Tuesday 26 January 2016

The Hunting season
         Hood-rats 
                           Be prepared !!!!!

It that time of the year were the London communities need to once again be deeply educated about the British gang lifestyles. We plan to create a film production mainly based on teenagers and its like a montage of  a typical teenagers life from the hoods. Gang life is not a choice, it is a lifestyle to survive. Survive the hunting season, where predator and prey meet.

The hunting season is going embrace the stressful, dangerous and damaged lifestyle of gang members. A boss who makes it his Hench men's  mission to find and catch a teenager who owes him money. Like many gang members, they teenager then goes on a run and tries to survive.
They are like ruthless dogs that have no emotions.



Hunting season's one and only Hakim- a former gang member who realised that being in a gang was a waste of time, but his former gang make time to make sure they get him. Hakim now is always accompanied by his best friend Lucas, who is a former gang member and a trafficker. Lucas always tends to faint and become traumatized every time him and Hakim walk down same tunnel their gang use to stay and its where they had most fights. So his damaging thoughts and reminders cause for him to get caught later on.


The don, Donald Price "Don" - Don is most notorious and biggest drug lord. He is seen as the gangs boss and its him who assigns people to do things like catching Hakim and selling drugs to certain people. He tells two Hench men that he will give them 1 million pounds if they catch Hakim and bring him back alive.



We have a range of different people in our film production crew to allow us to meet key conventions of a typical British gang life. We assigned each crew member to a role which we believed would fit perfectly with the acting and appearance. Also, we choose certain shots to allow each member to come out most appealing and understandable. It truly tries to appeal from a cinematic perspective in order to make the true face of gang life as interesting as it already is.

Target audience are intrested in:
  • Action and thriller films
  • latest films
  • Celebrities
  • gaming
  • new technology
They listing I have noted above are many things majority of our target audience will have interest in. We aim to start of at 15 and above so it was clear to say they'll be interested in new technology and fighting based films. We plan to use several things from the listing in our film production so it fits perfectly with our target audience. For example; we plan to add few fight scenes or interrogation scene which will have a link to action and thriller films.





Photoshop tutorial clips


first tutorial- Photoshop reflection tools



                                           Second tutorial- Photoshop pixel desperation tools



Third tutorial- Photoshop

 


Friday 22 January 2016

Pre-production

Shot-List

Brief- Our film is going to be mainly about a man who is trying to escape from a group people, who make it their mission to eliminate him. He is later caught and interrogated with violent actions.

Therefore, in order to make this plot to come across understanding and easily to follow, we have to be precise on the shots we employ. We want the shots that we choose to be best fit and played at the right times.

Shot 1-    We going start the scene as a man panicking and running out of breath, constantly looking back.

Shot 2- He runs in down a dark alleyway. This is going to start of as a medium shot to show the characters expression

Shot 3- then its going slowly zoom out to an long shot enabling the audience to see where this is happening.

Shot 4 -   We going to then have the character jump over obstacles and try climb fences. This will make it clear to the audience that he is trying to escape and he is frightened.

Shot 5-  This shot is going to be a extreme long shot, showing the villains or the gang members running down the same alley with weapons in their hands. This will come out clear to audience that they trying to chase the main protagonist and that he is the films victim.

Shot 6-   Then there's going to be a black out.

Shot 7- After the black-out we going to show scenes explaining the reasons to why the main protagonist is being chased.

Shot 8- So a scene of  a boss sitting in a dark room with a picture of the main protagonist in his hand.

Shot 9-  Two men come in.

Shot 10- The boss stands up and smashes the picture on the table.

Shot 11 - camera back on the two villains and then the boss says "i want him dead or alive, he needs to understand that he shouldn't mess around with a millionaires money"

Shot 12- the boss grabs a black gym bag from the side and also puts it on the table. He slowly opens it up . camera zooms in and shows lots of money. He then speaks again and says "this is all yours if you complete your job

Shot 13 - Shows a slow motion shot of the 2 men walking slowly down with their backs to camera.
with music playing in the background to create excitement and tension.

shot 14 - Long shot of main protagonist walking under a tunnel. Long shot allowing the audience where the scene is set.

shot 15- close up shot of the main protagonist face. To show the characters expression and face.

Shot 16- Main protaganist stops for second and dreams about all the violent memories he's had.

