Since my music was not crime related enough we got some CD's from our teacher and heres just a quick diary update.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Bad example of poster
Here is a fairly bad example of a poster to promote a movie. First of all there is a fairly boring colour mixed with another boring colour making it stick out, but at the same time you cant read some of the writing due to the fact its black on black writing. There are also to many pictures. there is also not much to see for passing viewers. as a group we will make sure we dont make anything close to this!
Good example of poster
Here is a very good example of a murder mystery poster mainly cause it has the stereotypical hat and cigarette with very little use of colours and font, this is because most posters have very simple pictures and colours. this makes it able for a passing viewer to have a quick read. we plan to do this in our task.
Friday, 3 December 2010
Last day.
Today is the last day we had to do any finishing touches to our short film.
All we did was refilm bruno marleys interview, and of course, the giggles started up again, and with in 3 or so hours the scene was complete. in the last draft the scene was considered to dark and had poor footage which resulted in a bad review from our teacher. this time we turned on all the lights and opened most curtains.
Now all to do is ancillery reviews and thats about it!
All we did was refilm bruno marleys interview, and of course, the giggles started up again, and with in 3 or so hours the scene was complete. in the last draft the scene was considered to dark and had poor footage which resulted in a bad review from our teacher. this time we turned on all the lights and opened most curtains.
Now all to do is ancillery reviews and thats about it!
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Monday, 15 November 2010
Musical tab
Seeing as i cannot write music, i have the musical tab sheet here below, the first signifies the piano tab, which in turn every 8th bar the piano 'key' changes either 2semi tones up or two semi tones down (semi tones on a piano are either one key up or one down so if the piano you hear is being played in the key of C, two semi tones up, would equal a D) the next picutre is a tab sheet of the violin, this is played always two semi tones above the piano key, 2 octaves higher than the lowest octave in the piano sheet.
Next is the drum sheet, from top to bottom the percussion is as follows.
Hi Hat
Floor Tom
Tom Tom
Snare
Bass Drum
Enjoy!
Next is the drum sheet, from top to bottom the percussion is as follows.
Hi Hat
Floor Tom
Tom Tom
Snare
Bass Drum
Enjoy!
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Music Production Diary
This was done by me, pretty much shows how simple it was to make music for my film.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Target audience research and planning
When finding out the right target audience for YOUR short film the first best thing to do would be to put together a questionnaire and then take a look at the feedback. The feedback from a questionnaire will give you the exact information you will want to know from the correct target audience, if asked the correct questions. Here are a few questions that may be asked on our questionnaire: (without answer options)
How old are you?
Male or Female?
Are you still under education?
How often do you watch a film?
What genre of film do you prefer?
What genre of film interests you?
Do you think murder mystery films build a lot of suspense?
Name 3 of the best thriller films you have watched?
Name your favourite film?
Would you enjoy watching a murder mystery?
Are murder mystery's boring ?
if yes, why?......
^^ this is an example of pretty much the questions we would need to ask in order to get answers for our target audience research.
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/vitalstats
The UK film council website helped gather bits of information that were useful to help us identify who are audience was, it was a very niche audience as not many people are interested in murder mysteries when drawn in by other interesting genre's of movie such as comedy, action, horror, sci-fi etc.....
How old are you?
Male or Female?
Are you still under education?
How often do you watch a film?
What genre of film do you prefer?
What genre of film interests you?
Do you think murder mystery films build a lot of suspense?
Name 3 of the best thriller films you have watched?
Name your favourite film?
Would you enjoy watching a murder mystery?
Are murder mystery's boring ?
if yes, why?......
^^ this is an example of pretty much the questions we would need to ask in order to get answers for our target audience research.
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/vitalstats
The UK film council website helped gather bits of information that were useful to help us identify who are audience was, it was a very niche audience as not many people are interested in murder mysteries when drawn in by other interesting genre's of movie such as comedy, action, horror, sci-fi etc.....
Friday, 5 November 2010
Final draft refilm
Today, we decided to scrap the short film and make a music video of the song 'hungry like a wolf' by duran duran, using the 'mirror' webcam on 'photobooth' on the mac, using very homosexual gestures/vibes. Well thats a lie.
Well on our way to complete the final draft as well as the music to go with it, which that music production diary shall be up shortley. we have added a new ending, which is quite a surprise including a vast amount of sound design going in to it! although yet again it was filmed in the dark we still managed to get great shots to make the scene very intense to its murder mystrey climax!
Now all to do is ancillery tasks which should prove fairly easy as there are alot of murder mystrey or crime genres out there!
More from Take One Productions!
Well on our way to complete the final draft as well as the music to go with it, which that music production diary shall be up shortley. we have added a new ending, which is quite a surprise including a vast amount of sound design going in to it! although yet again it was filmed in the dark we still managed to get great shots to make the scene very intense to its murder mystrey climax!
Now all to do is ancillery tasks which should prove fairly easy as there are alot of murder mystrey or crime genres out there!
More from Take One Productions!
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Refilm continued
During the last scenes, YES giggling did occur. so we fell into the night time where it started to rain fairly badley, a great quote from tonight was from a one 'andrew chappel' who said...'Gurleen im cold...can i hug you' Bless his little cots! (gurleen decided to tag along, as he was staying at the unsworth house hold for an allnighter of fifa by the looks of it)
The rain worked treats for us as it make it seem like a sinister scene for the mise en scene, like something bad was going to happen. Even though it was filmed at night since there were many lights in the alley it worked a treat as it mate Mr marley look more sinister than ever. And when filming close ups of the detectives, the rain dropping on their coats made a great effect for the HD camera!
