Binglish As Media Preliminary Task

Final Project 

This is my final project for the media course.

Final Film Evaluation

The experience of filming, directing and writing the final film was a positive experience, however there were also negative barriers which needed to be overcome.

As the film is a british crime based film we attempted to portray this as much as possible as we introduced sections of london streets towards the beginning.  I found when filming other camera angles were better than others, such as the over shoulder as opposed to the head shot.  Therefore different angles needed to be shot in order maintain the audiences attention as well as the light being correct for the scene.  Before shooting we found the first thing that was needed to be done was the writing of the film.  This was done as we sketched a rough storyboard of the scenes and what the story was about.  We also found that we both had the same ideas, this made working easier as we wanted the same thing.

Composing the music was an important factor, we did this by estimating from our scenes the genre of music as well as how heavy or soft.  This worked well, however when reviewing the final piece, parts of the music did not fit, therefore these parts were worked upon and changed.

Having to direct the film was a pleasurable experience as we found this interesting having to decide the location, camera angles etc.  However when directing we found that certain decisions had to be made quickly.  For example, if a camera angle did not work because of the light or we did not want certain things to be on show for the viewer we would have to decide what possible camera angle could work.  For this reason we experimented with camera angles and overcame all possible obstacles. 

Preliminary Evaluation

During the preliminary task I found that this gave us the chance to familiarise with the equipment.  For example, I found out how to use the camera in the correct way as well as learning how to use the editing software on the computer.  This task also gave us the chance to practice camera angles.  When filming the different camera angles I found that not all angles worked with certain shots, this same situation also showed later on in the main film.  This however was overcome as we decided on better angles to shoot from.

Another aspect which was found hard to overcome was the lines.  This was because a set script was not written, this meant the actors had to add lib to a situation which we created.  The main downfall of this was the repetition of takes.  This problem also made the editing harder to work with.

Garage Band 

This is a software that allows you to make music. Garage Band is a really simple and useful software that you can produce music on.    

In the screen shot above it shows you my music that I am producing to go in my film. The boxes that you see the beat that I have selected. Once you have selected a beat you can make it loop or customise it with another beat. The lines that you see going up and down is where you can make the beat fade in and out also making it louder. This is useful if you want a beat to come into the track slowly.

In the screen shot above it shows the beats that I have selected and the track and how I have faded the beat in and out. The blue box at the bottom is the beat enlarged so you can see that there is nothing overlapping or cut out. This also allows you to mix the beats if you want to because you can cut them and move them around.
I find that Garage Band is a really good and useful software.  

Characters that perform a function

Characters that perform a function

The Hero – a character that seeks something

The Villain – who opposes or actively blocks the hero’s quest

The Donor – who provides an object with magical properties

The Dispatcher – who sends the hero on his/her quest via a message

      The False Hero – who disrupts the hero’s success by making false claims

      The Helper – who aids the hero

      The Princess – acts as the reward for the hero and the object of the villain’s plots

      Her Father – who acts to reward the hero for his effort

This is a film about fast cars crocked cops and then working to bring down a huge drug dealer. 

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There are a lots camera angles that this film uses but when they are in the cars they mainly uses birds eye view, fast pans, point of view and over the shoulder. these are all good shots to uses to make the car look like it is going faster then it really is.