Shot 17- drops to the floor, knees first, holding his head

Shot 18- a quick montage of the his memory flashing

Shot 19- he just drops laid down holding his hand out

Shot 20- his friends sees on the floor and then  asks " are you okay, what you doing on the floor bruv"

Shot 21- the friend pulls his hand out and offers to help him up

shot 22- Then shot of the 2 antagonist walking under the same tunnel.

shot 23- Then shot of main protagonist looking back because he hears footsteps

shot 24- After a shot of the 2 antagonist looking up and they see some one in front of them walking.

shot 25- They look down at the picture of the person

shot 26- then shot of the main protagonist face again

shot 27- Then a long shot of 2 the antagonist looking up instantly; after realising he the person that they were looking for.

shot 28- Then shot of the main protagonist running away once again

shot 29- then shot of the 2 men chasing behind him.

shot 30 - shot of the friend run a different direction, this way the villains can focus on just the main protagonist.

shot 31- then a extreme shot showing the main protagonist getting chased by the two men.

shot 32- then the main protagonist runs into a trap (long shot- showing character

shot 33-shot of the big wall and fence, showing that he can't escape

shot 34- shot of the two villains running and closing him down

shot 35- close up of villains face- showing that they are furious and out of breath

shot 36- one of the villains gets closer to the main protagonist

shot 37-medium showing the villain grabbing the protagonist

shot 38-the protagonist slaps his hands off and tries running

shot 39- the other villain joins and holds onto the protagonist

shot 40- the first villain punches the protagonist in the stomach ( slow- motion)

shot 41- close up of the villains fist meeting the face of the protagonist

shot 42- both villains start brutally beating him

shot 43- the protagonist tries to shout out for help and no hears him.

shot 44- long shot showing the villains holding up the protagonist

shot 45- then the boss comes into the scene and pulls out a gun.

shot 46- black out

shot 47- then background sound of gunshot

La haUINE

Brief;
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
This movie

The Film La Haine was first released in France and United states of America, in 1995. The dominant genre of La Haine is crime and drama. This movie came out in different languages, English and French. The film la Haine estimated film budget was  €2,590,000 also in its gross in the united states of America was $309,811. The production company of La Haine was Canal+.

In the film there a few close up shots. This is perhaps because they want to illustrate characters attitude and emotions through shots of faces. Also this mainly follows the genre of crime , so I its essential to include close ups to show how the person is feeling.
Also, there are many shots focused on the guns they have, this is used inorder for it to fit perfectly with the genre of crime.

It is mainly about three young men and their time in the French ghetto, over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody



Completed: 

  1. shot list-  Assigned to me 
  2. story board- Assigned to Darnell 
  3. script- assigned to john
  4. schedule- assigned to lele
  5. Micenscene- assigned to lele 
  6. photoshoot
I completed 50 shots, which matches the story board and the script. Which we will be shooting. 

Darnell completed story board which he sketched most of the scenes which we plan to include in the video. 

John created the script and we helped him to create the final piece. We made sure that he matched the it with the shot list and story board 

Also... 
Since the sixth of January, we have finished the greater part of our pre-production uding yet not restricted to the script and mise-en-scene record, we have the vast majority of our props that'll be utilized as a part of the film and we have affirmed with every one of the general population we need in the film, when they should be accessible for. The storyboard and shot run down for the creation might should be re-taken a gander at with regards to scenes/parts of scenes we might have included or changed in the course of recent days.

 Shooting for the production art on 12/01/16 with the sound recordings having been finished. For this to happen however we have to guarantee that everybody we plan to host in the get-together scene of the 3-minute clasp, will be accessible on the day that shooting happens on and notwithstanding this we need every one of the props that we wanted to use prepared
Went to arrange taping for the creation ought to be finished on the in the first place, if not second week of February. For the photograph shoot , the fundamental things that we require are suitable apparel for the principle character to really convey the quality that we need to with perusers, every one of the props, for example, the syringe that will be utilized as a part of the creation to kill the gathered target furthermore that same performing artist that really will be playing that mixed up target.



Wednesday 20 January 2016

Research and Planning 

Title of publication - written in big, bold letters to state the programme. Made more appealing through the use of font colours, too. The Colour scheme - as mentioned before, fonts have bright, vibrant colours that possibly look like fireworks, and this is very well fitting as we associate this with a "festival. The Language -  as mentioned on the convention notes, it is 'economical' because it states "in partnership with" "American Express". Very snappy too as it states it's business and it's business, only. The Date - states the film festival's date, and is clearly written




BFI leaflet of 2015 unquestionably has tried different things with the utilization of various hues a great deal, and the shading plan is what they're typically known not. However this handout specifically from them has rather utilized models that has the brilliant plan connected





     

    • Black and white imaegs
    • images with colour
    • white background on left side
    • big and bold page number
    2)  
  • white background and black text
  • visible
  • uses bright colours
  • uses pictures on both pages



    3) 

  • uses dark colours
  • only one main image in the centre of the contents page
  • provides page numbers
  • bold and big title



4)       

  • One central image
  • shows all page number
  • contents page heading big and bold




  5)   

  • contents page title covers both pages and its bold
  • many small images scattered around the double page
  • use of bright colours
  • small black text



Uses dark toned colours, doesn't seem like a happy and exciting

Using the dafont website am going to try and find the best suitable font to fit perfectly with my chosen theme. 