We have now finished our second draft and have borrowed a mac from the school to get the editing done pronto!
The rain worked treats for us as it make it seem like a sinister scene for the mise en scene, like something bad was going to happen. Even though it was filmed at night since there were many lights in the alley it worked a treat as it mate Mr marley look more sinister than ever. And when filming close ups of the detectives, the rain dropping on their coats made a great effect for the HD camera!
We have now finished our second draft and have borrowed a mac from the school to get the editing done pronto!
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The refilm of 2nd draft
Today we refilmed most of the 2nd draft, we did some classy shots rather than our first draft which literally all scenes were pretty much the same. We also filmed in HD for our second draft rather than 'D.I' which made a huge difference in the quality, and were able to do much more with the effects such as manual focus, night vision, a better zoom and what not. Technology these days eh!
It started off at the long walk, where we tested with different shots such as high angle, point of view etc. But this came with a penalty...The giggles came and never went! it took a good 6 hours or filming, of constant recharging of the camera and what not to film a good 3 scenes, which is fairly fairly poor, but hey, we have a great time, which was funny most of it.
More to come from Take One Productions!
It started off at the long walk, where we tested with different shots such as high angle, point of view etc. But this came with a penalty...The giggles came and never went! it took a good 6 hours or filming, of constant recharging of the camera and what not to film a good 3 scenes, which is fairly fairly poor, but hey, we have a great time, which was funny most of it.
More to come from Take One Productions!
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Target Audience
Target Audience for a short film
Since there is much of an audience for a short film, its hard to say what the target audience could possibly be. This audience are commonly known as ‘film buffs’ they are the sort of people who go to short film events, go to the cinema at least twice a week or searching the web for rare copies of films, or even travel to parts of the world where some of your favourite films are featured. they are also people who collect every film they watch or the majority on either VHS or DVD. Some even go back to black and white movies or even silent! Film buffs can also be known as film avids, and there are 3 types of film avids. They are the following:
Summits: these are the most knowledgeable avids who would most likely work in the film industry for big names such as MGM, Paramount, Sony etc. Or possibly in journalism for film. These avids are most often interested in the business of the film industry, as well as the film (s) itself.
Specialists: these are the most obsessive avids. They are very critical of films that do not suit them to their taste of film. But they are the biggest collectors of films
Scatterguns: these are the least obsessive/knowledgeable of the three, they tend to enjoy films as part of a weekly routine.
Through studying the Medium of short films it is apparent it is a very niche market.meaning it is imperative that me and my group find the right target audience. With 90% of short films being made up by small non-funded film makers they try and hit hard hitting issues and social beliefs. The genre isn't meant to be an entertaining one but more of a thought provoking art form. The term 'Film buff' comes from critics who take notice of these short films and are seen as snobs, usually through stereotype.
Our film will be targeted towards a more mature audience and for either men or women, as we are looking to deal with a murder mystery and it can be quite a confusing topic. Our group is looking to re-define the medium of short film by adding a murder mystery element something, through research, hasn't been done before. Making our task of this demographic hard to forsee, but usual film buffs are 18-40 males and enjoy understanding world news and politics.
Are film "suspect" could catch the eye of all different types of lifestyle. We beilve we can target a wide range of audience's.
We think the spilt is 65% male and 35% women because are film is about murder and will be scary in parts of the film, and male's generaly go and see horror films more than women.
Social class B-C is what we are going to aim for because are film isnt what people with the class of A would go and see because of the blood, horror and the story line, soical class B is going to be are main audience with a few of C.
The race would be mixed because there's nothing in are film so bad that people from other countries would fine offisive.
Explorers, Survival and maybe Mainstreams will be are target audience in this part of the field because what reseach we have done into target audience this sort of film attracts this range of audience.
YAKS, DINK, and MICE.
Since there is much of an audience for a short film, its hard to say what the target audience could possibly be. This audience are commonly known as ‘film buffs’ they are the sort of people who go to short film events, go to the cinema at least twice a week or searching the web for rare copies of films, or even travel to parts of the world where some of your favourite films are featured. they are also people who collect every film they watch or the majority on either VHS or DVD. Some even go back to black and white movies or even silent! Film buffs can also be known as film avids, and there are 3 types of film avids. They are the following:
Summits: these are the most knowledgeable avids who would most likely work in the film industry for big names such as MGM, Paramount, Sony etc. Or possibly in journalism for film. These avids are most often interested in the business of the film industry, as well as the film (s) itself.
Specialists: these are the most obsessive avids. They are very critical of films that do not suit them to their taste of film. But they are the biggest collectors of films
Scatterguns: these are the least obsessive/knowledgeable of the three, they tend to enjoy films as part of a weekly routine.
Through studying the Medium of short films it is apparent it is a very niche market.meaning it is imperative that me and my group find the right target audience. With 90% of short films being made up by small non-funded film makers they try and hit hard hitting issues and social beliefs. The genre isn't meant to be an entertaining one but more of a thought provoking art form. The term 'Film buff' comes from critics who take notice of these short films and are seen as snobs, usually through stereotype.
Our film will be targeted towards a more mature audience and for either men or women, as we are looking to deal with a murder mystery and it can be quite a confusing topic. Our group is looking to re-define the medium of short film by adding a murder mystery element something, through research, hasn't been done before. Making our task of this demographic hard to forsee, but usual film buffs are 18-40 males and enjoy understanding world news and politics.
Are film "suspect" could catch the eye of all different types of lifestyle. We beilve we can target a wide range of audience's.
