Further soundtrack reseearch

Sam, Conor and I will have to produce our own music for the film otherwise we may be deducted marks for copyright. I have look at some music making software we could probably use. The first software I looked into was Garage Band on the IPad, iPod and Macs. On the garage band app you can make all sorts of music from using various different instruments such as guitars, keyboards, drums, and voice there is different types and styles to each of the instruments mentioned. The next software I looked at was an free Internet application called audiotool. Audiotool contains several different samples and loops for the user to edit and play around with. You can insert you personal sounds as well, you can edit them by using several different pedals such as a phaser and echo to edit the sounds. I have used both of these softwares and I have enjoyed using them and I found them fairly simple to use and would help greatly towards making the soundtrack to our movie and trailer. We could also make our own music with real instruments such as guitars as Sam and myself have experiance in playing the guitar so we could maybe take advantage of these skills and produce our own music that way.

Film questionnaire

What do you want to get out of a comedy film? o   Laughter o   A clever twist o   A bit of romance with a complicated relationship o   What types of comedy would you like to get? o   Slapstick comedy o   Parody o   Screwball o   What do you find funny? o   Falling o   Pie in the face o   Awkward moments o   Prejudice o   Stereotypes o   What would you like the hero to reach? o   Beat villain/kill o   Win a hot girl o   Both What is your favourite comedy film? Fill in here ………………………………………………

Audience Research

We asked 20 people all ranging in age and gender to see what they like to see in a Film and what makes them laugh. The following are the results from the questions we asked people:

Blue = Parody or a spoof

Green = Slapstick

Orange = Comedy Movie

Red = Romantic Comedys

From the research we know that more people prefer to watch slapstick comedies as they may enjoy seeing people tripping over and hurting themselves, they might also enjoy seeing these people in awkward situations. The results are suprising as I didn't expect alot of people to enjoy slapstick comedy especially older adults.

soundtrack research

So the whole group has done some soundtrack research and we have not come to the actual music that we will use yet but we have decided that we will use three different kinds of music and they will be evil music a superhero music and then we will have a strong peice of music to start our trailer such as the transformer trailer music. I think this will work well as it is quite hard hitting.

After this music goes on for aproximately we will stop it with a sort of screech as it will show Conor and Myself as superheros and as we will look totally ridiculous it will show to the audience that this is a comedy and after this music we will lead into a couple of jokes just to pushrough to the audience what this is going to be like . We will show scenes such as Conor and Myself riding on the bike.

target audience

if we decide to stick to a 15 certificate then our film will obviously need to suit mid-teens/ early twenties like stated on this blog before. I mentioned on the other post we will need aim it at this specific audience because of our writing abilities and what we find funny. The target audiece we are aiming at would be appropiate as the sense of humour of anybody older than this would be far too mature for the sense of comedy we plan to use in the film. We are likely to use some form of slapstick comedy and general comedy that people would expect from this sort of genre of film. I highly doubt that the people above our target audience would be intrested in this kind of film.

Main characters

This is a photo of my other group members, the one on the right is conor and he will be playing my side kick and the one on the left, Sam, will be playing the villain in the film. Conor will be wearing the wrestiling mask, Conor will essentially be my best friend as he will support me through the process of me becoming a superhero as he will be my side kick as well. Sam will be the villain, he will be the person who wants to cause us trouble as superheroes. The photo above will be the chemistry between the two superheroes.

Costume

These would be the thermals I would wear as my character, and possibly these gloves. We haven't discussed wearing gloves in our movie, but I believe it would be appropriate as all superheroes wear gloves in the modern day superhero films. Conor also has similar thermals to me, he would wear them as my side kick.

Extra's

we need to start think about casting and we may need some extra's in our film as we only have three in our group. We are going to need extra's to play the villains, sam, henchmen. We were thinking about school friends to play this role, they will only be in the film briefly as the main focus will be on the three of us, Sam Conor and I. we may only need these henchmen for the advert becasue we don't know if we would go far enough into the film in order to show these henchmen in action. we will need to discuss this futher on in more detail. Possible extra is Billy Yates, a class mate of ours.

