http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/
http://www.inspiredbymuhammad.com/
Muslim Council of Britain
http://www.mcb.org.uk/
These are text of how Britain see Muslim and the works to build relations with other groups.
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Mr Gray's essay- Analyse the ways in which the media represents one group of people you have studied?
In this essay I have chosen to focus on representation of Women in the UK by using contemporary British film in this case study. I will examine the film Wasps and Fish Tank. I will also consider feminist theories of gender.
Historically women were seen as wives, prospective wives or married lovers. They were judged to have held back the men’s ambition and drive. An instance of this films such as “Saturday Night Sunday Morning” and “A Kind Of Loving” but their has been women who have got out of this image. New Realism is a contemporary movement in British film. People like Andrea Arnold are trying to paint a different picture of women. A more honest picture where they have aspirations and goals in life which they try and fight for.
Dogme 95 is where the rules or the “vows of chastity” make sure that films do not distract from the central theme. Andrea Arnold try and use the feminist perspective using these types of rules. The awareness of the vows of chastity as it is being used more and more often in Modern British films.
In Wasps, Andrea Arnold uses the “vows of chastity” to show women are trapped. An good example of this is when the start of Wasps shows the mother dragging the kids down the stairs is these block of flats down these gloomy staircases. Then seeing the baby not dressed properly or when she makes the kids wait outside the pub and she talks about not having a life outside of the bubble she is in. What Andrea also did was make it feel real when for example at the end when the wasp was coming into her they had shaky cameras it made us feel like we were there. The audience is also made to feel sorry and sad on her behalf as she feels trapped but also the audience feels annoyed at the same time of having the children comes with a lot of responsibilities that she sometimes sys away from.
In Fish Tank we see the mother take no care towards her kids especially with Mia. When she does anything wrong she would be violet and aggressive towards her and throughout gave the impression that he would not care if anything happened to her. An example of this is when Zoe holds a house party and Mia opens the door to some guest she is aggressive to her by grabbing her arm and forcing her upstairs.
But in all this mix up right at the end we do see a different side when Mia was about to leave the house. They have this dance the whole family did together which was a rhythm dance some connection with the whole family.
Fish Tank is driven by the family by the boyfriend (Conor). There seems to be a sexual rival between the Mother and the Daughter Sigmund Freud Oedipal triangle which illustrates that the Mum is jealous of the daughter as she is the younger sign of her and the Daughter is Jealous of her as she wants to be loved by the mum’s lover. But during the film it takes unprecedented turn when Mia swapped the role of a Jealous daughter into the “The Mother” role in kidnapping Conor’s daughter and now the roles have changed into a harmful Mother when she throws the little girl into the river but then turns into caring mother when he saves her life and takes care of her.
Due to the lack of care from the elders on the family the older sisters are taking on the responsibilities of the mother’s job. In Fish Tank we see Mia taking care of younger sister Tyler. Tyler looks up to her and you can see there chemistry when big Mia is leaving the house where Tyler gets upset. There are times when she gets her job when wrong given cigarettes and alcohol to her younger sister but overall she is much of a role model than her mum is. In Wasp we see much younger girls acting as responsible and possible. I say as much as possible because she is too young to take care of 2 children and a baby at her age and understand what he going on all the time. An example of this is when she fed food from the floor and gave it to her sisters.
Both of these films confront traditional representation of female uniqueness. As well see all these magazines around trying to sell women off like they are objects and always trying impress men. Even Women magazines are being shown off in such a way that is also to try and impress all the men. The fantasy is shown in both film for example in Wasp the women wants to be like Victoria and David Beckham and goes so far that the man he went out with was David and that means he must be perfect and she would do anything to keep him happy including going against her kids. In Fish Tank this happens when Mia dances for Conor to impress him and eventually ends up having sex. All of this shows off what the media has on these girls where they have to be what ever the magazine says its hot and what’s not.
In conclusion I believe British Films should carry on using new realism as it gives an proper look on life and not that the Hollywood type of showing everything everywhere is good cosy. It gives out a more positive message to out there for good than having this world where we think everything is all good. If more of these films are brought out it would slowly change people’s mind out about women and the sales of magazines would start to drop and women are on a more even float to men. The “Vows of chastity” rules have helped with this as they almost force the director into making their film more realistic and more a truer picture of society than a fantasy world.
Historically women were seen as wives, prospective wives or married lovers. They were judged to have held back the men’s ambition and drive. An instance of this films such as “Saturday Night Sunday Morning” and “A Kind Of Loving” but their has been women who have got out of this image. New Realism is a contemporary movement in British film. People like Andrea Arnold are trying to paint a different picture of women. A more honest picture where they have aspirations and goals in life which they try and fight for.
Dogme 95 is where the rules or the “vows of chastity” make sure that films do not distract from the central theme. Andrea Arnold try and use the feminist perspective using these types of rules. The awareness of the vows of chastity as it is being used more and more often in Modern British films.
In Wasps, Andrea Arnold uses the “vows of chastity” to show women are trapped. An good example of this is when the start of Wasps shows the mother dragging the kids down the stairs is these block of flats down these gloomy staircases. Then seeing the baby not dressed properly or when she makes the kids wait outside the pub and she talks about not having a life outside of the bubble she is in. What Andrea also did was make it feel real when for example at the end when the wasp was coming into her they had shaky cameras it made us feel like we were there. The audience is also made to feel sorry and sad on her behalf as she feels trapped but also the audience feels annoyed at the same time of having the children comes with a lot of responsibilities that she sometimes sys away from.
In Fish Tank we see the mother take no care towards her kids especially with Mia. When she does anything wrong she would be violet and aggressive towards her and throughout gave the impression that he would not care if anything happened to her. An example of this is when Zoe holds a house party and Mia opens the door to some guest she is aggressive to her by grabbing her arm and forcing her upstairs.
But in all this mix up right at the end we do see a different side when Mia was about to leave the house. They have this dance the whole family did together which was a rhythm dance some connection with the whole family.
