Production Schedule.

Production schedule 

Floor plan - WOLF

Floor plan from SolCollier

recce - WOLF

shot 1 

shot 2

shot 3

shot 4

shot 5

I chose to use these places because for the most of my two minute film Wolf and Scotch will be sat in my dining room having a conversation but however while they are talking wolf will have a vision of how there killing will plan out and these are where the shots of south field mews come in because there will be three extra shots outside of the dining room where the action happens. but I chose these places because the outside road shots look quite grimy and dirty therefore making a appropriate place where a crime could be committed. I chose my dining room because it would be an intimate , warm but slightly weird environment on purpose because this would add a comedic element to the short film. 

Costumes, actors and props.

Costume , characters and props 

Shot list. WOLF

Shot Number	Shot Type	Location	Description
1	Side on medium shot of them sat at the table.	My house-dining room.	This is a side on medium shot of wolf and scotch sat at the table in my dining room where you will be able to see both characters in equal proportion.
2	Over the shoulder shot facing wolf.	My house-dining room.	This will be an over the shoulder shot facing wolf so that you can see his non-verbal communication as well as his dialogue.
3	Side on medium shot.	My house-dining room.	This will be a side on medium/close up shot with scotch lent forward slightly so that you can see that he is defying wolf a little bit but enough for him to react when he says the words “what by doing everyone over who gets in our way”
4	Close up of wolf	My house-dining room.	These next shots will be in quick succession so that it is in time with the dialogue so that the audience can get the sense of wolf getting more and more wound up while scotch is getting more and more scared.
5	Close up of scotch	My house – dining room.	This will be a follow up shot where scotch will be trying to apologetically trying to counter wolfs dialogue, again this shot will only last a few seconds.
6	Close up of wolf	My house –dining room.	This shot will be even closer than the last one so that it will be building tension with each of this part of dialogue.
7	Close up of scotch	My house –dining room.	This shot will be very brief and just of scotch to get his dialogue and his expression in.
8	Close up of wolf	My house –dining room.	This again will be an even closer shot of wolf again to give the audience a sense of tension .
9	Close up of scotch	My house-dining room.	This will be the last close up of scotch in this part of the scene but this is for the audience to be able to get that he doesn’t want wolf to get angry. Again will be very brief.
10	Close up/medium of wolf	My house- dining room.	This is where wolf shouts ”NOW” and will again be a slightly closer shot than the last however this is where the main title will be shown and then will go back to a more relaxed medium shot for the rest of his dialogue in this shot.
11	Over the shoulder medium shot facing scotch	My house-dining room.	This will be a over the shoulder medium, shot facing scotch so that you can see that he is quite scared of wolf but he gets cut short when he starts apologising.
12	Over the shoulder medium shot facing wolf	My house –dining room.	This will be a very brief shot just of wolf so that the audience can see that he has more authority in this situation and cuts scotch short of apologising.
13	Side on medium shot of them sat at the table.	My house – dining room.	This is where you see brief bit of dialogue but it is crucial to get the shot of wolf putting his finger up when he says “well”
14	medium/Long shot	South field mews.	This is where you see wolf drag someone out of their house with himself talking over the top about how this is going to go down. It will be quite a brief shot and will be in black and white.
15	Side on medium shot of them sat at the table.	My house-dining room.	This is to get the dialogue between wolf and scotch but also to get the part where wolf makes scotch look stupid when talking about “the machine”
16	Medium/long shot	South field mews.	This is where wolf is talking over the shot again but is a shot of wolf dragging a guy round the corner form his house .again in black and white.
17	Side on medium shot of them at the table.	My house – dining room.	Again to get the dialogue between the two of them but also to make the black and white scenes more intense because returning to colour will be like returning to reality.
18	Low angle close up.	South field mews.	This is of scotch shooting the guy in the head with a gun. Very brief and in black and white.
19	Side on medium shot of them sat at the table.	My house – dining room.	This will be the final shot of wolf and scotch where they will decide to go and kill this guy , an important shot of wold looking at his watch and saying “lets go” before they stand up. End.
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Script -WOLF . Pre-production

Script – HANDS.

Walking to the job.

WOLF: if you could shoot one guy on this planet who would it be?  

BADGER: … Gordon brown

WOLF: what have you got against ol’ Gordon?

BADGER:  nothing

WOLF: I mean I don’t particularly like the guy either but you don’t know him … unless you got some secret daddy issues you ‘aint told me about

BADGER: no

WOLF: well why would you wanna pull your hand out and blast his head off then ?

BADGER: I just don’t like the name

WOLF: fair shout , now we got a job to do and I can’t go worrying about you tryna kill the ex PM so get your head in the game and lets do this

Montage of them entering the room.

WOLF: busta did you by any chance get the Chelsea score on Friday?

