Conventions

This is an image taken from the film Harry Brown.
We would like our youths to be dressed like this and when the man approaches them some grime music will start to play to show the manner of the gang.

This is an image taken from Silence of the Lambs.
When the man leaves the shop after doing his shopping we would like to track him till he arrives at the assault scene. This is one of the shots we will use when tracking him.

This is an image taken from the film Fighting.
Clearly not to this extent but we are going to trying to get a high shot of the man and the main thug surround by the rest of the gang a bit like this image here.

This is an image taken from The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift.
This is an over the shoulder shot. We will be using many of these but i think the most powerful one we will be using is in the last scene when the camera is doing an over the shoulder shot of the 40 year old mans shoulder whilst the camera is staring at the photos of the thugs on the wall.

Lighting

Our opening scene is going to be filmed in quite a dark light as you wont get that many groups of youths hanging about during the day drinking beer so we think it will make it much more realistic if we filmed it at late evening/night. But once our assault scene has taken place and it moves to the next scene which will be light so the camera can see all the photos of the youths clearly and see the credits come up. It shows the audience that the 40 year old man is going to get revenge.

Props

Shopping bag - It implies that the man is just a general man doing some shopping minding his own business.

Cigarettes and bottles of beer - Shows the audience that the youths are up to no good and breaking the law by drinking underage.

We might have a brick involved in our assault scene we haven't quite decided yet but if we do have one it will be there to give off the image that the youths are horrible people and the use of a weapon on the man will build up tension in our opening scene.

Photos - We will need many photos of each youth in different places and different shots of there faces as they will be pasted all over the 40 year olds man wall to show our audience that the man is going after them for revenge.

Costumes

The 40 year old man will be dressed reasonably smart to give the audience the impression that he is a slightly higher class business man.

The people around on the street will be dressed in average clothes to show the audience that it is set in just a normal village nothing really fancy but then again far from being a dump.

The youths will be dressed in trackies and hoddies to give everyone the idea that they aren't very nice people and they are slightly thugs ish.

Shot 13

- Circle the room.
- Zoom in on the pictures of the thugs.
- Credit comes up and the man builds up hatred for teenagers.

Shot 12

- Zooms into the mans eye.

Shot 11

- Close up on the mans busted face.

Shot 10

- Medium shot on the man being pushed to the floor 'slow motion'.

Shot 9

- Two shot/ low angle shot.
- Main thug steps towards the man.

Shot 8

- Perspective shot - quick movement.
- Builds up tension that the man is in trouble

Shot 7

- Perspective shot.
- Shows all the thugs faces going round in a circle.

Shot 6

- High angle shot.
- The group starting to surround the man.

Shot 5

 

- Perspective shot.
- Approaching the gang.
- Grime music in the background to indicate what sort of people they are.

Shot 4

- Over the shoulder shot.
- Turns into alley to walk home and runs into the gang of youths.

Shot 3

- Long shot.
- Tracking the man home.

Shot 2

- Medium long shot.

- Walks home with shopping.

Shot 1

- Medium shot on the man.
- He leaves the shop with his shopping.

Characters + Props

Here is a list of the names of the characters and props that will be in our opening scene.

Route

The route the man will be taking before he runs into the gang.

Summary of our film

Our film is about a 40 year old man who encounters a gang on his way home from the shop whilst minding his own business. This causes many knock on effects which the gang will have to suffer in the future....

Harry Brown conventions

The opening scene is filmed by a camera phone to give the effect of urban youths, showing what the gang get up to and what sort of people they are. This helps to set the scene and the violent manners of this group.  The first thing we see is the use of drugs within the gang. This furthers our earlier point of them disrupting the local area and surrounding people. The setting is in a dark underground walkway with graffiti all over the walls implying there thugs. The use of guns is obvious in the opening scene as they show their guns off with pride and power.

We then see a couple of the gang on a motorbike, they are in a very aggressive mood, they are shouting and screaming. They are terrorising the local area. We see them ride across a local green, here they ride up to a woman and a child, they begin to circle her and fire their gun at her, it appears they dont want to hit her, it seems that they are doing this to intimidate the local people but they then hit her in the upper body. In shock they ride off as quickly as they can, on their escape route they cross a road and are hit by a lorry. This event shocks us, which makes a very powerful opening and from this moment onwards you know that  the film is going to be full of action and violence.

