Thursday 12 May 2011
final film The C.H.A.S.E
This we hope is our final edited finnish of the movie, we will change what we need to change according to what poeople have said about it.
Friday 6 May 2011
Friday 1 April 2011
Film cover
By Katie
Thursday 31 March 2011
independant research of dvd cover-katie
United 93
- Large iconic elemant of america, established location the statue of liberty is the largest figure in the frame making it the most dominant. the colors used for the statute are quite dark which would normally meen that it is not as important as it is not of a bright color. although the statue a mixture of dark blue and shades of black, allows you to see certain areas just defying the figure, representing the darker side of America revealing possibilities in the film.
- The small figure of an airplane appears slightly distant in the background, it is positioned so it is tilted slightly as if it was unstable but also the direction of the plain is aimed towards the statue insisting some possibility of a plain crash in America.
- location and sorrounding area is shown at the bottom of the screen as if it was a screen print. included is an icon building associated with America, the twin towers. Although surrounding this is smoke, suggesting danger and death. This is positioned at the bottom of the frame showing a long wide shot. The city buildings are slightly faded representing the disappearance.
- A montage of all these elements within the film that when put together will automatically produce expectation of what the film will be about.
- The rule of thirds have been used twice in this frame, using horizontal and vertical aspects. the statue of liberty is covering the fram about a third making this the most im portant factor. Also the plain positioned at the top right of the page, next the titles posistioned in the middle of the frame then the city background osioned at the bottom breaking the frame apart.
- The titles have been printed in a slightly off orange tone which is a complementary color to the opposing blue sky. it has also been typed in a bold structured front showing the seriousness of the text.
- The color of the background uses a sky blue which is a automatic expectation and stereotypically American bright blue sky. This gets slightly light when behind the titles which automatically brings the audiences attention the this area.
By Katie Fryer
independant research -katie
Opening scene comparison -United 93
The film i have chosen to compare with our media product is "United 93" a film based around 9/11 bombing highly involving terrorism. Our films aim is to use stereotypical views along with generic conventions to gain the audiences attention and hope to create suspense right from the start of the film. the genre of our film is action thriller which we are hopping o further extend by including a faced pace chase.
United 93 unlike our film will continue with generic conventions throughout the film by using and portraying muslim men as terroists. although the way the the film has been layed out but not revealing anything, autoatic expectaions which the audience concives are raised due to the specific ethical and moral feeling based on the charcatoes used. however using this film as inspiration and guidance to help create and enhance our film to change aspects of automoatic sterotypical views made apon people from a certain background or population that has been wrongly viewed in the media. the slight change in convension and bracking away from britsh white people being of the dominant ideology and seen in a positive manner. our plan to change and reverse roles with create unexpected pleasure for the audience as they will be unprepeared for teh events that will occcur.
The use of a foreign language is used in united 93, the unusual voice over of an arabic spoken muslim gets the audience feeling confused,ciruous and automaticaly concieving their own own personal expectaions of what is being said (as subtitles are not being used.) This is because of the steriotypicall views made by the public and media. seeing how using this technique has impacted the audience and has built tension we are going to use a musim arabic voice over although because of our unsual twist in our film we will be using subtitles so we dont confuse the audience too much.
Location is establish soon in united 93 using jump cuts from a birds eye view of the local setting to the establishing shots of the muslim men in a motel room. The arabic voice over joins the shots together making the film flow as well as continuing with a fast paced continuous opening scene. for our own film to create a similar sense of tention and fast paced action we too want to use jump cuts to establish location and the journey taken by the chacters, this will be seperated with the titles so the film constanly flows. although because we are using two very different sterotypical charcters we will only be using the voice over over certain shots. instead we will be using a arabic soundtrack so nondiegetic sound will comstantly continue throughout out opening scene and also the importance of the muslim culture and heritage remains a dominant factor throughout the film.
The use of camera shots and angles used is crucial in United 93 to percive the right representation of the male muslim characters. This is created by firstly using an unsteady/ jolted camera to create a sence of unrealiaability and unworthiness but generly to represent specific charcters as the antagonist. Shoots are also seen to be cut off using the rule of third covering part of the screen using a wal or door. not alloing you to see the whole frame portrays impressions of someone watching and something that shouldn't be seen by others. We are planning the use a hand held camera to follow the charcters on their journey. this will be done intentionally to create the effect of someone following another but also represntaing their faced paced journey.
Close ups are used regualarly in the opening scene to exaggerate the facial expression of the male muslims which show a sence of purpose, determination,panic and sacrafice, main aspects portrayed on a terroist whilst becoming a martyr.
United 93 uses off frame hypabolic diegetic sound of voices of commuters, plains and other sounds heard from an airpot to furthe establish location by using a sound bridge joining the muslims with the airpot further continuing genric conventions and representaions of a terroist.
The two films, one produced from working title, documenting past events in a fast paced terroist film, whilst the other a very low brudget british film following two characters highly steryotyped in differents way, with their journey to london also a terroist film with a twist. The two films have been made in completely different ways although the moral views and representations which the audience perceives at the beginning of both films start exactly the same. although united 93 follows conventions whilst our film will break conventions.
By Katie Fryer
The film i have chosen to compare with our media product is "United 93" a film based around 9/11 bombing highly involving terrorism. Our films aim is to use stereotypical views along with generic conventions to gain the audiences attention and hope to create suspense right from the start of the film. the genre of our film is action thriller which we are hopping o further extend by including a faced pace chase.
United 93 unlike our film will continue with generic conventions throughout the film by using and portraying muslim men as terroists. although the way the the film has been layed out but not revealing anything, autoatic expectaions which the audience concives are raised due to the specific ethical and moral feeling based on the charcatoes used. however using this film as inspiration and guidance to help create and enhance our film to change aspects of automoatic sterotypical views made apon people from a certain background or population that has been wrongly viewed in the media. the slight change in convension and bracking away from britsh white people being of the dominant ideology and seen in a positive manner. our plan to change and reverse roles with create unexpected pleasure for the audience as they will be unprepeared for teh events that will occcur.
The use of a foreign language is used in united 93, the unusual voice over of an arabic spoken muslim gets the audience feeling confused,ciruous and automaticaly concieving their own own personal expectaions of what is being said (as subtitles are not being used.) This is because of the steriotypicall views made by the public and media. seeing how using this technique has impacted the audience and has built tension we are going to use a musim arabic voice over although because of our unsual twist in our film we will be using subtitles so we dont confuse the audience too much.
Location is establish soon in united 93 using jump cuts from a birds eye view of the local setting to the establishing shots of the muslim men in a motel room. The arabic voice over joins the shots together making the film flow as well as continuing with a fast paced continuous opening scene. for our own film to create a similar sense of tention and fast paced action we too want to use jump cuts to establish location and the journey taken by the chacters, this will be seperated with the titles so the film constanly flows. although because we are using two very different sterotypical charcters we will only be using the voice over over certain shots. instead we will be using a arabic soundtrack so nondiegetic sound will comstantly continue throughout out opening scene and also the importance of the muslim culture and heritage remains a dominant factor throughout the film.
