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Digital Screen Network Questions

What is the digital screen network?
The digital screen network was created by the UK film council and the Arts council England. They supply many independent cinemas with digital technology which is cheaper to use than the film projectors. Due to the DSN helping out independent cinemas there was a small catch, they had to provide longer screening time that contained more independent films.

How can it help independent producers and exhibitors like cinema city?
The digital screen network helps independent producers and exhibitors by making it cheaper to buy digital copies which means they can by more films and this will help show film diversity though out independent cinemas.

What will it mean for audiences?
Digital screen network allows audiences to have the chance to watch independent films that are not normally shown as they are hard to come by as it costs so much to print film. This will mean that more independent films like 'Slum dog millionaire' to have more of a chance to a famous film.

How does your loacal area benifit?
Due to Norwich resseaving 2 digital screens more audiences will be able to watch films that are not mainstream. This will allow the audiences to have a wider choice of films they wish to watch.

How does it impact yout film consuption?
Digital screen network allows people to have more of a choice to what they watch at the cinema. This will also allow independent films a better chance to become well none

What will this technology also provide cinemas?
This technology will allow independent cinemas to have more of a chance to bring in different audiences.

Evaluation of Immorality.

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Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When doing our Preliminary task we were divided into groups, these groups contained people we didn’t really know as we hand not been at school for long. I was placed into a group with 3 other people. We immediately began working on our storyline. But each time someone came up with a idea it got pushed aside. In the end we had a rough idea of what we were going to do in the scene. We planned out the camera movement and how we were going to include the 180 degree angle and the walking through a door.
When it came to shooting it we hadn’t done much else. The script was a last minute make the night before and we had no idea about what we were going to do for the camera angles. In the end we improvised most of the shots causing the group to argue about how we wanted the shots done.
The editing of the task was difficult as we had no teaching previously about how to use Adobe Premier. After being taught the basic stuff we hurried through the editing as fast as we could. This caused it to be shabby and not as good quality as it should have been.

We learned a lot from that experience not to edit in big groups as arguments will happen and then the work doesn’t get done. When coming to the thriller opening we found it a lot easier we were put into groups of 4 again but instead we did a plan for everything that we were going to do. We mapped out our idea in the beginning and worked our way around that. The filming took place on different days but all 4 of us turned up and put I views in. We used loads of different shots according to people’s ideas because they might have been good. When it came to editing the film we were taught how to do different things when we wanted them. For example we wanted one of our scenes tinted once we were taught how to do this we were able to. This aloud us to use different techniques which made the thriller better. We learned how to add different text types and use them, this made our thriller stand out more as we didn’t have a typical text that everyone else would be using.

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Immorality

Evaluation of Immorality.

Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our thriller, immorality we decided to not have a woman as the main character or during the opening because like in Sin City, The Third Man, Essex Boys and Layer Cake the openings, of these films mainly focus on the Males in the shot. We followed the stereo typical of Thriller films only being about men and their hierarchy. Males seem to have more power in thrillers due to them being the lead role and the storyline being based around them and their lives. Women are commonly used in Thrillers as Femme Fatale's because of their sexual appeal. We did not want this in the opening because we wanted the audience to question why he had lost everything then thinking it was because of women and assuming he was pulled into sex, drugs and gambling. This was not the affect we wanted the audience to have in the beginning of the opening. In society it is more commonly publicised about men loosing everything they have lived and worked for then women. So following this we stuck with having a male as the lead character.

We used the stereotypical British business man for the main protagonist, where as the debt collector the antagonist is dressed like a typical man on the hunt. We gave the impression that both characters are from a background with money. The audience will assume the debt collector got this money from doing peoples dirty work because the antagonist is a typical stereotype of a debt collector. Where as the audience doesn't know alot about the protagonist this cause the audience to be drawn deeper in as they would wonder why his job was so bad that he lost everything.

Evaluation of Immorality

Question 1

In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Many different types of thriller films influenced our thriller 'Immorality'. Essex boys influenced our thriller because Essex boys like Immorality is a gangster film. We thought that doing a British Gangster film would be the most possible choice as to the location of the opening being in Britain. The bleakness and greyness of Essex boys helped towards coming up with our second location for the opening. The reason that this shot helped us create the shot from our thriller is because we wanted the same dead end work house feel that the Essex Boys opening had. We had to make the scene darker to fit in with the impression we wanted to have so we used a grey filter to make the sky and scene seem more depressing.







