In our film we have young white females and a young black male, which represents the multi-cultural Britain, connoting the urban mixed cultural heritage of Manchester. This impacts towards the everyday lives of the characters, as they visit the church, representing religion, culture, and the norms and values of the society. The character Stacey also makes references to the police watching him, this suggests the typical young black male suffering from being labelled, which is a common stereotype in modern culture.
As he lives in a predominantly white Catholic area, Stacey refers to everybody 'knowing' it was him, this could suggest racial discrimination, as the stereotype of a male black youth could be seen as intimidating and aggressive.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Evaluation of main task
We have filmed an opening scene of a thriller, with the purpose of the story line being controversial. The scene takes place in a church, where Aaron seems to be tired, alone and with his own thoughts. As the flashbacks occur, the story seems to be set around Aaron murdering an unknown woman, however he is adamant he is innocent, non the less, everybody still thinks it was him, and has been avoided and neglected from his friends and his family. But although it looks like he is suffering from an afflicted mind, the inextricable thoughts are enhanced by his illness of schizophrenia, and his religion collides with his illness which creates the indispensability of his confessions.
The scene had presented a stereotypical view of ordinary people going to church, which Aaron who plays as a young adult makes an attempt to confess at the church for his murder. His delinquency was also presented through the use of key props and specific camera shots; such as the over the shoulder shot, of Aaron looking at the 'Reconsiliation' leaflet. This shot shows how he didn’t know what he was doing and also showing his state of confusion.
The costumes also contributed to the young adult connotations as their dress code was casual,
and that of the young generation, which sets the scene. Also, the church, along with the music and the general, cold, lonely feel of the story, connotes a genre of which is a thriller. For instance, a film such as ‘Paul’ produced by Working Title uses costume, actors and locations to show the audience the genre and type of film it will be.
This type of mise en scene applies to the young generation, another example; the setting is England, and by their accents alone you can tell further that the young characters are Mancunion. This and many other factors of mise en scene can attract a certain type of audience, which would be the young, British generation (our target audience), mainly because they can empathises and understand the film, it being a low budget British production.
However, the main location, a Catholic church connotes an older, more sophisticated story line, this, and the fact that it is a thriller, may grip an audience of an older generation.
We have produced a production company logo using software called Motion. We named our company ‘Cotton Pickin’ Productions’. We created a cotton raining motion and also used it as our production logo, creating the realistic terms of British companies. The sequences also play a part of specific genres the company usually produces for example, a cartoon film would have the Walt Disney productions and logo, or Comedy Central being distributed by Viacom and MTV Networks. An institution that would distribute our film is Working Title, as our film is British, we would need the funding of a conglomerate such as Working Title, however it would be vertically integrated and controlled by Working Title as our company wouldn't be a conglomerate. Meaning the company could provide us with advanced screening, merchandise, outdoor advertising, premieres etc.
We had based our opening scene on specific films and played an indispensable role of the story of our opening scene. A film called 'Donnie Darko' was about a teenager suffering from schizophrenia, where a man in a menacing rabbit costume called Frank told him that the world was going to end. This merges with our story through schizophrenia, as our character poses an extrasensory perception. We also looked at a film called 'Dead Ringers', a film about twins which also has a relation to our film. Dead Ringers had an inspiration on our film because it's about twins which we interpreted the narrative in this film to our film. We have used 'twins' in our film which relates to the Dead Ringers theme. Meanwhile with it linking to schizophrenia, we had searched to find a title to our film relating to schizophrenia and found a word 'Ipseity', which means self hood, distinct identity and individuality. We found this to be a strong word, as the main character is clearly struggeling with his self identity.
What we had learned from our main task were the technical factors, such as slow motion. We were able to control the speed through percentage which became very useful to enhance speeds. The speed of the sequence when slowed down were for the dramatic effect at some places for example, when Aaron puts his head down after Stacey walks out, this part was slow motioned to show the drama and because he is hallucinating his 'twin in his head' sat behind him. To add more of the dramatic effect, we edited an eerie sound effect when his 'twin' is revealed.
We had a problem with the slow motion, we used the de-interlace feature on effects to get rid of the jumpy slow motion so it ran smoothly. We also had to move all the audio on the film as the sound was out of sync.
When we first started filming, we came across some bad shots that we had to change for example, when Stacey and Aaron are having a conversation we had the camera still in one place and there wasn't a variety of shots. We altered the position of the camera so that we had a different shots to use. The most effective shot we used was the over the shoulder shot reverse shot.
In comparison to the preliminary task, timing the opening scene was of the essence, the progam Motion was used which was new to us, and getting the camera shots we wanted played a major part. It was important as we had to capture the right camera shot to allow it to make sense to the audience. We used shots which had had a diversity of low angle shots, high angle shots, 180 degree rule etc. Additionally we had to make sure the sound was accurate as we had used a microphone which we had'nt used for the preliminary task, with the main task to make sure the spoken diologue was not quieter than the ambient sound. And finally, putting the music, sound clips and volume levels had to be done correctly in order to create the ideal film piece we had anticipated.
The scene had presented a stereotypical view of ordinary people going to church, which Aaron who plays as a young adult makes an attempt to confess at the church for his murder. His delinquency was also presented through the use of key props and specific camera shots; such as the over the shoulder shot, of Aaron looking at the 'Reconsiliation' leaflet. This shot shows how he didn’t know what he was doing and also showing his state of confusion.
The costumes also contributed to the young adult connotations as their dress code was casual,
and that of the young generation, which sets the scene. Also, the church, along with the music and the general, cold, lonely feel of the story, connotes a genre of which is a thriller. For instance, a film such as ‘Paul’ produced by Working Title uses costume, actors and locations to show the audience the genre and type of film it will be.
This type of mise en scene applies to the young generation, another example; the setting is England, and by their accents alone you can tell further that the young characters are Mancunion. This and many other factors of mise en scene can attract a certain type of audience, which would be the young, British generation (our target audience), mainly because they can empathises and understand the film, it being a low budget British production.
However, the main location, a Catholic church connotes an older, more sophisticated story line, this, and the fact that it is a thriller, may grip an audience of an older generation.
We have produced a production company logo using software called Motion. We named our company ‘Cotton Pickin’ Productions’. We created a cotton raining motion and also used it as our production logo, creating the realistic terms of British companies. The sequences also play a part of specific genres the company usually produces for example, a cartoon film would have the Walt Disney productions and logo, or Comedy Central being distributed by Viacom and MTV Networks. An institution that would distribute our film is Working Title, as our film is British, we would need the funding of a conglomerate such as Working Title, however it would be vertically integrated and controlled by Working Title as our company wouldn't be a conglomerate. Meaning the company could provide us with advanced screening, merchandise, outdoor advertising, premieres etc.
We had based our opening scene on specific films and played an indispensable role of the story of our opening scene. A film called 'Donnie Darko' was about a teenager suffering from schizophrenia, where a man in a menacing rabbit costume called Frank told him that the world was going to end. This merges with our story through schizophrenia, as our character poses an extrasensory perception. We also looked at a film called 'Dead Ringers', a film about twins which also has a relation to our film. Dead Ringers had an inspiration on our film because it's about twins which we interpreted the narrative in this film to our film. We have used 'twins' in our film which relates to the Dead Ringers theme. Meanwhile with it linking to schizophrenia, we had searched to find a title to our film relating to schizophrenia and found a word 'Ipseity', which means self hood, distinct identity and individuality. We found this to be a strong word, as the main character is clearly struggeling with his self identity.
What we had learned from our main task were the technical factors, such as slow motion. We were able to control the speed through percentage which became very useful to enhance speeds. The speed of the sequence when slowed down were for the dramatic effect at some places for example, when Aaron puts his head down after Stacey walks out, this part was slow motioned to show the drama and because he is hallucinating his 'twin in his head' sat behind him. To add more of the dramatic effect, we edited an eerie sound effect when his 'twin' is revealed.
We had a problem with the slow motion, we used the de-interlace feature on effects to get rid of the jumpy slow motion so it ran smoothly. We also had to move all the audio on the film as the sound was out of sync.
When we first started filming, we came across some bad shots that we had to change for example, when Stacey and Aaron are having a conversation we had the camera still in one place and there wasn't a variety of shots. We altered the position of the camera so that we had a different shots to use. The most effective shot we used was the over the shoulder shot reverse shot.
In comparison to the preliminary task, timing the opening scene was of the essence, the progam Motion was used which was new to us, and getting the camera shots we wanted played a major part. It was important as we had to capture the right camera shot to allow it to make sense to the audience. We used shots which had had a diversity of low angle shots, high angle shots, 180 degree rule etc. Additionally we had to make sure the sound was accurate as we had used a microphone which we had'nt used for the preliminary task, with the main task to make sure the spoken diologue was not quieter than the ambient sound. And finally, putting the music, sound clips and volume levels had to be done correctly in order to create the ideal film piece we had anticipated.
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