Harveys

Just filmed at harveys house today got some ok footage, just need to put it all together and give in our first draft. Unfortunately there was a video diary but the clips are taking so long to upload!!! 

Schedule and planning

Here is our media schedule plan for the next week. As you can see were planning on filming at harveys for the second part of our opening sequence and gabbys house for the first part and we are hoping to film harveys on monday morning and gabbys thursday night!

Health and Safety

Here is our health and safety sheet. Obviously when filming we needed to take into consideration of health and safety, because we are thinking of filming in two houses Harveys and Gabbys (the girl we have just got to star in our film)! it is not a very dangerous surrounding. The only really dangerous part would be when Gabby would have to handle a knife.

Storyboards for main idea

Here are our initial storyboards for our main filming. The general idea would be girl at home physco doing lots of weird things because a boy then we see the boy receive a text go out and whilst going somewhere gets jumped down an ally!! 

Costumes Idea's

Here are some of my drawings of what we believe gabby should be wearing for her scene which will now be film at her house, we also took into consideration her make-up!!!

Target Audience

As a group we decided that our film would come under the category crime thriller. we now had to decide on the target audience for the film, after looking at some website's we realised that there is hardly any crime thriller's that are PG and only some that rated 15, when you think about it it makes sense because a thriller needs suspense and crime films are not intended for children. Looking at our first draft we would of rated this film an 18 because of the violence towards the end and the shots of a dead body but after we got our first draft back and made the decisions to change the second part of the film we have decided that a 15 would be suitable rating for this film.

Obviously because the film is a 15 we have targeted the ages 15-30 when producing the film, with a predicted 70:30 male to female ratio watching the film.

similar target audience as our film:

Preliminary task evaluation and final video

After 1 hour planning, about 30 minutes filming and a good few hours editing we ended up with quite a good piece of work!

We decided to film in our school's english corridor, as it was convenient at the time and all we needed was a free classroom, as i said before this took us about 30 minutes and we were surprisingly very efficient when filming.

We then went back to the classroom and uploaded the footage onto our apple mac's which are provided by the school. We then was introduced to the software Final cut express by our teacher Mr. Titheridge. We used final cut for lots of things such as cutting clips, adding transactions between clips, importing music from garageband and importing credits from livetype. I must admit, originally we needed alot of help from our teacher as the software is quite complex but after a couple of lessons we were able to finish our task.

Overall our task was alot easier than we first imagined although we did struggle with the editing part of the task quite alot but eventually we ended up with a solid piece of work. I believe we worked well as a group for the first time and our final piece shows we understood and were able to execute effective continuity editing. The task also helped us alot for our main project as we learnt different transactions and the "ins and outs" of Garageband, Final Cut Express and Livetype.

3rd Opening sequence analysis - Herm and Pro Codes

Usual Suspects

The usual suspects (1995) is a crime thriller directed by Bryan Singer. Straight away in the first 20 seconds of the film we see a proairetic code as the man sets alight a piece of paper, we keep cutting to barrels which are leaking petrol and we instantly think there is going to be an explosion. So the man then throw's the paper onto the floor and we wait for the fire and petrol to meet, as the fire follows a line to the barrels a mysteries  man comes along and piss's over the flame to stop it reaching the barrels. So forty seconds in and we have already loads of hermeneutic codes, the first being where are they? Who is the man in the coat? Who is the man on the floor? What are they doing? Why are they there? Do they have an connection?

As the man in the coat walk downstairs toward the other man we see loads of dead bodies all over the ship. He then starts to talk to the man on the floor, the man on the floor is not surprised at who he is looking at and they obviously know each other. The man in the coat then pulls out a gun and kills the man. We then ask ourselves why is everyone dead? How do they know each other and why did he kill him? 

We they get a serious of cuts of the boat from the outside, there is no one to be seen, Where is everyone? then we see the man in the coat leaving the boat as he is walking away we cut to a barrel and petrol is pouring out of it. then we see him flick a cigarette onto the floor (another proairetic code) and we then see the man walk off as the oat goes up in flames!

2nd Opening Sequence Analysis

Pulp Fiction

Straight away in the first 20 seconds of the film the definition of pulp is shown in white writing on a black background. It says 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristic printed on rough, unfinished paper. I believe this is here to get the viewer already asking questions why it’s there and how important is this definition to the story of the film. Also Tarintino has probably shown the actual definition the viewer can compare it to the way he portrays it in the film.

The story then moves onto the first scene as we see a coupe in a diner just after they have finished what seems to be breakfast. The first word’s that comes from one of their mouth’s is “forget it, it’s too risky, I’m through with doing that s**t”. This connotes that this is no ordinary couple and they could be a bit dodgy. The scene continues for about a minute as the couple argue about giving up. All the audience knows at this moment of time is that they are talking about some kind of criminal activity. Next we see a shot reverse shot as a worker ask the couple if they would like some more coffee, then the women replies in a nice manner, this makes the audience stop and think and ask the question, are these really bad people? As soon as the waiter leaves the man starts talking about how risky certain places are to rob, this instantly answers our question before hand. The man then goes on about how diners would be the perfect place to rob and how they would catch everyone with their “pants down”. The women agrees and they start to kiss across the table and suddenly get out two magnums hand guns from under the table step out from the side the side and point their guns at people shouting “everybody be cool, this is a robbery”. We then cut to a long shot with couple pointing their guns, the frame then freezes and the words Miramax films presents comes on the page and a fast, loud electric guitar starts being played in the background accompanied by a set of drums also being played in a fast tempo.

The opening five minutes of pulp fiction focuses on two characters which are believed to be a couple of armed robbers. After watching the opening you would also believe that these characters are the main characters in the film but if you watch on this in fact is not the case. Even through in the opening we are not introduced to the main characters Quentin Tarintino does set the scene and tells us the genre of the film very well and leaves the audience thinking who are the characters and what relevance do they have in the film.