FINAL FILM OPENING

Evaluation - Task 6

we used blogger as it had appropriate tools and options to fit our progression into media and the designing and phases we took to make our product 

We used word as a place to save our images and store work this program came in constant use when doing our research and planning.

We used YouTube as a file holder by uploading our product to a youtube channel (reubenallard) in order to get the embeded HTML code to put on our blogger

Evaluation - Task 1

The Title Of The Film

Our chosen title is called Pursuit because it

references to the main sequences of our product which is the chase scenes. It is also fitted into our character options and gives our audience a taste of why this short stylish title.  

Story + How the opening is set up

The story is broken down into 3 sections. First

being The Break In, a jump right in fast past

scenes to capture the

audiences attention, Then the main chase

a section of scenes to build up to a climax

and show twists of tension,Then the Hook

a ending based on leaving the audiences wanting

to know more.

Setting and Location

We chose to use 2 main mise en scene setting's as to set our product first being all mid-shots of the scenes through out the

house to show illegal activity and then out to

 its back garden as a lead into the forest, then

 a open tree space through POV and long to

mid-shots to show a kind of hiding spot of

sort to keep our audience on edge to see what

happens next then to a long shot of chase scene

to show a build up to the climax and then onto

a close up of match on action arrest on out skirts

of forest then a cut to the small interrogation

ending through an over the shoulder shot.

Creating The Enigma?

At the end we leave the audiences questioning

what has happened? why did the chase scene

take place? who is the stranger in black?

and leaving them wanting to find out more

about this franchise we did this by using more

of the music and at the end have the first bit

of speech used to draw them in wanting a

depth of characterisation.

Costume and Props

Through out the product we have chosen

to use a full on black jump suit with balaclava

for the criminal to make him appear anonymous

to our audience which is a use of mystery to the

story and character development. And we used

more of a formal slightly dark dress code

through the detective's cloths form he wears

a shirt and tie along with black trousers and

smart but runnable foot ware we did this to

show he is able to work in the field and comes

across as dark in look but busts of bright

character through facial expressions.

And the interrogator the same.

plus the only prop used was a folder to

represent order when slammed down.

Genre and How the opening show it

The Genre is Crime/Action/Thriller.

Crime due to the breaking into the house and

running from something giving

the idea of cops and robbers, and Action

because of the dramatics used within the first

three frames in the way the criminal is trying

to move as fast as possible, and Thriller due

to the mystery appearance of the criminal

in all black and you cannot see his face leaving

audiences wanting to know more.

How character are introduced 

The masked man is shown instantly as

a criminal as he has just kicked in someone's

door and is clearly not seen as the good guy

other wise why hide his face. The Detective

is shown hot on his tracks through coping his

hop the fence scene and shows he is hot on his

trail. And at the end the interrogator is shown

as the only character to use speech and

is the one who directs the Hook to our

audience.

Camera work and Editing

Through out the scenes in  our product we used

a variety of shots (mise en scene- close up-

over the shoulder- mid shot- two shot- long

shot) and some camera angles such as low

angle when climbing the tree representing the

criminal rising above the law and high angle

looking down showing the criminal has more

power/advantage over the detective. also the

edits are as smooth and Sharpe (as possible)

to show the tension in the chase scenes and

ends with a fade and brings up the title from

far away to fill up the screen. And the begging

production name starts with a flash as drawing

viewers in then a rotating edit of our production

name appears then fades along with bubble

sparks. Another edit used was the music

coming in at right points such as the  the

falling out the trees leading onto the climax

and an fade out of music to be a calm

ending at the end not an instant stop.

Title Font and Style

The style is Bold and Gapped this shows

a short of prison and crime based theme this

allows our audience to picture what the film

is about, and we chose black and white as

a symbol of stereotypes plus it also includes

the idea of what is Society? to our Audience.  

Evaluation - Task 7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Script:

Q: What are the main components that have improved from your prelim?
RA: I think one of them has to be general understanding of concepts, conventions, audience and editing. I think we all understood the angles and shots quite early on (near the prelim) but near the beginning of the school year, if you asked us to make and edit a film, aimed at a specific target audience; we would have no idea how.

Q: Taking into account both your prelim and final opening, what do you think you have improved the most?
OD: Its gotta be the original shots used in our first attempt. The 180 degree rule, match on action and the shot/reverse shot are a few things we kept looking at and trying to include throughout even though we didn't include all of them as much as we wanted to.

Q: Throughout this process, how do you think the camera work has improved?
AG: When I done the filming for the prelim, I didn't have much understanding of camera angles and shots but as the year moved on my understanding grew and I could help my group not only film but direct. Although that is the case, I know my understanding could be better.

Q:Thinking back across the year, what would you say you've learnt and can take away from this?

