Evaluation Activity 4

My audience

 

Teens (15+)

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Adults (30)

 

For people within this age barrier they want to live their life with as much thrill as they can. This means seeing action film, playing sports/extreme sports, ect.

When it comes to music, the 15 to 16's would be just ending their musical experimentaion, meaning they have found the music that they like and what they are most likely to listen to from now on. For most teens this means that they have either chosen pop, rap, ect. Or Rock. Both of which does not have a massive impact on the genre of films they like.

Evaluation Activity 2

The Villain

 

 

Within this shot Jack is leaning against a tree checking his gun, preparing to begin to torture his captive. This is a typical bad guy thing to do because it shows he is cocky about the situation, he feels that because he has the gun and his captive's hand and legs are bound then he has full power over him. Enough to take time to simple talk to his captive.
He is always in need to be in control in a situation, the only time he will allow himself not to be in control is when he is getting something out of it, such as money. Every man has his price. Although in reality, he rarely does have control in any situation.

 

 

 

Character who I feel relate to this character:
 

Moriarty - Sherlock

Moriarty is a confident man, assuring Holmes that if he meddles in his plans, he risks inevitable destruction. He has full respect for Holmes's intellect and says that it has been an intellectual treat to grapple with him but is also completely willing to kill Holmes should he oppose him any further, showing a ruthless side. Moriarty has a fiery temper ans also a vengeful streak. Moriarty is similar to Jack's character in the way that he is cocky, he knows when he has time to just sit back and glote about what he has achieved. Also in the way of control, when they are not in control of a situation then they begin to panic.

 

Mr. Creedy - V for Vendetta



Creedy serves the ruling Norsefire party as head of The Finger, the security police who carry out the secret kidnapping, detention and mass murder of anyone who criticizes Norsefire or does not fit its racis standards of "purity". Mr Creedy is similar to Jack's character because he likes to feel in control, but in reality he never is. They both are used by their boss's to get the dirty work done. But in contrast to Jack's character Mr Creedy is higher in the ranks than Jack's, Mr Creedy does have men at his disposal while Jack is the man at disposal.

 

 

Characters who are different:

The Joker - Batman (1989)



The Joker is a psychopathic character who is always in control of every situation, even when you think you are. He has a tendency to, when angry, kill his henchmen. This is different from Jack's character because in no way is Jack's character psychopathic and he is never truely in control of the situation, as much as he would like to believe that he is. Another difference is the fact that The Joker is the leader of the group, he can get others to do his dirty work for him, as much as he does love to do it himself, while Jack's character is one of the henchmen 'grunt' the boss chooses his because they know he will try to get the job done but if he does then it does not effect their plans in any way, it just provides a small bump in the road. A similarality between The Joker and Jack's character would be the fact that when they no longer feel like they are in control they begin to panic for they know they are at risk.



When it comes to characterisation. How the audience sees the characters on the screen is the main way they they begin to relate to the characters and for a relationship with them, if they see someone who is waling around killing people for no reason, like The Joker, then they are going to form a negative relationship with that chracter knowing they are the bad guy, they may like the character but there will be a negative relationship.
On the other hand if they see the character who is trying to stop the killer and save the inocent then they are going to form a posotive relationship with them because they will see that this character is trying to do good within this chaotic world that the audience are seeing on the screen.

Another key element to film would be point of view. They could watch a film with a man who is going around killing people because they are members of an evil cult who have killed his family. This will make you have a posotive relationship whith this character because you feel sympathy with this character, but towards the end of the film it is revieled that this evil cult is not what you thought it was you learn that this cult are the police and the family that was killed are other members of his crime band. This then shifts your view of this character from a posotive relationship to a negative relationship while providing a climax for the film, you begin to think about the fact that you were siding with and supporting a murderer.

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Feedback

R&P = 14
Production = 29
Evaluation = 0

Total = 43 E

Targets:
Complete evaluation activities as a matter of urgency

Frost Bite Script

Re-filming?

From looking at my final piece of work from creating our opening two mins I have noticed that there are many things wrong with it. This will bring me down in marks for my final grade, which is something I do not want to happen. This means that I have two options, I can either focus purely on my Research and Planning or I can re-film my piece.

