Shot List

First Shot- High Angle Extreme Long Shot (protagonist in centre of shot) Using DSLR Camera this shot will zoom in gradually turning into a close up shot of the protagonists hand

Second Shot- Close up high shot of the protagonist using DSLR Camera this shot will gradually turn into a long shot as the protagonist spins and runs away from the camera

Third Shot- Long Shot (full body) of protagonist running away from antagonist using DSLR Camera.

Fourth Shot- Low angle long shot of protagonist running towards the camera, which will gradually turn into a close up shot as the protagonist gets closer. Using DSLR Camera.                      

Fifth Shot- Low angle close up of protagonist running away from camera, which will gradually turn into a long shot as they get further away. Using DSLR Camera.   
                  
Sixth Shot- First Person shot from the protagonists view. Using GoPro.

Seventh Shot- Close up low shot of characters feet running past the camera (shallow depth of field). Using DSLR Camera.

Eighth Shot- Close up shot of the protagonist pulling himself up a wall. Using DSLR Camera.

Ninth Shot- This shot is a match cut of the previous shot but just in a different location. Using DSLR Camera

Tenth Shot- Over the shoulder shot behind the antagonist looking towards the protagonist. Using DSLR Camera

Eleventh Shot- Extreme close up shot of hand holding bag and then hand dropping bag. Using DSLR camera

Twelfth Shot- Camera is set inside bag looking up and out of the bag. Bag is closed and then opens turning the shot from being black to a Extreme Close up shot of the antagonist looking into the bag. Using DSLR.

Thirteenth Shot- First Person shot from the antagonists point of view looking up from the bag. Using GoPro.

Fourteenth Shot- Medium Close up of protagonist walking away then turns to look back and shot zooms to a Close up of protagonists face. Using DSLR Camera.


Fifteenth Shot- Long Shot of protagonist running away from camera. Using DSLR Camera.


Key:
The type of shot...
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Source: http://alexheyprod.blogspot.co.uk

Locations

Our original plan was to film in and around leeds, however with days getting shorter as we moved to winter, we decided that our best option would be to stay in Ilkley.

I wrote the story board, and we altered it here and there to come up with the final product, from here we then decided which locations best suit each shot.

We decided on Spooners as our main location, this would however require gorilla style filming, whereby you film without permission and it may involve trespassing but we feel this is worth the risk, as the location suits out opening perfectly, and it is local.

In terms of other areas, we just filmed within the radius of Spooners, this way we didn't have to walk to far with our equipment and could film within lesson time.

Story Board

• As preparation for our shoot, we divided up roles, and I was given the job of creating the story board.
• I came back to lesson with a completed story board, however I said I was open to new ideas and that I am happy to change parts to what the group thinks would be better.
• We made our alterations and came up with the finished story board.
• From this we have created the shot list and call sheet, and also decided on locations which would best suit the shot.
• In terms of filming, we have stuck to the story board as best as possible. We have added in extra clips to help the flow of the film intro, and changed the opening shot to something we can realistically do.

Pitch

How did it go?

I personally think it went well, I had a few hours preparation within my lesson in the run up to the pitch, which I used to edit my background footage, time everything to my pitch, for example with text on screen, and time it so I have enough time to explain it while it still being on screen, this was achieved by a trial and improvement method.

Was it Successful?

I think that my pitch was successful. I managed to get my point across, and answer questions from my classmates and my teacher. Along with this, the idea I proposed has also been incorporated in our film, The Brief. We have combined our free running ideas and the training, which will be achieved by the use of a match cut. I am very happy with the current outcome, and the development of our idea, and excited to see how our shots come out.

What would I do differently next time?

Incorporate more information relating to the camera shots and angles, rather than focusing on just the idea, focus on all the camera shots, and go into detail on why, and what effect this will then have . Spend more time thinking about costume. And finally perhaps lay out my background video differently, to give a clearer overall view about my idea.