We think the spilt is 65% male and 35% women because are film is about murder and will be scary in parts of the film, and male's generaly go and see horror films more than women.
Social class B-C is what we are going to aim for because are film isnt what people with the class of A would go and see because of the blood, horror and the story line, soical class B is going to be are main audience with a few of C.
The race would be mixed because there's nothing in are film so bad that people from other countries would fine offisive.
Explorers, Survival and maybe Mainstreams will be are target audience in this part of the field because what reseach we have done into target audience this sort of film attracts this range of audience.
YAKS, DINK, and MICE.
Monday, 20 September 2010
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Update
Our full film has now been filmed, it took us from wednesday till friday to film all scenes, now all thats left is to edit and put some sound on, seems as though our group is first to finish.
Although at the last day of filming we had to change charecters as our female charecter could not make it, but thats the beauty of improvisation!
We currently has a standing budget of 15£ being spent on this film!
that being, some trampish looking tracksuit bottoms, 6 cups of tea (school costa) a tea at the unsworth house hold, a cigarette, a non alcoholic beer.
We are very commited to our short film!
More to come from take one productions!
Although at the last day of filming we had to change charecters as our female charecter could not make it, but thats the beauty of improvisation!
We currently has a standing budget of 15£ being spent on this film!
that being, some trampish looking tracksuit bottoms, 6 cups of tea (school costa) a tea at the unsworth house hold, a cigarette, a non alcoholic beer.
We are very commited to our short film!
More to come from take one productions!
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Location Shots
These are the location shots we are thinking of using mainly because of the body being found in the woods and a crime scene in the woods, with the fox and hounds pub playing a key scene in our plot.
These were taking by Andrew Chappel, some very good photos!
Health and Safety Risks
This is our health and safety risks assesment for when we go out filming...The next post will be our location shots, to come shortly
Friday, 10 September 2010
Synopsis
Our short film is a murder mystery that goes by the name of 'suspect'
It starts off with a dog walker minding his own business walking his dog and throwing his dog ball for the dog to catch, the dog walker throws the ball into a ditch where the dog finds a dead body. The dog walker calls the police.
The story continues as the two main detectives are on the scene. They investigate the murder and find the victim is a man with many debt problems, but also took 100% of his parents will, which none was given to the step brother. so the main suspects are the victims step brother, a loan shark who lent the victim money and a tramp who was last seen with the victim. Things start to pipe up as the two detectives question each suspect, with the tramp giving up the proper suspect. But there is a huge twist at the end. Watch to find out!
It starts off with a dog walker minding his own business walking his dog and throwing his dog ball for the dog to catch, the dog walker throws the ball into a ditch where the dog finds a dead body. The dog walker calls the police.
The story continues as the two main detectives are on the scene. They investigate the murder and find the victim is a man with many debt problems, but also took 100% of his parents will, which none was given to the step brother. so the main suspects are the victims step brother, a loan shark who lent the victim money and a tramp who was last seen with the victim. Things start to pipe up as the two detectives question each suspect, with the tramp giving up the proper suspect. But there is a huge twist at the end. Watch to find out!
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Update
Things are going rather swimmingly as we have nearly finished our story boards as well as our health and safety sheet, our group is working to the max in order to begin filming right away!
The location shots will be up shortly, just needing Chappel to send all the group the pictures.
As will the story boards and health and safety sheet!
More to come!
The location shots will be up shortly, just needing Chappel to send all the group the pictures.
As will the story boards and health and safety sheet!
More to come!
Shooting schedule
This is our shooting schedule
Monday 2pm till 4pm scenes one and two
Tuesday during school editing.
Wednesday 2pm till 6pm scenes Three and Four
Thursday during school editing
Friday 2pm till 8pm Remaining scenes
Monday Editing
This is then genuine schedule that we used for when refilm the drafts and what not.
Monday 2pm till 4pm scenes one and two
Tuesday during school editing.
Wednesday 2pm till 6pm scenes Three and Four
Thursday during school editing
Friday 2pm till 8pm Remaining scenes
Monday Editing
This is then genuine schedule that we used for when refilm the drafts and what not.
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Texual analysis on a short film
This short film im writing about is a film called 'The Black Hole'
This film has the theme of 'greed' and is very easily shown in this film. The film is about a man who is obviously living a boring life as a scanner in an office. he finds that his printer is not working and decided to kick it, where it preceeded to start working again. the printer prints a 'black hole' there is a little comedy in the film for when he puts the whole to a vending machine just to grab chocolate (there again fairly greedy). The film gives a sense of 'Karma' as at the end he starts to steal money from a safe and then decided to go into the safe to grab all the money, that is then when the black hole falls off the safe trapping him inside, Kind of like karma!
i found this video on youtube via word of mouth from a film buff.
There are many special effects used for just a shrot film, this must of been fairly time consuming.
(We decided to use a big of the greed genre in our murder mystrey with the 'step brother' getting all of the parents will)
The target audience for this film is a fairly neash audience know as film buffs, who basically own majority of released films and such. i found this video on youtube via word of mouth from a film buff.
This film will never be big enough to be released to buy, mainly because its a short film and there arent many people who will watch short films, i'd never heard of short films before i started to study media at A level.
This film has the theme of 'greed' and is very easily shown in this film. The film is about a man who is obviously living a boring life as a scanner in an office. he finds that his printer is not working and decided to kick it, where it preceeded to start working again. the printer prints a 'black hole' there is a little comedy in the film for when he puts the whole to a vending machine just to grab chocolate (there again fairly greedy). The film gives a sense of 'Karma' as at the end he starts to steal money from a safe and then decided to go into the safe to grab all the money, that is then when the black hole falls off the safe trapping him inside, Kind of like karma!
i found this video on youtube via word of mouth from a film buff.