We tried to like the debt collector to have many similarities as the main character in Sin City for example he had a packet of cigarettes. So we had the debt collector smoke a cigarette in the opening this would help him seem more mysterious.
The wild track in Immorality was also inspired by the wild track in Sin City. We thought using the sounds of cars passing by would help the audience to understand that even though this one thing is happening other things are going on as well.

Layer Cake inspired the soundtrack genre in Immorality this was because we wanted a soundtrack that was smooth but mysterious and that would flow with the editing of the thriller opening. The main character in Layer Cake inspired the main character in Immortality he inspired us to make him more business man like who had seemed to have taken a wrong turn in his life to make a living. We thought that the use of a nice neighbourhood in Layer Cake would be a great effect to have in Immorality because it would show that the main character was from a well rounded community and had a respectable job.

In Essex Boys, Layer Cake, Sin City and The Third Man all contain voice overs this helped to influence having a voice over in our thriller opening. We thought we should have a voice over to describe what was happening and to make the time laps more obvious.

Continuity Task Questions

1. What planning did you do for your filming task, and how did this planning aid in the filming?

We had to find a location that would invole the things needed in the task. The task had to include

• Walking through a door
• sitting down
• exchanging 2 or more lines of dialogue

Once we had decsided on the situiation we choose that the actors would be Sarah and Dan while Miriam and myself would do the camera work and the setting. We all drawed out our own storyboards how we thought it should be shot. This included : camera angles and where the cast was ment to sit and how. This made the filming and direction alot easier because we just had to follow what we had decsided to do.

2. What is the 180 degree rule, and how is this rule important to your filming task?

The 180 degree rule is having the shot the same side as the actors. This means that you can not go from filming from the left hand side of the actors and the filming on the right hand side. For the continuity task Dan was on the right hand side of the camera and Sarah was always on the left hand side of the camera this is how we kept to the 180 degree rule. This makes it easier for the audience to understand. If you kept on fliping the shot of the actors from left to right.

3.What shot type and camera angles did you use in your filming task, and to what effect?

Engima

Enigma is when the audience asks questions for example in The Third Man the audience maybe thinking when the voice over starts 'Who is the man that is talking' 'Why does he know so much about this place?' 'Who is Harry Lime?' 'Why are the Americans called "poor chap"?'.

Enigma creates a reason to watch the film. They leave you thinking about why this is happening and who it is happening to. Enigma alows the audience to feel a part of the film, its also makes the audience have certian expectations of the film because they would hope that the questions that they ask will be answeredduring the film. For example they would expect to find out who the man is that is talking and who Harry Lime is.

Enigma was used in or thriller by the business man suddenly becoming homeless. The audience would wonder why this had happened to him? What happened to his family from th beginning?Who did this. What caused it to happen? This will hopefully draw the audience deeper into the opening in hope to find out during the rest of the film.

Binary opposites

Binary Opposites is oftern used in film noir (eg black and white, good and evil) it helps create drama and intest in the film. The types of binary opposites most commanly used in Thrillers are. ; Black and white (colour contrast), good and evil, male and female, life and death, turth and lies, justice and crouption, crime and punishment, light and dark, power and powerless.

Binary opposites in Thriller films I have watched.
The Thrid man

• religion (churches) and crime (dead body in water and items being sold that might not be legal)
• War (buildings blown up shown in the quick shots in the begining of the opening) and Peace (Main characters friend had died and he visits his grave. Graveyards-we think of death as finally resting in peace .)

Sin City

• Black and white (with only a few things in colour)
• Female and male. (female = femme fatal)

I have used binary opposites in my thriller opening by staring the opening in what seems to be a good and perfect life living in a clean comfortable home, but then leading to the man living a a dirty run down home. We hope that this will make the audience see the contrasts in his life and make that it will make a bigger impression and it will hopefully be something that the audience would remember when they go away. I hope that the contract between clean and dirty would leave the audience with the impression that life can change fast if you make the wrong decision.

L.A Noir

L.A Confidential is a perfect example of a L.A noir film. L.A noir is similar to film noir because they have exactly the same themes but the difference is that L.A noir is more bright and cheerful like L.A compare to film noir which is dark and mysterious. L.A noir being so bright doesn't give the impression of it being a noir film that is why when the characters are inside a house or building the windows are normally covered by barley open blinds that let in small amounts of light but enough to see in. Film noir films don't do this as it is already dark in the place the filming is set in. Film noir consists of dark unnatural lighting caused by night or bad weather.

