Pitch

Location

Our opening sequence is going to be taking place in a number of different locations. However the main two, are Jake's house and the surrounding area, and an abandoned factory near my house. Here are some pictures of Jakes house and the surrounding area which will be filmed:




These were the sites that we initially planned to shoot both the breaking in and running away scenes in, however we decided that there was too much greenery in the locations so instead, we have decided to shoot the running away scene in this factory near my house:


We chose this new location because it is near a large industrial site and will allow us to obtain the urban look we are going for.

Disscussion

After a small disscussion we have realised the light outside when shooting at our two seperate locations could be a big problem. Due to the fact that we are shooting on two seperat locations with shots outside we will have to be very carfeful when we shoot. We do not want one shot in the day light and one at night so we are going to shoot both shots as close to the same light as possible and we will try to use the editing techniques to cover up any differences.

a quiet word

You can keep the bruce lee tips - but can we please lose the frog at least?

annoying when marking!

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Evaluation of Audience Research

Considering our genre was British urban gangster we thought it would be suitable to direct our questionnaire to young males. As this was our target audience it was very easy to gain access to this audience as we could use fellow students in our year. To gain access to this audience we went to the library in a free period and handed it out to sixth formers in this area. By doing this we were able to receive the questionnaires back within minutes. In the end we were able to receive 16 questionnaires back and we believed this was enough to gain the information we needed. The first three questions in our questionnaire were used to find a bit about the person filling in the questionnaire, finding out their names, ages and gender. By doing this we were able to see how opinions differed depending on age and gender. We then listed six films and asked the respondant to rate the films out of ten, by doing this we were able to see what films our target audience liked the most and we could maybe take elements from this film and use it in our own opening sequence. We then asked questions relating to what people thought and expected of the genre British urban gangster. We asked what images people expected of this genre, what the characters should be like, what elements should feature in this genre and if they like films which comformed to their expectations. By doing this we could see what people expected of a typical film of this genre and then use these elements in our opening sequence. The last question of our questionnaire was to find out what the target audience thought of our 4 possible titles for the film. From our results we were able to find out a lot of usefull information which could help us in creating our opening sequence. We found out that the target audiences favourite film out of the list we offered was Snatch. This film is a gangster film with an element of humour. From our results we found that the target audience liked a film which comformed to their expectations and it had to have an urban location and had to include crime, drugs and violence. The target audience believed the anti hero should be tough, violent and fearless. We can take this into account and use this to create our characters. People believed that the best title was 'The Come Up' with 'Lad Land' just behind. So therefore we have chosen to call our film 'The Come Up' and our one liner be 'Welcome to Lad Land'. We thought that all our questions were useful to us but a few of them could of been improved. For the question in which was asked the respondent to rate the films, we found that some of the respondants hadn't seen some of the films so therefore we could not gain a true representation of what film was the favourite. Also we had two questions which were very similar based on what images and what props they expected from our genre, these two questions gave very similar results so we could of replaced one of these questions with another, more useful question.

Script for Opening Sequence

Scene 1: Outside House
Speaker 1
Tommy (Jake Tomkins)
Its all clear boi. Come down now.

Speaker 2
Tyrone (Nick Reilly)
Safe.

Scene 2: Inside House
Speaker 1
Tommy (Jake Tomkins)
You check that room I'll look in here. (Forecefully)

Speaker 2
Tyrone (Nick Reilly)
It's not here, what shall we do. (Panicked)

Synopsis of Opening Sequence

The first shots of our opening sequence are of character #1 checking out the house to make sure the house is empty and checking the exits. This character then calls the character #2 who is waiting in an alley at the top of the road using a mobile phone. There is then a shot of a blank black screen revealing the time. This then cuts to character #1 and character #2 then go down the side of the house and break in through the side door. These two characters then rummage around the house looking for an unkown something, during this there are shots of someone in a car pulling up to the house and is clearly the owner of the house. These two link up so the two characters run out the house, not having found the thing they were looking for, as the owner of the house returns. Character #1 and character #2 are then shown running away down a hill and then hiding beneath a bridge catching their breath. This then cuts to a title screen revealing the title of the film 'The Come Up' and the one liner 'Welcome to Lad Land'. All through this opening sequence music is playing, starting slow and repitive and then breaking in as the characters are running away.