BUSTA: uh…uh….uh….I’m

WOLF and BADGER shoot BUSTA repetitively

WOLF: thought not.

BADGER: what’s the plan now?

WOLF: what happens after every time anyone shoot someone?

BADGER: I dunno…

WOLF: run you mug.

WOLF and BADGER turn and run. Then the titles run while there are quick snapshots of WOLF , BADGER and BUSTA then it ends with a image/still video of HANDS written on a hand.

UPDATED script with new title of film.

SCRIPT – WOLF

Scotch – I need a way out, I’m sick of doing nothing.

Wolf- chill, chill …don’t worry, I’ll get us there.

Scotch – what by doing over everyone who gets in our way?

Wolf – look if you’ve got …

Scotch – nah I didn’t mean…

Wolf- shut

Scotch – wolf mate…

Wolf- up

Scotch –c’mon …

Wolf – NOW. (main title “wolf”) if you’ve got a problem with where I’m going or how I do things then you know where the door is, this is your one chance to leave otherwise right now I need to you to be a man and grow some balls.

Scotch – I’m sorry, I just…

Wolf – I don’t wanna hear it , do you?

Scotch- Nah not really ..So how is this gonna go down?

Wolf – well…(changes to a shot of him dragging a guy out of his house in B&W fast) you are gonna show me what you can do, I’m gonna go into his house and get him while you go get the machine .

Scotch – the machine ?

Wolf- (rolls eyes) the gun you mug

Scotch – right , yeah , coarse.

Wolf- then we drag him round the corner, put a dent in his memory then bounce. (cuts to B&W of wolf dragging “him” round the corner)

Scotch – dent in his memory?

Wolf- yes a dent. A bloody massive hole in his head.  

Scotch – and Im doing that? ( B&W of scotch shooting “him” in the head)

Wolf – yeah

 Scotch – right

Wolf – well(looks at watch) lets do it . 

  

Genre Conventions.

Crime/Thriller can often have a very similar successful opening convention, It can often include an opening shot of main characters in discussion then some small humour followed by an action sequence.

 

                                                                    -These are the opening scenes to Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels and Pulp Fiction. Both of which include main characters and some dialogue.  Some small talk that initially engages the audience. 

 I chose these two films because they both have quite a significant cult following because of how well they were both created/filmed and written but they both follow a similar opening , it starts with a few characters in humorous small talk before then exploding into an action sequence. I found that in both of these films that way of writing/filming worked really well and was engaging to watch for the audience , this was also a good way of finding out key points of how the film is going to be shot before its properly started. Lock, Stock and Two smoking barrells shows that it is going to be a very British , humorous and London based crime film whereas in Pulp Fiction from the opening sequence you can for see that it is going to be stylish , funny but a lot more american and violent.  

-          -the film then engages with some small quick humour to keep the audience enticed. 

 

-         The film then can often have a visually capturing action sequence to finish it before the credits start. 

Target audience.

The target audience for Crime/Thriller is very wide therefore it is a genre that is/has always been popular. It is widely engaging because the Crime aspect can often have very realistic sub topics/genres for example .. Drugs , Prostitution , Guns ...etc. These can often be gritty , brutal but eyeopening for the audience but the gritty element can often be a big audience gainer because more and more people like to see if they can test them self's by seeing how "low" they can go. However because of this reason the Target audience isn't going to be aged below 15 due to the fact that legally they wouldn't be able to buy the film but equally isn't going to be people aged over 50 because more often than not people over 50 could find the content vulgar or obscene. Therefore I would say that the target audience would be between 15 to 50 and that these people are happy to see brutal violence or people who are interested by real however controversial topics.

Initial ideas.

My initial ideas for my Film are to do something along the lines of a Crime Thriller or Horror. However I think that I am more likely to do Crime because I feel that there would be more room for me to come up with something creative because I find Horror really generic.

I would like to experiment with different shot types in my film because I find that it engages the audience more when the director can creatively uses different shot types. I'm undecided about the use of music , although when I am doing the credits it might be appropriate however I don't want it to look tacky therefore I feel like I need to chose the music carefully but also the time at which the music is played. I'm also aware that the equipment that is available to me is that which the school provides so therefore the likely hood that the end product could look like its homemade so I'm  very conscious that unless its intended that handshake needs to be eliminated wherever possible and that the actors need to actually believe in what they are doing otherwise this could also make the film look tacky or badly edited/created. Ultimately I would like to look as professionally produced as possible and well edited but I know that although it has the potential to look good realistically it wont look amazing.

As far as story goes the use of black comedy in crime films is always greatly appreciated by the audience so I feel like if I could include that it would help the overall atmosphere of my film. as far as detailed story I'm not sure yet, However some things I would like to include are some small talk between two/three people before committing crime like it was just casual everyday behavior which could potentially add to the comedic element but at the same time have the credit/titles appear over a black screen briefly but keep the diegetic sound and speech will the credits are showing. After the credits have shown I would like to show the title in the peak of the violence/crime and somehow have all of that accomplished in two minutes.  


