Forms and Convetions

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Representation of Social Groups

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Institutions

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Progression

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Audiences

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Technologies

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Opening Film Sequence

Production Prelium Task

Filmed in 2008 part of failed feature film 'The Intertwining', this is short sequence for Production Prelium Task for AS Media Studies, staring Michael Gatiss, Reece Richardson and Tom Pugh. Directed by Sean Usher.

Shooting Schedule

Secondary Audience Research

Call Sheet

Actor- Ryan Burt
Character- Pete Fassbender
Make Up- Red food colouring and golden syrup which gives the look of the fake blood and isn't distasteful. I will need masscara to place on the lips to create the effect of a scabed lip. To create to bruising i will use rubbed in fake blood to create the illusion of damaged skin.
Costume- I will need a stripped blue and white short sleeved shirt to illustrate the character has been on a night out in the pubs. He will be wearing old blue jeans so that he can get fake blood on them so they don't get stained.

Reece

This location is beside a set of garages where my character walks home with the significant sign post of neighbour hood watch which is important to the mise en scene polysemic anaylsis.









This loaction is the road where the character hitches a ride to go home. My major concern is recording passing traffic with out permission and the comfort conditions of the road for my actor.

This Location is the basic field where the protangonist awakes in the field. My main concern about this location is the weather because if it rains or snows the actor will be unhappy to work with or the equipment might get damaged. The sound my be a concern because, its an open space and therefore the wind could get inside the camera and make a distorted noise.

'Highline' Script

'Highline'

Written By Sean Usher

EXT. Rural field location- Day

Character called Peter Fassbender wakes up in a field disorientated and covered in blood. He begins to caugh and look around apprehensively. He checks his pockets and releases his wallet is gone and his phone appears to be missing. He lies back down on the floor and smashes his head by a mistake.

PETE

Ahhh, ughh.

Pete then releaxes to think the situation through, he then closes his eyes.

FADE TO BLACK.

CREDTIS SEQUENCE

EXT. Outside of woods- Day

Pete walks on a path next to a road and trips and suddenly falls to the floor and hurts him self. He continues to walk and sits down on a curb, he then raises his hand and sticks his thumb out toward the road signaling for a hitch from passing traffic. They all appear reluctant toward Pete possibly due to his appearence.

EXT. Outside of Woods- Day

To Pete's suprise a honda civic slows down and he stands up and walks over to the car and enters

INT. Honda Civic Car- Day

Pete sits inside on the passengers and looks out of the window in disgust with him self that he has lost not only his belongings but his wallet. He watches the traffic move past him as the car moves.

EXT. Outside Of Garages- Day

Pete gets out of the car and walks away toward his friends house, past a set of stairs.

'In The Centre' Storyboards

This story borad was an idea for my orginal idea for my openning sequence, it was the concept of a character digging a hole a throwing a gun and burrying it, we don’t actually know why, hinting at the mystery of the drama and leaving the audience with a sense of enigma. Also i wanted to innovate a shot of the camera strapped to the perspective of the gun, to create the illusion of secracy, almost as if your fly on the wall watching a crime at hand.

'Highline' Stroyboards

This idea is of a character waking up in a field not know why and what happend to him, my intetion is to create engima and what happens next... this is my idea for my final piece.

Mood Borad And Sketch Of Ideas

Maracbre

Pictures

Logo

Design...

Institutional Context

Process Of A Film

The Idea: During that inauguration of a film, it always begins with the initial idea, it’s occasionally the writer, director, or producer who comes up with the idea.

Developing Finance: When you have a script or an idea you need to get it financed or funded to afford to shoot the film or pay the writer a work wage. This would develop into the pitch were the person enrolled would present this to production companies, sales, distribution broadcast, public investment, or private finance.

Script Development: The script writer would then plan out the film through a step outline, then a few first drafts, revisions and final the final draft. The script would then get a sales treatment to see its potential to sell.

Packaging: The director and producer would then package the film and enable it to be commercially and financially successful. The crew casting would begin and the financing budget would be worked out in a package.

Financing: The script would be on the market and would need distribution and investment from a production company. The producer would raise money in pre-sales, banks and cap funding. Then the insurance for production would be determined through competition bonds. Finally the green light where the whole process is a legitimate completion of the process.