There are many special effects used for just a shrot film, this must of been fairly time consuming.
(We decided to use a big of the greed genre in our murder mystrey with the 'step brother' getting all of the parents will)
The target audience for this film is a fairly neash audience know as film buffs, who basically own majority of released films and such. i found this video on youtube via word of mouth from a film buff.
This film will never be big enough to be released to buy, mainly because its a short film and there arent many people who will watch short films, i'd never heard of short films before i started to study media at A level.
The short film.
I have found a new group, after being put into a different class from carlos and richard.
This group consists of Robert Unsworth, Osaama Zaheer and Andrew Chappel.
Our idea (which is still in progress) consists of a murder mystrey of which a man who has many debts and a lot of issues with people is falsly killed by a certain someone (you dont see the killer till the end). There a 3 suspects one is the a brother who did not get any of his parents's will, another is a hit man, and the other is a loan shark. all these people have a linked story to the victim, in which the detective has to interrorgate each suspect.
Of course this idea was only made in the space of an hour, So more to come sooner rather than later!!!
This group consists of Robert Unsworth, Osaama Zaheer and Andrew Chappel.
Our idea (which is still in progress) consists of a murder mystrey of which a man who has many debts and a lot of issues with people is falsly killed by a certain someone (you dont see the killer till the end). There a 3 suspects one is the a brother who did not get any of his parents's will, another is a hit man, and the other is a loan shark. all these people have a linked story to the victim, in which the detective has to interrorgate each suspect.
Of course this idea was only made in the space of an hour, So more to come sooner rather than later!!!
Textual Analysis 2
This second textual analysis is a song by Eric Clapton called "tears in heaven".
This song has a specific background which relates his lyrics to real life. On march the 20Th 1991, his son Connor died from falling from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months . He wrote this song dedicated to his son. Though this wasn't his typical style of music, it was considered more soul or slow pop due to the fact its really slow paced with calm drums, a calm voice and acoustic guitars, rather than his known style of rock with bombastic drums, distorted guitars Etc
The video starts off with an establishing shot of a beach, which then cuts to a woman running across the sand. which then cuts to Eric Clapton and his guitar.
This video is narrative based mainly because of Eric singing the lyrics of what seems like losing someone special, this is shown by Eric being in a small somewhat dark room, full of instruments just playing an acoustic guitar, with a sad face, just performing on his guitar and singing. The lyrics being said such as "Would you know my name, if i saw you in heaven, would it be the same, if i saw you in heaven" shows that its narrative that if he saw his son, would it be the same obviously, but during the video it cuts to another scene, were it looks as though two people in love, seem to look at each other through different shots such as the man looking into his rear view mirror, and then at another cut/scene a woman is looking into the camera, making it seem as though they have a connection.
During the lyrics "time can break your heart, having begging please, Begging please" there is a juxtaposition of those lyrics being said and a man looking down in shame, only to hug what looks like his daughter with an apology.
There are loads of cuts to different scenes when the lyrics start off a "beyond the door" there is a man trying to commit suicide, but then stopped by a woman, and it seems this woman is looking after him, which was something Eric Clapton couldn't do for his son, which he may be trying to relate that if only he was there sooner rather than later, maybe his son would still be alive.
The video then cuts to close up of a woman opening her eyes, which she sees a man on the floor looking in pain, this is happening when the lyrics are saying "I must be strong and carry on", after that it cuts back to Eric with various panning shots as it has all video of him then saying "cause i know, i don't belong, here in heaven" which states that he cant do anything about his sons death and that whats done is done. It then cuts to a close up of a woman hugging a man, you also see a man crying, this connotes that they are parting each other, and they happened to be a very close couple.
The end of the video you see a woman staring at another girl, with bloodshot eyes that seemed to be the result of crying, which then cuts back to a close up of Eric playing the end of his riff on his guitar, to then fade to black.
My conclusion of this essay is that, this song was a meaningful masterpiece from Eric Clapton and his unfortunate event that led to his sons death, its a slow rock/soul song and the song being about something that is lost, and with lyrics like 'would you know my name, if i saw you in heaven' stating the fact, would his son still recognise him even though hes in heaven, this is a very strong expressed feeling the artist emits from the song and lyrics.
This song has a specific background which relates his lyrics to real life. On march the 20Th 1991, his son Connor died from falling from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months . He wrote this song dedicated to his son. Though this wasn't his typical style of music, it was considered more soul or slow pop due to the fact its really slow paced with calm drums, a calm voice and acoustic guitars, rather than his known style of rock with bombastic drums, distorted guitars Etc
The video starts off with an establishing shot of a beach, which then cuts to a woman running across the sand. which then cuts to Eric Clapton and his guitar.
This video is narrative based mainly because of Eric singing the lyrics of what seems like losing someone special, this is shown by Eric being in a small somewhat dark room, full of instruments just playing an acoustic guitar, with a sad face, just performing on his guitar and singing. The lyrics being said such as "Would you know my name, if i saw you in heaven, would it be the same, if i saw you in heaven" shows that its narrative that if he saw his son, would it be the same obviously, but during the video it cuts to another scene, were it looks as though two people in love, seem to look at each other through different shots such as the man looking into his rear view mirror, and then at another cut/scene a woman is looking into the camera, making it seem as though they have a connection.
During the lyrics "time can break your heart, having begging please, Begging please" there is a juxtaposition of those lyrics being said and a man looking down in shame, only to hug what looks like his daughter with an apology.
