What areas will you need to improve when working on your main project?
I think one area I may need to improve is my analysis. I can edit quite well, I find filming pretty easy, and I work well within the group. So apart from these areas, the only thing that I can think of is my analysis and evaluation, and probably my research skills. These will be easy to improve on as I do both in the exam part of the course as well as within my blog. I will have to use the right terminology, be specific in my research, and evaluate well.
Friday, 22 February 2013
Evaluation Questions - Preliminary Task...
How did your target audience react to your finished piece?
They were very happy with our finished piece. They liked our choice of shots for each scene, they thought that our sound effects, such as the bell chime were quite effective, they also liked our choice of transitions, the fades, and the cutting. Finally they all thought that our 180 degree rule was very effective, and done well within the final piece.
What ideas/skills will you take from this to your main project?
There are a few ideas and skills that we have decided to use in our final piece. We thought that making certain parts of our preliminary task black & white was very effective, and have decided to use that in our main film. We may stick to the same transitions used, such as the fades and the cutting, we don't want complicated transitions. We are also going to take the idea of showing the main character getting ready and incorporate it into our main project as we thought it went well with our chosen genre and idea for our opening.
They were very happy with our finished piece. They liked our choice of shots for each scene, they thought that our sound effects, such as the bell chime were quite effective, they also liked our choice of transitions, the fades, and the cutting. Finally they all thought that our 180 degree rule was very effective, and done well within the final piece.
What ideas/skills will you take from this to your main project?
There are a few ideas and skills that we have decided to use in our final piece. We thought that making certain parts of our preliminary task black & white was very effective, and have decided to use that in our main film. We may stick to the same transitions used, such as the fades and the cutting, we don't want complicated transitions. We are also going to take the idea of showing the main character getting ready and incorporate it into our main project as we thought it went well with our chosen genre and idea for our opening.
Opening Titles Research...
For our final piece of research we had to look at opening titles, we looked at the font, colours used and whether or not they start before, after or during the opening. We each looked at films within our genre, these films are; 'The Batman Rises', 'Skyfall', 'Goodfellas' and 'The Expendables'.
The Dark Knight Rises:
Black & White
Dark
Metallic
Digital animation
Image manipulation
Red font
Sans Serif
Appear before action starts
Skyfall:
White font
Colourful background
Fades in, fades out
Medium size
Capital Letters
Appears after action has happened
Goodfellas:
Quick animation
Black & White
Sans Serif
Normal/medium size
Capital letters and lower case letters
Red title
Black background
Credits start after action
The Expendables:
War type font
White
Fades in, fades out
Small
In corner of screen
credits are shown during action
Diegetic & Non-Diegetic Sound...
Diegetic sound is sound which is sound which comes from a source within the scene and can be heard by both audience and characters, for example T.V playing, dialogue between characters, phone ringing, footsteps etc. Non-Diegetic sound is sound which has no source within the scene, the audience can hear it, but the characters cannot. Diegetic & Non-Diegetic sound can be used in many ways, some of which are shown in these two clips;
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/283936/L-A-Confidential-Movie-Clip-Open-Hush-Hush.html#
This is the opening of LA Confidential. Diegetic sound is used in the end of the clip, as it starts off with non-diegetic sound, the voice over and the music. The effect of this is to introduce the film, the plot, the era etc. It then turns into Diegetic sound as we hear the type writer sounds, and we see who is talking. This is an effective technique as it allows the audience to be introduced to a key character straight off, and are introduced to other key characters within the film opening.
The second film opening is similar to that of LA Confidential in that it starts off as non - diegetic sound, for example the creepy music playing while the key character moves up the stairs towards the victim, and keeps playing until the victim wakes up. We then hear waves splashing just after the opening credits finish, we are then shown where the characters are, in this case the beach, we then see where the wave sounds came from and the sound becomes diegetic. The effect of this is to create not only tension, but suspense. We don't know where the characters are in the beginning, but the audience can tell, from the music that something bad is going to happen. We are also introduced to key characters, through not only dialogue but who we also saw on the screen.
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/283936/L-A-Confidential-Movie-Clip-Open-Hush-Hush.html#
This is the opening of LA Confidential. Diegetic sound is used in the end of the clip, as it starts off with non-diegetic sound, the voice over and the music. The effect of this is to introduce the film, the plot, the era etc. It then turns into Diegetic sound as we hear the type writer sounds, and we see who is talking. This is an effective technique as it allows the audience to be introduced to a key character straight off, and are introduced to other key characters within the film opening.