Fish Tank is driven by the family by the boyfriend (Conor). There seems to be a sexual rival between the Mother and the Daughter Sigmund Freud Oedipal triangle which illustrates that the Mum is jealous of the daughter as she is the younger sign of her and the Daughter is Jealous of her as she wants to be loved by the mum’s lover. But during the film it takes unprecedented turn when Mia swapped the role of a Jealous daughter into the “The Mother” role in kidnapping Conor’s daughter and now the roles have changed into a harmful Mother when she throws the little girl into the river but then turns into caring mother when he saves her life and takes care of her.
Due to the lack of care from the elders on the family the older sisters are taking on the responsibilities of the mother’s job. In Fish Tank we see Mia taking care of younger sister Tyler. Tyler looks up to her and you can see there chemistry when big Mia is leaving the house where Tyler gets upset. There are times when she gets her job when wrong given cigarettes and alcohol to her younger sister but overall she is much of a role model than her mum is. In Wasp we see much younger girls acting as responsible and possible. I say as much as possible because she is too young to take care of 2 children and a baby at her age and understand what he going on all the time. An example of this is when she fed food from the floor and gave it to her sisters.
Both of these films confront traditional representation of female uniqueness. As well see all these magazines around trying to sell women off like they are objects and always trying impress men. Even Women magazines are being shown off in such a way that is also to try and impress all the men. The fantasy is shown in both film for example in Wasp the women wants to be like Victoria and David Beckham and goes so far that the man he went out with was David and that means he must be perfect and she would do anything to keep him happy including going against her kids. In Fish Tank this happens when Mia dances for Conor to impress him and eventually ends up having sex. All of this shows off what the media has on these girls where they have to be what ever the magazine says its hot and what’s not.
In conclusion I believe British Films should carry on using new realism as it gives an proper look on life and not that the Hollywood type of showing everything everywhere is good cosy. It gives out a more positive message to out there for good than having this world where we think everything is all good. If more of these films are brought out it would slowly change people’s mind out about women and the sales of magazines would start to drop and women are on a more even float to men. The “Vows of chastity” rules have helped with this as they almost force the director into making their film more realistic and more a truer picture of society than a fantasy world.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Andrea Arnold represents youth culture in a number of different lights. To the eye it looks like he is giving them the youth of our country a bad name. Some people may argue that is what he is showing but what he is showing is a deeper problem in society.
He is trying to give the people who don’t get reported on fairly, in his eyes, a say and a chance to show their of the story. What I felt was that he was giving a say to unspoken Britain who are not given a fair chance in life and have to struggle to day to day activities. There are obvious problems in some of Britain youth through their background. The tendency is to slate them off, the media plays a big part in trying to define these people rightly or wrongly this is what the media has built them up to be.
By knowing that this is what people see in some of the youth today he plays on that mind and uses that stereotype to show them for who they are but he tires to use that and challenge the audience to question their view on these kids. He doesn’t change them for who they are but what he does is make them see it from the youth point of view. By doing this it gives the audience a better understanding of where they are coming from and their struggles in life. By seeing it from their side it gives the audience a better understanding of what it is like to be a kid growing up in a council estate where they have to fend for themselves. What Arnold challenges the audience to do is to make their own mind of these kids rather than being fed by the Media. It is telling them to think about their situation and how it would affect them physically and mentally and really being on the youth side in trying to drive this message through.
I believe that class plays a big part in “Fish Tank”. The girl’s family that we see would be seen as lower class and the boyfriend the man had would be seen as a higher class. We see the man taking advantage of this family and really he is only their for the sex and the fun of another relationship. But he played it in such a way that he built them up to just knock them back down by having fun with the girl’s mum and then going on the girl. He made them feel special but he as seen as a well off middle class family he could use them and dump them whenever he liked. He basically ruled the family and when he had enough he left. By showing it from the young girl’s point of view it shows the difficulties that she is going through everyday and we feel a bit of sympathy with her.
This links into Gender which also plays a big part. The men in “Fish Tank” are always shown to have a better prospective in life. It also shows the women’s aspiration throughout is low or have no aspiration at all. From the men who work in selling and using second hand materials to build cars and keep a life together to the man who played with the girl’s family and messed up all their lives. On the female side the livelihoods are shown at a low level. The only job interview that she goes to is basically a strip/nightclub dancing. In the area they live in isn’t highly educated where then men do the work and can scrap to keep these people afloat and the women are shown as objects not really being human being.
The race issue is a key part of this film. Andrea used a stereotypical view of a council estate in these block of flats of the sort of people which would live there, the white middle age working to lower class.
He is trying to give the people who don’t get reported on fairly, in his eyes, a say and a chance to show their of the story. What I felt was that he was giving a say to unspoken Britain who are not given a fair chance in life and have to struggle to day to day activities. There are obvious problems in some of Britain youth through their background. The tendency is to slate them off, the media plays a big part in trying to define these people rightly or wrongly this is what the media has built them up to be.
By knowing that this is what people see in some of the youth today he plays on that mind and uses that stereotype to show them for who they are but he tires to use that and challenge the audience to question their view on these kids. He doesn’t change them for who they are but what he does is make them see it from the youth point of view. By doing this it gives the audience a better understanding of where they are coming from and their struggles in life. By seeing it from their side it gives the audience a better understanding of what it is like to be a kid growing up in a council estate where they have to fend for themselves. What Arnold challenges the audience to do is to make their own mind of these kids rather than being fed by the Media. It is telling them to think about their situation and how it would affect them physically and mentally and really being on the youth side in trying to drive this message through.
I believe that class plays a big part in “Fish Tank”. The girl’s family that we see would be seen as lower class and the boyfriend the man had would be seen as a higher class. We see the man taking advantage of this family and really he is only their for the sex and the fun of another relationship. But he played it in such a way that he built them up to just knock them back down by having fun with the girl’s mum and then going on the girl. He made them feel special but he as seen as a well off middle class family he could use them and dump them whenever he liked. He basically ruled the family and when he had enough he left. By showing it from the young girl’s point of view it shows the difficulties that she is going through everyday and we feel a bit of sympathy with her.
