Film Research

Green Street

The scene starts with a wide angle of a train station at night, artificial lighting is used but more natural lighting is used more, also shows what train station it is “Bank” which shows the film is based in London. Also a high angle shot of the main characters as they come up the stairs which the GSE crew “Green Street Elite”. Costume worn by this crew are denim jeans, trainers, coats and hoodies, however all clothes are from different designers like normal clothes. This shows it is cold at night and is in a season like winter which shows negativity of what they do ‘football riots’.

Low angle shot or point of view shot of the leader of the group, extra is intimated and scared by him by the expression on his face when he views the leader. After this the green street elite are kicking round a can and acting like children, pretending to play football, and idolising there favourite west ham players, since they were just at the game. The set is like a traditional train station with the metro signs on the wall and also lots of ripped down adverts, this is very realistic.

As they see a rival crew there is an over the shoulder shot from the gang leader of eight rivals of another crew. The rival crew are all wearing coats, Jeans and trainers as well some characters are wearing hats so that there appearance doesn’t get recognised. Medium long shot of four gang members from the green street elite mocking their rivals. 3 shot medium close up of 3 rivals this is during the conversation to show their hate for each other. Main character is in front of everyone else in the long shot of the GSE and he is also wearing a sandy colour coat which stands out in front of the rest because they are wearing black, this emphasises his importance and leadership.

Film Production Week No.3

We re-filmed our production with our changes in place and with added shots this was to make our piece look more professional. When we finished our re-filming on a certain amount of scenes, our opening to a film looked a lot more professional, we also had links to previous scenes and had new shots and angles which looked good, we now had Me as Big Ray and Dan playing as the poker dealer. Once we re-filmed we returned to the editing on the computer, we cut shot lengths down or cut it out due to fault. A voice over was our next activity we used Matt's voice when he was acting out Mickey, this was so that the scenes were linked. Next we added in music and sound effects too add tension in our shots, we also added in special effects for the same reason. Titles now had to be added, they were Actors names, candidate numbers and names. We then sat as a group and watched our whole piece through and finalised the video by all agreeing it was finished.

Film Production Week No.2

For week number two we filmed all of the scenes left in our production, we filmed outside with natural lighting and we also had to film inside a Poker and Snooker Club called Pockets, they had artifical lighting inside there which worked well, we did need to get permission to film in there and we got that from the manager/owner before we carried out any filming. We started to film and filmed shots about 3 times with different angles experimenting what worked best, we tried to carry out a few shots like in Casino Royale, the poker scene, we done these a few times to see which ones we thought worked best. We got back to school and decided to edit our production by cutting out glitches and also cutting down the lengths of shots, which were too long. Once we edited our production, we watched it through and noted down changes the main thing we needed to change was that I took over as Dans character because he felt uncomfortable and I really enjoy the acting aspects, we also added extras which were bodyguards, Anthony and Sam who helped us out when we re-filmed, the decisions we made were the right ones and they all paid off.

Film Production Week No.1

For the1st week of our task we had to pick which storyboard and animatic we wanted to use as our production, we all agreed that we should use Dan's Storyboard. We now had to plan out the shots we had to film for our opening we also listed how long each indivdual shot would last, we also listed what costume,lighting and make up we had to use. We also chose our props and where we were going to film the scenes, the speech was also planned out here along with special effects and sounds which we feel were needed. Next we filmed the animatic and once it had been seen by our teacher we could start filming our piece. Our opening scene which we filmed was inside a house which meant the lighting was not to good, but we closed the curtains and the room was dark so then we could just use artifical lighting. We had now finished the opening scene, so we went back to school and edited it, by cutting out mistakes and over runs, we then finally added a title at the start aswell.

Storyboard Of Film Production

Pubs, Clubs And Erotic Hot Tubs

Mickey (Main Character) is the modern hustler is smart teenager in many ways is smart street-wise, educational smart and is a smart gambler (Card games\Poker), however since quitting college and trying to get a job, he has convinced himself to earn his own money the dirty way by going underground and gambling big games (poker).

He was doing so well, until a dramatic turn of events when he bets more than what he can afford on one hand and has stupidly lost it all (bit off more than he can chew) and now owns Big Ray (a big-time, dirty gangster and high-roller) £50,00 grand, which he needs to pay off in a week before he sends his goons, to kill him and anyone closely related to him.

Media Project Week no.4

This week we all watched each others videos in class, and had to say something about them, so that people received feedback and could see what other people thought of their videos. I gave feedback on other groups videos and then, it was our turn and my groups video was played. We got some positive feedback but also some negative feedback aswell. For example, which was my fault, for one part im opening the door with my left hand then in the next shot im opening it with my right hand, so ive switched hads, it was nothing to do with my group it was solely my fault. We also could of filmed the shot which was the close up of the watch a bit better, so that you could actually see who was wearing the watch. Through this whole project I have learnt alot about filming rules and guidelines and also alot about editing, I believe it has made me better at this subject, especially in the practical aspect, i enjoyed this project overall and was happy with my work and how we all worked together.

Media Project Week no.3

We had to edit our video on Adobe Film Premiere. To make it fair we all took it in turns to edit but some people did more than others, for example Amy done the most editing then Matt and then me, but overall we all done our fair share. We had to cut out alot of shots because we had to remove outtakes, so that we had a better and more professional video. We cut certain bits of scenes as well so that continuity was used in our piece. I think our editing worked very well because we where the first group to finish and we finished to a good standard. But we did have to re film a shot of a close up on the watch because you couldn't see who was wearing the watch, but I'm happy with how our editing went relating to our filming.

Media Project Week no.2

Amy, Matt and Me filmed our video in Miss Carey's office, we chose this because its organised and quiet, this location worked very well. The lighting in miss Carey's office was quite good as well because we filmed near the whiteboard which reflected light well. The room was also of a good size so we had a decent amount of room to manoeuvre and film with our equipment, this also meant we had more room to create better angles which would improve our filming. When acting in this video it went reasonably well but there was a point where we couldnt stop laughing, but we eventually got over it and acted very well, we filmed each shot more than once so that we had a choice of what scene was better. Overall our filming went very well and I am happy with our piece.

Media Project Week no.1

For our task in our media class we had t0 film and edit a video where a character would open a door, cross the room and sit down in a chair opposite another character(s). The characters would then say a few lines of dialogue, we used such rules as match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

For this task our class got seperated into random groups of 3 or 4, i was in a group of 4 with Matt Hampshire, Amy Newton and Hannah Thorne. We all made a 10 shot storyboard each, and we decided that Amy's was the best for the actual story and camera angles. We then done an animatic which is where we filmed our drawn out storyboard, this helps us to try and film our video as close to the plan as possible, we didnt have any problems with our filming of the animatic.

We learnt that when we film we should follow certain rules so that our videos could look as professional as possible. Some of the rules where:
180 degree rule
Make sure continuity is used (for example, characters wear the same clothes.)
Making sure cameras and tripods are used correctly.