Model Soundtrack

Adulthood is a British gang style film, this is its soundtrack

Track Listings 1 - Over Here - Bashy 2 - End In The Streets - Plan B 3 - F UR EX - Sway 4 - My Dunks - The Click Click 5 - Paranoid - Dizzee Rascal 6 - Kids Of The Underground - Scarlet & Viva 7 - Reppin London - Sincere 8 - Follow - Tinchy Stryder 9 - Running For Life - Eliza Doolittle 10- On It 08 - Adam Deacon 11- Bars Of Truth - NoLay 12- Who Are You - Chipmonk 13- Look What You Done - Lethal Bizzle 14- Kids - Goldie Locks 15- Grime Kid - Wiley 16- I Need Love - Plan B 17- Run Dry - Kerry- Anne Leatham 18- Reach - Skrein 19- Adamhood - Adam Deacon 20- Arms Wide Open - Shystie 21- Kidulthood To Adulthood - Bashy I have uploaded this to show that different forms of media can be developed for the niche market

Actors

I thought as and idea to get the actors in the right mindset of the characters I would think of some famous actors that would suit the roles. In this I have decided to choose big Hollywood actors for the man, however i have gone for young British hard men for the gang.

The Man:
                Mel Gibson, Ed Norton, Nicholas Cage, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Ray Winstone and Ewan                                            McGregor

The Gang:  Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew (plan b), Adam deacon, Devlin, JaJa Soze and Bronson Webb

Ray Winstone

              

JaJa Soze

Adam Deacon

Sound

Music will be very important to set the scene, this is because it can be the make or break moment for creating the atmosphere.

Their will need to be music at the beginning, during the gang scene and while we see the credits.

Another important piece of sound that we need to consider is the dialogue that we will here during the opening scene. The only true piece of dialogue that we will need is when the man approaches the gang. The voices will be different as the man will be polite and well spoken, however the gang will speak in an urban and abusive way.

Props and Costumes for our film

40 year old man- Shopping bag with items in. The man will be dressed quite smartly with a nice approach to the society. Smart jeans and a nice jumper and coat or in a suit with a coat over the top.

Gang- Cigarettes, bottles of beer and maybe a brick. They will be dressed as chavs so they will be wearing trackies, hoodies and looking like thugs to give the impression that there not very nice people.

The mans room- Photos of the chavs all over the walls, we need to make the room make it look like a normal room just with loads of images of teenagers all over it.

Someone else's AS opening to there thriller film

I like the opening scene how it is filmed as it goes straight from the production companies name and advert straight into a black and white close up on the guys face showing his emotion of lose after losing someone.

I think when the girl is walking then stops to phone her mum is very poor as it doesn't look realistic at all just looks very rushed just to find that scene in also when the man starts to follow he just appears which also looks rather fake.

But i do like it how they blend her walking after seeing she is being followed how she walks disappears then walks again and disappears again and so on. It give another effect to the film to make it a little bit more interesting to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhjrAq1a3GY

Possible locations for filming

I went out this evening and took a few photos of some possible places where we are going to film the assault scene.

Story Board

This is our story board we constructed last lesson.

Planning

Here was our first draft plan.

Gang Scene Music

At the moment we are looking at a number of pieces of music, mainly grime music.

We believe that this would be the best genre of music to use as it will show the true manner of the group, as well as this i think that this form of music can be intimidating to those that are from an older generation.

Departure

We are afraid to say that Jon has left or group due to a mix up in lessons

Brief Storyboard

Scene 1- 40 year old male, walks out of a shop after buying some bits, he then heads home
            - medium shot of the man heading out of the shop
            - medium long shot of the man leaving with his shopping
            - Tracking the man walking away

Scene 2- Long shot of the man walking down the street
            - Over the shoulder shot, as the man turns towards the alley
            - He then sees the group of youths in the alley way, they then turn to approach him
            - Grime style music playing in the background to symbolise the manner of the group
            - He thinks nothing of the group

Scene 3- The group begin to get closer to the man
            - They then start to "gob off" at the man and attempt to intimidate him
            - "what you got in your bag old man!"
            - Hand held shot of the mans perspective
            - Lads then circle/surround the man
            - Camera circles to show the man looking round at the group
            - The man says "have you wasters not got anything better to do?"

Scene 4- Lads push him about a bit
            - Group of youths rip his bag, his shopping falls to the floor, this can be shown in slow motion
            - He pushes back in anger
            - The group becomes aggressive and starts shouting
            - The main character of the group gets right in the mans face, two shot showing them staring
              at eachother
            - The gang leader pushes the man to the floor and the group start kicking him whilst he is on                    the floor

Scene 5- The group leave
            - Camera zooms in on the mans face, the mans face is busted and bruised
            - Slowly zooms into the mans eye, and then fades into the mans room, showing the obsession
              he has built after this event

Credits- Movement around the mans room, their are pictures on the wall of thugs
           - Man has built a hatred obsession with teenage oiks
           - Actors and directors names scroll across the screen with the viewing of the pictures 

Our Preliminary task is on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv6fN6LgepE

Evaluation of our prlimiary tast

This task took us about a couple of hours to film and produce the final piece.

We found that the scene of the character walking through the door worked very well and was quite  effective. On Final Cut Express we edited the timing of putting the characters hand on the door and coming out from the other side. We think that we got it perfectly timed.

