Final Production

Evaluation

Evaluation A2

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Magazine Cover

I made a rough design of a magazine cover.

Candidate Information

Simon Williams 3226

Magazine Research

When making my magazine cover I wanted it to look as close to the real thing as possible. I looked at several magazines including Empire and Total Film and decided to use Total Film as a template and just add my film in.

DVD Designs

The DVD designs we're done after looking at such covers as "Unbreakable", I liked the dark background with the name of the film in bold colour.

Intertextuality

During the research for my production I came accross many films which I borrowed from for the final piece. It is very hard to create an entirley original production as almost everything is intertextual in one way or another. It can be argued that even using the same camera angles could be classed as borrowing from another film which used it.
I looked at many films of the same genre as my own during research and used many conventions I found for my production. The trailer for "Hot Fuzz" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kckt9sqz1p4 gave me the an idea about how I used editing, the first few shots being longer and containing more dialogue than the rest. This followed by the fast paced action filled shots which follow create a calm atmosphere then bombard the audience. This is how the film works using Todorov's narrative structure and reflects this in the trailer.
This use of borrowing from another text means I will be able to reference it in my evaluation to show where I got the idea and to will also show that my trailer is postmodern.

Rough Cut

My rough cut is complete at last! I will be making changes, adding or removing things depending on feedback i recieve.

Website

I have made an official film website at this address http://sites.google.com/site/mainframedofficialwebsite/

Shooting Schedule

21st November- Wickford essex (Memorial Park, Alley, Houses)
Cast- Ryan Balloo, Alex Thomson, Jon Cattley

28th November- Wickford essex (House), Southend Victoria (Station)
Cast- Ryan Balloo, Alex Thomson, Jon Cattley

What to do next

Now that I have the storyboard on the blog I am going to think about starting to film the trailer, I will try to make the shots as close to the storyboard as possible. Once I have got all of my raw footage I will need to work on music for it which I will make using garage band.

Sketched Storyboard

Locations

The locations I have chosen for various shots in my trailer have had to be thought out quite carefully to get the right feel for the film. For the station I think southend Victoria might be suitable however I do have the issue of safety as I can’t have people running around a crowded station fighting. To overcome this I have had to make the scenes in the station quite sedate, so the amount of action I will be able to film there will be limited. I don’t think this will affect the outcome of the scenes as the character may not want to make a scene and draw attention to himself so I should be able to adhere to the health and safety issues while producing the same drama in the trailer. The red circle on the picture indicates where I am going to film my high angle security camera shot from as it has a view of the station entrance.

The woodland chase scene will have to be filmed at night to achieve the right lighting effects so the audience won’t be able to see much of the surrounding scenery, I will have to film in a way that shows the audience the audience where the scene is set but as the shot is first person this should be quite easy. I have picked a number of locations for this scene and I think that a public park will be the best place to film. As I won’t be using any “weapon” props in this scene that shouldn’t be an issue however a group of teenagers running around in woods at night may cause concern if anyone else is around. I am going to make signs, which I can easily put; around the area I will film in saying something like “Filming in progress”. I think that this should counter any concern people may feel to us being there.
The house where the character and his flatmate live should be easy to use as it is a private residence we will be able to use “weapon” props although the scene doesn’t call for it however it may add another level of atmosphere to the scene.

Shot Loactions

My house- 4 shots

Friend's house- 6 shots

Alleyway- 3 shots

Other friend's house- 4 shots
Woods- 1 shot

Southend station- 3 shots

Shooting script

Props and costumes

This is a list of props and costumes which i will use and any issues i will face using them.
I have had to think carefully about which props to include in which scenes and if they fit the character who will be using them. Another issue with props are guns; we are not allowed to use fake/toy guns outside as this incurs a serious health and safety issue, if somebody sees the weapon people may panic and think it is real. To combat this I will only use fake/toy guns in an indoor private setting where it will not be visible to the public. I think that the use of guns are vital to my story to show that the criminals are not just thugs but serious. Speaking of the criminals portrayed in my trailer they will wear dark clothes possibly hoodies although this might go against the idea of them being serious organised criminals and not just street thugs. The picture from pulp fiction shows the sort of criminals I am thinking about, proffessional and calm so they are distinguished from petty criminals. The audience will never see the criminal’s faces properly as this will make them mysterious characters and add another level of criminal conventions.

The main character is at his first day at a new job so to start off he will be wearing smart, office wear (white shirt, tie, smart trousers and shoes). This shows him to be unremarkable and average, his flatmate will also be dressed in similar clothing as they both work at the same office. As props go I don’t think the main character will need any at the first few scenes of the trailer, only a pen in his breast pocket to enforce the idea that he works at an office. This again goes along the lines that he is an ordinary worker with nothing to suggest there is anything out of the ordinary about him.

The police will need a few more props to make them stand out as police officers, they won’t be wearing police uniforms as a classic convention of police crime dramas is that the police characters wear suits or casual clothing depending on their personality, this sets them apart from regular police and shows that they’re rank allows them to set them selves apart from regular police. However they will need to have badges, which I don’t think will be hard to replicate although impersonating a police officer is a crime so I will have to be careful to only show them in private settings. Fake/toy guns again may be useful to show that these are not regular police and are involved in something dangerous.

