Research

I have analysed a movie poster called Welcome To The Punch.

Blumler and Katz (1974) - Uses and Gratification Theory Surveillance - Becoming aware, informed and educated about the world around them

Personal identity - shaped by hating/relating to specific characters.

Personal relationships - with the media and with people about what happened in the media.

Diversion - escape and entertainment

 

Main Task Genre Research:

Daniel's resarch on the Action genre:

My group includes: Nile and Naithan

An Action scene can be exciting as there are a lot of fast cuts and editing and overall just lot to shoot a free running scene will be very hard as we need to think about where we could set the scene and the storyline.

My idea is to shoot the first few minutes of a free running scene and I have been inspired by these three movies:James Bond Casino Royale

 

 

 

 

 

 

District 13

Group members:  Daniel and Nathan

I've been researching the Rom-Com film genre; the movies I've been looking at are the following:

Friends With Benefits (2011)

Just Go With It (2011)

She's Out Of My League

Crazy Stupid Love (2011)

This movie, I found quite interesting, because of the part in the trailer when Steve Carell (Cal Weaver) is putting on his suit in steps, the screen fades out and maybe I could use this to put the credits in effectively.  I could have a scene of the actor picking up his tie  then fade out to the actor's name (Nile Williams) then have the actor pick up his blazer and then fade out again to another part of the credits and so on.

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Nathan's research on the party genre (party was one of the genres we were going to pick as a group

A party scene, coming of age is another idea [Written by Nathan]

My idea is to shoot the first 2 minutes of our main task incorporating ideas used in the examples below. For example point of view shots, blurry camera shots, shaky camera, flashes, smoky atmosphere, shaky camera and many more.

Examples include:

Misfits Season 4 Episode 6

Etta Bond's: Resolve (Music Video): http://sbtv.co.uk/2013/01/etta-bond-resolve-music-video/

Project X: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rl1TJG17Wk&safe=active

 

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Places to film?

Victoria Park...

Victoria Park may be a good place to film our scene because of the environment.  The park could make the whole scene more real because of all the diegetic sound.  People wallking through, bird noises and birds flying.

Finsbury Park.

We are thinking about filming the park scene in this park because of it's wide spaces, long paths and because it's a nicer area than hackney to film.  

Clissold Park

Clissold park seems like a good choice because there are loads of spaces good for running and it's equipped with obstacles and things for Ryan (Daniel Anthony) to overcome because he (as a character) is agile and fit.

 

 

 

Mr and Mrs Smith

Mr and Mrs Smith's title sequence influenced ours because we have a fade out moment in the opening two minutes of our film and when the screen is completely black, the title: Starring Daniel Anthony (Ryan Lawson).  In Mr and Mrs Smith, the screen cuts to black and the titles appear and that is what influenced our work

Enemy of The State

I watched Enemy of the State over the Easter holidays and, noting that it is of the Action/Thriller genre, took note of how the titles were laid out and merged into the film. 
I noticed that most of the titles in the film were shown whilst the scene is being shown, it wasn't shown in contrast to a black screen, it was shown in the scene.
I integrated those ideas into our film and the result wasn't too good as most of the shots in our film are quite dark and we didn't want the font colour to be white so we decided to fade-to-black and then show the titles.  For example:

The video below is an example of how we faded-to-black whilst the film and the sound-bridge was still intact.  It proved to work very well as conventional action thriller films have the fade-to-black scenes such as: Mr and Mrs Smith and GI.Joe.


Also, the titles at the beginning that are integrated in like a typewriter, the location and the time, I integrated into our film.  We couldn't figure out how to make it look like a typewriter but we did the best we could to make it seem like it was being typed in.  The "Clissold Park, London  4:35pm" part of our film added to the whole action/thriller genre and also it gives the impressiion that this film has something to do with the government.

Survey

As a group we couldn't decide on whether we wanted to do a:

• Rom-Com
• Action
• Coming of age/Party

We decided to ask 60 students from both year 12 and 13 as 16 - 18 year olds are our chosen audience. 15 girls and 15 boys from year 12 and 15 girls and 15 boys from year 13.

We then put their results together as a whole:

It was very close, but lucky for me Action won.
So our Movie has now become an Action/Thriller as we saw that as being more exciting for the audience.

MAIN TASK:

Synopsis:

Young teenager Ryan Lawson is paranoid that he is being followed. But what he doesn’t know is that he is right, as he is being pursued by a corrupt government organisation keen on stopping him from finding out about the death of his father. Ryan is also unaware that his father, a special operative who died under suspicious circumstances trained him subliminally throughout this life in preparation for the events that is about to take place. Initially, Ryan Lawson is reluctant to fight back but after being informed by his father’s friend that the organisation were responsible for his father’s death, he is determined avenge his father.

Our Call Sheet..

Roles:

Daniel Anthony: Actor, Director and Editor

Nile Williams: Producer, Editor #2, Cameraman and Sound Researcher

Nathan Ihemadu: Research and Blogger

Our Storyboards...

Our Script



EXT:

LOCATION #2 – DAY

Caption: Clissold Park, London 4:35pm
FADE TO WHITE:
FADE IN:
Ryan is sprinting through the park; whilst running bumps into two extras walking past.

He runs out of shot.
TITLE: A DANIEL ANTHONY FILM

He continues running and sees a man sitting on a bench staring at him; he quickly looks away and continues sprinting onto a bridge.
FADE OUT:
FADE IN:
He stops, makes a 360 degree turn and continues to run. He then jumps over a fence.

FADE OUT:

DIRECTOR: Daniel Anthony

CAMERAMAN: Nile Williams

FADE IN:

LOCATION #1 – DAY

Ryan runs into his estate, takes his keys out and unlocks the door to his block. He runs up 2 flights of stairs and gets out his keys to unlock his door. He enters.

INT: LOCATION #1 – DAY

Ryan enters hallway.

RYAN:

Thea!

SILENCE

ZOOM FADE:

TITLE: DANIEL ANTHONY in
The door knocks (loudly) three times.
TITLE: SON OF THE LAW
Ryan opens the door, slowly looks up at the intruder…

BLUR WIPE TO BLACK

Shot List:

Our main task and it's progress over the months we have been working on perfecting it.

 

Our progress:

Friday 8th February

Location: Clissold Park Stoke Newington

I filmed long shots of Daniel running past the camera which you see in the film. We also filmed the panning down establishing sahot at the beginning which we kept in the final cut.

Wednesday 13th February

Location: Clissold Park Stoke Newington

I wasriding a bike to film shots of Daniel's feet at the beginning of our film to show that Daniel's character was actually moving. We also done the shaky cam point of view shot.  Daniel was holding the camera and looking at me as he ran past. Tracking shots of the feet were the main shots we tried to get in.

Friday 15th February

Loction: Stamford Hill

I filmed Daniel running inside the house doing the match on action through both sets of doors and running up the stairs to the flat. While inside we filmed Daniel's dialogue using the pag lights that we brought with us. We filmed the knocking of the hand on the door and Daniel's reaction shot when opening the door. We left out the establishing shot of the block of flats as we thought that it wasn't needed in the final cut. At first we had the sister of Ryan involved, but as the sound quality was bad and it took the attention away from Ryan, we took her out in the final cut and instead just had Ryan calling for her. The director (Daniel) decided to have the villain/chaser remain anonymous as it created suspense in the movie typical to the conventions of an Action Thriller.

Weather

Below shows the weather on the days we were filming on:





Screening

We've screened our film to audiences in our college.  16-18 year olds and we screened the opening sequence to 2 of our senior teachers and this is their reaction