Oxford Test Filming 2

Also during our time in Oxford we were in a multi story car park and we used its flight of stares because one of the scenes is in a bloc of flats and we needed either a bloc of flats with a stare well of a suitable alternative and as we don't have access to a bloc of flats the car park stares look very similar. Below is the test shot that we have also edited. on of the features we edited in was the illusion that he is being chased by multiple people  however this didn't turn out as anticipated and you can easily tell that it is just the same shot replayed three times.

Lighting effects

In one of our lessons we attempted to recreate the lighs of a police car.This will allow us to potentially apply this effect to our production to make the illusion that there is a police car round the corner. This section is supposed to be the part of the trailer where the murder is running away from the police down an ally to which the light appear on the wall as if a police car has turned up

Time management

This is a estimate time plan for our production. I have left space for extra planning and for post production as we might take longer on some things but as of now this is the time table I would like to stick to. by using and planning this I have got a ruff idea of what we have to do and what time frame we have to do this. As of making this I know we only have a couple of weeks to finish the majority of the planning and start filming. 

Youth culture

In our theory lessons we have been learning about youth culture in media and how it is represented and how it has changed over the years. we have been looking at three main theorists which have  researched in to this area of the media these theorists are:

• Giroux
• Acland 
• Hebdige

Giroux

Giroux argues that in media representations of youth becomes an “empty category”. This is because media representations or young people are constructed by adults. Because of this they reflect adults concerns, anxieties, and needs. As a result of this media representations of young people do not necessarily reflect the reality of youth identity. When applying Giroux to media texts you need to think about who constructed the representation, who it is aimed at, and does the representation reflect adult anxieties or serve the purposes of adult society (e.g. by reinforcing hegemonic values)

Acland

Acland argues that media representations of delinquent youths actually reinforce hegemony. They do this by constructing an idea of “normal” adult and youth behaviour, and contrasting it with deviant youth behaviour which is shown to be unacceptable.

Acland also claims that a media representation of young people out of control allows the state to have more control of them (e.g. media reports about delinquent youths led to ASBOs). This is something Acland calls the “ideology of protection”- the idea that young people need constant surveillance and monitoring. This happens because youth is the time when young people learn about social roles and values, and allows the state to make sure they conform to hegemonic values.

When applying Acland think about the extent to which media representations show young people as in need of control. Do the representations show young people as behaving in and unacceptable way? If so does this this identify what behaviour society thinks is acceptable (i.e Hegemonic)? You may want to focus particularly on how the representations we looked at show working class youths to be deviant , thus reinforcing middle class hegemony.

Hebdige

Hebdige studied British youth subcultures in the late 1970s. his work is more focused on the reality of youth culture, than Giroux or Acland who are concerned with media representations of youth. Hebdige argues that youth subcultures are a way for young people to express their opposition to society, and to challenge hegemony. This is primarily expressed through style. In this context you may consider how the working class youths behaviour is a response to their position in society. (e.g. the class envy of the characters in “Eden lake” who steal the signifier of middle class wealth such as the 4x4 and Ray Bans).

Hebdige also argues that the representations of young people are quite limited showing them as either fun or trouble. Again this suggests media representations of young people do not really relate to reality.   

Practice Filming

To help us get back in to the media mind set our teacher stet us a task to recreate a clip based around our chosen brief. for our task we chose to recreate a scene from Batman. 

In the scene Commissioner Gordon confronts the Joker  in a interview room. To try and recreate this we had to use two locations which disrupt the flow of the scene but to get the darkness when the joker is sitting alone we used a cupboard to which had no widows so we could have complete darkness however we needed a bigger room for when Gordon walks out of the room so we used a small room opposite our media room. we only recreated the first scene with Commissioner Gordon and the joker we did not do the bit when batman turns up. Below are the two videos (original and our recreation)

Our recreation:

The IDEA

Our fist thoughts where based on a crime thriller to which you would follow the life of a detective and unravel a interesting and obscure murder. However after about a week an idea cam in to my head where instead of following the detective you follow the murderer as he tries to escape the police and the detective. After investing some time in to this idea we chose to switch it up a bit by reversing the audiences opinion on the "murderer" by making him the good guy. To do this we changed the idea of the detective and the police by showing the idea  that the police are corrupt as the detective pays them to frame the character we follow. This switching up the idea of a normal crime thriller. However as we are only creating a trailer we will have to show these ideas subtlety through the trailer but with out giving to much away. To help us design the trailer we are going to plan out what happens in the story as to help us get an idea of what should be in the trailer.

I have had some ideas of what scenes we could do:

Idea 1: Setting: central city area, night, street lamps light up the street and some cars on the road with a couple of bystanders on the opposite side of the road.

The main character runs around a corner in to a ally as he gets about half way down you can see red and blue flashing lights up on the wall to which he runs past the camera cutting to black

Idea 2: Setting: similar to idea to, Central city, Night, Street lights light up the street with only a few cars on the road but with 5-7 other people on the street.

We focus on our character walking down the street with a couple people behind and in-front of him, the camera cuts to across the street looking at him from between two cars, then is cuts to a over the solder shot looking at a window on the third floor on the building two buildings down from where he is stood, Cuts back to between the cars to see him open and close the door to the building. The next shot is him in the elevator, as we see him through the CCTV camera in the elevator, the elevator door opens and he steps out, we then cut to a view of the entire hallway, the character walks towards us then turns left to open a door we see him reach in to a pocket, then we cut to a close up of the lock to which he place a key in the lock and turns the key. we are then looking at him from inside the dark room the door opens so that we can only see silhouette of him, he enters the room disapering  from sight to which a larger silhouette steps in to view. It then cuts to black


These are only some basic ideas and might not be used in the final production  

Audience research

In our last lesson we discussed what we could and needed to do for audience research. Audience research is often used to help to specify a idea for example if you wanted to create a short film and you decided that you wanted to make it based around a action film you could ask a group of people what they would expect from an action. This would help you think about what you needed to include within your production. Audience research is almost always used by large film producing companies as they want to give there film the best chance of making money as they would like to gain a profit from there film. So making it more appealing to more people who will hopefully buy tickets to go and see the film in the cinema.

There are many ways of researching your audience:

• Questionnaires ( E.g.asking questions based on your idea, other similar films and asking questions that will help in the choices that you will have to make 
• Exit polls - Physical/Digital (E.g. Putting a link (video,Article) on your blog/website and then making the reader come back and fill out a poll based on what they have read or seen) 
• Focus groups (E.g. gathering a group of people that have a similar taste in film and making them watch a film on there interest and asking questions like why do you like these types of film, what was your favourite part and why etc.)
• Secondary research (find information that has already been studies like stats etc)