For the setting I would like it to be urban but have movement so for example two crooks walking down a grimy urban overgrown path on there way to do their "job" . Have a sad but realistic atmosphere to show the brutal reality of this life.

crime/thriller - genre research.

Crime/ Thriller films originated in the early 1900's with films such as the great train robbery (1903) and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905) and has been one of the most popular and enduring genre's of all time, it was widely popular then and is extremely popular now. The main film production companies in this genre are Warner Bros , Lionsgate and paramount. Some of the most famous Directors and Actors in the world have originated from this genre or have done some of their most famous work in it featuring people such as ... Quentin Tarantino , Martin Scorsese , Francis Ford Coppola, Johnny Depp , Brad Pitt , Al Pacino ,  Uma Thurman , Samuel L Jackson . All of which are top names in the film industry and who have done famous work in the crime genre.

Some key Characteristics that regularly occur in Crime/Thriller films are Violent , Egotistical , Romantic , Avaricious and Impulsive behavior. Because they need to normally play people who are immoral or are in close contract with really immoral people therefore these would be normal attributes in the criminal underworld. Crime films normally have lots of style , especially films/TV series like boardwalk empire or The Godfather where they are set in 1920-1960 in places like Chicago or Italy, they are filled with bright excessive costume , whiskey and cigars and lots of guns and girls.

The Genre has been constantly popular and looks like it will continue to be one of the more popular genres because of big named talent and skill that like to indulge and create this genre.

Film openings analysis

Film Openings

The Fugitive –

Strait away see the studio name “Warner bro’s” and the producers. Then there is the first main title that is Harrison Ford along with some suspenseful music that the letters of his name have a supposed police torchlight flashing in the background, it then goes onto say the next main actor with the same layout which is Tommy Lee Jones, and ending with the title of the film. All through this scene there is suspenseful music with a synchronous beats and has a blue police like outline to all the text.

It then opens with a big landscape shot of the main city(Chicago) , and swiftly goes into a black and white shot struggle between a woman and a man, all through this there is a non-diegetic soundtrack but a distinct diegetic sound of sirens. There is then a quick swap between the city landscape and the struggle and you then see this woman get shot, therefore highlighting that this will be a crime film.

You then go to a city view where there are ambulances around a house and when you go inside you lots of detectives walking around, there is then a few quick shots of her dead in black and white(shot) then you see Harrison Ford who looks lost in thought with blood on his shirt and scratches on his neck making the viewer believe that he could be a suspect for this murder of his wife. He is then willingly escorted out of the building while you hear lots of diegetic sounds such are police radios. There is then a news reporter talking about tonight’s murder while Harrison Ford gets into the police car.

Ferris Bueller’s day off –

Paramount pictures , a john hughes film, Matthew Broderick with diegetic sound of a radio then First thing you see is a massive suburban house with the cars in the drive , you then go to hear the parents calling his name, he then looks like he is staring into oblivion like he is meant to be ill , his sister walks in and starts moaning about their parents believing him for pretending to be ill, Ferris then waits for his parents to have left the house , he then gets up and talks to the camera about how stupid his parents are and how he couldn’t be expected to go to school on a sunny day. This shows the audience that Ferris is arrogant but also funny and that his parents are very naïve.  

Pulp fiction –

The film opens with two people mid conversation in an American diner, they are talking about robbing banks, the man who is telling the woman that he is always right and how robbing liquor stores and banks are behind him. They are bickering about the man complaining when a girl asks them if they would like more coffee , this is obviously a relatively old film because of the fact that they are smoking inside , You can tell from his dialogue that the man is laidback and by the way he sits almost perched in the diner’s chair. Where the woman seems much more wired and feisty especially by the way she looks like she is trying to be extra nice to the waitress, you can see that the man is downgrading all the potential risk of robbing and goes on to explain how easy it is. You could get the sense that the woman is quite neurotic and unpredictable from the way she seems to be so enticed by what the man was saying and how snappy she is.  Another thing that could show this would be their outfits, the man is slouched in a Hawaiian shirt smoking a fag this could definitely suggest that he is relaxed where the woman is a purple jumper with a tight gold chain around her neck and wild ginger/red hair this could suggest that she is wound tight and crazy. There is then a lot of conversation about how he thinks that robbing banks and stores are bad due to the people who own them he uses racist terms such as “gook” or “granddad urvin” when talking about jews and Vietnamese this could suggest the time when the film was made but also his lack of caring for other people. He then tells her that he wants to rob the American diner that they are in but had just called for more coffee so that the woman has to sit back and realise how clever but Ludacris this idea is. You then have a close up on her face while he is explaining how they should to it, you obviously see that she is becoming more and more ready or exited to rob the diner. You can tell that they think they’re better or braver than all of the people around them by the way they are talking. Until she gets so exited/ rowdy that she says “im ready , right now , right here “ This shows that she has an impulsive personality, then then pull out their guns then a very close up shot of them kissing before the both stand up screaming “nobody move this is a robbery” . Then the titles start.  


