Timline of When Titles Appear

Timline of When Titles Appear:

The Football Factory:
00:03 - A Vertigo Films Rockstar Games Production

00:10 - A Nick Love Film

00:16 - Starring Danny Dyer

00:20 - Starring Frank Harper

00:24 - Starring Tamer Hassan

00:29 - Starring Roland Manookian

00:33 - Starring Neil Maskell

00:38 - Starring Dudley Sutton

00:47 - Starring Jamie Foreman

00:52 - Casting Director Sam Chandley

00:55 - Make up and hair designer Deanne Turner

01:00 - Costume designer Jayne Gregory

01:03 - Composer Ivor Geust

01:07 - Music supervisor Lol Hammond

01:10 - Editor Stuart Gazzard

01:15 - Production designer Paul Burns

01:21 - Director of photography Damien Bromley

01:27 - Executive producers Rockstar Games

01:33 - Executive producers Robert Blagojevic and Rupert Preston

01:37 - Based on the book "The Football Factory" by John King

01:47 - Produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson

01:49 - Written & Directed by Nick Love

Comparing the opening sequences of' 'The Football Factory', 'Kidulthood' and 'This Is England' we looked at when titles appear. We noticed that The Football Factory has the most amount of titles and Kidulthood has the least amount.

Both This is England and The Football Factory have the characters names in the opening titles but Kidulthood does not. We think this because most of the actors staring in Kidulthood are unkown and if people are drawn into the film they will want to watch untill the end credits where they see the actors names.

As a group we have compared the three films opening titles and thought of where we will put our titles in our film.

We have decided to show the following titles in our film:

Name of Film

In Association with...

Production Company

Director

Names of Actors

Texture Analysis (Micro/Macro) of Opening Sequence

Texture Analysis (Micro/Macro) of Opening Sequence:

The Football Factory:

The Football Factory begins by fading into a title telling you the name of the production company that made the film. As it comes on quite quickly and has high tempo upbeat music playing over it the film grabs you straight away and your whole attention is focused on it.

The sudden quick camera shots reflect the fast paced action the film goes at. Throughout the opening two minute sequence there are lots of different camera changes of different shots. they have used the technique of panning, jibbing and tracking all in the opening sequence.

The opening sequence has used mostly pictures of football hooliganism, fighting, drugs & sex. All the photos have been edited so the lighting is dark and the pictures are slightly blurred. This gives a representation of what the film is going to be like and what genre it is straight away. The photos roll quickly with titles in between.

The music playing in the opening sequence adds tension and builds up to the main part of the film. at the beginning of the film the music starts off at a high tempo and gradually builds up speed and tempo. This adds a sense of realism and with the disturbing pictures being shown it adds and builds up tension to the watching audience.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire:

The aim of creating a questionnaire was to receive feedback on the genre of our film that we are creating a short film on and to see what people like in a film.

Questions we asked:

1) What is your favourite genre of film?

From the results we received from our questionnaire's we sent out, most of the boys that filled it in said they are interested in fast paced action films and Horrors. The girls sent back differently and said they was more interested in watching chick-flicks and romantic comedies.

2) What will have to be in the first two minutes of a film to keep you watching on?

From the feedback we received most of the people said they would expect a lot of fast paced action and a build up of tension in the first two minutes of a film. This would be successful with fast paced and quick changes of camera shots.

3) On average how many films do you watch a month?

o 5 and under
o 6-14
o 15 and over

From the answers we received most people generally attend the cinema around 5 times and under each week. With a few attending over 6 times a month.

4) What is your all time favourite film?

Some favourite films were listed as:

Die Hard

Miss Congeniality

Top Gun

Adulthood

5) What is the most disappointing film you have seen and why?

Some films films were listed as:
Mr Bean's Holiday

Alone in the Dark

Disaster Movie

6) What genre of film do you mostly have in your DVD collection?

Many peoples genre varied with boys tending to have more action and comedy films. Where as girls had more romantic and chick flick films.

7) What makes a good ending to a film?

People answered this question by saying a good ending of a film would consist of being high in action with the tension being built up throughout the film. Also people said they liked an ending that they can understand easily.

Production Documents

Pre Production Report:

As a group I felt that we are working very well together considering we have less numbers than other groups. We came to a quick decision to choose the genre drama as we felt it would be a genre we would pull of most succesfully and enjoy working with. With each task we did e.g the treatment, shot list, mise-en-scene and risk assesment we dished out to one another and worked on it so we would get it done quicker.

As a group we havent really encountered any problems but sometimes we have found ourselfs working far to qucikly and maybe soemtimes we have needed to pick up the pace in order to get tasked completed in time. Because of this we have soemtimes been uplaoded with a lot of work and been trialing behind.

We have encountered a few things we have had to change for example we had a few problems with the genre but in the end changed action to drama as we feel it would suit as better. Also we have had to change the date of our filming as we was not available to film on a certain day.

As a group the only thing that we have dissagreed with is the names of the charcters and plot of our film. This is because we felt it didnt go with the genre correctly but after a discussion we eventually came to an agreement. Evreything else we all agreed with.

