Institutional Research

Film 4 is a british film company owned by Channel 4, it’s not an independent company, but still has a low budget which they specialise in making films which can relate to me. 

The example of the low budget movies Film4 has created are movies like:

• This is England
• Attack the block
• Four Lions

These movies are low budget movies and set in england, like mine, they are all action genre, and crime drama, relating to my film.  I have chosen these is because it shows example of movies that can be created in low budget either be a hit or sometimes barley anything sometimes but are still created on a low budget by this company.

I would use film 4 to distribute my trailer, because it has films with the same genre as me and is more likely to release it.

StoryBoards

Script 1 Voice Over

Voice over:

If you’ve seen where I’m at now, versus where I’ve come from, you wouldn’t believe how many changes I’ve been through. People have expectations about people like me. The life I live, the money I make, the world I come from, you know they assume you’re a certain way, Ive had to fight against being type cast my whole career.

Fade to music.

My story’s a well known cliché, come from a tough neighborhood, did things I shouldn’t have done as a kid, you know as a kid we make mistakes, but I moved forward, I decided I wanted to make music for a living, as soon as I do that I get shot, so I had to reach down deep to come back stronger, then I realised, I could do anything if I put my mind to it.

Fade to music

I own business’ I invest in companies, I’m a dealer, a gunman, gang member, I’m an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and now I’ve just launched one of the biggest gangs in the UK, the murder squad. Being in a gang is very similar to rap, it’s the instincts, it’s the training, it’s the discipline that’s involved with it and absolute focus is needed for you to win. You have to go out there, stay focused and absolutely destroy, but even though you’re in a gang, you aint got no teammates, you’re out there on your own.

Fade to music

The Murder Squad is like a dream for me, it allows me to live vicariously, do what gangsters do around, now im not a gangster, but I get a chance to be one every now and then.

Short fade to music.

Being a gangster was just the beginning for me, it gave me a taste of success, number one position, lots of money, Ill never get tired of what im doing because im passionate about it. I love what im doing I wake up excited, there’s always something good to do.

Fade to music

It takes a test training to do what I do, no holidays, no sick days, no retirement.

Fade to music

My comeback is me reintroducing myself to an audience…. Its new people, new perspective, new ideas, I cant wait for them to see it.

Fade to music

When I got shot, it took everything I had to stand up, then walk, then run in a desperate sense. I’m MASK, and murder is my sport.

Script 2

FADE IN:

Ext. streets – nighttime

Camera pans for shot amount of time with establishing shot of city

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

Camera pans for shot amount of time with establishing shot of city 2

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

Camera pans for shot amount of time with establishing shot of city 3

JUMP CUT

Cuts sync with music

FADE TO BLACK:

FADE IN:

Ext. streets – nighttime

Close up camera shot of shoes walking

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

Medium shot of main character hitting civilian

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

Medium close-up of main character pulling gun out of jacket

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

Medium shot from side of Main character holding gun out at victim

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – Daytime
Medium shot, running with bat

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

Long shot smoking in alley way

JUMP CUT

Ext. bridge – Daytime
establishing shot, pan across bridge

JUMP CUT
ext. streets - nighttime
long shot, main character kicks victim and puts him on to wall

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

medium shot from side of gun held to head

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

close up shot from side of gun held to head

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

over the shoulder shot from side of gun held to head then pushed to wall

JUMP CUT

Int. shop  – daytime

Medium shot of stealing from shop

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

lonng shot of meeting then walking away from camera

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – Daytime
Long shot, running away from camera

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

medium shot from side of graffitiing

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – Daytime

medium shot, Walking down street towards camera

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

medium shot from side of graffitiing

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – Daytime

Tracking medium shot, Cars passing

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

medium shot from side of graffitiing 

FADE TO BLACK

Ext. streets – Daytime

medium shot, two shot, low angle walking towards camera

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

medium shot from side, gun held up, giving up wallet

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

Extreme close up, money in wallet

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

long shot, tracking shot, walking down alley

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

medium shot from side, putting wallet in pocket

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

close up, low angle shot of gun getting held to camera

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

over shoulder shot of gun shots

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

medium shot from side of gun shots

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

long shot panning down street

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

long shot panning down street

JUMP CUT

Ext. streets – nighttime

long shot panning down street

JUMP CUT

Ext. Bridge – nighttime

establishing shit, time lapse of bridge

Practice Trailer _ The Simpsons

This is my practice trailer, I was given a set of clips from the simpsons movie and set the task to create a movie trailer with them. I mixed the clips with the track "mafia- hucci" it added a tense atmosphere to the trailer and changed the meaning of the trailer like i was trying to do.

Technical Elements of Storyboards

Shot - A shot tells the reader the focal point within a scene, also when the shot type changes and the focal point changes too.

