To start with our filming we had to schedule around the times of our friends timetables, and book in times for when the media studio was free to film certain shots in the planner that the studio had. Lists had to be made by me and another member. An example of one that shows how we organised members together, which were days and things needed that was written down every week, as shown by this picture:
Some obvious problems that we did encounter was that half way through filming 2 members of the film had left college and was very hard to schedule times for everyone to film together, therefore we had film again with completely new actors and made sure that times and deadlines were made to ensure everyone was able to film.
Audience Research
In our group we decided to do a survey for the class to fill out. This was to find out what is the usual favourites and dislikes the audience to a film have and there is a variety of ages in the class which is also helpful to get a wider range of results.
Mainly the questions consisted on what type of film did the surveyor prefer and what was their favourite convention, which helped me decide on what type of film I should make and to watch age group I was appealing to.
The results from the research had shown us that the audience to a film do like a comedy aspect which was the overall perception we got back. This gave my group and I the reason to do our crime film with a comedy edge, giving us the idea to create a godfather type parody film, which will hopefully appeal to teenagers and young adults.
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Storyboard
This is our groups storyboard, showing each scene we will be shooting to a degree of detail.
Media Institutions Research
Definition of a distributor:
A distributor is the link between the film-makers and the public, and allows a film to reach the public via cinemas, DVD/video and on television. There are a number of distribution companies in the UK, all with different styles, funding structures, aims and market plans, all trying to sell their films in a competitive environment.
In the UK, distributors are divided into the majors and the independents.
If we wanted our film to be distributed for cinema showing we would have to consider using a major film distribution company as it would need major funding from production and distribution companies. This would be an unlikely option as major film distributors rarely support low budget films. Examples of major film distributors are:
Warner Bros
20th Century Fox
Columbia Tri-Star
Universal Studios
Paramount Pictures
Disney
Due to the fact that we do not have anywhere near the amount of funding that would be needed in order to produce and distribute a mainstream film, the most realistic option would be to sell our finished product to an Independent distributor. Examples of independent film distributors are:
Pathe
The Film maker's co-operative
IndiePix films
MusicBox
Youtube has also been known to have short films and some low budget films placed on their website under featured in order to gain publicity. Realistically I think we would use youtube to distribute our film.
Age restrictions are in every film in the UK and USA, they have a purpose of stopping children viewing films that are unsuitable to watch at their age eg) drug use, nudity, sex, swearing etc. As our film is a parody we thought that because it doesn't have a serious edge in the film, the restriction would be lowered, however aspects of drugs and slight swearing is used in the film. This made us think that the restriction could be a 12A or a 15.
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Mood Board
This is my group's mood board which is a collection of images that reflect our initial ideas and inspiration for our own opening sequence. We used images of the typical american gangster stereotype, but with actors who are renowned for being involved in a certain parody.
Friday, 27 January 2012
Opening Titles
The purpose of a title sequence is that they are designed to tell you the names of the people and organisations involved, which will normally follow a set structure and order. They set the scene, estalish characters and genre and narrative through- visual style of titles, use of sounds and transitions of titles. There are several conventions in an order to the opening of a film:
Producer
Highest Billing
Director
Title
Actor
Cast
Crew
Final Name (Director)
Some films choose to intersperse titles with actions eg) Poseidon.
Others variate the normal rules of the conventions eg) Star Wars with an opening crawl.
Main Task
In my main task for the media coursework I must create the titles and opening of a new Crime fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate, with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks will be completed as a group. There are 4 members in our group.
Conventions of the Crime Film The main conventions of crime genre are:
Film Noir - Sunset Boulevard
American Gangster - Scarface, Godfather
Detective - Poirot
Spy - Casino Royale
Police - Hot Fuzz
Action - Lethal Weapon
Our chosen sub-genre is an Italian American Gangster Parody, based around the mob gangster stereotype. The usual things that we will hope to include to represent the american gangster area are the upper class type of people, guns, cigarettes, tuxedos/suits, hired help and low key lighting.
These images are example of what we might include in our film: Low key lighting
