Final Film

Evalutaion Qustion 7

Evaluation Question 7

There are many differences between our preliminary task and our final product, the main difference that is most visible is the quality of our product, this is due to the cameras we used and our knowledge of the programme we used to edit (IMovie). When making our preliminary task we only had a non-HD camera to film with, as we had never actually made a film opening before, we had only a small knowledge of how to use the camera and the types of shots and camera angles we were going to be using, also we didn't use a tripod which meant that our shots weren't always steady. However, when we filmed our final film opening, we had a lot more experience and knowledge of how to make our opening look professional. When filming our opening, we used a brand new HD Canon video camera, which meant the quality of our film was considerably better than our preliminary task, also when filming our actual film opening we used a tripod, this meant that our film was steady and all the shots looked smooth and professional. 

In terms of the planning for our preliminary task, we were only able to achieve a small amount of planning as we only had a small amount of knowledge of actually how to plan a short film. we went into the filming with a very limited idea of what we were going to do, we only had a rough outline of what we wanted our preliminary task to be about and we filmed with inexperienced actors. Also we used minimal costumes and props, which at points looked very unprofessional. However, when it came round to making our final film opening, we did a very large amount of detailed planning into the genre we were filming, previous films in that genre, the titles, the institution logos and the audience we were aiming it at. On the day of filming, we all knew what we were doing and also because we had previously planned the opening, we knew how the day was going to run, unlike in our preliminary task. This extra planning for our final film is clearly visible in our final film, this like props and quality are clearly different and improved. For example, the gun used in our preliminary task is quite clearly fake, whereas the shells in our opening are obviously real.

In our preliminary task we didn't really use a variety of shots that would make the audience more interested in our film such as an establishing shot. This meant that the audience were being thrown straight into viewing of the film without knowing anything about the location or setting of the film. Within the film, we used a lot more complex shots in our final film opening, such as pans and low angles, where as in our preliminary task most of our angle and shots were shaky and unsteady. We made sure this wasn't the case with our final product, and after doing various rough cuts and watching our final cut, it certainly isn't.

We know definitely feel more confident and comfortable using the equipment and cameras, when we filmed our preliminary task we had very minimal knowledge and confidence with using the equipment meaning our shots and angles and overall outcome of the film wasn't very good, we entered and came away from making our final film opening with a much better understand of how to use things such as cameras and the setting that they have on them, tripods and the different ways you can move and adjust it, and the editing software which we used on the macs. When we did our preliminary task we had very limited knowledge of iMovie and didn't really know what we were doing most of the time, but when it come round to editing our final film we knew what we were doing and where everything in the programme was

We also took into consideration the costumes that our actors where wearing a lot more in our final product than we did in our preliminary task. In our preliminary task we simply mentioned to the actors roughly what we wanted them to wear and look like and just let them bring their own costumes, this meant that our preliminary task looked very rough and unprofessional because the actors weren't wearing very good costumes. However, when we filmed our final task we made sure that we had planned what we wanted our actors to wear and had given them the exact specifications for their costumes, meaning our film looked more professional and well finished.

Evaluation Question 6

Nathan

In the production of our film, we used a variety of software programs and technological equipment. All of these programs that we used helped us create our film and helped us when coming to edit. The software programs and websites we used consisted of ...








The Equipment

When using the camera equipment we come across strengths and weaknesses of the equipment. The equipment we used to film was;

• The Camera - The camera was obviously the most important part of the filming process as it
  
  actually filmed to whole opening. However, we did come across the strengths and weaknesses of the camera. The strengths of the camera were, 1. The camera was extremely clear and the sound recorded on the camera was crisp and easily understandable which was very important. By having this camera, it enabled us to film clearly signify the necessary elements to the audience clearly meaning they could understand the narrative. 2. The camera was small and portable. This was a huge factor in the production of our film as we were moving around a lot and changing the angles at every scene to find the best view, therefore this camera helped us when doing this as it was lightweight and easily portable allowing us move around time efficiently. The camera did also have its weaknesses, however only a main weakness which was the limited recording time we had due to the battery. This was a huge weakness and could have set us back in the filming stage of production as the camera unfortunately cut out on us as we were filming. However, we had an alternative. We filmed the last 3 shots on an iPhone 6s which resolved this problem. But, this caused complications when editing our piece as the contrast was different between the camera and phone.

