Saturday, 5 December 2009
Wednesday 2nd December(Recording of corner shop scene)
on the 2nd of December we recorded the corner shop scene. we ran into a few difficult situations with findong a corner shop location. we decided we were going to use the cafe at our school but then we saw the uniform shop would look better for it. when recording there we also did encounter problems of people being around meaining we had to wait till they were gone before filming. Overall from filming i would say that i learnt that when filming, it is important that you are organised and quick.,
Monday 30th November(Fight Scene Rehearsals)
On the 30th of November me an Luke Mcadams met up with the two characters taking part in the fight scene in our movie in order to teach them the choreography. below is a storyboard for how we intend for it to go.
this is the choreography for the fight scene we made up.
James picks a cigarette and as he reaches to put it in his mouth he purposely drops it
JAMES sharply turns bringing out his weapon and hits gun out of LI’s hand at that same time LI kicks his gun out of his hand.
LI gives a sharp quick kick to JAMES. She grabs JAMES by his shirt punching him 2 times.
James grabs her third punch turns her arm into a shoulder lock and knees her she boots his leg they both drop and quickly get up.
He punches her twice and then boots her leg causing LI to drop.
He then notices his gun and runs to get it.
As he is running LI grabs his legs and he drops.
LI then strangles him from behind for 5 seconds and then he elbows her.
They then both look at the gun then look at each other for 1 second then roll away and run after their guns.
JAMES gets there first and begins shooting. LI gets her gun and takes cover. She reaches out to shoot when she is shot by JAMES in the arm.
She then retreats (leaving behind a note) under pursuit from JAMES.
JAMES pursues her but stops when he notices the note. He picks it up.
this is the choreography for the fight scene we made up.
James picks a cigarette and as he reaches to put it in his mouth he purposely drops it
JAMES sharply turns bringing out his weapon and hits gun out of LI’s hand at that same time LI kicks his gun out of his hand.
LI gives a sharp quick kick to JAMES. She grabs JAMES by his shirt punching him 2 times.
James grabs her third punch turns her arm into a shoulder lock and knees her she boots his leg they both drop and quickly get up.
He punches her twice and then boots her leg causing LI to drop.
He then notices his gun and runs to get it.
As he is running LI grabs his legs and he drops.
LI then strangles him from behind for 5 seconds and then he elbows her.
They then both look at the gun then look at each other for 1 second then roll away and run after their guns.
JAMES gets there first and begins shooting. LI gets her gun and takes cover. She reaches out to shoot when she is shot by JAMES in the arm.
She then retreats (leaving behind a note) under pursuit from JAMES.
JAMES pursues her but stops when he notices the note. He picks it up.
Monday, 23 November 2009
Screenplay
Title DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
EXT. STREET—-NIGHT
MURDER 1 takes place (LI strangles using CHAIN)
TITLE—- Actor... (James Dylan)
INT. House, RECORDING STUDIO-—NIGHT
MURDER 2 takes place (LI turns off lights OFF suddenly kills agent with a GUN)
TITLE—Actor... (LI)
EXT. ALLEYWAY—-NIGHT
MURDER 3 takes place (in ALLEY, LI impersonates a PROSTITUTE walks up to car talks to agent. They mouth. She enters car. She leans over and STABS him)
TITLE—-FATAL SCORN
INT. CORNER SHOP—-NIGHT
JAMES walks into SHOP, picks up carton of milk and sugar
INT. EVA’S OFFICE—-NIGHT
EVA
Where is he?
EXT. OUTSIDE CORNER SHOP—NIGHT
LI
In a shop.
INT. CORNER SHOP—-NIGHT
SHOP KEEPER
That will be 80p.
JAMES
Here you go, how’s the family?
SHOP KEEPER
There good thanks.
SHOP KEEPER hands over change.
JAMES
Cheers mate.
JAMES EXITS.
INT. EVA’S OFFICE—-NIGHT
EVA’S office is her study at home. She is clenching a PHOTO of all her colleges in her hand looking at her next target. (JAMES DILLAN)
EVA
Make it quick
EVA hangs up and sits on chair in SILENCE.
EXT. PARK—-NIGHT
LI back into some bushes, JAMES crosses road and notices LI in BUSHES. DISCRETLY and SLOWLY reaches for his GUN and continues walking. LI creeps up from behind and attacks.
Fight scenes takes place, LI RETREATS and leaves behind a note. James notices note. A piece of paper FALLS OUT of LI’S pocket. JAMES DILLION picks it up.
