This shot is an establishing shot shows the start of a match action sequence which shows a hostage situation were a interrogator threatening a kidnapped person supposedly owing them something important. The shot is an extreme close up of a door handle starting to move in a suspicious way.
This shot shows the match on action where the dark figure has now walked into the room revelling it to be very low key lighting to increase the amount of tension when it is shown when a slouched person sat in the corner of the shot with a sack on their head. The shot is over the shoulder as the man in foreground is out of focus and the man in the background is in focus.
This close up shot of a hand starting to switch a light on, there is the sound of the light switch and the shot is in a still camera.
This shot is a long shot which shows the man in the background standing after turning on the light, the light would then turn on and reveals that the man in the foreground is tied up with a sack on his head, there will not be much sound in this shot except for maybe the sound of the light flicking.
This is a medium long shot and it is showing both sides of the room as the man walks over and sits down on the opposite side of the room to the hostage. The sound of the chair being pulled back can be heard.
This medium shot is showing the interrogator talking calmly to the hostage, the tone of the voice gets angrier after each sentence. The shot shows the detail of 180 degree rule where a shot has to have the same continuity of the place of camera.
This close up shot shows the response from the hostage which is that he doesn't say anything adding to the tension of the sequence. The room is very low lit to connote danger in the situation and the sound of heavy breathing can be heard faintly from the hostage.
The medium shot shows the end of the shot reverse shot sequence as it can be seen that the interrogator is visibly angry and shows this by loudly hitting the table and objects that are around him.
This long shot shows a pan around the room that the situation is in and shows the interrogator rapidly walking towards the hostage and is about to take of the sack which is on him. The sound of the footsteps can be heard and the shear anger in the voice of the interrogator.
This medium shot shows the interrogator violently attacking the hostage and is shown to be immensely angry there is a sound of a struggle and slurred speech, the camera is again still to show the shocking sequence that is being shown to the audience.
This shot is a close up and after the altercation, the interrogator begins to leave the room and leaves the victim and is visibly shaken after the attack, the sound of banging footsteps and heavy breathing are clearly heard.
All these shots shows how this short film was created and is shown with all of the directions and changes that has changed due to characteristics that was hard to change in actual filming.
The Initial Ideas of Production
The first idea for the major production in media studies is to create a Coming of Age British comedy/drama film that takes inspiration from Art House films from the 1950s in France. The target audience will be the teenage demographic because the most likely age to go to watch films at the cinema would be teenagers. The music that would be in the opening sequence would be similar to the Britpop music that was very popular in the 90s with the inspiration coming from bands like Oasis and Blur, also with the New Wave of Indie music that is very popular now, like music from The Vaccines or Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, the music would then by energetic, loud and light hearted which would go with the genre of the film which follows a teenage boy go through everyday life.
Ideas for Location
This location would work well with our production as it shows a very common suburbia type house with the modern features added to it. The location could show what type of person lives in it, for example the person that would be likely to live in this house is the more popular character as it is represented as being modern and not what a unpopular person might live in, however as our production is to show teenagers world and very coming of age, it could be the unpopular teenagers house as they may want to rebel against their parents and follow the seterotype of teenagers in conventional film where they don't do what the parents tell them.
This location shows a very modernistic kitchen which would be difficult to differ between the teenager whose house this would be in because it could be represented with the popular teenager but it could also be represented with the unpopular teenager as again it could be a nice location but with the unpopular teenager not being affiliated with nicer accessories.
This location is another idea from one of the members from the group. It shows the sun shining at what can be seen in suburbia, this would be a good idea to film this for the more popular character as it looks as if it's an area which seems quite wealthy and the representation of popularity in films goes with wealth. However, this setting is from the area in which we would film for the more unpopular character this represents that the character must be an oddball if they are not quite normal if they live in an area in which would usually collect many people who would socialise.
This bedroom would more represent the more unpopular child, with no offence intended to the group member who is allowing us to use his bedroom as a location. The posters on the wall can be described as quite nerdy as they could be represented with games, this would mean that unpopular character would be more likely being on video games than socialising thus meaning he is unpopular.