There are loads of cuts to different scenes when the lyrics start off a "beyond the door" there is a man trying to commit suicide, but then stopped by a woman, and it seems this woman is looking after him, which was something Eric Clapton couldn't do for his son, which he may be trying to relate that if only he was there sooner rather than later, maybe his son would still be alive.
The video then cuts to close up of a woman opening her eyes, which she sees a man on the floor looking in pain, this is happening when the lyrics are saying "I must be strong and carry on", after that it cuts back to Eric with various panning shots as it has all video of him then saying "cause i know, i don't belong, here in heaven" which states that he cant do anything about his sons death and that whats done is done. It then cuts to a close up of a woman hugging a man, you also see a man crying, this connotes that they are parting each other, and they happened to be a very close couple.
The end of the video you see a woman staring at another girl, with bloodshot eyes that seemed to be the result of crying, which then cuts back to a close up of Eric playing the end of his riff on his guitar, to then fade to black.
My conclusion of this essay is that, this song was a meaningful masterpiece from Eric Clapton and his unfortunate event that led to his sons death, its a slow rock/soul song and the song being about something that is lost, and with lyrics like 'would you know my name, if i saw you in heaven' stating the fact, would his son still recognise him even though hes in heaven, this is a very strong expressed feeling the artist emits from the song and lyrics.
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Textual Analysis 1
The video I am analysing is a song by the foo fighters and song being My hero this song is in the rock/alternative genre, mainly due to the distortion of a guitar, bombastic drums, deep bass line and loud sometimes smooth vocals. .
This video is a narrative based song mainly because he’s narrating about his hero through song, although it could be concept based in some ways such as an idea of a vigilante attempting to be a super hero or typical citizen trying to win a girls heart, as we see at the end of the film.
The relationship between the lyrics and video match very well, since this video has a long take for the majority of the film you basically see a guy, running to places to help people the lyrics are long that say “too alarming now to talk about” this signifies that he cant stop to talk he’s got to save something/someone, also when ever the guy we see is about to save something for a member of the public the lyrics say “there goes my hero, watch him as he goes” which is perfect camera work, that’s when the music changes pace with the music going faster, but during a verse its just quiet and smooth.
During the whole song mainly the artist is just talking about his hero, obviously written through song. Also during the end of the song, you can see Dave Grohl (lead singer/guitar) looking into a tv seeing himself singing/performing. There are also close ups when the “hero” enters a new house, seeing the artists playing in the Smokey/ fiery house, this sort of image goes along saying “yeah were alright, our hero’s here now were safe” sort of thing, seeing as they are playing in a fiery house. With close ups of all the band members faces. The image of the band is looking like they are helpless when in the houses playing their music, but when ever the hero saves something their eyes are blacked out, making it seem like they are also a serious band.
This video can relate to things such as firemen, super hero’s, mainly cause of the point the song being about “my hero” these are things that fire men and super hero’s do on a daily basis.
To sum up this essay is fairly easy, this is a narrative based video, with a genre of rock/alternative, the song being about a hero saving precious things for the public, the band expressing their feelings through lyrics/video.
This video is a narrative based song mainly because he’s narrating about his hero through song, although it could be concept based in some ways such as an idea of a vigilante attempting to be a super hero or typical citizen trying to win a girls heart, as we see at the end of the film.
The relationship between the lyrics and video match very well, since this video has a long take for the majority of the film you basically see a guy, running to places to help people the lyrics are long that say “too alarming now to talk about” this signifies that he cant stop to talk he’s got to save something/someone, also when ever the guy we see is about to save something for a member of the public the lyrics say “there goes my hero, watch him as he goes” which is perfect camera work, that’s when the music changes pace with the music going faster, but during a verse its just quiet and smooth.
During the whole song mainly the artist is just talking about his hero, obviously written through song. Also during the end of the song, you can see Dave Grohl (lead singer/guitar) looking into a tv seeing himself singing/performing. There are also close ups when the “hero” enters a new house, seeing the artists playing in the Smokey/ fiery house, this sort of image goes along saying “yeah were alright, our hero’s here now were safe” sort of thing, seeing as they are playing in a fiery house. With close ups of all the band members faces. The image of the band is looking like they are helpless when in the houses playing their music, but when ever the hero saves something their eyes are blacked out, making it seem like they are also a serious band.
This video can relate to things such as firemen, super hero’s, mainly cause of the point the song being about “my hero” these are things that fire men and super hero’s do on a daily basis.
To sum up this essay is fairly easy, this is a narrative based video, with a genre of rock/alternative, the song being about a hero saving precious things for the public, the band expressing their feelings through lyrics/video.
Start of A2/ Ideas
Its now the start of A2, and one has left the Rat Trap, that being ollie harkin, He put in alot of work for all of us to get our good grade in our course work, But has now be replaced by a one 'Kloe Cambell' !
Our ideas a re consisting off either a guy walking down a street with an instrument, playing to the song and singing at the same time, with the lyrics of the song that have a meaning are happining behind him which is one of our highlighted idea's
Or go with carlos's photography idea where everything is picture motion so it would take a good odd 5000 photos for just a 3 minute song, But a very good idea , thoroughly easy but a lot of hard work!
More to come from rat trap productions.
Our ideas a re consisting off either a guy walking down a street with an instrument, playing to the song and singing at the same time, with the lyrics of the song that have a meaning are happining behind him which is one of our highlighted idea's
Or go with carlos's photography idea where everything is picture motion so it would take a good odd 5000 photos for just a 3 minute song, But a very good idea , thoroughly easy but a lot of hard work!
