Bridget Jones Case Study

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Evaluation Of Coursework

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In addition to answering the evaluation questions,  I had to put the videos together. I did it on Windows Movie Maker, and then used a microphone to record my answers. Then I saved all the files in the correct format, and uploaded them to Youtube, and then copied the embed codes onto my Blog.

Storyboard Animactic

Sorry it's a bit blurred, same excuse that applys to my storyboard post!

Thumbnails

This is my thumbnails. I would have put up all of the pictures individually, but the photos were mostly blurred, and I couldn't get a good comprise between size and clearness. I've made it as large at blogspot allows though.

Storyboard

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Music For Film Final

Takedown by kram.b

This is the track we have used on the final edit of our film. We didn't so much choose it, it was more a coincidence than anything. When our teacher was showing us how to load music onto the macs, we just happened to put this on, watched it through, and it matched all the action perfectly. We double checked by comparing other songs we had on there, just to make sure, but Takedown was by far the best track we had for the film.

Sound In Films

Soundintvdrama 100129055219 Phpapp01

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Soundtrack Example Three

Monster Masquerade by kram.b

This is my third example of soundtracks we can use.

Soundtrack Example Two

In Rememberance by kram.b

Here is another example of a track I could use for a soundtrack for our film.

Soundtrack Example One

First Round Knockout by kram.b

Here is an example of a soundtrack I downloaded from http://www.freeplaymusic.com/. This is just to show the kind of things I can choose from to use for a soundtrack.

Ident Draft

The one thats just the camera on a white background was just me basically messing around, trying to see what I could do with photoshop. The second one I did is a proper attempt, and a version of an ident I'd quite like to use. I took inspiration from one I've seen on a film i once watched, but can't find on the internet.

Learning Skills Work- Media Studies

Individual Learning Skills Project

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This is just basically a project I did for Learning Skills, in additon to what I'm doing for coursework. I chose to make my project on Media because I wanted to spend more time on coursework, and it was a good chance to further research the music and editing of films, which I felt I needed to do.

Feedback For Draft

We were given feedback on our film draft.

Successes:
Good camera shots and angles and good editing.
Good blur to create disorientation. and good effective lighting.

Improvements:
Consider effects more and music and titles.
Make it shorter.

Overall People thought we should get a high level 2/ low level 3.

The Soloist Links

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article6847491.ece

This post is just basically summarising how the film came into the existence, and the true story it was based on.

http://blogs.sltrib.com/movies/2008/10/oscar-watch-09-thinning-herd.htm

This post is talking about how the film is falling out of contention for an Oscar after it's advertising budget was majorly cut.

http://www.boxxet.com/AFI/On:The_Soloist

This post is just a big list of links, most of them explaining why the film had it's budegt cut, and it's postponed release date.

http://www.thesoloistmovie.co.uk/

This is the official website for film.

Issues With Film Again

Over half term, we booked a camera and tripod from the library again with the intention of filming corrections for the film on wednesday, the only day we were all free. However, it threw it down with rain all day, and seeing as our location was outside, this presented a problem. We got a bunch of umbrelllas and had at least one over the camera at all times to keep it dry. Instead though, the camera was seriously affected by the cold and the first battery we had lasted about half an hour, and we only had about fifteen seconds of useable footage. Then the camera got so cold that we had to stop filming, because the picture had black lines through it. On top of this, Andy didn't have all the right clothes on, and we hadn't had a chance to storyboard it properly.

In the end of the camera got so cold that the batterys were running out incredibly fast, and so we had to abandon the shoot when it stopped working all together. However, we have managed to arrange a new time, and yet another new location, and are just waiting for some more decent weather to film in, and the forecast shows we can do it soon, so it looks promising.

Music Download Sites (No Copyright)

Copyright free sites (Note: not all music is free to download from copyright free sites – there are download fees)

http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Copyright-friendly+music+and+sound
http://www.shockwave-sound.com/
http://audiojungle.net/
http://www.musicmediatracks.com/?gclid=CK6V-r7ZiJgCFUse3god7XQJCw
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free.html
http://freeplaymusic.com/ (free downloads) - good tracks to look at are Dawn Mist, Evil Deed, First round knockout, Vanquished the, Autumn nights, Eye spy full, Marathon, New generation, In remembrance
http://www.trackline.com/acatalog/Tracks.html
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/documentary-general-production.html
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/
www.freesound.org (free music)
http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html (teacher needs to register for this one)
http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it
http://www.jamendo.com/en
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/
http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm
http://www.alcljudprod.se/english/ljud.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6KYjytwr1w Twilight soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvnkAtWcKYg&feature=fvst Paramore decode twilight video

Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques

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Analysis Of Music Video

Analysis For Music Video

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Music Video Analysis Of Editing

This is Paramore's video for Misery Business (2007). In our analysis of it (next post) we will answer the question "How does the editing in this music video constuct the meaning about the relationship between characters?

