FILMING DAY 4

Filming: Day 4

We started all the rest of the scenes, in Andy’s house and the street where he lives. First we recorded the scene in his room when Lara is packing away. Then the scene when she’s going downstairs with the suitcase, for this we recorded from the bottom of the stairs. Then we filmed outside, in the street; when the car stops in the side of the rode. We filmed the scene when the assassins are inside the car; we placed the microphone inside the car and the camera outside, so we had a clear sound but a dark and a bit confusing camera shot.  Finally we filmed when Lewis goes into the house.

FILMING DAY 3

Filming: Day 3

First we started filming a close-up in Lara’s face, to show when the boss is angry, then a shot with the assassins entering the room and another one with them talking with the boss. At the end we forgot to make a shot of the assassins going out of the room, so we solved this problem in the editing playing backwards the bit when the door opens.  Finally, we finished this first with nice shots, acting, and sound.

FILMING DAY 2

Filming: Day 2

We hired Lewis, James and Lara to act in our film, so we could finish the first scene with good shots. But again we had a problem with the filming; this time we filmed when the actors weren’t acting and we leaved the camera without recording between one shot and another. So again we deleted all the shots to start with the first scene again.

 

FILMING DAY 1

Filming: Day 1

The first day of filming we filmed inside the boarding house, in the room near Mr Bunney’s office.  We started with the idea that the film will be played by Andy, Lara, Mariana and Alex; but when we started the first scene and we already had some shots of the assassins entering the room and talking with the boss, we realized that we were really bad at acting, so the next day we deleted all the shots and we started talking with some people to hire them as actors in the film.

RISK ASSESMENT

 

ANALYZE ANOTHER A-LEVEL FILM OPENING

MISE-EN-SCENE

STORYBOARDS

SHOT LIST

 

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

 

JOB ROLES

Sound and editing:
The sound and editing technician is an operator that works with technical aspects of the editing and sound of the film.
-The one that is going to be doing this work is Andrew Lovick, because he is more experienced with this kind of  works.

Camera:
The role of camera operator is about stay behind the camera, take care of the material and provide knowledge to director, producers and editors to make a visual story.
-Lara is going to be the person doing this work, because she is confident and efficient working with this material.

Producer:
Producers in films work closely with directors. They attend things like marketing and distribution of the film.
-We all are going to be attending this role, because we think that we all have the vision of the film and what is it about.

Director:
The director works with everybody within the film, he know how everything has to look like. The director set and realise all in the film.
Andy is going to attend the paper of the director, because the main and first idea was written by him. He is the one that know how the film must finally look like.

Lighting:
The lighting technician is the one that operates with all related with artificial and natural lighting. The make sure that there is not too much low or high key lighting in a scene and take care that the lighting is the same all along the scene.
Alejandro is going to be the person attending to the lighting in the film.

BBFC CLASIFICATION FOR OUR FILM

SCRIPT: SCAPE

PITCHING OUR FILM OPENING

This video shows the group pitching two action/thriller movies to the rest of the class.


In this pitch we talked about two ideas.

The first where the boss is in her room. The two assassins walk into the room and sit down without speaking a word. The boss gives them a photo of the target to be killed. The assassins ask for a price and the boss gives them an price. Finally the assassins nod again, get up and leave.

The second being the victim is packing up her bags and trying to leave her home. There is a shot of both the assassins walking towards the house. A protector to the victim tells the victim that it is time to leave the house. The first assassin tells the second one to stay behind to check for the victim and he does. The Assassin walks into the house and fights the protector while the victim runs out the back door. The victim walks down the street and passes the second assassin while he is distracted.

One of the issues raised was that the film seemed a bit stereotypical, because of the simple plot of someone running away that most action thriller films use. To fix this, a slight change to the story can be made to add some complexity to it.

Another issue that was raised was that we might simply show just someone packing up and running without context. If we were to use the second idea, then to fix this we must add a small scene to the beginning of our opening where it shows why the assassins are chasing the victim.

The second idea was voted to be the better idea out of the two. I think that this feed back shows that we should use that idea because of the better reception that it got.

In conclusion, the changes we must make are this, if we were choosing to do the first film opening, then we must add some complexity to the plot, such as adding more characters, and for the second film opening we must add some context to the beginning of the film.

IDEAS FOR FILM OPENING

Idea Number One:

 

First of all the boss is in her room. The two assassins walk into the room and sit down without speaking a word. The boss gives them a photo of the target to be killed. The assassins ask for a price and the boss gives them an price. Finally the assassins nod again, get up and leave.

 

Idea Number Two:

 

The victim is packing up her bags and trying to leave her home. There is a shot of both the assassins walking towards the house. A protector to the victim tells the victim that it is time to leave the house. The first assassin tells the second one to stay behind to check for the victim and he does. The Assassin walks into the house and fights the protector while the victim runs out the back door. The victim walks down the street and passes the second assassin while he is distracted.

