(Research and Planning) Faster

Within the first two minutes you do not see a lot of scene but you do get a sence of the main character. You start by seeing a man in a prison cell pacing back and forth, while watching him do this you are continuasly cutting back and forth from him to two prison gards walking towards his cell. By seeing this man pacing back and forth you get a sence that he is impatient. Hw pauses to look at a picture on the wall of him and another man fishing, you begin to ask yourself 'who is this and how does he know him?' not a lot is told to you about any relationship to this man. The main fact you find out is that he is a 'Driver' from this you get the idea that this film is going to be very car orientated. If this is true or not we do not yet know.
The man that we see pacing in the cell has tattoos on his body and arms, you can also see that this man is strong due to his extreamly noticable muscles. This could be one of the things that would bring a female audience. By starting off set in a prison you are already getting a sence of danger to the film, you can't help but to ask yourself 'what did he do to get put there?'
When the camera cuts to a shot of his eyes you can tell that he is not looking to forgive and forget, he has a goal that he is determined to achieve.

(Reasearch and Planning) Taken

Within the opening two minuets of the film not a lot happens, but at the same time a lot happens. We start of with an old home movie of a little girls fifth birthday, within this short clip you see the little girl opening a present and her mother bringing her birthday cake to the table, The little girl blows out the candle and once the flame has gone out we cut from the old film to a man sitting alone in a room with all the lights turned off. This will make the audience relate the girl and mother to this man (wife and daughter) but at the same time they will be asking themselves why is he alone in the dark? Has something happened to them that has driven them apart and he regrets it? or did they die in an accident,we do not yet know. But this is what action movies are famous for the constant thought of what is going to happen next, well that and the car crashes, hand to hand combat, fire arm fights and chase scenes. The man turns the light on to reveal him holding a picture close to his chest, showing that he has strong emotions for the people within that photo. We then see once the man has gotten up that on this photo is a woman on a horse, is this woman his wife? or his daughter (older then in the video)?
We then cut to him in a car pulling up to a shop. Once in the shop he is greeted by the shop worker, this is when we establish the main characters name (although not full) Mr. Mill. By the convosation that Mills has with the worker we are able to know that he goes into this shop frequently. For what reason we don't know, it could be that he just likes to shop their.

(Research and Planning) Bruce Almighty

Within the first 2 mins of Bruce Almighty we already get a sense that this is going to be a film. This is due to the fact that before you even get to see anything you can hear the actors talking in the scene. You can hear Jim Carrey arguing with someone from the news crew about how if he doesn't wear the hair net then he will not be allowed to do the report.
He finally faces the fact he is going to have to wear it, this is where we finally see what is going on, the camera fades in to see Jim pop up from the bottom of the screen wearing the hairnet.
We have this comedic factor that he has to do something that he really doesn't want to do for his news section. after standing up with the hair net on he looks up and asks God why does he hate him so much. This gives the audience that through out the film he is going to be blaming God for everything that goes wrong in his life.
While Jim is speaking to the camera for his news report we see that in the background the character Paul is picking his nose.

When people watch a comedy they mainly want it to make them enjoy themselves and laugh about what they are watching. Comedy can be one of the hardest genres to do because it can be hard to get an idea that is funny and that other people will find funny too. You need to find an idea that other people like, but then you have to find the people who are willing to put themselves out there and who are willing to makes fools of themselves for the entertainment of the audience.

Preliminary Task Final

Preliminary Task. Editing complete.

Yesterday me, Tom, Mo and Aron decided that we NEEDED to get the last bit of footage. So we decided that we were going to come back to the class at lunch so we could finally get the end of our Preliminary Task.

There was a slight problem when we realised that we needed to re film a few shots due to the fact the Mo and Aron were wearing different clothes to the ones that they were wearing in previous scenes. This was not a big problem because all it meant was that we needed to re film a few short moments. We didn't need to re film all of the sections after the change of clothes because it was an easy job to edit in the different shots that we changed around the shots that we had that didn't need to be changed.

The editing was simple, I cut down each shot to the right amount that was needed, cutting off any extra bits that were not needed. I choose to put a title at the beginning of the clip to introduce what it is that the audience were going to be watching, after this I faded the title out and brought in the clip of me walking around the corner through the door, from there onwards it was just simple cuts from shots to shots. At the end of the clip I faded it to black so the audience know that it is over.

The editing that went on was not a difficult task because I have had past experience working with editing soft wear. Adobe was new to me but it didn't take long to be able to familiarise myself with what I had to work with.
Seeing as my group didn't know a lot about what they were doing when it came to editing they decided to leave me to it because I was the best person for the job.

The jobs that we each had were:
Matt: Actor/Editor/Director
Tom:Camera Man/Director
Mohammad: Actor
Aron: Actor
Nadib: Actor

research and planning

This is a really good start Matt. You can remove the video of the song (your 1st post) as you don't need it on there. See the checklist below and keep going!

Make sure you upload your preliminary task.

You should have at least 8-10 posts on here by next Tuesday, including:
- Analysis of at least 4 different genre openings (analyse how mise-en-scene, sound, plot convey genre to audience)
- Preliminary task diary
- Preliminary task evaluation
- own ideas mind map - what genre? plot? etc
- Analysis of at least 2 openings of films from your chosen genre

Prelininary Task editing.

We do not yet have all of the footage that we need to complete our task, but seeing as the location that we need is ocupied we decided that we should beggin to edit the footage that we do already have. The clips that we had collected were easy to upload to the softwear that we were going to be using. Once all of the raw footage was on the softwear I began to look through each indervidual clip to see where would be a reasnobal point to cut it down too. In some clips Nadib began to smile at the end but luckily there was just inuf of the footage that I was able to cut the clipdown so that we still got the shot that we needed but we also don't see him smiling.
This happened many times, but on some of them there was not inuf footage for us to be able to use that clip without seeing him begging to smile. this meant that we had to go back and refilm that one shot.
When it came down to the actual editing it wasn't much of a challenge seeing as I have had past experience in editing, tho it is not a lot I know the basics. Seeing as this is only the preliminary task I felt that the editing should be too extreme, that is why I choose to use only the simply cutting for the shots that went on for too long and fading in and out for the start and end of our clip.

Looking through all of the different video effects, I didn't know what a lot of them did, so I choose to do some tests using some of the footage that me had got for our task. All of the effects that were there for us to use where, all good but I didn't feel that they added to the footage that we already had, this is also why I choose to keep the video effects to a minimal.

Preliminary Task Undergoing

For our preliminary task we were told that we had to film a short clip that consisted of a person walking towards a door, opening the door, walking through the door and having a short covosation in the room.
My group consisted of 5 people. We decided that we wanted to have a bit more creativity for what we were going to have for this task, this is why we came up with the idea of before my character going into the room I would bump into someone who I didn't get along with coming out of the room which I was about to enter.
By choosing this idea this also gave the characters a topic of convosation, 'Why were my friends (who are in the room) talking to Nadib (the guy that I don't get on with).'

Once we had our idea complete we decided to test out a few shots that we could use for each scene. We tryed many different shots but many of them didn't achieve what we wanted, or we were unable to do them.

When it came to the actual filming there wasn't much that we found hard about our task. What we found most difficult was choosing what camera shots would be best for each scene. But anything else that we did we found rather easy. We didn't manage to get all of the filming fisished in one lesson, but when it came to continue our filming we were not able to complete this due to the class we were using was being ocupied by a class. We decided to continue our filming after school seeing as it was a problem trying to get the same clothes that was used for the first bit's of footage.