How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In new town killers Sean is chased by two bankers who are trying to kill him. I chose to compare Sean to Jason because I think there are a lot of similarities, although Sean and Jason have completely different reasons for being in the situation they are in, for example in new town killers Sean does some street running, we also tried to include this in our film.

They are also similarly dressed. We chose to dress Jason in jeans and a jumper so he could fit in more to his surrounding; he isn’t working for the organisation anymore so we decided there was no need for him to wear a suit.

I think they are both streetwise and this come across in the opening to minutes if the film, Sean live on a rough counsel estate whereas Jason was part of a group of assassins I think the character prove they can look after themselves.

The major difference in the films, I think, are the Jason knows how to kill and escape difficult situations whereas Sean hasn’t been taught that.

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Screen Shot One - This shows the main title for our film. We wanted the film title to be big and bold so it would stand out and people would know it was an action movie. We also wanted it to be explosive I think we achieved this. I think the sound of the gunshot helped set the scene for the rest of the movie. i think that the title has lots of connotations, gangster being one of them. we had decided to take the first title from our title sequence but it didnt fit in we the film so we had to re think them.

Screen Shot Two - This screen shot is of setting and location. We decided to shoot in leatherhead town centre as it looks normal and it has lots of alleyways that we could run down. As the character run down the alleyway away from the busy high street it opens up to a car park where the characters do some free running. I think it sets the scene well as the audience are taken away from the norm to an action packed chase scene.


Screen Shot Three - The frame here demonstrates the use of costumes and props. We decided that the assassins were going to wear suits as it looks more professional and many action films have assassins wearing suits. We used props like guns to set the scene and make the film seem more realistic and dramatic


Screen Shot Four - The fourth shot shows camera work and editing. The shot we used is called a shot reverse shot which emphasizes conversation or dialogue. We used tracking shots, high angle shots, low angle shots, long shots, mid shots, close ups, shot reverse shots and many more to make the film  look more professional and realistic. We increased the pace of editing in the chase scene to emphasise the action. The use of editing I think is quite effective as we used many slide transitions to make the film run smoothly from one scene to the next.


Screen Shot Five - This frame shows us the title font and style. We had titles fade in and out in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. So they weren’t as noticeable as the title of our film. We wanted the audience to notice the titles so we wanted the titles to slip in around the action, so the audience were aware of the titles but not distracted from the action on screen. The title font colour is white to make them clearly visible but not too distracting.


Screen Shot Six - This shows us the story and how the opening sets it up. The scene is set in a room with not much lighting connoting that it is a mysterious, scary place. It also has an authoritative figure, three people in suits and an envelope each sitting around a table. This could connote many things but the body language, the props and the setting suggests the story seem dramatic and like something thrilling could happen soon. The scene could suggest a briefing of some kind as the character have 3 letters in front of them which look a bit suspicious


Screen Shot Seven - Frame seven suggests the genre of our film. We see a person being chased down an alley way which could suggest an action film. It also helps that we can see the intense body movements, the seriousness of the characters as this adds to the action movie feel. They will get this impression because chase scenes are fast paced, explosive, thrilling and everything about them suggests the action genre.

Screen Shot Eight - This shows us how the characters are introduced. Here we have a mid shot of 'The Boss' with a serious expression as he talks on the phone. We can see that 'The Boss' is automatically portrayed as a very determined and quite scary character. 'The Boss' is shown as a very intelligent guy he is wearing a suit and tie, with glasses on that suggests he is in the know and is very important.


Screen Shot Nine - This frame shows us the use of special effects. We created a production company for our film. It is a panther roar behind the picture as the title fades in and out. The slide transitions show the panther clawing its way onto screen. We thought if we used a fearsome animal for our company name it might suggest an action film. This can be compared to some of the James Bond films that have the MGM production company trademark that plays before it.

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Final Film!

Soundtrack and music

Adding sound to our film proved quite difficult and strenuous but we finally managed to achieve the desired outcome. As we had to reshoot several scenes, the soundtrack work already added to the film was seperated and merged with other sound effects when we added the new scenes. We had to start the sound editing again and managed to make it better than it was previously.
          
  We included fast paced action music for the chase scene and dramatic music for the board room scene.

  We included sound effects like gunshots as we could not create a realistic gunshot sound ourselves. We also added in the panther sound effect to our own made production title at the beginning. 

One actor was particually quiet during one scene and so we had to re-record his dialogue and dub it over the original scene. We used fast paced action music which souned quite funky to down-play the tension in the chase scene. The effect we wanted was for the scene to be serious but not too serious.

We faded the music in and out and created sound bridges from one scene to the next to take our audience seemingly from one shot to the next. The faded music seemingly slips away to reveal the dramatic conference room scene and fades back in to the action packed chase scene!