CC: As Reuben said, I think the general understanding of shots, concepts, conventions, movement, editing and the like have been massively increased. Not only this but smaller things that we've learnt which are just as helpful such as understanding target audiences and doing research on other films of the same genre has given us a better understanding of media in general.

AG: Alexis Grimshaw(me)

CC: Curtis Cariciollo

RA: Reuben Allard

OD: Oscar Dobslaw

Final Piece - Music Rights

Our group had a choice in terms of music; we either used an uncopyrighted piece of music; however this may not be of high quality nor will it be recognisable to the audience, or, we use a copyrighted piece of music that an audience may recognise and be persuaded to watch the full film; however we would need to ask permission to use it. We chose "The Prodigy - First Warning". This is a fast track relating to how the character are in a chase and rarely stationary.

To be able to use the song we chose, we first had to e-mail the production company in charge of managing and distributing the song.

The e-mail sent had to ask for permission to use the song but also included a sentence that allowed us to use the track if they didn't reply:

"If we do not receive a reply, this will tell us that we can use the song".

Although a very quick endeavour, it was vital to our project. If this wasn't done then we might not of been able to use the song at all. 

Evaluation - Task 5

Evaluation - Question 5

Within this opening the main relation to a specific movie we did was 'Schindler's list'. In the way that there was a girl in a red dress against the rest of the black and white.

I think our use of colours are good as they are simplistic and yet effective; the black and white tells the audience that the film could be in the crime/police/detective genre. Th red writing shows that the film isn't completely black & white and thereforea lot less likely to be set in the past. Also, it suggests that there may be violence or gore due to red being seen as the colour of blood. The mafia crime thriller The Godfather uses a similar theme during the opening credits.
There was no specific chase scene that we decided to use but instead just developed our own from scratch.
Our group's Final Film opening is on Youtube with annotations on how our piece relates to the theme, similar films and how it attracts certain audiences.

Evaluation - Task 4

Evaluation - Question 4

Our target audience is of 15 to 25-year-olds for our product shows a lot of resemblant to the young trends, there street smarts, and lot of the time links to consequences of anti social behaviour. Therefore on the positive side our audience and characters age in our product share a modern interest such as the shop would be, Topman, River Island, Superdry, primark, TK Max etc. 

And music would be pop songs and bands such as Maroon 5, Katey Perry, Iggy Azealia, Snow patrol, Ed sheeran etc.

We believed that this kind of taste would have a major impact on what kind of viewing these audiences would like. The fast paced and snappy structure of our opening seemed to tick all the boxes for this specific audience.

We went through the brainstorming process of thinking what audience it would appeal to the most and decided on teens to young adults. This was mainly due to the music and speedy snapping on shots. We didn't think that this would appeal to older viewers and younger viewers wouldn't be allowed to or want to watch a crime thriller.

To understand this better we had to gather contextual information by viewing other cop shows and thrillers. This allowed us to see how their shows were structured and if it was in any way similar to ours.

Then we had to do some research to see if we could find out what age group watched these shows the most. After a while through our research we found a recorded sheet on-line that had the figures of who watched some different genres of shows. This record wasn't fully professional but it was the one we used. This document stated that younger adults were the ones who watched thrillers and cop shows most.  

Evaluation - Task 3

Evaluation - Question 3

1)  Discussion of your production company name and logo and the role of such companies.

'Bad Robot' log & name

 Production companies consist on developing a animated opening of there company's name and iconic style. They tend to pay the coasts for production to take place with actor, set, props, technology funds and organisation of the film. Not only that it fits in with the theme of the film showing what type of  genre their films. e.g. Bad robot makes sci-fi and thriller films we know this due to the animated red robot on there logo along with the grass field back ground with dark stormy weather about to cast over the evening sun and a scratch font they use shows supernatural look.

They have made films such as the Mission Impossible series, Stark Trek (recent instalments of the franchise), Clover Field (first person giant monster attack on New York) also have assisted in the new Star Wars 7; The Force Awakens, therefore showing that they are a big company in the modern day film industry, and invest not only in single chapter sci-fi thrillers, but also  in mega blockbuster series.

2) What does a production company do?

 They handle all the budget and preparations for the filming to take place and make a big plan of how to execute the structure of their product e.g. The lead production crew will come together and invest into a major brand of film universe or hire those with ideas to a film, once they got there product they start getting in contact with a writer for scripts/story and a director plus assistants (which would be technicians and costume make up design and employees that contact places to use as film sights)  to make the template of  what to bring, where and  when to film then assign casting for this level of production employment place the responsibility of getting the film organised and kept to a schedule if done right.

