evaluation question 4

evaluation question 3

Our film genre is action. That revolves around gangs, prisons, chase ect. This is all based in London with English characters so it would be preferable if our production company was British to show and produce our film. Looking through company’s ‘working title’ company would be a good suitable company for us as it is what they are looking for as we both are wanting the same audience. This company works with horror, action, drama teen and romance.

Movies produced by ‘working tittle’ include: hot fuzz, green zone, Johnny English and robin, these are some that is in the same genre as ours, action. Green zone is very similar t our movie as we both include gangs and revenge and chase. Where one person has left a gang and is now in a troubled situation.

ONLY WATCH 2.20 MINS OF IT 

*Firstly we are shown the production trade mark which is Metro Goldwyn Mayer. That is used the same with all their films. *Looking at the opening, the main character's identity is kept a secret having the audience guessing. *The music fits in with the video and starts on time with the video. Which is (perfect day) *The music and the credits gives the audience clues what type of genre the film is like the titles and credits are bright pink.we can understand The genre is rom com. The gender is aimed at girls. *from the start the director is giving the audience clues to who this mysterious person/ main character could be. This is done by using an envelope. * We are then shown a parallel scene between the girl combing her hair and another girl riding a bike. * Focusing on the girl riding the bike, the camera is panning her throughout the bike ride, and we are shown a point of view shot a few times that is used effectively. *Focusing on the main character, each shot is a close up indicating to us that she is the main character as her identity is hidden * The director very cleverly shows us that the envelope belongs to the hidden character because on her table her name is written, and so the audience should know that the main characters name is Elle. * The camera is then tracking the sub-character holding the envelope *We are then shown the banner saying 'homecoming queen' and now audience will gather an understanding. * The shot i liked was a bird-eye view of the the person holding the envelope.

evaluation question 6

evaluation question 6

evaluation question 7

Since my preliminary task, I have learnt a lot within using the camera and editing. With the first project we didn’t put too much effort with planning and when it came to shooting we had a lot of problems, but for project two we learnt from our mistakes and took 2 weeks on just planning then dedicating a day to find places to shoot, so we did plan in detail and when it came to shooting we followed the shots from our storyboard that were our basic shots and every other shot was creative we done on the spot. We took a few days to look for suitable characters for our film, and prepared them what to wear and say and act.

Editing project one was a first time experience for the whole group as we never used an imac before and weren’t comfortable with imovie, but using the tutorials under help button and the teachers assistance we got the hang of it after a couple of days. For project two we used more new software that was better and that went into detail with editing, so we never used the same software for project one, this made editing better for project two. We also got feedback from students watching project two and we had time to fix up our film before deadline; we never had this opportunity for project one. We also had a lot more time with project two.

For project one I was in a group that we were un organised and we all put little effort in, where as my new group who we worked for project two, we worked extremely well together and got on really well, with no arguments and worked as a team and all put great effort in towards the film.

evaluation one

Q1a) Our Genre is action. Examples like Casino Royal inspired us to base our storyline around action. Before deciding the genre, we looked at the characters we will be using and based our genre arounf them. Our film makes the genre, for example, the fast pace music represents ur genre showing that it is action. The two characters we have suit the genre and fast paced music. The most important event is running our genre represents that.

Q1b) Structure – through research we found that movies can either start from the beginning or half way through the movie or at the end leaving a flashback, explaining the storyline. In our case, we found starting in the middle is more interesting. On purpose, we left a cliff-hanger, so we thought to start the opening from the middle of the story and ending with a flashback. We never thought of putting disruption into the sequence but when we left the cliff-hanger, we thought that we should keep the audience guessing what happened and so we placed the gunshot. We didn’t want to carry on the classic pattern which was that it starts happy, then a problem, then problem solved. So we changed the way our story goes.

Q1c) we aimed to keep the sequence to real time so that it makes sense when watching. The sequence was very tense and so we thought to break the tension with a parallel techniques. This is the lift scene; our feedback said that it broke the tension well. We also used cross cutting to apply the same affect.

question 5 evaluation

We focused on getting the audience interested into our sequence, engaging them into the movie. We chose a genre that is popular with our audience 15-19 and action, thriller suited that age group. The uses of shocks and surprises weren’t the main focus however we did apply shock at the ending which was left as a cliff-hanger. One scene, in our move, used a montage as there are different shots in a few seconds and the other parts of our movie are continuity. At the start we reveal the plot and characters that are in the movie however one character is kept hidden until the end of the movie keeping the suspense. 

evaluation question 2

feed back from the film

final film

This is the opening sequence we made as a group which consists of me (ashad), vitush and Shehryar Sheikh. It took us a few weeks to start and finish our film and during that process i have learnt a lot such as editing, camera work, storyboarding and real-life situations such as scenery setting. During the planning we started to search for places to shoot and some places were off limits preventing us to shoot in those areas so we had to change our storyboard along the way however we got most of the places we wanted. Filming took us a course of two

final film

feed the fish

Watching the introduction of Sherlock Holmes, the storyline
is very secretive till towards the end, however you have an
understanding of the genre of the film. They used a special
effect/edit for the titles and credits; they are embedded
into the video, as the camera takes a birds-eye view/ close
up of the floor, the titles and credits appear in the
ground. This was very interesting because the camera doesn't
cut away to show the titles, they are just printed onto the
floor; it’s a very clever way of thinking. The sound track
fits in very well with the introduction, it sets the mood of
the film as a hole, it starts very mysteriously and quick
beat in the action part. We are shown one of the the main
characters at the start of the sequence and slowly but
gradually we seem to catch up with the main character,
Sherlock Holmes, who is running. Before we are shown the
main character we are shown a few characters that play an
important part in the film. The sequence starts of dark at
night where a few street lamps lighting up the scene as we
followed the carriage and the man running and it stayed like
that for the 3 minutes. Different camera shots were used but
the obvious shot was panning and that was very regular, at
the start we seem to chase after the carriage and then we
pan the main character while he is running. The framing used
throughout the 3 minutes was wide capturing more detail but
my favorite feature of the introduction was that the camera
never stopped moving. A few close ups were used with the
transition ‘zoom’ this was used effective especially
towards the end where Sherlock Holmes found the villain, and
the camera kept switching from Sherlock and where the
villain was.

Scream- Opening sequence

This is the opening sequence to Scream

CSI:NY- Opening sequence

This is the opening sequence to CSI:NY.

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