The use of camera shots and angles used is crucial in United 93 to percive the right representation of the male muslim characters. This is created by firstly using an unsteady/ jolted camera to create a sence of unrealiaability and unworthiness but generly to represent specific charcters as the antagonist. Shoots are also seen to be cut off using the rule of third covering part of the screen using a wal or door. not alloing you to see the whole frame portrays impressions of someone watching and something that shouldn't be seen by others. We are planning the use a hand held camera to follow the charcters on their journey. this will be done intentionally to create the effect of someone following another but also represntaing their faced paced journey.
Close ups are used regualarly in the opening scene to exaggerate the facial expression of the male muslims which show a sence of purpose, determination,panic and sacrafice, main aspects portrayed on a terroist whilst becoming a martyr.
United 93 uses off frame hypabolic diegetic sound of voices of commuters, plains and other sounds heard from an airpot to furthe establish location by using a sound bridge joining the muslims with the airpot further continuing genric conventions and representaions of a terroist.
The two films, one produced from working title, documenting past events in a fast paced terroist film, whilst the other a very low brudget british film following two characters highly steryotyped in differents way, with their journey to london also a terroist film with a twist. The two films have been made in completely different ways although the moral views and representations which the audience perceives at the beginning of both films start exactly the same. although united 93 follows conventions whilst our film will break conventions.
By Katie Fryer
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Assistance in Editing evaluations
29/03/2011
Lydia, who is experienced in the field of editing, helped us by editing our evaluations to make it flow better and to make it easier to understand and more organised in terms of its presentation. We all stayed with her in this process to tell her what sections to edit, and to assist each other in the process.
By: Mohedene Masri
Lydia, who is experienced in the field of editing, helped us by editing our evaluations to make it flow better and to make it easier to understand and more organised in terms of its presentation. We all stayed with her in this process to tell her what sections to edit, and to assist each other in the process.
By: Mohedene Masri
Evaluation Process
29/03/2011
Our group started with the concluding processes of our project. We started doing the evaluations, as the deadline was around he corner. I was the first to finish the evaluation, and i asked my teacher to give me feedback and constructive criticism. I them implemented further clips to cover what i missed out in m original presentation, and then proceeded with assisting the rest of my group with their evaluations.
By: Mohedene Masri
Our group started with the concluding processes of our project. We started doing the evaluations, as the deadline was around he corner. I was the first to finish the evaluation, and i asked my teacher to give me feedback and constructive criticism. I them implemented further clips to cover what i missed out in m original presentation, and then proceeded with assisting the rest of my group with their evaluations.
By: Mohedene Masri
Thursday 24 March 2011
Titles transitions
24/3/11
After we had finished with editing the majority of the clips, we then had to move onto ways to effectively place our titles such as director,starring,music and edited by. This was all done perfectly as we had in mind on the places we wanted them. However there was some difficulties in the main title "The C.H.A.S.E" as it kept on placing it over a scene the effect was amazing with the scene being placed behind in the letters of our title, However we had to add the scene on again to make sure it is fully seen after.
We placed the titles throughout the entire opening of the film, spread out separated to give a nice flow instead of just continuously film. The reason we placed some of the titles such as the "Edited By Lydia" appeared just before they entered the train as there was some filming problems so we thought if we placed it there it could speed up the paste of the film and also show it's representing time has passed from waiting for the train to getting on, This made it effective and gave us a suitable place to put it.
We used a variety of different transitions to separate the different titles. We used typewriter themed style of writing as this represents retelling a story which goes well with the voice over as we used transitions, we made it fast paste to keep up with the opening sequence. Also on the big titles of Directed by and so we decided to use a slide as it gives some effect to the way the writing moves along the screen. The colours we used for the subtitles was bold and dark blue as they stand out from the black background which emphasizes what is being said.
By James
After we had finished with editing the majority of the clips, we then had to move onto ways to effectively place our titles such as director,starring,music and edited by. This was all done perfectly as we had in mind on the places we wanted them. However there was some difficulties in the main title "The C.H.A.S.E" as it kept on placing it over a scene the effect was amazing with the scene being placed behind in the letters of our title, However we had to add the scene on again to make sure it is fully seen after.
We placed the titles throughout the entire opening of the film, spread out separated to give a nice flow instead of just continuously film. The reason we placed some of the titles such as the "Edited By Lydia" appeared just before they entered the train as there was some filming problems so we thought if we placed it there it could speed up the paste of the film and also show it's representing time has passed from waiting for the train to getting on, This made it effective and gave us a suitable place to put it.
We used a variety of different transitions to separate the different titles. We used typewriter themed style of writing as this represents retelling a story which goes well with the voice over as we used transitions, we made it fast paste to keep up with the opening sequence. Also on the big titles of Directed by and so we decided to use a slide as it gives some effect to the way the writing moves along the screen. The colours we used for the subtitles was bold and dark blue as they stand out from the black background which emphasizes what is being said.
By James
Advancements of our project
Thursday 24th March
Our film received a wide range of constructive criticism which allowed us to be innovative, which in effect allowed us to continuously make improvements to make our project look more professional. Firstly, when we were reaching the conclusion of the first draft of our project, our teacher Mr. Roberts reviewed the project and stated that the subtitles were too small, and were difficult to read. We improved upon this by increasing the size of our subtitles for it to be easily read by our potential audience.
Secondly, our teachers were generally impressed with our project. We received heavy constructive criticism, such as to keep our scenes matching on action, to keep the flow of music constant and continuous and to ensure that we are diversifying with our angles and shots to achieve maximum potential marks.
We have worked hard on this, and as a result of which, we have created a good project, which is tense, sets atmosphere, and has a good ethical story line to it.
By: Mohedene
Our film received a wide range of constructive criticism which allowed us to be innovative, which in effect allowed us to continuously make improvements to make our project look more professional. Firstly, when we were reaching the conclusion of the first draft of our project, our teacher Mr. Roberts reviewed the project and stated that the subtitles were too small, and were difficult to read. We improved upon this by increasing the size of our subtitles for it to be easily read by our potential audience.
Secondly, our teachers were generally impressed with our project. We received heavy constructive criticism, such as to keep our scenes matching on action, to keep the flow of music constant and continuous and to ensure that we are diversifying with our angles and shots to achieve maximum potential marks.
We have worked hard on this, and as a result of which, we have created a good project, which is tense, sets atmosphere, and has a good ethical story line to it.
By: Mohedene
soundtracks
Thursday 24th march 2011
In the final draft of the film we ended up using two different types of soundtracks to add to the effect and emotion the film itself was portraying.
The first soundtrack we decided to use was "Pure Arabic hip hop instrumental" located from YouTube. This opened the film with a sense of cultural heritage and background using a stereotypical type of music that is associated with that particular culture. This continued throughout the beggining of our film to build suspence and tension although we used a second soundtrack when we wanted to change the emotion of the audience.
The second soundtrack we used was called "The war room" located from Freeweb
this is a download site where unlicensed music is free to download or share. The beat is different from the first as its quite up pace and fast. This was put into the film as "the chase begins" given a sence of ergency and curiosity.