This links into Gender which also plays a big part. The men in “Fish Tank” are always shown to have a better prospective in life. It also shows the women’s aspiration throughout is low or have no aspiration at all. From the men who work in selling and using second hand materials to build cars and keep a life together to the man who played with the girl’s family and messed up all their lives. On the female side the livelihoods are shown at a low level. The only job interview that she goes to is basically a strip/nightclub dancing. In the area they live in isn’t highly educated where then men do the work and can scrap to keep these people afloat and the women are shown as objects not really being human being.
The race issue is a key part of this film. Andrea used a stereotypical view of a council estate in these block of flats of the sort of people which would live there, the white middle age working to lower class.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Bibliography
The music we used in our film was all from copyright free sources. The music from the start throughout the chase was "Killer" (www.freeplaymusic.com) then the heartbeat noise when Rory thinks he has escaped is called "Threatening Behaviour" (www.audio.lgfl.org.uk) and finally the "boom" sound at the end when the person opens his eyes is from iMovie.
We also downloaded "Philly Sans" (www.dafont.com) font a copyright free text.
We also downloaded "Philly Sans" (www.dafont.com) font a copyright free text.
Main Task evluation
This is my evulation for my main task.
Finished media studies evulation
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Outtakes
This is a set of outtake videos that we had shot. This is outtakes from the first time we filmed before Matty went into hospital and outtakes from our second filming.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Final Piece
This is our final peice. We showed the film to our teacher and our fellow Peers so we could feedback on how they saw our film. The feedback we got was quite positive and I will explain more during my evulation. Our title for our final piece is "Withholding Information".
Monday, 3 May 2010
Original Plan
My blogger account wasn't working for the last week so that's the reason why I haven't been updating for a while. But we did finish our editing on the Friday lesson as I was talking about in my last post. After Matty doing his part of the editing we put in the music which was the finishing touches to our film. We didn't get to show off our film on that lesson.
Firstly, this is the presentation we had to pitch to idea to our teacher. I apologies for the delay of this post once again. Matty was the person on the right side Patrick was the one in the middle and I was on the far left.
Firstly, this is the presentation we had to pitch to idea to our teacher. I apologies for the delay of this post once again. Matty was the person on the right side Patrick was the one in the middle and I was on the far left.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Editing and Music
In today's lesson we continued editing our film piece. Our film is supposed to be a starting, under 2 minute, film. What one of the teachers feedback (Mr Wroe) was that it looked like an ending to a film. To rectify this we looked through our filming and found an extra scene where we show someone waking up after the titles. This was there just because we needed something to tell the audience that this is the start of a film and not the end.
For Matty to put in the titles we needed to agree on a places where the credits and title should be put so we went through the film to see which parts to put in the titles.
The plan is Matty will put in the titles tonight so the only thing we will have to do tomorrow is to put the music on. We have chosen the music, which is copy right free, but we will have to see if that will work with the chase. With the music we have found a heart beat noice which will play through the whole chase even when the music has stopped which we feel will build the tension to the climax perfectly.
If everything goes to plan we would have finished our editing tomorrow and show off our finsihed video to our teacher and maybe, if we have time, show this off to our fellow peers.
For Matty to put in the titles we needed to agree on a places where the credits and title should be put so we went through the film to see which parts to put in the titles.
The plan is Matty will put in the titles tonight so the only thing we will have to do tomorrow is to put the music on. We have chosen the music, which is copy right free, but we will have to see if that will work with the chase. With the music we have found a heart beat noice which will play through the whole chase even when the music has stopped which we feel will build the tension to the climax perfectly.
If everything goes to plan we would have finished our editing tomorrow and show off our finsihed video to our teacher and maybe, if we have time, show this off to our fellow peers.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
DVD menu
This is something that Matty had done a few weeks ago where we may use this as our DVD Menu. This was a pratice video that we were thinking of using but as we have had a few changes so this DVD menu may change.
Editing continued
I said in my last post that we were planning to do more editing tomorrow we have now altered that a bit as we don't have a lesson tomorrow and our free periods don't match. So what we decided to do was do more editing after school today. What we did is that we made sure that the film was under 2 minutes and edited out all the parts which we didn't need. While Patrick and I were doing the editing Matty was looking for music to go with the chase. Matty found 2 tracks which go together which we blended in to go with our chase. That is as far as we got today after school.
What Matty is going to do over the next few days is to put in the titles. He will be playing around seeing how the best way in putting the titles in.
Overall I am happy that we are on track to getting this done before the deadline passes. We hope that the the editing will be done by the end of this week so we are only left with the evulation and burning our film to a DVD.
What Matty is going to do over the next few days is to put in the titles. He will be playing around seeing how the best way in putting the titles in.
Overall I am happy that we are on track to getting this done before the deadline passes. We hope that the the editing will be done by the end of this week so we are only left with the evulation and burning our film to a DVD.
Todays work
Today we have continued with our editing for our final piece. We haven't quite finished the editing but we are on track to get the editing done by the end of this week. We still need to put on the music and the titles. We hope to continue this some time tomorrow. My plan is to start the draft version of my evaluation this weekend but this it will purely depend on if we can finish the editing by the end of this week.
Monday, 19 April 2010
Update
We have finished our filming but not to the plan we had attended at the start because of our main character (Matty) being ill in hospital. Another character didnt turn up so we all had to switch roles. Our main character was played by Senan Simmons (playing Rory). Our chasers became Patrick Greeberg and Sam Webb. The camera man became me (Piyal).
Because our timetable has changed, we have already started to do our editing. We hope to finish our editing by the end of the week. We will then show this to our teacher and maybe even our fellow peers. But we will see how this will pan out during the week.
Because our timetable has changed, we have already started to do our editing. We hope to finish our editing by the end of the week. We will then show this to our teacher and maybe even our fellow peers. But we will see how this will pan out during the week.
