Schedule

Schedule

Script

Running footsteps, panting from Jamal out of breath running away from gang.

Gang chasing and shouting at Jamal using threatening language.

Jamal comes to a dead end and turns around and faces the gang who have now caught up with him.

Jamal: No, no wait please, I said I’ll get you your money, I just need time!

Tyrone moves slowly towards Jamal up in his face

Tyrone

 : Bruv you’ve had enough time, its over

Jamal: hang hang on, my boy has got it

Tyrone: oh your boys got it?

Tyrone turns around to the gang laughing

Tyrone: he says his boys got it…

Gang burst into laughs alongside Tyrone, then Tyrone turns back towards Jamal

Tyrone: what do you think this is, do you think this is a game? are you taking me for some sort of dickhead cuz?

Jamal struggles to get his words out..

Jamal: nah nah im begging my boy-

Tyrone: I don’t give a shit if your ‘boy’ or any other wasteman has my money. You owe me and now your gonna have to pay up boy

Gang start shouting towards Jamal more threats, Tyrone steps back and lets gang start to hit and beat up Jamal, Tyrone walks forward then pulls out knife and begins to stab Jamal. Gang continue shouting, suddenly woman screams gang turn around.

Gang member: oi T we need get out of here

Gang member: just leave him now man

Gang and Tyrone run and Jamal is left bleeding on floor.

Camera zooms towards Jamal’s face who’s practically dead on the floor.

Jamal narration:

Jamal Sean D’Marco born September 17^th 1994 at 4:03am.

Jamal Sean D’Marco deceased September 16^th 2012 at 2:37am

Who da thought, I didn’t even make it to my 18^th birthday..

I had so much ahead of me.. well that’s what my mum would say.

If only she knew what I was really like..

*flash backs to past*

Come to think of it now it was inevitable really that I was gonna end up like this, but this aint how I wanted it to end up, this aint what I wanted at all.

“I’ll probably be punished for hard living” – Tupac  

character descriptions

Character Description

Character Desciption

character descriptions

Character Desciption

hard living storyboard

film motifs

A Motif is a recurring element in a film that helps to develop a major theme in a film. A motif is usually symbolic in some way, but does not have to be. In film, a motif is typically a repeated idea, action, pattern, or image.

symbolic motifs are used throughout many films, for example  in the well know film 'The Noir' a dark street in the early hours of the morning clearly indicates a mysterious and sudden  atmosphere and that something will arise, this is then immediately followed up with intermittent flashing of neon signs.

The sense of flashing signifies danger and alert therefore one can assume that something will arise furthermore the director clearly shows this by making every shot in glistening low key, all of these indication just and up to the atmosphere of the whole eerie and mysterious sense of danger which will found out ourselves.

As out of nowhere a man appears covered in darkness this clearly symbolises his emotions and characteristics shows him to be a very dark heartless human being.

another motif found in,'The Noir' are the diverse photographic images used throughout the film is the symbolic image of unsettle disorientation which could symbolise the emasculated darken characters personality in the film.

in particular, the compositional balance within the frame is very disruptive  and very nerving in two shots that show the characters relationships with one another in addition the uncommon off angle which are uncommon in the frame so therefore this creates the symbolic sense of a mind frame  of a psychopath which we see throughout many two shots.

two shot in the frame sets clearly captures the symbolic image of psychopaths disturbed mind set. also the colour of clothing clearly shows 

Choker close-ups, framing the head or chin,; are obtrusive and disturbing. These are sometimes used on the menacing heavy, other  times reserved to show the couple-on-the-run whose intimacy is threatened or invaded.

in addition in these frames we truly witness the idea of a patriarchal society, as throughout frames we see the male character as a dominant figure and authoritative role, to emphasise that men are in a position of authority.

close frame shot clearly shows the amount of difference shows the women being imprisoned and weak.

Encoding text

Encoding our Text

For our film opening sequence we have thought of a few ways of which we will encode signifiers to help the audience identify which genre of film they are watching.
Our film is a British Crime film, and is heavily involved with gang scenarios and crime. By having this genre we speak out to quite a wide audience and this genre is quite easily noticed, but sometimes could be mistaken for a thriller. In order to make sure our audience wouldn't confuse this, we will include certain signifiers. One of these being the fonts used, for example 'West 10 LDN' uses graffitti fonts and urban backgrounds which to an audience will immediately let them know what type of film they are about to watch.

Another signifier which we will use will be the use of music and location, for this we will use quite urban, street and grimey locations to get that atmosphere of a hard life for the characters which audiences will then relate to and feel it is more of a realistic approach to what they are watching. With the style of music, we will use will also be quite urban related with a grime style, the type of music we would feel our characters would listen too.

