jack suters: November 2013

Thursday, 28 November 2013

The Dominant Position

The Message within the video may be very clear to the reader therefore the audience may take the dominant side, this means they would enjoy the text more. This may mean that the audience could relate to it more as they could be experience similar incidents if they are of a similar age. Also if the genre of the film is one that is popular with the audience they will enjoy it because they like that specific genre of film.

Take the oppositional position;
The audience may take the oppositional side because the audience may disagree with the messages that are presented in the video. Another reason may be because the audience didnt like the genre of the video. Another reason could be because they are not the same age as the characters so they cannot relate to the activities that happen in the video.

Take the negotiated position;
The audience may take the negotiated position because they may like the genre be the same age. However the messages in the video are to complex for them to understand so they cannot follow the video.

My Storyboard

Film Opening Script

Script for ' The third from last '

Script for ‘Third from last’

Producer: Tommy Clark

Camera and editing manager: Jack Suters

Actors: Ben Sparrow, Jack Suters, Tommy Clark

Titles come up with bold title of the film, then it top and bottom corners names of who directed the film, the actors and that it is based on a true story.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMeZldV-Rs

Ben is walking up a dark road on his way home; he then comes to a big dark house. The lighting at this point is very dark and dim, then music goes very slow and spooky.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCXUOZ-RLUw

The house looks dark with no lights on inside and Ben opens the door slowly as it creaks loudly (creaking voiceover). He is welcomed by pure silence in the house and goes into the lounge and puts on the tele. Over the shoulder shot of Ben looking into the lounge. Point of view shot of Ben taking his phone out of his pocket and ringing Jack as Ben hates being home alone.

Ben: Alright Jack what’s going on?

Jack: Mate I’m busy can you snap chat me please?

Ben: Ah, I hate being in home alone but yeah fair enough if you busy. Talk later mate.

Jack: Okay mate, Sweet. You sure you’re okay yeah you’ve been acting strange later.

Ben: Yeah yeah im fine, cheers anyway.

Ben puts the phone down and starts playing candy crush. The music behind goes slow.

He receives a snap chat from jack and reads in quickly and laughs to himself, TV is loud in the background, Ben then replies to jack using his switch camera.

Jack then texts Ben

Jack: What the hell is that behind you Ben I thought you said you were home alone.

Ben: Nothing you muppit stop trying to make a crap myself.

Ben looks behind him with tension music building up and nothing is there.

He then replies again saying there’s nothing behind me, your such a wind up.

Ben puts the phone down and a man with a knife appears in front of him.

A blank screen comes up and then the music from the first titles comes up again.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMeZldV-Rs

Risk Assessment

Activity Assessed: AS Media Task Filming	Hazard:	How we can avoid people getting hurt.
	Drop Equipment.	Handle it all with care.
	Lights will be off.	Be careful with movement.
	Walking down the dark road.	Be careful of cars around.
	Using a real knife.	Make sure it is a good distance away from the actor. Handle it with care.
	Using electrics, For example: TV.	Make sure we are careful when we are around them. No drinks near the TV.
	Slippery floor.	Make sure we don't fall over when filming, setting up the equipment and carrying the equipment.
	Family Members.	Could damage equipment.

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Make up research

We thought we could use a ghost/spirit within our film but we are not yet comfortable enough with our skills to edit a film to this qulatiy so we have chosen to choose a deamon and will use masks to show this.

Make up Research -

As we have chosen horror for our film genre we research a few make up techniques that were affective but as we are only amatures the results wouldnt be very good, therefore we decided to try a find a horror based mask. We have a range of about 3-5 good qality masks that we will chose between to use within our film.

Drag me to hell - Analysis

Analaiysis of drag me to hel

Analysis of drag me to hell opening scene

In the first shot of the opening scene we see a very large castle looking building. it looks a lot like a hospital type place due to the very well kept gardens out the front, and lots of rooms. The colour of this shot is dark and dull, which accompanies the naturalistic colours of the building. This could also mean it is linked to a place for older people with illnesses as it is kept very dark. Or also a place for mental people to go and get help.

The next shot we see is of the back of a truck pulling up to the place along with a woman and a young child in the back of it. The boy is wrapped up in a blanket which already starts to give the viewer a sense that something is wrong with the boy.

It the goes to the woman running up to the entrance of the place which is secured by very large gates. By having such large gates can mean the place is very strict on the people that go in their and out.

The family then go on to speak to the woman that opened the door. They tell her how their son is hearing voices. The woman then asks what he has done. By which the family respond saying, he stole a necklace from a gypsy woman. This quote then makes the viewer think about the gypsy woman. The reason for this is because she must have some sort of powers in order to do this to the boy.

The shots then go on to close ups of the boy looking very distressed. It flicks between him and shots of what he is seeing showing us that he has been possessed by something.

we then see the woman trying to get rid of the curse, only for bad things to happen. The so called ghost beats them up and then throws the boy over the stairs on to the floor.
The shot then goes to a fiery hole where the boy gets grabbed and taken in to the hole. The hole then closes up as the boy disappears, by which the title of the film then comes

Setting Research

Setting research

I have chosen Tommy Clarks house as my setting for my film opening. I have chose this venue because it shows a very strong sense of independence as he has a brick walled room within he’s room and he also has a good camera and a has good range of masks, make up and equipment to use within our film opening. We also had other venues such as Worley asylum but we decided that if we needed to request permission for this and if we need to take all the equipment there it will be much more difficult and we may not be able to alter the lighting as effectively as we can inside our selected venue. We also had an option of using Brentwood County High School however we decided within the hours given we would not be able to get the lighting and scenery as we would like to see we have altered our story line to fit a housing environment

Tommy’s house is located in Hook end, second avenue doddinghurst.

Conventions

Opening scene conventions

opening scene conventions

in the opening scene of Django, we can see that the first shot is a wide shot of simply the scenery. We can see that the scenery isn't full of trees and houses, it is simply just lots of rocks, stones and very dusty paths. The shot lasts for about twenty seconds. By the shot lasting for this amount of time allows the viewer to take in what the place was like at the time. It also keep the viewer intrigued because it makes you want to know what will be linked with such a dull and boring setting. The titles appear in large red writing normally directors wouldn't want you to take your mind off of the intro but by having such outstanding writing makes the opening credits that bit more exciting. All this is accompanied by the theme song which, is quite an upbeat song, which creates a sense of foreshadowing in the sense of happy music along side boring scenery. The music they have used is non diegetic which helps promote the sense of foreshadowing. As the opening scene goes on there is many more shots of men being lead by two men on horses, whilst in hand and ankle cuffs. This then makes the viewer realise these men have been traveling through these terrible conditions as they are clearly the slaves of these men.

When the title of the film appears it is over the top of a shot of the slaves backs. We can see many whip marks on them as their backs are bleeding and are very badly cut. The large writing in red the creates the enigma by linking the two together.