Friday, 9 April 2010
Filming schedule
This is our filming timetable. We hope to have the filming done by the end of the holidays.
Saturday 10th April
Film bits where Just Matty needed.
Waking up.
Walking to shop
Texting girl friend?
Sunday 11th April
Start filming parts of the chase scene...
Being spotted
Running through the different locations we found.
(use multiple shots for each scene)
We May also need to incorporate the flashback triggers, but this chase could take along time so we may need another day.. (Wednesday)
Monday 12th April
AM- Flash backs
-Head being pushed under water
- Being shut in a car boot
PM- go through all shots done to see if we've missed anything and take note of what we're missing.
Wednesday 14th April
do any bits what are missing and/or need to redo (flashback triggers if not done already)
Saturday 17th April
Esther (Girl) shots
-Tied up
- Screaming (first scene)
- Maybe have her reading the text/picking up the phone?
Saturday 10th April
Film bits where Just Matty needed.
Waking up.
Walking to shop
Texting girl friend?
Sunday 11th April
Start filming parts of the chase scene...
Being spotted
Running through the different locations we found.
(use multiple shots for each scene)
We May also need to incorporate the flashback triggers, but this chase could take along time so we may need another day.. (Wednesday)
Monday 12th April
AM- Flash backs
-Head being pushed under water
- Being shut in a car boot
PM- go through all shots done to see if we've missed anything and take note of what we're missing.
Wednesday 14th April
do any bits what are missing and/or need to redo (flashback triggers if not done already)
Saturday 17th April
Esther (Girl) shots
-Tied up
- Screaming (first scene)
- Maybe have her reading the text/picking up the phone?
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Main Task Storyboard
This is the storyboard for our main task. Although the pictures are not great it outlines the story behind our main task:
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Today's work
Today we have got a step closer to being ready to do filming. We have nearly finished the story board. We just got to do the finishing touches before we put this on our blogs. I hope to put the story board in within the next 2 days. We will spend10-15 minutes tomorrow just finishing that off.
We have nearly conformed our actors for this film. We are still looking for one more actor but we are confident that we can find this person before term ends.
We are also going have a look at some location this Thursday. We need to see where the best place to film the chase scene.
We have nearly conformed our actors for this film. We are still looking for one more actor but we are confident that we can find this person before term ends.
We are also going have a look at some location this Thursday. We need to see where the best place to film the chase scene.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Todays lesson
The last post I did was outlining what we needed to do during this week. We have started doing our story board. Our hope is that we can finish this story board by tomorrow. We are also going to discus who our actors should be during tomorrow's lesson.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Plan for this week
After having a few hiccups a couple of weeks ago we have got back on track this last week. But there are 3 things we still need to do during this week before the Easter holidays begin.
1- We need to do a story board for our film. We were hopping to do this during the last week but we just ran out of time so that is our number 1 priority and we must finish this before the term is out.
2- The second thing we need to do is to get the actors for our film. This is also quite essential as we need the right actors to do these roles. Also to make sure that they are free to do this when we are filming instead of presuming that they are free to film when we need them to.
3- The third thing we need is to get the location sorted. This is not essential to do before the end of the week but it would be better if we could get the location sorted before the term is out.
My hope is that we can get this all done before the end of this week so we are in a position to get filming during the holidays and maybe editing as well. But the main thing is that we are on tract to finish this on time.
1- We need to do a story board for our film. We were hopping to do this during the last week but we just ran out of time so that is our number 1 priority and we must finish this before the term is out.
2- The second thing we need to do is to get the actors for our film. This is also quite essential as we need the right actors to do these roles. Also to make sure that they are free to do this when we are filming instead of presuming that they are free to film when we need them to.
3- The third thing we need is to get the location sorted. This is not essential to do before the end of the week but it would be better if we could get the location sorted before the term is out.
My hope is that we can get this all done before the end of this week so we are in a position to get filming during the holidays and maybe editing as well. But the main thing is that we are on tract to finish this on time.
Expanding on the second Idea
During last lesson we were making a story line from our second idea. I think this is the idea that we will be try and build on to make our final piece. So the story line goes like this
First scene: We start with a sound of a female screaming while the audience only seeing a black screen. We then have a close up on Rory's face. To show off his venerability we see him sweating and breathing heavily. To set this scene up, to make this tense, the room will be dark.
Second scene: We see Rory leaving his squat and starting to walk down the street. We then go to a side view of him. We would then see from another angle Rory walking along at the same speed as the camera and in the background we would see 2 or the 3 men spot Rory. He would then see them and starts to run away, and that’s where the chase would begin. Some music will start here which will indicate times of action and tension.
Third scene: The titles for the film then start while hearing the sound of footsteps, we then see someone out of breath running and then we will put on the music we have selected. These titles will mention only production names and yet not the title.
Forth scene: Rory is still running and we will leave 4-6 seconds in this before we start seeing flashbacks. We agreed that three flashbacks would be adequate, so we thought that the first flashback would be a girl getting thrown into a car boot. The second flashback would be her tired to a chair and the third being her head being plunged in water.
Fifth scene: Once we feels he is safe he texts his girlfriend saying “GET OUT OF THERE NOW!” As soon as the text is sent he spots the gang members and the chase begins again.
Sixth scene- This is the part where the main part of the chase happens. It becomes more dangerous. We are thinking of having Rory doing some more jumps, putting obstacles in the way of the gang and taking sharp turns as he tries to get away from this gang. The way we are going to end this piece is him thinking he has got away he looks behind seeing no-one and then turns around and gets hit from a bat. We then go to a black out with the camera by the bat touching the camera lens.
We then put the title of the film right at the end. Our title at this present moment is “Withholding Information”.
First scene: We start with a sound of a female screaming while the audience only seeing a black screen. We then have a close up on Rory's face. To show off his venerability we see him sweating and breathing heavily. To set this scene up, to make this tense, the room will be dark.
