Q7: Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product.

Compared to my Preliminary task the film is 100% better because in the Preliminary task we acidently brieched the 180' bletently but in the film I don't think we did and if we do it's not as noticable.

Also the match on action is considerd more in the film as well although we didn't have any issues in the Preliminary task we had to film for longer, in different locations and at different times in the film so we had to be more carfull in the film.

Preliminary Exercise

Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this produce?

Research and Planing blogs: -

Quick Time player, Scribed, Free sound, Dafont, Paint, Photoshop and Youtube.

Our Opening Sequence: -

Because I didn't do Media last year I learnt how to use Imovie and how to export a movie. I also learnt how to use livetype and Final cut to put the finishing toutches on our film opening.

Our music for our Opening Sequence: -

We used freesound to look for uncopywrited music and soundtracks to add to our movies and how to download and import it into an unexported and renderd version of our movie in Imovie.

The titles for our Opening Sequence: -

We used livetype for our production company name and our subtitles within the actual film it's self. But for the film name we used a black screen and a regualr font on Imovie.

Our audience feedback: -

I've poasted a link to our film (which is on youtube) to facebook and got a screen grab of the poast and any feedback I would have recieved.

Evaluation blogs: -

I used wordel to made a coladge of words to show what person might watch our film.

Hear are some photos of the equipment I've been using: -

Q5: How did you attract/ address your audience?

We uploaded our unfinished version to YouTube and I copy and pasted the link onto face book to get feedback and for people to easily view it.

(I haven't actually got any feedback yet unfortunately).

We also did a voice over using a combination of recording and pasting it to YouTube and face book to receive feed back

This is the voice over: -

Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Because it's a film you would be looking at film companies and producers specifically big names because it's an Action film and the genre needs money behind it for effects, casting big named

actors and stunts.

It would probably be someone like Twentieth century fox, Warner brothers Pictures or Universal because they all have money, they have produced Action films and they are big named producers.

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Ours is quite interesting because in some cases we meant to do it and and it other's we didn't.

For instance my character as the big (or in my case not so big) bad boss in charge of a drug trafficking and supplying operation isn't very stereotypical I don't think. But in some ways I think it is because whenever you have something like that going on you sometimes have the "white man" in charge of the operation and his "coloured muscle" doing the dirty work.

Delarney's character isn't stereotypical I thought because when ever you have a multi raced cast it usually end's up that the white person is the victim and the black person is the bad guy so we decided to challenge the stereo type and cast Delarney as both the main character and the victim.

Daryl's character is stereotypical because whenever you need someone to be a henchman and it's a multi raced cast the director would usually cast someone like that to fill the role. And because the other two roles were sorted you before we decided it was convenient to match this to the stereotype.

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film genre is Action and due to the resources at our disposal we couldn't add any over the top dramatic visual effects of explosions gun fire and bloody violence which is typical to our chosen genre. But after all we only needed to do the opening sequence so we looked at what was typical of Action openings. Usually the storyline is created around an event which usually happens in the opening of the film and the rest of the story is built up around that event.


So in ours Sam is just finishing a normal day at work and then things get as far from normal as they could probably get when he stumbles in on a dodgy back room drugs shipment deal, which the stereotypical bad boss doesn't what him to see so he sets out to silence him.

It has a stereotypical chase, damsel in distress a hero and a villain and that's about it for stereotypical Action genre.

Film Opening Sequence

Titles

For the titles we were going to use some font's off of dafont which is a website which does cool effects with words and has different font types and styles. We chose the following ones as possibles to use in our movie.

http://www.dafont.com/nervous.font?text=The+Unexpected

Title: -

Letters: -

http://www.dafont.com/crash-mh.font?text=The+Unexpected

Title: -

Letters: -

http://www.dafont.com/streetlight-manifes.font?text=The+Unexpected

Title: -

Letters: -

The order in which they appear should be the production company name, the name of the actors/ people's position, spatial thanks to (the bike store that helped us, extras etc...) and finally the title of the film.