Along with the soundtrack we were going to include the atmospheric sound of the train station to allow the audience to recieve a more intense and realistic atmosphere. Unfortunately because we currently have the voice over and the two soundtracks it broke the films flow and ruined the effect on the audience therefore we kept only the non diegetic sound.
By Katie
In the final draft of the film we ended up using two different types of soundtracks to add to the effect and emotion the film itself was portraying.
The first soundtrack we decided to use was "Pure Arabic hip hop instrumental" located from YouTube. This opened the film with a sense of cultural heritage and background using a stereotypical type of music that is associated with that particular culture. This continued throughout the beggining of our film to build suspence and tension although we used a second soundtrack when we wanted to change the emotion of the audience.
The second soundtrack we used was called "The war room" located from Freeweb
this is a download site where unlicensed music is free to download or share. The beat is different from the first as its quite up pace and fast. This was put into the film as "the chase begins" given a sence of ergency and curiosity.
Along with the soundtrack we were going to include the atmospheric sound of the train station to allow the audience to recieve a more intense and realistic atmosphere. Unfortunately because we currently have the voice over and the two soundtracks it broke the films flow and ruined the effect on the audience therefore we kept only the non diegetic sound.
By Katie
The Preview of our film The C.H.A.S.E
This we hope is our final edited finnish of the movie, we will change what we need to change according to what poeople have said about it.
by Lydia
Arabic traslation
18/03/2011
I had to translate my voice over from Arabic to English in order for the potential audience to understand and for the narrative to become more apparent. Furthermore, to make the voice over more effective, whilst i was reading it out I made my voice deep, and spoke in short sections to make it clear to understand and the deep voice was to signify tiredness, stress and maturity.
By Mohedene
I had to translate my voice over from Arabic to English in order for the potential audience to understand and for the narrative to become more apparent. Furthermore, to make the voice over more effective, whilst i was reading it out I made my voice deep, and spoke in short sections to make it clear to understand and the deep voice was to signify tiredness, stress and maturity.
By Mohedene
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Independent Research - Mohedene Masri
Independent Opening scene comparison – Mohedene Masri
Inspiration for our opening sequence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi88P7KfaMA – To Kill a Mocking Bird Trailer.
I chose the very famous and respected movie "To Kill a Mocking Bird" to compare with the media project that myself and the rest of my group have partaken in. To kill a mocking bird contains very strong moral and ethical implications revolving around the stereotype of dark coloured individuals, which was a very big issue back in the 1960's, and our media project is about the common stereotype of foreign individuals in the 21st century, regardless of their particular innocence.
Everybody used to stereotype the Dark coloured individuals as bad people, who deserve no respect, and deserve to be treated differently to light skinned people in that era. This relates to our media project in a direct, but juxtaposed manor, our media project is about the general stereotype and judgement of foreign individuals in the 21st century, how generally, these days they are stereotyped to be suspicious and dangerous characters. Furthermore the opening sequence was personally inspired by the trailer of to kill a mocking bird. The narrative in the trailer of To Kill A Mocking Bird was a voice over in conjunction with scenes from the movie. In relation, our opening sequence for our project was a voice over, from myself and the female actress with scenes from the rest of the clip also. This in effect, was what inspired me to inform my group of this particular form of laying out our project.
Furthermore, I found that the way the trailer was set for To Kill A Mocking Bird was a powerful and effective approach to the potential audience in order for them to understand the narrative better, and to allow the audience to start feeling the tension as they get a better understanding of the narrative. This is another reason as to why I persuaded my group to use this form of layout for our opening sequence, as our sequence had complex morals behind it, and so this approach would allow the potential audience to understand the narrative much easier and would allow the audience to pick up on the tension at a much faster pace, which therefore would allow the potential audience to really connect with the diegesis of the film, and allow them to really engage with the moral and ethical message delivered by our sequence.
Media institutions that produce the type of film that we are going to create:
Realistically, Major media institutions such as Universal studios would not notice a low budget British film made by students using basic digital apparatus, and so a realistic media institution that would produce the type of film that we are going to create would be an institution that focuses in the range of people power and potential for success using limited equipment, such as the "Daily Motion" institution. Daily motion have already produced very successful budget public made movies, such as Hunt for Golem, which has been a major success to the public, and has inspired many to pick up digital technology and potentially create original, non – mainstream masterpieces which are realistic and target large audiences. Furthermore, they are internet based, and very popular with the public.
Daily Motions objectives are to give creative, inspired, enthusiastic, conscientious and dedicated individuals the chance to make their own movie successful and known online, to potentially attract the attention of other major institutions and to allow the work of inspired fans or media enthusiasts in general to be known, and to give them the potential to create a successful masterpiece.
Audience Research:
The potential audience for our opening sequence would be those individuals who spark interest in political injustice, 21st century stereotype and general tension and excitement within a film. The potential audience would range from foreign individuals with political interest, as well as local individuals with the same interests in the morals and ethics of stereotype. People's attitudes and expectations was one thing that my group planned and discussed well in detail.
The potential audience would expect a basic narrative, with an equilibrium, disequilibrium, and then a new equilibrium, but we approached our sequence with a range of disequilibrium's, morals, ethics, and twists which has not potentially been done before, which would therefore overlap and exceed most audiences expectations, especially in respect to our opening sequences narrative, where the light coloured individual sparks the disequilibrium, and not the foreign individual.
Location:
With location research, we planned to film our opening sequence in a very recognisable, yet effective and tense atmosphere; we decided that we are going to film at Waterloo station, as there are crowds of people crossing in-between each other, and it is a very recognisable location, and would add serious tension and effect to the general storyline and main disequilibrium of our opening sequence. We also decided that after filming scenes in Waterloo station, we would move to the London eye, to continue the narrative. We chose this location as it is very recognisable, and is a very powerful landmark, which adds value to the location, which therefore has a much more powerful ending to our opening sequence.
Actor / Actress research:
This was a much less difficult task to organise. I personally have a lot of experience in the field of acting, taking drama as a GCSE and achieving A*'s in the practical performances. I was one of the main actors, alongside an actress that one of my group members contacted for assistance.
Furthermore, the general mise en scene was rather easy to organise. My group voted that I should wear a suit to signify a professional image, and I personally had to act stressed, to signify that I am having a bad day. Stereotypically, the audience would see me as the suspicious one, but the storyline is that the actress is the one that causes the disequilibrium, which is the main twist in our opening sequence.
The actress had to wear normal casual clothing, and had to act relaxed and normal, in order to allow the audience not to suspect anything early on in the development of the narrative, and for her to be stereotyped as an innocent woman on the way to London.
By Mohedene Masri
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Audience research
Friday 25th March 2011
These are the outcome of some of the questionnaires that were handed out to people. The questions are based on the idea we had on mind and how we could improve, or change into what the audience *public* would prefer.
Looking at all the outcomes of the questionnaire made us realise there needed to be some changes within our planned out movie. We decided to make some changes upon how our pace is going to be and so we had shortended clips according to. Reading this and asking for teachers reviews and comments we knew we had to change certain things, such as to portray the story slightly differently.
