FEEDBACK by Class

POSITIVE FEEDBACK

"Great Location shots"

"Good"

"Use the Natural sounds of surroundings" 

NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT FEEDBACK 

'Too many Transitions" 

"Use some foley sound"

"Re-do Meeting scene" 

"Blurry camerashots"

OVERALL FEEDBACK

"Try to constantly GRAB AUDIENCE"

*Tightening some of the scenes - 'Tight Editing', Must think about scheduling a time to re-shoot the meeting scene after the first scene.

Rough Cut

Planning - Story Board

Story board #1

Story board #2

Story board #3

Planning - Treatment

Treatment. 

A man called Rosco who was involved in criminal activity has turned informer on a mob member. He has put away one of the mob leaders for over 10 years. The mob have found out he turned informer and have been after him  ever since. During that time they have killed nearly all of his close family members including his brother, sister, cousin, father and an aunt. Rosco is now seeking revenge and is ready to take out every member of  the mob possible.

Planning - Target Audience

Target Audience

• Mainly Males as it contains masculine scenes such as a shooting. Also because crime thrillers usually have a male dominated audience

• Young adults (18+) - Middle aged (Mature audience) due to the violent scenes

• Londoners - Due to the overall settings and surroundings (London underground station etc)

Planning - Costumes

Smart clothing to make character look mature

Ps3 control pad to replicate a disguised gun

Shirt and tie for an older character

Planning - Locations

Location number #1 - Where the majority of the opening is set. Barbican centre is going to be used to replicate an estate

Location #2 - Barbican station

Location #3 - Small room in college used as a meeting room 

Location #4 - Jurys Inn hotel - where a meeting is going to be held

Planning - Initial Ideas

Here our some of our initial ideas. We chose these ideas as we wanted our movie to be a crime thriller and all these ideas relate to crime in some way.

FILMING INITIAL BASIC Schedule

PLANNING - PITCH FEEDBACK

 ^CLICK TO SEE!!!

FEEDBACK TO CONSIDER.

Mickey:

“you could get a mature voice to record the voices for you”

Amirul: 

“i didn't understand the plot”

Alan:

“it was good”// “i like it”

Marisa:

 “What will the Voice-over say, do you know the script”

PITCH RESEARCH

1. Less is always more. 
Present your idea in a manner that's short, sweet and to the point. Be confident. If the judges don't grasp your concept in a short time span, they may presume that the target audience won't understand it either.
2. Never hypothesize. Execute, execute, execute. 
Inspire confidence with facts, not fiction. Most investors seek out low-risk movie ideas and films with proven facts and guaranteed possibility's. A well researched idea is a GOOD IDEA. with other various components. 
3. Leave the hockey sticks on the ice.
Excite investors about your big picture, but be reasonable and responsible. Avoid hockey stick projections. Respectable investors will not take you seriously if you present them with nonsensical financial graphs and facts. Be open to opinions and try to understand the worse-case  scenario and the best outcome and try meet in the half way line. DON'T get carried away with thinking it will go perfectly the first time

."Rome wasn't built in a day. Your business won't be either"

4. Choose not to be the smartest person in the room. 
Know what you know, know what you don't know and find the people who know what you don't know. Build a good team with knowledge and skills. The smartest leaders in the world are those who surround themselves with smarter people. The audience and the investors are not only investing in a concept but in the team itself as well. 

FILMING - Planning on future filming.

PLANNING - Inspiration

INSPIRATIONS

• GOODFELLAS
• MAKING OF ARLINGTON ROAD OPENING TITLES
• OLD STUDENTS OPENINGS (Paper Trail and others)

STORY PLOT CLOSELY MATCHED WITH OUR OWN.

- The story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighbourhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters, running errands and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), who takes him in as a surrogate son. As he reaches his teens, Hill (Ray Liotta) is inducted into the world of petty crime, where he distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his psychotic partner Tommy (Joe Pesci), he rises through the ranks to become Paulie's lieutenant; however, he quickly learns that, like his mentor Jimmy (Robert DeNiro), his ethnicity prevents him from ever becoming a "made guy," an actual member of the crime family. Soon he finds himself the target of both the feds and the mobsters, who feel that he has become a threat to their security with his reckless dealings.

OWN SIMPLE PLOT

- A man is being hunted down by a MOB due to what he has done; put one of the top leading mobsters in prison for a number of years and so the 'snitch' that did this went into hiding but that didn't stop the MOB from carrying out killings of his family to bring him out of hiding however he finds out very late where most of his family almost dies out. In our opening we see that a hitman is assigned to kill the guy. The thrilling twist is that the guy being targeted knows that a hitman is coming for him so he prepares by taking the hitman around places where he has the local knowledge and knows a good place to take him and then finally find some answers....

(We still are deciding on actual name for the victim and how it will actually end. After filming some small details may change)

TYPE OF OPENING: NARRATIVE

- The opening of a narrative is important because it usually sets the scene and gives clues as to what the story will be about. So as a group we decided that the most effective way to do this is to create a narrative opening due to the fact of past experiences of making opening title sequences with Arlington Road but this didn't stop us from thinking about the other types of styles we could do. We are aiming to keep it very mysterious but still have it filmed so that the audience know kind of what is happening almost like the opening of Paper Trail made by past students at City and Islington.

PLANNING - Target Audience

In marketing if you have no target it's not like the motivational speech of "Shoot for the moon if you miss, you'll land among the stars." It just doesn't work that way in business. You'll be shooting into the black expanses of space--where no one exists.

• Sit down and look at what you are offering and look around at who you think would be perfect for your product or service.
• You need to know exactly (or as exact as you can possibly make it) who your customers are. I've had people go down to the hair color! (Salon..duh)
• It's called demographics. It's part of the research you need to do before going into business. It may not go well if you have no idea who you are going to be talking to about your service or product.
• Geographic, demographic and psychographic are the three main ways you can find your target market.
• Once you know who it is you're going after then you can begin to design a plan around how you will market to them so they can see you, begin to learn who you are and get to liking you so they come and buy from you.
• If you try to blanket everyone with one marketing message you'll lose over half of your audience simply because it doesn't apply to them.
• Target who you are after and you will know how to reach them easier and find that you won't have to invest so much into your marketing to get the results you want.
• You'll be more focused, more effective in your marketing strategies and be able to get a greater return on your marketing investment.

                                                                                    - by Michael Kaleikini on November 30, 2009

By considering these factors and encorperating it into a MEDIA related perspective we had to look very close to what are audeince should be and since Crime Thrillers attract a more mature group we set up the story line and various things in the film that might also attract a younger audience of around: 16+ because of the theme of a local and urban kind of area: (Barbican Centre)







This is a Birds eye view of the Location.

FILMING - Camera Techniques

The Camera Angle

The camera angle helps to determine the point of view of the camera. This is very important since viewers have seen much TV or film and this has conditioned them to interpret the cameras "eye level" as containing meaning. Viewers expect the camera to show a level horizon. If the camera is not then it appears sinister to them. The cameras height above ground level and its angle in relationship to the ground should reflect real-life. A birds eye or worms eye view is unnatural and draws attention to itself. This may be all right if there's a reason.

Panning and Tilting

These shots are established when the camera is stationary and rotates in a horizontal (panning) or vertical (tilting) way.

Panning is used to follow a moving object or character, or to show more than can fit into a single frame, such as panning across a landscape. It is also used as a transition between one camera position and another.

Tracking

A tracking shot is a movement perpendicular to the camera lens axis. The key to these shots is to have realistic motion. The motion can be judged by looking at how fast humans move and then how many frames it would take to realize this motion

Standard camera shots

Extreme long shot	characters are small in frame; all or major parts of buildings appear	establishes physical context of action; shows landscape and architectural exteriors
Long shot	All or nearly all of the standing person; large parts of a building, a good scense of scenary.	shows a large scale action; shows whole groups of people; displays large architectural details
Medium shot	Character shown from waist up; medium-sized so you can also see some of the location	small groups such as two or three people, or when 2 characters are in conversation.
Close-up	Head or Object in the size of fitting almost all of the screen but still whole image shown.	focus on one character; facial expression/ emotions felt. warned not to blurr if you zoom in with camera.
Extreme close-up	The frame filled with just part of a character or very small objects	facial features in a character or small objects