Sound editing had many issues but all were overcome and we achieved the desired effect.

Editing our film!

Hey there! Taking care of the last bit of editing now so our film is finished. We went out and re-filmed some shots for our film, this was a tricky task as we had to re-create our scene. After we finished re-filming our two shots we uploaded our footage onto Adobe Premier Elements.
Uing this programme edited our film cutting out bits we did not need and making our transitions and cuts as short as possible, as this is a common feature in action flms. The cuts were made so that we had some time left to fill in which was left for our studio/production company animation. Cutting our film and taking out things we didn't want (unwanted sounds, continuity errors and mistakes) took a lot of time as we had lots of footage to look at and make group decisions over what we wanted to keep.

Shot List

Scene	Shot	Shot Description
ONE	1	The Universal Studios logo appears on screen
	2	The main character Jason is introduced running round a corner in wide shot.
	3	Jason runs down the road in mid shot. He runs into a dark alley looking around.
	4	Cuts to medium close up of Jason behind a red dumpster.
TITLE	5	Film title appears onscreen ‘Organisation XIII’
TWO	6	New scene, cuts to big brown wooden doors in mid shot. The doors are then opened by Jason who storms into a board room.
	7	A wide shot from inside of the organisations board room as Jason walks in. There’s a big table in the middle with the organisations members sitting around it looking at Jason.
	8	Cuts to a right hand side mid shot of Jason. Jason throws his fists down on the table. A few of the organisation members can be seen also in this shot.
	9	Jason takes his fists off the table and storms out the room in mid shot opening the doors quickly.
THREE	10	Cuts to Jason walking down a high street in wide shot.
	11	Cuts to a wide shot from the right hand side of Jason walking the high street.
	12	Cuts to Jason walking down the street in mid shot from the front.
Insert Sheet	->	In mid shot. Jason walks round a corner and walks into a woman who touches his jacket as he walks into her. He makes sure she’s okay and the he continues walking.
	13	He Continues to walk down the street in mid shot.
FOUR	14	Cuts back to the board room. The boss is standing at the end of the table in mid shot looking down the table talking to his assassins.
	15	Cuts to a low floor shot of three people’s feet walking down a corridor.
	16	Cuts back to the boss talking in mid shot, there’s been a slight zoom in on the boss.
	17	Cuts back to the low floor shot of the three people’s feet walking down a corridor.
	18	Cuts to an over the shoulder shot from behind the boss. The cameras facing the two big doors as they swing open to reveal the three assassins standing in the doorway.
	19	Cuts to a mid shot above the waist of the three assassins walking into the board room.
	20	Over the shoulder shot form behind the boss welcoming the assassins into the board room and to take a seat.
FIVE	21	Scene cuts to Jason walking along a street and turning down a dark alley. He walks into the mid shot.
	22	As Jason walks down the alley another man follows him down, both in mid shot.
	23	The shot cuts to a close up on the back of Jason’s head as he turns to look over his left shoulder at the man following him.
	24	Shot cuts to Jason’s face with the strange man over his left shoulder. There’s a slight pause then Jason starts to fun from the man.
	25	Jason runs up a flight of stairs in mid shot then he disappears out of the shot.
	26	Scene cuts to the top of the stairs just as Jason reaches the top, Jason then runs out of shot. The man chasing Jason soon follows and reaches the top of the stairs and chases after him.
	27	Jason reaches a clearing in a big road he runs out of shot.
	28	The follower runs out into the road but Jason’s disappeared. He looks around for a second then runs in the most likely direction. This shot is a high angle shot showing that the follower is small and useless, it also shows how many directions Jason could have gone in.
	29	The follower runs along side the road to the right of the shot looking around for Jason.
	30	The shot cuts to Jason in mid shot, hands behind his back and looking out of a window.
	31	The shot closes in on Jason. Showing Jason looking down on his follower out of a window with a small smile on his face.
SIX	32	Jason walks out onto a car park roof slowly in mid shot.
	33	Shot changes to behind Jason and looking over his right shoulder. Jason’s looking at a car in straight in front of him. He slowly walks over.

problems with sound

We found that when one of our actors spoke he was too quite. To fix this we had to record his voice again and put the sound over the part where he speaks.

These are some film production companies/ institutions that have made several successful action films. These include films like James Bond by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Batman by Warner Bros. Pictures. My group and I have decided to import a youtube clip into our film piece of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer trade mark to make our film look more realistic and like a professional film. Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced and distributed several James Bond/ Spy films and so we decided to adopt this trade mark for our Spy/ assassin film.

MGM Title

Certificate Rating

Suitable only for 15 years and over

The film may include: Discrimination, Drugs, Horror, Imitable behaviour, Language, Nudity, Sex and Violence. As our film will be including some of these for example language it can’t be in a lower certificate. most action films are 15 and we would like to follow the trend as we feel that out film needs swearing, violence, etc. to set the mood. also our target audience teenagers are less likely to see a 12 and i think that making the film a 15 will widen our audience.