By James
These are the outcome of some of the questionnaires that were handed out to people. The questions are based on the idea we had on mind and how we could improve, or change into what the audience *public* would prefer.
Looking at all the outcomes of the questionnaire made us realise there needed to be some changes within our planned out movie. We decided to make some changes upon how our pace is going to be and so we had shortended clips according to. Reading this and asking for teachers reviews and comments we knew we had to change certain things, such as to portray the story slightly differently.
By James
Final script edited and used
22/03/2011
For Myself:
(In Arabic, but translated into English)
I am living in this country to work and to gain opportunity, i know i come from a foreign country, but still does that mean that everybody has to look at me in this way? I respect this countries laws, this countries orders, and obligations, and still i feel as if the people here disrespect me because of my background. I just want to live my life and allow people to see that not everyone is the same.
By Mohedene
For Myself:
(In Arabic, but translated into English)
I am living in this country to work and to gain opportunity, i know i come from a foreign country, but still does that mean that everybody has to look at me in this way? I respect this countries laws, this countries orders, and obligations, and still i feel as if the people here disrespect me because of my background. I just want to live my life and allow people to see that not everyone is the same.
By Mohedene
The final scripts edited and used
22/03/2011
For the female actress, this is the final script:
I've had enough of these people, who do they think they are. Immigrants, they think they own everything, they think they have it all, but really, they have nothing. These people need to go back to where they came from... they don’t belong here, and they never did! Everything about them, I've had enough of them, and im sure deep inside we all have too. They need to back off to where they belong.
By Mohedene
For the female actress, this is the final script:
I've had enough of these people, who do they think they are. Immigrants, they think they own everything, they think they have it all, but really, they have nothing. These people need to go back to where they came from... they don’t belong here, and they never did! Everything about them, I've had enough of them, and im sure deep inside we all have too. They need to back off to where they belong.
By Mohedene
Thursday 17 March 2011
Audience Research Questionnaire
17/3/11
After handing out the questionnaire sheets to people for them to fill in. They have handed it back to me and now I just need to scan it in, giving us a rough idea on peoples expectations for films and opening sequences.
By James
After handing out the questionnaire sheets to people for them to fill in. They have handed it back to me and now I just need to scan it in, giving us a rough idea on peoples expectations for films and opening sequences.
By James
Voice Over
17/3/11
We have now started on placing the voice over into a suitable place as we want to give it the best effect possible. This could be quite difficult as we've got two different dialogues one from the male and one from the female. However we are confident that we will do it to a high standard.
By James
We have now started on placing the voice over into a suitable place as we want to give it the best effect possible. This could be quite difficult as we've got two different dialogues one from the male and one from the female. However we are confident that we will do it to a high standard.
By James
Sound
Thursday 17th March 2011
Using the software on imovie we are able to control the music of the voice over and the music of the soundtrack. we need to reduce the sound of the soundtrack when the voice over comes on. we can control each frame to make a smooth adjustment so that the sound flows.
By Katie and Lydia
Using the software on imovie we are able to control the music of the voice over and the music of the soundtrack. we need to reduce the sound of the soundtrack when the voice over comes on. we can control each frame to make a smooth adjustment so that the sound flows.
By Katie and Lydia
Titles
Thursday 17th March 2011
Today we are including our titles into our film. we are using the software on imovie to do this. we have to position the titles at specific points for the film to make sense.
by Katie and Lydia
Today we are including our titles into our film. we are using the software on imovie to do this. we have to position the titles at specific points for the film to make sense.
by Katie and Lydia
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Recording Voice overs
15/03/2011
The voice over that i recorded was not supported by the iMovie software, or the mac itself, and so, we are recording the voice over again, using more advanced technology that will allow our voices to be clearer, and easily understood in order for the audience to understand the narrative and for them to be put into the right potential tense atmospehre.
By: Mohedene
The voice over that i recorded was not supported by the iMovie software, or the mac itself, and so, we are recording the voice over again, using more advanced technology that will allow our voices to be clearer, and easily understood in order for the audience to understand the narrative and for them to be put into the right potential tense atmospehre.
By: Mohedene
Advancements
15/03/2011
We converted the chosen music into MP3 format in order for it to be supported by the iMovie software so we can proceed to put it in with our main sequence.
By: Mohedene
We converted the chosen music into MP3 format in order for it to be supported by the iMovie software so we can proceed to put it in with our main sequence.
By: Mohedene
Uploading Voice Over
Tuesday 15th march
we had some problem uploading the voice over as it wasn't in the same software because of this we are planning to re record the voice over straight onto the mac computer.
by group
we had some problem uploading the voice over as it wasn't in the same software because of this we are planning to re record the voice over straight onto the mac computer.
by group
Sunday 13 March 2011
Final script for Female Actress
10/03/2011
Final Media Script for the female actor:
I've had enough of these people, who do they think they are. Immigrants, they think they own everything, they think they have it all. These people need to go back to where they came from... they don’t belong here, and they never did belong here. Everything about them, gets on my nerves (<- Emphasise this when reading it )- I've had enough of them, and im sure deep inside we all have too. They need to back off to where they belong.
Above is the final script for the Actress in our group. As soon as my voice over finishes, it will be followed by this one. This will create the right levels of tension throughout the narrative of our main task, and will help the potential audience understand the narrative of our main task in general.
By: Mohedene
Saturday 12 March 2011
Draft of female script
Above is the draft version of the script for the actress for our movie. I have annotated the effects and the powerful connotations that the script signifies above. By: Katie and Mohedene
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Problems with shooting in london
Tuesday 8th March 2011
In London, at Waterloo station there were many individuals crossing from between eachother, obstructing our shots, and due to this, we had to take major precautions when shooting, as we tried to minimise the number of people unintentionally entering the shots and ruining the scenes.
by group
In London, at Waterloo station there were many individuals crossing from between eachother, obstructing our shots, and due to this, we had to take major precautions when shooting, as we tried to minimise the number of people unintentionally entering the shots and ruining the scenes.
by group
editing
Tuesday 8th march 2011
Today we are still editing the main film, it is taking slightly longer than expected as the software "I movie" keeps closing without saving therefore we have to redo some edits. we would change computers to see if this will stop but our film is saved specifically to this computer.
By group
Today we are still editing the main film, it is taking slightly longer than expected as the software "I movie" keeps closing without saving therefore we have to redo some edits. we would change computers to see if this will stop but our film is saved specifically to this computer.
By group
Saturday 5 March 2011
Audience Research
Saturday 5th March 2011
After careful thinking of suitable questions on what to put onto our audience research questionnaire, I have finally finished putting them all together. I now have to proceed with showing them to my group to make sure we are all happy to hand these out to people to fill in for their view and interest, this I will do first thing on Monday. I've also put the questions into a useful style which is presented easily for those who are filling it in.