More to come from rat trap productions.
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Latest news from the RatTrap Production team
With our film finished (Or thought to of have been finished) we showed our teacher, who said he was amazed by the story of two things happining at once (Grithiths driving around and carlos walking around to a "meeting place") he said all the angles were alright
The BAD news is, is it had a lot of shakey camera, and needed to use the tripod more, also we needed to pay more attention to the detail such as my bags and blazer being seen. also we needed more story to the film so we decided to add a note to the fake money saying "round 3" to cannote carlos the boxer to go down in the third round.
Also we were told to make the poster more realistic, it says world champion, but then carlos gets a bribe with like 200£ so why would someone throw a fight for that.
To do this, obviously we just countered everything Eg shakey camera, solved with a tripod, Realistic poster with a "regional championship" ETC ETC
Also we the RatTrap Productions have come in to a series of unfortunate events having a mac that doesnt work can be hard, as we cannot edit it, or make music for it when ever we can, we have limited supply with the mac.
More to come from RatTrap Productions.
The BAD news is, is it had a lot of shakey camera, and needed to use the tripod more, also we needed to pay more attention to the detail such as my bags and blazer being seen. also we needed more story to the film so we decided to add a note to the fake money saying "round 3" to cannote carlos the boxer to go down in the third round.
Also we were told to make the poster more realistic, it says world champion, but then carlos gets a bribe with like 200£ so why would someone throw a fight for that.
To do this, obviously we just countered everything Eg shakey camera, solved with a tripod, Realistic poster with a "regional championship" ETC ETC
Also we the RatTrap Productions have come in to a series of unfortunate events having a mac that doesnt work can be hard, as we cannot edit it, or make music for it when ever we can, we have limited supply with the mac.
More to come from RatTrap Productions.
April Time sheet
This is the time sheet for april, it was for things such as free periods where we can improve on our sequence, edit some things or maybe add some music.
Time managment april
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Final Production Diary
This is the final production diary of our film, though another one will be coming that is to do with music, Possibly later on tonight.
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Production Diary
And here is our prodction diary, Featuring Me, Ollie, Carlos, Richard and Mr Titheridge.
Test Shots Slide
In this slide this shows us doing some test shots, to gather some tests. It worked a treat in our final film, due to the fact, what we had in mind wasnt really working so we tried something completely different, therefor creating a better scene!
Test Shoot Slideshow
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Time Management Slide
This slide is for our times were we all have to meet up, discuss some stuff to do with our sequence, maybe film or maybe do editing, and on the final production, add in the music.
Time Management
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Group Logo Slide
This slideshow, is possibly the one i hate the most, due to my absensce in one lesson, the ONE lesson they decide to do our group photo i was portrayed as a rat, mainly cause our teacher calls me ratty, for god knows what reason. But this was made by Ollie Harkin and Carlos Silva on Ollie Harkins Mac.
Our group name is called "Rat Trap Productions"
Our group name is called "Rat Trap Productions"
Logo Slideshow
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Health and Saftey slide
There wasnt much to this slide, mainly because it is filmed in 3 areas that can cause health and saftey issues. They are the Windsor Leisure Centre, The Arches by the Windsor Leisure Centre and the Small walk way by the releif road.
All other shots are filmed within the school changing rooms.
All other shots are filmed within the school changing rooms.
Health And Safety Slide
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Storyboards Slide
This is a slideshow that portrays out story boards, these were hand drawn and written by Ollie Harkin an Carlos Silva, with Me and Richard giving some ideas.
Story Board Slide(1)
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The Possible Locations Slide
On the 2nd of march, Ollie harkin took the liberty to venture out of school on a lunch break to take some photos of some known locations, we have used some of these such as the underpass, and the front of the leisure centre. They are ideal for our protaganist coming out of the leisure centre.
Possible Locations Slide
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Positions in the Group
In the group we have certain positions, mine consist of Music as well as Editing.
Richard Tarbox Consists of Ideas and Filming
Ollie Harking Consists of production diarys, Extras that make our blogs that much better, and editing with me
Carlos consists of acting, Ideas, Editing with me, and helping ollie make the production diarys such as the homemade tracking shot, which will be a cherry of a diary to watch.
Richard Tarbox Consists of Ideas and Filming
Ollie Harking Consists of production diarys, Extras that make our blogs that much better, and editing with me
Carlos consists of acting, Ideas, Editing with me, and helping ollie make the production diarys such as the homemade tracking shot, which will be a cherry of a diary to watch.
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Essay on similar film genre
My media essay on the first 2 minutes is on a film called “Rocky”.
During the first few seconds of the opening sequence, there is two adverts one being Metro Goldwyn Mayer and United Artists (an MGM company), the main music of the film being played by trumpets, in an old fashioned way (this is due to the film released), as well as the title of the film slowly going across the screen portraying “ROCKY”. This lasts for a full 7 seconds then after the last letter moves across there is a date of “November 25th 1975 Philadelphia. After it fades into film there is a close up of a picture of Jesus, this connotes to the audience that whoever owns this back street boxing ring is religious. Immediately after the camera zooms out of the picture, you can hear the non-diegetic people screaming jeers and cheers, this signifies that something must be happening such as a fight or something that has competition.
When the camera zooms out into an master shot three people are introduced one being an two being unknown boxers and a referee. There is fast paced fighting between the two boxers in a somewhat dim, scrummy venue that seems to be an “back room fight”. This is portrayed by the MES of the venue and the fact the referee isn’t wearing standard refereeing clothes suggests otherwise. Also the audience seem to throw objects onto the ring showing boredom as the fight isn’t as exciting as they thought it would be. The character with light brown hair is portrayed as a dirty boxer, one who is not really welcome this is shown when rocky is blocking him off, and as a result gets head butted by this unknown boxer which in boxing terms is a foul. As for the boxer with black semi long hair is positioned to be loved by the crowd, there for connoting he is a good person to the audience.