• The Tripod - The tripod was also important as this allowed us to pan the camera with
  
  sustained stability. The main strength of this piece of equipment was the extremely high stability that it allowed us to film with. This was very important when filming as this made our film look professional which was key as we were a mainstream production company. However, there were a few weaknesses when we came to use this piece of equipment. The main one being that the tripod was a little frustrating we trying to use it on grass. This is because, the main part of our film opening was on grass as it was filmed within a woodland area meaning the ground was uneven. The tripod struggled to stay standing straight therefore we had to result to holding the camera at some points within the filming. The other smaller issue with the tripod was that it wasn't as portable as the camera meaning that, because of some shots, we need to place the camera in a narrow space in which the tripod couldn't fit into. This therefore meant that we had to film by holding the camera reducing the stability and quality of the shot.

• The iPhone - The iPhone 6s that we used to film had its own strengths and weaknesses to. The
  
  main strength being the camera and microphone built in the phone. The camera was extremely clear and picked up the image very well enabling us to continue filming and the microphone picked up the sound extremely well. However, the film from the phone was in a different contrast to the camera meaning the shots looked different making the editing part a little tricky. Also the microphone on the iPhone seemed to pick up more background sound meaning that the shots had slightly louder backgrounds sounds than the camera shots. This meant that we had to adjust the sound levels when editing to try and make the two clips around the same sound. Overall this was the best alternative we had and it worked fairly well, but as it resolved filming problems, it created editing problems.

The Problems When Filming

We faced two main problems and one minor problem which was easily resolvable. the two main problems were;

1. The limited filming time with the camera due to the battery life - This problem was a major one however we managed to solve it by using my phone to complete the filming. As we were half way through filming our opening, the camera died on us which was a problem. Luckily we had my phone to complete the filming. We again, solved this by using a phone however this created more issues, but it solved this problem that occurred.

     2.  The contrast and sound difference between devices - Because our camera battery died on us, we had to result in using an iPhone 6s. This meant that the contrast was different between the cameras creating a problem when coming to edit. After a lot of time editing we managed to slightly correct the contrast to make it look like the same camera, therefore we successfully resolved this problem.




The minor problem that occurred when filming was;

1. Reduced stability due to complications with the tripod and camera - This problem was not a major one just a minor one. The tripod failed to stand up start and made the filming increasingly unstable meaning we needed to sort it out. We solved this problem by taking the camera off the tripod and filming by hand. This increased the stability but only by a little however it was an improvement meaning that it solved the previous issue.

The equipment we used to enhance our film was a tripod. The tripod helped us have a stable filming situation and enabled us to film and keep the same position if we needed to cut and re film based on the situation. we didn't use any other equipment as a dolly would not have helped us as the ground in which we filmed on was very bumpy and rough meaning the tracking shots would not be smooth and would look unprofessional.




Editing Software





The problems we encountered were that the contrast was different when it came out on the iMac. This meant that the editing part of the production of our film was increasingly difficult, however we got it sorted as we managed to change the contrast. Considering these problems, I have learnt a lot when it comes to iMovie. I can now easily change the contrast of a piece and fade music in and out when needed. I also learnt to precision cut a detached piece of audio as I needed to find a specific point in able to duplicate it and add pieces together. We were not very careful when coming to edit as we did not check our film for little mistakes. For example, our detective buttoned up his coat and then in the next shot his coat was unbuttoned. We therefore should have made sure that we kept it buttoned up so the film looked even more professional. Next time I would make sure that we checked this and maybe start editing straight away as we left it a while and then needed to quickly edit and rush our final cut.

Our Group





We used Blogger to log our work by posting different pieces of work to show what we had done to keep it in order and check it off our checklist in order to complete everything efficiently. We found Blogger helpful because it allowed us to see all the work we had done in the correct order allowing us to see what we had and hadn't done allowing us to complete our work efficiently with all a group input to our film opening research and planning.

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 5

When creating our opening to our film, we tried to our target audience by including a young main character that was around the age of the audience that we considered was going to be watching our film. This is likely to attract our target audience of 15-25 year old males, as they feel that they can relate to the main character and make them more involved with the film and the character as well. This would add to the film’s success, as the audience is more likely to connect and relate with this character than if we casted an actor that was in a different age bracket to our target audience.