Results from Questionnaires

Media Graphs From Questionnaires.


From the results of our questionnaires we had a mixture of answers which we initially didn't think would be a response our audience would pick. Our audience that we asked were a mixture of males and females so that we could get a wider range of views and opinions of what we should involve in our questionnaires.
One of the results which we felt really spoke out to us, was the question about the stereotypical race. We assumed that most people would pick the stereotypical view on gang crime with just a one race gang, but nearly every questionnaire we got, or from those we spoke to, said that they would find it easier to relate to the gang and film if it had a multicultural gang, indicating the strong closeness between all the youths of today rather than a clear division.
We can also see from our results how our filming location would be best to be filmed in a urban location, as it would be the best to fit the genre of this film and would look a lot better in comparison to other locations which were a choice such as a park, which was the next popular choice, as some people argued that youth's of today would be found hanging around there.

Pie Charts from Questionnaires

Focus Group

AS Film Opening Sequences Questionnaires

Target Audience description

our group decided  that our primary target audience will be urban teenagers who will be able to relate to the content by  having some sense of  experience or a relative similiar lifestyle to the characters .The secondary choice of our target audience may be powermakers that tend to have the stereotypical view upon teenagers which we want to rectify, in addition they are able to change things in society which we acknowledge in order to tackle issues raised in our opening sequence. As a group we want to demonstrate our  views and opinions on how teenagers are perceived in the media lime light  or what the majority of society thinks about teenagers in the UK  so therefore our target audience will be varied from the young and old as we want to engage a mass of viewers in our openin sequence as the characters vary from ages thus giving the audience the rare oppurtunity of relatin to more than one character, therefore the social demographic will be a mix of A-B as well as the occurence of C1.

However our target audience would be most likely to have common interest as the characters in our opening sequence fow example they would possible have the same interest in music  they would much to prefer to listen to urban musicians such as 'wiley' which they would be able to relate to personally and also his music.

another hobbie in which our target audience may demonstrate is the enjoyment of socialising with his friends  which is also similar to our characters  in the opening sequence as you tend to see them hangin in large groups which draws attention from stanbys once again our target audience will genuinely have hobbies and interest similar to the characters in the film or on the other hand our target audience will be significantly diverse than our characters but still find them intreging  so therefore our target audience can either be teenagers in urban areas or various people in society.

The target audience for our type of film would be most likely to be dominantely young teenage men, as previous urban british crime films tend to generate more male viewers due to its 'nitty &gritty'  violence it has throughout the film , which our opening sequence shares comparison with  furthermore it would also generate more  male viewer as our openin sequence is mostly played by male characters therefore our target audience will be able to relate to them for their individual characteristics such as personality.

strangled - film experiment type of shot will use in opening sequence

live type of software we would use for our title- Sketch

your group opening sequence ideas

For this task, we decided to try out our zooming techniques as this was one of our ideas which we would like to incorporate into our opening sequence. We found it quite beneficial practicing this, as we realised that we found it quite difficult to get the zoom in and out slow and steady whilst holding it as a hand held shot. We placed the camera on the floor and zoomed in and out, and we also found that with this the camera on the floor, it wasn't high enough to get our actors full face in the frame whilst it was zoomed in. From practicing filming this, we have learnt that we shall need to find a way to zoom in and out without it jolting or zooming in/out too fast as we want a slow zoom to show the tension and dramatic effect. 

media plan to opening sequence

Actors:

Roger Dos Santos                                     

Rashid Abraham

Gerald chigariro

Johnoi joseph

Kwasi Yeboah

Edward Mauricio

Jeffrey Hunter

Locations

·         Graffiti tunnel, central London.              

·         Cycle path, London SE.

http://www.locationworks.com/library.php?cat=09&area=132,0

MISE-EN-SCENE:

Costumes:

Gang members: black hoodies + black or blue jeans, chains etc. however Leader Gang member must look distinct from the group.

Victim:  grey hoodie, blue jeans and a jacket.

Play script:

Opening sequence:

·         Non-linear sequence

·         Blacked out screen, sound effects of someone running sound effects of person breathing heavily etc.

·         Flashes of the victim getting violently abused through the camera effect of P.O.V (sound effects of stabbing). For each stabs actors name coming up onto the screen with a black background.

·         Shallow focus of victim beaten to death on the ground dead, Zoom in towards the victims face showing a tight frame.  Gang members surrounding the victim body.

·         Whilst victim dead on the ground, sound effects + visual lighting of police sirens, people mourning.

·         Then opening to victims flash back and a narrative voice over, with visual images before the incident.

·         After the flashback, a dissolve then view of London with the film title.

 

Media Plan to Opening Sequence Abdiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiayyyyyy

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas