Initial Ideas - treatmeant, storyboard and script.

Release Date SCRIPT

INT. JAYDES ROOM. NIGHT

JAYDE is looking at the bag of money having flashbacks of the previous year. 

EXT. JAYDES FLASHBACK. NIGHT

JAYDE and THOMAS are running with police sirens in following them.

THOMAS

 Take the money and run!

JAYDE

What about you?

INT. JAYDE ROOM. NIGHT

The flashback ends and JAYDE picks up the bag of money.

JAYDE

I got to go pick up THOMAS

GRACE

Not again, don’t go into that cycle

JAYDE

I owe him, if it wasn’t for him, I’d be locked up and you and me wouldn’t be together

JAYDE walks out the door with a cutaway to THOMAS walking out of the prison gates.

THOMAS

Yo Bruv

JAYDE

Yo

THOMAS

How’s mum coping? She didn’t sound too good on the phone

JAYDE

Mum just wants you to wake up and realize that life isn’t all about guns and money

THOMAS

Yeah yeah I hear that, you got the money for me?

JAYDE drops the bag of money on the floor.

THOMAS

Yes Bruv, so we’re back on this thing?

JAYDE

(Stutters nervously)I I I

INT. JAYDES FLASHBACK IN THE ROOM.

JAYDE

I told you already I wouldn’t go back. Look what we’ve got right here

GRACE

Promise?

JAYDE

Promise!

Our Story Board.

Audience Types

Audience is an very important aspect to the media industry, as without and auience the media insdustry would fail. There are various types of audience.

Mainstream consist of a large audeince/ the majority that listen or watch one thing. Example would be Salt, Takers, Sherk Etc. 


Cult consits of a small, loyal group of people following a particular media text. Example Godzilla, saw, a nightmare on elm street etc.

Subversive consist of an audience that watch controversial media texts that could offend. Examples would be Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park. Etc

Abstract is when the understanding is based on the reader as there is no narrative, so the reader creates the narrater. Example would be Eraser Head.

Alternative is different from mainstrem, audience enjoy media texts that are similar to mainstream media texts, but differ in various ways.










Release Date is rated 15 and i expect the audience for our movie to be more of cult, simply because our movie is directed to a particual audience, and not really to the older generation.

          

180 Degree Rule.

The 180 Degree Rule 

The 180 Degree Rule is a guideline on making sure that two characters are always on the same left/right relationship to each other, it is normally used in talking converstations when two people are facing directly opposite each other. The 18o Degree Rule helps the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immediate subject. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle. 

However.....


The 180 Degree Rule does not always have to be followed and some directors break it to cause disorientation. An example is when Christopher Nolan controversially broke this rule, in The Dark Knight in the interogation scene between the Joker and Batman.




In this scene the director is trying to how that these to characters are not as different as Batman would like to believe, and that the Joker does still have some control even though he is the one being interrogated. Furthermore, in the conversation between the two characters the Joker say's 'tonight you're gonna break your own rule'. This phrase directly links to the 180 degree rule being broken, making it cleverly fitting to the scene.

Introduction To Editing.

For my first pratice taske, we had to film a fighting sence using differnt camara angeles, so we could get use to it and how to editi and put it together.

This was my first time filming and editing.

Final Cut Express

For my first time ever editing , we were assigned to use final cut express. We where then taught    how to upload our footage on to final cut so that we could begin to edit.

• First we had to connect the video recorder to the apple mac.
• Then we had to set the setting, to the setting of the camera.
• Then we had to click on file and system set up and choose where we want it to save.
• Then we had to click on file and the press capture.

I learnt how to edit using final cut express, on this i learnt how to inpoint(where you want your edit to start from) and how to output (where you want your clip to stop). I also learnt howe to drag clips onto a time lime, alter a sound, use colour correction, makes clips blend, add titiles. etc.

Hard Candy And Love Dont Cost A Thing Camera Shots And Film Analysis.

Hard Candy Rated 18.
















Hard Candy is a 2005 psychological thriller film focusing on the confrontation between an assumed sexual predator and a not so innocent 14-year-old girl.

The movie starts of straight away with a point of view shot, as we see a flirtatious online conversation between a male and a female, we know this as the converstation colours is written in 'blue' for boys and 'pink' for girls. We later then see a close up shot of a chocolate cake to grab our attention and indicate something sexual. As the camara zooms out we see an establishing shot so that we are in a cafe. As we see the little girl and the older man, the actors are now being filmed on the same eyelevel showing there equal power, then gradually the camamra starts shiffting its angle as the older man becomes straryes and then changes straight back to a two shot showing the relationship between the older man and the younger girl
Later.......
We are in a room with the walls paintes red and blue, red to signify danger. we see the same man from the cafe now tied to table, there is now a low angle shot of the younger girl showing she is now in power. As the younger girl starts to cut the older mans pubic area we then see a close up shot of the older man to show his emotions as he is in serious pain, and he is postioned against the red backround as stated before to show danger.