There are moments in our film, which would be uninviting for people below the age of 15 as the scenes within the opening could possibly be disturbing for a viewer of this age. For example, in our film opening we have included a scene, in which a body covered by a white sheet, which gives the audience the assumption that the person has died. These scenes could however, help to attract our target audience on the lower end of the age range of 15 years, as these scenes may help our younger audience feel more mature by being permitted to watch it, as they have only recently hit this age bracket and also that in this era evidence shows that individual of an even younger age have experienced graphic content on other platforms like our film. This means that the certificate that we have given the film will be appropriate, as we feel that by this age that the content within our film won’t be anything that this age group hasn't seen before.

Within our film opening, we make sure that the camera angles are placed so that the audience is in the position of the main character, which is the inspector. By doing this, this gives the impression that the audience is on the journey with the inspector for the rest of the film, making the film more attracting and also gives a better narrative to the film. This will also make the film more appealing the our target audience as this age range what a well put together story line and by adding the view point of the inspector throughout the opening, it gives a different perspective to the film.

As our film is based around the crime/thriller genre, we have tried to incorporate as many generic conventions into the film opening, so that our target audience insanely know what the film genre is meaning they have an idea of what the film will be about before watching the whole film. This gives the audience want they are asking for and because of the twist that the film is revolved around, this gives the storyline and film in general a more attracting fell to it.

Evaluation question 4

Billy Parker

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Evaluation Question 3

Billy Parker

Moose productions is a mainstream company and so this would lead to us  to have an audience that expects large production values, a compelling story and generic conventions, which is very similar to television dramas such as Luther. 

A mainstream media distributor Warner bros is an example of a distribution company that could distribute our products. They are a part of ime Warner who are themselves part of the big 6 companies of the media world.  They will be able to help us decide things like release date, advertising campaigns and exhibitions of the film. oney for our film will have to come from our distributors due to the fact that our production company is very new.

We decided on the order of our titles based off of the order of reservoir dogs. This is due to the fact that we did a remake of this opening and we wanted to incorporate that in some way in our opening.

Our film has a lot of similarities with films such as Jurassic World, due to how it was released just before summer to optimise viewership. 

Evaluation question 2

George Watkins


this is my evaluation of how our film is non-stereo and stereotypical in terms of social groups and how they are represented.

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

George Watkins

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In this question I will be discussing what crime thriller conventions we used and why plus how they relate to real crime thriller films produces by film companies. Also I will be mentioning how other films have influenced our film.

As for our film we chose to the genres crime and thriller however thrillers generic conventions aren’t as obvious as crime due the fact that thriller is more of the way it makes audiences feel, thriller tend to give viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. We had rough ideas of what generic we wanted to include in our film opening due to several sources of information, one of these sources was a questionnaire that we carried out and one of the questions asked what generic conventions you expect to see in a crime film

Here are the first 4 pictures from the 8 screenshots required to answer this question. (Top left = genre screenshot, top right = film title screenshot, bottom left = film setting, bottom right = character introductions)

The top left photo of the 4 above is the screenshot which I believe best represents our genre in our opening due the mise used in the shot, in the shot you can clearly see there lies a dead body covered up by a dust sheet with evidence markers laid out, these are stereotypical generic conventions of a crime film hence why we included them in our opening so that the genre was obvious to the audience, other generic conventions we used in terms of props were; police tape and police and forensic tape.

The top right screen shot is our film title of which we adopted a very simple look to so it’s clear and easy for viewers to see. The name of our film is called ‘Giallo’ due to some research on the crime genre and we found out that the word is associated with old crime novels. Therefore, you could say our title links very well with our film opening.

For our setting, seen in the bottom left of the 4 photos we located 5 possible locations that we liked for our opening involved a murder investigation scene and we needed a location that might be hidden away or is unlikely you have many people around as this a place you would expect a planned murder to take place which is why we ended up choosing a location with lots of trees and also a place that wasn’t too heavily dense with trees that it would be very difficult to film. I would say our location is very typical of our genre due to the secluded nature of our location which also doesn’t give away much about how and why someone has been killed as appose to someone who may have died in a big city because they have been stabbed and shot and there were lots of witnesses to tell the story.

