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
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