This is our Directors Commentary on our film - Vengeance in Disguise.
Friday, 15 April 2011
Vengeance in Disguise - Final Piece
This is our film introduction, Vengeance in Disguise - which is based around terrorism. After many weeks of hard work, we are proud of this introduction - lasting around two minutes. Enjoy.
The piece centers around terrorism and the events leading up to... well that's for you to decide.
The name Vengeance in Disguise was chosen because we want the theme to be the terrorists fighting back against the traditional stereotypes and to satisfy God, per our Bible quote, "the wage of sin is death" and should our terrorist carry out the deed, she herself would be dead also.
We state the film as "Based on a true story" based on a theory the Coen Brothers (Independent American film producers and directors) had - that because the film is 'fictional' that in the fictional world - it can be a true story.
The piece centers around terrorism and the events leading up to... well that's for you to decide.
The name Vengeance in Disguise was chosen because we want the theme to be the terrorists fighting back against the traditional stereotypes and to satisfy God, per our Bible quote, "the wage of sin is death" and should our terrorist carry out the deed, she herself would be dead also.
We state the film as "Based on a true story" based on a theory the Coen Brothers (Independent American film producers and directors) had - that because the film is 'fictional' that in the fictional world - it can be a true story.
what we have learnt since doing the preliminary task
From out preliminary task we have leanrn that we need to do a lot more planning before going out to film, so before we went out filming we made sure that we knew exactly what shots we wanted and we made sure we had our story board complete. We have also learnt a lot more different tricks whilst editing for example at the opening credits with a glow behind them, while we were doing the preliminary task we did not know how to do this.
Since the preliminary task we have also become more equipped with the equipment. In the prelim we just used a tripod and camera and moved the camera when we wanted to show movement, however in the final task we decided to use a dolly whilst moving the camera to give it more of a professional effect.
From out preliminary task we have leanrn that we need to do a lot more planning before going out to film, so before we went out filming we made sure that we knew exactly what shots we wanted and we made sure we had our story board complete. We have also learnt a lot more different tricks whilst editing for example at the opening credits with a glow behind them, while we were doing the preliminary task we did not know how to do this.
Since the preliminary task we have also become more equipped with the equipment. In the prelim we just used a tripod and camera and moved the camera when we wanted to show movement, however in the final task we decided to use a dolly whilst moving the camera to give it more of a professional effect.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.
In our film we have changed forms and conventions of real media products in many different ways. After watching films that inspired our own film, we realized that they all used the typical stereotypical image of terrorists and we didn't want our film to be the typical terrorist film; therefore in order to to change the forms and conventions we decided to go against the stereotypes. We did this by having a white Catholic female play our terrorist. We also wanted to make sure that we made references back to the idea of Catholicism through out the film an example of this is right at the beginning of the film we have a shot of Mary and later of a shot of a chapel with a close up on a cross. We also looked at films such as the Exortist to get ideas of how we can do represenataions of religion within the film.
Flight 93, is one of the films we looked at closely in relation to our film as the themes are closely linked. Flight 93 is a unconventional film and as we followed this and tried to make ours similarly based, our film is therefor also unconventional to a certain extent. Flight 93 is also filmed in a the style of a hand held camera similarly to ours, it gives the impression of actually being there and realism. In order to show that we tried to link the films they both start in a similar way. Flight 93 starts with someone boarding a plane showing September 11th and in ours we begin with Noelia, walking through the airport acting suspicious about to board a plane. There are also scences from the plane set we had in our lesuire and touism department within college, to make assoctations with the plane in flight 93.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We feel that our film represents many social groups some of these being teenagers and Christians. Our film would particularly attract the social group of female teenagers because the film is based around a young women playing the role of a terrorist. This would attract female teenagers as the lead of the film first is a women but also the fact that the women is playing a strong independent role rather than the typical 'damsel in distress' would attract a female teenage group. The fact that the women is a young blonde female, they can also be refered to and represented to as 'the dumb blonde'but yet again we decided to attempt to break the sterotype as our women was the strong intimidating women.
The film would also attract the Catholic social group as the female is a traditional Catholic women, as there are close links to religion within the film. This could also attract a variety of social groups as we are breaking the current media stereotype of the Muslim male terrorist, and replacing with a Catholic women. This was also once done when the typical stereotype was the Irish male in the RIA.
Who would be the audience for media product?
