audience profile resaerch survey

The five questions i came up with individually for the surveys are

How often do you go to the cinema during a month? 

0        1          2            3       more

what tv station can you say you watch the most?



do you use social networking sites?


whats your ethnicity
interested


what type of genre of movies are you most interested in?

our discussion after pitch

so after our pitch which wasn't very successful we all decided we would start afresh and everyone would individually think of a movie genre and think up an opening sequence

Self review of pitch

                                                                    Swot 

so today we pitched our idea to our teachers and the class 


Strengths 
i  think today our strength of the pitch was being able to identify our weaknesses with the opening sequence idea we have chosen to do i also think that our strenght was also being able to listen to the advice we have being given and develop this idea more 


weakness our weakness today was the fact that we were very unprepared and we didn't do our research properly on the genre that we choose to do this brought us back because it showed that we didn't know the conventions of our choosen genre and it affected how we presented our opening sequence becaquse we potrayed it more like a horror rather than a thriller 


oppurtunities 
At this point i dont think we have any generally great opportunities because we  we have to start afresh leving us a bit behind however the good out of all this is that we realise our mistakes earlier on meaning we can be sure that earlier on in the production stage we have no regrets. 


threats
the only threat that is visible is about the fact that now we are going to be abit behind and for our previous idea we were informed that the threat of that is that it seems like a horror movie instead of a thriller and also with low budget it would be hard to video shoot in the dark as it gets dark quickly these days 




however i hope that we have a discussion which will help us onto what we have to do to progress in our production 

our planning for pitch

After the homework we where given to all go and decide on the genre and opening sequence idea we would like we all decided on the one that i done although that might not be the case has we still have to pitch this idea to our teachers and the rest of the class to do this successfully we need to know all the convention and important aspects of a thriller movie and apply it to our opening sequence jsut as shown in the slideshow


Presentation 1\

my idea for our thriller movie

So after our individual reasearch and discususion we all came up with a genre we wanted to base our project on. we decided on thriller
my idea for a thriller opening sequence is
 A dark alley
Ashadow walking and havy braething from the cold
voice over: evr felt watched?
suddenly a girl with hair behind her hood turns around and back but starts walking in a more staedy pace...
slow pacing music (braething of mist from cold weather , staedy shaky cam from fast paced walking)
she starts to slow down a bit
voice over: then when you feel safe it comess from its hidding place) as soon as this a loud footstep folows after the girl and another shadow emerges
the girl starts running
the shadow is slow but the footsteps are louder
she turns around and sees a dark figure
scared she keeps running- then hits something
then shes in the hands of the dark figure - with a defening scream
voice over: it will get you sooner or later
scream goes on and a girl is show waking up from the dream as it turns to black with a myterious music

My gangster movie idea

                                                                Gangster movies

                                                                                                                              

          From my research and understanding of gangster movies i have come up with an idea fora gangster movie.


Gangster movies involve alot of elemets taht make it that genre and to keep in that genre i think i have to involve
1. A rivary team or family
2. A lot of violent act e.g with guns and knives
3. car chases potraying the action
4. also they tend to have an element of betrayal
5. trust
My idea for a gangster film


Anthinio pablo- main character
Edward pablo-the main charcters father
Jacobs estavlo- the pablos main rival
Elena estavlo- love intrest of main intrest/ main chracters rival daughter
Mark mariane- Estavlos main man/ Elenas boyfriend




 Athonio the son of Edward pablo.Edward is a rival of jacobs estavlo and soon Edwards is drawn into this war unwillingly but he knows that to survive in this world he as too fight for it.Hes still young though and when hes father is badly beaten up by one of estavlos men Mark it gets personal and Anthinio is drawn right in the middle of it. In other for revenge anthonio and hes fathers men kidnap jacobs estavlos daughter elena and also marks girlfriend.elena isnt happy with her relashionship, while shes eing kidnaped she is treated incredibly nice compared to other men by anthonio an she then sees a real kind heart in him. unwillingly anthonio also sees a kind heart to her soon they fall in love.secreatly as they fall in love anthonio sets elena free and with this a turnof event occured that showed the betrayal of mark killing hes boss and elenas father with only one place too turn too elena tries to reach to anthonio but its too late as mark already knows about the relashionship by a spy from the pablos men and with this no one is safe now it is anthonio against everyone to save the one he loves, in the end he succedly kills mark with the help of hes father and also hes father admits the idea that hes rival was in fact childish. then elena nad anthonio live happily ever after. but are still surrounded by thier mafia ways and great dangers.


     In my ganster movie idea i went against convention in the idea that in gangster movies the rival team is a battle against eachother but i went against  that and made it that they worked to save something together.Also i changed it in the idea that theres a love intrest when normally convension wise in a gangster movies its always a one man game thing.