Pitch Video

This is the video I played in the background of my pitch. I based my pitch off the background video, rather than scripting it, as it provides a clearer overall view on what it's about and where things will take place. One of the main difficulties was timing it to perfection in order to provide myself with enough time to explain while the shot was still on screen.

The Brief: Screen Play

The protagonist is seen stood central in the frame at a high angle and extreme long shot. In a crowd of people in a busy urban area. There is non-diegetic heartbeat audio that builds suspense. The camera zooms in frame by frame in time with the heartbeats to the protagonists hand - who is holding a bag. 

The protagonist raises his hand to his ear as if he is receiving information through an earpiece. A non-diegetic woman's voice is heard.

The Woman: Agent Cross? Agent Cross, an enemy hostile 6 o'clock. Get back to HQ now!

Protagonist drops his hand and non-diegetic fast paced music begins. The protagonist sprints towards an alleyway with the unrevealed antagonist following closely behind. There is a low angle shot of the protagonist sprinting towards the camera, as he sprints over the camera and passes the camera, it cuts to him sprinting away from the camera in a different location and in training form.

The chase continues to a large field where a first person camera will be filming from the antagonists point of view with the protagonist a few metres ahead. A steady tracking shot of the protagonists feet with a shallow depth of field to still keep the antagonist in narrative enigma.

The protagonist jumps and climbs a wall where it match cuts to a wide armed pull up in a gym scenario with a shallow depth of field. The protagonist gets cornered in a industrial area and there is an extreme close up, shot reverse shot between the two character's facial expressions. The protagonist drops the bag and as the bag hits the floor the screen goes black for a second. The antagonist looks in the bag, then looks up slowly, moving from the camera in the bag to a go pro (first person camera) and realises the protagonist has fled, it then cuts to a close up of the protagonist looking over his shoulder while on the bridge above the train station, with the camera stopping and watching the protagonist walking away over the bridge.

Source: http://westgatefilms.blogspot.co.uk 

Tyrannosaur Swede

Originally we filmed over the course of two periods, covering the first three scenes of Tyrannosaur which we watched the opening of in class. We were set the task of recreating a low budget version of this... a swede.

We all sat around the centre table and discussed what shots we needed, the best way to film them, and where and when to film. Once all this had been decided, we went out to film during the next lesson.

In reflection this wasn't the best way to go about preparing. We didn't allocate jobs, nobody had a clear idea of what they were specifically meant to do, and the filming was rushed.

From this, we decided to start again. We once again sat around the table, we allocated jobs, including writing story boards, call sheets and a script, allocating roles for acting, filming and directing.

We then set ourselves a deadline for when everything had to be done, and due to constant reminding and a group chat we managed to remind ourselves and have everything handed in by the deadline.

We then went out to film the first scene, with jobs allocated, and timings in place we got 3 shots of every shot we needed, each from a separate angle with the help of using two cameras. Following this we filmed the mext scene, and finally, the last scene, using the call sheet for all three, and making sure we stuck to the timings allocated for each scene.

In comparison, the second attempt went a lot better as we allocated more time to filming, we had jobs, and a better idea of what to film, overall it was better prepared and had more structure, leading to it being a success.

Prelim Tasks:

Prelim Basic






180 Degree Rule Broken






Prelim Titles






Prelim Sound Effects and Titles


My experience: Overall it was a great experience. I was able to try out the cameras and their various settings, and also learn the basics of Final Cut Pro, along with some additions including titles and sound effects.

If I was to do this task again, I would have improved the overall quality of the tasks, along with sharper editing and a better choice of music and titles. It is however, hard to judge what I would improve as it was my first experience, so I am happy with how it turned out and what I learned from it.

York Film Festival

Warp Films: Crossing Creative Platforms...

This is England:
The makers of This is England weren't trying to move from Film to TV as they had always done TV, but it exploits another area of the market.

This is England made 1.8 million pounds at the UK box office and sold half a million DvD units which is relatively successful for a British film. The first episode of This is England '84 had 2.2 million viewers which is a large jump from a successful feature film to a T.V show.