The camera angles used are mostly long takes during the fighting, but when the bell goes, there is a two shot of the good boxer with his trainer cleaning his face and giving tips, as well with a cut to another individual, portrayed as a friend of the boxer’s, motivating him to win or do better than what he is doing. During the fight, once the move half way across the ring, it cuts past the 180 degree rule, this happens quite a bit when the tempo decides to build up. When the camera is taking long takes, it is always placed in the crowd, making the audience watching the film feel they are part of the crowd as you can always see the ropes.
The opening sequence consists of two boxers fighting in a scummy ring. While halfway in to the two minutes the bell rings and rocky and his training trade words with each other as well as one of rocky’s friends.
During the first few seconds of the opening sequence, there is two adverts one being Metro Goldwyn Mayer and United Artists (an MGM company), the main music of the film being played by trumpets, in an old fashioned way (this is due to the film released), as well as the title of the film slowly going across the screen portraying “ROCKY”. This lasts for a full 7 seconds then after the last letter moves across there is a date of “November 25th 1975 Philadelphia. After it fades into film there is a close up of a picture of Jesus, this connotes to the audience that whoever owns this back street boxing ring is religious. Immediately after the camera zooms out of the picture, you can hear the non-diegetic people screaming jeers and cheers, this signifies that something must be happening such as a fight or something that has competition.
When the camera zooms out into an master shot three people are introduced one being an two being unknown boxers and a referee. There is fast paced fighting between the two boxers in a somewhat dim, scrummy venue that seems to be an “back room fight”. This is portrayed by the MES of the venue and the fact the referee isn’t wearing standard refereeing clothes suggests otherwise. Also the audience seem to throw objects onto the ring showing boredom as the fight isn’t as exciting as they thought it would be. The character with light brown hair is portrayed as a dirty boxer, one who is not really welcome this is shown when rocky is blocking him off, and as a result gets head butted by this unknown boxer which in boxing terms is a foul. As for the boxer with black semi long hair is positioned to be loved by the crowd, there for connoting he is a good person to the audience.
The camera angles used are mostly long takes during the fighting, but when the bell goes, there is a two shot of the good boxer with his trainer cleaning his face and giving tips, as well with a cut to another individual, portrayed as a friend of the boxer’s, motivating him to win or do better than what he is doing. During the fight, once the move half way across the ring, it cuts past the 180 degree rule, this happens quite a bit when the tempo decides to build up. When the camera is taking long takes, it is always placed in the crowd, making the audience watching the film feel they are part of the crowd as you can always see the ropes.
The opening sequence consists of two boxers fighting in a scummy ring. While halfway in to the two minutes the bell rings and rocky and his training trade words with each other as well as one of rocky’s friends.
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Target Audience
Target Audience:
As a group we started looking at who our target audience may be. As we started doing this we had a look at similar films being released this year and came across a Film called “The Fighter”. The film is a drama, which is going to be released by Paramount studios in late November. The films plot follows the early career of “Irish” a young boxer in the early 80’s. Our film and “The Fighter” are both drama based films with a similar storyline so should have a similar approach to the target audience. Looking at this films Demographics we can see that it is going to have a male dominated audience of 75% compared to 25% female. With 55% of that audience being aged between 15-24, 23% aged between 25-34, 10% between 35-44 and 12% being 45 and older. Also looking at the social classes, AB-37%, C1 30%, C2 18% and DE 15%. The film will also be largely aimed at a straight sexuality audience, along with Black, Asian and White being the main races. Looking at “The Fighter’s” data it is easy to see how similar the film is to ours and why the figures also coincide with each other. Our film like “The Fighter” is aimed at broad mainstream audience, which shows why “The Fighter” is expected to have a medium size release and do reasonably well at the box office. Looking at Psychographics we expect the film to be aimed at strugglers seeking escape and the resigned looking for survival. Finally looking at lifestyle we concluded that we would be aiming the film at “Yaks” (young, adventurous, keen and single), “Dinky’s” (dual income and no kids). Here is an image of the data found on the Pearl and Dean website showing the demographics of the film “The Fighter”.
As a group we started looking at who our target audience may be. As we started doing this we had a look at similar films being released this year and came across a Film called “The Fighter”. The film is a drama, which is going to be released by Paramount studios in late November. The films plot follows the early career of “Irish” a young boxer in the early 80’s. Our film and “The Fighter” are both drama based films with a similar storyline so should have a similar approach to the target audience. Looking at this films Demographics we can see that it is going to have a male dominated audience of 75% compared to 25% female. With 55% of that audience being aged between 15-24, 23% aged between 25-34, 10% between 35-44 and 12% being 45 and older. Also looking at the social classes, AB-37%, C1 30%, C2 18% and DE 15%. The film will also be largely aimed at a straight sexuality audience, along with Black, Asian and White being the main races. Looking at “The Fighter’s” data it is easy to see how similar the film is to ours and why the figures also coincide with each other. Our film like “The Fighter” is aimed at broad mainstream audience, which shows why “The Fighter” is expected to have a medium size release and do reasonably well at the box office. Looking at Psychographics we expect the film to be aimed at strugglers seeking escape and the resigned looking for survival. Finally looking at lifestyle we concluded that we would be aiming the film at “Yaks” (young, adventurous, keen and single), “Dinky’s” (dual income and no kids). Here is an image of the data found on the Pearl and Dean website showing the demographics of the film “The Fighter”.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Preliminary Sequence
This is my Preliminary sequence. Filmed by Ollie and Tarbox. Acting by Carlos and music and sound by Matthew Lema (Me)
Enjoy!!