The ideal audience for our film would be in the age group 15-24 and within the NRS Social grade we feel it would be best fitted to those in the range A- upper middle class to C2- skilled working class. We feel it would suit this audience best as it contains a variety of complex language mixed with unconventional scenes that the older audience would appreciate. Although the film contains a young female actress the film is filled with complex and intense themes and issues which maybe be to much for a young audience to handle as they are controversial.
The film also if filmed fully may contain violence and strong language not suited to those of a younger age.
How did you attract/addresses your audience?
Our film addresses the chosen audience because of its content, the film addresses a range of ethnicity's after the fright of 9/11 and 7/7. After both attacks there was a growing interest in terrorism and security withing the airport; as people At the time we made our film Osama Bin Laden died, therefore there was a re-interest in the topic, making it a perfect time to release the film.
The fact that we changed the terrorist to a Catholic female would attract theMuslim audience as it is a different take on the films as it is no longer an offensive stereotype of a male musilm terrosist.
The fact that we used a women as the main and only character would attract a femal audeince as not many films have the lead villan as a women. This attracts them as it is something differnt from the norm.
The music within our film isnt typical to the audience of our film, the main piece of music in our film is a classical piece, and therefore steotypically would appeal to an older audience. However we thought we would break another stereotype and link the classical music in with the emotions of the film and therefore it attracts the audience 15-24.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction of this product?
Whilst making our film we used new technology such as final cut pro in order to edit our film, we used various types of transitions such as cross fade, fade in and fade out, and non-additive dissolve. An example of when we used this our introduction and we used a non-additive dissolve at the end to close to film. Whilst using final cut pro we were able to use basic text credits and edit the font, colour, size and alignment in order for it to look the best it could. In the opening to our film we also used editing effects such as 'glow' over the writing to make it look more eary.
We also used new technology such as the blog. The blog allowed us to post details about the making of our film at all stages of development of the film rather than writing it all free hand, The blog also allowed us to upload pictures and video's from youtube that are relevant to our film. This videos included the openings to flight 93 and the terminal.
One major piece of technology we experienced was the green screen, we are lucky at college to have a TV Studio which has a green screen technology corner. This allowed us to create the directors commentary in a professional environment with the equipment behind Jason. It also allowed us to create the news report, which is far more realistic than anything else we could have imagined doing without it.
3. What kind of media institution would distribute your media product and why?
We looked at IMBD31 1to get more information of films that we looked at to inspire us with our final film. We looked at the film Flight 93, which was distributed by dream works we also looked at the film the Terminal that was distributed by Sony Pictures Company. We would like one of these companies to distribute our film as we think it would get great publicity. We would like our film to be advertised direfctly before or after programs that appeal to a wide audience, such as Eastenders or CSI. This would help us attract a range of different age groups, social classes and a general all round audience. We also think it would be a good idea to have our film advertised on national and local radio stations and social networking sites, such as facebook and twitter as this would also attract a younger audience that may be interested in this genre of film. The main source of advertisement would be on tv or in cinemas.
In our film we have changed forms and conventions of real media products in many different ways. After watching films that inspired our own film, we realized that they all used the typical stereotypical image of terrorists and we didn't want our film to be the typical terrorist film; therefore in order to to change the forms and conventions we decided to go against the stereotypes. We did this by having a white Catholic female play our terrorist. We also wanted to make sure that we made references back to the idea of Catholicism through out the film an example of this is right at the beginning of the film we have a shot of Mary and later of a shot of a chapel with a close up on a cross. We also looked at films such as the Exortist to get ideas of how we can do represenataions of religion within the film.
Flight 93, is one of the films we looked at closely in relation to our film as the themes are closely linked. Flight 93 is a unconventional film and as we followed this and tried to make ours similarly based, our film is therefor also unconventional to a certain extent. Flight 93 is also filmed in a the style of a hand held camera similarly to ours, it gives the impression of actually being there and realism. In order to show that we tried to link the films they both start in a similar way. Flight 93 starts with someone boarding a plane showing September 11th and in ours we begin with Noelia, walking through the airport acting suspicious about to board a plane. There are also scences from the plane set we had in our lesuire and touism department within college, to make assoctations with the plane in flight 93.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We feel that our film represents many social groups some of these being teenagers and Christians. Our film would particularly attract the social group of female teenagers because the film is based around a young women playing the role of a terrorist. This would attract female teenagers as the lead of the film first is a women but also the fact that the women is playing a strong independent role rather than the typical 'damsel in distress' would attract a female teenage group. The fact that the women is a young blonde female, they can also be refered to and represented to as 'the dumb blonde'but yet again we decided to attempt to break the sterotype as our women was the strong intimidating women.