This print uses dark colours which fits perfectly with Horror. I have few dark toned pictures so i think this is really helpful. 


the use of the exaggeration is really good as it would attract the audiences and this is something I plan to use in my print. Black and white colour scheme and only employs two images placed at the top and bottom. I t uses lots of texts around the page.






Friday 15 January 2016

what makes a film a British film :

  • Whether the actors are British or not.
  • If the location of the movie is in Britain
  • Is it related to a normal British lifestyle
  • Does it contain stereotypical British items, e.g. a London Bus

The difference between a British production context and a Hollywood production context is that British productions often rely on a much lower budget, character-driven plot and also the word of mouth for the film to reach people.
Hollywood
  • Spectacle driven stories
  • High Budgeted movies
  • Heavy reliance

British actor who tends to make lots of money for American film institution's : James Bond 

The James Bond franchise started in the early 1960s which was roughly the time when all the popular American movies were beginning to be released.
 
Groups that often feature in British films are the youth and women. Youth for example, often feature in films to do with things like opposition to establishment and violence such as 'A Clockwork Orange' and also 'Attack The Block.'

Thursday 14 January 2016

Film review-

La Haine





Brief;
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
This movie

The Film La Haine was first released in France and United states of America, in 1995. The dominant genre of La Haine is crime and drama. This movie came out in different languages, English and French. The film la Haine estimated film budget was  €2,590,000 also in its gross in the united states of America was $309,811. The production company of La Haine was Canal+.

In the film there a few close up shots. This is perhaps because they want to illustrate characters attitude and emotions through shots of faces. Also this mainly follows the genre of crime , so I its essential to include close ups to show how the person is feeling.
Also, there are many shots focused on the guns they have, this is used inorder for it to fit perfectly with the genre of crime.

It is mainly about three young men and their time in the French ghetto, over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody


Photoshot

Photoshoot:

The characters which will be starring in our photoshoot for the front cover will be the main protagonist and one of the villains of 'The Hunting Season'- Hakim and one of the gangsters.
This will give the audience a clear understanding that the film plot has a hug relevance to those two characters and many more.

We are going dress Hakim, the main protagonist, as casual and ordinary person you'll expect to see on the streets. However, we going to follow the typical stereotype of gangsters and dress the villain in all black , with black mask covering both face and neck and also a black hoodie. This indicate to the audience that he's intimidating and perhaps one of the great movie villains This will be hugely supported by the pose of the villain holding his hand out trying to strangle Hakim.

For our contents page we going employ a picture of Hakim holding a black gym bag with a friend, walking down an alley. The same alley will be shown in our final film production of 'The Hunting Season'. Furthermore, we are going to employ images of violent films such as; Hitman, Taken and many more. This supports the audience to get a stronger understanding of the film plot and theme.

For our double page spread we plan to utilize images of actual shots in our film production so for example; capture scene and scene where villains are looking at hakims picture. Also a picture of just the main protagonist and the boss.

Props:
Black gym Bag
Black mask
Black hoodie
Normal hat
A baseball bat ( rounder's school bats)


Shot List

Medium shot - a shot of the main protagonist and friend together, whilst Hakim holding a gym bag

Medium shot- A shot of one of the villains holding a bat and held around Hakims neck

Long Shot- a shot of both villains with mask and holding a baseball bat pointing it towards the camera.

O-T-S-S- a shot villain holding the picture of hakim and other villain pointing

Long shot-  A shot showing the villains holding hakim



Wednesday 13 January 2016

mise-en-scene



casting details-


Darnell- Darnell will be portraying the character Donald price who is perceived as a king pin and is the head of the gang. he is not like a general leader of the gang as he is perceived like a veteran and they refer to him as 'Don' or 'Mr Price'

Lele- Mr Lele Obetto will be portraying the roll of 'Benjamin' a hired mafia mercenary

Abdi- will portray the character Malik who is the main protagonist in this production. Malik is a former gang member who has been experiencing flashbacks of his experience as a gang member after crossing paths with old settings.

