Friday, 30 April 2010

Activity 7

I have learned that in order to get a short high quality of footage it is necessary to do a large quantity of filming. For good camera work you need good quality equipment and camera man/Director who knows what he wants. For good editing you need good software and a good eye to be able to produce what is watchable, you will also need to spend alot of time editing and finalising all of you footage to come out with a good ending product.

Activity 6

1. I learned that I had to organise all of the equipment to be used well in advance and ensure that it was fit for purpose i.e. wet/dry weather. During filming the quality of sound was bad until I used a boom which improved this greatly. Background and environment was vital for continuity. We have learned how to use new software specifically for editing precision for the film to look realistic and to be of a standard where the audience would not be aware of cuts and where there was consistent continuity in the shots. Due to the improvement in sound quality with the use of the boom this was not a problem when editing and I learned that it is easier to do the audio and the video at the same time rather than separate. The technologies of Adobe Premier allowed me to select and cut my music for the background as I pleased.

Activity 5

1. I attracted my audience by including a fast running fight scene in the first 2 minutes of the Film and also with a leading man (who is hot) with a large following of female viewers. Also later on in my film i will have a woman (who is hot) come in which will also attract alot more male viewers. James Bond 007 also used this tactic and the films also got alot of viewings.

Activity 4



1. Older teens and younger men are my typical target audience because there is a large amount of violence and verbal offense also because the main characters are what the typical teen/young man aspires to be (fairly successful, big house, beautiful wife and a few children) Included in this audience would be the 20 something female who is attracted to the looks of the main character as well as the leading mans fan club base.  

2. My older teen/younger man would shop in the general High Street Stores for jeans and t-shirts and designer style trainers (DC's). His musical taste would be fast, adrenaline rush, heart pumping, exciting and the current chart toppers. Favourite TV pro grammes would include action films and series i.e. Life on Mars etc. They might also include some of the older action series i.e. The Professionals. They would enjoy fast foods and a good night out with friends. 

Activity 3

See Annotations and Blog script.

Activity 2


1. My film does not depict any social group as it is an event that could happen in all social groups.
2. With the 2 character above the similarities are role in the film and their close friendship with another character. The differences are the ages, appearance, social status although their status in earlier life is similar to that in the film and employment roles at the time of filming.

Activity 1


1. This tital was chosen to create a feeling of innuendo, through using this title a scenario has been constructed to make the viewer think about be intrested in what this can mean and also what type of film this could be as nothing in the title suggests the storyline.











2. This scene setting creates an air of ordinary British life and a sense of the location being anywhere, anytime but in the more modern era. There is also a bricked area of a modern style.














3. The sense of costume is of a younger, working class lifestyle and indicates the season in which the film is set. The implement is a random item that has not been returned to its correct storage place.












4. The camera work has been cleverly orgnised in such a way that we find nopthing out about the character holding the glass with the seception of that he is probably not a labourer due to the quality of the hand and the quality of the glass indicates that he is more likely to be in a home enviroment rather than a public one.













5. The Font and style were chosen because it stood out and was the first font to catch my intrest when i was looking. the font is softer that that of a strong/bolder more solid typeface (as shown in shot 9)















6. The story is about two lifelong friends with one betraying the other and the what the consequences and bloodshed that arise from this action.

















7. I chose action for this film, this is depicted in the starting 2 minuetes with the fight scene that is shown between 2 of the mle characters. My chose of action was to give a wider scope of filming that seems to have a larger audence that romance, drama or comedy.















8. Only one of my characters is introduced verbally in the first 2 minueted of my film. This is done be the second character shouting out hs name to grab his attention. the second character is not introduced until later on in the film.





















9. There are a few sets of special effects used. The first is "ghosting", This is when set of shadows behind the character appear to indicate the action being made. The second is "slow motion" which is when we have slowed down time to emphasise the fight scene and the ferocity between the two male characters.

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Final Peace

This is my final peace.

Friday, 5 March 2010

Final Script

Final Script.
Inside:

Alex: How much do they pay for you to betray me?
Oscar: Enough...

Outside:

Alex: How could you do this to me? How? We have be friends all our LIVES!!!




This is a very simple script as most of the attention is on the fight scene that happens after the 2nd line from Alex.

Time Management.

Time Management.

When I was doing my time management I was over confident at how much I could do and sent myself time that I later found out that I couldn’t keep to because there was to much stuff to do in the little time set.

When I started filming I found that it would take more then a few hours, in the end it took over 8 hours to choreograph the fight scene alone.