More Location Recce

This is a video I took whilst doing a bit more location scouting for our film. I did it to basically give a better idea what the area we are going to film in is like, which sometimes is hard to tell in photographs.

More Location Recce

After filming our 2 minute film, we went through it and edited it as best we could, but then ran into some problems. Firstly, as it turned out our location wasn't quite right in the end. It did look the part, but it looked quite amateurish, so we decided to film it again. We eventually settled on an outside location for the first bit of the film, and so we went and took some more photos. Secondly, we found that our footage was only a minute and twenty seconds long, which is a slight issue, so we would have had to of filmed the it all again anyway.

Here are the photos we took for our new location for the film.



This is the path along the side, higher up than the main route. It's quite well hidden by trees, but there is still a view down below of the main path.



This is another shot along the top side of the path, from another direction. This is just basically to show more of the area.



This shot is to show how much you can actually see from the high up path, of the lower down path. In places the trees are thicker, but this is one of the better spots.



This shot is of the main path, from where most of the filming will be done, because theres much more space to move the camera.



This is a shot of the main path again, but shot from the other direction to show what the area is like.



This is another shot from the higher up path, looking down to the lower path, further along than the previous shot.

The Soloist

Credits
Company
Name Role
DreamWorks- Domestic Theatrical Distributor
DreamWorks- Studio
Universal Pictures- Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Universal Pictures- Studio
United International Pictures (UIP)- Foreign Theatrical Distributor(Singapore)

Paramount Pictures- Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Working Title Films- Film Financier
Universal Pictures International (UPI)- Foreign Theatrical Distributor (Australia, Netherlands and United Kingdom)

DreamWorks Home Entertainment- Domestic Video Distributor
Finnkino Oy- Foreign Theatrical Distributor (Finland)
Toho-Towa Company- Foreign Theatrical Distributor (Japan)
Participant Media- Film Financier
Studio Canal- Film Financier
Krasnoff Foster Entertainment- Production Company
Paramount Pictures International (PPI)- Foreign Theatrical Distributor (Canada)
StudioCanal Distribution- Foreign Theatrical Distributor (France)
Between Two Trees- Production Company

Character Profile

Supernatural Character

This character was inspired from films such as Twilight, Blade and Underworld. He is based on a sort of vampire appearance, with extremely pale skin (an idea taken from Twilight), and his apparent lack of emotion. We prefer to say he is a "supernatural" character though, as opposed to a traditional vampire, because in the film at no point does the issue of drinking blood, turning into a bat come up or melting in sunlight come up.

In terms of costume for him, we needed soemthing that was dark, and showed that he is superior to the human character. Eventually, we decided that a black suit would be best, because it gives the impression that he is a serious character, but at the same time, he is quite laid back, and has confidence in himself, which will be shown in the way that the buttons of his shirt won't be done all the way up to the top, and his posture and expressions.

For his face, the plan is to make it pale using make-up, which would have to go down his neck and all the way down to where his shirt is, to make it look realistic. Also, we thought about putting a fake scar, or darkening under his eyes for added effect.

Human Character

For our human character, the plan is just to make him appear as normal as we possibly can. This is because we want him to look quite plain and almost vunerable looking next to the supernatural character. His costume will just be just normal, everyday clothes, but with a bit of a dark, rock music theme to it, which will tie in with the music we have in the film.

Synopsis

Our film is a supernatural themed film, and is based around a supernatural character, who is stalking a human character who has something he wants. In the opening for the film, the audience never actually sees what this thing is, but they are made aware of the fact that the supernatural character wants it.

The setting for our film is just a normal house, on a normal street, all because we wanted to show how supernatural things can happen to anyone, and anywhere. The house we chose (see recce) is a quite modern house, but has old fashioned style wooden designs on the front of the house, which we believe will look the part in our film.

