Research, Codes, and Conventions

   As a group, we have decided to do our commercial on Fort Lauderdale High School, in the process of making our decision; we decided that most of the other topics would be overused. During our research we noticed that most commercials of different schools, used the same opening shot. Either it was an establishing shot of the school or it was a wide shot, capturing the day in the life of a student that attends the school. Most commercials also used closeups of the students face and zoomed in
on the students smiling. Most of the commercials used voice overs for the sound. Any other sound used in the commercials were, sound bridge, score, and non-diegetic sounds.
   The lighting used was natural lighting. The location of all the commercials, were the same. Schools, libraries, our in classrooms. Everyone in the film, had on regular clothing; looking just like your typical college student. The set design for the commercials used, was the basic class and library setting. There was no type of makeup or special effects makeup used, so we wouldn't have to worry about capturing that aspect of the film.
   In the process of making our film, I feel as if we will arrive to a few issues. Our main goal of our commercial is to make sure we not only meet the requirements of the assignments but, make sure we do a good job at highlighting the main features of what it is like to be a student a student at FLHS. So what we do want to stray away from is having too many ideas and trying to input them all into a thirty second commercial. Being that it is our first time filming I would like to start as soon as possible in case we run into any issues with our camera or we need help with something. We will be focusing on the day in the life of a student who is in the Cambridge and Law program at FLHS.