Friday 8 May 2015
Audience Research
Person 1 (16 years of age, male):
1. What would you expect to see in a crime/thriller film?
Guns, a dark character, car/motorbike scenes.
2. What is most important to see in a crime/thriller?
Guns.
3. What other films would you associate with this genre?
Seven.
4. Are you a fan of crime/thriller? Explain your reasons?
Yes, because they are exciting to watch.
5. What do films need at the beginning to keep you watching?
Some background on the characters which may be exciting to make me what to find out more.
6. What is your favourite movie opening and why?
The Dark Knight Rises because it is thrilling and interesting.
Person 2 (50 years of age, female):
1. What would you expect to see in a crime/thriller film?
Death, action, horror.
2. What is most important to see in a crime/thriller?
The death or crime.
3. What other films would you associate with this genre?
Pulp Fiction.
4. Are you a fan of crime/thriller? Explain your reasons?
Its exciting, gripping and interesting to watch.
5. What do films need at the beginning to keep you watching?
Exciting plot point that leaves you wanting more.
6. What is your favourite movie opening and why?
Seven
Person 3 (19 years of age, female):
1. What would you expect to see in a crime/thriller film?
Criminal activity, guns, death, suspense.
2. What is most important to see in a crime/thriller?
Crime.
3. What other films would you associate with this genre?
Reservoir Dogs.
4. Are you a fan of crime/thriller? Explain your reasons?
Narrative often falls into a category of a topic which interests me which is organised crime.
5. What do films need at the beginning to keep you watching?
Gripping character introduction, fairly fast paced so its not too slow into the action/storyline.
6. What is your favourite movie opening and why?
The Goodfellas introduction. Because it starts off mid way through the narrative which makes it more interesting and different, it also grips you straight away.
1. What would you expect to see in a crime/thriller film?
Guns, a dark character, car/motorbike scenes.
2. What is most important to see in a crime/thriller?
Guns.
3. What other films would you associate with this genre?
Seven.
4. Are you a fan of crime/thriller? Explain your reasons?
Yes, because they are exciting to watch.
5. What do films need at the beginning to keep you watching?
Some background on the characters which may be exciting to make me what to find out more.
6. What is your favourite movie opening and why?
The Dark Knight Rises because it is thrilling and interesting.
Person 2 (50 years of age, female):
1. What would you expect to see in a crime/thriller film?
Death, action, horror.
2. What is most important to see in a crime/thriller?
The death or crime.
3. What other films would you associate with this genre?
Pulp Fiction.
4. Are you a fan of crime/thriller? Explain your reasons?
Its exciting, gripping and interesting to watch.
5. What do films need at the beginning to keep you watching?
Exciting plot point that leaves you wanting more.
6. What is your favourite movie opening and why?
Seven
Person 3 (19 years of age, female):
1. What would you expect to see in a crime/thriller film?
Criminal activity, guns, death, suspense.
2. What is most important to see in a crime/thriller?
Crime.
3. What other films would you associate with this genre?
Reservoir Dogs.
4. Are you a fan of crime/thriller? Explain your reasons?
Narrative often falls into a category of a topic which interests me which is organised crime.
5. What do films need at the beginning to keep you watching?
Gripping character introduction, fairly fast paced so its not too slow into the action/storyline.
6. What is your favourite movie opening and why?
The Goodfellas introduction. Because it starts off mid way through the narrative which makes it more interesting and different, it also grips you straight away.
Location Planning
Our film was filmed in two different locations:
1. Waterloo/Southbank
2. A bedroom in a house.
1.
This location was used by us to film Nico on his motorbike leaving the previous location. We used this location because its in central London and it connotates that the assassin in amongst the high profile professionals and also criminals in the city. This was vital to our plot as we needed to ensure that the assassin seemed as high profile as possible. This location also gave us many filming opportunities due to the wide roads and tall buildings.
2.
Before the bike scene we need to show the assassins schedule and very particular way of doing things; we wanted the audience to know how maticuluous he was. The pictures pinned up on the wall along with the variety of pictures (guns, drugs, locations, blueprints, head shots) shows the assassins set out and the kind of world he lives in. The room in which we filmed was reasonably minimal in terms of ornaments and personal items, however this could have been executed better. Our aim for a simple room was to suggest the assassins personal life is non existent and the asssassin world is the focus of the plot.
1. Waterloo/Southbank
2. A bedroom in a house.
1.
This location was used by us to film Nico on his motorbike leaving the previous location. We used this location because its in central London and it connotates that the assassin in amongst the high profile professionals and also criminals in the city. This was vital to our plot as we needed to ensure that the assassin seemed as high profile as possible. This location also gave us many filming opportunities due to the wide roads and tall buildings.
2.