Storyboard - A storyboard is a shot by shot visual representation and these specific shots can be changed to show the relationship between characters, show emotion and show action. E.g. Two shot, Close up, ect.

The location of where the shots are going to be taken needs to be included. 

You need to display how many characters you want in the shot, which characters you want in the shots, props or vehicles need to be placed in the shot too, or annotated that they should be used, the type of shot and angle shot should also be stated for each section.

Drawings of the action in the cut need to be on the storyboard, arrows and lines are used to show movement and action in the scene. You can also put the speed of the movement with an annotation. For example a person running around a car from one side to the other, you will need draw an arrow to show the movement. For instance you could label the location on the side of the shot.

Lighting needs to be considered in the shot, the type of lighting, e.g. high key, low key. Day and night also needs to be labeled on the shot.

Questionnaire results

these are the results for my questionnaire on my poster, i will use them to tweak what my poster looks like.

Feedback Sheet. Student Work

Name of product	What I thought were the strengths	What I thought were the weaknesses
Sinister Front Cover Horror	the main image used is really good, it fits in well with the genre of the film. Masthead font used fits the genre really well, its also contrasts well with the main image.	the shade of red isnt constant, making it look unprofessional by not sticking to the colour pallet. some text blends well with the main image making hard to read, and the font is too small to read in places.
Infensus Poster Horror	The top image is really good, it fits the genre and the story line of the film, the bottom image sets the scene. The main title of the film is really good, it has a good effect on it which fits in with the film very well.	the landscapes looks over exposed and too bright, which isn't common for a horror.
Under Rogue Poster	font and colour used for the title is really good, it fits in with the genre really well.	Doesn't have enough hints to say that it is a romance genre film. Image used doesn't seem right compositionally and has too much empty space.

Script First Draft Feedback

For my first draft of my script I wrote out the voice over of the trailer.

My feedback was to:
     Put time brackets on how long each segment is going to be.
     Make the text centre aligned in the format of a script.
     Add locations.

Technical elements of script

Fade in - The first item should be a transition, fade in is most commonly used. This would be shown on the left of the page. This is the starting point for any script starts with an edit into the beginning of the scene. Eg.
FADE IN
Scene Heading - This would be a basic description of the location and time, so the scene can be set. Writing for this would be all in capitals. A scene heading can also be referred to as a slugline. E.g.
INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE - NIGHT

Character first appearance - This would be a description of the character, name, where they work/live/are, what they do for a living, age and this would all be in capitals. Eg. MARK, STUDENT, 17, NORTH EAST

Character - A characters name is placed above any dialogue they will be saying and their name will be in capitals. Characters with smaller rolls (people you will only see once) will still be listed but they won't have their birth name, a description of the person will be used instead for example 'BYSTANDER' or 'SHOP ASSISTANT'. Eg.
MARK

Action - The narrative description of the events of the scene, written in present tense. Eg.
On the streets of Newcastle, a car races round the streets, escaping from the police.

Transition - A film editing instruction to show a scene change or development, it will usually only be used in shooting scripts. Eg.
FADE TO

Dialogue - This is the words the character's will be saying through speech. Dialogue format is also used when characters are speaking off screen or a voice over. Eg. Whats up?.

EXT - Exterior
INT - Interior

Photoshoot Planning

Deconstruction of Iron Man 2 Trailer

Deconstruction of Iron Man 2 Trailer

Mise-en-scene

·      Setting: city of Los Angeles, California, USA there is various shots of iron man flying around the city and various locations such as, his house, race tracks, and an airport.

·      Costumes: Iron man wears and iron suit, his alter ego tony stark also wears various outfits including sports outfits and a racing outfit. Other characters wear standard every day clothing, there are soldiers featured who wear army uniform, and there are also other iron suits as the villain has one.

·      Expressions: the expressions are mostly shown in reaction shots and shots of fighting, but most of the time the expressions are covered by his mask.

·      Make up: Make up is used to make characters look beaten up and dirty, but it is also used for the every day characters as normal make up is used.

·      Props: there are a lot of props used in this trailer from weapons to simple things to drinks or boxing gloves, the iron man suit is probably the most obvious prop used in the trailer and is used a lot.

Shot types, Camera angles & Movements

·      Subtle camera movements such as pans, tracking shots and zooms are used to make the trailer flow well.

·      Shot types used are from establishing shots to extreme close ups, but over the shoulder shots and POV shots are also used to mix things up.

·      Camera angles such as low angle shots, canted angles and two shots are used to show narrative.

Sound

·      The sound used in this trailer is a mixture of non diegetic sound such as soundtracks and voice overs, and it also used diegetic sound such as characters talking to each other, explosions and sounds made by objects in the story.

Editing

·      Jump cuts

·      Fade to black

·      Straight cuts

·      Fast paced

Text

·      Bold

·      Bright

·      Fades in

·      Informational text such as dates, actors, title.