It starts with shots of the supernatural character looking at this house from the other side of the street. He remains totally stationary, does not blink or show any signs of emotions. This is all just to add to his presence and show that he isn't just a normal person. It then swaps to a view from inside the house, where the human character is hidden. In very few words, the audience finds out that the human character is being chased by this other character, and its all because he has something the other one is after. He proceeds to go up the stairs of the house, saying that he'll show "you", being the audience, this object that is so coveted after.

However, when he is in the process of opening the place where the object is hidden, he has an urge to go look out of the window. He follows through with this urge, and discovers in doing so that the supernatural character is not longer out on the street. He says this out loud, and is answered by the supernatural character who has suddenly appeared in the room. He then lunges forward, as if he's attacking, and then it cuts to black...

Supernatural Characters Costume

Here are a load of photos Andy took in his suit for his costume for his role as the supernatural character. We were planning giving him a sharp suit type of look, because it is to show his greatness compared to the mere human character. At the same time however, we want him to look casual, with shirt untucked, loose or no tie on, as to give him that free look, to show he's comfortable with who he is.

Our Plan To Do The Film

We decided to put together our film on tuesday the 2nd of february, because our school has a mentoring day that day, and we all have the day off, but the school is open if we chose to go in.

I have booked a camera and a tripod for that day from the library, and can collect it on the monday before, or on tuesday morning. The plan is to get pretty much the whole film done over the course of the day, so that we don't have to worry about getting all the people together again, the light being different, the costumes being the same, or anything else like it.

We still may have to do bits over again at a later date, or add more in, but at least this way we have less of that to worry about.

Questions About Practical Continued

1. The action: identify the event your idea is based around; what actually happens (discovery of a body, an illicit meeting, a witness seeing a crime being committed, a criminal act taking place, a telephone call, a chase, a short journey etc)?-
Our film is based around the situation of a human character hiding in a house from a supernatural type character, who is after something that the human has.

2. The theme(s): what should it make the audience think about or feel, what ‘issues’ will it raise (revenge, sexuality, voyeurism, stalking, obsession, greed etc)?-
It will mostly make them think about stalking, and greed for something that may not belong to them.

3. The narrative: how is it structured - classic narrative pattern or break with convention, real time or different time zones, flashbacks/forwards, dreams etc. Will there be dialogue? What about diegetic/ non-diegetic sound?-
Our narrative all follows one space in time, and its all in 2 places, inside and outside a house.

4. The character(s): who are they, identify their roles, what are their characteristics, including gender, appearance etc?-
The is a male human character, who is hiding because he has a special item that the other character wants. This other character is a supernatural character, who is basiclly a vampire in essence, and he is trying to avoid killing the human character, for reasons that would be explored later in the film if it was continued.

5. The setting and choice of location: where is it set?-
It's set at a house (see location posts) that is quite an old fashioned style design, but with hints of modernisation about it. The wooden bits give it an old fashioned theme that suit our film well.

6. The mise-en-scene: identify colours, lighting, dress codes, the overall visual look-
Going for a dark, gothic look that will be reflected in the lighting of the film. The supernatural character is going to be dressed in a suit, and will have a pale face, done with make up.

7. The camera work: the style you are aiming for-
Our style will be an unusual one, because we are going to do most of our camera shots as a sort of "3rd character" perspective. This view isn't a physical character in the film, but the human character regularly talks to him as a friend, but doesn't want/ get responses.

8. The editing: edited as a continuous sequence, use of cross cutting, use of montage, or combination?-
It's going to be edited as a continous story, not flashbacks or memorys or anything.

Questions About Practical

1. Is it practical?
Our film is practical, because all we need are 2 actors, and a house. The only thing we are concerned about is getting the correct lighting for the film, and getting costumes that fit the mise en scene. Everything else we have covered.

2. Is it an idea that works to the strengths of the group?
This may be our downfall, because neither of us have much experience in this genre of films, but we feel that we will manage fine.

3. Will it show off the skills you have learnt so far on the course?
It should show in the way we have considered our actors, our mise en scene and the variety of camera angles we planned on our storyboard.

4. Is it something you can reasonably shoot and edit in the time available?
We have an entire planned day where we will devote our day solely to the purpose of filming. This way we avoid the issues of not having enough time, and also we can do it all in one go, so that costumes and make up does not need constantly re-doing.