By James
After careful thinking of suitable questions on what to put onto our audience research questionnaire, I have finally finished putting them all together. I now have to proceed with showing them to my group to make sure we are all happy to hand these out to people to fill in for their view and interest, this I will do first thing on Monday. I've also put the questions into a useful style which is presented easily for those who are filling it in.
By James
Friday 4 March 2011
Progress so far
Friday 4th March 2011
Personally, i think that we have really advanced in the context of our media coursework. We have all of our footage, we are editing, have everything organised, and as a group we work conscientiously, with precision and accuracy to make the best possible impact to the potential audience and to potentially get the best grade we can for our coursework. We set each other tasks, and we work consistently and efficiently, making sure that our work is always at its best possible standards.
By: Mohedene
Personally, i think that we have really advanced in the context of our media coursework. We have all of our footage, we are editing, have everything organised, and as a group we work conscientiously, with precision and accuracy to make the best possible impact to the potential audience and to potentially get the best grade we can for our coursework. We set each other tasks, and we work consistently and efficiently, making sure that our work is always at its best possible standards.
By: Mohedene
Audience research
Today in class, we all took seperate roles. Kate and James went through the Audience research that James typed up over the past few days, lydia was doing the editing, and i was doing the blogs, and giving general assistance to all roles in general.
By: Mohedene
By: Mohedene
Editing the main clip
Friday 4th March 2011
Today in class we continued to edit our main content. Last lesson, Lydia was absent, and so Kate had to take her role, today Lydia was in and so we had two editors with experience, both of them proceeded with editing the content, and made the media coursework move closer and closer to its success criteria. We edited all together as a group, and discussed a range of ideas and potential scenes to add, and discussed which ones were worth adding, and which ones are not worth adding due to people getting in the way or the shots were bad due to lighting, or the camerawoman not a steady camera grip, leading to shaky footage.
By: Mohedene Masri
Today in class we continued to edit our main content. Last lesson, Lydia was absent, and so Kate had to take her role, today Lydia was in and so we had two editors with experience, both of them proceeded with editing the content, and made the media coursework move closer and closer to its success criteria. We edited all together as a group, and discussed a range of ideas and potential scenes to add, and discussed which ones were worth adding, and which ones are not worth adding due to people getting in the way or the shots were bad due to lighting, or the camerawoman not a steady camera grip, leading to shaky footage.
By: Mohedene Masri
Thursday 3 March 2011
Editing
Today me (Lydia) and James stayed after school to do some editing in our own time, and also we were discussing our research of location and audience. so we could get a clear understanding of our tasks in the group.
by Lydia and James
by Lydia and James
Audience Research
3/3/2011
As we've now looked through our footage and started to edit, I have a idea on who our Audience would roughly be. My view is that our audience would not consist of younger people such as children, I feel this because our opening sequence is getting into the story of the Chase which consists of stereotypical views upon middle aged Muslims.
This will help me at looking into similar openings and coming up with a questionnaire to hand out to certain people of different age groups to get a rough idea on their views.
By James
As we've now looked through our footage and started to edit, I have a idea on who our Audience would roughly be. My view is that our audience would not consist of younger people such as children, I feel this because our opening sequence is getting into the story of the Chase which consists of stereotypical views upon middle aged Muslims.
This will help me at looking into similar openings and coming up with a questionnaire to hand out to certain people of different age groups to get a rough idea on their views.
By James
Absence
3/3/11
Unfortunately as I had an Art Trip to Tate Modern, I could not attend my media lesson on Tuesday. However this absence has not made a major impact as I have caught up to where we are now currently at. My group have made a start on the editing as I have also made a start on the Audience research.
By James
Unfortunately as I had an Art Trip to Tate Modern, I could not attend my media lesson on Tuesday. However this absence has not made a major impact as I have caught up to where we are now currently at. My group have made a start on the editing as I have also made a start on the Audience research.
By James
Editing
3/3/2011
Today in class, we started to edit our clips to make them as effective as possible, and to make the clip flow consistently and for it to start making sense in respect of its narrative. We are not too experienced in the field of editing using this particular software, and so we started at a slow pace, and were continuously asking for assistance throughout the editing process. We are still currently editing our content, while James is doing audience research, and myself and Kate are continuously learning how to edit the content that we have.
By: Mohedene
Today in class, we started to edit our clips to make them as effective as possible, and to make the clip flow consistently and for it to start making sense in respect of its narrative. We are not too experienced in the field of editing using this particular software, and so we started at a slow pace, and were continuously asking for assistance throughout the editing process. We are still currently editing our content, while James is doing audience research, and myself and Kate are continuously learning how to edit the content that we have.
By: Mohedene
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Continued planning
Tuesday 1st March 2011
As a group, we discussed the whole overall progress of our final content, and discussed if any extra filming needs to be done, and discussed if there were any shots that need to be re done, due to any technical difficulties, or generally due to people getting in the way of the shots at Waterloo station.
We looked through the whole content, and concluded that all shots are perfect, and can be edited to perfection. We have a wide range of angles, shots, significant mise en scene shots, and a wide range of distances from the actors myself and Jade (i.e. ELS, LS, CU, ECU and so on) to make the best impact as possible to the potential audience and to meet the general success criteria of our media coursework.
Next lesson, and for the rest of the week, we will be proceeding to edit the content, and begin to finalise it by adding in all of the best scenes, and removing the scenes that did not go to plan, and making our final content flow consistently, and to make it as interesting as possible from the very beginning to make our media coursework as effective as possible.
By: Mohedene
As a group, we discussed the whole overall progress of our final content, and discussed if any extra filming needs to be done, and discussed if there were any shots that need to be re done, due to any technical difficulties, or generally due to people getting in the way of the shots at Waterloo station.
We looked through the whole content, and concluded that all shots are perfect, and can be edited to perfection. We have a wide range of angles, shots, significant mise en scene shots, and a wide range of distances from the actors myself and Jade (i.e. ELS, LS, CU, ECU and so on) to make the best impact as possible to the potential audience and to meet the general success criteria of our media coursework.
Next lesson, and for the rest of the week, we will be proceeding to edit the content, and begin to finalise it by adding in all of the best scenes, and removing the scenes that did not go to plan, and making our final content flow consistently, and to make it as interesting as possible from the very beginning to make our media coursework as effective as possible.
By: Mohedene
Uploading Voice Over
Tuesday 1st March 2011
Today, i bought my USB in from home, and proceeded by uploading my voice over that i did at home onto the computer we are working on, so i could show it to the group, and get their assistance on adding the chosen Arabic instrumental to the voice over.
We had a small problem with the file. It was WMA. format, and so it was not recognised by the software being used on this computer. Due to this, i will go home, use legal and royalty free software to convert it to a supported format type, and bring it in again for it to be used and merged in with the final content.
By Mohedene
Today, i bought my USB in from home, and proceeded by uploading my voice over that i did at home onto the computer we are working on, so i could show it to the group, and get their assistance on adding the chosen Arabic instrumental to the voice over.
We had a small problem with the file. It was WMA. format, and so it was not recognised by the software being used on this computer. Due to this, i will go home, use legal and royalty free software to convert it to a supported format type, and bring it in again for it to be used and merged in with the final content.