The screenshot at the bottom right is for the character introduction, for the majority of our characters they are introduced into the film in a standard way except our detective who is the main character in our film, our detective is introduced with a few shots before you eventually see him in full for example we show a close up shot of him doing up some buttons walking towards the investigation scene and also a tracking shot of him from behind continuing to walk onwards. You could say our film is seen in a stereotypical light for this point as often detectives have main roles in crime films and therefore will have a lot more camera time compared to other characters. Another thing we did with the camera to try and make the detective appear as the main character was by not revealing his identity fully with him still being in shot, we thought this would make him stand out compared to the other characters as it adds a mysterious sense to the character and it leaves the audience guessing who the character is for a period of time.

The next 4 photos are screenshots for camera & editing = bottom left, how the opening sets up the story = top left, costumes = bottom right and title font and style = top right.

The screenshot for setting up the story through the opening is the picture of the phone receiving a call from an unknown number, we felt that this is a good stage for our film to start with and the unknown phone call sets up our film nicely as the viewer doesn’t know who the phone call is from and they aren’t 100% sure on who’s phone it is which makes viewers ask questions on the film which will be answered if they watch on and they can find out for themselves, our opening also includes a small flash back would also be a repeated shot of one we could have later on in the film to try and relate the whole film together. This is typical of our genre as usual in crime films involving detectives they try to leave the audience guessing and try and make them work out how the death took place which is what we tried to achieve for our film.

The photo next to this is a screenshot that represents the style and font of our titles for our film, for our titles for actors, producers, directors, etc. and the ‘in association with’ title between the two institutional logos we adopted a plain white font that would be easy to read as it would stand out on the screen and we also went for a simple font as well, one that was easy to read as we didn’t want to overcomplicate something that should be particularly easy to implement into your film. It’s hard to say whether this is stereotypical or non-stereotypical of our genre as we were copying our title order from the crime film Reservoir dogs however we have no copied the same style, font or colour of their titles and also our titles do not give of any hints at our genre however with the other generic conventions in our opening I still think audiences can identify the genre of the film without having to look at the style of the titles.

The screenshot below (bottom right of the 4) is a screenshot for our costumes, in the shot we have our characters; detective, runner and police officer and we also have the forensic scientists who aren’t in then shot but can be seen below. The costumes in our film I would say are very typical of the crime genre with the detective however this characters costume could’ve been improved, police officers who’s costumes could’ve also been improved however the hats give away their identity as police officers, the forensics who’s costumes we were very pleased with other than the clothes these characters are wearing underneath can be seen through the costumes and also the standard member of public who first discovers the body. I believe that because of these costumes it makes our genre very obvious to the audience.

The final screenshot which is the bottom left photo of the 4 screenshots is the image that shows the camera work and editing we used in our film, at the start of our opening you can see the establishing shot which is also shown in the image, we have used this shot to set a scene for our opening and if you listen to the clip you can also hear that we had added in the sound of a siren as this is another generic convention of our films genre and we have used this as its one of the main sounds we would say was stereotypical of our genre and a sound you would expect to hear in a crime film.

We had some inspirations from real media products for our film however there wasn’t too many as with our genre that is only a small amount of main generic conventions to choose from, in fact we picked most of our ideas for our film by ourselves and also used our audience questionnaire to include certain things audiences would expect to be in a film of our genre. We barely used any real media products for inspiration however we did use certain camera work skills and titles orders from the films; SPECTRE and Reservoir Dogs.

  Films we used for inspiration

For our title sequence we were quite lucky in the sense that a remake project we did on the opening to Reservoir dogs which is also a crime film had a very typical title order so we decided to simply copy this idea from the film with the order of the titles however we may change the colour, font and animation of the titles to make them tie in with our films genre.

During the research and planning of our film making we analysed several films as research tasks and after watching one scene from the film was on spectre we found a specific type of camera work which we linked and therefore wanted to implement it into our own film, the camera work is used when Dave Batista enters the frame at 0:17 in the clip, we wanted to use this kind of camera work as at first you don’t see all of the character in fact the mid shot tracking from behind means you don’t see much of the character at all which adds that few seconds of uncertainty for the viewer’s when watching the film as they are unsure who this character is and what he does in terms of the story line.