Pre-Production: The casting would begin and the storyboards would be illustrated. The locations scouting and the production would begin. The word pre-production basically means plan-production.

The Shoot: The actual filming of the scenes would be shot, with emphasis on acting and the director’s visual break through.

Post-Production: Rough cut, post production sound, inter-titles, colour and the editing of the film would begin. Then the crew would do a final cut and have a complete film.

Sales: They would then have to create trailers and sell the product. They then would try and get the film some test screenings for the public’s opinion and official screening in art house or multiplex cinemas, really just taking the film to the market.

Marketing: This is the promotion and advertising side of the industry, where posters and films and funded to be screened and presented. Marketing like viral (online) and gorilla (different and shocking pieces). The film would be then sold to exhibitioners.

Exhibition: The premier would be held and it would be shown in cinemas and made into multiple prints. The revenues and box office performance would be reviewed and rewarded; the marketers and distributors would be paid.

Other Windows: It would be then shown and sold on DVD, TV, and hospitality locations. Often more promoted through the films reputation.

Skills Development

Protangonist finds a phone and trys to return it, but to his suprise he leads his way into a life of stardom. - filmed part of Skills Development at Tesside University on 3/2/10.

During filming this film i learned how to use a boom operator for the first time and manual focuss from the lense twist. I also learned that my skills were improving from match on action due to my previous times filming and how continuity errors can be a major threat to the versimilitude of a film. I also gained faith in not using non-diegetic music, because i usually fall back on the follow of the images and music, but how diegetic sound can add to releasim and how crutial performance is to film (it can either make or break it).

Proposal Of Ideas

My sequence will be a short opening just under five minutes long. It will begin with a character waking up in a rural location bruised and covered in blood; he will awake and question why and where he is. He then will feel his pockets and realise he’s lost his wallet. He then will begin to make his way out of there and try and hitch-hike a ride home. He attempts this and the drivers appear reluctant, but fortunately an anonymous character gives him a ride home and he looks out of the window with a loss of dignity. He then gets dropped off and walks home and the camera rises to a sign of a neighbourhood watch logo suggesting future jeopardy. This will be filmed through a montage of credits and inter-titles illustrating the characters feelings and through a strange and unsettling non diegetic score. The sequence is from a feature film called the ‘Highline’. The narrative then follows as the character going to his friends Pete’s house and describing that he was beaten by another pedestrian. Pete then suggests to break into the pedestrian’s house and get his wallet back. They follow these actions out and adapted to the notion of robbing houses, they then begin to follow this and keep this as a routine. The films role is to establish what society is doing to the outlaw. What desperate measures youths will go to when cornered to live in civilisation that places such an emphasis upon wealth. It is also an anatomy of a robbery and exploits the motives for embezzlement and illustrates the distortion of emotion it provokes.

Institutional Context

Film4 Productions: Their first production was a film called Walter directed by Stephen Frears, This Company is owned by Channel 4 Television Company and often funds aspiring independent British films with a strong voice. If I was able to use this company I would take them because they allow their directors to be different, interesting and un-Hollywood, these character tics are my fundamental target audience. It’s largely also known because of its airing channel on TV ‘Film4’ which presents their films and helps their films gain more recognition.

Skills Development

A gripping story/music video of a teenager fixated by horror films. He then proceeds to an act of premeditated murder. Filmed during 24th of September 2007. Staring Ryan Burt, Scott Carter, Tom Pugh, John Newton and Reece Richardson. Written, directed and edited by Sean Usher

From this film i gained knowledge of how much effect using a non linear narrative has on an audience becuase it makes them use their minds and engage more in the story, as the anonymousness of the narrative creates engima. This was another film where i got to personal and polotically represent a issue or culture. This was about knife crime and how films when misrepresented can warp misunderstanding people and can phsycologically distort and disturb them. I learned the most basic and orginal imagery and ideas work to must sucessful effect. Additionally i found that communication skills come to a abundant advantage when filming, (especially with large groups) I found it hard try to keep the cast and crews moral and sprit up, occasionally humour is the most optimistic technique. When listening to the song ‘If You Were There Beware’ by ‘Arctic Monkeys’ I got the imagery of a circus, that is where the clown came from and I thought it could be a good idea to use to imagery of a clown when breaking the 4th dimension to get the audience more evolved with the horror, therefore they question this characters state of mind. I learnt that contrast is the greatest technique when dealing with an audience, making them feel a number of opposing emotions at once, to make them feel as if they’re being played with. As a director I used contrasting credits to lighten the mood, show characters alive and well and comical out takes.