Taken opening 2 minutes

the film taken stars Liam Neeson and grossed around $145,000,989. The first scene has a clip of  five year old at her birthday, it appears to be a memory as it is all distorted and blurred. the credits are shown over the footage. suddenly it all stops and Neeson is in his apartment just waking up from a sleep his is holding a photo of the girl when she is a little bit older. He then enters a shop and converses with the shop keep, they are obviously close as the talk to each other and joke around, they finish talking and then the main character buys a karaoke machine then leaves the shop.

intial thought of trailer

I was think briefly about a possible trailer, we could have the first shot of the base of our wellies together and , similar to a scene in toy story, we would have the camera pan up the bodies of me and conor together. Whilst the camera is panning up there is dialouge of me or conor speaking about who we are and what kind of superhero we both are. We would both be pulling poses in which stereotypical superheroes will pull such as the hands on hips pose, that scene would intially stop when the camera reaches our masks.

target audience

we will want to base our target audience at 15 or above as we discussed earlier, so our audience will be late teens/early twenties. The reasobn we want to base the film at this specific audience becasue they are likely to have the same sense of humour as us, if we base it at this age it will be easy when we are preparing our scripture as we will be able to write a funny one as we know what will make them laugh. We also believe that any older than this age bracket and they simply wont find it interesting or funny enough.

more costume thoughts

conor and I were discussing more costume ideas and we thought to get the comical look to our superheroes. We were thinking about wearing items such as thermals and a wrestlers mask that conor has, conor owns a purple rey mysterio mask and a red one. We think this will be quite comical especially with the wellinton boots on as well.

certificate

Within our group we are stuck deciding what rating to give our film we belive either a 12 or a 15, conor thinks we should have a 15 rating as our film becasue we may use swear words and the humour may be a little crude for a 12 film. This rating is subject to change. The following is the link to the bbfc website which will help us to decide the rating.

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/

superhero movie

superhero movie is an example of a poor superhero spoof which failed due to weak comedy and poor effects. the movie grossed around $25,871,834, and recieved a poor rating, the film was a PG 13 and never really wowed the critics and only ever recieved a two star or a one star rating. There could have been many reasons for the slump of the anticipated superhero spoof it may have been for the list of actors whom no one have anyone had ever heard of. for me it was the comedy, it was very weak and never really made myself laugh. These are things my group and I must consider when we are writing the comedy for our film and pick costumes. We need to make sure our comedy suits the target audience we choose for our spoof.

spiderman

Spiderman is a superhero film based on the popular Marvel comic series, the film grossed around $821,708,551 and starred big names such as Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe. This fil is relevant to my research on our possible film as it is a superhero film and my group and I are planning to do a similar genre of superhero spoof. Although this film isnt a superhero spoof i think it is good to watch this genre of movies so my group knows for costumes and shot types. It would also give us a good idea in what to do for locations.

I, Robot

I robot stars Will Smith as a cop. The film starts of with the protagonist waking up to diagetic music, he live in an appartment. He is seen getting changed and puts on some converse trainers and refers to them as his beauties. You would asu,e that this scene is set in the present day as he has no futuristic technology, until he steps out his door to find a robot outside which immediately makes you think that this film is definatly set in the future. The main character has a clear disregard for this robots as he shoves the innocent robot out the way by pushing his palm to the robots face. Once the camera follows the protagonist out the appartment block the whole world he lives in is surrounded by robots and tech from the distant future. The film starred big names such as Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan and Bruce Greenwood. The film grossed an approximate of around $347,234,916.

Film location

When we were talking in a group previously we had a brief thought as to possible film locations. We would firstly film in one of our houses it would be shown as our 'batcave' and some where like the woods near the school or Ashtead common could be used for the villians evil lair.

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Alex you have a long way to go in regards to your research and planning and is concerning. You should have analysed the opening two minutes of at least six films in a variety of genres and six in the genre of your choice for the production task - which there should be evidence of preperation towards: storyboarding, interviews, photos of locations, scripting.

Some costume thoughts

We were just thinking within our group an we have decided to use welliton boots as a possible choice of footware for our super heroes. The reason we will be using Wellinton boots is because our superheroes wil be wearing what ever items they can find around their house. I think it will be funny as well as it will show the unprofessionality of the 'superheroes'



The batmobile from Batman



Me,Sam and Conor have had various ideas for our trailer such as having sam has our bad guy who looks nothing like a bad guy  for comedy purposes we then will have me and alex valente as our cliche good guys. I will be like batman and conor will be like robin and our on screen chemistry will be the same as theres. This cliche will be different as it will all be  with a comedy twist . We have decided to create our own film production called poppers production  . We think that we will use bicycles as our vehicles like the 'batmobile'.We have also decided that Conor as robin will be the more comic version of robin mean while I wills tick to the cliche strict version of batman we will also use various extras to be sams henchmen but we are yet to decide them.