Giallo rough cut 2

George Watkins

here is our second draft for our film after making some improvements on draft 1

Rough cut 1

NATHAN








All we did for this is add our clips into the timeline on iMovie and cut a few to make a film. the feedback was as follows;


What works well:
Nice establishing shot at start
Film title is nice
Good mise and costumes (apart from the trackie bottoms under the forensics uniform)


Even Better If:
Add in institutional logos
Some of the shots are a little too long - the pace needs to be picked up!
Why does he put one glove on and then pick up the evidence without the glove?
Consider where the film will go from here
Add in titles

Organising sound

Billy Parker

For our film opening we will be using a lot of examples of diegetic sound such as speech and footsteps. when it comes to the footsteps, after we have filmed we will be considering if the footsteps have come out sounding correctly, otherwise we will be using the Foley effect to create the sounds of the footsteps, by recording the sound of the footsteps individually. Of our non diegetic sound we will be finding our sound track from websites that allow royalty free downloads so we can use music that is specifically created for our genre and we will be able to compare the sounds easily. we are looking for suspenseful music much like the sound in the opening to Seven, but not so much that it disorientates our audience. we plan to use sound which creates an eerie atmosphere without scaring or worrying our audience members, as we want to keep our film opening relatable to them.

Casting and Audition Intensions

Josh Breeze

When we came to the point when we needed to find actors to perform in our film opening, we made decisions that we wanted to find the people that in our opinion thought were good for the role and also people who had a little experience of acting (such as GCSE drama students or performing arts students). After looking at the different options, we initially auditioned 8 actors that could potentially fill the roles that we needed to create the film opening and make the overall performance look professional. After the auditions we decided that we would only need 6 actors out of the 8 that auditioned, which meant that we needed to cut some of the potential actors we currently had. After finding the best actors for each role for our opening, we then cut the 8 to 6 as these were the best 6 in our opinion for the roles and also we decided that we only needed 6 actors for the opening.

photographic storyboard

George Watkins

here is the photographic storyboard for our film 'GIALO' we re-enacted our storyboard using real life images.

Characters in our film

Nathan

In our film, we used six characters to star in our film. These characters were;

Two Policemen: We used policemen within our film as they are usually at crime scenes and fill in the detective upon his arrival, of what has happened. We added these characters in so that one of the policeman can speak with the member of public and another with the detective to make the crime scene look more sophisticated and realistic.

Two forensics: We used forensics in our film opening to add realism to our crime scene and also to explain how the information was gathered. Forensics are important at a crime scene as they allow the policemen and detective to know what has happened, usually how they died. Therefore to make this look mainstream we had to have forensics in the shot so that its looks real and appealing to our target audience.

Member of the Public (runner): We have used the member of the public as the person who initially saw the dead body and was at the crime scene waiting for the police. We have him being interviewed at the crime scene as this then looks like he is explaining what has happened at the crime scene and what he has saw, therefore this would add realism.

 

Detective: The detective is the most important character within our film opening as he is there to find out how the crime happened which is the thriller part behind our film. The mysteriousness of our film is uncovered by this detective therefore we needed to have one as this adds realism and elaborates on our storyline.

Overall this post has explained the characters we have used within our film and why we have used them. It also helped us understand the significance behind some of the characters and how they needed to be represented in our film.



 

Mise-en-Scene Considerations

Nathan


We have thought a lot about the mise-en-scene of our film as the this is very important as it portrays the narrative and genre of our film opening. We thought of the props, location and costumes for our piece carefully and have come up with a few ideas for each, these include;

• Costumes - The costumes are very important to display the different characters and how they are based within the narrative. Costumes usually show importance or a lot about the character whether its their personality or attitude to their job role. Therefore as we have a variety of characters within our film opening, ( a member of the public, two policeman, a detective and two forensics) , therefore we need to display them in order of importance and correctly show their personality.

The detective - We decided to use a suit or a shirt and tie with a long coat. We decided to consider either of these options as detectives usually wear suits or a very distinct long coat.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 















  Two forensics - We  decided to use the very common forensic costume as this is more realistic.