When I started the editing I deleted over 1 hour of footage due to bad acting/re-choreographing, doing this cut my footage down to 15 min now all I need to do is cut another 13min to get the allotted time for my film start.

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

First chunk of film.

I have finaly done my first peace of filming, i have had to change my story/story board due to the quade bike breaking down and not alowing me to do the film so i have swaped it for a fight scence between tye Baker and an unknown man, I have also changed the name of my film to The Guy. as this name relates more now then the old name of Speed.

Monday, 22 February 2010

Change of Plot.

I have had to change the plot because there was a tecnical problem with the Quad bike and i was unable to do the chase shot, insted i have changed it to a fight shots in which i would be able to compensate for the lose of my majour loss to my film.

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Tye Breaker...

Tye will have a pare of jeans and a t-shirt to wear in the streets, after 12 years.

Friday, 29 January 2010

Weather for filming...

This is the wether forcast for the next five days and none of them are appropriate to use for my film.

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Shot 23...


Shot: Close up of the 1st person's face with a high angle shot.
Dialogue: The sound of a rifle fireing, Someone forcing out a last breath of life.

Shot 22...


Shot: Mid shot of the 2nd person, Low angle shot was taken.
Dialogue: 2nd person Shouted "I will KILL U"

Shot 21...


Shot: A close up of the first person who is on the floor with a high angle shot.
Dialogue: the 1st person said "You will not get that satisfaction from me!!!"

Shot 20...



Shot: Mid shot of the secound person who is standing over the 1st person who is on the floor, there is also a low shot being used.

Dialoge: 2nd person said " Your the last person i would have expected to do this to us, Now i will have to kill u" There is s histeric lafter from the 2nd man.

Shot 19...



Shot: Close up of the 1st person who is on the floorall bloody and hurt, This is a high angle shot to show weakness.

Dialogue: The sound of a hartbeat starts to beat over the normal sound of a fire.

Shot 18...



Shot: The name of the film shoots onto a black screen with an explostion.

Dialogue: Sound of an exploding engine comes acros the sound system's.

Shot 17...


Shot: A long shot of onother person who had just run down the drive and is not looking down the scope of a rifle.
Dialogue: The chase music starts to fade away and a tence music starts to pick up the main sounds.

Shot 16...



Shot: Black screen with the name off one of the secondery actor.

Dialogue: The chase music is still dominant and the engin sounds are still in the background.

Shot 15...


Shot: Another long shot of the quad bike racing throw the woods.
Dalogue: There is the fast chase music that is still incontrole of the sound, The engine sound is still there but it is still hidden behind all the music.

Shot 14...


Shot: Black shot with the name off the Director.
Dialogue: The sounds for this shot is the same as in shot 13.

Shot 13...


Shot: Shot cuts to he uad in the woods, the quad is riding very fast to get away. A long shot is used.
Dialogue: Chase music takes the lead role over the engine sounds.

Shot 12...



Shot: Long shot of the Quad, the quad is roling forwards while the camrea keeps in focuse.

Dialogue: The engine sounds as now changing into the sound of a working engine insted of an idal engine unlike before.

Shot 11...


Shot: Long shot off the Garage with the quad inside of it.

Dialouge: Chase music is the same as in shot 10 and the engine sound reaches its peack (sound it makes when at max reves).

Shot 10...



Shot: ITS (Over the shoulder) and a mid shot at the same time. It is an OTS shot for the person on the Quad bike and a Mid shot of the other person on the bike.

Dialogue: The chase music pick's up its pace and the engine sound increase's in sound.

Shot 9...


Shot: A long shot of the Garage as the doors open to revieal a Quad bike inside.
Dialogue: The sound of chase music build's up and the reving off the engine increases.

Shot 8...


Shot: Long shot of a Garage on the side of a house.
Dialogue: Fast music starts (Music for a chase scence) sound off an engine starting comes from the building.

Shot 7...



Shot: E.C.U (Extream close up) of a hand opening a door into what looks like a garden.

Dialogue: Sound of the door opening and the footstems as the person walks out then the sound of the door closing.

Shot 6...



Shot: Name of the Main actor comes up on a black screen.

Dialogue: The sound off running feet.

Shot 5...


Shot: Long shot of a hallway.
Dialogue: Big thump ( sound off a body hitting the floor).

Shot 4...



Shot: Middle shot of shadows fighting.

Dialogue: Shouting and the sound of Punching ad effects from the shadowsu.

Shot 3...



Shot: Name off Producer on Black screen.

Dialogue: there is no sounds, the sound of Punching and kicking sounds start to fade into the silence.

Shot 2...

Shot: Establishing shot.

Dialogue: No sound.