L.A noir maybe the most realistic use of lighting and this should make people feel more comfortable watching the film but because of the genre contrastion with the lighting people will feel uneasy due to it not being a typical noir film.

Thriller Questionnaire result

1. What would you expect to see in a Mainstream Hollywood thriller film?
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For question 1 I wanted to see how much people actually know about mainstream Hollywood thriller films. This is why I left the question as a open one. This way i could find out exactly what each person knows about mainstream Hollywood thrillers. I found out that a lot of people don't know a lot about mainstream Hollywood thriller films. In many of the answers people were associating thriller films with gangster films and horror films.

Here is a example of some common answers I received.

- Death
- Gore
- Violent
- Action
- Murder
- Good Story line
- Famous Actors
- CGI
- High budget

2. What would you expect to see in a Independent thriller film?
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Like question one not main people knew what to expect in a independent thriller film. Many people confused it with gangster or horror films. I did the same method with question two as i did in question one because i didn't want to give the people doing the questionnaire the answers i wanted them to tell me. So instead of getting them to pick one answer out of a possible four i made them write there own answers.

Here are some of the common results.
- Low Quality filming
- Death
- secretiveness
- Mystery
- Murder
- Cheaper Effects
- Lower Budget
- Unknown actors

3. Which of these locations do you think would be great in a thriller film?

a. A Bank

This answer received 25% of the votes.

b. Abandoned House

This answer received 58% of the votes

c. A Graveyard

This answer received 17% of the votes

d. A train station

This answer received 0% of the votes

Even though all these answers would be good for a thriller. The most common one should have been d. A train station. This is because a thriller was used in London to Brighton and in the opening to The Third Man.

4. What type of women would you expect to see in a thriller?

a. Damsel

This answer received 17%of the votes

b. Femme Fatale

This answer received 66% of the votes

c. Witch

This answer received 17%of the votes

The results show that most people think that the type of woman that you would expect to see in a thriller is a Femme Fatale. This links with a typical Thriller film e.g. Sin City.

5.What type of main character do you think would be in a thriller film?

a. Gangster

This answer received 25% of the votes

b. Debt Collector

This answer received 17% of votes

c. Villain

This answer received 58% of the votes

This shows that most people believe the main character in a Thriller should be a Villain. I admit that this was a very poor question because the main character could be any type of person.

Over all i think that this questionnaire shows that not many people actually know what a Thriller film is actually like. This maybe because they have never watched one or they have classed it as a horror or action or gangster film instead.

What is your age group?

15-25 received 60% of the votes
26-36 received 18% of the votes
37-47 received 22% of the votes
48+ received 0% of votes

15-25 highest and most common age group of people who are interested in thrillers. This will allow us to focus more on this age group when doing our thriller opening

Moving image production has always been lead by the audience's demand for new sentaions.

Moving image production fascinated people in 1906. People couldn’t believe that they were watching a moving image. One of the first moving picture people ever saw was of a train coming into the station. The audience was so shocked and terrified that the train was actually coming towards them that they all ran away. Moving pictures have now become more advanced over time. In the 21st century moving images consisted of animation, 3D, CGI, digital, software to edit the films and surround sound.

The Polar Express, Directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a great example of how technology has come forward. The polar express was a revolutionary film that ‘…brave new world of all–digital filmmaking.’[1]The film has been called a ‘CGI Landmark’[2]. This film was one of the first ever films to use CGI throughout. Leading to it being a ‘…astounding leap forward in CGI depth, realism and believability…’2 Even though The Polar Express was a revolutionary film it does not mean that people would go and watch it. So the marketing team had to come out with ways that would draw people to watch this film. The marketing campaign includes 8500 on screen trailers, massive publicity promotion and ad campaigns, coast to coast author tours, online promotion (http://www.polarexpress.com/). The marketing company even brought out toys to help sell the film. Like the polar express train set, golden ticket, board game.