5. Can you get access/ permission to shoot in the chosen location at the chosen times?
We have already secured permission and a time slot to do our filming in our chosen location.

6. Can you organise lighting to use in that location?
This is a slight concern, but I believe that because of the location of our film area, the fact that its quite a dark area will play to the strengths of our mise en scene.

7. Have you included dialogue? If so, will it work to shoot conversation in that location?
We do have dialogue, but not an actual conversation. Throughout the 2 minutes of our film, we only have 4 lines of dialogue, and 3 of them are from one character.

8. Do you have guaranteed high quality reliable actors to play the characters?
No, because we were limited on choice, but I believe who we chose will suit the parts just fine.

Audience Profiling Sheet

Age- 15- 30 can be higher if they interested.

Background- Aimed more at an emo crowd, or gothic.

Occupation- Middle class, due to area used in film, middle class area.

Gender- Mostly male, but might appeal to females as well.

Likes- Supernatural films, vampire gothic themes, rock music.

Dislikes- Romance related themes, happy endings, rap music.

Ambitions- Adventurous type.

Musical Preferences- Rock music, indie and related kinds.

Looks Up To/ Idolizes- Rock bands, twilight books.

Media Habits- Interested in programs like Dr Who, Blood Ties, Charmed, True Blood, and Merlin. Doesn’t have to be a regular cinema goer to be interested, appeals to wider audience. Likes genres like thriller, supernatural and action.

Actors in Our Film (Updated)

This is Andrew Hall, who will be one of the actors in our film. I personally think he would be better for the supernatural character in our film, because he has dark hair, and that would link back to his character role, and I don't think he would be very good for speech, so seeing as the supernatural character only has one line, it'll suit him better. Our plan was to get his face ghosted up with make up to make him look more gothic. Also we will make sure he is in dark clothes, to further enhance his character.



This is Pete Syer, who will be one of the actors in our film. I think he would be better in the role of the normal guy, who is in the house, because he would be better at the speech parts, and also he would pull off the "afraid" look better than Andy. In terms of costume, he would just be dressed as a normal person, as to make him seem more inferior to the supernatural character.



This is Rob Wildsmith. We agreed that he wasn't really suitable for either part, compared to Pete and Andy. We felt that if it came to it, he would be better for the normal guy in the film, because he hair and skin colour didn't fit the idea we had in mind for the supernatural character.

This is Paul Daulby, who featured in our preliminary work. We felt that he would be quite good as the human character in our film, but eventually decided against him because we felt that Jack would be better.

This is Jack Taylor.

Recce

We went out and took photos of the house and location that we have pretty much decided our film will be shot at. Here they are...



A shot of the house we will use. Can move the car and so forth, because it doesn't need to be in the film, and I think it would mess up the mise en scene of the film. A car would make the situation seem too normal, and look amateurish.



A shot of the street the house is on from the front drive way. Obviously the bins would be moved out of the way, and we need to consider where the supernatural character would stand. Too close and it would look not right, and too far away and the camera would not pick him up properly, and it would look like he's not even in the film.



A shot looking up the stairs. We need to consider the camera angles for when the good guy goes up the stairs, although currently we are going for a match-on-action effect, and only showing him starting to go up the stairs, and then reaching the top.



A shot of the living room window. Need to think about the angles of where we place our characters in relation to each other, and the angle they are to the window.



Lokking out the window and into the street. Wouldn't normally have a bin lorry in the way though. This shot reflects the part of the film where the good guy is looking out the window at the supernatural character.



Shot of the top of the stairs. This is where the good guy will head when he goes up the stairs, and into a room on the right hand side. The darkness may be an issue, because the camera may not work in that light.



Shot out of the upstairs window. This shot reflects where the good guy is looking out the window to check where the supernatural character has gone towards the end of the film.



Shot of the doorway in the room upstairs we will be using. This is where the final shots of the film would take place, where the supernatural character is in the room. We need to be careful when filming to avoid the camera appearing in the mirror at the side of the room.



Shot of the window from the doorway. Shows how big the space we have to work with is.



Shot of the mise en scene of the room, can change and move things though. May leave it mostly as it is, because it makes the room more realistic, and not like an empty box.

