1.How many films do you watch per month? 2.What is your favorite genre?
3.How often do you go to the cinema a month? 4.occupation: .In education .Employed .Unemployed 5.What are your interests? 6.Do action films appeal to you? 7.What is your gender? Girl Boy 8.How old are you? 9.What do you spend your disposable income on? 10.What is your favourite action film?
The opening starts off with a medium shot of a feather traveling through the town. This suggest that this film is going to be a journey as the feather has traveled a long way to land on the main characters shoe. We are then shown a close up of the characters shoe. This shot suggests this character is important and we get the impression he is going to be the main character. Also we understand the class of this person as his shoes are very dirty and look old. But the shots suggest he is a nice person.
Slow editing pace suggests that the start of the film is going to be very relaxed, also we get the impression that nothing bad is going to happen as everything is one long shot until the feather reaches the characters foot.
We can tell that the target audience it manly aimed at people aged 13 and up. This is because at the start we see a man sitting on a bench so not many people under this age would realize what is going on. The start of this film contrasts to what actually happens in the real film and the start does not give anything away.
The music is relaxed and slow throughout the clip until the bus turns up, this connotes to the setting as the setting is also relaxed and from the music we can guess that the person is independent.
This genre is an adventure/romance, at the start we only get the impression that this film is an adventure, this is shown by the feathers long journey until it eventually reaches the main characters foot. This shot shows us that the film is going to be based on a long journey and obstacles that have to be faced.
The use of a feather is a good idea in the opening scene because it means that you can understand what the film is going to be about in more depth. Also you get a feeling for the characters that are going to be involved, we get the impression he is going to be a nice gentle person as this is what the idea of a feather gives off.
I believe that the opening is not one of the best as you do not know what is going to happen and you can you imagine what is going to happen, also after watching the film the start does not set the scene well. I do think that the film is good. You can imagine what the character has to go through and you wish you could change that, the film is gripping and i think although the start is not very good i think it keeps you gripped as you want to know a bit more.
I believe that our preliminary task could be improved if i were to do it again. This is because you do not see Luke sit down next time i will edit it so that this does not happen and so it is not visible
This shows us the audience that we aim to target as our genre is action, we expect it to target the same age group as James Bond as this is the same genre as our opening.
We start of with an over the shoulder view on the girl. This shot is also a long shot, this shows us who the main character is going to be and it sets the scene nicely for what we should expect to happen and when this incident is going to occur. When we get a close up on her we see her facial expressions and we are unaware of what is going to happen, the low angle shot makes us realize that something is after her but we are not quite sure what and we do knot see the thing looking at her. we begin to feel that it is a dangerous creature and the shot makes it seem as if this creature is dominant over the female character. The the shot zooms in and we see the creature is closer, this then makes us realize something bad is going to happen and we begin to worry about what is going to happen to the girl. Close ups on the girl show us that she is in trouble but she does not realize as we see her facial expressions to be excited.
A slow editing pace means that tension builds up due to us seeing many long shots on her. As we see the girl begins to get into trouble we see the editing pace builds up, this makes us see many different shots of the girl and we can tell that she is going to get hurt. Also a lot of shots builds the tension up even more and creates a climax.
The genre is made clear in this opening as we can constantly see the girl in trouble. This tells us it is a horror film. The building up of tension and the changing of editing pace makes the genre clear and tells us what it is going to be.
This film is targeted toward teenagers, due to the film being set on the beach most teenagers would be attracted towards this as many teenagers go on holiday to beach places. The young actor also links to the holiday point as this can be related to by teenagers.
Music is being played gently and happily throughout the opening of this film. We do not get the impression that something bad is going to happen, but there are parts where we feel uneasy as the music is a bit too relaxed. Tension builds up when she is getting dragged around the water, but it is only late on when she has drowned the music increases in volume and we then realize that she has died and had been killed by a fish.
I do not think that this opening is very good because it is just one long scene of her swimming, you can tell something is going to go wrong, you know what is going to go wrong and finally you can tell that its is going to be a boring film as there is nothing much else they can base it on as the opening scene shows everything. Also the main part that is meant to make you jump, does not achieve this because of the music.
For our movie location we will need an open calm road for the moped case
scene to be filmed. We will also need an empty car park near that road so we
can film the power slide scene. My first initial idea was to do it at Epsom
downs as it has a calm road leading up to a gravel car park which will make it
easier to power slide. The open area of the downs will also provide a decent
shoot out scene.
For the integration scene we will need to use a garage or some sort of empty
dull room with a hanging light. My garage could be used as it had a hanging
light and it is the right size but it will need a decent clew out for the scene
to look realistic
We want our movie to be an
action movie. We will like to start our movie opening scene right in the middle
of an action scene to get our viewers intrigued. i have my moped so we will use
that as a chase scene and perhaps a power slide into a shooting scene. This
will act as a prologue and at the end of the scene it will go back in time at
the beginning of the movie. For this we will use a mixture of fast pace shots
to make the chase scene fast and vicious.
What we could do to make
our opening scene more complicated but more engaging is to put the main
character in an unknown location seemingly captured by the 'baddies'. Whilst
being interrogated the main character walks through the action scene as it is
being shown. The action scene will be presented as a flash back to the
audience. For the interrogation the camera shots will be mainly close up to
show the main characters facial expressions and injuries. we will need to use
the 180 rule to make the scene look better.
