Xmas Homework

Task 1 - Evidence Audit



Task 2 - Analysing strengths and weakness' in your blog

Task 3 - Setting Targets

1. Edit blog posts: make changes and add further detail

2. Complete any blog posts that haven't be done

3. Use more visual apps

Filming session 2

During the 2nd filming session we filmed the start of the chase scene where the main character (lea) is being followed and Watched by the supernatural being (Jamal) some parts are filmed from the perspective of the supernatural being and some parts are filmed from the main characters perspective

These shots were taken at regents canal

Filming session 1

This is our first filming session where we filmed the ending scenes of our opening title sequence. These shots include the main character (lea) waking up from her supernatural dream and a close up of her eyes is shown along with a scar in the shape of an 'R' shown on her leg

Xmas homework

Task 1

Task 2

Rough Cut

Practice shot 3 Lea leaning over tree

This Practice scene is of Lea looking around a tree in an attempt to locate her follower. This will add to the suspense due to the fact that after she has finished looking the audience will then realise that the person/ thing is following is behind her, adding to the suspense/ tension of the scene.

Practice shot 2 Lea being watched by something (POV)

Lea is being watched by something in the woods. Whilst this POV shot is taking place there will be a green filter over the screen to show that the person that is watching/ following her is not human.

Practice shot 1 Lea walking over paper (Twig)

This is a low angle shot of the main character running over a peace of paper. However in the film the peace of paper will be twigs. Whilst this scene is taking place there will be sound effects f twigs snapping to overall emphasise that Lea the main character is in a forest.

In progress auditions

The auditions
Lea (Main character):












Jamal (supernatural being):

Task 32: Institutions

We made an institutions ident on Adobe Afteraffects for our indepedant movie which will be ditrubutd by Retina Productions.

 

Our movie will be shown in an independent cinemas. as our budget is low.

However mainstream movies have a large benefit in profit, veiwers and ratings.

We will advetise ou movie through:

 Social media: instagram, facebook, twitter, youtube

Posters and banners

Local sponsors

A similar movie would be 4.3.2.1

It is produced by small production companies but is distbuted by larger companies such as Universal Studios.

Location

Location
The first location will be outside Lea's house in an urban setting. We have chosen this location because it gives the audience a sense that the main character Lea might potentially be in danger.

The second location will be within a forest. This location was chosen because there are a range of hiding spots available in the woods, which will work well in our chase scene.

The third location is within Lea's bedroom. Here we will get a range of close ups and establishing shots to get a sense of character.

The final location will be Lea's bathroom.

Task 42: Pitch Evaluation

after reflecting on the positive and negative feedback we received on our pitch we created three targets to improve on.

1. Go into more detail with our storyboard to make our storyline clearer and easier to follow and understand.

2. Add more visuals to the pitch to give the audience a better sense of what we are trying to achieve in the final production of our opening title sequence.

3. Be more organised and stay on top of tasks

Task 40: The pitch

The Pitch from leagrantham

37 production schedule

41 pitch responce

What was good about the pitch/ ideas presented?

 - Well presented and organised

 - You didn't read everything off the board ( straight to the point ) 

 - Good story board

 - Each person spoke and had an equal amount of speaking time

 - Shot list and story board was very detailed

What would have made the pitch even better? 

 -More pictures and videos to make is clear to the audience the point we are trying to make

Task 34: Rough storybord shot list

Rough Storyboard 

Audience profile

Our target audience will be aimed at females aged 16-40.

We will aim at feminist as our lead character is female.

We would expect males to watch our movie who enjoy female leads, eg. lara croft tomb raider.
(however we will not sexualise our lead, not making her a character of male gaze)

Task 31: Final idea for Title sequence

Lea is a 19 year old girl orpahn. A fair hearted woman, abadoned at birth, spending her life growing up in care homes and under the roof of people who payed to love her. On her 18th birthday, Lea was woken in the night by a pain on her leg to find a R scarred on her ankle. Her parents were part of a hiden mystical life that lived in secret amoung the humans here on Earth. Angels. Only Charley was not a normal angel. She was gifted with the ability to send fallen angels back to heaven. She was the Redeemer. But is this a good or bad thing?

The opening title of The Redeemer is a chase scene in Walthamstow Forest that consist of our main character Lea trying to escape from an abnormal source trying to kill her. The sequence will end with an extreme close up of Lea eyes opening to singingy if was only a dream. Then the title of the movie will appear on black screen credits.

Target audiance

Task 27 Audience profile

Audience Profile

Age: 19
Name: Luna Martin
Hobbies: Likes to both draw and watch movies, preferably the thriller genre.
Job: Currently working part time in a technology store called Cex
Country: Currently lives in the United Kingdom
Residence: Currently loving in London with her boyfriend.
Film Interests: She likes the thriller genre for the suspense and tension, her favourite film is taken.
Media: Currently active on social media such as FaceBook and insta-gram.