So far I am leaning more towards the option of re-filming. But also from watching my piece I have grown away from the idea that I had, this means that I will most probably be changing the idea of which I am filming. I do not find this a problem as I have been thinking about possible ideas that I feel are better and I can work with more.

The idea is that the audience will see a person (Main Character - MC) walking down a street dressed in normal attire, narration will be heard over the clips that you see, he will turn down an ally but stop as he has a feeling that he is being watched. 'camera will look around the corner at him but as he turns to see the camera it will duck and hide behind the wall'. As he then turns to continue walking down the ally he will see that there is now a man standing in his way a few meters away blocking his path (Bad Guy 1), 'with the main character facing the camera over should shot to reveal that there is also someone now standing behind his a few meters away blocking his escape route (Bad Guy 2)'. Realising what is about to happen MC will take off his jacket and place it on the floor next to him, standing up looking at Bad Guy 1, both Bad Guys will nod at each other signalling that they are about to attack. Bad Guy 2 makes the first move, running forwards to MC, MC will counter by turning and elbowing Bad Guy 2 in the head, knocking him into the wall (Fight scene). Once killing Bad Guy 2 by breaking his neck MC will look at the body, pick up and put on his jacket and move over to the still dazed Bad Guy 1 on the floor, move behind him, pick up his head and begin to strangle him, while covering his mouth, till he is dead. MC will then get up shrug off what just happened and continue to walk off down the ally. Cut to title screen.

If I was to re-film my final piece then this will be the idea that I will go with.

Opening Two Mins (FINAL)

This is an edited product of my opening two mins. A few tweaks have gone into the final piece  Including; music at the tital screen, memory sound (voice)

Cliff Hanger

In my opening 2 minuets I have left it at a cliff hanger. The reason for this is because when I have been watching the opening 2 minuets of action movie I have noticed that a lot of them cut to the name of the film after leaving the 2 minuets with a question for the audience to ask, 'Who is that?', 'Why did they do that?', 'What is going to happen next?' ect.

These, if used in the right way, can be extremely effective. The need to be used in a way that makes the audience ask a question, if not then they are pointless and useless.

This is why I have chosen to leave my clip the way I have, I want the audience to ask 'Why?', the only way that they would be able to find out would be to watch the next part of the film.

How My Research Has Helped (Research and Planning)

When looking at the different audiences that are attracted to the different genres of film I noticed that he action genre has a wide range. They attract both male and female and a verity of ages.

I looked at what action films include that they use to attract their audience; they seem to use close ups as this then allows the audience to see and know who each of the characters are. Slow-motion is used in once vital shot highlighting the importance of that scene. To attract the male audience they use chase scenes, fight scenes, gun fights and A LOT of explosions, as for the female audience they choose to use actor who are known highly for their attractiveness 'in a scene of great struggle Channing Tatum suddenly has to take off his shirt in a matter of life and death'.

When aiming for an audience of young teens to adults the film makers will allow their content to be a little more graphic than if aiming for a 'U' rating on a film.
When watching a film the younger generation seem to just want to be thrilled, they want to see the works when is come to fights and pyro-techniques, while the older audience want more of a gripping story with scenes which can get their blood pumping, all generations when watching a action film want to be sitting on the edge of their seat wanting more.

I realise that when coming to making an action from it can provide a challenge as you want your scenes to have both emotion and thrill. When you watch the beginning of a film you want to be gripped by the scruff of the neck, wondering what is going to happen next. A film like this can be hard to make as different people can be thrilled by different things. The opening of action films seems to focus more on the thrill then the emotion within it, they want you to get that burst of adrenalin that keep you wanting.

Casino Royale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJubOZLpp4A

Target Audience - British & American, Action Lovers, Teens - Adults, Mostly Male,

How film appeals to targeted audience - We start off in the interesting location of Madagascar, this appeals to an audience because it is a location that they do not see a lot so this is a new experiance, you get to see your faverouit characters in a whole new location.
The fist thing that we see is a crowd of people participating in illigal betting, this illegal activity is already setting the atmosphere high as we now know that the target is known for their betting habbits, makes a like to the title 'Casino Royal' with the idea of betting. Allowing the audience to make that link at this early stage allows them to get more into the film they are about to watch because it is allowing the film to have a reason to go to the casinos without needing to explain why.
We learn that the famous James Bond is not working alone, he has an acomplice, allowing the audience to have an idea about the danger from this mission they have been sent on, this then allows the audience to already have the sitting on the edge of your seat atmoshphere for they do not yet know how much danger the task at hand is. Will this acomplise have a grewsom fate? What other reason would James Bond need some help apart from to set a hooking story and motive for James.
The film sticks to the world know stereotype of a White Hero and a Black Villain.