TARGET AUDIENCE MEMBER PROFILE

 Name: David Harriman

 Age: 18

Career: Student

Top favourite action/thriller film: The film David said that he loves and that matches with or genre, it´s Transporter.

Favourite drink: He said that his favourite is Coke, but he also likes to drink Heineken in parties and special occasions.

Interests: David said that he loves football and music and that these things are very important in his life.

Favourite actor/s: He really likes Tom Cruise. He said that he likes his films and the way he acts as well.

Favourite music: He answer this question saying that his favourite music is hip hop music and sometimes rock music. His hip hop favourite artist is Lil Wayne, and in rock he said that he likes bands as The cars or U2.

Favourite books: David loves mistery and crime old books such as: 'Guilty as sin' by Tami Hoag or 'Last car to Elysian Fields' by James Lee Burke.

TARGET AUDIENCE INTERVIEWS

Those interviews show us that in an action film it is important there is the appearance of explosions, car crashes, fighting, bad people dying, a key story line and sometimes a love story between the main character and his/her assistant

The first person we interviewed was Mr Higgins, a young teacher under 35. He told us that in an action film the more important things are the explosions, the main character and how he/she looks like. He said that the genre of the main characters is not important, but he thinks that always is better to see a male, knowing that is easier for him to identify himself with the main character. He opened up telling us that he always wanted to be an action film character such as James Bond and Bruce Willis that show us that every time you watch an action film you want to identify yourself with the main character. This information helped our ideas for think about a film opening where the viewer can identify himself or herself with the main character.

The second person we interviewed was Mr Benzie, the Media Studies’ teacher, a male under 35. The key ideas of the interview were the same as Mr Higgins. I think the ideas which are transmitted for every action film are the same. But when we asked Mr Benzie what he wanted to be in an action film who have never saw before he answered a teacher. It does sound ridiculous, but people want to see normal people in strange situations, because you don’t see a crash car every day but you see a teacher more often. That shows us that the people want to see more characters which are easier for identify themselves with.

The third interview was to Jess and Gemma, our secondary Target Audience, demographics, females under 35. This interview was so helpful because we have two opinions in the same interview. We have Jess, who support action films, and Gemma who is against them. During the entire interview, we saw the reasons why one of them hates action films; however these are the same reasons which make the other girl like this type of films. This information shows us that, either you like or you don’t like action films. If you want to like an action film, you have to like car crashes, naked women, and fighting… This interview also shows us that the genre of the main character sometimes is important, because a muscular girl is not always beautiful. That help us know when we will make the main character, we have to think about how his/her looks likes, pay attention for if he/she is, natural, good looking, and a bit sexy.

 

Thanks to this video we have learn that in an action film the main character have to be someone who you can identify with. For example girls want to see women more ‘conventional’ no like Tom Raider, so muscular, more like a friend, a tiny and sportive girl without to be muscular. We also learned that in action films the conventions and what do you expect to see are car crashes, fighting, and a good story line.

  

                                                                              

 

 

BOX OFFICE DATA

GENERIC ACTION/THRILLER CONVENTIONS

UK FILM COUNCIL AUDIENCE RESEARCH

We looked at audience research data carried out by the UK Film Council to identify our target audience:

We saw that between a 20 and a 25% of people say that their favourite film genre is action or  thriller. This mean that our film is meant to be watched by a 23% of the population.

Those two genres are very popular and are consider by many people as one of their favourites.

Most of this people is expected to be male over 35 years that might be parents and of all social classes. Women over 35 might enjoy the part more related with thriller more than action.

Again, a 53-50% of the people over 16 will enjoy watching this kind of genre.

 

Thriller and action are consider by many people as their favourites, as it's show in the graphic over this.

20% of male over 35 say that is their favourite genre, and they belong to every social class.  30% women say that that thriller is their favourite genre, meanwhile, just a 10% of woman in this group of age say thast they like action; this changes with women below 35, that changes to 20% of women that like action movies.

 

MY GROUP AND OUR GENRE

I'm in a group with Andy, Lara and Mariana.

I'm in this group because there are many people from different backgrounds which can give the group different ways of how to work things out seeing as we have many people from different places. I think that by working with them we would be able to achieve higher levels of attainment than if I worked with people from the same background.

The genre that we chose to do is action, we chose this genre because it gives us an easy yet complex route into our work on the opening of a film. We all like this genre because it is quite common and we can all give many ideas on how to execute our scene and perform it with higher levels of imagination. 

FILM OPENING ANALYSIS (V FOR VENDETTA)

BRIEF (OPENING+TITLES OF A FICTION FILM)

CONVENTIONS OF FILM OPENINGS