Scene 1: Establishing shots of a neighborhood, then a fade into a house of a man having a family moment with three of what are assumed his kids. He leaves his house on the phone having a very intense conversation with someone about money. He gets into an argument about needing it urgently. There is another person on the line, assuming he is important as the character feels intimidated by the conversation. He is told very briefly that there is no stretching the deadline. He returns to the other phone call and expresses this. The person locks off and he shows a lot of anger. A biker clips him as he passes and he screams out at him, the biker skids around and returns to him and knocks him down to the ground.Camera slightly in and out of focus as the masked figure uses his hand to cover his face (first person shot: the camera)
Scene 2: He wakes up in a very empty room and it is pitch black (where a night vision CCTV camera will be used). He begins to scour around using his mobile as a light source and discovers the camera in a corner of the room. He is very distressed and tries negotiating with the people trying to get them to communicate, but nothing worth doing. Eventually after much pleading and offers he realizes that gas is seeping into the room and he begs for them not to hurt him and how he has a family.
Scene 3: He wakes up in a boot (still in night vision to show the transition had not yet passed) he screams for help and to exit, the boot flies open. He gets out and looks around as there is nobody in sight. He chuckles as he sees the key hanging the from the drivers door and in motion, meaning that who ever put him there is not far. He walks toward the door as he realizes that his phone is ringing. He answers twice with no reply and then understands that it's the people who locked him up, he explains how he doesn't understand why they did this and exclaims that he's going after them. He throws the phone and as it is in the air a still image is used and credits roll upwards viewing the title, cast and production company.
MAKE SURE THAT YOU GO THROUGH EACH OF THESE BULLET POINTS AND ADDRESS EACH ONE IN TURN!
ReplyDelete• You must have another 2 analyses of film magazine reviews, focusing on use of conventions, style, layout etc. Also, you need to have an image of each magazine that you have analysed.
• For your short film analyses, remember also that you must comment on narrative, characters, sound and how these are used and manipulated specifically for a short film. Also, you need to comment on whether the film was conventional for short film (lack of dialogue, use of visual/aural shorthand, twist, cliff-hanger ending, few characters etc)
• For your poster & film analyses- these have some good levels of detail, but need to focus on establishing what the conventions of short films & film posters are and whether the texts that you have analysed adhere conform to or subvert these, and the effect for the audience. YOU HAVEN’T MENTIONED THE WORD CONVENTION ONCE IN ANY OF THESE ANALYSES! You must go back and look to discuss how they are/aren’t conventional for short films or for what you would expect from a film poster. Look at my blog for some help with these if needed.
• Organise blog posts so that they are in clear chronological order and group similar posts together.
• Have a post that clearly outlines your brand identity and how you are going to create this with the 3 products. Eg: style, colour, costume, lighting, atmosphere etc etc.
• MUST HAVE a storyboard animatic. Without this you can’t get above an E!
• MUST HAVE images for location scouting, together with detailed reasons for why you are using these.
• Filming schedule, with dates and what you have filmed (written as if it is before you filmed)
• Have a clear and detailed diary for each stage of production & post-production that outlines what has been completed at each stage, with brief notes on why/success of this etc.
• You have VERY LITTLE on the production stage of your film, despite the fact that you spent most of the time on this. You need to have images of you filming, screen grabs or video embedded of the different versions you went through, followed by audience feedback and your responses to this. You are simply throwing away marks by not including this.
• MAKE SURE that you upload & embed the first copy that was over-exposed and discuss the clear feedback given by me and others (?). Then how you will act on this feedback and what you did after this.
• Also include the second rough-cut, again with audience feedback and how you approached improving it. Mention any helpful work with Mutthakin etc.
• Have some screen grabs of the Final Cut, Motion, GarageBand interface, with different filters/techniques that you used and explanations of why these were used in relation to the style of your film etc.
• Include ideas that you worked through for titles and soundtrack, with embedded examples of practice and final versions, again with detailed reasons why
• A post that outlines possible classification for your film, in-line with the BBFC guidelines, with reasons & images from the film used as evidence for this.
• Draft of your poster & magazine review, with writing that explains in detail each aspect of poster & magazine review, noting why they are used. Link to conventions of posters & magazine reviews and use terms and justify reasons why you are creating it in this way. Link to the overall brand identity that you are trying to create.
• Upload all the images that you took of characters for your poster/magazine, discussing the overall composition that you were going for and why; link to film/brand identity, and identify the final ones that you chose.
• As you work on your poster & magazine, make sure that you upload images of the different stages (taking grabs from Photoshop & InDesign, as well as exporting PNG/JPEG files of the different stages) and get audience feedback on each stage.
Mohammed- 10- Low level 2- Grade D