By Mohedene
Letterboxing
Tuesday 1st March 2011
As soon as we finished uploading our final film content onto iMovie, the default settings of iMovie made our content go into "Letterboxing" mode. This set us back a little, as we finished importing our content 5 minutes before the lesson, and the letterboxing started taking up more time. We asked out teacher how long it will potentially take for the letterboxing to finish, and he estimated around 20 minutes. Myself and Lydia stayed after the lesson and waited for the letterboxing to finish, so we can continue to proceed with editing our content on the iMovie software.
By: Mohedene.
As soon as we finished uploading our final film content onto iMovie, the default settings of iMovie made our content go into "Letterboxing" mode. This set us back a little, as we finished importing our content 5 minutes before the lesson, and the letterboxing started taking up more time. We asked out teacher how long it will potentially take for the letterboxing to finish, and he estimated around 20 minutes. Myself and Lydia stayed after the lesson and waited for the letterboxing to finish, so we can continue to proceed with editing our content on the iMovie software.
By: Mohedene.
Monday 28 February 2011
review of filming
Monday 28th February 2011
Looking over some of the film i believe that due to the battery life of the camera we were unable to film as much as we wanted. More shots of each scene would have given us more option and variety when editing. we may have o go back to London for some re- shots.
By Katie.
Looking over some of the film i believe that due to the battery life of the camera we were unable to film as much as we wanted. More shots of each scene would have given us more option and variety when editing. we may have o go back to London for some re- shots.
By Katie.
Looking over content recorded
Monday 28th February 2011
Today in class, we looked over all of the content that we recorded for our main task over half term. We uploaded the content onto the computer, and looked over the scenes, all the angles used, and made sure that the content works and functions properly so it can be edited and proceeded with.
By Group
Today in class, we looked over all of the content that we recorded for our main task over half term. We uploaded the content onto the computer, and looked over the scenes, all the angles used, and made sure that the content works and functions properly so it can be edited and proceeded with.
By Group
Friday 25 February 2011
Gaining Permession to Film
Friday 25th February 2011
without gaining this permission our whole film would have been ruined and we would have had to think and come up with a whole new storyline and location.
We remained out of peoples way and got on with filming, we didn't cause many distractions other than triping over someone as i walked backwards tracking mo walking towards me, but sincerness and manners helped us through the day and we like everyone else there got on with what we needed to do.
By Group
Photo shot of the locations and filming
Friday 25th February 2011
Here are a selection of photos taken before and on the date of filming to get an idea of location/ setting and lighting. The photos allow us to look and see for places that we are considering that may not work well due to poor lighting or being too busy. we didn't really have to worry about sound because we will be using a voice over for the majority of the film, therefore that was one less aspect to worry about.
The few photos at the end of Mo in front of the London eye were taken as the battery on the camera run and out and as an alternative we could use the photos to create a flash back arrangement having them pop up and then disappear to show intensity of that moment, slowing the film right down and concentrating solely on him.
By Group
Voice over
(I TRIED TO ADD THE SOUND CLIP, BUT WAS UNABLE TO... We will do it together in class)
Friday 25th February 2011
This is the voice over that will be used in the opening scene of our main task. This voice over will be played alongside the arabic based instrumental chosen by the group. This will be used to set the atmosphere, the mood, and to allow the potential audience to get a general better understanding of the narrative of the main task that we are currently creating. Furthermore, it allows the audience to sympathise with my character, as he is continuously being negatively socially labelled, which leads to this short monologue allowing my character to express his emotions and this information is vital for the audience to absorb, allowing them to get a better understanding of what is going on, and how my character feels. This will also make further sense deeper into the main for the audience.
By: Mohedene Masri
Thursday 24 February 2011
filming
Thursday 24th February 2011
Yesterday we done our filming and there were minor complications:
Firstly it was not the best weather conditions and it started to rain, although most of our filming was inside or under cover the parts that wasn't didn't have the best lighting.
Secondly we filmed up London and had to film the whole film had to be shot on 1 life of battery and we run out just at the end but we may have just enough to finish the film. otherwise we will have to got back to London to finish the film.
By GROUP
Yesterday we done our filming and there were minor complications:
Firstly it was not the best weather conditions and it started to rain, although most of our filming was inside or under cover the parts that wasn't didn't have the best lighting.
Secondly we filmed up London and had to film the whole film had to be shot on 1 life of battery and we run out just at the end but we may have just enough to finish the film. otherwise we will have to got back to London to finish the film.
By GROUP
filming
Thursday 24th February 2011
Yesterday we shot our film in london. we all met at10 at new malden station where we started filming.
Yesterday we shot our film in london. we all met at10 at new malden station where we started filming.
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Confirmation of recording day and time
Tuesday 22nd February 2011 - 21:23 PM
At this time, i received a phone call from Katie, confirming that tomorrow (23rd February 2011) we will all be meeting at New Malden Station at 10:00 AM in order for us to make our way to london for us to start recording. We will all be there at 10:00 AM sharp in order to use our time as effectively as possible, and to ensure that we record with a wide range of shots, angles, lighting, and to make sure that it is all done professionally without the pressure of time impacting our performance negatively.
We will spend the whole day in London, and record as much as we can with a wide range of shots and angles to make sure that we have everything that allows our main media project to be successful.
By: Mohedene
At this time, i received a phone call from Katie, confirming that tomorrow (23rd February 2011) we will all be meeting at New Malden Station at 10:00 AM in order for us to make our way to london for us to start recording. We will all be there at 10:00 AM sharp in order to use our time as effectively as possible, and to ensure that we record with a wide range of shots, angles, lighting, and to make sure that it is all done professionally without the pressure of time impacting our performance negatively.
We will spend the whole day in London, and record as much as we can with a wide range of shots and angles to make sure that we have everything that allows our main media project to be successful.
By: Mohedene
Introduction speech for main task
Tuesday 22nd February 2011
In my spare time, i had to construct the voice over for the introduction of our main task. I did this by speaking in arabic, and saying powerful words. Initially the plan was for me to do the voice over with the chosen music in the background, but as i am working at home, my resources are limited and so i will leave it for us to do as a group. In contrast, i have done the general recording of myself speaking, which will be used in the opening scene of the main task.
What i said in arabic is translated below:
In my spare time, i had to construct the voice over for the introduction of our main task. I did this by speaking in arabic, and saying powerful words. Initially the plan was for me to do the voice over with the chosen music in the background, but as i am working at home, my resources are limited and so i will leave it for us to do as a group. In contrast, i have done the general recording of myself speaking, which will be used in the opening scene of the main task.
What i said in arabic is translated below:
All I do is try to make a living
Translation: Ana 3ayesh b' 7al balad, 7atta isht8il oo shoof mostaqballe.
Coming from a middle eastern country, why do i have to be judged?
Jaye min Il Sharq l Awsat, Leish l 3alam T'tala3 fiye B 7al taree2a.?
Is it because of the look, my culture...my beard?
