media studies 2009-2011

This is a print screen from our editing process , the programme we used was adobe premiere pro . Adobe is a very expensive but professional tool , it is a very good system and is simple to use after you are initially inducted to it. Our film required a lot of editing due to the fact for most of it the 2 charcaters are walking , this required continuity editing to be very sharp , also the editing in of the narration meant that it was possible to keep the viewer entertained whilst watching the characters walking. Our film was filmed in the 2 blocks , the first block was filmed around february , this was the first half of the film , all the way up to the handheld sequence , this was so we could edit the first half fully before shooting the second . we filmed the second block by the end of march and edited that so we had our complete film. We then looked back over the film and added in transitions such as , fade to blacks , cross dissolves and freeze frames

This image shows the location of our final scene in the film , the fight.  It is a local subway in town near the college , the grubbiness and graffitti on the wall gives the urban feeling and a stereotypical real crime environment. The major problem we had with this was the lighting something which in our film became a hindrance in the final scene and unfortunately could not be overcome

The football factory

The opening credits start with the name of the production comapanies , ‘Rockstar games’ and ‘Vertigo’ , these names last on the screen for around 4 seconds giving the viewer just enough time to see it and then move on quickly without boring the viewer immediately into the film. There is then a montage image before the films directors name Nick Love , comes on the screen and that is followed by a further montage of pictures befored the main actor in the film Danny Dyers name is shown , the titles sequence then continues for a furter 1 minute approxiamtely showing minor actors names and also producers names and other peoples names from behind the scenes. The title sequence is fairly basic and conforms to getting the information across and showing a montage of images of football hooliganism which gives the viewer an insight into what the film is going to involve. The music is instrumental and is almost a continuous tone throughout , the main colours used in the title sequence are , red , black and yellow all used for the majority of the time.

Green Street

In the opening to this film it is very much different to the football factory and immediately shows the story of the main character Elijah Wood , he is the first name to come up and he is the first person the viewer see’s , the whole opening titles are following him in an airport whilst in the bottom left coner of the screen the information about all the people involved in the making of the film comes up in a basic white font. The problem sometimes with having the story going on in the background of the opening titles is that the information shown is not really paid attention to as the story is the main attraction. The music in the piece also differs from that used in the football factories opening sequence as it is a song , ‘only when i laugh’ by Ken Jones. in my opinion this form of opening titles does not work as it distracts the viewers eye from the text information to the story instead.

RockNRolla

The opening titles of this film are very advanced with a lot of CGI , it starts with a very fast pan across what looks like a deserted warehouse before revealing the warner brothers company logo , before showing a cartoon like montage of the production company , the directors name ‘Guy Ritchie’ and then it moves into real life and a man is stood stationary for around 25 seconds while there is a voiceover from a cotney man explaining what a rock and roller is , then after the 25 second voiceover period , music is then played , ‘im a man’ which is instrumental and also lyrical, and once again the cartoon montage of the characters image aswell as their names begin popping up one after another and then to end the sequence the final cartoon of one of the characters morphs into the real life version of the character resulting in the opening of the film. this opening title sequence was very advanced and showed the film had a hugh budget however it is a very good opening titles sequence and ultimately works to portray the information and also the theme for a gangster film.

The preliminary exercise is a piece of work we were required to produce , and had to follow a specific brief of the exercise. As a group we followed the basic criteria of the film and in turn just produced a basic film consisting of the hand over of a briefcase. The major good point of the piece is the close up on the hand pulling the chair back , this shows a fairly decent level of camera work and helps the piece flow from one mini sequence to another. The major bad point of the video is the editing in which the characters jump occasionally when walking which shows a poor editing skill level from the group as a whole however countered with that there is a very good fade to end the piece which i believe is executed well and smoothly rounds the film off.