Today we did some more editing to the things we have filmed on Thursday, we have basically finished with editing, however we didn’t get to film the end part yet, when the boy gets stabbed by the bad guy, because as we were not able to make it in the weekend. Hopefully we will have to do this either today after school or tomorrow, depends on the weather. Also we discovered we could add some match on action in the clips were the boy is skating to make it look more dramatic, this also we will have to do in the next couple of days depending on the weather.

Our Chosen Genre

Why we chose to do A Crime/gangster Theme

The idea of us doing a crime/gangster movie is that the films such as kidulthood/adulthood have really inspired us. We thought we do something about what teenagers go through in the real life now. All the crime the drugs, theft and murder. This has really appealed to us so we thought we want to make something similar to inspire all the other teenagers.

The opening of the kidulthood trailer contains a flash of everything. Drugs, alcohol, sex, drug dealers etc this is what the media thinks of teenagers now a days. The hoodies, especially when it comes to black people with the hoodies on and the baggy jeans, they straight away accuse them to be gunmen, drug dealers etc. so when you think teenagers you right away think of all the things I have mentioned.

It contains a lot of different shots including quite a lot of montage editing

Some Editing

Editing


Today we did some editing to the scenes we filmed yesterday; we repeated quite a lot of scenes, so if they didn’t look accurate we could always choose from the others. We also got to the point were we are still deciding what music to include. But as one of our group members was off ill today, we didn't do it yet, so we could ask him if he agrees with the idea of our chosen music theme.

Filming

Filming

Yesterday we did some more filming down Deanlane Skate Park. We got quite far, the only scene that is left to film, now is the knife attack part. Which would only take about 10 to 15 minutes to film. Hopefully we might be doing this in the weekend, to get finished with the filming and continue with editing.

Film Opening

This was also one of the films that has inspired us

 Domino..

I am going to analyse how camera, editing, sound and mise en scene are used as conventions in the action thriller Domino.

The extract that I’ve watched uses a lot of close ups, which build the tension.

At the start of this extract, they included the close up on the police woman; this showed her reaction, and emotions. It showed us the strength she had of being in charge, however it also showed us the anger and pressure she was put into. Also another close up was on the woman that was wanted for crime, this close up showed the fear, anger in her face, and we could see the eyeliner running down her face sweating. The final close up was focused on the old man on the ground covered in his own blood, he was calling the name of the woman he was with she must be related to him in some way,  he looked  frightened  that if she got shot, and tried to convince her to put down her weapon before she got shot. A close up lets the viewers focus on the character emotions as the background isn’t visible. There was also a crane shot at the second scene at the very end of this extract, it shows the sunset behind the mountains which showed what time of day it was shot, then moved straight of to a long shot onto a different scene which showed a stereotypical American empty farm, land, this shows the setting of the scene.

After the first scene right away, they started with the names fading in and played this rapping style gangster music. This gives the viewer a hint of what the film might be about. The stereotypical way of thinking how something is linked with the music. This could be known as sound motif. The type of music that played at the start identifies, the gangs, youth, crime generation of how people link it with, when you say rap that’s the first idea that comes up. Also during the introduction of the film they included images of some different scenes in the film, whilst this was going on they included voice overs of some of the characters, saying things such as “I have to start at the beginning” “America”, it also gave bits away of the film’s plot. Even the song they played. The rappers kept repeating “trying to make a living”. You get the feeling of the stereotypical American, crime, men films of selling drugs on the street to make a good life for their selves.

This extract contained guns, drugs, alcohol, cars and sun glasses. It’s the stereotypical action film.

Also the scenes that came up we could see woman in nightclubs, men with guns it’s a dominant men film. You could also identify that it is a modern film, the fading in names glowing colours which again represents the night life in America. The way the woman dressed up in clubs and the also the music is modern. The lighting at the first scene was added a slightly tilt of yellow; this is that the connotations that colours carry are important showing the atmosphere in the scene.

The film is conveying to the audience by the use of real life issues; by this the audience can also relate it to their own life experience. In addition this would help the audience on how to deal with some of the issues represented in the film. 

Changes

Changes

it has come to our attention that we believe that the scene in which we planned to have the boy shot might be to difficult to film and it might be hard to get our hands on a realistic gun, and sound and so we have changed the weapon to a knife, we are also going to film this scene from quite a far away shot in the hope that it will look more realistic and not unoriginal. We have also had to change the setting of the scene as we have not been able to find a building to match our needs and so we have picked another setting, a dark dingy underpass which in our group’s opinion is better as it is more fitting the urban theme of our opening.

First Day Of Filming

Day 7

We had our fist day of filming a few days ago last Friday, the results were quite pleasing. First we had a problem as in the opening of our film we were going to borrow a friend’s car, but unfortunately he could not make it, so we had to make some scene changes. instead we had the drug dealer give the boy the package by foot and it worked quite well, every thing went smoothly, we all did some filming, thankfully the weather and background noise was really good, especially the sound of the skateboard along the ground. Our chosen settings were also well picked and we had no unwanted interference, one thing that we could have improved on was the angle of the camera as in some shots they are a little off we also messed up our first shot as it was accidently cut short and so it will have to be redone, but all in all the group worked together well and our chosen actor was very natural on camera. The next thing to do is to edit what we have filmed so far, which we done some today.

Below are some pictures of where we set our film.

Skate park down Deanlane..