The background of our video wasn't up to the professional standards that we wanted and expected. If we were doing the task again, we would make sure that we did it in a better location as ours this time was great. We would also make our film a little longer as we thought we cut it a bit short this time around.

Analysis of 3 films: Da Vinci Code, One Hour Photo

Da Vinci Code:

Camera:
Arial shot- Looking down at the museum- To show that there isn't much happening outside the museum
Low angle shot- On the guy's face who is hold the gun- Making him look very powerful and in control of the situation.

Editing:
The opening credits leading into the title of the films- Showing different letters appearing slowly- Builds slow tension, give the impression the film is going to start slow.

Sound:
Non- Diegetic- Theme tune very slow and spooky- Adds tension to the opening scene.
Dialogue- When the guy with the gun speaks- his voice is very powerful, clear and hard as he speaks very slow.

M-E-S:
Painting- When it is being stolen- Sets the first scene.
Gun- When the guy is holding it- Suddenly adds tension straight away.

One Hour Photo:

Camera:
Medium shot- On the old camera- Focusing on it with nothing else going on. Then suddenly takes a picture to get the film started.
Over the shoulder shot- Looking over the DIA, inspector police officers looking towards the suspect- To show us what the criminal is saying when being questioned.

Editing:
Flashback- Showing us a nice happy memory- Shows us how it has changed from the interview room to the flashback which is a happy photo.
Diegetic voice over- When showing the flashback it has the voice of the criminal talking to the inspector-   Shows the difference of happy and sad as the criminal looks very sad.

Sound:
Dialogue- Inspector says 'you dont have to talk to me till she gets here' (his loyar)- Just being fair and giving the criminal the choice.

M-E-S:
Old camera- Old camera at the beginning- Showing us how the cameras use to look like.
New camera- When the girl holds it to her face and take a picture- Showing us a happy moment in time and the women taking a picture.

The Silence Of The Lambs:

Camera:
Medium shot/Tracking- On her running through the forest- Showing her on a early morning run and going over obstacles this could imply she is training for something.
Long shot- Showing her running back into the building- Shows her that she's off to talk to someone as she was asked to.

Editing:
Medium cuts- There is no slow cuts but also no fast cuts in the first 5 minutes of the film- Showing the cuts at a medium speed so its not to slow and boring or focusing on a certain things but not to fast and thrilling like in a action scene.

Sounds:
Non- Diegetic- Theme tune 'opening with credit'- Quite big drum beat rather spooky building tension.
Dialogue- You hear her breathing heavily and see her running towards the camera- Shows she is pushing herself a lot.

M-E-S:
Rope- Showing herself pulling herself up a hill by using rope- Gives the indications she is training very hard.
Massive apperator thing- Shows her climbing and jumping over it- Also gives the impression she is training very hard for something.

Personal Progress Report

Ideas: I've had many ideas on what sort of plot we are going to do for our media coursework e.g. An assault on someone just after they had got off the train at night which would then move into a bit more of a crime thriller film. Another idea I've had is that a murder in a forest could take place just after all the credits had come up with a black background.

Thoughts: I thought that the assault just after getting off the train at night could work as it wouldn't be too hard to make it look realistic but you may have to apply to the national rail as its illegal to film at the train station. With the murder in the forest it could be very tricky to make the murder look effective as we dont have access to a whole film crew etc.

Progress: Our group is in the middle of producing our preliminary task which we should hopefully have filmed and edited it by the end of the week.

Things to learn: I need to learn how to use Final Cut a bit better as I'm not very good with it at the moment because we have only just started messing around with it. I need to get better a Photoshop as well as I'm not great at that either.

Road Train

Looking at these Average you can see how the under 18s have rated it very highly but then also if you look down the list the Females 45+ loved it. Remember this site is dominated by the male 18-29 population. But the rest of the categories were not a massive fan of the film Road Train.

Most review were not great at all as they were all rated 5 or below out and 10. Many of them slate the film saying 'Seriously! This movie could hardly be worse!' and many other phrases along those lines. So from people's reviews and ratings it doesn't sound like this film was a great success. Many people wrote in their reviews the the trailer made the film look very good but when it actually came down to the actual film it was very poor.

What I will take from this is that when creating a trailer it has to be very attracting but make sure the film can back it up in steady of having a brilliant trailer and a rubbish film.

Votes	Average
Males	510	4.1
Females	62	4.0
Aged under 18	10	9.7
Males under 18	7	9.7
Females under 18	3	8.7
Aged 18-29	297	4.3
Males Aged 18-29	257	4.4
Females Aged 18-29	38	3.7
Aged 30-44	227	4.0
Males Aged 30-44	209	4.1
Females Aged 30-44	18	3.6
Aged 45+	40	3.6
Males Aged 45+	36	3.5
Females Aged 45+	2	9.6
Top 1000 voters	31	4.4
US users	90	4.4
Non-US users	358	4.1