Snatch

Turkish and his accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the life beaten out of him by Pitt, a 'pikey' who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'.

We decided that this clip of snatch would be good to have on our blogs since it shows how they use music to change the tension. For example in this clip there’s a scene where the boxer everyone thought would win gets knocked out and loses, but instead of having a dark piece of scary suspenseful music playing in the background a soft acoustic piece of music starts to play. This makes the scene less threatening and slightly more relaxed.

Analysis of titles

For the opening 2 minutes of our film we needed to have titles to make it look more realistic. We created a few titles that we like the look of and that would go well with our film. We wanted bold writing as we thought it gave a spy/action feel it. We choose the first one in the sequence as we felt this would go with our film the best. We found it hard to choose between the 1st and 2nd, as we felt they would both go with the film. We had to put them in the film to see which gave a more professional look.

Titles for our film

Filming Equipment

 

Mood Board Of Production Photos

The Script

Characters:

·        Jason- aka agent 13-Fabian

·        The Boss- Harry Kent

·        Assassin 1- David

·        Assassin 2- Molly

·        Assassin 3- Peter

·        Tracker Girl- Ellen

·        Organisation Members- Josh, Lewis, Shaun,

Shot 1. Production Titles

Shot 2-4. A voice over by Jason, “The names Jason & this is me finishing my last fucking assignment! I still don’t know what they’re going to do with me…..”

Amplified sound of his footsteps.

Shot 5. The film title appears in the foreground and in the background we see the doors. This shot stays for 3 seconds until the doors burst open.

Shot 6. Jason is standing in between the doors.

Dialogue: Jason- “As we agreed this was my last assignment and now I’m done with this bullshit!”

The Boss- “Yes, we know, remember there is no turning back now…”

At the end of the scene we hear muttering/whispering from the organisation members.

Shot 10-12. Jason is walking up the high street, everyday noises of people talking, cars and people walking will be heard in the scene.

Add in the sound of a police or ambulance siren.

The insert (shot 12.5). Jason turns a corner and bumps into a girl (the tracker) she hastily says sorry as the camera focuses on her slipping a tracker into his pocket. Sounds dim down and go quiet as he turns the corner.

Shot 13. Jason keeps walking up the road. Everyday noises continue at normal level.

Shot 14. Back in the board room the boss is talking about the tracker being placed on Jason. “we have hired an operative to place a tracker on Jason, now we know where he is, what he’s doing and how we can get rid of him!”

Shot 15. Down the board rooms corridor you see the three assassin’s feet walking down it.

Shot 16. Back in the board room . The boss is talking about the tracker and the three assassins on there way. “I’ve hired three of the best trained assassins in the world to take down agent 13, he wont make it out alive”.

Shot 17. Down the board rooms corridor you see the three assassin’s feet walking down it.

Shot 18. The doors swing open and the three assassins are standing in the doorway.

Shot 19. The camera zooms in slightly on the assassins in the doorway. The assassins slowly walk into the board room.

Shot 20. Jason walks along the street. Jason turns into an alley. Another man appears and starts to follow him

Shot 21. Zoom in on Jason. Jason looks left over his shoulder and sees that he’s being followed.

Shot 22. The camera angle changes to looking at both characters head on. Jason starts to run and his follower chases after him.

Shot 23. Jason runs up a flight of stairs.

Shot 24. Jason gets to the top of the stairs and continues running. His follower reaches the top soon after and continues to chase Jason.

Shot 25. Jason continues to run with the camera directly behind him to act like it’s the follower’s point of you chasing Jason. Jason then runs out of shot and the follower stops and looks around for him.

Shot 26. The follower then runs out onto the main road looking for Jason.

Shot 27. The follower stops running and starts to walk along the side of the road looking around for Jason.

Shot 28. Cuts to Jason looking out a window.

Shot 29. The angle changes and you see Jason looking out of the window down onto his follower looking around for him. Jason mumbles the word “Amateur” and walks away.

Shot 30. Jason walks out onto the car park roof.

Shot 31. Jason sees a black car and walks over to it. Jason gets into the car and the car speeds off.

Analysis of preliminary task

We were asked to film a small clip that lasted two minutes so we could see how the camera worked. It had to involve someone walking, opening and closing a door and a short conversation. We found that it is very hard to hold the camera still, so we used a tripod to stop the camera from shaking. We also found that we needed to put a lot more shots and cuts in. we didn’t use a lot of shots and i think it could have looked a lot better. We could have included a shot of the door handle when it was being opened. We also found we had to speak up when filming because the camera didn’t pick up the sound very well. This was very good preparation for our actual filming.

preliminary task