Task 2
Task 1
How important are these following
Credit sequence - Black background with white writing in between shots.
Music and Sound - Non-Diegetic music at the start of the film opening.
Locations - Busy areas like cities. Abandoned buildings
How many characters - we will have and antagonist (Abs) who is head of the gang
Shots - Close ups to show the lack of emotions on the antagonist's face, Establishing shot sets the scene,
Our opening scene will build tension and will have a sense of enigma so that the audience will be on edge and will want to find out more and will keep watching.
Task 3
Location
The photos in the location shoot are of an abandoned building found in Ashton Court. The abandoned building is the main area of filming as it creates an enigma and builds tension in the opening sequence.
There is also an outhouse type building near the location we chose. This could be used dependent of safety in the larger building. Also, the shot at the beginning of the PhotoPeach displays an idea for an establishing shot we could use, along with some others of our photos taken.
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Shot List
Establishing Shot - Establishing shot of a busy city first; Bristol; from afar. This is then followed by an establishing shot of the abandoned building.
Long Shot - Long shot of Alberto in the woods walking towards the building. Alberto is wearing a suit and smart shoes. This is when we are introduced to Alberto.
Close up - Close up of Alberto's feet walking into the building.
Point of view - Point of view shot from antagonist as Alberto stands in front of him. The camera tilts up as looks at Alberto in the face.
Two Shot - Two shot of Alberto and antagonist, who is tied in the chair. This shot displays the relationship between the two, and how the feud has only just began.
Close Up - Close up of hammer in Alberto's hand. This again contributes to the enigmatic atmosphere and slowly builds tension.
Extreme Close Up - Extreme close up of Alberto's eyes show the level of anger he has.
Point of View Shot - Point of view shot from antagonists view as Alberto hits him with the hammer. The Shot ends just before the hammer hits him.
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Script
Protagonist walks into shot, through a door. At this point, the camera cuts to a close-up of his feet walking over broken glass and rubbish.
Protagonist walks into a large, empty room with another male strapped to a chair in the middle. Two henchmen stand behind the chair.
Slowly walks towards the man sat on the chair. Time seems to slow as shot changes to Point of view shot of antagonist. The antagonist’s view tilts upwards from the protagonist’s feet towards his head. The shot is held for a while.
Protagonist: This is a business! (Said slowly, with sinister undertones)
The protagonist goes on the hit the antagonist in the chair. As a result, the antagonist falls to the floor.
View again changes to point of view shot from the antagonist. He’s staring up towards the protagonist. He and his henchman walk out towards the exit.
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Task 11
Frist draft of the music.
Second draft - In this track we have added in a fade at the start and at the end.
In our final track, we have the faded music the blowing wind sound and the footsteps but we've also overlapped the music and the footsteps as it blended nicely also we have added a fade at the start of the footsteps and at the end .
The third draft - In this track, we have added in the blowing wind sound and we have also added in footsteps.
Music
For our music, we have used the violin, drum bass as the main music but we have also added in the sound of the wind blowing and footsteps. The reason we have gone for instrumental music is down to not having any dialogue in our film opening apart from the one line which is “This is Business” so we don't want to rowen the only dialogue we have with music with lyrics. Also, the reason we have added the sound of the wind blowing (at the start before the music begins) is to help set the sense alongside the establishing shot that will be present this primarily to highlight that the area that we have set it in is cold and eerie. When we constructed the music we listened back and ended up improving the track for example when we decided to a to add a fade at the beginning and at the end we did this because the fade gave the track some suspense as it slowly builds up and we also added the fade to the footsteps as it signifies that the person is slowly getting closer.
Task 13
After revisiting my survey and looking for what my audience want from me to produce I have found that the majority are male and like gangster films that contain violence also they want music that has a sense of tension building up. As I now know what my audience want I have a good idea on how to construct my film opening and what key things to include. After we finished our pitch we were asked questions about our pitch and we were advised to have some sort of background story being a flashback so the audience doesn't get lost with our storyline as it does start at the end.