Production Log Week 5

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Target Audience

Our target audience is very varied the age ranges from 18-30 its mainly aimed at males but females may also watch it and enjoy it. People who are in to gangs and the streets will enjoy it as well as working class people and also some middle class people could relate to it because of the middle class character in it. Other media consumptions will be programmes like ‘silent witness’ ‘The politics show’ ‘watchdog’ and ‘panorama’ also films like ‘adulthood’ ‘bullet boy’ and ‘The inside man’.  Because of the range of themes it should appeal to a lot of different people and it has a lot of stereotypes about different people and the representations of the working class and middle class people would help it appeal to the target audience.  The unique selling point is that it shows the contrast of the working and middle class most British Social Realist films don’t show both sides it shows both there struggle and how there paths meet.

Technology

The technology I’m going to use is a: camera, tripod and imac. All this suitable the camera and tripod are so that I can film and the tripod will keep it steady because I want to look as professional as I can. The imac will play a big part because I’m planning to do a split screen in my opening and I will need this to do it for my editing. I won’t face any limitations because my opening is going to be simple. All the props will be easy to obtain.

Representations

The key Characters are Michael and Tony they both work for the same company. Michael is a working class guy he is a protagonist and even though he goes to the street life he is only doing it to feed his family while he’s looking for work and is very likeable. The other character is Tony who is a successful business man but turns evil when he losses his company and all his wealth he is out to get revenge and is antagonist. Tony will challenge the representation of middle class people because he will be nothing like the typical middle class man.

Narrative

The story is about a Michael a working class man and his boss Tony a middle class man because of recession they both loss there jobs. Tony losses his company and wants to take revenge on the banks. Whereas Michael just wants money so that he can survive and feed his family. So Tony meets a Fraudster and then he begins to do bank scams so he can get money and take revenge. He uses his money to persuade Michael who is having a really bad to come and work for him. With Michael doing his dirty work Tony thinks he’s unstoppable but he gets to greedy and gets caught by the police. While Michael finds a new job and gets his life back on track.

The opening sequence is Michael and Tony Waking up in the morning getting ready. We see the contrast in the lifestyles and how they are. They both are going in to work on the day they are going to get fired. We see lots of newspaper articles about the recession.  Then Tony phones Michael to tell him that he fired from work Michael is upset and gets angry with Tony. Then Tony receives a call that his business is going to go bust.

Conventions

Our opening sequence will follow the normal British Social Realist convention By showing the working class having to struggle but it will be different as it will have a middle class person in it who ends up like the working class man.

Style and Iconography

I will use a range of shots so that the audience can see what is going on. The use of close ups will help the audience know what the character is feeling. Also the camera will always be close to the person that it’s like there part of it the. The use of establishing shots will help set the location and tone. The editing between shots will have to be smooth and clean to create a relaxing feeling. The costumes and props will be everyday items to create the feeling that it’s real and make the audience believe it. Sound and music will be used to create mood and also set the tone for the opening.

Institution

The production company in the brief has impacted the type of film which will be produced because of a number of reasons mainly money with a low budget we cant do anything expensive. The audience will be the audience that film4 target which is British.  The Distribution will we limited to Britain only because of money and will be exhibited in art houses.

Production log week 4

What have your learnt about your target audience ?

This week i have learnt that my target audience is going to be British working and middle class people because they can both relate to my film. The film is going to be a 18 and that means that it wont appeal to anyone below that age and both males and females will be targeted. Even though most British Social Realist films are aimed at a younger audience ours will aimed at a more vast age group due to the fact the main characters will be different ages.

What have you learnt about institutions involved in the production a British Social Realist film ?

The institutions involved in the production will tend to target a British niche audience and the conventions and themes in the film will appeal to this audience. The themes will usually revolve around current events happening in Britain and be controversial. The production company won't use sets and we use real life locations and film there to make the films real and the audience can relate to this.

How will this inform your production ?

This will inform my production because my film will be based around real life situations and i know what locations to use as well. All this will help my group to make the film appeal to the target audience better.

Production Log Week 3

What have you learnt about narrative structures and devices? 

I have learnt narrative structures and devices are very important in an opening sequence. The opening credits in a film tell us about all the important roles in the production of the film and what 'stars' are going to be in it so before the film starts we know what type of film it is because we can tell by the actors in. For example 'Dirty Harry' has 'Clint Eastwood' in it so i could tell that it was going to have some sort of action in it and that its a big Hollywood film as well.  




How will this inform your production?

This will inform my production because i understand what makes a good opening sequence even though i still think i can learn more. I now understand that opening credits in a film are very effective because the audience then know who is in the film and the important staff behind it.

What methods might you use in the opening and why?

In my opening sequence i think that i will have opening credits. Before i didn't want to use them but after seeing them i think it will be good if i used them because it Will make it look more professional. Also i want to use an array of diegetic and non-diegetic sound so it will add more effect in to it. I want the credits to interact in the opening sequence while the film running because i think this would look very effective. I also want to make my own theme tune and music for the opening so that i can make it appeal more because i done it personally.    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4jMzKxYB74&feature=player_embedded  (lord of war the opening is really good to this as the bullet cam i could tell what this film was about)

Analysis of sound in opening sequence

Institutional Credits Opening Sequence

http://www.artofthetitle2.com/media/film/70s/dirty_harry/dirty_harry_ipod.mp4

What did you find out?

I found out that in an opening sequence it has a lot of opening credits and that its good to show some of the story. Also i found out that its good because then we have a better idea about the film. The sequence was also very long and the opening credits was showing over film so we could still see what's happening. Also it had music playing for the majority of the opening and the rest was other sounds (non-diegetic and diegetic)

Definition for any jobs you don't know?

Art Director - Various artists may create or develop specific parts of an art piece or scene; but a sole art director unifies the vision. In particular, the art director is in charge of the overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements used, what artistic style to use, and when to use motion.

Dialogue supervisor/ make-up supervisor and supervising hair stylist : These jobs are to supervisor and make sure that everything they did is correct and if anything goes wrong its there job to correct the error.

What will you do in your?

I my opening sequence i will run my opening credits over the start of the film and i playing background music which will be the theme tune. I will make the credits interact with the start of the film so its part of it i.e like a boy will be spraying something on the wall and it will appear as the directors name or something like that.

Generic Conventions

Generic Conventions

Production Log 2

This week i have learnt that different social realist films relate to different audiences and target a niche audience. Even though they target British audiences they can also aim at a more specif audience like different regions. Each social realist film has a different theme some of the themes are: Violence (can be gang related), Sexuality, Addiction and immigration. But social realist films explore these films in different ways. Like in 'Bullet Boy' the accent and the slang language is target at a London audience as they would understand it whereas others may not.

This will inform my production because it gave me more of an idea of what social realist filoms are about and what they try to do. My orignal idea was to nice and happy and i know that realist films tend to be dark and gritty. So i have to change my idea and make it more gritty and dark so it can relate to the auidnce more.

 The texts which influenced me the most are 'Bullet Boy' and 'Kidulthood' as it relates to the current gang culture that a lot of youths are involved in. They also showed me that these films and dark and gritty it made me want to base my film around them as its a good theme to choose. It's also easy to relate to as its all around me and easy to relate to.

I will conform to the conventions used in films i liked and the ones which reflect Britain the most as they would be most effective to conform to.

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