John- Marvin will portray the character of Lucas who is now Maliks closest freinds and has relatively never been involved in the supposed 'gang life'

further casting will be confirmed

location

park royal tunnel- why we chose this as our original setting is because of the dark setting we can implicate by generate with each of our shots. this will truly clarify our camera work. this will be our secondary location as it cannot signify the importance of our primary location.

another location we chose to shoot in was grand union village, why we chose this location is because it is a convenient location to film clear shots where the set up of the area is relative to our production. grand union village also features a canal which carefully links to the plot of possesses elements of violence.


characters

Malik
Lucas
group of gangsters
Benjamin
Donald Price

props 

magnum gun- this will explore elements of the protagonists troubled childhood and how he has dealt with guns throughout his life and is still having issues with them now.

knife- not definitely used but explicitly details the dangers that symbolise the power and destruction in which can be caused by the knife.

iphone- not entirely important but links to the scene.


smoking products- needed to link in our scene

costume and make-up

hoodies and sweatshirts- basic clothing

make up may be needed if in fact we do decide to participate in a fight scene, however we do not intend to make it seem cliche.


malik may be shown in formal dressing  when we see the transformation he had from a gang member to a sophisticated young man.


lighting

high key lighting will be used at specific elements especially in the tunnel due to the darkness during when we are shooting

low key lighting will be used when we finally meet the boss' Donald Price' as it will implicate he has a sense of power and dominance

Tuesday 12 January 2016

script

Fade In:
Park Royal - Dusk



Malik and his friend, Lucas enter a narrow tunnel way, exchanging jokes and laughing.
Malik, Londoner, from Hackney and ex-gang member, formerly ranked Capo laughs, telling Lucas jokes about his night out in a club.

                 Malik
                 [Laughing hysterically]
                  A... and then I slapped that slut away from me,                     she tried groping me! 

Lucas, Londoner, from Hackney  ex-drug trafficker, walking lifelessly with noticeable enlarged pupils.

                                         Lucas
                 Malik, bro, you gotta rock this joint, mannnn... -
                 Focused on Lucas, Malik suddenly stops

                 Lucas
                 Was' up with you? Les go man, boss is gonna get                      pissed! 

  Malik stares into space as he looks back, completely ignoring 
  Lucas.

                 Malik
                 I been here holmes.

  Lucas squints his eye, laying his right hand out.

                 Lucas
                 The fuck you talking about, Malik? 

  Malik, looking around almost as if he's exploring a ruin.

                 Malik
                 This is where Life 1 ended for me, bro.

  Lucas, looking at his cigarette confusingly, carelessly     throws it on the floor.

                 Lucas
                 Mali, tell me I'm not on a bad trip...

  Malik again staring straight ahead of the tunnel, lifelessly.

  Transition pan in from iris. 

Dissolve in:
Park Royal - Midnight
  
Gloomy surroundings, muffled, eerie voices.
                  
  BENJAMIN, hired mafia mercenary, associated with rival gang
                Benjamin
                KEEP running, Malik. It only makes me more                       excited.
                
                Malik
                FUCK AWAY FROM ME, MAN!!!

  Benjamin, slowly lifting his magnum caliber... Shoots

  Loud flash bang is heard, sending Malik back to his normal       state
  
  Malik, on his chest on the floor and arms spread

  Lucas, looking completely alien 

               Lucas
               BRO, are you okay?! 
               
               Malik
               Yea-... Yeah... lets go.
    
               Lucas
               You got problems, man... or is it me that's just been                blazing one too many...

 Malik smiles and pats Lucas once on the back, and continues  walking through the tunnel

               Malik
               Sorry, bro.

 Slow fade out.


Scene 3, fade in:

Malik constantly looking back...

Malik, overflowing with paranoid thoughts of him being chased, so he turns around

               Malik
               AHHHH!!!
                
                Lucus
              Fix up bro, what's the issue
Malik hears a group of people speaking, he then turns around and notices that 3 men are walking slowly behind them.

Malik stops one time and turns around, instantly the 3 men also stop and carefully analyse his face and then bring out a picture. Malik releases they where people after him, so he turned around swiftly and walked very fast forward

               
                 Malik
                 LET US GET OUT OF HERE NOW!

                 Lucas
                What you talking about man, just couple Donnie's

A gang of mercenaries - 3 men each with weapons held in their hand starts following Malik from behind, slightly increasing their pace over time.