Second scene: We see Rory leaving his squat and starting to walk down the street. We then go to a side view of him. We would then see from another angle Rory walking along at the same speed as the camera and in the background we would see 2 or the 3 men spot Rory. He would then see them and starts to run away, and that’s where the chase would begin. Some music will start here which will indicate times of action and tension.
Third scene: The titles for the film then start while hearing the sound of footsteps, we then see someone out of breath running and then we will put on the music we have selected. These titles will mention only production names and yet not the title.
Forth scene: Rory is still running and we will leave 4-6 seconds in this before we start seeing flashbacks. We agreed that three flashbacks would be adequate, so we thought that the first flashback would be a girl getting thrown into a car boot. The second flashback would be her tired to a chair and the third being her head being plunged in water.
Fifth scene: Once we feels he is safe he texts his girlfriend saying “GET OUT OF THERE NOW!” As soon as the text is sent he spots the gang members and the chase begins again.
Sixth scene- This is the part where the main part of the chase happens. It becomes more dangerous. We are thinking of having Rory doing some more jumps, putting obstacles in the way of the gang and taking sharp turns as he tries to get away from this gang. The way we are going to end this piece is him thinking he has got away he looks behind seeing no-one and then turns around and gets hit from a bat. We then go to a black out with the camera by the bat touching the camera lens.
We then put the title of the film right at the end. Our title at this present moment is “Withholding Information”.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Idea 2
We have quite a few quick ups and downs over the last week. Whenever we have had an idea there always seem to be some kind of obstruction to stop us. This has ranged between disagreements to not having the right resources to do our idea or even the ideas were just not practical to do. But we have finally got an idea which we may do for our main task.
Our idea is a guy called Rory Slain and his girlfriend (or business partner) are withholding important information from a gang. The gang is not identified but it isn’t government related. Rory and his partner has been on the run for quite a while and they have been moving from place to place. They have been moving regularly until they feel that the gang will give up looking for them. The place they are living at this present moment is Oxford. They feel they can make a new beginning here. One day Rory is one the out to get a newspaper when he sees the two gang members. They both recognize each other and the chase begins. When he thinks he has escaped he texts his girlfriend or partner to warn her. It would say something like “GET OUT NOW”. After he sends the text message he is seen again and the chase restarts. A while later he looks behind thinking this time he has got away and then turns to look forward where he gets hit my a bat. We could do a point a view shot their so the camera can act as the person being knocked out.
This chase is a bit like some of the chases you would see in a James Bond movie. Its fast its furious and the action is constant and we are thinking of doing a chase which has all those elements but with a lower budget.
The title we came up with yesterday was “withholding information”. We thought that the title had that feeling of mystery and tension. The other possible film titles we have come up with are “time for action” or “Action Time”, “Break away”, equilibrium/expectations/Persistence, Conscience. Our preferred option at this present moment is “Withholding Information”. There is something about the name which makes it appealing to want to watch.
Our idea is a guy called Rory Slain and his girlfriend (or business partner) are withholding important information from a gang. The gang is not identified but it isn’t government related. Rory and his partner has been on the run for quite a while and they have been moving from place to place. They have been moving regularly until they feel that the gang will give up looking for them. The place they are living at this present moment is Oxford. They feel they can make a new beginning here. One day Rory is one the out to get a newspaper when he sees the two gang members. They both recognize each other and the chase begins. When he thinks he has escaped he texts his girlfriend or partner to warn her. It would say something like “GET OUT NOW”. After he sends the text message he is seen again and the chase restarts. A while later he looks behind thinking this time he has got away and then turns to look forward where he gets hit my a bat. We could do a point a view shot their so the camera can act as the person being knocked out.
This chase is a bit like some of the chases you would see in a James Bond movie. Its fast its furious and the action is constant and we are thinking of doing a chase which has all those elements but with a lower budget.
The title we came up with yesterday was “withholding information”. We thought that the title had that feeling of mystery and tension. The other possible film titles we have come up with are “time for action” or “Action Time”, “Break away”, equilibrium/expectations/Persistence, Conscience. Our preferred option at this present moment is “Withholding Information”. There is something about the name which makes it appealing to want to watch.
Testing
One of our ideas was to do a chase scene. This is our preferred option, at the moment. We wanted to test ways in filming a chase scene. So Patrick went onto his bike holding the camera following Matty and I. This worked better than we thought as we thought the camera would be shacked a lot as he was holding the handlebar in one hand and the camera in the other. There were a couple of problems as we found it hard to keep the same distance between us and Patrick. The other problem may be for us was areas we could film a chase while staying balanced on the bike. We were lucky as we were going down a slope and Patrick didn’t have to do any pedalling. We will have to find a way across this problem if we decide to film like this.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Research for main Task
For main task we are wanting to do an action/ thriller film. The research I have done below is starting of films which are action/ thriller types of films. The reason I am researching these are because we may be able to get some ideas based on the some of this research. The films I have researched are:
Valkyrie
Plot- German officer trying to assassinate Hitler and use operation Valkyrie to take control of country. They are playing a high risk game is trying to blow up the leader and knowing if caught he would die. They go on a Bombing raid on Berlin. The plan is to kill Hitler and then dismatle the Nazi regime.
What makes Valkyrie so interesting to watch is how they present the start. We (the audience) are hering this man saying what he is writing in this letter. While we listen to what he is writing we also get an overiew in what sort of enviornment he is under. We then watch this candle burn while he is writing for 6 seconds and then watch him write for a minute. We hear this contrant background hum which is adding to the tension to the start of the movie. He then tells us what this whole movie is all about when he says “but the arch enmery of Germany change must be made” That quote sets up the whole film as we now know what he is fighting for. We can use elements of this with the thought process being read out to the audience and we may add some flash back while we hear some of the thoughts for our main task.
Transformer 2
Plot: is to get Sam Witwicky as a prisoner as he finds out about the ancient origins of the transformers.