Lock , Stock and Two smoking barrels-


The film opens with a man standing at desk in the street with a handful of people standing around him , straight away you could get the sense that whatever is happening is quite dodgy because of the grimy london scenery and the fact that whatever he's selling is not a legitimate business.  He then goes onto start a large sales pitch about dodgy goods to a handful of customers saying things like "if you cant see value here today , your not happier shopping , your happier shoplifting" or "see these goods they have not seen daylight , moonlight or Israelite" by saying this he's definitely identifying himself as a crook. While this is happening the credits are showing up in a white font with a black background for a few seconds but Jason Statham is still talking while this is happening, this could give the audience a feeling of  urgency. What makes him a good crooked sales person is that he is a fast talker who can relate himself to the audience "please your wife or please someone else's wife but its a lot more fun if you don't get caught" With each little sales pitch he does after a credit has appeared for example "SKA films" the crowd/buyers gets more and more bigger and involved. He then starts giving prices which is when his mate comes running in and says "£10 , thats a bargain i'll take one" this then starting the crowd to begin to feel comfortable with spending money this being another good sales technique therefore showing the audience that he's a skilled crook. It then shows the last credit which is " A Guy Richie film" then his mate shouts "bacon rozzers" and a police chase begins. Now there's a clear separation between the two crooks and the police and this is shown when the two crooks either jump over or smoothly slide under a barrier however the police then slowly awkwardly clamber over it. It then goes into slow motion when they skid round a corner but while this is happening there is a narrative of a mans voice talking about how these men know their days of selling "moody street goods" is over.  Then come the main titles "Lock , Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". 

Preliminary ideas .

For my preliminary task I had to do the following things to be able to pass ..
1. I had to stick to the 180 degree rule
2. film match on action
3. Do a shot reverse shot.

My ideas;

For my preliminary task my idea was to do something that would be easy to do within school and that would be unusual or mysterious , so I decided to do a very short amount of speech to maintain that feeling of mystery however it could turn out to just look random. My idea was to have someone who looks like he was doing something he had to do that maybe he did not want to and that the person he would be saying "yes" too would be distressed and therefore saying "no" so it was made like he was the one lacking in authority , then the person who came in and said "yes" (josh) would then go to leave and that the other (Matt) would then start screaming and shouting again to add to this mysterious feel of it.

Preliminary Script

Script

Man walks into room slowly, then sits down.

P1. Yes

P2. No

P1. Yes

P2. No

P1. Goodbye

Person 1 then leaves the room while person 2 is shouting. 

P2. PLEASE NO NO PLEASE WHY WHY. 

This was my script for the preliminary Task.  

Link to my Preliminary film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DfPNlpIX4&index=15
&list=PLj61md_IIMNGGRPRfMpbRJF1NPLidSM57

This Link will take you to my Preliminary Film on Youtube .

Preliminary Story board

This is my Storyboard for my preliminary task , I did actually manage to stick to the majority of this for my film.

Preliminary evaluation

For my preliminary task i did a short film in which i had to show two people in a room (one of which had to enter the room) they then had to sit down opposite and have a conversation then once they had finished one of them had to leave.

I enjoyed filming my preliminary task and I got everything done that was required however my actual filming was very rushed in order to get it done on time therefore my video is much shorter then planned. I also think my editing could have been better and that would have been done by editing certain pieces of film shorter so that the match on action would have made more sense as well as being tighter.

I fixed most of my editing problems by cutting out certain parts where there was background noise or talking along side times where the match on action wouldn't have made prefect sense due to shots and that was easily solved by cutting down the shots where it had over run.

If I had an opportunity to do this task again I would have liked to have more time to film and edit so i could have made it more like a short film and less like a compulsory school video, I did enjoy filming it however i think i would have enjoyed it more if i would have had more time therefore having more time to work on the filming , editing and general outcome of my Preliminary task.

Shot type home work

Shot type home work from SolCollier

Mise en scene work

01 mise en scene notes sheet from SolCollier

Evaluation

This is where I am putting my Evaluations.

Production

This is where I am going to be putting my production work.

Pre-production

This is where I am going to be posting my Pre-production work.

Preliminary tasks

This is where I am posting my Preliminary tasks.

Media theory post No .1

This is where I am going to keep all my media theory work including home learning.

18-09-15

Dear Jammy Judith ,
yesterday i learned all about cinematography and today we are being shown how to use blogger. :)