Photo shots of our locations

 

 

 

 

 We used these positions and camera angles to add drama and anxiety to our film. By running across the bridge and over the road it makes the audience feel worried for both characters as they can easily be hit by a moving vechicle. Our film is an action film and it links in to James Bond as they both have high drama at the start of films and catch the audiences attention with a wide range of camera angles rangin from high angle to over the shoulder shots.

 

 



 

Audience Research and Profiling

Target Audience:
The target audience for our film is for 15 year ols and upwards towards the 60s. This is because there are a few scenes of violence and swearing can be a posibility and so is not suitable for a younger audience like children.
It is mainly a male audience that will be interested in watching our film as there is fighting scenes and the male characters in the film are trying to be brave throughout which comforms the typical male stereotypes.
It is not aimed at females as there is no romance in the film and it isnt a fantasy as its more of an action/sci-fi.
Other films:
The films that are similar to our film are James Bond, especially Skyfall as there is a chase scene and many other action/sci-fi films.

Brainstorming ideas.

Initial ideas of the content in our opening 2 minutes.

Here are our first inital ideas of the content of our first two minutes. This isnt really saying anything about the background information about what is in the brief case, it will be more what the audeince will be seeing.

Warner Bros

Warner Bros

About Warner Bros

Warner Bros is an American film producer of Film, Television, Music and Entertainment. It was first founded in 1923. The founder of it were 4 brothe named Albert, Harry, Jack and Sam Warner

The head quaters of them is in Burbank, California, U.S.A.
They are a global leader in creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses.

Universal Studios

Universal Studios



About Universal Studios

Universal Studios is an American Motion picture studio, owned by Comcast. It was founded on 30th April 1912. The founders were Caerl Laemmle, Pat Powers, mark Dintenfass, William Swanson, David Horsley, Charles Baumann, Adam Kessel and Jules Brulatour.

Universal studios serves world wide and has 4 different locations accros the world;America (California and Florida), Japan and Singapore.

Universal is the fourth oldest Institution in that world that still has continuous production. And is in the top six major movie studios. Their Revenue is $4.239 billion (2011) and their operation income is $27 million (2011).

Paramont Pictures

Paramount Pictures



About paramount pictures:

Paramount pictures are a Film and television priduction/distribution studio, consistently ranked as one of the largest film studios. It is subsidiary of U.S. media conglomerate Viacom, paramount is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. It has distributed various commercially successful film series, such as Shrek, Star Trek, Jackass, Indiana Jones, Kung-fu-panda.

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the worls behind Universal Studios, Nordisk Film, Pathé, and Garumont Film Company. It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood disstrict of Los Angeles. Paramount dates its ecistence from 1912 founding datt of the Famous Players FIlm Company. Founder Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working class imigrants.

Certificate research

 

Certificate Research

There are 6 main certificates for films according to the British certificates since 2009, they allow and forbid certain people to watch films due to age restrictions.
The certificates are the following:

This certificate's Name is Universal. This means that the film is suitable for all ages and that the younger generation does not need to be accompanied by an adult. However before 2009 there used to be a certificate which was Uc. This was suitable for all, but especially suitable for young children to watch on their own. But because the certificate U pretty much covered this they scrapped this from 2009 onward.

The name of this certificate is Parental Guidance. This is for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. So this leaves the parents to decide whether they accompany their child or not.







The name of this certificate is 12 Accompanied/ Advisory. This means that it is suitable for those aged 12 and older (cinema only) so this is only used in the cinema not on films or TV programmes that you watch/buy;under 12s admitted, but only if accompanied by an adult








The name of this certificate is just 12. This is suitable for those aged 12 and older (non cinema only) So this is not used in the cinema only when buying films etc.








The name of this certificate is just 15. This is suitable for those aged 15 and older and the person does not need to be accompanied by an adult. Sometimes if this were to be used in a cinema or when buying/renting a film then they may get asked for id.

The name of this certificate is just 18.It is listed on films and TV programs. and is suitable for those who are 18 an older. This probably because the scenes that are within the film may be unsuitable/violent for those who are at a younger age.