EXT. STREET—-NIGHT
MURDER 1 takes place (LI strangles using CHAIN)
TITLE—- Actor... (James Dylan)
INT. House, RECORDING STUDIO-—NIGHT
MURDER 2 takes place (LI turns off lights OFF suddenly kills agent with a GUN)
TITLE—Actor... (LI)
EXT. ALLEYWAY—-NIGHT
MURDER 3 takes place (in ALLEY, LI impersonates a PROSTITUTE walks up to car talks to agent. They mouth. She enters car. She leans over and STABS him)
TITLE—-FATAL SCORN
INT. CORNER SHOP—-NIGHT
JAMES walks into SHOP, picks up carton of milk and sugar
INT. EVA’S OFFICE—-NIGHT
EVA
Where is he?
EXT. OUTSIDE CORNER SHOP—NIGHT
LI
In a shop.
INT. CORNER SHOP—-NIGHT
SHOP KEEPER
That will be 80p.
JAMES
Here you go, how’s the family?
SHOP KEEPER
There good thanks.
SHOP KEEPER hands over change.
JAMES
Cheers mate.
JAMES EXITS.
INT. EVA’S OFFICE—-NIGHT
EVA’S office is her study at home. She is clenching a PHOTO of all her colleges in her hand looking at her next target. (JAMES DILLAN)
EVA
Make it quick
EVA hangs up and sits on chair in SILENCE.
EXT. PARK—-NIGHT
LI back into some bushes, JAMES crosses road and notices LI in BUSHES. DISCRETLY and SLOWLY reaches for his GUN and continues walking. LI creeps up from behind and attacks.
Fight scenes takes place, LI RETREATS and leaves behind a note. James notices note. A piece of paper FALLS OUT of LI’S pocket. JAMES DILLION picks it up.
choreograhy Research(fight scene)
The rules of stage combat:
DISTANCE: the fighters should never be close enough to actually hit each other's body with the weapon. This is going to keep your fighters safe. If someone messes up and swings their weapon in a way they're not supposed to - if they have DISTANCE - the other person will not get hit or hurt.
PLACEMENT: This is how and where you move your weapons. NEVER swing a sword across someone's body and especially their face. There is nothing scarier than seeing someone's sword point at your face. With placement - this is an added SAFETY feature - so if someone messes up and they forget to keep DISTANCE - but they are keeping their PLACEMENT - the other actor won't get hit or hurt.
Placement for stage combat sword fighting: When attacking your targets are always OUTSIDE the body (about 8 inches) - not the actual body itself.
TIMING: is the next rule of stage combat. You have your safe DISTANCE, the actors know their PLACEMENT, and now it is a matter of working out the timing so it looks like the parry is coming just in the nick of time. If the parry comes to early... the actor looks a bit psychic and it's not believable. If the parry comes too late, the person throwing the attack looks a bit lame if the other person hasn't parried and they're just hanging out there waiting for the other person to remember to parry (even though it looks silly - this is what you should do if such a mistake happens - there is NEVER any improvisation in stage combat.) It takes work to get the timing right - but the timing will make or break a fight - whether it's exciting or whether it just looks sloppy and amateurish.
you need a TRAINED fight choreographer to teach you and correct mistakes. It takes a lot of practice, just as you do if you were going to choreograph a dance. Stage combat is a dance of implied violence. You need to think about all of the same things as you do with dance, but now you have the added complication of a weapon (or two) involved.
A general rule for stage combat is: for every SECOND of fight you need to have an HOUR of rehearsal. That's a lot of practice. And it's important to have a safe and well-executed fight.
A fast fight isn't necessarily a good fight.
A fight that is slow, but precise, well timed, and well acted - is going to be a thousand times more exciting and more interesting to watch - than sloppy fighters just trying to be fast.
act out slowly and sped up in editing.
taken from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080124235449AADdhR1
DISTANCE: the fighters should never be close enough to actually hit each other's body with the weapon. This is going to keep your fighters safe. If someone messes up and swings their weapon in a way they're not supposed to - if they have DISTANCE - the other person will not get hit or hurt.
PLACEMENT: This is how and where you move your weapons. NEVER swing a sword across someone's body and especially their face. There is nothing scarier than seeing someone's sword point at your face. With placement - this is an added SAFETY feature - so if someone messes up and they forget to keep DISTANCE - but they are keeping their PLACEMENT - the other actor won't get hit or hurt.
Placement for stage combat sword fighting: When attacking your targets are always OUTSIDE the body (about 8 inches) - not the actual body itself.