Before the bike scene we need to show the assassins schedule and very particular way of doing things; we wanted the audience to know how maticuluous he was. The pictures pinned up on the wall along with the variety of pictures (guns, drugs, locations, blueprints, head shots) shows the assassins set out and the kind of world he lives in. The room in which we filmed was reasonably minimal in terms of ornaments and personal items, however this could have been executed better. Our aim for a simple room was to suggest the assassins personal life is non existent and the asssassin world is the focus of the plot.
Preliminary Evaluation
Evaluation of Preliminary task:
For our Preliminary task we used an police interview clip:
Name: THE INTERVIEW
Characters: Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
Carter Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lUm_T5vlWo
QUALITY OF:
STEADINESS OF SHOTS
In terms of holding the shot steadily, we could have improved drastically on this. Many of the shots were unsteady and effected the quality of the clip. This is because we didn't use an appropriate tripod - the tripod we chose was broken and didn't hold the camera in place. Because of this the majority of our shots suffered shaky and unsteady quality. One of the shots was so bad that we had to use the stabiliser effect on Final Cut X Pro, which supplied a satisfactory upgrade to our original footage. When performing the actual opening 2 minutes we will ensure that we have a decent tripod, this will allow us to perform our shots to the highest possible quality. Here is the example of the shot that we edited on Final Cut X Pro.
Here is the example of how our extreme close didn't work. The original idea was that we would get an extreme close up of his mouth only. However this wasn't executed well and the characters head is cut off by the frame.
Here we can see how unnecessary information was included in the shot. The shot would've worked a lot better if we used an extreme close up featuring only the hand and the phone in frame.
Name: THE INTERVIEW
Characters: Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
Carter Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lUm_T5vlWo
QUALITY OF:
STEADINESS OF SHOTS
In terms of holding the shot steadily, we could have improved drastically on this. Many of the shots were unsteady and effected the quality of the clip. This is because we didn't use an appropriate tripod - the tripod we chose was broken and didn't hold the camera in place. Because of this the majority of our shots suffered shaky and unsteady quality. One of the shots was so bad that we had to use the stabiliser effect on Final Cut X Pro, which supplied a satisfactory upgrade to our original footage. When performing the actual opening 2 minutes we will ensure that we have a decent tripod, this will allow us to perform our shots to the highest possible quality. Here is the example of the shot that we edited on Final Cut X Pro.
QUALITY OF FRAMING SHOTS
The quality of framing shots could've been heavily improved, a lot of the shots features unnecessary
information. Also, although our story board was approved of and the shots worked well with each other, the execution of this wasn't satisfactory. Again, the use of a good tripod would've helped enormously especially with the close ups. Also we used a canted angle shot even thought it wasn't coinciding with the content of the clip - they are normally used to give a dazed/dreamy effect and this did not work with the shot. In our official opening 2 minutes we will carefully storyboard our sequence and ensure that our framing works with the shots. Also when filming this we will make sure our framing matches the framing shown in the storyboard.
This is the canted angle shot: although the shot was executed fairly well it did not work with the content of the shot. To improve this we will make sure we use appropriate shots to convey particular messages.
Here is the example of how our extreme close didn't work. The original idea was that we would get an extreme close up of his mouth only. However this wasn't executed well and the characters head is cut off by the frame.
Here we can see how unnecessary information was included in the shot. The shot would've worked a lot better if we used an extreme close up featuring only the hand and the phone in frame.
QUALITY OF EDITING
Our editing throughout the sequence was satisfactory, however the continuity of the clips wasn't as smooth as as we desired. Our match on match action wasn't successful and we have learned from this as the shots didn't work together. However we did manage to successfully edit most of our shots together successfully. We successfully managed to perform a reverse shot, we also stuck to the 180 degree rule. From this task we have learnt to successfully do match on action shots and we have learned from our filming mistakes.
Test Shooting
- Overall we spent 5 days filming our opening sequence, first of which was in Waterloo which was partly successful. We arrived at Waterloo station at dusk and met Nico who was on his motorbike, we then filmed the bike scenes shown in the final product.
This was successful as the natural lighting complimented the mood of the clip perfectly however the other filming we did wasn't so successful.
- Here we filmed by some steps on the southbank walk however this wasn't so successful - by this time it was dark and this made it near impossible to get any quality filming done. For these reasons we chose not to use these shots and take them out of the storyboard/plot.
- The next few days we filmed the bedroom scene several times, adding more camera angles and
This was successful as the natural lighting complimented the mood of the clip perfectly however the other filming we did wasn't so successful.
- Here we filmed by some steps on the southbank walk however this wasn't so successful - by this time it was dark and this made it near impossible to get any quality filming done. For these reasons we chose not to use these shots and take them out of the storyboard/plot.
- The next few days we filmed the bedroom scene several times, adding more camera angles and
Casting
Here is our main character who is the only actor shown in our opening two minutes. Our aim for our first two minutes was to establish an understanding between the audience and the main character, this is why
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