With the constructive comments from our preliminary, we had previously thought about basing this as a criminal drama with our main protagonist being an illegal immigrant from Bulgaria, who would be on the run from the police as a drugs mule, however the person who thought up the idea had poor attendance, so we therefore decided that this idea was unattainable, and plus Bulgaria is an EU country therefore making it impossible to be an illegal immigrant.
Us remaining group members thought up a different idea, we decided on a film based on violence in football and general hooliganism. We preferred this genre and felt it would be a change to the usual scene of death and darkness, both of us also have a fairly good knowledge on local football at Grassroots level. The inspiration for our movie were other football hooliganism movies such as "The Football Factory" and "Green Street".
We planned to go down to the up and coming game between Dover and Folkestone, due to the geographic location, a rivalry has always been present, so we built our film around this rivalry.
The protagonist is Harry Wall (me), supposedly the son of the Folkestone Hooligan leader, throughout the game itself you see no actual footage of Harry, it is camera cuts between the two sets of fans singing.
The film is set after the game after Folkestone win the game, two Dover fans; Alex and Shane are in their home town, strolling around, Harry after tasting defeat is looking to cause trouble in Dover with his new bragging rights after his teams victory, despite being outnumbered he dishes out some abuse to Alex and Shane who duly take offense, Alex and Shane proceed to chase Harry "roughing him up" in the process, Harry, however, escapes.
The next scene moves foward to Harry at work in his office block, is then confronted by Alex and Shane who have managed to track him down, as revenge Shane gives Harry a punch to the face that leaves him bleeding. After informing the other Folkestone fans were informed of the attack, Alex and Shane are told there in trouble however they see this as a way become of their own firm....
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Preliminary Peer Evaluation
After editing on Imovie HD, the class had to present the preliminary's. Our colleagues had to evaluate the Preliminary's to find flaws and give constructive criticism, we were aware of some problems with the preliminary, but the evaluation revealed some other problems, despite this, on the whole the film was fairly good.
From the start we said we had wanted to keep a fast pace to show the despair and panic of the piece. This was achieved with many quick cuts between the two actors, the antagonist is always the calmer of the two and this is reflected by the worms eye view on him, a point which was noted as a positive by our peers. On top of this the 180 degree was kept although some people pointed out that it was emphasized too much. All the shots and cuts were relatively smooth and the protagonist and antagonists when alone in a shot were centralized.
However some negatives were pointed out that we need to consider and address before we move forward. Our peers noticed a continuity error in one of the shots, this is when the protagonist storms angrily into the room and goes over to the table, at this point the door is still open however on the next shot the door is closed. Unfortunately there was a fair amount of background noise which was out of our control, but again this should be considered before the final piece, some problems were noticed with frame composition, a lot of wasted space was seen and some objects withdrew the attention of the audience from the actors.
However after hearing the evaluation and having some weaknesses pointed, as a group we are confident that we can expell some of the negatives from our work.
From the start we said we had wanted to keep a fast pace to show the despair and panic of the piece. This was achieved with many quick cuts between the two actors, the antagonist is always the calmer of the two and this is reflected by the worms eye view on him, a point which was noted as a positive by our peers. On top of this the 180 degree was kept although some people pointed out that it was emphasized too much. All the shots and cuts were relatively smooth and the protagonist and antagonists when alone in a shot were centralized.
However some negatives were pointed out that we need to consider and address before we move forward. Our peers noticed a continuity error in one of the shots, this is when the protagonist storms angrily into the room and goes over to the table, at this point the door is still open however on the next shot the door is closed. Unfortunately there was a fair amount of background noise which was out of our control, but again this should be considered before the final piece, some problems were noticed with frame composition, a lot of wasted space was seen and some objects withdrew the attention of the audience from the actors.
However after hearing the evaluation and having some weaknesses pointed, as a group we are confident that we can expell some of the negatives from our work.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Task 1.1 (Pre-lim - Storyboard)
For the Preliminary we had to film a person walking into a room with another person and film them having a conversation, this is the storyboard to that film, In it we had to keep the 180 degree rule and include a number of different shots including 'Over the shoulder', 'Worms eye' and 'Birds eye' which we completed successfully both in the film and this storyboard
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Preliminary exercise
Well, we decided to set our Preliminary task on a confrontation between a kidnapper and the father of the girl held captive. We decided upon this idea, because the mood of the preliminary piece is similar to that of the final piece. The part that we have included would feature just before the main climatic scenes. This would be at a point of dis-equilibrium with the father acting as the main protagonist to restore equilibrium.
We have the antagonist waiting for the protagonist to arrive, the Protagonist enters in a desperate mood demanding to know where his daughter is, the antagonist is using his daughter so that the father has to do jobs for him, to get his daughter back, the protagonist is clearly annoyed that he has to do another job, however he accepts it unhappily.
The 180 degree rule has been kept throughout, we also used a range of shots including establishing, close up, over the shoulder, worms eye and birds eye. We uploaded the pieces onto the Mac's and edited using Imovie HD.
We have the antagonist waiting for the protagonist to arrive, the Protagonist enters in a desperate mood demanding to know where his daughter is, the antagonist is using his daughter so that the father has to do jobs for him, to get his daughter back, the protagonist is clearly annoyed that he has to do another job, however he accepts it unhappily.
The 180 degree rule has been kept throughout, we also used a range of shots including establishing, close up, over the shoulder, worms eye and birds eye. We uploaded the pieces onto the Mac's and edited using Imovie HD.
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