Our final film - You Can't Run Forever

plimanary task

Evauation voiceover

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

while making our blogs, I have used a number of technologies including:

• HD camera ( this allowed use to film out film, while using it I learn good was to position the camera to get the best shots.)


• tripod (this allowed us to stead our shots and gave us the ability to put the camera in interesting positions.)


• Mac computer (we mainly used this for editing, but while using it I have become more confident in using it and understanding the controls.)


• Imovie (we used this to edit out film and form using this in the past I felt very confident using it.)


• Imovie HD (we just used this to import our film.)


• Live Type (we used this to make our titles in our film, from using this I have developed my skills in using it.)


• Final Cut (we usded this to merge our film and our titles together, we had a few problims in the begining but with help we sorted it out in the end.)


• www.freeplaymusic.com (we used this website to find the right songs to suit our film)

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

How did you attract/address your audience?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Name: Tim Hardwall

Gender: male

Age: 17

Lives: London

Watches what TV programmes: CSI, Hollyoaks, fringe, burn notes, Blue Bloods, top gear, QI,

Visits what websites: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Newgrounds, TGWTG.com,

Does what when they go out: Go to the cinema, Go shopping for cloths, Go hang out in central london, Go to friends partys,

Listens to what other music: the kooks, radiohead, the kaiser cheifs, gorrilaz, the prodigy, biffy clyro,

Wears what clothes: ?

Reads what magazines: NME, OK, XBO,

Likes/is involved with which subcultures: indie,

Shops where: topman, H&M, drop dead, primark,

Aspires to be: indie film maker or musician

Has how much spare £££: what they can get from busking

Likes this particular genre because: they like the style of english indie film and they like of watch cop programs

Anything else about your ‘character’:

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

there are 2 types that we use in our film. we have a young charter who is a criminal, so we put him into a hoody and jeans to make him look like a modern crime; as most crimes these days are cosed by young males in hoodys. also, this suted the chater because of the mobility that the chater needs for the chase. then the other charter is much older and is wearing a suite, we put him into a suite to show that he is a professional man and like to look nice on the job. but this is not really suited for the chase as it gives little mobility

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

the kinds of production companies that would produce our the style of our film, would be a independent film maker e.g. Miramax, Focus pictures, liongate or other similar companies. these would be the best companies, as a mainstream companies like 20th century fox or universal studios would not suite the low cost style of the film. as our film is more aimed towards a smaller audience, so if it was made into a big budget film; we would not get a big enough audience to come and see the film to make enough sales.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (part 2)

For our project we used the common conversions of a opening sequence of a film. thought the sequence we tried to tell the story of our film without giving to much of the story away to early in the film, but still allowing people to understand what is going on. we have used our titles to introduce the makes and proformas of our film, like outher thriller films we used big, blod wight text; also they are placed in a dinamic way to make the more intresting, rather than them just sitting on screne.

we have use sound in our film to give feeling of the atmospere of what is going on in the scene. starting with a up beat piece of music, gives the feeling that there is something going on and that this man is going to it. then as he chase starts the music canges to a much faster piece of music, showing the engering and movement in the scene.

In what ways does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (part 1)

with our film, we tried to make the titles very similar to types of films that make there titles to integrated with the scene behind. the image is a example of a film that uses this techniques, but the titles are a bit more Paramount then our work.

script

we did not want to use a script, as it would not go this this kind of opening and it would seem disjointed if people where talking through it.

Shooting Schedule

casting

Casting

titles

Titles

What does a title sequence look like?

for these images it makes the opening scene to dirty harry look very intimidating, with guns everywhere and Clint Eastwood with his big sunglasses. but this is to show the main parts of the film, the charter that Eastwood plays seems like a cold hearted killer; but be does it as a living as it i very clean and neat. this is also a good example of a thriller type of film, it has a number of close-ups and long shot; trying to show different details in the film.

Storyboards

sin city

The first image is the title of the film. The title is made of skyscrapers and gets filled with blood to give it colour; this gives a good impression of what kinds of things we will be seeing in the film. The second image is setting the location of the film. It is in a big city; by using this long shot it gives the feel of a huge city with lots of diverse population of people who live there. The third image is showing the types of clothes they are wearing, while the whole scene is in black and wight the girl's dress is bright red, showing that red is a very distinct colour in this film. The man is just in a suit; they both seem to be wearing good quality of clothing. The fourth image is a example of a good shot in the sequence, they use some match-on-action when he hands her a cigarette. As she takes it, the camera snaps to her hand and back again. The fifth image is showing the font of the text, it looks like some one has taken a thick paintbrush and painted it to the screen, similar to a comic book style that the film is based on. It also has the bright red just like the woman's dress. The sixth image relates to the story of the film. In the shot you can see that he has just shot her; this may mean that the film has a clear story but has a dark undertone to it with death and blood. The seventh image shows the genre of the film, in the shot a man is slowly walking towards this woman; this may make people ask "who is this man?" or "what is he doing?" and these kinds of questions make the audience think of a thriller as it makes people ask questions. The eigth image shows the introduction of characters. The characters seem to be in a party, as what they are wearing looks like party wear, and it seems like the girl need some air and the man is just going out to see how she is doing and tell her that he loves her. The final image is a shot that I liked, it is right at the end of the scene where he is sitting with her as she dies. I like the high angle showing their whole bodies; it shows a lot of emotion in the scene but again has a dark undertone.

character description

character description


PI:


Gender: male


Age: 30


Personality: he is a very stern man, but loves to help people in their time of need. he is not afraid


occupation: he has been working as a PI for 6 years and has picked up a lot of experience a long the way.


looks: he is 6" 2', brown hair, 5 o'clock shadow, medium build and has no defining marks or tattoos






Danny:


Gender: male


age: 20


Personality: Danny is a good man, but he can be persuaded to do bad things; if the need is there. As he lives alone, he works just to keep him-self afloat, this means that he is not a people person and likes to keep to himself.


occupation: he works as an engineer, but as he is not getting a lot of money from this; he has had to join a criminal group to make some more money.


looks: he is 5" 9', bourbon hair, no beard, small build and has no defining marks or tattoos

Location, Props and costumeus