7al shi la2ano fi 3ande la7ye, aw la 2anno ana jaye min balad 8areeb, ma3 2enno ana 5al2an b 7al balad, wleken, b7es eno 2ana 8areeb.
Being born in this country, and i respect the laws and the cultures of this country, why do the people not respect me like i respect them?
Ana kawne 5al2an b 7al balad, oo be7trem nezam 7al balad oo takaleed7a bitmanna min l 3alam illi bitshoofne b 7al taree2a, te7tremNE mitil ma ana be7teremon... oo mish kill l 3alam mitil ba3da.
Translation: Ana 3ayesh b' 7al balad, 7atta isht8il oo shoof mostaqballe.
Coming from a middle eastern country, why do i have to be judged?
Jaye min Il Sharq l Awsat, Leish l 3alam T'tala3 fiye B 7al taree2a.?
Is it because of the look, my culture...my beard?
7al shi la2ano fi 3ande la7ye, aw la 2anno ana jaye min balad 8areeb, ma3 2enno ana 5al2an b 7al balad, wleken, b7es eno 2ana 8areeb.
Being born in this country, and i respect the laws and the cultures of this country, why do the people not respect me like i respect them?
Ana kawne 5al2an b 7al balad, oo be7trem nezam 7al balad oo takaleed7a bitmanna min l 3alam illi bitshoofne b 7al taree2a, te7tremNE mitil ma ana be7teremon... oo mish kill l 3alam mitil ba3da.
Finishing the development of the script
Tuesday 22nd February 2011 - 7:16 PM
I constructed two potential scripts for the other main character that will hopefully be acting beside me tomorrow. There are two scripts in order for my group to decide which is the best one and which script is more appropriate to use.
This is the first script:
I constructed two potential scripts for the other main character that will hopefully be acting beside me tomorrow. There are two scripts in order for my group to decide which is the best one and which script is more appropriate to use.
This is the first script:
Potential opposition Script 1 –
Why don’t they just go back to their countries? They steal our jobs, they threaten our people... I hate them, I hate every single one of them, and who do they think they are? Stupid asylum seekers, with their beards, and their scary looks. They will get whats comming to them, for sure. I don’t like them. And im sure our side feel the same.
(BOLD = TO EMPHASISE)
This particular script revolves around indirect offensive remarks that could be used to portray the general stereotype of foreign individuals within London, and it also signifies the hate and aggression this particular individual has towards different cultures, which merges well with the storyline and the whole overall theme of the main task.
Potential opposition script 2 –
Argh, I've had enough of these people wondering around the place like they own and rule everything! but that's life I suppose, I'm not against multiculturalism, but now I see the drawbacks of it. They will get whats comming to them sooner or later. Who do they think they are.
This is a much softer approach, which contains key words which signify aggression or opposition towards foreign individuals. Although it is less direct and generally less full on than the first script, this script has a sense of anger, aswell as dignity for this particular character, which needs to be created in order for the storyline to be surprising as well as as effective as possible.
By: Mohedene
Script Development.
Tuesday 22nd February 2011 - 7:03 PM
Today, i focused on developing the script for the main other main character that will be acting beside me when recording for our main task. I had to develop a script that merges well with the storyline, and that will assisst the audience in understanding the narrative of the main task, and to keep everything consistent and professional. Furthermore, i had to ensure that the script revolves around the theme of the main task, which is the ideology of stereotyping foreign individuals in the 21st century.
By: Mohedene
Today, i focused on developing the script for the main other main character that will be acting beside me when recording for our main task. I had to develop a script that merges well with the storyline, and that will assisst the audience in understanding the narrative of the main task, and to keep everything consistent and professional. Furthermore, i had to ensure that the script revolves around the theme of the main task, which is the ideology of stereotyping foreign individuals in the 21st century.
By: Mohedene
Actor
Tuesday 22nd February 2011
Today there were some slight complications with the actress who was going to be in our film. she was unable to make the required date and time and therefore i have organised another actress to stand in her place. we will be using Jade Hampton a friend who studied performing arts.
By Katie
Today there were some slight complications with the actress who was going to be in our film. she was unable to make the required date and time and therefore i have organised another actress to stand in her place. we will be using Jade Hampton a friend who studied performing arts.
By Katie
Actors/Actress
Friday 25th February 2011
Photos of actress/actors
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| This is Mohedene Masri. He will be playing the role of a Muslim man who will be traveling to London. he is portrayed to look like someone who is hiding something , we have specifically chosen him to look like a stereotypical Middle-Eastern foreign individual situated in London, who is Middle class, and is trying to make a better living in London than at his home country. Mo is in his final year at Coombe sixth form . he relieved a A* in his practical GCSE drama . He is perfect for character that needed to be played. Mo is apart of the media group for the filming and therefore it was easy to use him for the required time for filming. |
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| This is Jade Hampton our actress who will be playing the role of an ordinary girl traveling to London but with a bold secretive nature. Jade studied at bishopsford High school studying performing arts and then moved on to continue with dance and performing arts. she is currently working whilst trying to pursue her career in dance and acting. Jade was available for filming after our previous actress had to cancel. |
By group
Monday 21 February 2011
Skecthing
Friday 25th February 2011
Montage of Ideas
Montage of Ideas
This is a montage of ideas that we wish to include in the film.
here are some iconic locations that will enhance the representation in the film. using the station as out main location we will include different kinds of shots.
by Katie
Sketches
Sketches
Here is the costume design for Mohedene, he is playing a Muslim traveler who makes his way to London who is meant to look suspicious and weary. we have decided to put him in a smart outfit along with a briefcase. this brief case will be a main aspect of the filming as it is meant to signify the stereotypical judgement of a suitcase that is being carried by a foreign individual. this will make the difference between the two actors/actress more obvious and will represent the differences in stereotype and culture.
By Katie
Sketches
Friday 25th February 2011
Sketches
By katie
Storyboards 2
Friday 25th February 2011
Storyboards for main film task
Here are the storyboards for the main filming task. These are rough ideas and sketches of the filming showing different shots and views of the actors and set.
Sunday 20 February 2011
Recording Dates
Sunday 20th February 2011
Through the use of social networking, and through texting eachother, our group confirmed the days in which we are going to be recording the main task. We decided that wednesday the 23rd of February will be the main day that we start recording for the main task. We will be recording from 10:00AM untill around 6:00PM in order to allow us to professionally record, and for us to experiment with a wide range of shots, lighting, angles and to ensure that everything is recorded professionally and accurately in order for our group to meet the success criteria of the media project.
By Mohedene
Through the use of social networking, and through texting eachother, our group confirmed the days in which we are going to be recording the main task. We decided that wednesday the 23rd of February will be the main day that we start recording for the main task. We will be recording from 10:00AM untill around 6:00PM in order to allow us to professionally record, and for us to experiment with a wide range of shots, lighting, angles and to ensure that everything is recorded professionally and accurately in order for our group to meet the success criteria of the media project.
By Mohedene
Friday 18 February 2011
Final Actors&Production
Thursday 17th February 2011
Further in the lesson, we finalised the actors that will be in the main final production, as well as our groups production name.