Examples of Television Warp have produced:

• Fur - 2007
• This is England - '86 - 2010
• Midnight beast  - 2011
• This is England '88 - 2011
• Sky Arts - 2012
• Talking to the dead - 2013
• Midnight beast 2 - 2013
• This is England '90 - 2014/15
• The Last Panther

Examples of Feature Films Warp have produced:

• Dead Mans shoes
• This is England
• Grow your own
• Complete history of my sexual failure
• Donkey Punch
• Hush
• All tomorrows parties
• Bunny and the Bill
• She a Chinese
• Submarine
• Four Lions
• Tyrannosaur
• Kill List
• For these in Peril
• Made of Stone
• '71

Barry Ryan explained that when Warp worked on feature films they would employ people who worked on feature films, and wouldn't cross the cast who worked on television and feature films. There was no cross over.

This is England (Movie)

The following...

• Film 4
• UK film council
• Screen Yorkshire
• East Midlands Media
• The Works
• Optimum releasing
• Scale and Leaseback

All wanted some element of control over the film.

Warp invested 2.2 million on the film, which lasts around 1.5 hours.


This is England '86 (T.V)

• Channel 4 - Got to show it twice
• Madman releasing (Australia)
• Non-Stop (Scandinavia)

Warp invested 2.6 million to film 4 hours worth of episodes.

So to film T.V you get more air time for the money you invested than that of a feature film.



Cinematography // Creating the BIG picture...

1. Film Making is a collaboration, the atmosphere with a good working crew is incredible.
2. The technology isn't important, its about the idea and the effect of that idea.
3. Film as much as possible in order to gain experience, from this your cinematography skills will improve.
4. 'Cinema' is about creating stories and creating a 'magical world', cinematography helps create effect to the overall big picture and can make the experience more 'magical'.

Mad Max Aanlysis

Mad max film opening

In the film opening, it focusing on the intimacy of the protagonist. This is something that in my film opening I want to follow, it provides great effect and engages the audience. The cinematography would be difficult to replicate as it is done to high quality however we can , however the intimacy of the main character (protagonist) is definitely  something I'd want to follow. Overall the film opening is a great representation of an action film, and helped me to devise my idea.

District 13 Analysis

District 13 Parkour Scene

I also looked at District 13 when contrasting my idea. It again follows the general convention of action film openings whereby the antagonist is chasing the protagonist over a physical object, in this case, drugs. This is a more extreme version of parkour, something which would be difficult for us to replica but in relation to the editing, it is possible for us to edit in a similar way, fast paced editing and short clips, along with consistency of light. Overall the parkour scene in District 13 was very effective in helping me decide on the sort of pace I wanted to achieve in the film opening, using this alongside other action films helped to contrast the overall idea, including Casino Royale.

Casino Royale Analysis

Casino Royale Parkour Chase Scene (2006)

Initially, when I was creating my presentation / pitch, I looked at the Casino Royale opening and used it during my pitch. The idea behind it, with the antagonist chasing the protagonist over a package, and the protagonist getting away with the package after a 'bust up' was something I want to simulate. In terms of shots, in Casino Royale they use fast paced editing with a lot of shots and a variation of camera angles. One type off shot is first person, which is used on various occasions throughout thought the opening during the chase, this is something I would like to do and I can achieve this from the use of Go-Pros available to me at school. Overall, this film opening provided a lot of inspiration for me when devising the opening I wanted construct.

Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee Analysis

Opening of "Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee"

Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee

(Shane Meadows, 2009)

Produced by Big Arty Productions and Warp Films

Budget £48,000 (estimated)

Rock roadie, Le Donk, has lived, loved and learned. Along the way, he's lost a classy girlfriend but gained a sidekick, Scorz-Ayz-Ee. He sets out to make Scorz a star with a little help from the Artic Monkeys.[Source IMDB]

Shot By Shot Break Down
Overall, the opening sequence is about 2.5 minutes long, and includes 21 overall titles that last for 1:40 minutes and the first shots before the titles lasting for 55 seconds.
The film seems to be trying for verisimilitude, as it doesn't start with a montage and non-diegetic sound, but with a long-shot of one of the main characters. There isn't much of a narrative enigma, but this works as it fits with the characters (who seem rather unintelligent) and are rather unsubtle.