Even though this is a sci-fi action film we can take some inspiration in how they are presented at the start where they show all these different places. Also the way they build the tension with the sounds they produce and how they build the film up. It grabs the audience attention straight away which makes this such a successful film. The action is so great that no dialog was necessary to get the audience wanting to see the movie. This is the sort of thing that we would like to do for our film without the sci-fi affects.
Death Note
Plot: Yagami Light is a smart student with a great future ahead of him but he is very bored at what he does. One day he finds a “Death Note” which gives him the power to kill people however he likes.
This is a different sort of film. It is an action film but it the action comes later in the film so what we see is the build up to it. It shows how this book got into his hands and what drove him to do what he did. It is a tense build up with this church hum in the background sensing something bad is going to happen but the longer we wait the more tense it gets for us the audience not knowing what is going to happen. If we dont do a chase scene we could try and build something mysterious and made room for a Potential chase later on in the film instead of doing a chase scene.
James Bond Casino Royale
Plot: Bond has to try and stop a guy called Le Chiffre who is a banker to the terrorist world win a casino match. He has to win back his money to keep his money safe and keep in contact with the terrorist.
I think this is the sort of thing that we could do on a smaller budget but without the blowing up affects and the expensive Equipment. This film has all the aspects of the genre we want to do but we will have to do it in a smaller price range as we do not have the resources or the finance. This fits in with the sort of film we were planning on doing.
Plot: “Ken is a high school student who dreams of driving Corvettes. His passion leads him to a perfect job as a Corvette mechanic, but he is soon embroiled in his boss's dirty dealings.” One of the summaries summed this film up as.
I think we can use elements of this car chase into our film. Instead of doing a car chase we would have an bike chase with an gang wanting something and a chase starts happening because the gang don’t get what they came for. We will have to try some of these out ourselves before making a final decision on what we are doing for our final product.
Valkyrie
Plot- German officer trying to assassinate Hitler and use operation Valkyrie to take control of country. They are playing a high risk game is trying to blow up the leader and knowing if caught he would die. They go on a Bombing raid on Berlin. The plan is to kill Hitler and then dismatle the Nazi regime.
What makes Valkyrie so interesting to watch is how they present the start. We (the audience) are hering this man saying what he is writing in this letter. While we listen to what he is writing we also get an overiew in what sort of enviornment he is under. We then watch this candle burn while he is writing for 6 seconds and then watch him write for a minute. We hear this contrant background hum which is adding to the tension to the start of the movie. He then tells us what this whole movie is all about when he says “but the arch enmery of Germany change must be made” That quote sets up the whole film as we now know what he is fighting for. We can use elements of this with the thought process being read out to the audience and we may add some flash back while we hear some of the thoughts for our main task.
Transformer 2
Plot: is to get Sam Witwicky as a prisoner as he finds out about the ancient origins of the transformers.
Even though this is a sci-fi action film we can take some inspiration in how they are presented at the start where they show all these different places. Also the way they build the tension with the sounds they produce and how they build the film up. It grabs the audience attention straight away which makes this such a successful film. The action is so great that no dialog was necessary to get the audience wanting to see the movie. This is the sort of thing that we would like to do for our film without the sci-fi affects.
Death Note
Plot: Yagami Light is a smart student with a great future ahead of him but he is very bored at what he does. One day he finds a “Death Note” which gives him the power to kill people however he likes.
This is a different sort of film. It is an action film but it the action comes later in the film so what we see is the build up to it. It shows how this book got into his hands and what drove him to do what he did. It is a tense build up with this church hum in the background sensing something bad is going to happen but the longer we wait the more tense it gets for us the audience not knowing what is going to happen. If we dont do a chase scene we could try and build something mysterious and made room for a Potential chase later on in the film instead of doing a chase scene.
James Bond Casino Royale
Plot: Bond has to try and stop a guy called Le Chiffre who is a banker to the terrorist world win a casino match. He has to win back his money to keep his money safe and keep in contact with the terrorist.
I think this is the sort of thing that we could do on a smaller budget but without the blowing up affects and the expensive Equipment. This film has all the aspects of the genre we want to do but we will have to do it in a smaller price range as we do not have the resources or the finance. This fits in with the sort of film we were planning on doing.
Plot: “Ken is a high school student who dreams of driving Corvettes. His passion leads him to a perfect job as a Corvette mechanic, but he is soon embroiled in his boss's dirty dealings.” One of the summaries summed this film up as.
I think we can use elements of this car chase into our film. Instead of doing a car chase we would have an bike chase with an gang wanting something and a chase starts happening because the gang don’t get what they came for. We will have to try some of these out ourselves before making a final decision on what we are doing for our final product.
Main task
While we have being completing our prelim evaluation we have been planning for our main task. We have been thinking about ideas during our prelim about what could our final piece could be. We decided that our preferred option was to do a chase scene. We know that the first 2 minutes of a chase scene has to engaging and exciting. This time last week we had an idea, while talking on facebook, which was that a
The captured hostage is thrown into a boot of a car.
The hostage takers drive towards the woods or somewhere it could be seen as a scary place to go during the night.
Then the car stops as one of the gang opens the boot that the guy he is still tied up to.
Then he see the guy in the boot has untied himself and knocks the gang member to the floor and the gang member shouts to get the attention of the others, seeing the guy escaping causes a chase happening. We may have to do some research for the main task. I will put this research up Later on today.
The captured hostage is thrown into a boot of a car.
The hostage takers drive towards the woods or somewhere it could be seen as a scary place to go during the night.
Then the car stops as one of the gang opens the boot that the guy he is still tied up to.
Then he see the guy in the boot has untied himself and knocks the gang member to the floor and the gang member shouts to get the attention of the others, seeing the guy escaping causes a chase happening. We may have to do some research for the main task. I will put this research up Later on today.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Prelim Evalution
Prelim Evaluation
For our prelim task we had to we had to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character where we needed to have some kind or dialogue. In the task we had to demonstrate that we can do a match on action shot, a reverse shot and can observe the 180 degree rule. The place where we decided to film this was at an old abandon shop. Our genre was thriller and we felt this was the perfect location as it is a dark place and the walls look like they haven’t been touched for years. The walls actually made it look like the addendum shop it was so we thought that this was a perfect location. This also very conventional as this is the sort of place that criminals would normally meet up.