Love Don't Cost A Thing Rated 15.


Love Dont Cost A Thing is a 2003 teen comedy film based on the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love.


Mid-way through the film Paris tries to convert elvin, and during this scence there is various types of shots being used. There is a cut away shot to move us into a new scence then we see a two-shot of both the characters followed by an extreme close up shot of Elvin face to see the pain he is going through, signifying that beauty is pain. We later see a cut in of Elvin hands, making the audience focus on his hand movements, then we see another cut in of her body to entertain the male audience followed by another two shot angle showinmg us the relationship between the two characters and then moves in to a close up shot of paris to shows her emotion.

Brief.

For  my As media coursework i have been asked to complete two tasks;


Task One: Preliminary Exercise.


For our preliminary task it involved filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task is meant to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 - degree rule


Task Two: Main Task.


For our main task we had to make a opening scence to a new fiction film, with the titles which should only last two minutes. All video and audio material had to be original (made by us the students) produced by the candidate(s), however the music and audio effects could be taken from a copyright-free source.


We where then put into groups of four to complete both tasks.

Diary Entries.

Similar Text.

1day

1day Is a movie set in Birmingham’s black community it tells the familiar story of a drug dealer thearted with death if he doesn't repay within three hours the £500,000 he's been holding for a fellow criminal just released from jail. The Birmingham police have attempted to have the film banned for its apparent aggrandisement of its characters and their way of life: understandable but misguided.

One day and our movie Release Date is similar as both our movies happen in one day, the audience is the same, b

oth movies revolves around crime, there both British movies, and also revolve around our everyday life.

Bullet Boy

Bullet Boy tells the a story about a boy (Ricky) who is just released from a young offenders' institute and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads into trouble when he becomes involved in a street clash and sides with his best friend Wisdom against a local gang member. The trouble escalates into a series of incidents that threaten to spiral out of control. Ricky's 12-year-old brother Curtis, adores Ricky but seems smart enough to know he doesn't want to follow his example. However, despite the warnings from his mother, Ricky's bad boy appeal might prove to be too attractive for Curtis to resist.

Bullet boy and our movie Release Date is similar as both movies have the same audience, both movies revolves around crime, there both British movies and both stories include what happen in our everyday life.

We decided to chose Bullet Boy because it revolved around our everyday life and One Day as it all happened all in one day. The key sence in One day which helped us with our movie was the whole idea of a boy leaving his money with someone who was close to him before going to jail and when the boy comes out of jail, the person who he left the money with does not have the complete money.

Animatics / StoryBoards.

Animatics?

An animatic is a moving story board.

Story Board?

A story board is a graphic organizers. For example a series of illustrated images displayed in sequence.

Why Is It Needed?

• A story Board helps to pre-visualize a motion, animation, motion, graphic or interactive media sequence.
• Saves money and time
• A preview on how the script flows.
• Animatics helps to test whether the sound and images are working together effectively.

This is the story board for our opening scence to our movie 'Release Date'. In order to put this story board together, we had to think of what shots we wanted, if we wanted a close up shot, wide shot, point of view, over the shouder shot etc. 

What Equipments Are You Using?

Equipments.

This is the kitchen scene, however this has been taken out of our piece.

These where to two jesus piece that we used, white to represent good, and black to represent bad.

This is the bag where the money was put in.

This is where we shot the bed room scene. 

This camera was used to take pictures of our story boards, our location, props, etc.

This video recorder was used to record our footage, some of our diary entries, our animatic etc.

This tripod was used to hold up our camera and alternate the different level of the camera.

This is one of the location in our filming, This was the dead end sence, we filmed through the gate to show that they were trapped and that their was no way out.

This steps was used in the flashback scene. This is where we placed the camera, and made the two characters jump over the camera.

This is the rest of the location that we used for the flash back scene.

Recce

A Recce is a practice run of your fim for diractors to practice their scense, camara angles and then make progress. This done because it save alot more money, and saves time. For example instead of doing test runs on the actual site you could just film


An example of how a director used a recce was in Reservoir Dogs.
In the recce of Reservoir Dogs,Tarrintino placed the camera on the floor and did not move it from any postiton. In this scene there was three characters, one who was in pain, and two other characters who continously moved about conersating with each other. This did not work for me, as i could not relate to any of the actors in this sence, especial the actor who was meant to be in  pain, also i did not find it interesting at all.


Tarrintino now used this recce to improve this sence, he now moved the camara and used  various of shots, i felt this was a massive improvement as i now got to relate to the characters, and feel sympthany for the actor who was in pain, as he got a close up shot of the man.

Our Recce

For our recce we decided to film our prison sense. However when watching back on this, we decided that the prison sense was not working, and was not even needed.