• This is the first shot of the film. There are no titles - it simply cuts in with a close up shot of the sign on the caravan and then zooms out to reveal the whole caravan (that shifts ever so slightly) of one of the characters in the middle third. All the sound is diegetic. It can be denoted that the character looks what you would call 'chavy' or quite Americanised, he is wearing an American football jersey and red jogging bottoms: this exposes to us that the character is extremely influenced by America, and given that the audience is likely to also be very influenced by America they are likely immediately relate to the character. A narrative enigma is created briefly as an audience wonders what he is going to say and what's going to happen next. The lack of titles seems to have been done to create a strong sense of verisimilitude (as this is a sort a music video)

• The music video style of the whole opening denotes that the film will have some sort of music theme to it the is also shown in the opening titles were the almost documentary 'behind the scene' style filming turns into a cartoon.

• This could also connote the childish nature of the film which charts the character almost growing up in the music world.

Opening Credits (in order)

21

• The next shot after the cartoon aspect of the film if a shot of a run-down street the immediately suggests the social class of the characters of the film as working class or poor this is due to the run down nature of the neighbour hood and the cars (a big telling factor in when making assumptions with films) this also ties in with the opening shots as before the titles start which shows the to characters exiting a 'run down' caravan (as can been seen in the start of the blog post).

• After that shot the door in front of the camera opens and when are presented with the main character who tries to be funny in a childish sense. This immediately presents the character as fun and the film as a fun film/ comedy instead of a serious documentary as appose to the documentary style it is in.

Source: http://f9films.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/opening-conventions-of-le-donk-scor-zay.html

About a Boy Analysis

About A Boy Opening

About a Boy (2007)

Producing - Working Title Distribution - Universal

Budget - $30m

Box Office - $130m (World) $41m (USA)

Cinematic release in 51 separate countries

• Co-Directed by Chris and Paul Weitz

Production Companies

20 seconds

10 seconds

10 seconds

Idents

• 3 company idents in the centre of the shot
• Universal Studios, Studio Canal and Working Title

Titles

• 2 production company's titles, centre shot, white on black - connotes a professional film
• Font connotes that the film is a comedy

•  The producers of the film
• Does not obey rule of thirds, names are in the right third of the shot
• Audio bridge with diegetic sound

Opening Shot

•  Diegetic sound from the TV
•  Chris Tarrant Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - achieving verisimilitude
• medium shot

•  Large book denotes that the character reads books, this is stereotypically middle class
• The book juxtaposes with the opened can of RedBull and signifies the film will not be stereotypically middle class

• The title of the film does not have any upper-case lettering, this connotes that the film is targeted at youth. 

• Tracking shot

• The opening is using narrative enigma by not showing the face of the protagonist
• However, the opening is also showing a lot of the house giving the audience an idea of the class of the protagonist

• Each take ranges from 4-25 seconds in length
• No regularity in editing

•  Non-diagetic voice over
• Voice of the character on screen

• 34 total names used in the title sequence
• 8 scene set-ups in the title sequence

•  Establishing shot is a two shot with the protagonist and another character
• This denotes that these two characters will be connected later on in the film

• Ninth scene set-up of the opening
• Shot reverse shot

•  Breaks shot reverse shot pattern
• The house is a stereotypical middle class british house
• In contrast, the house is cluttered, which signifies and gives anchoragethat the film will not be the stereotypical middle class british film

• Master shot of the room
• Long shot

1st Shot

• Long shot 
• Cross fade transition from opening sequence to main body of the film

Running time of opening - 5:41

Length of idents - 40 seconds

Time between idents and opening shot - 5:01

Source: http://westgatefilms.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/about-boy-opening.html