The Pitch: Rsk Assesment (Lea)

Weather

• Might rain
• Camera will get wet
• Not tbe weatehr condition we want for our film.

-Check weather before hand.

Loads of people about
-Find another place to film in the forest

Unable to get there with enough filmng time
-Travel before class if needed

The Pitch: Title Credits (Lea) task

Our title credits will go in the order of:

Production Ident

Distribution Ident

Distribution in title sequence

Production in title sequence

Actor 1

Actor 2

Casting

Costume

Music by

Edited by

Production Desginer

Director of photography

Executive Producers

Written by

Director

Title Sequence 

Credits over moving image: : chase scene

Black Screen credits: Title of movie

The Pitch: Mise-en-scene - Location & Setting (Lea)

Opening title sequence location:





Lea's House:

Task 28 : Analysis of a students use of sound

31. Pharez Vitalis, Eray Kara, Yuksel Yilmaz, Jakub Jozefowicz from 283goswell on Vimeo.

These students have used alot of foley for their sound.
- punching bag
- chains
- breathing
- pulse rate
- camera shot
we hear the punching bag before we see it.

Task 28: Analysis of a students use of sound

31. Pharez Vitalis, Eray Kara, Yuksel Yilmaz, Jakub Jozefowicz from 283goswell on Vimeo.

This is my favourtie previous students us of sound, because the sound used becomes very detailed and adds elements of suspense to the film. the student uses loads of non diegetic sound to make the film for exciting, for example the punching bags it helps set the scene as you hear the punching bags before you see the punching bags, this automatically tells the audience that the location is a gym.

This students use of sound has inspired us to addd in lots of asyncronous sounds when we come to editing our film, as it engages the audience. keeps the film exciting and helps create elements of suspense. Since our chosen genre if thriller, our sound has to clearly interpret to suspense, climax and anti climax throughout the opening title sequence to meet the general codes and conventions of thriller genre.

Here Non- diegetic sound is used, you can hear the punching bagged being punched, this matches the theme of the film (Boxing) and creates empasis on the main theme.
The students that created the film have been overall succesfull in engadging there target audience and meeting the codes and conventions of there genre youth drama.

Task 27: Audience profile

My audience profile is for my target audience of people who enjoy thriller films

                                                                       Char Bell

                  

                                                              

- Female

- Age 18-24

- lives in Yorkshire

- working class background

- Student working part time in Argos as a sales advisor

- Stubborn, talkative, confident and interactive personality 

- hobbies and interests; going to the cinema, going to social gatherings and shopping

- brands the consume; shops in H&M, plays ps4, north face clothing

- media they consume; active users of social media mainly Instagram, twitter, Facebook and snapchat

Task 26: who is your target audience

Target Audience 

Our target audience is young British People

- Males/ females

- aged 16-24

- London based as our film is a small local London independent film  

- hobbies include, reading, socialising with friends, going to the cinema 

- have a genereal intrest in thriller and teen films 

The generic target audience for our genre of thriller is teens to young adults worldwide, we have decided to filter our target audience to being London based as our film has a small independent distribution company, will be mainly accessible to London based youths - not be shown worldwide. 

A small independent thriller film that is similar to our is 'Uwantme2killhim'

'Uwantme2killhim' is a low budget small independent film, with minimal marketing strategies and campaigning presentations. 

The target audience for this film is teens to young adults 16 to 24 that are Edinburgh based. the production company have chosen there target audience based on the low budget of the film and the small distribution company. 

The production company as concisely aware that small independent films don't have worldwide target audiences and are likely to only be shown locally to where the film has been made and distrubuted.

The Pitch: Institutional detail Zainab

We aim to make our film small and independent, we have chosen this because our distribution and production company will be small and low budget, ultimately this will effect our range in target audience due to the genre (thriller) and our small institution.

 There are many films that follow the same genre and have elements of our themes for example 'SHANK' and 'SKET'

SHANK action film, set in a dystrophic future London in 2015, where society has fallen apart, gangs have taken over and the economy is in complete anarchy. The story follows Junior and his older brother, Rager, who are in charge of a local gang, "The Paper Chaserz". They try to stay out of trouble and refuse to kill as part of their 'moral code', which is especially enforced by the strong but defensive Rager.

'SHANK' is a small London distributed independent film

it has a thriller genre and follows generic thriller conventions. 

There are some similarities between shank and or film they are both London based and both have small independent distribution companies.

we decided do use SHANK for inspiration on how to conduct our promote our film.

The Pitch: What type of title sequence is it? Zainab

What type of title sequence is it?

We intend to have a narrative title sequence, to help make our opening title sequence easier and clearer for our target audience to understand and follow, this will include all the different credits necessary and the film title.