Member of the public - We considered using running costumes to make the member of the public look like they have ran past the crime scene and noticed it, or a casual dog walker wearing casual clothing.

Two policeman - We have considered using the normal police clothing such as a jumper and a police hat or just a shirt and tie, these both portray a policeman therefore we need to see which looks better.

Location - Location is important as this will set the scene and enable our audience to see where this film is set. The setting also helps create the atmosphere within the opening scene therefore location is very important. We thought of two ideas which include a dark alley way and a forest in which is out the way from a main area ( a city for example).

The dark alley would consist a mid night murder in which would be discovered in the morning.

The forest would be far away, where only dog walkers and runners would venture to.

 

This post has helped us understand what mise-en-scene we could use and how we could use it. We initially thought of all these ideas and when we come the film we will choose 1 idea from each section. We will also be filming under naturalistic lighting.



How we wil attract our audience

Josh Breeze

Crime/Thriller films all take their own twist on the genre of crime/thriller films, but all have similarities that the films targeted audience find interesting and attracts them to that genre of films. An audience of a crime/thriller film always are attracted by a scenario within the film where there is a problem and a character (normally the main character) tries to get to the bottom of that problem throughout the film. These are the generic conventions that hook audiences into the crime/thriller genre, which means that to make our film opening/ film effective, we need to incorporate these generic conventions, so that our target audience is attracted to watch our film.

Examples of the top Crime/Thriller films of IMDB;

Crime/Thriller films all take their own twist on the genre of crime/thriller films, but all have similarities that the films targeted audience find interesting and attracts them to that genre of films. An audience of a crime/thriller film always are attracted by a scenario within the film where there is a problem and a character (normally the main character) tries to get to the bottom of that problem throughout the film. These are the generic conventions that hook audiences into the crime/thriller genre, which means that to make our film opening/ film effective, we need to incorporate these generic conventions, so that our target audience is attracted to watch our film.

Gone Girl (2014)

 

Gone girl has a typical crime/thriller plot throughout the whole film but puts a twist within the film which makes the film more attractive to the targeted audience. because of this twist within the film, this makes Gone Girl one of the most popular Crime/Thriller films within the past few years.

 Exposed (2016)

 

Exposed plot is a typical crime/thriller film where a detective finds the truth behind his wife's death. As well as this and also the same as Gone Girl, this film also has a twist to the plot, which also makes the audience ant to the watch the film and also attracts them to the film as well.

Why we chose the final loctaion?

Josh Breeze

Before looking for different locations for our film opening, we had to first decide what the genre of our film was going to be and once we had done this to find an idea for the opening as well. We first had to do this as we needed to know what our idea was going to be, so we could find and come up with ideas that best suited this idea and would achieve the best results.


This is a Google maps view of the location
 that we chose.


After finalising our idea of a Crime thriller film and after finalising our overall idea for the film, we then started to come up with location ideas for the opening. After coming up with a number of ideas, we decided on a location that was suitable for our film idea and also offered all we needed, which other locations just didn’t offer. This location was also easily accessible for all our group members, which meant that any extra filming that needed to be done could be done quickly as the location was in walking distance.



This is what the location looked like
during out film opening.

Another picture showing the
location we picked.

Group discoveries on title timelines in your genre

George Watkins

Due to us doing a re-make of a film with the same genre as we want our film to be so we decided that we should copy the film title order of this film which was Reservoir dogs but obviously just alter the wording fit for our film, here is the timeline of titles for the opening of reservoir dogs.

 

Reservoir dogs opening timeline

      7 seconds: Non-Diegetic music starts

      11-15 seconds: A Film by Quentin Tarantino

      26-29 seconds: Harvey Keitel

     30-33 seconds: Michael Madsen

     34-38 seconds: Chris Penn

     39-42 seconds: Steve Buscemi

     43-47 seconds: Lawrence Tierney

     48-51 seconds: Eddie Bunker

     52-55 seconds: Quentin Tarantino

     57-60 seconds: and Tim Roth

    1 minute 1-3 seconds: are

    1 minute 6-15 seconds: Reservoir Dogs

    1 minute 19-25 seconds: Randy Brooks, Kirk Baltz, Rich Turner, and the voice of Steven Wright.