Kick ass

After our group had decided on the theme of our film, we knew we were going to do a similar sort of thing like in kick ass. I then decided to watch kick ass so I would know what kind of thing this sort of movie would require. I have already watched the movie before but I thought I would watch it again to talk to my group when I next see them. The film kick ass is about a wannabe superhero who is into all of the comic books and superhero movies. The teenage boy is stereotypically not popular between boys and girls alike at the school, his only companions are three other boys which all share the same hobbies and hold the same popularity status. He soon gets fed up with his life and can't believe that no one else has tried to complete their dream and become a superhero. The film is directed by Matthew Vaugn and stars actors such as Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage and Chloe Grace Moretez. After watching the film it gave us ideas about what sort of comedy that film requires and who our target audience could be.

film thoughts

Conor, Sam and I were discussing into possible film ideas and we may do a superhero spoof or parody. This Will be very tricky to make it work properly as it would be very hard to make it funny to a broad audience, after talking about it briefly we though that we could aim the film at 15 year old upwards. we would follow in the footstep of other successful superhero parody movies such as kick ass which grossed $48,043,505. kick ass was a very successful film for a superhero parody. we are also going to be discussing other possibilities or movie genres such as a action film.

In this task we ahd to practice the 180 degree rule, we also had to practice match on action shot as well. We had to practice these different techniques becasue we may want to used them in our movie or trailer. I  thought it was pretty successful as we were able to use these shot and use them to a fairly high standard. 

other camera work practice, we involved another pair.

What we did today

Today I did some paired work with Conor Redmond to practice our camera work and film editing. The reason for this excersise was to give us practice for when we do our opening two minutes of our own movie. we were sent out to film on any location on the school grounds. We had to make three films which incorporated the phrase "what are you doing here". we would also have to use a variety of different camera angles and shot types to better our camera abilities for our final piece. We originally filmed the first scene in the hall, we then moved outside and we did another clip in the tennis courts. Our final clip was through the maths block, there was a balcony in the maths block so that gave us a perfect spot to do a high angled shot and several others. I think that this activity went well as we were able to experiment several different angles and editing techniques. I think we would have not been able to complete the task as well as we did if we hadn't have used a tripod, the tripod helped massively as it helped keep the camera steady and reduce shake.

This is some work that Conor and myself did to practice some camera work and movie editing.

This is the poster to the popular horror movie Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th is about a group of young adults set up tent near the abandoned summer camp where a series of gruesome murders are said to have taken place back in 1980. The perpetrator was a grieving mother, driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, whom she believed was neglected by the camp counselors. As legend has it, the last survivor of the attacks beheaded the woman. But then Jason came back, and he becomes a killer furled on vengeance, wielding crossbows, swords, axes and other sharp instruments or tools he can find. The legend proves horribly true, as these campers quickly discover. Six months later, the brother of one of those campers distributes posters of his missing sister. The police believe she took off with her boyfriend; but he knows better. The brother crosses paths with an uptight young rich guy who is having his girlfriend and friends over at his parents' cabin. The brother ends up at the cabin himself just before his sister's attacker sets upon them all.

This film conforms to the cliches of horror movies a lot during the film, it has the traditional adult with a child's mentality as the killer. It also has the one of the teenagers on the run from the killer, in the woods, but then they trip over a branch of some kind and the killer catches them and gives them the axe. This film is set in the woods by so no one can hear them scream when they are being attacked. The films killer is a man whom wears a threatening and scary hockey mask, at the beginning the killer starts killing with a old torn sack over his head but during the movie one of his victims pulls off his cover before he kills them so he has to look around for a new mask and he finds an old disused hockey mask.

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Research and Planning 9/20: I am aware that you have missed a few lessons and yoiur mark reflects this Alex. You need to catch up by commenting on what we expect from the horror and action genres and you need to analyse some film openings you can upload from youtube. Some good analysis, but to be working towards a B grade at the least you need to evidence a wider range of research. A good start.

Transformers opening scene review

once the movie starts there is a powerful narrative voice explaining the current situation that the earth is in. This voice is not a sinister voice so I automatically assumed that this voice could have maybe been Optimus prime, the only way I know character names is through the cartoon that were shown on television before the films release. There is White credits upon a black background before the non-diagetic narration begins. Then the cube becomes introduced into the story line, the cube is shown falling down to planet earth gathering some speed. You instantly know that the film is going to be a sci-fi as it has talks about outer space, and the cube comes from space so it is going to have some sort of out-of- space relation. The naration tells the audience about a deep feud between the two armies of robots, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons both with very different views, this was a very important aspect to the film as there may be people in the audience who may not have seen any of the transformers cartoons previously. The narration also includes on how earth gets involved in this anctient battle between the gigantic robots.

Transformers movie poster

This is the movie poster from the first of the trilogy, this is the movie I have decided to discuss the first 2 minutes about.