Opening 2 mins ... Uncomplete

Feedback

Research and Planning: Level 3 13/20
Time management is good
Proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience
Proficient organisation of actors, locations and props

To progress to level 4, make sure you have explained how your research impacted your decisions (for example in use Pearl and Dean to create audience profile posts, and explain how you intend to address the potential target audience in your opening 2 minutes).
Work needed on storyboarding.



Production: Level 3 45/60
Proficiency in the creative use of the following technical areas:
Producing material appropriate to the target audience and task
Editing appropriately and so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
Shooting appropriate material including: controlled use of camera, attention to framing, variety of shot types and close attention to mise-en-scene.

To progress, make sure you use titles appropriately according to institutional conventions (remove 'as agent...'). Consider sound - some dialogue is louder than other.

Film Editing

After getting all of the footage it came time to move on and begin the edition presses. This was not a difficult job because I knew exactly where each clip would need to be cut.

The main challenge was the continuity, some clips that I had filmed didn't fully continue from the previous clip. They looked like they were a few minuets after the previous clip, This meant that I would either have to re film those scenes or I would have to work around it.
Because of the fact that to re film I would need my set to be covered in snow again I found that it would have to work around it, there wasn't enough time to re film the whole of my work.

I used the fading edition to make it seem like there has been a jump in time in the film, although very short, it is used to cut down any unnecessary movement from the character that the audience would find boring.

The cutting of the clips was not as easy as I expected but it still proved to be an easy task because of the how I filmed, I found that it was easy to sync each clip into each other.

In one certain clip I filmed (filmed more than once) I found that towards the begining of one clip the sound and movement was fine but towards the end the sound got effected by the snow, while in another clip of this section ther begining was too shacky and the end was fine in sound quality. This meant that I was going to have to use the beggingin of one clip and the end of the other, this was am easy prossess, the only challenge was the continuity, I had to cut each clip so when one ended the other started at the point where we left of from the other.

Creating A Soundtrack

In our latest Media lesson we were showed how to make our own music and sounds to put into our opening 2 minuets. This provides us with an alternative if we are unable to find music or sound that we can use.

By going into a music room we are able to open up a program that allows us to record what we play on the Keyboard but change the sounds. This allows us to e creative and try out different ideas that we think could work in our 2 mins. There are no limitations to what you can do with this apart from the fact that I was unable to fund any sounds that I wanted to include as the music.

the gun shot sounds that were available I didn't think sounds realistic enough to use within my opening 2 mins.

(Research & Planning) Gun shot sound effect

Within my opening 2 minuets of my film I was hoping to have a gun shot, there will be nothing on screen, you will only hear the gun shot.

Location - Mansion Gardens (Leatherhead)

 

 

Mansion Gardens (leatherhead)
I have chosen to select the location of my 2 min clip to be Mansion Gardens because I like the scenery and it seems to enforce the idea that I would like to show.

 

This location provides all of the setting that I require for my opening 2 min clip. It leaves me with an escape rout for my hit-man and a place to hide the body of the dead man.

 

There were other locations which were suitable but I didn't feel that provided as much as Mansion Gardens.

 

When choosing my location that main things that I was looking for were a small area, surrounded by bushes, had a grassy surroundings but also a enough open space for the setting to be seen.

Trouble

So far out of the whole task of creating our opening 2 minuets clip that thing which has provided the most challenge has been the getting hold of a gun to use.
I have looked at many fake guns that we could use but all of them didn't look very good on camera.
This was proving a very difficult job for me.
I remember that I have been in a short remake of`Sucker Punch ran by my friend. The gun used in that I am hopin to get a hold of. This is the closest I could get to a realistic gun.