The production title of our group will be: Moral productions. This is powerful, and effective, as it fits in well with the overall theme of the main task. In addition, the final and confirmed actors will be Myself (Mohedene Masri), and a friend of Lydia's called Basma. Both of us will make a powerful contrast, as my Arabic culture will effectively contrast with Basmas english culture, which adds to the overall effectiveness of the movie.
Written by Mohedene, James, Kate and Lydia
Further in the lesson, we finalised the actors that will be in the main final production, as well as our groups production name.
The production title of our group will be: Moral productions. This is powerful, and effective, as it fits in well with the overall theme of the main task. In addition, the final and confirmed actors will be Myself (Mohedene Masri), and a friend of Lydia's called Basma. Both of us will make a powerful contrast, as my Arabic culture will effectively contrast with Basmas english culture, which adds to the overall effectiveness of the movie.
Written by Mohedene, James, Kate and Lydia
Thursday 17 February 2011
Script development at home
Thursday 17th February 2011 - 7:10 PM
I went home and proceeded by developing a powerful opening script, which i will read to powerful and atmospheric arabic themed music posted earlier on the blog for the words to have the best impact possible, and for it to engage the audience, and build further into tension from the very start of our main task. I will use a deep voice, which is clear and slow, to really build upon the storyline, and to really emphasise my characters pain, the pressure he goes through and to really set the atmosphere and tension from the very start of the main task, allowing the potential viewer to really be at one with the movie, and to be engaged and want to see and hear more.
Written by Mohedene, organised by Kate, Lydia and James.
I went home and proceeded by developing a powerful opening script, which i will read to powerful and atmospheric arabic themed music posted earlier on the blog for the words to have the best impact possible, and for it to engage the audience, and build further into tension from the very start of our main task. I will use a deep voice, which is clear and slow, to really build upon the storyline, and to really emphasise my characters pain, the pressure he goes through and to really set the atmosphere and tension from the very start of the main task, allowing the potential viewer to really be at one with the movie, and to be engaged and want to see and hear more.
Written by Mohedene, organised by Kate, Lydia and James.
Location Research
Finding a location for our film is crucial as we need to get the right location that will emphasis he message and stereotypical views that we want to portray in out film.
The synopsis of our film is that there is a western Muslim man and European women traveling to London although there is an event which surprises and breaks all generic conventions.
For our film evolving terrorist we want a location that uses generic conventions and therefore we need a busy location and a well know area. From this we have decided to film in London and this destination is often used with low budget British films. we then had to decide where about in London, although we wanted (with gained permission) to film in a train/underground station to continue to follow generic conventions and the stereotypical places that surround a "terrorist". We decided that Waterloo station as this is in constant use and recives a large number of commuters. Waterloo is resonably large so we could shoot in a number of locations within the station.
There are a number of Briitsh films shot in London which range back from Charles dickons to Bridget jones diary. Because of the dominant role played by the city in the British media and proven by the vast amount of tourist and media attention gained, the number of british film shot in London is huge. Filming here follows conventions of a British film of the london city itself to emphasis the background and heritage of the film.
As well as london itself there are many known films shot in Londons underground.
sliding doors 1998
bulldog jack 1934
A more resent film is "creep" 2004 a film itself using the underground not for conventions of a terroist but proved how intense a destination like this can have on an audience.
The Bourne ultimatum is an American spy film which used Waterloo station for a scene within the film. Because of "Bourne ultimatum" has a good reputation of being a fantastic fast pace chase action film, through many different situations, we though that this being a similar description of our film that Waterloo would be the best location to use.
By Katie
The synopsis of our film is that there is a western Muslim man and European women traveling to London although there is an event which surprises and breaks all generic conventions.
For our film evolving terrorist we want a location that uses generic conventions and therefore we need a busy location and a well know area. From this we have decided to film in London and this destination is often used with low budget British films. we then had to decide where about in London, although we wanted (with gained permission) to film in a train/underground station to continue to follow generic conventions and the stereotypical places that surround a "terrorist". We decided that Waterloo station as this is in constant use and recives a large number of commuters. Waterloo is resonably large so we could shoot in a number of locations within the station.
There are a number of Briitsh films shot in London which range back from Charles dickons to Bridget jones diary. Because of the dominant role played by the city in the British media and proven by the vast amount of tourist and media attention gained, the number of british film shot in London is huge. Filming here follows conventions of a British film of the london city itself to emphasis the background and heritage of the film.
As well as london itself there are many known films shot in Londons underground.
sliding doors 1998
bulldog jack 1934
A more resent film is "creep" 2004 a film itself using the underground not for conventions of a terroist but proved how intense a destination like this can have on an audience.
The Bourne ultimatum is an American spy film which used Waterloo station for a scene within the film. Because of "Bourne ultimatum" has a good reputation of being a fantastic fast pace chase action film, through many different situations, we though that this being a similar description of our film that Waterloo would be the best location to use.
By Katie
Independant Research - Collateral
Collateral (2004) - Directed by: Michael Mann, Written by: Stuart Beattie
Although this movie is about a cab driver finding himself taken hostage by a contract killer. When looking at the opening scene and our opening scene that we want to complete. We would want both our movie and collateral to look very similar though narrative and genre. At the beginning of the sequence in collateral, there is a man carrying a suitcase in a public place (an airport) and walking though people at a busy period during the day he is also looking suspicious and wearing sunglasses. He then bumps into someone were they swap bags and then carry on with their business. In our opening sequence we want to have a young suspicious man walking through a public place in London, maybe at Waterloo station or New Malden station were the main protagonist is walking fast, we also want to involve bags in the main narrative which we think would make the audience question what is in there and what is going to happen. however to make the plot more interesting we could put in a chase scene to build up the tension. so when looking at collateral and our opening scene we want to create both tension and suspense to catch the imagination of the audience.
link to opening scene in collateral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00reQ0TyGM
click picture to enlargeby Lydia
Time and Date for filming
we are planning to film up in London and therefore have arranged appropriate days that we are all available this will be either or all Wednesday morning, Thursday all day and Friday evening
we are using an outside actor who we have already discussed dates and times with, so now we have confirmed the exact time of filming.
By The Group
we are using an outside actor who we have already discussed dates and times with, so now we have confirmed the exact time of filming.
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Title Name
we tried to come up with a name for our film and have some rough idea's however we have decided to gain a title with good impact we will name our film at the end of the editing to what we think is appropriate.
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By The Group
Planning for film
we have come up with a story line for our final film and from this we have come up with our production name "Moral Production".
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By The Group
Music For Our Film
17th February 2011
We have decied on a piece of music for our final piece of course work, as our theme for the coursework was action thriller, and we are using the idea of stereotypical terrorism in our piece we thought this music would add an extra effect to the tension of the meaning behind the opening sequence.
by Lydia, James, Mo and Katie
We have decied on a piece of music for our final piece of course work, as our theme for the coursework was action thriller, and we are using the idea of stereotypical terrorism in our piece we thought this music would add an extra effect to the tension of the meaning behind the opening sequence.
by Lydia, James, Mo and Katie
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