    1 minute 27-30 seconds: casting Ronnie Yeskel, C.S.A

    1 minute 31-35 seconds: Music Supervisor, Karyn Rachtman

    1 minute 36-39 seconds: Costume Designer, Betsy Heimann

    1 minute 40-43 seconds: Editor, Sally Menke

    1 minute 44-47 seconds: Production Designer, David Wasco

    1 minute 48-52 seconds: Director of Photography, Andrzej Sekula

    1 minute 53-56 seconds: Co-Producer, Harvey Keitel

    1 minute 57- 2 minutes 1 second: Executive Producers, Richard N. Gladstein, Ronna B. Wallace and Monte Hellman

    2 minutes 2-5 seconds: Produced by Lawrence Bender

 

            the film opening;

 

 

    So when making our film opening at the editing stage we will copy the title order that reservoir dogs have used however may change the colour, font and animation of the titles as Reservoir dogs is quite an old film.

 

    Another film title timeline I looked at with the same genre as us was the film 'Kingsman secret service'

    here is the opening to kingsman' title timeline

      

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0   0:13 - MARV

     0:30 – (Middle East, 1997)

   

     0:51 – Twentieth Century Fox presents

     0:58 – in association with MARV

 

     1: 05 – a cloudy production    

 

 

i    Deliberately chose to do this film opening as well due to the lack of titles compared to Reservoir dogs as if the actors in our film did not want their names to be including in the film opening we would have to produce our titles in such an order as Kingsman but obviously include titles on editor, music, produced by, etc.

 

Why we chose our film title?

Josh Breeze

When thinking of a name for our film, we wanted to come up with something that was unique, memorable and also something that had strong reasoning behind it. After thinking about different titles for the film , we finally decided on the name "Giallo". We decided upon this name as it has a deeper meaning to it as the name originates back to a 20th century Italian genre of literature and film, which usually elements of mystery and crime associated with the genre. The word "Giallo" also translates to "Yellow" in English, which is why our film titles are mostly yellow to also link in with the "Giallo" genre. As well as the term "Giallo" translating to the colour yellow in English, the book covers that were written using the "Giallo" genre were also in fact yellow, which gives an even deeper meaning to the name of the film and also the yellow colours used within the film opening.

An example of what "Giallo" genre book covers
looked like in the 20th century.

Filming schedule

Billy Parker
 

Date	Shot Number	Cast involved	Location	Props/Mise-En-Scene	Equipment Needed	Health and safety
Shots 2 and 19 are digitally created
15/3/16	1 3 4 5 6 7	Rhys Williams   Matt Nunez   Thomas O’Meara   Owen Thomas   George Watkins	Broomfield woods	Crime scene tape   Forensic suits   Dust sheet   Latex gloves   Wallet   Phone   Evidence Markers   Police outfits	Camera   Tripod	Avoid all trip hazards from the woods
16/3/16	8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18	Matt Nunez   Thomas O’Meara   Billy Parker	Broomfield woods	Crime scene tape   Forensic suits   Dust sheet   Latex gloves   Wallet   Phone   Evidence Markers	Camera   Tripod	Avoid all trip hazards from the woods

Audition script

Billy Parker

Audition Script

 

Police talking to member of public (in background)
 

Policeman 1:                So what exactly did you see when you discovered the body ?

 Member of public:       Well I was just running through the woods and then I saw that person laying on the ground over there. (points to dead body) I didn’t touch or move anything. It’s all exactly how I found it.

 Police 2:                      And you are sure there was nobody else in the area?

 Member of public:     Not that I know of. I called you as soon as I saw him and nobody has been here since.

 Police 1:                      Have you seen any suspicious behaviour in this area recently?

 Member of public:       No I haven’t. I can’t really remember to be honest with you.




This is the audition script for our film. I have lifted it from the initial script which I wrote.

for the auditions, we will be having the people being auditioned read the lines of the policemen. This is so we can find out how they pronounce their words as well as we can see how confident they are on camera. I will audition a total of 3 people for each role with dialogue, to discover who would be best for each job. For the roles which don't have words, I will not film auditions only because as long as we have some actors in the correct age group and look correct, their acting ability will not be particularly important for their roles.