The second thing we had to do was see who was how to portray the characters. This is important as we need to make sure that the audience knows who has the higher ground and who has more to lose from this short passage. We decided that we were going to bring some king of illegal item which we would keep unidentified and the other person is waiting for this product to come to him. To make this into a serious deal we decided that the person bring in this item would wear a suit to show off his seriousness and the receiver dress casually. We also wanted him to look serious as well so he wore a smart T- shirt and Jeans. The clothing is quite conventional as the dealer and the recipient would be dressed smartly for an important occasion.
Filming
The first thing we had to do was to establish the location to the audience. So we decided to start off with the door slamming shut which is indicating that someone has come. We did the door slamming quite a few times as we needed to get the correct sound as we needed to get the audience attention straight away. Once we got the audience attention the audience will want to see person that just slammed the door shut. But, we decided to keep the person anonymous from view. All they can see is the part of the body as he walked across the hall went up the stairs and opening the door. This is effective as it increases the audiences desire to see the character. It builds the tension. We used the match on action shot as he came through the door.
After walking through the door and turning around we had a brief pause as we met the receiver as we did an over the shoulder shot. Patrick then went over to the other side to do the same shot by observing the 180 degree rule we saw the face of the dealer for the first time. It is true that this was the first time we could see the dealer but to keep the suspense going we filmed him at a distance out of focus until he become close enough to the camera for the audience to see his face properly for the first time.
We then used a shot reverse shot technique where the first thing we did was do an establishing shot where we see the dealer sitting down next to the receiver and then a few over the shoulder shots as the dialog is being said. We wanted the audience have a felling that these two people have not met before and only got in contact through other contacts. To show this we made the dialog brief and formal. This also made the dealer the person in control. This is evident when the dialog was going on as when ever I (Piyal) was speaking the camera was always looking up to the dealer showing off that he is the one in control. When the dealer is speaking the camera is showing that the dealer is looking down on the recipient which is also showing off his power.
Our media product was to represent the criminal world. Deals are always going on in these sorts of locations. We are representing the ways of how the black market works and runs. Our group have been watching shows like Hustle to see how criminal deals and cons are being worked. What they do in Hustle is come up with an idea or a product and try and sell this idea for money but also making them think that they will always get the better end of the deal. They usually need someone to make the product they are selling so they meet in areas like our prelim task so the deal can be made.
The media institutions that may be interested in our sort of product would be the likes of film 4. They also look for the next best home grown talent. They want the young film producers recognise. They are at least given a chance to show off there work. They would like to take on the younger generation as they the future of the film industry and more willing in trying out the newer technology.
Our prelim task was aimed at an audience aged between 16-30 years old. This is aimed at the people who are prepared to be patient. We build the tension by doing everything slowly. The thing which defines our target audience is the deal which is going on. It wouldn’t be appropriate for young children to see illegal dealings and for the older generation they may feel a bit threatened by the illegal actions which are taken place. But this teenage to younger adult market would find this sort of goings on more to there liking and so some extent it is showing off reality and what is going on around the world.
From our prelim task we have learned that the little details is the things which makes the filming and acting work or fail. This was apparent in a number of different times like when we had to close the door, right at the start, many times so we could get the sound perfectly right because if we hadn’t got the audience attention from the word go then our whole prelim task would fail. Also near the end of filming the lighting was an issue as it got dark outside so our timing of when start needs to be spot on or having extra lighting in case we do run into a few difficulties during our filming for our main task.
Overall, I believe our prelim task was a success. We did all the shots that we were required to do; we also managed to grab the audience attention straight away. We built up the in the first 15 seconds and we also kept the identity of the dealer a secret until we met up with the receiver.
Areas for focus in the main task include:
1- Sound- The only thing we can hear is the actors acting and have no other distraction. We many decide to have an separate microphone.
2- Lighting- This is important that we keep a even level of light. If we need to show darkness we need to show the gradual fade of light but if we don’t then we will put some extra lighting.
3- Dialog- We do not have the best actors so a minimal amount of dialog may be necessary. We feel that the less dialog will keep the tension level higher and more dramatic and it will be easier for us to film.
For our prelim task we had to we had to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character where we needed to have some kind or dialogue. In the task we had to demonstrate that we can do a match on action shot, a reverse shot and can observe the 180 degree rule. The place where we decided to film this was at an old abandon shop. Our genre was thriller and we felt this was the perfect location as it is a dark place and the walls look like they haven’t been touched for years. The walls actually made it look like the addendum shop it was so we thought that this was a perfect location. This also very conventional as this is the sort of place that criminals would normally meet up.
The second thing we had to do was see who was how to portray the characters. This is important as we need to make sure that the audience knows who has the higher ground and who has more to lose from this short passage. We decided that we were going to bring some king of illegal item which we would keep unidentified and the other person is waiting for this product to come to him. To make this into a serious deal we decided that the person bring in this item would wear a suit to show off his seriousness and the receiver dress casually. We also wanted him to look serious as well so he wore a smart T- shirt and Jeans. The clothing is quite conventional as the dealer and the recipient would be dressed smartly for an important occasion.
Filming
The first thing we had to do was to establish the location to the audience. So we decided to start off with the door slamming shut which is indicating that someone has come. We did the door slamming quite a few times as we needed to get the correct sound as we needed to get the audience attention straight away. Once we got the audience attention the audience will want to see person that just slammed the door shut. But, we decided to keep the person anonymous from view. All they can see is the part of the body as he walked across the hall went up the stairs and opening the door. This is effective as it increases the audiences desire to see the character. It builds the tension. We used the match on action shot as he came through the door.