TIMING: is the next rule of stage combat. You have your safe DISTANCE, the actors know their PLACEMENT, and now it is a matter of working out the timing so it looks like the parry is coming just in the nick of time. If the parry comes to early... the actor looks a bit psychic and it's not believable. If the parry comes too late, the person throwing the attack looks a bit lame if the other person hasn't parried and they're just hanging out there waiting for the other person to remember to parry (even though it looks silly - this is what you should do if such a mistake happens - there is NEVER any improvisation in stage combat.) It takes work to get the timing right - but the timing will make or break a fight - whether it's exciting or whether it just looks sloppy and amateurish.
you need a TRAINED fight choreographer to teach you and correct mistakes. It takes a lot of practice, just as you do if you were going to choreograph a dance. Stage combat is a dance of implied violence. You need to think about all of the same things as you do with dance, but now you have the added complication of a weapon (or two) involved.
A general rule for stage combat is: for every SECOND of fight you need to have an HOUR of rehearsal. That's a lot of practice. And it's important to have a safe and well-executed fight.
A fast fight isn't necessarily a good fight.
A fight that is slow, but precise, well timed, and well acted - is going to be a thousand times more exciting and more interesting to watch - than sloppy fighters just trying to be fast.
act out slowly and sped up in editing.
taken from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080124235449AADdhR1
Media Research Part 2
The film Watchmen uses traditional action/adventure conventions within the opening sequence. It begins with a debate about political conflicts over their ‘human nuclear deterrent’. It then goes on to have the comedian attacked by a mysterious man/woman. Within in the opening a fight then takes place which from my research I have discovered that it is very alike to that of action genres. It also begins with a serious murder of an important person which is controversial to the story which is popular to action genres. The murder/fight in action genres usually end with a trademark for the murderer but they have twisted this convention by instead showing the logo of the Watchmen with a blood stain on it as a significant trademark to the comedian’s death. It then goes on to the titles being shown with images that appear to be moving(it appears like a montage). This is slightly going against the conventions of action drama as it is not usually done.
The comedian is the centre of attention within the opening sequence and in the opening as he dies they try to describe his character as much as possible. They use his choice of magazines for example to show his love of sex. He appears as a violent, abusive and unserious man (which is shown in his name). The mysterious murderer is a typical generic character within the genre. They remain unknown yet highly skilled in a fighting style.
The next film i researched on was the first Mission Impossible. the opening sequence for this wasnt very long or spectacular. they kept it simple however presented a twist to it. it begins with a screen in screen shot of a editor watching some actors do take through a screen.then suddenly a bit of drama takes place when one of the actors appear to posion one and then he takes of this latex mask and turns out to be Tom Cruise. this opening sequence is very unique from other sequences in the sense that unlike other films of this genre they choose to not begin the film with some action packed chase/fight scene although they have created a little bit of drama and the fact that they beginning make little sense makes it very good as it leaves the audience with question waiting to be answered.
The comedian is the centre of attention within the opening sequence and in the opening as he dies they try to describe his character as much as possible. They use his choice of magazines for example to show his love of sex. He appears as a violent, abusive and unserious man (which is shown in his name). The mysterious murderer is a typical generic character within the genre. They remain unknown yet highly skilled in a fighting style.
The next film i researched on was the first Mission Impossible. the opening sequence for this wasnt very long or spectacular. they kept it simple however presented a twist to it. it begins with a screen in screen shot of a editor watching some actors do take through a screen.then suddenly a bit of drama takes place when one of the actors appear to posion one and then he takes of this latex mask and turns out to be Tom Cruise. this opening sequence is very unique from other sequences in the sense that unlike other films of this genre they choose to not begin the film with some action packed chase/fight scene although they have created a little bit of drama and the fact that they beginning make little sense makes it very good as it leaves the audience with question waiting to be answered.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Narrative
A group of people from a secret detective company have retired and one by one are getting killed off by a certain someone with a twisted grudge.When the retired leader is attacked he manages to defend himself but this then forces him to come out of retriement and regather the remaining members so that they can find out who this mystery person is. They go on to do investigating around the deaths until they get a lead. It is none other than there ex member who was the only female. She was mistreated as a female and held a grudge and wanted revenge. A huge fight takes place between the woman and her army and the ex agents until eventually she is defeated.
A group of people from a secret detective company have retired and one by one are getting killed off by a certain someone with a twisted grudge.When the retired leader is attacked he manages to defend himself but this then forces him to come out of retriement and regather the remaining members so that they can find out who this mystery person is. They go on to do investigating around the deaths until they get a lead. It is none other than there ex member who was the only female. She was mistreated as a female and held a grudge and wanted revenge. A huge fight takes place between the woman and her army and the ex agents until eventually she is defeated.
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