Storboards

V for vendetta

The first scene in ‘V for Vendetta’ is a reconstruction of the gunpowder plot with a woman’s voice going over the top of the film saying the gunpowder poem. The woman then starts to go into a deep monologue of how Guy Fawkes died but his idea didn’t die with him and how an idea does not have the qualities of a man and can’t feel emotion or feelings, she then goes onto describe how it’s not the idea she misses, but that she misses man. The reconstruction is then ended with Guy Fawkes being hung and a close up shot of the actor’s reaction to have the rope being put around his neck and the realisation he is about to die. Then a black screen comes up and a trail of fire comes up and the symbol for V for Vendetta is shown. The next scene starts with a man doing a television show, while this is going on in the background there is eery non-diegetic string music in the background while an anonymous man puts on a mask and gets his boots on while a lady also gets ready watching the same programme. The man on the television then starts going on about how he fears God and all the people he believes to be sinners. The man n the mask is also shown putting on a belt with knives on it and other weapons, he then throws on a cape which will conceal the knives. Both of the voiceovers (during the Gunpowder plot and the man and woman getting ready) are very contrasting, the woman’s voiceover is a monologue of what her feelings are towards men comparing to the idea which got Guy Fawkes killed and how she sympathises with him because no matter what he did he was still a human being. The man on the television programme is shown to be a very narrow minded and pompous man but charismatic.

Panic Room

The beginning of Panic Room starts with a reference to an Alfred Hitchcock film in the credits where they are shown against urban city buildings, this is accompanied by non-diegetic string music which is quite dark. The music and credits then stop and it shows two women walking with a young boy on a scooter which is one of the women’s son. The women and boy are then shown around a house by an estate agent, the boy is still going around the house on his scooter but then is promptly told to stop. The women are shown onto the upper floors of the house and they are shown into the master bedroom where the woman notices the room being smaller than it should be, the estate agent then shows them the panic room which is integral to the plot of the film later on. Throughout the house there is a dark colour pallet throughout the house and the only sources of light are natural light shining through the window.

Target Audience

Our film is in the genre crime thriller, which automatically lowers the level of female watching it and makes the level of males watching it higher, giving it about a 70:30 male to female ratio.





Our film is generally aimed at people who are in the demographic range, which means our film won't be suitable for children, this means that we have rated our film a 15 this is also because our film is quite violet and shows graphic images.

Our film represents gender and sexuality as it the film is based on love, violence is also represented as it is shown to promote the feeling of emotion as the girl is shown to be very emotional and broke.

Film of the same genre:






Fatal Attraction- with the character Alex Forrest who is quite like the female in our opening sequence.



Monster- Aileen also reminds me of the female in our opening sequence except maybe a bit more vulgar.

Technologies

Whilst doing our production of Love Lost, we have used a variety of technologies, from the use of apple Macs to tripods, HD cameras to standard Nixon cameras. Programmes on the Mac that we’ve used are Garageband- we've used this programme to create the musical piece throughout our opening film sequence. We have also used Final Cut Express which has been the programme that we have used most for our editing, as it is used by proffesional film makers. Livetype was used to create our end credits, which again is used by proffesionals and finally we used iTunes to transfer the music from Garageband to Final Cut Express. These programmes and the usage of the camera have made me much more versatile with new media technologies which will help me complete the rest of the course.

Health And Safety

Before our group did any sort of filming we had to have a presentation on health and safety, which was followed by a health and safety check, this consisted of us filling out a risk assessment sheet, which was split into different categories. These categories were level of risk, how was I meant to minimise risk.

Types of risk and injury can vary from level of injury to the multiples of injury for example; the weather, lighting (for night filming), weapons, surrounding area, we also had to take into account that the equipment which we were using, in our case a knife.

Equipment used:

HD Camera (Filming)

Tripod (To hold the camera)

Knife (Used for effect when knife is stabbed through picture)

Lipstick

Photographs Hairspary (aerosols)

Here below is our risk assessment sheet:

Video Diary

Preliminary Task Storyboards

Target Audience

Our film genre is a crime thriller, this means that our film will not be suitable for children, so taking this and the violence and unsuitable images shown in our film opening we have rated our film a (15).The demographical audience would be both male and female, within the age range of 15-30, having a working class of class 1 or 2 predominantly. Other films of the same Genre: The Killing, Seven, Reservoir Dogs, Inside Man, and The Asphalt Jungle.

Initial Ideas

The intial ideas that our group have had are as follows below: A young man of an age of 21 leaves his home to meet his girlfriend who is overprotective/borderline skitzophrenic. To show that she is messed up, we'll shoot a scene of her in her room with pictures of her and her boyfriend everywhere but her boyfriend's face has been scribbled out of each picture she has loads of makeup on and she is crying with cut writsts with blood trickling onto her bed. The room will have low key lighting and could possibly be shot in black and white to emphasise the abnormality of her character.


He takes a shortcut to his friends house but, in doing so, he has to walk down a very dark alleyway. (The alleyway is key)As he walks down the alleyway he gets hit over the head with a rock, subsequently knocking him unconcious and then he gets robbed of his wallet. (We haven't yet decided what shot to use for this yet, we have thought to use either a point of view shot of the attacker or of the young man or a shot-reverse-shot.) The next shot reveals that the attacker is actually his girlfriend, she then kisses him on the cheek and chucks his wallet on the floor.

The chosen genre my partners and I have decided to represent in our short two minute film opening is the genre of suspense which is Crime/Love Thriller. Crime/Love Thriller we decided was an easy but effective type of genre where we could apply into our film opening quite comfortably. We examined a number of film openings to gain some valuable ideas to help us plan our beginning. The film we finally choose to base our film around is "Da Vinci Code" as its consists of many simular aspects we are atempting to apply to our film opening. During the duration of the upcoming week i will be posting our storyboard for this production and a short essay on how we applyed the ideas from The Da Vinci Code into our production.

Preliminary Task

We were given a prelimary task which was to create a short extract to help us understand continuty editing. In this extract we had to do these different types of shots and rules which were:

A match on action
Shot Reverse shot
180 Degree rule
So after we got given the task, the first target was to make our storyboards for the extract. Our storyboard had 12 frames in total, but when we were to filming, we decided it would be better to add and remove frames.

Analysis To The Opening Sequence From The Film 'Fatal Attraction'

In the opening sequence of the film Fatal Attraction, the first shot is a tracking shot of the roof tops of New York at sunset. This is then followed by Dan and his wife getting ready for Dan’s work event. The last scene from the opening sequence is the build up to where Dan Callagher, the protagonist, meets Alex Forrest, the antagonist. Within this sequence we (the audience), are introduced to four characters; Dan Callagher, a lawyer from New York who has a small family of three, immediately we’re geared to like to like Dan as he seems very affectionate towards his wife and daughter. The second character we’re introduced to is Beth Callagher, another protagonist and her daughter Ellen, who is portrayed to be very cute, the last character we are introduced to is the antagonist, Alex Forrest. The first time you see her she seems kind hearted, intelligent and good looking and there is an instantaneous spark between her and Dan. The settings for the film is Manhattan, New York.

The camera shots used in the opening sequence vary from tracking shots at the very beginning and at the party, to medium close ups of Beth and Alex. Medium close ups are used mainly for these two characters, because they are both dominant females. The editing in this piece brings the film to life as it develops a realistic, relatable atmosphere. Techniques utilized to achieve this include shot-reverse-shots and cuts. The diegetic sound at the beginning of the opening scene is extremely industrial, then immediately switches to the diegetic sound of the television. This cleverly portrays the economically motivated environment involved with Dan Callagher’s profession in law as well as the business connotations surrounding Manhattan. There is no non-diegetic music in this sequence; this adds another level of realism to the film.

The opening credits are effective as there isn’t much happening on screen, they’re positioned at the bottom of the screen in ‘Times New Roman’ like font and the colour is white. This is even more effective as the bottom of the screen is dark and the entire colour is seeping down from the top.

To conclude, Fatal Attraction has given me the inspiration to create this piece. It conducts a certain realism that I want in my piece, but the basic idea that a paired man and woman who are broken apart by a third party, is truly sublime.

Introduction

Hello, my name is James Brooke and I am currently studying at The Windsor Boys School. I am a year 12 student studying AS Media, AS Theater. For the coursework I've been set I'm working with Harvey Muddyman & Micheal Curtis.