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Shot 1...

This is shot 1:
It is a clip of the chosen production company
(Uneversal pictures)
Sound/Dialogue:
Sound comes from the clip.

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

The Opening scence for my Film.

- First i am going to start of with Universal Pictures,
- There is going to be NO sound,
- The camrea is going to be looking dow a corridor,
- Black screen -Footsteps is the first sound heard- Name of production company,
- Close up on the feet walking down a corridor,
- Black screen -Tense music starts to fade in -Name of director,
- Close up on the legs of thew person walking down a corridor,
- Black screen -Name of the Main actors,
- Tence music fades -faster music starts,
- Long shot of person in Army DPM 95 Greens,
- Black screen -Name of the film flys onto the center of the screen -Music pikes up to increase the temp of the scence,
- Screen shoots to a main charicter running into a shed,
- Sound of an engine of a quoud bike -the bike then shoots out of the shed,
- Camrea cuts to a main charicter at the front of the doors the other charicter has just run out off -Name of the edior comes at the bottom of the screen as the second charicter runs into the shed,
- The second charicter shoots out off the shed,
- The camrea shoots to the first charicter who is on the bike and the chase scence starts,

Monday, 14 December 2009

Scream Opening Scence

- Horror Movie Film-Demention Films
- Eary movie-Black-White/Red (scream)
- Scream comes from the right of the scream,
- There is an asincrenas sound of a phone ringing ,
- The next shot is a close up off the telphone,
- Charcter pikes up the phone and starts talking into the phone,
- The next shot is an establishing shot of the house,
- The next shot is in the kitchen of the house and it is a close up of a pan of popcorn on the stove,
- The charcter shakes the popcorn and then starts playing with knifes ( to unsetle the audence),
- Narrows vision to make the shot scarear and to focas the audence's attention.

Terminator 2 opening scence.

This is the link to the opening scence to Terminator 2:
- Establishing shot of a busy motorway,
- Mid shot on people walking down the motorway,
- Non Diajetic sound builds up tention,
- Production company shows up in the center off the frame,
- Mid shot of a girl on na set of swings,
- The camrea Pans with the girl swining on the swing,
- The mesic builds up to a crescendo,
- The shot builds to slow motioion,
- Sounds draw out,
- The girls lafter is undetling,
- The shot saturates to a white screen,
- Sounds disapears to silence,
- The wind has a squiking sound to it,
- The starting of this film has managed to jump into the future withon 37 seconds of the film starting,
- Fades into the playground,
- Camrea gose up and down the playground,
- There is some naration from a female voice,
- The next shot is off and Skeliton inside of a car shell (set in the same place as the first shot),
- Focases on a skill on thye floor,
- Metal foot crushes the skull to make you jump,
- Drowning sound to gain tencion,
- Zooms into the metal face,
- Face fades into fire and the credits start.

Friday, 4 December 2009




To start my film i am going to be using Universial Pictures as this company has done lots of film like the film i am making.



This is my presintation for my disition on what gunre i am picking.

My Story...

My story is about a Man who goes undercover into the Police force for the local Race Gangs and is found out and has to escape, He can only find a Quad Bike so he flees and the man hired to kill him is on a Dirt Bike and there is a dramatic chase when the Gangster comes off the quad bike and is on the ground hurt. The hired assassin is standing over the Gangster with his gun against his head and then there is a click and the assassin turns around and there is a little boy standing there with the Gangsters gun in his hand pointed to his head (the boy being the gangsters son), the assassin pushes the boy away but the boy was a lot stronger then he thought so the assassin shots the gangster ion the hart and then the boy and the assassin both shoot each other in the stomach, then there is the sound of a car and the assassin runs towards it and jumps in front of it casing his death.

Then:12 YEARS LATER.

Tye Breaker was walking down the street and a load of sports cars speed by and then he jumped into his car which was right next to him, Tye Breaker was 24 years old, 12 stone and about 5 feet 11 inches, Tye’s dad died 12 years ago and eve since he has infiltrated the police force and is in the biggest car racing gang around New York. Tye’s mission in life is to bring down the New York police force and seek revenge for his father’s death. At the moment the gang The Rifles have 4 people in the New York police force undercover collecting information for the biggest raid ever accounted for.

The Rifles are the biggest gang in New York, the Police force has killed and arrested dozens of members and now the rifles are looking for revenge and in the lead is Tye Breaker...

Story Board

This is my story board with a working video.

My Current Mark

I think i am at a high level 2 low level 3 at the momment.

