Start of filling in documents and storyboard

TARGETS

1-  Analyse- programme opening ( everybody does one each) 
- Tile sequence? (Montage London city )
Analyse and count number of shots in two mins

2- Update, detailed report on blogs.

3- post production planning on blog 
- personal details
- location 
-enquires 
- actors. 

4- Storyboarding

5- Shot list.

Vengeance front cover mock up (not completed)

Plan B

ILL Manors Research

1) What are the typical codes and conventions of film trailers - what information is usually provided? Information that is provided within any trailer is usually a long or short montange of clips, music and text. For example, for the Ill Manors trailer, rhetorical questions were asked in order to get the audience to think individually to themselves and to build up on the enigma, lots of different situations were shown to engage the audience and to every individual sitting watching the trailer.

2) How are trailers distributed?
They are distributed in various ways, they are usually seen in cinema previews when a film with a similar genre or narrative is being shown. Other ways would be over the internet on sites such as YouTube in videos and also on adverts in the sidebars and before a video is being shown and finally another way is through word of mouth over social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

3) How does Ill Manors use trailer conventions?
The Ill Manors trailer uses trailer conventions such as direct mode of address of asking the audience questions through the text through every few shots of a complete montage. This automatically gets the viewer(s) to think about the question whether they are as a group or individually in their minds.

4) Who is the target audience?
The target audience for ill Manors would be young teenagers above the ages of 16, younger teens may be interested in gang culture and may therefore watch the trailer and the movie. This movie would also attract teenagers from a poorer background in the U.K. (due to it being based in London) and most likely aspirers and teenagers who want to feel a sense of identity with the characters.

5) Does it have a unique selling point or use particular techniques to appeal to the audience?

The fact it's a U.K. based film and showing relatable locations it allows audiences to identify and the film isn't afraid to challenge and show grim themes of drugs, sex and violence which is a USP. Another relatable thing is the stereotypical characters which are (according to Medhurst) a shorthand so the audience can easily identify and relate to the characters in the film and trailer.

6) Consider the way the scenes are edited together – does the trailer give away any clues about the narrative?
Trailers usually tend to give part of the film away so that the audience get a taster of what the narrative may be but they also leave in a few unanswered questions to draw the audience. For this trailer, there is a mix of both, showing clues within the voices of the characters as they say certain dialogues put into a montage moving very fast showing different point of views of many characters.

7) Are the main stars visible in the trailer?
Yes

8) Is there information about the director of the film?
Not in the trailer

9) Is there information about the release date? 
No

10) Is a narrator’s voice-over used? 
No

11) How has the genre of the film been represented through characters, settings, lighting, colour, music, camera shots/movements/angles and editing?
Stereotypical characters, they are prostitutes, drug addicts, drug dealers etc which are typical themes within the genre. The setting is also stereotypical e.g. jail, London streets, council estates etc. Lighting is quite dark and low-key, music is stereotypically rap/hip hop.

Audience profile

Draft

Progress report for Monday Monday 7th January 2013

Progress report for Monday Monday 7th January 2013 Produced a group pitch presentation on prezi about our programme named "Vengeance" and we had pitched it to potential viewers/focus group and got information for the improvement of the programme pitch, not much needed to be improved and the idea was loved by the group viewers. I have also done extra research into pre-production documents and tutorials to help assist us which goes towards our research and planning

Progress report for Christmas holidays

Progress report for Christmas holidays Found some possible songs to use for our 2mins opening and have been playing around with the sound editing with the songs

Progress report for Monday 17th December 2012

Progress report for Monday 17th December 2012 This week I have researched vital information on OFCOM's protecting the pre-watershed audience and found that they seem to be implying that younger audiences are likely to copy what the media shows e.g. playing on railway tracks will make younger audiences feel fearless of them which is of course dangerous so they say "areas of concern include: certain locations such as railway lines; certain material which may lead children to recognise potentially dangerous play especially if there is no serious outcome" and this had led me to a relating piece of research which i had linked to with the OFCOM research. Alongside OFCOM research I had spoke about the "Bobo Doll Experiment". I was a Sociology student for a few weeks and I remember we once spoke about a famous Psychology experiment (bobo doll) which shows exactly what OFCOM seem to be implying, the research showed that young audiences copy almost exactly what they see from a piece of media if they are in a similar environment or surrounded by similar objects. It also showed that Males are dominantly more active with violence than females and that children as a whole will use what they see from the media and develop and adapt their own ways of violence.

Progress report for Monday 10th December 2012

Progress report for Monday 10th December 2012 This week our aim was successful of the written storyboard, I have posted photos of a work in progress of a written storyboard, this will be added to of course and altered as the week goes on and the other two members of the group will also add their input and suggestions to the storyboard (Shivani has already suggested a parallel sounding song to match the running scene and Simranjit has suggested how the title scene should be added in) Next week I shall research OFCOM's rules of protecting the pre-watershed audiences.

Progress report for Monday 3rd December 2012

Progress report for Monday 3rd December 2012 For the week beginning Mon 3rd we as a group had decided which shows to analyse that are similar to ours. These include "Revenge", "The Vampire Diaries", "90210", "Misfits" and "Pretty little liars". These analysed shows were successful and for the next week beginning Monday 10th December 2012 a member of the group (Kiran Rai) and myself shall decide and write out a written storyboard of our opening two minutes.

Photo of practice of sound editing

Practice of using two of the songs which could possibly be used in the final editing process.

Possible songs to use for different parts of the two minutes

Summertime sadness by Lana Del Rey (acapella version) - Possibly just the part where she says "Kiss me hard before you, summertime sadness, I just wanted you to know, that baby you're the best"

Or instead of that have Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey (acapella version) - Possibly the part where she says "I will love you till the end of time"

and to follow this we could use Gold dust by Dj Fresh (Flux Pavillon remix)

(most likely just the dub step part cut and repeated)

Or Skrillex's remix of going in for the kill (from 1.05 - 1.50)

followed by those after when the scene changes could be Coldplay's Viva La Vida