The second film opening is similar to that of LA Confidential in that it starts off as non - diegetic sound, for example the creepy music playing while the key character moves up the stairs towards the victim, and keeps playing until the victim wakes up. We then hear waves splashing just after the opening credits finish, we are then shown where the characters are, in this case the beach, we then see where the wave sounds came from and the sound becomes diegetic. The effect of this is to create not only tension, but suspense. We don't know where the characters are in the beginning, but the audience can tell, from the music that something bad is going to happen. We are also introduced to key characters, through not only dialogue but who we also saw on the screen.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Risk Assessment...
Three Lions Productions
Risk Assessment for the production of 'Loan Shark'
Measurement of Risk:
1. A scratch or a cut
2. An illness or injury that lasts up to three days
3. Broken bone
4. Amputation
5. Death
Risk Assessment:
Hazard
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Those at Risk
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Existing control measures
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Evaluate the Risk
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Improvement on control measures
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Measurement of Risk
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Low levels of light
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The whole film crew
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Lampposts and classroom lights
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The main risk here is the fact the someone might not see something
and then trip over/bump into it
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An improvement on the safety control measures would be for everyone
to have a torch or that all filming is done during the day
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The most that this risk could give someone is a level 3 injury as
someone could trip over something.
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The equipment being used
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The whole film crew
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All wires are out of the way were no one can trip over them
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The main risk here is that someone trips over the tripod
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An improvement could be that everyone gets a briefing over the
equipment being used and how to act around it
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The measurement of risk would again be a level 3 as someone could
fall over and fracture their arm on the equipment
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The Cold
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The whole film crew
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Make sure everyone is kept warm
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The main risk is that someone gets ill
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Make sure everyone has their coats and is wearing something warm
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The most extreme circumstance would be someone gets frost bite and
has to have an amputation but, realistically the main risk is that someone
gets a cold so a level 3.
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Script...
This is the basic script for our film opening, we kept the dialogue short as we only have about 2 minutes.
Loan Shark
By
Three LionsProductions
Script
Characters:
Graham Trotter is Owen Grey
Sarah Adams is Sarah Grey
Owen: These figures don’t add up
Sarah: What do you mean, they don’t add up?
Owen: They say that we are £100 short and still owe quite abit of rent and that our bills aren’t getting paid.
(Sarah Panicking)
Sarah: Well then what we going to do about it?
Owen: We’regoing to have to take out another loan to pay the rent as the landlord saysthat he can’t wait anymore as he also has bills to pay.
(Sarah Shouts)
Sarah: No! Not another loan. The bank won’t allow it
(Owen desperatelysays)
Owen: But there’s no work in the country at the moment, soit looks like there’s no other choice
(Sarah says angrily)
Sarah: For Christ sake just sort it out or you're on your own.
(Sarah Storms outleaving Owen sitting there with his head in his hands)
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Evaluation Questions - Preliminary Task...
3. How did your research into film openings and genres help you?
Research into film openings helped us realise how much goes into a 2 minute opening. It also helped us understand how different shots are used within different genres, for example within action films, there will generally be more camera movements such as panning & using a crane, in comparison to a romantic comedy, with has slightly more camera shots such as close ups to see the characters emotions. This helped us decide what genre we wanted focus on, and helped us picture what it would look like, and how we were going to plan and film it.
4. Who are your target audience and why?
We decided to do something within the genre of Action. Therefore we did research into the typical audience of action/thriller movies. We found that males where the typical gender which action/thriller movies appeal to, we also found that the age range was between 14 years to 24 years. We then decided to go with this as our basis for our target audience.
Research into film openings helped us realise how much goes into a 2 minute opening. It also helped us understand how different shots are used within different genres, for example within action films, there will generally be more camera movements such as panning & using a crane, in comparison to a romantic comedy, with has slightly more camera shots such as close ups to see the characters emotions. This helped us decide what genre we wanted focus on, and helped us picture what it would look like, and how we were going to plan and film it.
4. Who are your target audience and why?
We decided to do something within the genre of Action. Therefore we did research into the typical audience of action/thriller movies. We found that males where the typical gender which action/thriller movies appeal to, we also found that the age range was between 14 years to 24 years. We then decided to go with this as our basis for our target audience.
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