BLINDFIRE | Kyle, Billy & Rosie | AS Media Coursework

evaluation question 7

Evaluation question 6

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation question 4

question 4:

in our group we decided to make the target audience would be teenagers. But mainly our film is aimed at young males aged 16-40 so we have a bigger target audience. we was shooting in an urban area to set the feeling of our film, and appeal to our target audience. 

Our film has lots of different shots and contains suspension

and tension in our chase scene.  our film gets straight into the action here, as we done it from the research we carried our on surveyMonkey. We had to make it not to obvious what was going on in our thriller so it would make our watchers think what was going to happen after our film finishes, we done this by quick shots , fast music and suspension. We didn't know how to make our film appeal to the older people, so we decided we had to add in sophistication to this film, this would also leave the older watchers thinking what was happening and what was going to happen next.

question 3 evaulation

Question 3:

I think that the type of institution that might distribute our type of film would be more of an independent type of film studio. a more smaller showing on tv such as the BBC, more people would see our type of film on youtube rather than anywhere else.  Also a good way of distributing our film would be by social networking sites such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. This would be a good way of letting people know about our film as most young people use these sights and the Internet and our target audience is the younger generation. Further more we are using blogger to do our coursework so this is another way to get our film out.

evaluation question 2

Rosie read question 2 from rosieread16

Evaluation Question 1

Question 1:

In our film for our media we have made a thriller beginning, someone is being chased in a block of flats, we have shown stereotypical thoughts about young people as we are using young actors in our film. people usually have the idea that all young adults are bad people and out to hurt you. we portrayed this view by dressing out actors in the typical clothes for a young boy on a estate, which is a tracksuit and jackets. we made a story board to help us figure out how to make our film as unique as possible, as we didn't want it too look like any other films. we used lots of shots such as fast shots, sling shots, confrontation black out, establishing shots, black out jump an more.

In our thriller 'blind fire' we used shock to appeal to our target audience, we done this by having the beginning as a chase scene. this is also keeping up the suspense of what is going to happen next. In our thriller starting we have a protagonist and an antagonist, this is very clear who is who throughout the film, as the antagonist is chasing the protagonist. we kept up the suspense by using fast and quick edited shots. looking back to films we have watched in the past, Alfred Hitchcock always has a protagonist and an antagonist, in the film 'north by north west' there is a antagonist who is the man trying to kill protagonist. we also have a antagonist who is chasing and trying to kill our protagonist. 

we had to keep the key point of suspense throughout our film we done this by the characters as many other films us the propps to build suspense. we wanted to make our thriller different. as it isnt clear what is happening in our film this builds suspense as we don't know what is going to happen next, this also creates an image for whoever is watching. 

Potential Costumes

Story Board

animatic

Production Schedule

Production Schedule Location Visit Sheet Programme Title:  Client: Robert Clack Writer: Kyle Tanner/Rosie Read Producer: Billy Baldry/Rosie Read Director: Kyle Tanner Editor: Rosie Read Date: 6/2/13

Access to location via: Walking, as we all live in the surrounding area. Name and number of location contact: Non Applicable

Health and Safety Issues to note:      Falling down stairs, rain, going to a block of flats of a night time so vigilance is key.

Potential Filming Problems : nonavailability of access to roof top.

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc

Contingency Plan

Contingency Plan Name: Rosie Read, Kyle Tanner& Billy Baldry  Production: The Beginning of a thriller, (Blind Fire)

Potential problems and how to overcome these problems:

weather: if it is raining or windy this could cause problems with the filming- should look at the weather on the news technical problems: the sound may not be recorded properly- make sure all of the microphones are wired up properly people getting ill:- have backup actors

Focus Group Evaluation

Focus Group Evaluation

A big way we got ideas for our thriller beginning we made a focus group where we explained out 3 ideas to another group of people and then asked what they thought about them. We got back very helpful comments and they helped us decide what we needed to changed on our opening. The other group told us that they liked our first idea the most but we had to shoot it in a certain way to make it look good and entertaining. We will take all of the points given by the other group when filming to make our film the best we can.

Survey Results

Titles

Titles

All films have different styles when doing their titles and opening credits. There are different styles when different genres of films are being made. The colour's, Fonts and music determines what sort of genre of film it is. 

Seven



As you can see the colours used for the back grounds and all dark and the writing is very a very bland white colour. The font used is a messy writing, a sort of child's handwriting, the and writing is flickering on and off of the screen when the credits are changing. The music that is used is creating a scared atmosphere and this is due to the type of genre the film is.


In The Cut





The music in the opening of 'Panic Room' is classical music, which is very slow and low key. The shots are quick and they also use panning shots where the credits are on the side of high rise buildings in New York City. All the colours are very bland but the font of the credits was very large and in a silverish colour.

focus Group

Preliminary Task

We had a few technical problems with our sound, we hope you enjoy!

Brick

Brick includes camera shots that are close ups, flash backs and a dissolve. The editing shots include slow cuts and reverse shots. there is no and non diagetic sounds. The film was only shot in 20 days but a lot of planning was done before filming.

Momento

Momento included conventions such as dramatic music, a red herring, flash backs, an antagonist, low key lighting and guns. They included shots like mid-long shots and reverse shots. There was fast editing and quick cuts. There was dark scary music during the shots. This is not filmed in chronological order and could be hard for some people to understand. 

The Italian Job

The Italian Job includes a literal cliff hanger after robbing blocks of gold and escaping. This film is a 1969 British film. We are left at the end of the film with a literal cliff hanger where the coach is tipping over the edge of a cliff they was driving along.We are left not knowing what is going to happen next as the camera finishes panning away from the coach. This is all because they uploaded the coach with gold. Driving along the Alps along a mountain road but the coach ends up skidding and is hanging off the edge.

Our Proposal

Proposal Prepared by Rosie, Kyle & Billy

In our Thriller we will film an exctiting starting to a thriller movie. This starting will make the viewers want to watch the rest of the film to see what is going on. We will include a variety of different shots, such as fast pased shots and pan shots over the roof tops of Dagenham. Our Thriller will play on the viewers mind as you wont actually see what is happeing on the screen there will just be voices and music over our shots...this will be better and more exciting fot the viewer as they would usually create their own image in their heads, these images are usually worse than what is happening on the screen... Our thriller will leave the viewers wondering what will happen next!

Our Thriller Music Instrumental

Costumes & props

Costumes and Props

Character Name:	Ackeno
Costumes: tracksuit trainers black jacket	Props: mobile phone
Character Name:	Billy
Costume: jeans trainers jacket  hat	Props: N/A

Risk assessment

Risk Assessment

Group Members: Rosie Read, Kyle Tanner & Billy Baldry                                                                            Location: High rise flats

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Dropping the camera off of the tripod	camera person	2	3		Make sure camera is on tripod properly	Yes
Security issues	everyone in the group	4	5		make sure there is a time schedule we stick too, and make sure we are not out too late	Yes
weather (rain, wind or snow during filming)	everyone in the group	5	3		check the weather before we go	yes
bad lighting	actors	4	4		try to film with just the right amount of light on the actors	yes

shooting schedule

Day	Scene	Location	Equipment	Costumes	Props	Cast +Crew
Friday	Sky shot Gun shot sound Laying on the ground scene	Dagenham flats	Phone Camera Tripod	'Ghetto'   clothes, tracksuit, puffer jackets.	Phone	Ackeno – Playing guy who’s been shot Billy – Murderer Kyle – Filming Rosie – 999 voice over

treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: Rosie Mise-en-scene: Kyle Sound: Kyle Editing: Kyle and Billy

Title: Stab in The Dark Tag Line:

Synopsis: Filming of roof tops around Dagenham (tracking shot) Guy lying on the floor looking like he has been stabbed, slow cliff hanger at the end of the film including a call to 999 about a stabbing.

Key Genre Conventions: Action thriller, Street shots, gun shots, violence.

source code

source code is a thriller about a man who wakes up in an unknown mans body and finds out he is there to stop a bombing from happening, he is being sent back in time to find out who the bomber is to stop the seconds bomber from happening. But when he is sent back he finds out that his real body is dead. Jake Gyllenhaal who is playing captain Colter Stevens but is sent back into the body of a man called 'Sean'. In the end Captain Colter Stevens finds the bomber but then asks to be sent back once more to save a woman he met on the train whilst finding the bomber. 

         The budget on this film was meant to be $32,000,000  and on the opening weekend it earned $14, 812,094. 

          

         The story line is hard to follow but is very interesting. As they create a whole new time. This film keeps you interested throughout the whole film and this is done by the interesting genres in there. There is Physical action with 'Sean'. There is Psychological action with the idea of how the story fits together. And there is a detective story, where Captain Colter Stevens must find who the bomber is. 

 

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Unknown

Unknown, is a thriller that is about a man(Dr.Martin Harris) who goes onto a holiday to Germany with his wife(Liz Jones). The he forgets his suitcase at the airport so takes a can back there, but on the way they get into an accident and hits his head, the taxi driver manages to save him.. But he still wakes up after his been in a coma for four days. Then he tries to find his wife, But finds her with another man, she claims she has never seen him before and tries to ignore him. He then goes to find the taxi driver who saved him from the car accident to help him find out what is going on... In the end there is no such person as Dr.Martin Harris. The film ends with Gina the cab driver and martin are both starting new lives fresh.

kyle and billy motd, our sound exercise

Hitchcocks Thrillers

Hitchcock said that 'the only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them' so he often put his fears into the films he made to sort of overcome being scared of them. Hitchcock also said that 'if it's a good movie, the sound could go off but the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what is going on' so he always made his films more visual, so the viewers would still know what is happening in the film if there was no sound too this.

'Always make the audience suffer as much as possible' Hitchcock always made his movies as psychologocal as possible to make the audience as psychologically scared as possible by making them create an image in their head what is going to happen. The human mind always expects the worst naturally.