On mine and Jack Lucas second production meeting we started to story board some of the camera shots we wanted to get, and how we wanted to the film to look we fully discussed the different camera shots and what was possible and what wasn't possible as we didn't have a budget so we had to think very carefully of what we wanted. When we were discussing the camera shots we had to take the weather into consideration as we need good continuity.
We decided to shoot the first scene and jacks house to try and portray a boy who doesn't seem like a typical gangstar and so that the audience thinks he is a hard working student. We then started to story board board the types of shots we wanted to get within the house we had consider the yes of shots we wanted as we needed it to look like a dream.
We already had sort of an idea of the how we want the opening sequence to finish the next time we meet will film the the first scene.
Friday, 28 February 2014
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Media trip - BFI London
Yesterday on the 5th of February Wednesday we took a trip to London to BFI South bank. We arrived at BFI South Bank at 10:20 in order to give us enough time to arrive and listen to the introduction at the studio on the cinema room. The day was all about youth media and collective identity.
when we were in the cinema the Matthew hall was speaking to us about youth media and culture identity. We then watched four different short clips.
The film above is called the wild one The Wild One is a 1953 American outlaw biker film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is famed for Marlon Brando's iconic portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Strabler. we then had to make notes on it about the textual detail, the dominant messages sent about youth and negotiated interpretation and what kind of audience would interpret in this way.
We then did this for 3 other films
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Directed by Nicholas Ray.
Quadrophenia is a 1979 British film, loosely based on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by the who. The film stars Phil Daniels as Jimmy, a Mod. It was directed by Franc Roddam in his feature directing debut.
Kidulthood is a 2006 British drama film about the life of several teenagers in Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road area of inner west London. It was directed by Menhaj Huda and written by Noel Clarke
All of the films we watched got newer as we went on. We then had to discuss the ways in which youth media has been portrayed through each film and the difference of them as they got newer and to notice if their any trends.
Some of the trends we noticed within all of the films that youth media and collective identity was portrayed as very rebellious young males and females. They were often in gangs and had their own slang. there was often a lot of fighting too.
After we had lunch we can back in for the screening of "My brother the Devil"
This is a trailer of My brother the Devil.
overall i really enjoyed the film, i thought it was very interesting and always kept you intrigued. I also enjoyed it as you would never really know what is going to happen next. i enjoy films with a bit of violence in as it does make it that more interesting o go along with that i thought the special effects were very real which touched as part of the audience as i would gain to like certain characters. its always interesting as the action that happened in the film happens in real life. Although i thought the ending was rushed and rounded off to quickly as you didn't get to see what the other characters were doing so that was a little bit disappointing
After the film had finished the producer Gayle Griffith came out spoke to us about the film. We got the chance to ask her questions about what is like making the film which was very helpful for my film. She told us that the film was on a very low budget and had to make do i also found out that some of the actors were just people that lived around that area and were asked to help out to be in the background. They didn't have the money to close down the streets and film so they had to think of ways to be able to film it with the public still around.
From going to BFI South Bank i have learnt a lot about youth media and collective identity and i feel like it will benefit my opening sequence a lot as it has gave me some other ideas of what else we can do to our opening sequence to make it better as it really inspired as i thought My brother the Devil film was really good even with an extremely low budget which made me think its possible as i have a low budget to film my opening sequence to. The film slightly related to my opening sequence as i have a similar genre and story line. Some of the camera shots were very good and i may decide to use some of them in my film. but as i thought the ending rounded of every quickly its important that when i come to film the ending that i do not rush it and really think about how I'm going to end it.
when we were in the cinema the Matthew hall was speaking to us about youth media and culture identity. We then watched four different short clips.
The film above is called the wild one The Wild One is a 1953 American outlaw biker film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is famed for Marlon Brando's iconic portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Strabler. we then had to make notes on it about the textual detail, the dominant messages sent about youth and negotiated interpretation and what kind of audience would interpret in this way.
We then did this for 3 other films
Quadrophenia is a 1979 British film, loosely based on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by the who. The film stars Phil Daniels as Jimmy, a Mod. It was directed by Franc Roddam in his feature directing debut.
Kidulthood is a 2006 British drama film about the life of several teenagers in Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road area of inner west London. It was directed by Menhaj Huda and written by Noel Clarke
All of the films we watched got newer as we went on. We then had to discuss the ways in which youth media has been portrayed through each film and the difference of them as they got newer and to notice if their any trends.
Some of the trends we noticed within all of the films that youth media and collective identity was portrayed as very rebellious young males and females. They were often in gangs and had their own slang. there was often a lot of fighting too.
After we had lunch we can back in for the screening of "My brother the Devil"
This is a trailer of My brother the Devil.
overall i really enjoyed the film, i thought it was very interesting and always kept you intrigued. I also enjoyed it as you would never really know what is going to happen next. i enjoy films with a bit of violence in as it does make it that more interesting o go along with that i thought the special effects were very real which touched as part of the audience as i would gain to like certain characters. its always interesting as the action that happened in the film happens in real life. Although i thought the ending was rushed and rounded off to quickly as you didn't get to see what the other characters were doing so that was a little bit disappointing
After the film had finished the producer Gayle Griffith came out spoke to us about the film. We got the chance to ask her questions about what is like making the film which was very helpful for my film. She told us that the film was on a very low budget and had to make do i also found out that some of the actors were just people that lived around that area and were asked to help out to be in the background. They didn't have the money to close down the streets and film so they had to think of ways to be able to film it with the public still around.
From going to BFI South Bank i have learnt a lot about youth media and collective identity and i feel like it will benefit my opening sequence a lot as it has gave me some other ideas of what else we can do to our opening sequence to make it better as it really inspired as i thought My brother the Devil film was really good even with an extremely low budget which made me think its possible as i have a low budget to film my opening sequence to. The film slightly related to my opening sequence as i have a similar genre and story line. Some of the camera shots were very good and i may decide to use some of them in my film. but as i thought the ending rounded of every quickly its important that when i come to film the ending that i do not rush it and really think about how I'm going to end it.
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