A young 13 year old teen gets kidnapped by Thomas Hewitt aka leatherface and gets tourtured a pice filmed in 2006.Staring Ryan Burt and Sean Usher.

From this film I really developed my editing skills, when I was thirteen years old I was a huge fan of director Tobe Hooper and his work like ‘The Texas Chain Saw of Massacre’ and it was basically my first attempt at filming a short film. I comprehended that montage works to huge effect, so I edited a disturbing and fast paced opening monologue to grab the audience’s attention. Then when the film actually starts I learn the most curtail lesson when filming, framing and shot duration. My intention was to film it fast and leave the audience shocked, but when in editing I decided to create the impression of an old exploitation horror film. I wanted to make the audiences hang with the protagonist and watch him hang in a uncomforting pain, so they’re disgusted at the antagonist. This was a horror so i learned to have confidence to leave the audience with a sense of disbelief.

Skills Development

A film that shows how a situation can progress into a extreme jeopardy and trepidation . The protagonists car is stolen so he phones the police and reports it. The next day he finds it out side of somebodys house so he finds the person who stole it, suddenly rage takes over his body and he accidentally kills him. The friends of the departed find the protagonist then he becomes an absconder. A tale of action, adrenaline, life and death. -THE ABSCONDER

From making this film ‘The Absconder’ I learned the pressure and responsibilities of making a 20 minute film, for example my main issues were timing, coaxing performance and sound. I had trouble creating the illusion of realism from such an outrageous and fanatical concept. I wrote the screenplay which developed my skills and shot over a period of 2 months. Filming in public areas is also an issue when questioning authority, but I was privileged enough to film in all of the necessary places. Communication with cast and crew was my biggest development, especially in the car chase and flight stimulation sequence. My editing to the rhythm and continuity were also some large progress, like chase sequences had to be synchronised. My main problem was not having enough cast, I had to loan on last minute step-in’s off friends, so I learnt to always plan ahead. My biggest criticism of the film is that it didn’t originally turn out to the way I initially pre-conceived it, it rhythm was to fast which I think halted the realism.

Secondary Audience Research

My specific audience is aimed at males ages of 15+, I will focuss on character opposed to narative seems though this has been proven popular in choice. The genre will be creating my film is in drama, i will also be filming it in DVD format which was the most selected by my questioniare.

Primary Audience Research

From these results i have gathered that the magority of males that i have interviewed and are mainly in there teens. I have found out that they're mainly interested in rock music and prefer comedy but mainly drama films (possibly that this is a genre that is harder to define and more versatile). Moreover the audience i questioned prefer films like Pulp Fiction maybe due to its realism which is what i would have to concentrate on, also its a character driven films which they mainly enjoyed. Finally they usually watch films within three to seven days on mainly DVD, therefore i will have to target my film at DVD audience friendly and watchable on multiple views. I could do this by filming with delicate detail and making subtle nuance and fun trivia and homoages and complex characters.