My ideas for an opening scene


Dark street


Two men arguing,two shadows
 guy one: i told you, i told you.
guy two : its not my fault man.
guy one : damn yes it your fault.(none of thier faces are yet to be reavealed)
guy two : im... sorry man trully i am
guy one : you made me look like an iddiot i warned you.( a click is heard)
guy two : sorry man plaese (we see a shadow step back)
a gun is pointed as we see in the shadow, guy one tries to run but its to late
a loud gunshot is heard
then a voice over is heard as the gun man walks away and we see he back only....


voice over :in the street theres no sorry you act or you die....


opening scene 2,


a whimpring sound, someone on the floor with a dirty cloth round thier mouth

Black shoes are seen walking down with a crashing sound, door opens and it creeks loudly.


intregator: so are you ready to tell me(guy with black shoes to the totured)
tortured:(whimpers)
integator pulls the cloth off
tortured: never (spits)
interogator: smiles (face isnt revaeled)
interagator:pulls a gun out) i knew youd say that, but its fine theres just another dog like you out there( a gun shot is heard)
zoom in to the interogators face with  it covered in blood.

opening scene 3

alot of people are seen in a bright long shot till a voice emerges
and it slowly starts to turn dark

voice over: somethings people dont know... they should we dont get to pick who to die we should all die and suffer and i shall make sure everyone does suffer... ( with this speech its darkening)

a gun shot is heard followed by screams then everything comes to an abrupt stop and silene folows.

preliminary task overall evaluation

     The preliminary task involved making a 30 second clip of a conversation beetween two people it must include match on action and also stick to the 180 degree rule,

Firstly we didn't stick to the brief in the case that it the whole clip was meant to be 30 seconds 

I think this away as we felt we didn't really get enough clips to be able to show our story in thirty seconds in our next production i feel as an improvement we should take more time planning as then we know what we can do to follow the brief appropriately.

Our next main task was keeping to the 180 degree rule, i think we done this rather good for a first try as we didn't break the rule while the conversation was going on. I think that the 180 degree rule was quite easy for us as we all understood what wee needed to do so even when the person was filming the mistakes were easy to pick up on.

conversation from beckys side

conversation from ryans side

The next task was to show some match on action 




opening the door

 

walking acrosss the room

 

sitting down

I think that we attempted the match on action but not very successful i think in the future to make this better we should show more sequence of events. 

    Editing was very important in our production and am not familiar with using the i movie for editing but i have learnt a lot of things by trying it myself and watching my other team members do so. i learnt about transition, effects, rough cuts and inserting music we done alot of effects which helped us create a mood i think next time as an improvement we should use some more transitions because wed didn't use many transitions in our editing. 

The dilemma

Our finishing product for preliminary task, The dilemma 

      Our video for the preliminary task after a lot of hard work and ideas put into this we finally came up with our finishing product- The dilemma. overall I think we done really well as a group as we all had an impact n the production taking turns n filming and putting ideas that made the production better. As most media products the filming didn't go as planned but were really glad with our finished product as it as we feel it as achieved all its target by sticking to the 180 degree rule and included match on action.

Preliminary task

Today we  started  filming our video for our preliminary task which involves a conversation between two people , the video must include a match on action and also stick to the 180 degree rule.
Heres our script....

Script 

The dilemma.
(Becky walks through door,walks across towards Ryan and sits down)

Becky: Hi ryan, i have something to tell you
Ryan: Whats wrong?
Becky: umm i dont know how to tell you this but...(pause) am pregnant
Ryan: Dont worry it will be alright
(black out, becky walks out to sort her self out)
(Becky's phone goes off. Ryan picks up the phone looking suspicious and reads the text)
Text: last weekend hope to see you agin ;) x from bill
Ryan cries....
To be continued

let the right one in

let the right one in (2008)

Let the right on in a Swedish movie originally a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist and directed by Thomas alfredson. The movie is placed in the genre of horror/thriller and romance. It follows the character of twelve year old Oskar who is bullied in school and as he befriend a mysterious young girl and as many deaths soon to occur he soon realizes a dangerous truth about he’s only friend. Friendship in and the development and adolescence is shown in an unusual way.

Movies with the genre of horror or thriller have a convention of blood and fright and many people do find the horror genre as a thrilling experience taking you to the fantasy and mysterious side of life however I am not a particularly interested in the horror movies as I find them in some case too frightening however the movie let the right one in was more thriller and horror too me because there wasn’t any gruesome activities as most horror movies are structured by and therefore it was acceptable for me and on that note however I think that the language barrier sometimes can be a turn off as the horror movie genre is sort of a freedom ride and when you have to concentrate on reading it takes away that feeling of freedom and relaxation as you would feel distracted by the writing instead of the main scenes that were occurring.

The trailer that was available for let the right on in was this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZJUgsZ56vQ  it was very captivating and as not much of a horror genre fan it viewed other part of the genre and made me interested in watching it. However this might not have being such a wise choice for the other audiences who are interested in the horror genre as it takes awy that whole pleasure and in it convincing them to come and watch the film, as it lacks all the aspect in which they would have being interested in. isolation is being represented visually by the the characters visually by thiier interaction with each other. Oskar and eli by far the most isolated and the they both seek company with themselves the idea that whenever they meet its always in an empty snowy environment and theres only a few sentences been passed between the both of them. Also the clothes they wear are always in  a way similar as they are always colours whicjh are dull and this represents loneliness nad isolation even neglect and therefore they seek company as they are the characters mostly alike.

I think as a teenage audience I particularly liked the characters, the character all reflect the difficulties of friendship and growing up and this interest me because we all know how it is and we all wanna know how some people cope with it and in a way it teaches us lesson so yea the characters I liked well because they all portrayed the emotion and attitudes of a typical teenage character, however I also felt that I like the character of oskar more than elis because I felt that he was innocent and felt sorry for him meanwhile a quite negative feel to eli because she seemed to be pushing him inj the wrong with her dark secrets . The part of the narrative a gain that attracted me in the movie let the right one in was the aspect of growing up and finding friendship.in a horror movie convention the vampire is the villan but in this movie it is very unusual as the charcter in which you would describe as the hero is an acquaintance with the villain and therefore as oscar is ther innocent one we would expect that as conventions go oscar should be scared of eli but instead he seeks friendship from the villain