The film would also attract the Catholic social group as the female is a traditional Catholic women, as there are close links to religion within the film. This could also attract a variety of social groups as we are breaking the current media stereotype of the Muslim male terrorist, and replacing with a Catholic women. This was also once done when the typical stereotype was the Irish male in the RIA.
Who would be the audience for media product?
The ideal audience for our film would be in the age group 15-24 and within the NRS Social grade we feel it would be best fitted to those in the range A- upper middle class to C2- skilled working class. We feel it would suit this audience best as it contains a variety of complex language mixed with unconventional scenes that the older audience would appreciate. Although the film contains a young female actress the film is filled with complex and intense themes and issues which maybe be to much for a young audience to handle as they are controversial.
The film also if filmed fully may contain violence and strong language not suited to those of a younger age.
How did you attract/addresses your audience?
Our film addresses the chosen audience because of its content, the film addresses a range of ethnicity's after the fright of 9/11 and 7/7. After both attacks there was a growing interest in terrorism and security withing the airport; as people At the time we made our film Osama Bin Laden died, therefore there was a re-interest in the topic, making it a perfect time to release the film.
The fact that we changed the terrorist to a Catholic female would attract theMuslim audience as it is a different take on the films as it is no longer an offensive stereotype of a male musilm terrosist.
The fact that we used a women as the main and only character would attract a femal audeince as not many films have the lead villan as a women. This attracts them as it is something differnt from the norm.
The music within our film isnt typical to the audience of our film, the main piece of music in our film is a classical piece, and therefore steotypically would appeal to an older audience. However we thought we would break another stereotype and link the classical music in with the emotions of the film and therefore it attracts the audience 15-24.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction of this product?
Whilst making our film we used new technology such as final cut pro in order to edit our film, we used various types of transitions such as cross fade, fade in and fade out, and non-additive dissolve. An example of when we used this our introduction and we used a non-additive dissolve at the end to close to film. Whilst using final cut pro we were able to use basic text credits and edit the font, colour, size and alignment in order for it to look the best it could. In the opening to our film we also used editing effects such as 'glow' over the writing to make it look more eary.
We also used new technology such as the blog. The blog allowed us to post details about the making of our film at all stages of development of the film rather than writing it all free hand, The blog also allowed us to upload pictures and video's from youtube that are relevant to our film. This videos included the openings to flight 93 and the terminal.
One major piece of technology we experienced was the green screen, we are lucky at college to have a TV Studio which has a green screen technology corner. This allowed us to create the directors commentary in a professional environment with the equipment behind Jason. It also allowed us to create the news report, which is far more realistic than anything else we could have imagined doing without it.
3. What kind of media institution would distribute your media product and why?
We looked at IMBD31 1to get more information of films that we looked at to inspire us with our final film. We looked at the film Flight 93, which was distributed by dream works we also looked at the film the Terminal that was distributed by Sony Pictures Company. We would like one of these companies to distribute our film as we think it would get great publicity. We would like our film to be advertised direfctly before or after programs that appeal to a wide audience, such as Eastenders or CSI. This would help us attract a range of different age groups, social classes and a general all round audience. We also think it would be a good idea to have our film advertised on national and local radio stations and social networking sites, such as facebook and twitter as this would also attract a younger audience that may be interested in this genre of film. The main source of advertisement would be on tv or in cinemas.
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
location shots
In the opening of our film we use three differnt locations, Manchester airport, a plane from the travel and tourisum department in our college and barton airport.
This is a picture of terminal two in manchester airport were alot of our film was filmed.We used this location to give our film a relastic effect of an airport. We also used terminal 2 because when we arrived at manchester airport terminal 1 it was far to busy and the tunnle in terminal was to small.
This is a picture of Barton airport were Jason was lucky enought to go inside and film. He got some really good shots of inside the tower and of the small planes and hellicopters outside. Unfortunally we wernt able to use alot of the shots as they didnt fit in with our film.
This is a picture of terminal two in manchester airport were alot of our film was filmed.We used this location to give our film a relastic effect of an airport. We also used terminal 2 because when we arrived at manchester airport terminal 1 it was far to busy and the tunnle in terminal was to small.
This is a picture of Barton airport were Jason was lucky enought to go inside and film. He got some really good shots of inside the tower and of the small planes and hellicopters outside. Unfortunally we wernt able to use alot of the shots as they didnt fit in with our film.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Problems we ran into whilst filming
In the finished version of our film we encounted some problems.One of these problems included the background music. The music we chose to use was a classical piece by Bach Prelude in c major, however we ran into some copyright issues that needed to be addressed before continuing with our editing. We thought we would be unable to use this certan track, so we asked our music teacher to record herself playing the same track and used that version instead to avoid any further problems. After we had gone through all that trouble we realised that the music was over 50 years old and therefore didnt apply to the copyright act.
A further problem we faced was getting permission to film in manchester airport. We contacted the management at the airport to enquire about filming in the airport. However we accidently mentioned the word "terrorist", prompting them to hang up immidiently. However we wouldn't take no for an answer, and we went down inspite of this. When we arrived at Manchester airport where we ahppened to bumped into a police officer, whome we asked again about filming in the airport. The police officerwas slightly reluctant but seen as it was red nose day and Jason was dressed up, we were about to use this is our advantage and use it as an excuse to film; this then gave us freedom and permission to rome the airport.
Finally another problem we ran into was the the costumes department, we wanted our film to look as realstic as possible but unfortunaly we couldnt get any air hostes or piolet outfits. As a result of this we were unable to film some of the shots that we had planned to take place in the the plane set.Yet again we didnt let this stop us, we just changed the idea of the shots and in our opinon changed them for the better.
A further problem we faced was getting permission to film in manchester airport. We contacted the management at the airport to enquire about filming in the airport. However we accidently mentioned the word "terrorist", prompting them to hang up immidiently. However we wouldn't take no for an answer, and we went down inspite of this. When we arrived at Manchester airport where we ahppened to bumped into a police officer, whome we asked again about filming in the airport. The police officerwas slightly reluctant but seen as it was red nose day and Jason was dressed up, we were about to use this is our advantage and use it as an excuse to film; this then gave us freedom and permission to rome the airport.
Finally another problem we ran into was the the costumes department, we wanted our film to look as realstic as possible but unfortunaly we couldnt get any air hostes or piolet outfits. As a result of this we were unable to film some of the shots that we had planned to take place in the the plane set.Yet again we didnt let this stop us, we just changed the idea of the shots and in our opinon changed them for the better.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Shot List - Our film introduction
This is our shot list for our intended religious terrorism film introduction:
- Opening Shot - Panning shot of religious statue (Potentially Mary or Jesus?) in mid-shot showing some part of the statue and including some of the natural background.
- Establishing Shot - Very wide shot of aircraft at airport and emphasising airport evironment.
- Phonebooth / Phone Call - Medium close-up of Noelia in a phone booth or at a phone stand or similar and showing clear emotion and 'stress' of actress.
- Tracking Shot - Following Noellia from the phone to an escalator or elevator/lift to show movement through the airport.
- Cut-away - Airport signage - showing terminals, gates, lounges etc in medium close up
- Medium close up - Noellia going for the lift or escalator in the airport.
- Mid-shots showing other people being either on the escalators or in a lift with Noellia.
- Close-up of noellia either coming off escalator or in a lift - showing emotion and confusion in her face and body language.
- Cut-in coming off elevator or inside a lift - close up to show clutching of the bag.
- Long shot - showing Noellia walking on to a flat-escalator which is a typical setting of most airports.
- Medium close up and tracking shot - showing Noellia on a flat-escalator in the airport to show movement - including emotion/confusion.
- Long shot from side angle (following 180 degree rule) - show a different view of Noellia and the airport as she is walking through
- Cutaway - show the religious attributes once more - potentially a church or spire?
- Long shot of control tower at airport - also use as a weather shot to reflect the mood of the day.
- Close up of control tower attributes to show a movement in time - a clock? or an instrument with the time on?
- News report - medium close up of news report - show top half of reporter and the studio backing - use of green screen.
- Zoom from long shot to medium close up of fire, ambulance or similar emergency service to show there's some consequences of the day ahead in the film.
- Tracking of emergency service - show movement through the airport/airfield - follow across runway or taxiways if available.
- Close up of other emergency services in a different aspect of the airport - add more tension regarding the day ahead.
- Medium close up of control tower and show activity - potentially a turning aerial thing, a weather station or wind sock?
- Mid shot on an aircraft with Noellia boarding - placing bag in to a luggage bin or other stowage area.
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