Malik looks back once more and the gangsters are only a few metres away, then Malik goes for the run

Malik then runs into a dead end and stops breathing heavily

                                    Malik
                               Oh shit!! Come on lets talk about this
                          
                               Gang Member
                            OH? NOW YOU WANT TO TALK BUT BEFORE ALL YOU DID WAS RUN, YOU PUSSY!!!!!!

The first villain throws a punch and lands it on Malik in the face
Malik drops to the ground
Then Both gangsters start brutally beating Hakim on the floor

                                    Malik
                               HELP!!!

Then the boss comes into the scene, in his car 
Pulls out a gun 

Then a fade in to black out 

Background sounds of Gun shots 


Wednesday 6 January 2016

Pre- Production

Pre-production

Shot-List

Brief- Our film is going to be mainly about a man who is trying to escape from a group people, who make it their mission to eliminate him. He is later caught and interrogated with violent actions.

Therefore, in order to make this plot to come across understanding and easily to follow, we have to be precise on the shots we employ. We want the shots that we choose to be best fit and played at the right times.

Shot 1-    We going start the scene as a man panicking and running out of breath, constantly looking back.

Shot 2- He runs in down a dark alleyway. This is going to start of as a medium shot to show the characters expression

Shot 3- then its going slowly zoom out to an long shot enabling the audience to see where this is happening.

Shot 4 -   We going to then have the character jump over obstacles and try climb fences. This will make it clear to the audience that he is trying to escape and he is frightened.

Shot 5-  This shot is going to be a extreme long shot, showing the villains or the gang members running down the same alley with weapons in their hands. This will come out clear to audience that they trying to chase the main protagonist and that he is the films victim.

Shot 6-   Then there's going to be a black out.

Shot 7- After the black-out we going to show scenes explaining the reasons to why the main protagonist is being chased.

Shot 8- So a scene of  a boss sitting in a dark room with a picture of the main protagonist in his hand.

Shot 9-  Two men come in.

Shot 10- The boss stands up and smashes the picture on the table.

Shot 11 - camera back on the two villains and then the boss says "i want him dead or alive, he needs to understand that he shouldn't mess around with a millionaires money"

Shot 12- the boss grabs a black gym bag from the side and also puts it on the table. He slowly opens it up . camera zooms in and shows lots of money. He then speaks again and says "this is all yours if you complete your job

Shot 13 - Shows a slow motion shot of the 2 men walking slowly down with their backs to camera.
with music playing in the background to create excitement and tension.

shot 14 - Long shot of main protagonist walking under a tunnel. Long shot allowing the audience where the scene is set.

shot 15- close up shot of the main protagonist face. To show the characters expression and face.

Shot 16- Main protaganist stops for second and dreams about all the violent memories he's had.

Shot 17- drops to the floor, knees first, holding his head

Shot 18- a quick montage of the his memory flashing

Shot 19- he just drops laid down holding his hand out

Shot 20- his friends sees on the floor and then  asks " are you okay, what you doing on the floor bruv"

Shot 21- the friend pulls his hand out and offers to help him up

shot 22- Then shot of the 2 antagonist walking under the same tunnel.

shot 23- Then shot of main protagonist looking back because he hears footsteps

shot 24- After a shot of the 2 antagonist looking up and they see some one in front of them walking.

shot 25- They look down at the picture of the person

shot 26- then shot of the main protagonist face again

shot 27- Then a long shot of 2 the antagonist looking up instantly; after realising he the person that they were looking for.

shot 28- Then shot of the main protagonist running away once again

shot 29- then shot of the 2 men chasing behind him.

shot 30 - shot of the friend run a different direction, this way the villains can focus on just the main protagonist.

shot 31- then a extreme shot showing the main protagonist getting chased by the two men.

shot 32- then the main protagonist runs into a trap (long shot- showing character

shot 33-shot of the big wall and fence, showing that he can't escape

shot 34- shot of the two villains running and closing him down

shot 35- close up of villains face- showing that they are furious and out of breath

shot 36- one of the villains gets closer to the main protagonist

shot 37-medium showing the villain grabbing the protagonist

shot 38-the protagonist slaps his hands off and tries running

shot 39- the other villain joins and holds onto the protagonist

shot 40- the first villain punches the protagonist in the stomach ( slow- motion)

shot 41- close up of the villains fist meeting the face of the protagonist

shot 42- both villains start brutally beating him

shot 43- the protagonist tries to shout out for help and no hears him.

shot 44- long shot showing the villains holding up the protagonist

shot 45- then the boss comes into the scene and pulls out a gun.

shot 46- black out

shot 47- then background sound of gunshot