We finally decided to use the Hauser font fot our production name because it dosen't seem out of place in the opening of an action film.


http://www.dafont.com/hauser.font?text=The+Unexpected


Title: -









Letters: -

Casting

Sam: Delarney Ewerse

Rose: Latoya Hay

The Gaff: (Me) LukePower

Corrupt Officer: Daryl Hay

Delaney Ewerse

We have decided to choose these people (including myself) to be in our cast for two reasons, one being, we know that each of us will be available for the shooting schedule and also because Delarney is 17, an age where young people would be looking for jobs and working in small stores such as a bike store. This makes it seem realistic as many other young people would also be working, any younger age wouldn't look as realistic.

Latoya Hay

We have chosen Latoya because she has to be a woman, and, she is also available to film based on the shooting schedule also because she is good actress and can play the role of Rose because she is close to Delarney's age making them seem a realistic couple. She has also been chosen because she can come to the required locations for her part at any time as she lives there.

Luke Power

I am playing The Gaff because we thought I fit the role of an unsuspected drug lord, giving an element of surprise to the audience and enabling a feeling of shock and interest. Also because I'm a drama student and therefore will be a great asset to have as I have experience playing various roles meaning that explaining the script and directions to me might be easier than with others in the group.

Daryl Hay

Daryl will play the corrupt police officer because once again it would be unsuspected by the audience creating a sense of surprise and shock. He can play the Corrupt Officer because he has previous experience playing roles of "bad guys" as a result he'll pick it up quite easily. Also, we chosen him because he was part of the group who made the storyboard and as a result he knows what the group needs to do at each point when needed.

Character descriptions

We only have four main characters in our piece: -

Sam: - Works at the bike store and isn't involved in the money laundering scheme. Rose is his girlfriend. He is kind, considerate and compassionate.

Rose: - Sam's girlfriend and housemate. She also has no knowledge of the money laundering scheme. She is generally sweet and innocent and is pretty much both harmless and helpless.

The Gaff: - Is the ringleader of the money laundering scheme and also is the boss and owner of the bike store. He's the kind of guy that will do anything to get what he wants by doing anything and by any means necessary.

The corrupt police officer: - Is sort of the Gaff's puppet. He's bored with putting criminals away and so he decided to become one. He's still working as a police officer so Sam can't expect any help form his department. He's only in it for the money. He's cunning, quick to think and act and he's creative.

Shooting Schedule

A shooting schedule is a list of Dates, Times , Locations, Shot numbers, What prop and costumes, Crew and equipment are needed to do a particular scene or section of you film at a particular time.

This is a copy of our planned shooting schedule which we hope to stick to. However I do believe that we might need more time than this that is not including editing, special effects, or presentation creation.

Script

Scene 1

Customer: "Excuse me mate do you know where the bike valve caps are?"

Sam: "Errmm... I'll have a look for you."

Customer: "Ok, thanks."

Sam: "I'm just gonna go and ask management where it is for you mate, just bear with me for a sec."

Scene 2

Sam: "... What's going on??

Corrupt PC: "He's seen too much!"

The Gaf: "Well don't just stand there Get Him!"

Scene 3

Rose: "Hello."

Sam: "Babe, get out the house, go to your mums, it's not s-"

(The phone line goes dead)

Sam: "NOO!"

List of props, costumes and locations

Costumes: -

Because of the fact that this is based around a bike store I thought that both Sam and the Gaff should be in the shops uniform because they both work there.

The corrupt officer should still be in police were because he's still on duty.

Rose I thought should be in white because white is an innocent colour.

Props: -

Because there are two phone conversations in the extract we will need a couple of phones.

When the hit men go to abduct Rose they should carry restraining material such as duck tape rope possibly a chain.

In the chase scene we'll obviously need bikes to do the scene.

In the meeting we'll need money, crates bikes and extras.

Locations: -

Were asking the permission of the local bike store to use their uniform and to film on their premisses. We are also filming in the high-street and Stoneleigh.