Shot List:

Storyboards:

Risk Assessment:

Mobile phone interrupting filming - Turn the phone off to avoid it going off and disrupting the filming. This will help to keep full focus on filming.

Stairs - Take care when on the stairs especially when carrying equipment. Also when filming on them, make sure equipment is positioned correctly.

Moving equipment - Take care when you are moving equipment to avoid injury and damage to yourself and the equipment.

Opening and closing doors - Take care when opening and closing doors making sure you don’t get your fingers caught.

Cooking - Make sure we don’t burn the food otherwise this will waste valuable time.

Slipping on kitchen floor - Don’t mess around and keep the kitchen floor clean.

Train noise - Make sure we film when there are no trains coming along the track. If there is we will have to re-film the clip.

Cars - Do not film during rush hour. This will ruin our clip if loads of cars come along the road.

People - While filming in the train tunnel we will have to make sure no stranger ruins our clip. To avoid this we will have to minimise the amount of shots we take and make sure we only have to take many retakes.

Rain - If it rains it would ruin our clip. We will avoid this by checking the weather forecast forehand before we film.

Script:

Location Reece:

For our short film we have decided to film in three separate locations. A garage in a farm, a house and a train tunnel. We have received confirmation that we are allowed to film in all three places well in advance so its not a hassle finding places to film.

We have decided the garage would be a good place to film our first scene as it is a dark area and it will add atmosphere and eeriness to our scene also there is a lot of space so we can have a lot of different camera shots.

Crew & Cast List:

Recent films from the Genre Action

Recent films from the Genre Drama:

Some recent British Drama films are:

- This Is England (2006):
Set in the 1980's the film covers a troubled boy growing up, the film covers friendship, violence and racism. This Is England could relate to our film as we could cover friendship and bonds between our two main characters.

- Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998):

Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash. This film could relate to ours as we could see gambling and a lot of high stakes scenes.

- The Football Factory:

The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using thier fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frightingly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.

- Mean Machine (2001):

A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards. The film covers a lot of physical violence, racism, and murder. Some of these issues we could use as a motivation for our film.

- Shifty (2008):

Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris, confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he's hurtling towards.

We can highlight some of the issues used in Shifty e.g drugs, drug dealing, dark pasts and friendships and use them in out film.

History of Genre (Action)

History of Genre (Action):

Action films have only recently started to develop in the 1970's. But overtime they have evolved to what they look like now. In the 1920's - 1930's action films were often described as "swashbuckling adventure films." Towards the 1940's - 1950's action films were seen as war and cowboy movies and in the 1960's - 1970's is when the action film started to develop. With films such as the James Bond films introduced a new fast paced style of action film with quick cutting, fast car chases, fist fights and a variety of weapons and gadgets. In the 1980's Action films took over the Hollywood industry and was labelled the "action era" with stars such as Slyvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson and Arnold Schwarzenegger popularizing the genre.

Group Meeting

Group Meeting:


Decisions made about genre + why?:
As a group we came to a conclusion to pick the genre action for our short film. We picked this genre as we felt that as a group it would be the type of genre that we could pull of succesfully. We came down to two genres to pick from comedy & action and decided to go for action as we felt we would also enjoy working with that genre throughout the task.


Plot for whole film:
Sean and Deano are two ordinary geezers in their twenties caught in massive amounts of debt due to endless amounts of drug taking and betting. After many years of being flatmates they become very close. They both later on in the film though fall out with each other after having an argument about rent on the flat.

The beginning of the film shows Sean tied up with Deano intimidating him with a baseball bat because Sean has slept with Deano’s girlfriend. This is ironic because they are both best mates and do everything together. In the opening scene they plan and successfully pull of a drug deal together.

Throughout the film Sean gets involved in all kinds of trouble. This included a drug deal that an old enemy tips the police off about, Sean manages to escape but things from that moment start to get a whole lot worse when Sean sleeps with Deano’s girlfriend after a drunken night out.

The end scene shows Deano and Sean having it out. Deano kidnaps Sean and ties him up in a dark garage and intimidates him with a baseball bat. The ending shows Deano being escorted away by the police and Sean leaving in a ambulance after something went horribly wrong in the garage.

Plot for opening sequence:

The opening scene will show the ending of the film to encourage the audience to watch on with tension and establish a non-linear narrative.

This scene opens with Sean in the middle of a dream, its shows him tied up in a dark cold garage. After a short exchange of words with the person who has tied him up, he gets hit around the head with a baseball bat.

The bad nightmare is short lived though and he wakes up disturbed. This is ironic because the person who had him tied up was his flatmate; this is our hook in the film. When Sean wakes up, he begins to get ready for the big event, he first off, does press-ups, followed by a shower, and he then goes downstairs to have breakfast.

Soon on in the opening we are introduced to his flatmate “Deano” when they sit down with each other and have breakfast to discuss a drug deal that they are going to be involved in.

After speaking for a while they soon set off to the drug deal in a deserted tunnel. After this the audience see the end of the opening and the beginning to a new setting and time.

Conventions of an Opening Sequence

Conventions of an Opening Sequence:

Main Brief

Main Brief:

Building on your skills from the prelimanary excercise produce the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidates(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from copyright-free source.