Moodboard 2

Feedback From Film Pitch

On friday, me and Catherine presented our film pitch to the class, and everyone filled in a feedback sheet about what they thought of the idea, any potential problems they thought we might have, and suggestions they had to improve our idea.

Here is each sections feedback-

Genre- Generally, people put down that they believed our film fits the genres of supernatural, thriller and action. This is good, because these are what we were aiming to get across in our pitch. No one said horror, which is also good because we didn't want to get into that area with our film, because we believe it would restrict our target audience too much.

Target audience- People just wrote down on this bit what we said in our pitch, that our target audience is 14 years+. One person wrote down that we should try and make our film appeal to a younger audience, so it has more appeal. We also need to further consider where our target audience ends, in terms of maximum age.

Texts The Film Reminded People Of- This Is England, Heroes, Superman, Spiderman, Twilight, Grudge

Things People Like About It- We received positive feedback, mainly about a well planned out storyline. We were recommended to think about the ending of the film, as if we were doing the whole thing, which we have already covered, just didn't feel the need to cover in our pitch.

Advice- Most of the advice we were given focused on making sure we could portray our character as superntural as clearly as we could. Suggestions for this where things such as focusing on what costume we used, and the make up we used. Another suggestion was to use older actors, but we don't think we can, because we don't know anyone who will do it. By using teenage actors, it maye even bring our target audience down in age, as previously mentioned. Finally, we were told to think about camera angles, editing and special effects.

Pitch For AS Coursework

Pitch For Media As Coursework

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Moodboard 1

Films That Inspired My Coursework

Underworld- Vampire theme, gave me ideas for the sort of supernatural things a supernatural person can do.

Twilight- Gave me ideas on character development, e.g. how would a human react around a supernatural person?

This Is England- On camera angles, gave me the idea for the "non-existent-but-there" 3rd character, from whom many camera angles are taken from (see film plan for further details).

Blade- More inspiration for the vampire theme of our film. Also made me think about the Mise en scene for the film.

Film Opening Analysis 2/2

Blade

- Red titles, relate to theme of blood and vampires.
- Hospital set, date shown on screen as 1967.
- Woman with neck injury, and has gone into labour.
- Neck injury= vampire attack?
- Rapid editing shows the urgency of the situation, trying to save the woman and her baby.
- White background/ costumes, shows its a hospital setting. Could be linked the to death and heaven.
- Baby could be character later in the film?
- More red titles, names of well known actors to make you watch it.
- Shots of sped up city life shown, represents and shows the passing of time between the hospital scene and the next scene of a woman and man in a car.
- Shows the day rapidly being covered up with darkness. Could foreshadow vampires going in strength and numbers/ evil winning over good?
- Very faint background music and noise in the hospital scene. Shows the woman is dying, and can't focus on her surroundings.
- Hear a heart monitor stop beeping and just go flat to show woman has died.
- Opening shot, running down corridor, like heading towards light at the end of the tunnel. Hints at death.
- In the "now" bit, woman with red hair, signals blood, could be a vampire?
- She is driving a car, not the guy. Shows she is dominant over him. He could be a victim in waiting?

Film Opening Analysis 1/2

Underworld

- Titles, black background with white writing, good vs evil.
- Introduces storyline, vampires vs lycans (werewolves).
- Voiceover by female (assumed to be vampire) tells story.
- She and male companion looking down from high ledges, shows dominance, links to line "most succesful campaign- perhaps too successful".
- Opening shot upside down like a sleeping bat, relates to vampire theme.
- Enigmas - who is Lucian?
- why is there a war?
- who gave the orders to fight?
- why is it going to well?
- Vampire costumes, black leather, long cape like coats, links back to other vampire capes in other films, e.g. Dracula.
- Werewolves (as humans) costumes, less expensive looking compared to enemies, shows they not doing as well as vampires.
- Werewolves (as humans) walking close together, like they travelling in a pack.
- Vampires more spread out, shows more indepedance and confidence.
- Dark setting, lots of rain and wind. Could be linked to funeral-like setting? Hints to death.
- No music (diegetic/ non diegetic) except for when supernatural things happen. Done to perhaps show power of the vampires.
- Supernatural occurings, small nod being seen from very far away, and jumping off a high building and landing perfectly without injury.
- (Previous bulletpoint) done to show capabilities of vampires.