Textual Analysis

The ‘Touch of Evil’ opening scene inaugurates with a long take filmed through a continuous flow of events. The filmed was directed by legendary, artistic and pioneering director Orson Welles who made this filmed entitled as one of the last greatest film noirs of the period. We first open with the ‘Universal Studios logo’ establishing credit to the production and distribution studio that marketed the film. We fade to black then open with a character holding a bomb facing the camera. He swifts out of frame and hides from characters walk in the alley way beside, he anxiously toward them takes a glance and runs. Through the mise en scene we see his shadow move fast, due to the use of the shadow on a connotation level the shadow could suggest that the character is unable to identify with hinting the role of the antagonist. His menace remains because he is anonymous and he delivers a potential threat to a male and female entering the car as he places a bomb in the boot. The camera moves up and follows the camera passing building through a high angled shot, the cinematography and ambient sounds reveal the amplitude and immediate threat to other citizens. The car drives with the camera then the two protagonists Ramon Miguel ‘Mike’ Vargas (Charlton Heston) and ‘Susan Susie Vargas’ (Janet Leigh) walk into frame. The diegetic ambient live music adds to the verisimilitude of the scene and the busy atmosphere is illustrated when the cars run past the characters, also we see wild sheep on the road. The security protection is determined first when the guards walk past the frame and a character asks Susie for identification and proof of birth. Vargas’ reputation is established when they know who he’s a detective and his history is made evident when they recognise his previous cases. The suspense of the scene is shown through dialogue when the woman with the bomb in the truck thinks there a ticking noise in her head and no one believe her, thus playing on one of the human horror of lack of control. Their personal romance is made clear through a kiss and finally we straight cut to the car exploding and the bomb going off. Orson Wells leads us through the scene with suspense due to the long take that slowly builds up tension and he leaves the narrative with the question of who planted the bomb and why?

This text is of the opening credits of ‘Taxi Driver’ directed by Martin Scorsese we first see inter-titles of Columbia Pictures who produced the film and then actor Robert De Niro in large text emphasising the scale of his fame was huge back in the 70’s due to films like ‘The Godfather: Part 2’ and Scorsese and De Niro’s first collaboration in ‘Mean Streets’. We then hear a tremendously powerful and post-film noir non diegetic score by Bernard Hermann with a strong sense of jazz. The visual imagery transition fades from black to abundant smoke rising from the floor almost representing hell with the red colours. We then see a taxi cab drive through the some smoke and establishing this vehicle as a heroic presence through the score and how the cab is dominating the screen. The imagery represents New York in that time as hell on earth with pimps and prostitution plaguing the street, the film is a complex character study of Travis Bickle and we see the world through his eyes therefore his perception of the city is emphasised through the visual imagery. The notion of looking through Travis eyes is illustrated on the shot of his eyes framed on a close up. The non diegetic score is constantly contradicting itself because we hear the beautiful chilled jazz and then the extreme dramatic post-film noir tempo, thus representing the personality of New York City through Travis’ eyes, it can be beautiful and dramatic or repugnant in this case. This visual imagery parallels the score with the blurred depth of field showing vague city lights and through mise en scene romantic colours of red and orange, Scorsese is playing with idea of how unattractive things can be beautiful.

This sequence is from 'La Haine' 1995 (‘Hate’) which is a stunning film which studies human identity and feet’s they will achieve once they have abandon dignity. This subtle art film and character study fellows the three lives of Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Kounde) and Said (Said Taghmaoui) over 24 hours, they live in poverty stricken Paris and underclass France due to a civil war. The sequence begins with and black sequence introducing the producing credits on white small inter-titles, there is no sound during this which is unorthodox and creates a strange mood. We then cut to a shot of Documentary footage of a character shouting insults at police officers calling them murders demonstrating that they have no form of self defence. Using documentary footage adds to verisimilitude and shows truth behind the films voice. Furthermore this ideology of truth is established in credits dedicated to those who have lost their lives during the making of the film. The best directors know precisely when to use sound but more importantly when not to use sound and knows because he uses the most effective sound in cinema silence, he gives the credits a strong raw and unusual feel which captures the personality. Fundamentally that all that credits are is capturing or illustrating the character of the film. We then suddenly hear a voice that speak in dietetic dialogue and tells a story about a man falling from a building reassuring himself by saying so far so good. “It’s not the fall that matters, it’s the landing.” The dialogue on a connotation level stands for the character decent in the story and their attitude to it. The imagery used here is the earth being struck by a petrol bomb on a polysemic level this could suggest that the character destruct is affecting the whole world or the war is affecting the global community. We then cut to documentary footage with a Bob Marley non-diegetic music playing of the song ‘Burnin and Lootin’ which is almost a contradiction in its self because reggae is often seen as a positive and vivacious music with this opposing images of War and crime. This will help me because my film is also a neo realist crime drama about people from an under previled back ground and what they will do in desperate times.