Critics and audience members were divided between those who hailed it as an instant classic that captures the visual splendour and evocative innocence of Chris van Allsburg’s popular children’s book…’1 a review written by Stella Papamichael for The BBC gave the polar express a low mark of two stars out of 5 this was on of the poorest ratings of polar express. Not only did she give it a poor rating but she also went on to say that Tom Hanks looks ‘like he's been killed, embalmed and resurrected by lightening’ and saying that the polar express was so bad that you would end up ‘…drooling, asleep in your popcorn as it becomes clear the story isn't going anywhere.’[3] Paul Hurley from talk talk described the polar express as being ‘…Undoubtedly one of the strangest animated features in recent times,…’[4]. Although the polar express was a major jump in technology, this in my opinion made the film more enjoyable because you were watching something revolutionary. If it wasn’t for the new found technology of the polar express in 2004 we most likely would not have had the technology to make the new film AVATAR.

Avatar, Directed by James Cameron. Avatar is a revolutionary film because it used motion captured technology to help create the film. Each and every movement that is in the film was actually done but the actors. The actors had to wear skin tight suits with sensors that would pick up every small movement that their bodies did. This would then be sent with loads of video from cameras into computers where they would transfer the movement into the film. The actors would have to do all the running fighting and leaping for the film. But this wasn’t the only thing that made avatar revolutionary. Many films like the polar express had done this before but avatar was the first to turn it into 3D. avatar was the start of what has been called a 3D revelation. Many films since the making of avatar have decided to become 3D. This may be a cause of audience’s demand for new sensation. Or maybe its just because they have the technology so why not use it. James Cameron told sff media ‘"We're going to blow you to the back wall of the theatre in a way you haven't seen for a long time,"’[5] Cameron’s goal was to ‘…rekindle those amazing mystical moments my generation felt when we first saw '2001: A Space Odyssey,' or the next generation's 'Star Wars.' It took me 10 years to find something hard enough to be interesting."5 John Howell described ‘…using a new digital 3D format, Avatar and the technology behind it could revolutionise the industry, making 2D films seem as outdated as silent films.’5 This shows that 2D will soon be a thing of the past. We know longer have to look thorough those horrible 3D glasses that are two different colours. That made our eyes more disorientated than normal. With the new type of 3D glasses it is easier and kinder on the eyes to go watch 3D films. The marketing team for avatar used a typical way of marketing the film. First by trailer followed by releasing Avatar games. The trailer is slightly unusual. There is no speech only sound up until 1 minute 24 seconds. This allows the viewer to study the pictures and come up with there own interpretation of the film. The first line that the audience hears is ‘This is great’ this could be a symbolisation of the film telling the audience that this film is great, watch it now. Most trailers draw you in from the beginning of it, but the trailer for avatar doesn’t. The film has been giving many different reviews. Some bad thinking that Avatar will flop and that it is a big risk to do something so technical. John Howell describes Avatar as having ‘…shallow and unsurprising. The dialogue never rises above the level of a computer game or TV show. The script is amazingly clunky in its setup. Everything is spelt out clearly from the outset.’[6] Many Reviews agree with this statement such as a review written by David Chen who said that avatar’… the weakest part of Avatar is the script, which I can’t describe as anything other than terrible.’[7] I personally disagree with both Howell and Chen I think that the script was very good and very entertaining.

In conclusion I believe that the facts show that audiences do want new sensations and this is a cause of technology having to get better over time. Polar express and Avatar are perfect examples of this they both have had to adapted to fit what the target audience wants. And what they want is NEW stuff to make the cinema better. The audience bored of things fast so there are always new technologies being invented to help keep the audience glued to there seats.

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/Polar-Express-Tom-Hanks/dp/B000AGTPUU
[2] http://blogcritics.org/video/article/the-polar-express-cgi-landmark/
[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/11/30/the_polar_express_2004_review.shtml
[4] http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/review/films/the-polar-express/794
[5] http://sffmedia.com/films/science-fiction-films/147-will-camerons-avatar-spark-a-3d-revolution.html
[6] http://sffmedia.com/films/science-fiction-films/443.html
[7] http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/11/davids-avatar-review-epic-filmmaking-epically-bad-dialogue/

Shooting schedule

Production Company: Sour Spectrum
Directors: Miriam Hogg, Sara Disborough, James Claydon, Ben Wormold
Date: 31st January 2010
Estimated Wrap Time: 2pm
Trasport: WalkingWeather: Sunny intervals
Location: Area around Chestnut Hill
Scene No's: TBA
Storyboard pages: TBA
Equipment: Camera, Tripod,
Cast: Jordan
Props/Costumes: Suit, Mobile phone
Notes: Meeting at Waitrose at 11am