Plans for opening scene
Like it has already been stated, our production is about a socially awkward 16-17 year old going through their daily routine of waking up and going the generic breakfast routine. The most likely candidate to play the main protagonist would be Matthew Dale, who is one of the four members of the production group. Matthew fits the stereotype of the original 'nerd' type character with his general unenthusiastic appearance and his optimises what would be seen as the typical geeky character in a film, much like Peter Parker from Spiderman or the Napoleon in Napoleon Dynamite, this would be shown through the shots showing the main character missing the bus and definitely show how much of a loser the character would be. In the extract, our production group will try to make the character seem as geeky as possible but not making it as ridiculous or unrealistic. The problem with this is that this idea may be stereotypical in the world of film as this idea has been used so many times before and this has been reiterated many times, so the solution that we as a group made is to create another character so most of the audience can relate to both opposites of the teenage spectrum where one character is the stereotypical nerd and the other is the coolest person possible. This would complete the idea of the film by having both realistic characters forming an unlikely friendship within an area which would make this scornful, thus making the film as the Coming-of-Age genre. The second character has become a new idea for our production as it gives it new incite into what might happen in the future of the film. One of the groups members suggested that we use one of the existing group members rather than just Matthew, this maybe a good idea as it keeps it more reliable and quick to do, however I suggested that we use someone different from our own social group so it gives an insight into what might happen to teenagers rather than our own friends, so we could ask a number of candidates to become our popular character but it has yet to be decided.Character Two: Cool Person
The idea for the second character that will be in our production is the exact opposite compared to the main protagonist as he is shown to be confident, popular and what would be stereotypically seen in a teenage British film of a cool character. Firstly, the character must be shown as what the audience would believe a person to be cool, so the character must be perceived as confident but with a hint of arrogance to fully gain the look of what a cooler character must be seen as. The setting for the character must show what the character must be like outside of the home environment, so for example, the stereotypical cool character may have sports medals around or there may be photos around with friends showing that the character isn't very socially awkward like the first character above. The appearance of the character must show the latest design of what is seen with most teenage boys in the country at this time, so there would be a lot of designer made clothes by popular brands such as Jack and Jones, Superdry and Burton. The performance of the character must be seen as very laid back and shown to go with the flow of life and ultimately be able to adapt to certain situations to the best of their ability and pays off. When the character is at school, within the group this has been discussed greatly because one of the main ideas of the film is to show that this character is the total opposite to the first character, so stereotypically, this would be a male who seems very confident and is represented as being popular as when they come into school/college he does have many people around him and is the centre of attention and is the envy of most of the people in the surrounding area, for being immensely popular and also being stereotypically an attraction to the opposite, this is why that the second character is most likely to be male because it will truly be able to bring out the arrogance of the character. The actions of the character can be shown to be very stereotypical because he can be represented as being quite harsh as most stereotypical popular characters are but can be represented as being daring as he does not care for the consequences of his actions thus giving him more of a popular appearance as people will look up to him. However, the character may not be stereotypical as he may seem harsh but when he first sees the first character it can be represented that he shows some feelings that the character is hard done by and needs someone to talk to, this would then be the general basis for the rest of the film.
Experiment with Sound
The idea of the film being a coming of age genre type, the music that we choose for the production must be quiet niche so that it will be able to fit the representation of both characters that are going to be shown in each scenes, for example with the more unpopular teenager, the group has decided to choose the type of music which is now played by many modern type bands like Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds or The Kooks, however we cannot use direct songs from these performers as we need to create our own soundtrack for the production. The group has decided to try and persuade one of our friends who is able to play the guitar and try to help them create at least a minute guitar rift which could be easily represented with the unpopular character in the production. For the more popular teenager, as a group we would like to keep the Indie genre to be included with the music, however this may be difficult to find as music Indie bands do mostly sound the same and are less likely to represent the character as being popular, I take the intuitive to look for websites which offer Indie/Rock bands who were not signed, so we could use them in our media production. I found a site named www.unsignedbands.com, this website gives many bands who offer different genres of music, so if the group changes our outset of what music will be on the production, the site will be able to give us many different genres of music which we could use.
Storyboards of Production
This storyboard shows the morning routine of the unpopular character going through the daily troubles of what happens to a very unpopular teenager, for example going to school with some of their breakfast on their face or missing the bus, the use of physical comedy will give a very edgy part of the comedy for the production as this type of comedy will attract a much younger audience, as it's shown in the questionnaire results, the cinema going demographic 15-24 year olds do enjoy comedy films then any other. With the following shots, the problem is that we completed this storyboard without thinking about including another character to the production, now that we have thought about this, it will be more beneficial for the production to have a second character who is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to the first character, the character would be one of the most popular person at the college both characters go to.
Also with these following shots, we completed them without considering the idea of another character, so most of the shots now are mostly experimental, however some of the shots like 27,28 and 29 will still be in the film as it is vital in introducing both of the characters as they involve both of them. As most of the shots maybe experimental, the amount of time for them to be filmed will vary from shot to shot, as we need to keep continuity between each of the shots and try to keep the genre in keeping with the Coming-of-Age genre.
