross-country trip in their VW bus

Munnabhai which is about a gangster who sets out to fulfill his fathers dream of becoming a doctor 

1. City lights portrays the struggles the tramp takes in helping a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with