Many different title sequences influenced us to have a narrative title sequence, we was mainly influenced by the breakfast club, this is because the opening title sequence for the breakfast is all narrative, however its very simple and easy to follow, especially as the title sequence itself doesn't have very much information or detail on the story line, ultimately this helps to keep elements of suspense throughout the rest of the film, which would make the audience want to continue watching.

Another mainly narrative title sequence that has influenced our ideas is the title sequence to 4.3.2.1 which is a low budge British film set in the urban streets of south London, this film influenced our idea because of its unique colour schemes, the title sequence is in all black and white, only uses colour to enhance and make certain important features that then become key elements throughout the rest of the film, the colour scheme makes it easy for the audience to recognise these key elements, this therefore allows them to follow along with the storyline and pick up the subtle clues that are showed making it easy to understand.

The Pitch: Representation (Lea)

The backstory of ur movie is inspired by the 'Fallen' movies.

Our movie was inspired by the Harry Porter series. A child who thinks their is not much to life is suddenly opened to much more.

 

The main character is a teenage female who is really vulnerable. She is running from something that can harm her.

The Pitch: The FIlm (Lea)

The title of our movie is called The Redeemer.

Charley is a 19 year old girl orpahn. A fair hearted woman, abadoned at birth, spending her life growing up in care homes and under the roof of people who payed to love her. On her 18th birthday, Charley was woken in the night by a pain on her leg to find a R scarred on her ankle. Her parents were part of a hiden mystical life that lived in secret amoung the humans here on Earth. Angels. Only Charley was not a normal angel. She was gifted with the ability to send fallen angels back to heaven. She was the Redeemer. But is this a good or bad thing?

The opening title of The Redeemer is a chase scene in Walthamstow Forest that consist of our main character Charley trying to escape from an abnormal source trying to kill her. The sequence will end with an extreme close up of Charleys eyes opening to singingy if was only a dream. Then the title of the movie will appear on black screen credits.

Inspired by 

Half term homework: Task 30

Individual ideas: Task 24

My own individual idea for a title sequence would be a teen horror not much information on the film would be given away in the opening title sequence however I would make my target audeice of teenagers and young adults clear by the small detail that are shown and the characters that are introduced. I would introduce the main characters which would be a group of three teenage girls, in a school classroom - this would set the scene and give the audience a location, this would give the audience a feel for the genre allowing them to decide wether or not they want to continue watching based on there own personal genre preferences.

My idea would be similar to other mainstream teen thrillers.
Scream is an example of a teen thriller that i would use to help me gather and create my own teen thriller ideas.

Scream has a mainly young adult target audience, which would be the same target audience i would use for my film, However scream is a big mainstream film with a large budget, famous actors and large worldwide known distribution company. My film would be the opposite of this having a small indpendent distribution company and a low budget.

Scream has followed the generic codes and conventions of horror films having the main character as a female which has connotations of vulnerability. the main female character also has blonde hair and blue eyes which has strong connotations of innocence.

Task 21: Evaluation

The breakfast club shot by shot remake Evaluation

whilst watching the opening title sequence of the breakfast club for the first time we didn't attempt to note down any shots, we just watched it through to get a feel of the genre. When watching it for the second time it was easy to note down all the it's as we had knowledge on all the different shot names and types. It was slightly difficult to create a storyboard because we had to adapt the shots from the breakfast club to the locations and probs that were accessible to us, for some shots we had different props and locations to the breakfast club but still used the same shot type to capture it. Our location had a huge impact on our final result because it was hard to copy the settings shown in the breakfast club, once we understood and was comfortable with using the different Editing softwares, we decided to use font and colours similar to the ones shown in the breakfast club for our credits and title, this was overall successful and made our opening title sequence look similar to the original. We placed our titles on a blank screen so it was clear. If I was to complete the task again I would do much more planning for location as it was a challenge to shoot certain shots without catching people in the background, ultimately this made our opening title sequence look messy and organised 

Task 14: Genre conventions

Genre conventions in film openings 

Genre preference 1

Action/ adventure

Favourite conventions of action and adventure films is the up beat music that keeps you engaged and excited and the elements of suspense

Films I have enjoyed from this genre are fast and furious and transformers

The main conventions of Action and adventure films are
- major hollywood studio produced and distributed
- high production values
- dramatic non- dietetic sound
- clear binary opposition
- more narrative action codes than enigma codes
- romantic sub plot
- humorous dialogue

Genre preference 2

Teen films

Favourite conventions are the predictable happy endings and cliché teenage characters

Films I have enjoyed from this genre are mean girls and freaky Friday

The main conventions of Teen films are
- first loves
- crude humour
- sexual themes
- division between social groups
- romance

Genre preference 3

Horror

 conventions are the elements of suspense and graphic scenes

Films I have enjoyed from this genre are insidious and the devil inside

The main conventions of horror films are

- Death

- murder

- supernatural presence (ghost, Vampires, Zombies)

- Blood

- sequels