Film Genres and Sub genres Films includes high energy explosive action. That crays on going on throughout the film. there is many stunts being performed and guns and explosions. One of the films is a good example of this is THE EXPENDABLES. this film is a true action film it may not be that good but does contain huge amounts of action. Adventure films are usually exciting stories, they usaly take place in exotic locations, adventure film is close to an action film becuase they involve some action. often they have a historical events. they mostly include searches or expeditions for lost continents, "jungle" and "desert" epics, treasure hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown. Comedies are light-hearted plots consistently and deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter (with one-liners, jokes, etc.) by exaggerating the situation, the language, action, relationships and characters. there is also so offencive language used in these fims tagetted at some religens and races. Crime (gangster) films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or mobsters, particularly bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life. Dramas are serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Usually, they are not focused on special-effects, comedy, or action, Dramatic films are probably the largest film genre, with many subsets.  Epics include costume dramas, historical dramas, war films, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop. Epics often share elements of the elaborate adventure films genre. Epics take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by grandeur and spectacle, dramatic scope, high production values, and a sweeping musical score.  Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films feature a wide range of styles, from the earliest silent Nosferatu classic, to today's CGI monsters and deranged humans. They are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens. The fantasy and supernatural film genres are not usually synonymous with the horror genre.  Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance integrated as part of the film narrative), or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.  Sci-fi films are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters ('things or creatures from space'), either created by mad scientists or by nuclear havoc. They are sometimes an offshoot of fantasy films, or they share some similarities with action/adventure films. War (and anti-war) films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy (black), suspense, and even epics and westerns, and they often take a denunciatory approach toward warfare.  Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry - a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring genres with very recognizable plots, elements, and characters (six-guns, horses, dusty towns and trails, cowboys, Indians, etc.). Over time, westerns have been re-defined, re-invented and expanded, dismissed, re-discovered, and spoofed.
	'Biopics' is a term derived from the combination of the words "biography" and "pictures." They are a sub-genre of the larger drama and epic film genres, and although they reached a hey-day of popularity in the 1930s, they are still prominent to this day. These films depict the life of an important historical personage (or group) from the past or present era. Biopics cross many genre types, since these films might showcase a western outlaw, a criminal, a musical composer, a religious figure, a war-time hero, an entertainer, an artist, an inventor or doctor, a politician or President, or an adventurer.
	Often considered an all-encompassing sub-genre, 'chick' flicks or gal films (slightly derisive terms) mostly include formulated romantic comedies (with mis-matched lovers or female relationships), tearjerkers and gal-pal films, movies about family crises and emotional carthasis, some traditional 'weepies' and fantasy-action adventures, sometimes with foul-mouthed and empowered females, and female bonding situations involving families, mothers, daughters, children, women, and women's issues.
	Detective-mystery films are usually considered a sub-type or sub-genre of crime/gangster films (or film noir), or suspense or thriller films that focus on the unsolved crime (usually the murder or disappearance of one or more of the characters, or a theft), and on the central character - the hard-boiled detective-hero, as he/she meets various adventures and challenges in the cold and methodical pursuit of the criminal or the solution to the crime.
	Disaster films, a sub-genre of action films, hit their peak in the decade of the 1970s. Big-budget disaster films provided all-star casts and interlocking, Grand Hotel-type stories, with suspenseful action and impending crises (man-made or natural) in locales such as aboard imperiled airliners, trains, dirigibles, sinking or wrecked ocean-liners, or in towering burning skyscrapers, crowded stadiums or earthquake zones.
	Fantasy films, usually considered a sub-genre, are most likely to overlap with the film genres of science fiction and horror, although they are distinct. Fantasies take the audience to netherworld places (or another dimension) where events are unlikely to occur in real life - they transcend the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. They often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, and the extraordinary. One of the major categories of fantasy-action films are the super-hero movies, based quite often on original comic-strip or comic book character. They may appeal to both children and adults, depending upon the particular film.
	Film noir (meaning 'black film') is a distinct branch of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s. Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style or tone of various American films that evolved in the 1940s, and lasted in a classic period until about 1960. However, film noir has not been exclusively confined to this era, and has re-occurred in cyclical form in other years in various neo-noirs. Noirs are usually black and white films with primary moods of melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia.
	Composed of macho films that are often packed with sophomoric humor, action, cartoon violence, competition, mean-spirited putdowns and gratuitous nudity and sex. Gal films or 'chick' flicks are their counterpart for females.
	Melodramas are a sub-type of drama films, characterized by a plot to appeal to the emotions of the audience. Often, film studies criticism used the term 'melodrama' pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled tales of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters that would directly appeal to feminine audiences ("weepies" or "woman's films").
	Road films have been a staple of American films from the very start, and have ranged in genres from westerns, comedies, gangster/crime films, dramas, and action-adventure films. One thing they all have in common: an episodic journey on the open road.
	A sub-genre for the most part, this category shares some features with romantic dramas, romantic comedies, and sexual/erotic films. These are love stories, or affairs of the heart that center on passion, emotion, and the romantic, affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady), and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story the main plot focus.
	Films that have a sports setting (football or baseball stadium, arena, or the Olympics, etc.), event (the 'big game,' 'fight,' 'race,' or 'competition'), and/or athlete (boxer, racer, surfer, etc.) that are central and predominant in the story. Sports films may be fictional or non-fictional; and they are a hybrid sub-genre category, although they are often dramas or comedy films, and occasionally documentaries or biopics.
	Supernatural films, a sub-genre category, may be combined with other genres, including comedy, sci-fi, fantasy or horror. They have themes including gods or goddesses, ghosts, apparitions, spirits, miracles, and other similar ideas or depictions of extraordinary phenomena. Interestingly however, until recently, supernatural films were usually presented in a comical, whimsical, or a romantic fashion, and were not designed to frighten the audience. There are also many hybrids that have combinations of fear, fantasy, horror, romance, and comedy.
	Thrillers are often hybrids with other genres - there are action-thrillers, crime-caper thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers, even romantic comedy-thrillers. Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations. They are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension.