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: