Final Piece

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Prelim

Film Evaluation

Film evaluation

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Task 5

How did you attract/address your audience?.



Note: Not final piece however very similar, you cans ee a second 'starring' apeear, and on the given in disk of my final piece and preliminary there is no second 'starring' however the annotatinos are ocmpletely the same so if you jsut ignore the second 'starring' it would be an annotation of the final piece, if wish watch disk and read annotations from video.

Story Board

A Very basic story board, i ahve stuck to most of the story board however added in new scenes.

Blog iPod

The Music on my Blog iPod represents gangsters/money, Highs/lows.
For example 'Chris Brown - i can transform ya' represents how your normal everyday average joe can be transofmred into crime.
I added some film trailers such as Snatch and Goodfellas.
The song 'Beyond the Sea' is relative to my film because if i was to make the film fully i would use some old italian music in it that you hear in the film Goodfellas and at the restaurant Frankie & Bennys.

Potential iDent

I wanted to use something simple but affective and i think i have found it, i will go on to get feedback on the ident from my classmates and if the feedback is positive i will keep it, if not i shall make some changes, however i plan to stick to the idea.

Peer Assessment of Draft version

We had a lesson were classmates got to give feedback on eachothers magazine/film production. From the feedback given by my classmates i believe i recieved a mid/low level 3 which i am reasonaly pleased with, however i am aiming for a 4. My classmates notified me that they liked my idea and the shots i have put together and that it has a lot of potential, so i was happy with that. I still need to add opening credits into the film opening and i also need to introduce some soundtrack/music to go in the film. I havent given any thought about a title for my film yet and will do over the next 24 hours. I have madea draft piece of music, however i wont use it on my piece because i know i can do better. Over the next 2 weeks i will be staying after school to do editing, creating music and improving my film opening.

First Draft Media

That was my First draft media, i have already filmed more and i have more to edit and to add onto my project. I am pleased with how it is going editing wise, however filming has been a little issue because the car i used in my production was infact broken into whilst filming so that took time to fix and look normal again, and also some of the actors have been busy and not been able to be filmed. I am learning a lot through this process.

'On location'

1. This is where i would shoot the scene where the character in the scene opens the boot of a car with a body and a spade in and he picks up the spade and flings it over his shoulder, then i will freeze frame the picture of a close up of the characters face including the spade in the picture.
I choose this location because its small, and the lighting is perfect for the scene. i will shoot the scene in the dark, but the parking lot lights will add the gloomy look because only some of the lights work so it will make the scene look really good. fig 1.

2. I thought i should add picture of the car into this location post because this car fits into location 1. (see fig 1.) I choose to use one of the characters Black Clio because i believe that the black/darkness interacts well with the story plot/scene. I would of liked a black Land Rover but i could not find one i can use so i decided to use a black car i could get hold off. fig 2.

3. This is the inside location of the office. i will have to work hard to transfer this room into a gangster office set but it is do able. i love this location becuse as you can see from the picture the lighting it perfect to make it dark and gloomy/smokey. I believe i can make this scene look really good.
This location is actually my brothers flat where i am doing most of my filming. fig 3.

4. This is a shot of outside of my brothers flat (office and parking lot scene) i got a shot of this location because i may use a camera angle from across the road of a view of a character entering of leaving the 'office'. fig 4.

Upcoming week Plan

Friday 22nd January - Start and Finish Thumbnails (after speaking to Miss Sutton or Mrs Hammond first lesson about how to go by aobut doing them)
Also Try make a start on my Storyboard.

Tuesday 26th January - Have Thumbnails completed and Storyboard complete/nearly completed.
Also start thinking what music i will have involved into my final piece.

Friday 29th January - Plan shooting my final piece over the weekend (perhaps)

Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st - Begin and hopefully finish shooting opening to film.

Tuesday 2nd February - Begin editing.

G321 Course Outline Dec 2009 to March 2010

Final idea

Finally got a idea of a film opening that i am really happy and looking forward to. i got inspired when i watch the opening to Snatch which i will post below. i am sticking with 3 characters and the gangster genre. i now have to draw the thumbnails and storyboard which i am not looking forward to because it wont turn out good.

Snatch opening

Potential characters

Over my weekend i thought about who i wanted to cast in my 2 minute film opening. I wanted to use a older cast instead of school friends to add effect to my film. So this past weekend i went to take pictures of two potential people to play in my film.

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Craig Powis. Aged 21

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Patrick Wintle. Aged 20

(He couldn't stop laughing.)

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There will be another character added to this post shortly..

Moodboard

I have decided to do a Gangster/Comedy Genre film production, so i did this Gangster moodboard.

(analysis below)

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Analysis

• Quentin Tarantino - Kill bill (1,2 and 3), Sin City.
• Vinnie Jones is a english hardman. Snatch and lock, stock and two smoking barrels.
• Danny Dyer is like a younger version on Vinnie Jones as in he is a english hardman. Dead man running and The Football Factory.
• Robert de Niro is known well for being apart of mafia films such as Goodfellas, Analyse This and Analyse That.

Moodboard

I would like to film a comedy but im unsure how i would go by doing that. Everybody does Horror and Thrillers so i dont want to do those genres, i will continue to give it much thought.

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Research/Thought about Practical

I have been thinking about what genre i would like to film my practical about. I have came to the conclusion i dont particular want to do a Horror/Thriller production, reason being is that it is a very common genre in media at college, so i would like to do something else, im still stuck on which one. I have been looking at opening scenes of films, and i already know what camera angles i would like to use, however the genre is causing me hassle, i would like to do a action/comedy i think, but i cant think of a storyline at this moment in time so im struggling.



After watching that trailer i got a bag full of ideas like filiming an advertisement or something, however i think it's just opening scenes to a film. Even so that trailer gave me some insight on how lighting can affect the production, At 2.44 when the camera zooms out of the characters face, the classroom and background is looking dim and makes the picture look old (1980's style).
I will continue to give more thought about my final peice.