Enjoy!!
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Half Term Hw
1. What preparation did you undertake ahead of the preliminary task?
At first we discussed where we wanted to film, we did some story boards and then made the final choice.
2. Where did you shoot it?
It starts off in one of the buisness studies rooms, then proceeds into the history corridor then into the history corridor toilets.
3. Why did you choose this location?
Basically we could get quite a few match on actions, with many doors and what not, also the running around the corner would give us those two angle shots from staying in the corner from when he runs around.
4. What equipment have you used?
Just a camera and a mac with final cut express as well as garage band.
5. What went well?
The editing and music was a success as well as filming
6. What difficulties did you face?
one difficulty was only using final cut express for roughly two hours since october, so was a bit rusty.
7. What is your overall impression of your preliminary task outcome?
We think it was a big success as everything fits in together.
8. How would you improve it?
The fact there are two jump cuts, one just before he enters the toilet and another when he goes into the urinal, if we have more filming time, we would of re filmed those bits.
9. What lessons have you learnt that you will keep in mind as you continue working on the main task?
To have patience while filming, and to make more story boards.
At first we discussed where we wanted to film, we did some story boards and then made the final choice.
2. Where did you shoot it?
It starts off in one of the buisness studies rooms, then proceeds into the history corridor then into the history corridor toilets.
3. Why did you choose this location?
Basically we could get quite a few match on actions, with many doors and what not, also the running around the corner would give us those two angle shots from staying in the corner from when he runs around.
4. What equipment have you used?
Just a camera and a mac with final cut express as well as garage band.
5. What went well?
The editing and music was a success as well as filming
6. What difficulties did you face?
one difficulty was only using final cut express for roughly two hours since october, so was a bit rusty.
7. What is your overall impression of your preliminary task outcome?
We think it was a big success as everything fits in together.
8. How would you improve it?
The fact there are two jump cuts, one just before he enters the toilet and another when he goes into the urinal, if we have more filming time, we would of re filmed those bits.
9. What lessons have you learnt that you will keep in mind as you continue working on the main task?
To have patience while filming, and to make more story boards.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Editing the Prelimenary Task
During todays lesson, we managed to upload our actual film, as special thanks to carlos and ollie for filming the actual film on friday afternoon.
With the precise editing from me we managed to complete our prelimenary task.
More to come soon.
With the precise editing from me we managed to complete our prelimenary task.
More to come soon.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Starting the Prelimenary Task
After a long time waiting for the camera, due to the fact Dan Jacobs and his group decide to take a liberty with it, we managed to film, was a rather big same due to the fact we had no battery life, so it kept on dieing, and there was no empty class room to do match on action or dialogue, so we resorted to the history corridor, and the toilet there. Though we had a good chance to film, we were restricted to having the chard always in, there for had movement restrictions.
Of course it was a huge failure due to the fact it was rushed and people talking over people, we didn't get much filming done, of course i was a 5 star camera man as usual, none of this tarbox rubbish is putting me down!
More filming to be done tomorrow, hopefully this will give us the opportunity make a cherry of the preliminary task!
Of course it was a huge failure due to the fact it was rushed and people talking over people, we didn't get much filming done, of course i was a 5 star camera man as usual, none of this tarbox rubbish is putting me down!
More filming to be done tomorrow, hopefully this will give us the opportunity make a cherry of the preliminary task!
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Sunday, 31 January 2010
This is My Media Blog.
On our opening sequence, i am working with Carlos , Tarbox and Harkin. Our genre is a sports drama, with a flashback involved in the sequence.
Our ideas consist of a boxer who is walking out of a gym (Preferably the Windsor Leisure Centre) and going through a dark ally, where a car pulls up and gives the some money to lose a fight. This is seen as a flashback with some dialouge.
We've yet to do our prelimenary task due to a shortage of cameras...
On our opening sequence, i am working with Carlos , Tarbox and Harkin. Our genre is a sports drama, with a flashback involved in the sequence.
Our ideas consist of a boxer who is walking out of a gym (Preferably the Windsor Leisure Centre) and going through a dark ally, where a car pulls up and gives the some money to lose a fight. This is seen as a flashback with some dialouge.
We've yet to do our prelimenary task due to a shortage of cameras...
Monday, 25 January 2010
Initial Ideas
Our Main idea conists of a boxer, who is leaving the gym, as he is doing this there is another story going on at the same time, and they cut between each other.
The moral of the story is, is for a boxer to be stalked by an illigal bookies, telling him/bribing the boxer to throw a fight.
This opening sequence consists of a range of shots of our boxer just casually walking as it cuts from story to story of our illigal bookie starting up his car, and driving to a designated spot to where our two charecters meet.
They both meet, where the illigal bookie exchanges cash in order to throw a fight.
The sequence ends with out boxer walking out of the tunnle into the light, with credits rolling.
The moral of the story is, is for a boxer to be stalked by an illigal bookies, telling him/bribing the boxer to throw a fight.
This opening sequence consists of a range of shots of our boxer just casually walking as it cuts from story to story of our illigal bookie starting up his car, and driving to a designated spot to where our two charecters meet.
They both meet, where the illigal bookie exchanges cash in order to throw a fight.
The sequence ends with out boxer walking out of the tunnle into the light, with credits rolling.
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