g321 foundation portfolio: 2011

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

One Possible Song Choice - Proof Of Permission Sent

Above is proof of permission sent

The song 'Don't Stop' by 'Innerpartysystem' is one of our possible song choices so in the interest of forward planning both Bradley and myself sent permission in case we decided to use it.

As you can see here permission was sent in the form of an e-mail to Innerpartysystems Record company and Managment asking for premission to make a music video to their song 'Dont Stop' We are still to hear a reply from either of these two e-mail addresses for premission but when it is confirmed we will post the confirmation.

Thursday, 7 April 2011

G321 Foundation Portfolio 2011: Evaltuation questions- draft form

1.) Our film is film Noir based opening sequence which incorporates generic conventions. The conventions we have incorporated are; guns, a voice over, mystery (or enigma), an American accent, and police officers. We choose to use a grey colour scheme in order to maintain the noir convention. Mystery was a key theme in our opening sequence and we did not want the audience to know much of the plotline, only why the exact moment is happening and the rest was to reveal itself in the rest of the film. We also incorporated some elements of horror like the ‘heavy breathing’ scene which shows Bradley and David running across a marina, the heavy breathing is given a sound perspective to promote fear more. We got ideas like this from our influential work such as ‘Se7en’ and ‘La Confidential’. Another big influence on our work was the stylism of ‘My Chemical Romance’s ‘Danger Days, the fabulous lives of the killjoys’ tour. We adopted this style which seemed quite neo noir and brought it into our filming, such as white shoes and flames in the sky at the end scene.

2.) Our opening sequence does not really represent any social groups, although there is the slight stereotypical presentation of gender through how the male characters fight, run around and are generally quite active, though females seem absent. We chose not to challenge generic conventions of gender with Noir because the stereotype has shown to be quite popular within the films main audience and in order to maximise profit we did not change this. We adopted a slight American accent in order to appeal more to an overseas audience.

3.) I think our piece is something quite feasibly producible in a Hollywood studio because it is quite similar to existing products such as ‘LA Confidential’ and ‘Sin City’. It is similar to many Noir film and incorporates many of the generic conventions. I believe it would be quite a lucrative film as opportunities such as merchandise production and selling could arise, with anything from cups to T-shirts to theme parks. Merchandise is quite a wide based and open market to pursue. If our piece were to be produced by a Hollywood studio I believe it would be produced by someone like Peter Jackson, who is quite used to filming ‘Large scale’ epics; such as King Kong. This is because throughout the rest of the film there would be a lot more action such as explosions and shoot-outs to fit in with the conventions of Noir.

4.) The audience my media product is targeted at is aged 15+, however it would be preferred around middle aged people because of the history of Noir being quite an old type of filming, although Neo Noir challenges this convention and brings it to a younger audience; something we hope to achieve ourselves. Stereotypically our film style would be more appealing to a male audience than a female one, however the use of clever plotline and mystery could possibly make it more appealing to a female one. The other films we researched (La Confidential, Sin City & Danger Days videos) are aged mainly at 15+ audience also but I would say they not only appeal to a younger generation of adults but also the more mature viewers among them. This has maximized the films potential by making the content suitable from practically all ages and anybody able to enjoy it. We tried to stick to this convention by making it a thriller, with horror elements that would not be too scary for a younger audience but would still keep the older audience interested.

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Script for voiceover for Mystery

Script for voiceover:

Bradley Hope – Detective Macs Pain
David Leighton – Chief Constable Creedy

Phone rings

‘Macs, Rogue is in town. I need you to keep an eye on him, but whatever you do don’t engage. ‘

‘Boss, this guy is in town and you’re telling me I can’t engage?! He killed Lawrie boss, a good cop!’

‘Macs, don’t get ahead of your self you don’t stand a chance this guy is Lethal’.

‘I’m gonna get him, Lawrie deserves that at least.’

‘I am your commanding officer and you will do as I instruct, I want you to follow him, I want you to watch him but under no circumstances make contact, do I make myself clear or do I have to get Officer Stooge on the job?...

‘No, no Stooge is half the cop I am’

‘I know, that is why I put you on this assignment, there was no other way’.

‘Boss..’

‘I only gave you this because you’re the only one good enough to even keep up with him. If you engage I will take your badge, your gun and your job Macs.’

‘So be it.’

‘What?’

‘Listen to me, Creedy. I’m gonna follow that bastard, just as you asked. I’m gonna follow him, just like you asked, then I’m gonna do the rest. I’m gonna hunt him down, I’m gonna hurt him, and make him bleed, then I’m gonna make him beg. Then I’m gonna kill him. And there ain’t a god damn thing you can do about it.

‘Macs no! I know you were close to Lawrie but…’

‘Save it chief’

Beep

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Final Edit Of Film

This is our final edit, starring David Leighton, Bradley Hope & Sophie Gilroy as filming.

Brad, Sophie, David Callum Rough Cut.mov

Audience Feedback.
we recieved our audience feedback from our group peers and took on board what they said. we got told which bits were good and which bits we needed to improve. seeing the film on the big screen also pointed out to us as a group of what we needed to do, to improve our film further to get a better grade. watching our film on the bigger screen made us understand better and what conventions we as a group needed to put in and what conventions had already worked well.
one criticism we got on our film is that people didn't really know the plot line as it was a little bit ambigious we are going to take this on board and but non diagetic sound in so this will tell us what is going on in the storyline.