Evaluation - Task 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

They both fit into the youth/ young offender style group for they both represent the hooligan look, the sorts of kids that grow up with failed parents or have suffered from loss at a young age that influences there actions towards society and the people of a higher status than them. The Criminal on the left show more of the criminal look trying not to be identified by wearing a  masked and is obviously out to cause trouble. Whereas Sam (from kid/adult hood) goes more for the respect in the young criminal offender look showing his face to make sure people know who he is and what he is capable of(trying to earn respect).

Running Criminal- When we brain stormed our ideas of a film we had a youth themed idea to make easy to distribute our casting of who we would play. So we had a hooligan themed idea where two youths (teenagers) would commit a crime in a local area (roughly a run down looking area) in order to get noticed and respected in gangs but it back fires in the process as a local off duty policeman spots them while the crime is in progress, The running criminal is ultimately the main criminal who diverted the police officer away from his friend in order for him to escape show no remorse in the way he is and will not stop in the name of the law for he believes what he did was not wrong but thinks society is unfair and is just trying to make a living to survive on a daily basis in the underworld (criminal world).

This criminal character is similar to the main protagonist in the 2006 British drama film Kidulthood (Sam) for he is trying to earn his respect too, but he is more involved  through gangs.

Moodboard

The following picture is of a mood board our group created together. We used this to influence our thoughts and ideas as to how our final exam piece would fit into the crime thriller genre. The collage of pictures all represent stereotypical aspects of the crime thriller genre. As these common aspects are mostly recognisable, this helped the group understand how an audience of our final video would identify the specific genre we allocated our piece to.
I think this was a good way of further developing the group's understanding of the task set, and also helped us combine our ideas into one product; just like our final piece will need to be.

Final Piece - Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment 

• Camera Battery problem; Bring back-up
• Camera not working; Bring/arrange back-up
• Private property signs; do not tresspass
• Injury to ourselves, others, wildlife, environment

Final Piece - Filming Locations

Scene 1 - 

Scene of robbery and chase beginnings;
Leaving the scene of the robbery. Will be filmed at Oscar's house and surrounding areas.

Chosen for typical scene of robbery that viewers could identify, and surrounding areas include tight paths, changes in elevation that could provide chances to capture Match-on action.


Scene 2 - 

Scene of the bulk of the chase and capture;
Cuckoo's Hollow and Grimeshaw Woods, Peterborough.

Chosen for dense woodland surroundings, and one long straight path that could provide and extreme long shot. also dynamic parts in the chase that can also provide match on action; jumping over logs, brooks etc.


Scene 3 - 

Interrogation;
Police car and Police Station.

The car can be used to gain mid and close up shots of the criminal's regrettable and angered facial expressions. The Police station interrogation room will be used to demonstrate the 180 degree rule between two characters and the aftermath of the robbery and chase. At the end will cut to Film Name, Company, etc.

UPDATE -  We have asked the police station via email if we could use their interrogation room for Scene 3, but we have been understandably denied permission. Instead, we are going to use a room in school that can replicate an interrogation room.

Final Piece - Organisation and Notes

Final Organisation

Characters :

Oscar – Criminal/Robber

Reuben – Policeman(chasing)

Curtis – Policeman(Interrogation)

Alexis – Secondary Criminal and Police Boss

Filming order:

Pre-flashback – (Scene #1) – Oscar and Reuben

Break in and chase –(Scene #2) – Curtis and Alexis filming

Main interrogation – (scene #3) Alexis filming during interrogation then Oscar filming during talk between cops and boss.

Location, location, location:

Interrogation scene – preferably police station (Oscar ask), Reuben check Tesco, back up is old drama studio.

Chase scene – Robbery happens at Reuben’s house, chase through streets and back alleys, run through someone's house and garden; climbs over fence

Props:

Desk lamp- Store or someone has one  -

Pens - anywhere

Bag – any ones

Masks/hoods – anywhere or buy from store

Walkie talkie or some other communicative tool – ask someone, toy ones from somewhere?

Hand cuffs – ask police, acquire toy ones (toys r us or something)

Papers and documents – anywhere

maybe torches - at least one of us has one(confirmed)

Costumes:

Reuben – smart wear (shirt, tie and trousers)

Oscar – casual wear (hoodie, every day trousers, mask or something)

Alexis – cop boss: smart wear (suit or something similar) Criminal: Hoodie, trackies and mask

Curtis – smart wear

Timing length: (possible)

Interrogation scenes – 45 seconds each

Chase scene – 1:30

Other notes:

. We will be having to spend money, not a lot but definitely some.

. We will have to organise meeting places and organise filming days

. Camera can be borrowed from Adam, IT Dept, or one of our own. Tripod may be required.

. Use the Facebook group chat, KSCS emails or personal emails If you have any queries or questions or ideas when we are not present in lesson or we are all out of lesson in need of contact.