1. When it comes down to "the reaserch into similar products and a potntial terget audience" In this part i think i am a low level 3 because i have shown a good understanding i what films are the same gunre and the same type of audence to try and find a film as much like mine as i could.

2. When it comes down to "the orginisation of actors, locations, costumes or props" i am about a low level 2 because i haven't yet placed any pictures on my blog about any of the lited ubove but i cannot because of wether and other implacations.

3. When it comes down to "Work n shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding" i am hoping for a low level 3 but i don't know because we have not started this part of our corsework yet.

4. When it comes down to "Is there a good level of care in the presentation of the research and planing" i think i am a middiam level 3 because i have a good layout to my blog and all my research and planning which has helped raise my level.

5. When it comes down to "Time management" i thik i am a low level 3/high level 2 because i have keept upto date with all my work so i think i have done well with my time management.

Tuesday, 1 December 2009



This is my prelimanery Task.

In this task i Joind Amy, Simon and Lewis for this task.

In this task we usedLots of shots such as:
Close Up
Long Shot
Point of Shot
Extream Close up
Mediam Shot
And alot more.


Amy did most of the editing,
Lewis and I did alot of the Acting,
And Simon Did the directing,
Everyone made disishtions about all of the directing and how each peace was going to be eddited.

Starting Credits



This is my Starting Credits practace scence.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Production Company

The Fast and the Furious:

The fast and the furious series were made by Universal Pictures, This company would be perfect for my film because the fast and the furious because this film is almost equally the same type of film and the one I’m am going to make.


Speed Racer:

Speed Racer has the same type of film as my one and it was produced be Warner Bros. Pictures, this company would be useful because it has the same type of story line but this company is a very typical company to stay to the younger audience instead of the type of audience that I would need.


Stormbreaker:

Stormbreaker would be a good film to mimic because it has the same type of story line as my film and it was produced by Samuelson Productions, would not be as sutibale to making my film because this company is better at making love story’s instead of Action/Thriller/Adventure like my film is.


Crank:

Crank would be a beautiful role model to my film which is made by Lakeshore Entertainment, This would give so much inspiration to my film because it has the fast race scene, action and it also has a love story witch I might add in later in the film to add some effect and will add an extra audience category because they wouldn’t watch it if it didn’t have the love scene.


Death Race:

This would be a perfect example to compare to my film because it has the hart racing danger and the hart warming love to calm you down just to get your hart racing the next scene and this film is one to keep you on the edge of your seat, this film was made by Universal Pictures, this company also made The fast and the furious which is also a big film which I have taken into consideration for using in my film.



In the end i will be using Universal Pictures!!!

List

1. Making my Polimanery Task.
2. Making peacice's of reaserch.
3. Make a disition on my production company.
4. Make a story bord.


More will be added to the list as time gose on.

Friday, 16 October 2009

Film Openings

In this lesson we were watching film openings, the film we were watching was Good Fellether's,

This is an Action film,

The purpose of this opening sequence is it includes a car sound along with the opening credits to help set the scene This helps us tell it is a gangster film,
In the bagining there is a killing and blood and a small section of dialog tells us we are in New York in 1970.

The purpose achieved throught the media language is that there is alot of swearing, Raily Otter is the main charicter unlike Robot Denero who is a secondery charicter in the background, There is alot of Red and Black lighting to show that this is a gangster film and it is also a mafia fealling in the film (in the bagining of the film all three of the main charicters are bathed in blood to show that they are dangrouse men.

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Mise En Scene

Today in my media i lernt about Mise En Scene.
Mise En Scene is what you put in the frame of your clip/picture.
We looked at:
Settings & Props,
Lighting & Colour,
Positioning of Characters & Objects Within a Frame,

We also took some pictures of:
A unrule Class,
A busy Office,
A dentace watingroom,
A romantic Cafe,

Settings & Props
Setting's are very really background's to the characters' dialog. The Setting's can be used to manipulate the audence.
Props' are objects that are used in a peace of action.

Lighting&Colour
With lighting you will have a briter light on a more inportant charicter/object then anything else to make it stand out even more. By shading section's of the charcter's face/body to make the mood more mysterious. By useing a strobe effect(flashing bright and dark) it will make the audence think the character's is in a confused state.
The colour help's make the mood along with the lighting.

Positioning of Characters & Objects Within a Frame
Positioning of Characters is very inportant because if u have a character in the middle of nowere and the scene is baced in a huge mantion with million pound furncher.
When it come's down to placing object's it would not look to good to have a fireplace of a piano in the middle of a hay field or a bunddle of hay in the middle of a million pound manshon were the piano/fireplace.

This is what we learn't on the 22/09/09