Planning: shooting schedule

Shooting schedule

1.      Low angle of Ash as he runs away from the camera

2.      Mid shot of David looking at his phone

3.      Pan shot of Ash running through an alleyway

4.      Mid shot of David as he starts to run

5.      Long shot of David running over a bridge

6.      Point of view shot from Ash’s perspective as he runs across a different bridge

7.      A pan and tracking shot of Ash as he runs through the market square

8.      Close up of Ash and the camera looks up into the sky

9.      Close up of David as the camera pans down from the sky

10. A long shot of David running towards the camera near a supermarket car park

11. A Match on action shot of Ash

12. A mid shot of David coming through a different alleyway

13. A point of view shot of David coming out of the alleyway

14. Match on action shot of Ash as he opens the bag he has been carrying

15. A action/reaction shot of where ash jumps over a fence and David lands

16. A tracking shot of ash coming up past a church

17. A pan shot of David as is running towards the safe house door and a continuity shot as he enters the safe house

18. A pan shot of Ash as he runs around a corner and a continuity shot of him opening the door and going inside the house

19. A match on action shot of them greeting each other

20. A shot reverse shot of them talking to each other

21. A zoom in shot of David’s face

target audience reseach

This is a stop start motion which is made up from still shots and all put together to make it into a movie. This shows what our film is but in lego form, it is a chase.

Preliminary conclusions

1. What have your deconstructions told you about the openings of movies?
My first deconstruction Step Brothers told me that the opening is one of the or the most important part of the film, it is where you get introduced to the characters and told about the story line and what is going to happen. In my deconstruction of Step Brothers, we met the two main characters in the film and what they were both like as a person which wanted you to keep on watching the film.

My second deconstruction, Love Actually told me that the opening to this film was also one of the most important parts as at the start it tells you the definition of 'love' which is what the film is about and you get introduced to all of the characters and you get a rough idea on what is in store for you in the movie.

directors pitch

Target audience research- questionaire

Questionnaire summary

After my target audience research was complete, we thought about the kind of film we wanted to use.

The first question was a simple one, and one that we had a good idea of the answer. “Do you watch films?” To which every one of the people we asked said yes. We decided after that to base our target audience to our generation.

“Who do you watch them with?” A lot of people said both friends and family to this question. This made us think about how we could make our film appeal to both our generation and their family market of filming.

“What genre do you watch?” Most people said a comedy/ action; this is the mixed genre we decided to use, as we thought it would appeal to our generation & target audience.

“Does the opening raise questions?” There was about a half and half split for whether the target audience wanted the opening to raise questions so we decided, to leave the audience making up their mind about what is happening in the plot, basically leaving questions to be answered & to get the audience thinking.

“Do you like it if there is a soundtrack?” The majority said yes, this confirmed what we were planning to do. We used the “Great Escape” by We Are Scientists, as it fitted our genre and target audience & was also appropriate to the theme of our film.

“Do you like the start sequence to set the scene?” There were mixed feelings about this question but the majority said yes. We decided to set the scene for the rest of film from the 2 minute start we were creating.

“Is the opening of the film the most important part?” Again a mixed view from our target audience, however we now knew that we needed to make our opening as entertaining as possible in order to keep the audience interested & wanting to see more.

“Do you prefer to watch films at home or at the cinema?” A fifty, fifty split between our target audiences meant we couldn’t make our opening film suitable for just cinema or just at home. Hopefully it will appeal to both.

Research; Film Deconstrucion

Preliminary task

This is my preliminary starring Ash Nimmo & Elliot Grice. The camera work was done by Chris Day, David Wardle & Will Sammons. In this video the shot type which is used a lot is shot reverse shot.