Sound

Sound effects: -

We might need to include a few sound effects in our opening mainly to emphasise certain movements like for instance -

We need to include the sound of someone walking when the costumer is walking into the bike shop because it would be good to add hyperbolic sound but also because when we film it it will probably be too quiet to properly hear.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31368

We might need to include the sound of someone peddling in the chase scene seen's that the shoots need to be short and sharp so we will be cutting them down a lot and if that happens then we lose the sound of peddling that goes with it.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78983

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78960

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78961

We might need to include a non-diagetic version of a dropped call because on the real thing we won't be able to hear it.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24271

And finally we'll include the sound of someone panting at the end of the chase sequence when he's catching his breath but before the phone call to emphasise that he's out of breath and he's cycled very far very fast.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=54779

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=25456

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=81392 (Used in film)

The sound track: -

As for the sound track it need s to be something that is quiet at first but then gets louder and has a beat to it so there can be some sort of rhythm.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110268 (Used in film)

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=84377

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=84372

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110267

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110266 (Used in film)

Weird music in meeting section: -

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24039 (Used in film)

Shop music: -

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24044 (Used in film)

Storyboard

This is our complete storyboard divided into fore sections for the story line. Shots 1 to 6 are of a customer entering the shop he is then looking for something he wants to buy, he can't find it and asks Sam if he can find it for him. We chose this section because it will enable us to do an establishing shot and an over the shoulder shot and we can also add a match on action section as well.

Shot's 7-10c are of Sam searching for the item which he can't find either, he then goes to ask his manager about it and his office is locked. He then forces his way into the office and disturbs a dodgy money laundering scheme meeting. I suggested we end the scene with a series of shot reverse shots to emphasise the confusion and the urgency. The first shot is of Sam asking what's going on. The second shot is of the room and the people in the meeting where the corrupt police officer says he knows too much and the Gaff tells the henchman to get him. The last shot in the sequence is of Sam's reaction to this disturbing new events just before he runs out of the shop.

Shots 11-16 are the beginning and end of the chase scene and also the beginning and end of the phone conversation and Rose's abduction. It begins with Sam being chased on a main road by the henchmen. Second shot is relatively the same with him still being chased but now on a path or street. The third shot is typical of action films and Sam throws something in the chasers path to knock him over so he can get away. The next shot is of him stopping to catching his breath and making the phone call to Rose to warn her about what's going on. It then goes into a split screen of the actual phone conversation. The final shot in this section is of Rose when she's dragged away by the henchmen.

The last shots are another short series of shot reverse shots an extreme close up and a still shot. It starts with 17a which is a close up of Sam as he screams "No!" it then zooms out to an extreme long shot. It then zooms in again and Sam starts to pedal. The next shot is an extreme close up of the foot on the pedal. And the final shot is a still shot of him riding into the distance.

Shot Lists

I thought that the first section of flming should be a series of close up's and shot shots. And it then flows into thesection where they go into the bike chase scene where they get on the bikes and start to chase but we then cut it.

I then goes to mid shots and long shots for the end of the chase sequence because it's to give a sence that he's losing them but this is also the half section where they go and abduct his wife so for that we could do some over the shoulder shots and different angles.

And finally for the end of the chase and the phone coversation section I thought it would be abropriate to add a focus pull and the very end add in a serise of mid shots and close ups during the conversation and me and Daryl talked about including a split screen to do the actual conversation.

This is my key shots list which include the main sections in the drama and my ideas for the title of the film.

Film Synopsis

The main character works at a bike shop. He goes into work and witnesses a money laundering operation held by his boss and other associates which include a corrupt Police officer.

He then runs out of the store and they chase him on bikes. The boss the calls a hit man to go round to his house and abduct his girlfriend.

The main character then stops from being chased because he's got away. He stops to catch his breath and to make a phone call to his girlfriend. The call gets cut off after a brief conversation and it dawns on him that they have her.

He moans and then gets back on the bike and rides off into the distance to do the rest of the film. Presumably to rescue his girl and stop the money laundering scheme.

Intial Ideas

We chose to do an action film because of it's wide possibility range and space for creativity. Although we we were thinking about not doing too much stereotypically we decided about keeping common action film conventions for instance we have someone being chased, a damsel in distress and an abduction.