Preliminary task evaluation.

For our preliminary task we had to show a conversation between two characters whist demonstrating various camera skills. These included things such shot reverse shot, and showing someone going through a door. However we did not include shot reverse shot as the shots,match on action, aswell as demonstrating the use of the 180 degree rule. however our shot reverse shot did not fit in with the scene, and so we decided to film a short clip demonstrate that we was able to do thisHere is the link to this clip. Here is the link to our finished preliminary task. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZm03vjA6og&feature=plcp

Our perliminmary task film idea was about a young girl who had become addicted to drugs and was about her having a run in with a drug dealer in her school. We decided that our audience was for people of a similar age to us, of people aged between 15/16 years old. We decided this because we thought that this topic would not be very appropriate for younger veiwers. Our film genre is drama as we filmed a serious topic and was based on a serious topic issue, there was no comdey elements to our film as well as no action, the film was mainly about the drama of a teenage drug addict's life.

 In my group there was 3 of us working on the preliminary task, our roles where split up into different things. My role in the group was to be director. I feel that i could have performed better and made more of the decisions of the shots that where to be used. However i think that because of working with my friends i trusted that there decisions on shots where right and took a more laid back approach to being a director. If i was to be a director again for the main task i think that i should try and take more control within the group.

We were influenced by a number of diffferent tv show that we thought our target audience may also be intrested in, these where this is england as well as skins aswell as the film juno. These shows are also to do with teenage issues such as drug abuse so we was able to get ideas of the issues that are made present. We also felt that these kind of films have a quite a degree of realism which was something that we wanted to come out in our film.

Our group was eager to create a film that was intresting to watch and fun to film however at the same time was also meeting all the requirements of the prelminary task. I think that my group fulfilled the intensions for the task and i was pleased with the outcome. Overall i feel that the that the preliminary task went well as we were able to work well together and took on this task to the best of the ability, however for the main task i feel we will be able to learn from mistakes from this task and produce a even better film.

Preliminary Task.

Rust and bone.

Rust and bone is a film about a brutal bouncer who develops a relationship of strength and emotion with a killer whale trainer. I have not yet had a chance to watch this film however as soon as i get chance to do so i will definitely be watching it! I find that the trailer is especially intriguing as it does not have any dialogue which makes me even more interested in what is actually going to happen in the film.

Here's the trailer for it if you haven't already seen it:

Camera Shot examples.

Here are some examples of camera shots that we created ourself.
 A low angle shot:

A travelling shot:   

                                      

A pan shot:    

A tilt shot:        

She's out of my league-review

She's out of my league is a rom-com. This film is about an average guy, who meets the 'perfect' woman. However he doesn't have the confidence to see that she is just as into him as he is into her.Here is the trailer for She's out of my league.

She's out of my league stars Jay Brachial and Alice Eve who plays Kirk and Molly. So how can a 10 go for a 5?  Kirk has no self confidence and for Kirk this has affected his relationships previously as well as with his relationship with Molly. This makes the viewers create a soft spot for Kirk as we want him to find confidence within himself and realise that he's not the hard 5 that he makes himself out to be even though he never went to collage, works in airport security and drives a Nissan. Kirk plays the sensitive guy that just wants to do the right thing, without trying to impress anyone. We are humoured by his acts of kindness, such as being mistaken for a waiter whilst out with Molly which makes her fall for him even more. 

This film helps us all to appreciate the people we normally turn our noses up at and pay no interest in as whilst watching this film we realise that they are really 10's and not 5's as they make themselves out to be. We begin to realise that visual no one can be perfect which is how Molly is made out to be, this helps us to appreciate the little 'defects' that everyone has that makes us all far from being the 'perfect' human being we all strive to be. 

Whilst watching this film i was thinking about different ways i could incorporate some of the different shot types and camera angles into my own film. There was a scene where there was a series of close ups on Kirk and his brothers eyes which created a tense atmosphere by switching between the two different close ups. This is something i would like to incorporate in my film as i found that it had a good effect on showing tension between to different sides, as well as demonstrating the rivalry between the two different sides. Here is the clip which demonstrates this:

Plan of our preliminary task

Genre: Drama

Setting: School playground.

Hair/costume:

Girl: school uniform. Hair tied up. Looks tired and uneasy. Dark eyes.

Boy: wearing hoodie or jacket. Dark colours. Angry face.

Story: Drug dealer who’s in sixth form approaches young secondary school girl in a playground to sell her cocaine.

Character Profiles:

Charlie: Eighteen year old college student. Aspiring DJ living in Hackney Downs.  Troubled home life, and makes a lot of money from dealing drugs as he doesn’t have money at home. His father supports his drug dealing so he can provide for his dad. His dad is an alcoholic and beats him up when he doesn’t get the money.

Jess: Fourteen years old. Found her mums stash when she was twelve and felt like experimenting with her friends. He friends didn’t like it, so she pretended she didn’t. However she was hooked and now has no friends or money as she spends it all on drugs. She’s failing at school and her mum is always out with men so has no time for her and barely notices her.

Costume and Props:

·         Mossbourne school blazer

·         Bag of flour (drugs)

Script:

Pan 180 degree shot of the school playground with Jess sitting on the bench.

Charlie walks down sixth form corridor – Long shot of him walking through corridor towards camera. We see him passing the office, looking around suspiciously.  Opens green door.

Shot from outside of Charlie walking out of the door.

Shot of Charlie from behind walking towards Jess.

Shot of Jess from behind with Charlie walking towards her.

Shot of Charlie talking to Jess.

Shot of Jess talking to Charlie.

 SCRIPT

Jess: Quick, I’ve got a lesson.

Charlie: Nah man, you ain’t paid me in six weeks

Jess: (Looks around anxiously) I’ll get you the money. I promise.

Charlie: (pushes Mandy against the metal fence) (Whispers in her ear) you better.

Charlie passes Mandy the bag of cocaine. He walks off. Mandy sighs and walks off fast.

Editing techniques

Here we have a clip from Fast and Furious which shows a car race between different characters. In this clip the main editing technique used was match on action, which is where the editor edits transitions to match the action of the shot which makes the scne flow well. This creates a fast moving scene where shots are quickly changing from one to the other, which keeps the veiwer on the edge of there seat. Match on action editing works well with Fast and Furious as it is a action movie and so obviously contains alot of fast moving seens, with the use of match on action we are able to have seemless action scenes.