Shot list

Shot list
First of all I plan to use lots of close ups and first person shots to make the audience feel close to the action and confined, as the film is about escaping the police I want the audience to feel as if they can’t get away and they are always being chased. Also i have choisen to film many shots with low key lighting or at night, this is all to create a dark and mysterious feel about the trailer as well as to show the film understands it's genre and will show this by the locations used.
1.Film rating screen BBFC
2.Distribution logo
3.Medium shot character wearing smart clothes (shirt, tie etc) in a hallway, “come on its my first day at work stop giving me lectures”.
4.Over the shoulder shot from character’s point of view showing flatmate standing in the doorway in similar clothing “I had to pull a lot of strings to get you this job so you’d better not embarrass me, your not going to be able to hang around with those criminals all night”.
5.Long 2 shot of them both character says “they’re not criminals they’re my friends”.
6.Production logo.
7.Close up of criminal’s face hidden in the dark “you can’t just walk away from us and not expect consequences”.
8.Medium 2 shot of character looking flustered “they say I’ve been doing things, but I don’t remember any of it”.
9.Close up of character in flat “They said they’re going to the cops”.
10.Extreme close up of printer with arrest warrant printing.
11.Flash transition to running out of the back door and police running through his house trolley shot, high angle.
12.Running through woods at night, police with torches 1st person shot from police officer.
13.1st person from criminal loading gun in garage.
14.Low angle shot of character at train station, police blocking exits.
15.Extreme close up of criminal cocking gun.
16.High angle from security camera watching character running towards train station first person from security camera.
17.Extreme close up of computer screen with cursor flashing next to the word “TERMINATE.”
18.Extreme close up of criminal holding smoking gun barrel
19.Close up of character in alley breathing hard as if he is wounded.
20.Tracking shot of character running through alley chased by criminals.
21.Extreme close up of character’s face, backward over the shoulder shot of criminals closing in on him.
22.Extreme close up of computer screen with cursor typing the word “MAINFRAMED.”
23.Extreme close up of computer screen with cursor typing the words “COMING SOON.”

I have taken many ideas from the teaser trailers I have investigated. An example of this would be from eagle eye, I really liked the idea of a computer taking control of the character's life and I thought the implications of this are a modern topic as computer intelligence gets better. I also liked the teaser for hot fuzz with a short section of calm dialogue and then the classic fast paced action/explosion shots. This could be hard to put this into my trailer as obviously I don't have access to pyrotechnics so I might experiment with scale models and camera shots to make these look authentic. A teaser which I won't be taking anything from is Toy Story 3, although this trailer is very effective in the way it doesn't contain any footage fromthe actual film, I don't think it would work for mine as it works best for films with already famous prequels.

Feedback survey

I created a survey to assess which type of genre people liked and why they liked it. This would be useful in deciding which genre to base my teaser on and what uses and gratifications i could aim it towards.
Expectations and Gratifications

1. What is your favourite genre? __________________
2. What do you expect to see in a film of this genre? E.g. horror film: low-key lighting etc.
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3. Why do you watch films of this genre in terms of uses and gratifications? E.g. purely for entertainment, for the social interaction.
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4. Would you watch a film from a different culture to learn about their culture or would you expect it to play up to our stereotypes?
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5. Would you watch a film just for the social atmosphere of the cinema?
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6. Do you enjoy being one step ahead of the characters and like to guess the ending of the film?
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7. While watching a film which of these uses and gratifications would you rate highest? Escapism (escaping from reality), Social interaction, Identity (identifying yourself with a character or circumstance), inform and educate (gaining an understanding of the world by viewing a media text) or entertain.
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Who would produce my film.

I put quite a bit if thought into who would produce this film.
http://www.newtownfilms.co.uk/ I think that new town films would be perfect for my film as they are local (southend on sea) and they seem to do a range of genres including drama/action so they should be interested in producing my film. http://www.screeneast.co.uk/ I also think screen east might be a good choice for funding as I have seen on the new town films website that they also helped to fund a film on there called “Tester”.

The UK Film Council will also be interested in funding my film as they specialise in low budget independant films and as they funded the Film Bear Bunch's last film Cool Ridings they would be happy to associate with us again.

Synopsis Mk1

This was my first attempt at a film synopsis, since writing this i have made many changes to my story based on feedback.
Synopsis
Film ratings green screen BBFC.
Equilibrium – living normally, documentary style as if the camera is a real camera and he is being interviewed.
Graphics, production logo…
Disruption of equilibrium – framed, friends don’t believe him. Arrest warrant in police station.
Documentary style- police
Realisation of equilibrium disruption – police officer’s house, police looking for him, list of habits information about him as if they have been building a file on him for years, police don’t know they have file on him, something isn’t right.
In family’s house pleading with friends that he didn’t do anything.
Ring on the doorbell, runs out the back while friends try to stop him, police at the door.
Titles, style police report? “When even your friends turns on you for something you don’t even know about”
Police station, police trying to find out where he could have gone, orders from their superiors say he has to be found but police aren’t allowed to find out why.
Woods at night, running first person shots form police with torches chasing character.
Character’s friend, taken by police, don’t know where they’re being taken even police don’t know, orders came from their superiors. Generic “where are you taking me!” sort of dialogue.
Police asking their superiors why they are after the character, even their superiors don’t know where the orders came from and advise the police that it may be from a higher power such as he a government agency.
Titles “the people whose job it is to chase him down don’t even know why they do it”
Repair, character trying to find out who framed him by going to some cyber criminals, dark, low-key back alley.
They take him to their house, low-key, computers, hot, dark; tell him he’s way over his head, conspiracy theories.
Close up of cyber criminal “there is one thing you could do….”
Character disguising himself.
Graphics (security camera shot from up high zooms in on his face).
Police station “found him”.
Chase through the streets, lots of different shots of the police chasing him (first person, trolley shots,)
Police station “he got away again, he is just an ordinary guy, why the hell can’t you guys keep up with him!”
More chasing shots.
Cyber criminal’s house zooms out from the screen as they have hacked into the security cameras watching character “he might actually make it”.
25. Close up of cyber criminal’s face showing him looking excited “

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