voiceover suggestions

Great on representation/ genre/ soundtrack/ audience feedback/ technology

Talk about classification  - 15 cert?

Distribution needs work

Making it AMAZING!!!

We have made some decisions as a group as to how we could bring the story line to  more climatic beginning. As both Brian and Simon thought that our opening sequence wasn't clear enough we decided to add more to the beginning of the sequence. 

Tara is now going to find evidence of Ryan and her sisters where abouts in her dad's office when she goes to look for a misplaced item. She finds a folder and follows up the clues. 

Throughout the scene in the office were going to create flashes of the sister (Rach) in her prison to add suspense to the film opening. We are also going to add struggling noises over the top of the opening sequence to add an element of fear and frustration to the audience. 

Hopefully this will add more clarity to what we've done now. 

What Brian thought was wrong

Our teacher Brian thought that the opening sequence of our film called 'SCARLETT' lacked depth and consistency. It didn't link well to what our film was going to be about and the audience wouldn't have been able to understand what was going to happen next and why it was happening in the first place. 

What we've filmed so far

We have already filmed and edited the scene where the character of Ryan d'Muster (played by Rome) is shot and killed by Scalett (played by Tara). This scene has music already put to it however this music may have to change due to changes that could be made to the scene. 

This scene was filmed in a dark room in the Performing Arts building of Reigate College. 

Update

Actors:

Rach - Sister

Tara - Spy

Rome - Gangster

Story line:

(Opening)

A the daughter of a rich MI5 worker has been kidnapped by one of the worlds most feared gangsters; Antonio d'Muster. Her sister 'Scarlett' finds evidence that Antonio's son 'Ryan' is somehow involved in the kidnapping. Scarlett hunts Ryan down to Reigate College and kills him to get her own back. 

(Film Continued...)

The rest of the film concentrates on following Scarlett and her journey to find her beloved sister with twists and turns at every corner. 

Feedback

We agree sequence is well constructed, etc...but
A long week of discussions and deliberations but the blog shows nothing - why not?
Record of your changes please and fast
Y0u need to recognise the importance of this tool

editing

Make a rough cut of your project to present to the class next Monday 2nd March

Update

Some pretty good stuff on the blog and you have worked really well together
We have discussed the need to put in some scenes to give the film context as several staff advised you it looks like a very well edited prelim exercise
Look at theopening of a similar film

Filming update

We have recently decided to not use the cat in our production because it would not look professional and is not inkeeping with the gangsta stylee.

film that relates

We looked at a film that was similar to ours that's in the box office at the moment called 'Quantum of Solace'.

More people around the age of 45 had been to the cinema to see this film as it's an adult spy film. Also more men then women had been to see this film as it's quite action packed.

However as our movie is a teenage spy film we doubt that the age range for the viewing will be the same. 

The age range that we're aiming for is 13-18, so typical teenage years. 

 

group 17 animatic

this is our story board for the opening of a teen spy movie that we created on animatic.

Opening of Seven

clerks

today we watched clerks and analyzed editing, sound, camera shots, representation, and mise en scene.
we made notes on all these areas.

editing
for example: montage
continuity
match on action eg. putting up the sign.

sound
non diegetic: sound track- fast paced, loud, guitar driven rock.
diegetic: phone and dialogue

camera shots:
the majority of the shots are mid shots.
close ups on work
exterior shots of the shop

representation:
social groups- this man represents a working class early mid twenties, we can tell this because he dresses very casually and informal.
manual unskilled
macjobs- low paid, unskilled jobs
uneducated.

mise en scene:
locale- new jersey, suburb, working class.
props- messy room, car
era-early 90's
costume- casual/scruffy, working shirt over t shirt. doc martins.
lighting- morning/ grey.
acting- underplayed/ underrated

video clip

We analyzed the above clip:

SETTING:
The setting is in London and very urban. We can tell this because there is a stereotypical red bus, black cab, dead end roads, loads of business people, commuters on scooters, side alleys, building sites and road works.

COSTUME:
Cody Banks is the young spy that's the main character. He's wearing typical young clothes; jeans, trainers, a plain t-shirt and a plain jacket.
Whereas the bad guy is wearing a leather jacket to symbolize rebellion and he's wearing beige trousers to add age.
The other character is a large black man wearing a baggy basketball top and to add to his 'typical black appearance and character' he steals a scooter.

SOUND:
There's english indie rock music in the background when the adventure starts to pick up when the scooter and car chase takes place. Other than that there's typical urban sound with added explosions when crashed and the bazooka is set off.
There's hardly any dialogue as it's a chase to set the movie off however there's is a slight pause in the chase when the black man steals the scooter and the english man protests. this accentuates the english setting.

As we only have a small clip there's not any titles, however we believe that they appeared a few seconds before out clip started.

The whole opening is fast pace and exciting, adding to the adventure in the movie.

practical

TODAY:
Watched estream program about film production.
Formed a film production company called 'RTH'.
We assigned the following roles to our team:
Producer: Rome,
Director: Tara,
Editors: Holly, Rach.

PREVIOUSLY:
We have been involved in watching and expanding on some openings of films such as 'Wild at Heart' and 'Natural Born Killers', and as a result we have decided on our own genre for our opening. This will be 'spy/thriller'.
We've attempted at story boarding our own opening for a film using bluetooth phones and cameras.
We've also practiced on animatic, livetype and final cut express.