Date: 8th February 2010Estimated Wrap
Time: 4pmT
rasport: Walking
Weather: Sunny intervals
Location: Chestnut Hill, Inside James' house
Scene No's: TBA
Storyboard pages: TBA
Equipment: Camera, Tripod
Cast: Jordan
Props/Costumes: Suit, Baby toys, Mirror
Notes: Walking from school at 1:20pm

Date: 9th February 2010
Estimated Wrap Time: 5pm
Trasport: Walking
Weather: Clear, Rainy intervals
Location: Markshall Farm
Scene No's: TBA
Storyboard pages: TBA
Equipment: Camera, Tripod
Cast: Tosh, Jordan
Props/Costumes: Tosh - suit, Jordan - hoodie, jeans, waterproof overcoat. Torch, bucket of Water
Notes: Walk from school 4.05

Thriller Questionnaire

1. What would you expect to see in a Mainstream Hollywood thriller film?
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2. What would you expect to see in Independent thriller film?
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3. Which of theses locations do you think would be great in a thriller film?


a. A Bank



b. Abandoned house







c. A Graveyard



d. A Trainstation






4. What type of women would you expect to see in a thriller.


a. Damsel





b. Femme Fatale





c. Witch




5. What type of main character do you think would be in a thriller film?


a. Gangster





b. Debt collector




c. Villian


What is your age group? (circle one)

15-25 26-36 37-47 48+

Actors

For our Thriller we only needed 2 actors.
Jordan Howes - Main Character
Tosh Goldspink - Debt collector


We needed the main character in the first part of the opening to be clean cut and look like a person of authority. Jordan's voice will be used in the voice over. The voice over helps tell more information on the main character.

Although his hair is messy in the photo we actually did some alterations and made him look like a typical business man. The suit helps create this affect. We thought thatJordan would be a good actor because he showed that he could play both parts of this character and show the meaning behind the story.

This is what the main character looks like in the second part of the opening. We thought that having Jordan in ripped jeans would help create the feeling of him loosing everything and that he has to deal with what he has. This will help to create engima because the audience willl be wondering what happened to make him end up like this from being a highly respected man.

We dresses the debt collector in all black to help symbolies the characters sophistication and bring deeper mystery to him. The debt collector is wearing suit trousers to emply he is a man that takes things seriously. The over coat helps show that he is a practical thinker. So he is likely to think practically where the man character would hide. We thought that Tosh would be a good actor for this part because he has played similar characters in plays and we thought he could use his experience to make the character better.

Media Audience Thriller Propsal

I will make a questionnaire based on types of thrillers people enjoy to help understand what my target audience will want in a thriller to help with the thriller opening.



In the questionnaire i will include questions that give information on:

-The type of setting people would enjoy to see.

-Should there be a femme fatale?

-How whould they feel if the film was in black and white.

-what they expect from a independent film and a mainstream film.

-What type of story line would be most appling to the target audience.

Shot list

1. Long/Medium shots of the area (Location One)
2. Tracking shot of Main character walking down street, camera pans as he walks past.
3. Long still shot of Main character walking into the house.
4. Low angle shot of feet on the floor in the living room.
5. Tracking close up shot of hand on banister.
6. Close up over the shoulder of sink.
7. Medium/Close up shots of bathroom and objects in the bathroom.
8. Shot of mirror, pan down to close up shot of hands coming over the camera.
9. Over the shoulder shot showing the Main character in the mirror (Location Two)
10. Mix of outside and inside shots looking at the location, Long/medium/short (jerky, unstable shots)
11. Still long shot showing back and side of Second character.
12. Close up of feet standing next to car, maybe standing on a cigarette.
13. Low angle camera, Pan up to torch (smooth steady shots)
14. Scene change to Main character, multiple angle shots of Main character in the house.
15. Scene change, Medium shot of Second character getting a phone call, (Camera behind Second character, very slow zoom)
16. Scene change to Main character, close up of hands, fast pan up to his face when he hears something.
17. Distant light on Main characters face, close up. 18. Tracking shots, still, pans, zooms, lots of angled choppy shots of the Main character running around the location and hiding from the Second character.
19. Smooth shots of Second character looking for Main character. Some long tracking, still and pan shots.
20. POV or over the shoulder shot of the Main character, Second character finding the Main character, Close up of Second character’s feet, jerky pan up to torch. Scene end.

Location Scouting

Costumes and Props

The connecttions that these costumes crrate for the indivudial characters

Questionnaire