Questionnaire Q6

For this last question that we asked the audience how they would prefer the film to end. The options being A twist, Hero beats villain, or a cliff hanger. A twist and the Hero beats the villain were both at 20% and then the cliff hanger was 60%, this gave us the impression that the audience wanted something that would leave them trying to figure out what was about to happen. We are going to implement this into our film by having a stand off at the end with the villain and hero both holding guns at one another, and the screen will go black and then we will hear a gun shot, this will be a cliff hanger because it will make people think who just got shot if anyone did get shot.

Questionnaire Q5

For this question we asked people wether they liked the action genre to be based on A normal citizen, Criminals, Agents or other. For this 10% chose other 20% chose a normal citizen 30% chose Criminals and the other 40% chose agents. I think they chose Agents and criminals because alot of action films are based on either Criminals or Agents which are usually extremely successful films, for example, James Bond.

Questionnaire Q4

Here we just had a basic Yes/No question asking wether they liked to have an action based film or not. The majority of the vote casted as Yes and a small minority said no. We have again taken this too account but we had already decided that our opening of our film will be action packed.

Questionnaire Q3

For this question we asked what type of style of fighting do you prefer. The most common answers were james bond and Jason bourne instead of sherlock Holmes and Jackie Chan. This gave us the idea that if we followed our film with James Bond then it should be favoured with the audience.

Questionnaire Q2

For this question there was only a choice of two answers; Urban and Rural. 20% said rural and 80% said Urban. We have also taken this into account and we are going to base the chase scene in a Urban area, but we are then going to perhaps the end of the scene in a field which will look fairly rural.

Questionnaire Q1

 

We decided to take the chase scene results into account and we are going to use it within our first opening two minutes. 

Original Script for our Film

The scrpit for our film is as follows:

We first see the hero following the villian down an alleyway. The villian keeps on turning around seeing if the hero is following him and he is. the villian then runs off and we see the flashback of what happened 2 minutes before:

Agent: Alright geezer, what you got in dat briefcase
Villian: Never you mind, cant stop ive got somewhere to be.

Agent puts his arm across to stop villian walking further.

Agent: I dont think so mateee, now hand over the briefcase.
Villian: Dont test my patience otherwise it could look nasty.

Agent: we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice i would rather do it the easy way,   wouldnt you.

Villian: seriously im late now get out of way you prick

Agent swips his foot at the villian to put him on the deck and starts to beat him up. We then see a close up shot of the villian take out his gun and shoot the agent in the chest. The hero over sees this and calls out.

There is no dialogue for the next 45 seconds. The hero cathces up and holds a gun to the villian.

Hero: Oi stop, I know what you have done and I know whats in your briefcase, now turn around and hand it over.

Villain: No chance

Villian takes out his gun and holds it up aswell.

Hero: You dont need to this now come on drop the weapon.

Villain: No chance

The audience then see a close up of both people slowly pulling the trigger. The screen then goes black and we hear the sound of a gun in the background causing a cliffhanger.

Codes and Conventions for Action

Action:



The Codes and Conventions for Action are to have a discrete location like Indiana Jones. This is because it exites the audience as they could be on a long adventure coming across many tasks to do with killing. We can tell this as there are close up shots Of Indianas whip. There is normally a mysterious background noise in action films to keep the tension within the scrnr. As the scene moves on the music willnormally intensify to show that something dangerous might happen and so it keeps the audience glued to the screen.
In action films we normally see low angle shots on the villian at the start of the film to show that he is trying to be the leader of everyone and that he is in control. As the we move through the film, the camera angles will change and there will be low angle on the hero as he mormally saves the day and the villain loses.
The type of clothes that a villain would wear is smart as he wants to show that he is professiomnal in his job and that no one can knock him down. On the other hand the hero will have poorer conditioned clothes as he is trying so hard to get his goal that he cant keep on changing his clothes. We see this in Indiana Jones as he is always wearing an old ripped t-shirt until in the last few scenes where he had succeed, then he will change in to smarter clothes to show that he is now taken ober that control.