Creative Journey 5

16.10.2015-Research and Planning

Most of our research and planning is now done in terms of research and the planning process to creating our short movie. We are also now in process of filming our short movie and have filmed around 70% and starting to edit the footage we have using Premier Pro and Photoshop.

As it is now the last day before half term(2 weeks off) we aren't going to have the facilities we have here at sixth form but can carry on with filming and blog work at home still. After we come back after our two week break we will be finalising blog work and making sure that is all done and focusing on editing our footage.

Whilst editing I will also be thinking about our two print products which will be a film poster and a a film review page. We have already as a group drafted some ideas as you can see in my blog but after half term we will start creating the print products. 

T6-Storyboard

Storyboard

Here is a storyboard draft for what our short movie should appear as but in a storyboard format. I used the website Storyboard That to create my storyboard as it allowed me to put more detail into the designs compared to drawing them. I also think this storyboard looks more professional compared to a drawn one...

These are the first three scenes, The first scene is a close up of the car which is and audi in our movie. The next scene is a wide shot of the inside of the car and someone placing a wire in the car. After the shots of the car we move to an office scene of a lady walking out of work. 

The fourth scene is again a medium shot of the lady walking out of work and heading towards the car park, the fifth scene is a wide shot of the lady walking out of work again but we have used a wide shot this time so the audience can see the location. After this we move to another close up of a car again but of the ladies car this time. 

At this point the audience see who the antagonist is who looks sneaky and smart. On the next scene everything changes and the antagonist catches the girl and heads towards his car. After this we go to a scene of a flashback of the young girl finding a secret item, we are going to edit this scene into black and white to make it look like a flashback. 

After the flashback, there is a medium shot of the lady in the back of the car appearing very worried and nervous for what is going to happen. We then see the car drive off leaving the audience confused. After the car scene we go to a long shot of the antagonist leading the young girl into his house which appears to look scary and unused. 

The antagonist then tells the girl to sit down in the room whilst he makes some phone calls whilst the lady hears the other person on the phone talking about a wanted item. The girl hears the other part of the conversation and tries to make an escape. 

Research Log(Bibliography)

                   Secondary Source                Relevance to my project

Creative Journey 4

08.10.2015-Research and Planning

A lot of my research and planning is now done for our short movie and everything is planned out such as a schedule for filming, risk assessment and a filming schedule. 

As we our now ready for film we will be filming in the next couple of weeks and will be done for after our two week October half term. As we are filming soon we are now designing and coming up for ideas for our print products and also practicing editing skills for after filming.

T10-Editing

Editing

As we are creating a short film which falls into the genre action, editing is very important and must be done well to get the effect we want. When we have completed filming we will be editing our production using MAC computers and using the software Premier Pro and maybe Photoshop and other editing software.  

In our production we are going be including the following scenes which will need to be edited very well...

• Car Chase- In our short movie we will be having a car chase scene and after getting the footage for this film we will need to do some good editing to make the car chase look more extreme and effective. When editing we will be using both Premier Pro and Photoshop to edit this scene.
• Technology/Spy Room-This scene wont require as much editing but will need editing in terms of making the technology more personal to the film instead of just a standard PC. We will also need to edit this scene to make it look more slick and spy themed. Again for this scene we will be using Premier Pro and Photoshop.
• Scenes including the wanted potion-In this scene we will be using some sort of glass bottle for the wanted potion so we will need to edit the bottle to make it look more like a potion and a bad potion. To edit this we will be using Photoshop.
•  Fight scenes-For the fight scenes we will be using Premier Pro to fasten up the scene to make the fight look more tense and aggressive to get the audience going as when filming if we did act out an aggressive fight it would go against our risk assessment and could effect some crew members.

Editing in action films editing is a crucial process when creating the films as most of the action that appears in the films is done through editing as a lot of it can not actually be done. The kinds of shots that are used a lot in action movies are extreme close ups, long shots, wide shots, point of view shots and extreme long shots. We will also be using these kinds of shots in our own short movie.

As our inspiration to create our film came from the film Hitman: Agent 47 we have looked back on their trailer on what editing is used and seen some hints and tips we could use in our such as the following...

As you can see this scene from the trailer looks very edited as the stunt that happened didn't really happen. We will have to edit our car scene to like this to make it look effective. 

For example how fumes are coming out the car to make it look like it has speed and is damaged, we can do this too through using Photoshop on the MAC computers.

This shot above in the trailer is edited in slow motion for tension and we can also and will do this when editing on our gun shots using Premier Pro. 

Overall, the editing for our short movie is going to be very important as without the editing our short movie wont look as effective and shots wont look right. As we filmed a short sequence for our AS product too we can carry the skills over from Premier Pro and Photoshop and use them this year too. 





This year we are more advanced in terms of editing as we know how to use the software correctly.

T10-Print Product Planning

Print Products

For part of our coursework as well as creating our production we need to create two print products which will be a film poster and a review page for the film in a magazine format. As we are creating an action short film I have started to draft out some designs for our print product with my other team members both drawn and using technology...

Below are two designs for our film posters and a magazine review page example, these were hand drawn sketches of what they could look like. If we did decide to choose one of the designs below we would re construct them on MAC computers using an editing software.

Magazine Review Page

Film Poster

 As a group we also designed a poster using the MAC computers using fireworks and Photoshop. Here is what we designed...

As you can see it is has all the conventions of an action movie on the poster such as men in suits, weapons, city setting and much more. Out of all our designs this is the one we are liking the most so far. 

T4-Target Audience

Target Audience

My initial target audience are males aged from 20-30 and are interested in action and sports. However after doing more research on target audience and specifically my target audience this has changed and become more of distinct target audience. 

By using the YouGov website, I researched my target audience by putting in Hitman which is an action movie which is going to have similar features and content to ours. This is what came up...

In terms of gender I agree as male is the most common for this film but I disagree with part of the demographics such as the age. I think that ages 40-50 is a bit too high as they might find the content of our action film a bit boring or extreme, as I said before I think a good age range is 20-30 as this age range are usually the most excited range when it comes to action.On the other hand I  think the social grade for "C2ED" is about right as its not at all for high class and posh people but for middle class people. 

In terms of profession I also think they are true as it says they will be interested in the professions construction and engineering which are quite action packed jobs and I said at the start of this entry that they the person who would like our film would enjoy action. 

In terms of lifestyle I totally agree with the kind of lifestyle our target audience should have. As I said before doing research that our target audience would have a keen interest in sports and in the profile for Hitman it says audiences enjoy sports, watching sports and playing sports. I agree with this as in action movies there is a lot of fast pace action which often appears as sports so this is why they would enjoy it. I also agree with the general interest as It says they enjoy movies and video games, video games mainly is a key interest as a lot of video games are action based such as Grand Theft Auto. 

On the brands section it says people who like Hitman like the brand BMW which is a high/middle class sports car. This again I would agree with as BMW is used in a lot of action films as it is quite an action typed car. 

In the entertainment section of the YouGov profile it says that people who like Hitman like the film Mission Impossible too, I would again agree with this as when we spoke to our class about our pitch we mentioned Mission Impossible too as a film that could be similar and have similar ideas to our own. 

All media texts are made to be consumed by an audience which means when media is created they are always made to be viewed and used by audiences. Our short action movie is going to be made to do the following...

• Entertainment- Our film is mainly going to be made to entertain audiences, as there is going to be a lot of tense scenes and extreme scenes it should really entertain audiences well.
• Escapism- Our film will also allow audiences to escape out of reality whilst watching the short film and just generally enjoy watching the short movie. 

Our short movie could also educate in some areas, for example our short film could be shown in media lessons to other students to teach them about action movies or help them with ideas in the future.

Our short movie focuses on gratification as it will gratify audiences needs in terms of entertainment and escapism. Our short action film isn't passive as this means that audiences believe everything and just view the film, in this day and age this doesn't really exist any more as audiences use have access to the internet and not just the TV so audiences can research the films and see other peoples opinions through the internet and social networks. 

Profiling an Audience:

A B C D E U

In terms of profiling through A,B,C,D,E and U in terms of class I would say our target audience would lie between C and D as our film isn't for high class people and posh people but is just for middle class average people who watch films through Netflix for example and watch them in cinemas and on TV. Our film wouldn't be for high class people as they might find the content a little boring compared to films and TV shows such as The Great Gatsby and Downton Abbey as the content in these will satisfy their needs more and even be relatable to some high class people