After walking through the door and turning around we had a brief pause as we met the receiver as we did an over the shoulder shot. Patrick then went over to the other side to do the same shot by observing the 180 degree rule we saw the face of the dealer for the first time. It is true that this was the first time we could see the dealer but to keep the suspense going we filmed him at a distance out of focus until he become close enough to the camera for the audience to see his face properly for the first time.
We then used a shot reverse shot technique where the first thing we did was do an establishing shot where we see the dealer sitting down next to the receiver and then a few over the shoulder shots as the dialog is being said. We wanted the audience have a felling that these two people have not met before and only got in contact through other contacts. To show this we made the dialog brief and formal. This also made the dealer the person in control. This is evident when the dialog was going on as when ever I (Piyal) was speaking the camera was always looking up to the dealer showing off that he is the one in control. When the dealer is speaking the camera is showing that the dealer is looking down on the recipient which is also showing off his power.
Our media product was to represent the criminal world. Deals are always going on in these sorts of locations. We are representing the ways of how the black market works and runs. Our group have been watching shows like Hustle to see how criminal deals and cons are being worked. What they do in Hustle is come up with an idea or a product and try and sell this idea for money but also making them think that they will always get the better end of the deal. They usually need someone to make the product they are selling so they meet in areas like our prelim task so the deal can be made.
The media institutions that may be interested in our sort of product would be the likes of film 4. They also look for the next best home grown talent. They want the young film producers recognise. They are at least given a chance to show off there work. They would like to take on the younger generation as they the future of the film industry and more willing in trying out the newer technology.
Our prelim task was aimed at an audience aged between 16-30 years old. This is aimed at the people who are prepared to be patient. We build the tension by doing everything slowly. The thing which defines our target audience is the deal which is going on. It wouldn’t be appropriate for young children to see illegal dealings and for the older generation they may feel a bit threatened by the illegal actions which are taken place. But this teenage to younger adult market would find this sort of goings on more to there liking and so some extent it is showing off reality and what is going on around the world.
From our prelim task we have learned that the little details is the things which makes the filming and acting work or fail. This was apparent in a number of different times like when we had to close the door, right at the start, many times so we could get the sound perfectly right because if we hadn’t got the audience attention from the word go then our whole prelim task would fail. Also near the end of filming the lighting was an issue as it got dark outside so our timing of when start needs to be spot on or having extra lighting in case we do run into a few difficulties during our filming for our main task.
Overall, I believe our prelim task was a success. We did all the shots that we were required to do; we also managed to grab the audience attention straight away. We built up the in the first 15 seconds and we also kept the identity of the dealer a secret until we met up with the receiver.
Areas for focus in the main task include:
1- Sound- The only thing we can hear is the actors acting and have no other distraction. We many decide to have an separate microphone.
2- Lighting- This is important that we keep a even level of light. If we need to show darkness we need to show the gradual fade of light but if we don’t then we will put some extra lighting.
3- Dialog- We do not have the best actors so a minimal amount of dialog may be necessary. We feel that the less dialog will keep the tension level higher and more dramatic and it will be easier for us to film.
Friday, 19 March 2010
Prelim video
This is the video for my premlim task. It took us 4 hours and a half hours to do. I was doing the acting of the person who is receiving the briefcase and Matty was acting as the dealer and Patrick was the camera man.
Monday, 1 March 2010
Story board
This is the story board for our Prelim task. This was part of the cover lesson that Miss Cate gave us to start our story board. We did this first in the school common room however we didnt finish the full story board so we had to redo the whole story board. So on Fridays lesson we had to use a different location and we didnt have the same bag as from the day before so we decided to use a memory stick instead. We thought the memory stick would keep the suspense going.
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Filming ideas
On the 19th of February Matty, Patrick and I met up in town to discuss possible ideas for our media studies project. The first thing we discussed was possible genres. So we started off naming all the genres we know and then seeing which ones were realistic enough for us to do. The genres which we were left with that we could possibly do were Action, Romance, Horror, Drama, Comedy and crime and gangster. Thoses are the genres that we were looking at possibly doing for our Film.
The reason why we are not considering the other genres are:
- Can't do thriller as it will take too long to build up suspence.
- Can't do sci-fi as it is too complicated to do effectivrly. Our knowledge of Sci-fi is limited.
- Can't do Westerns as it envolves being in rural areas which we don't have. EG:desert
- Can't do musicals as it involves having good singers and dancers and the songs could take more than 2 minutes which is more than our maximum allowed time.
- Can't do war films simply because we just dont have the finance to do that.
Our first idea for our is to do a con-man type film. We feel that the con-man idea was our prefered option but we also discussed the option of using the other dramas such as action crime and comedy.
Our target audience for this will be 15-28 years old. This is the audience range that we would understand the most and it fits in with the genres we would like to do.
The reason why we are not considering the other genres are:
- Can't do thriller as it will take too long to build up suspence.
- Can't do sci-fi as it is too complicated to do effectivrly. Our knowledge of Sci-fi is limited.
- Can't do Westerns as it envolves being in rural areas which we don't have. EG:desert
- Can't do musicals as it involves having good singers and dancers and the songs could take more than 2 minutes which is more than our maximum allowed time.
- Can't do war films simply because we just dont have the finance to do that.
Our first idea for our is to do a con-man type film. We feel that the con-man idea was our prefered option but we also discussed the option of using the other dramas such as action crime and comedy.
Our target audience for this will be 15-28 years old. This is the audience range that we would understand the most and it fits in with the genres we would like to do.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Shot reverse shot
Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is film technology wherein one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
A Shot Reverse Shot starts off with an Establishing shot and then a tight shot is also used help engage the viewers emotion. To shot the shot you need to have a basic two shot and then a medium shot of each character, a medium shot over the shoulder of each character and a close up of eacg character. All shots should be done from the same angle and a lot of lead space to see to make sure they are looking at the other character and also do not go over the 180 degree rule otherwise the audience will be confused in what you are doing.
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