Question 2
There are two main social groups that really stand out in our opening sequence and are represented the most clearly.
Firstly, and most obviously the Polish. As our film is Polish based we tried to recreate as best we could the stereotypes we had found during the research process. Stereo typically, the Polish are quite a serious social group and this is certainly conveyed very clearly in our sequence. In the close up shot below of the main character you can see the angry scare expression on his face. Also if you click on the embedded video and skip to 2:15 you can hear the harshness and anger in the actors voices which enhances the angry serious attitude that represents the Polish group in this film.
This also leads me on to my next point about how strongly the male group is represented in Poscig. Firstly there are no female actors or characters present in the scene at all. We did this as we felt the high masculine attitude of the film would be the best way to achieve the action genre we were desiring. We also enhanced this by, as I stated earlier, the way we used speech and tone of voice
Firstly, and most obviously the Polish. As our film is Polish based we tried to recreate as best we could the stereotypes we had found during the research process. Stereo typically, the Polish are quite a serious social group and this is certainly conveyed very clearly in our sequence. In the close up shot below of the main character you can see the angry scare expression on his face. Also if you click on the embedded video and skip to 2:15 you can hear the harshness and anger in the actors voices which enhances the angry serious attitude that represents the Polish group in this film.This also leads me on to my next point about how strongly the male group is represented in Poscig. Firstly there are no female actors or characters present in the scene at all. We did this as we felt the high masculine attitude of the film would be the best way to achieve the action genre we were desiring. We also enhanced this by, as I stated earlier, the way we used speech and tone of voice
to assert male authority within the scene.
Finally, the use of violence also showed the high levels of masculinity well. From the brandishing and firing of the gun, to the way the 3 pursuers man handle the cyclist after he falls. Once again this not only shows the high paced action genre, but also portrays the men in the film as you would expect action film stars to do so.
Finally, the use of violence also showed the high levels of masculinity well. From the brandishing and firing of the gun, to the way the 3 pursuers man handle the cyclist after he falls. Once again this not only shows the high paced action genre, but also portrays the men in the film as you would expect action film stars to do so.
Question 3
More Information What does a production company do?? What a production company actually does is they essentially help you to create the film – they help with everything from budgeting to scripting. The company usually looks at the film when it is just an idea at first and follows it on to completion. They are responsible for almost everything that goes on within the film. As talked about we believe that the best production company for us would be Polska Produckje this is because of their Polish background, we believe that they will be able to give our film the best chance of succeeding as they would know best what would go into the Polish films and what will make them popular to our audience. Other potential distributors we searched? We did search many different distributors when making our film as we wanted to make certain that we would pick the one that best suited our film. We wouldn't just go for the main ones. We eventually decided to go for Vivarto a Polish distribution company as we feel that as they have knowledge in what we had made our film about we thought that they would be the best for us.
We did look at other options for potentially distributing our films. We looked at Universal Pictures as an option as they have distributed some very big films such as the Fast And Furious collection and as they have distributed action films like this very successfully we believe they could have done a good job on our film too.
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Another distributor we looked at was Lionsgate this is also because of the vast depth of action films that they have distributed successfully such as The Hunger Games Catching Fire.
We did look at other options for potentially distributing our films. We looked at Universal Pictures as an option as they have distributed some very big films such as the Fast And Furious collection and as they have distributed action films like this very successfully we believe they could have done a good job on our film too.
Another distributor we looked at was Lionsgate this is also because of the vast depth of action films that they have distributed successfully such as The Hunger Games Catching Fire.
Question 5
Non-Production team Responses:
- What was your favourite part of the film?
- What was your least favourite bit of the film?
- What would you score our film out of 60?
- Would you watch the rest of the film?
- What changes have we made from the first draft of the film?
- How happy are you with the final cut of the film?
- What would you score your film overall out of 60?
Non-Production Team responses: Questions 1 to 4:
1. The majority of responses were that the best part of the clip was the Slow-Mo on the bike. The shot went from a fast moving car tracking scene to slow-mo shot in which the man on the bike slowly turned his head to face the car. This shot took many takes due to the logistics of having the car bend round the corner at speed, the bike maintaining speed over broken ground and the bike staying in line with the car.
2. There was a mix of two answers to this question. These answers included a slight problem with the accents and the fall of the running man. I believe these to be relativly small problems with our film, our accents are unlikely to be perfect due our low acting ability. For our film to be profeesionaly made we could be using actors with a far higher ability or even polish actors. With regards to the fall or trip we would most likely have to refilm the scene so that the trip appears more realistic to the audience.
3. Our films scores ranged from 48-55 showing that the audienece enjoyed our film and thought it was of a high quality. If we were to score around 51 we would be very satisfied with our films results.
4. Every single individual we interviewed said that they would like to watch the rest of the film if they could this is very encourging for us and demonstrated to us that our film was sucessful and that the audience liked it.
Proudction Team Responses: Question 1 to 3:
1. The fundemental thing that arose regardring changes to our film was the inclusion of substitles and the change of the song for the chase scene. The music is a massive part of our film its really effective and fits with the picture well. When comparing the final cut with the first draft you can see the effective that the change in music has had on the production. We also increased the amount of speech which made it even more important to include substitles in the film.
2. Every single member of the production team said they were happy and proud of the film. This was the most important thing for us that we were happy with our own work.
3. our production team scored our work: 48,51,50 and 55. Our work was challenging due to the forgien nature which is why our production team believes our work merits this sort of mark.
Question 6
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We used YouTube to upload our film opening. We uploaded two versions of the film the first draft and final cut. This allows us to now compare the two versions of the film. It also allows us to see the improvement we have made since the first draft of the film. The film has also been put in a roll of various films from our school this allows an independent unbias audience such as the examiner to make a judgement on the standard of the film.
We used this software to edit the sound for our film. This allowed us to get the sound to last for the correct amount of time to fit our need for the sound. We have two songs that cover the majority of the film. It was important to get an appropriate change/transition for the music to represent the change in pace of the film. We had to use the approporiate fades in sounds in order to achieve this.
We used had two main uses for Adobe photoshop. Creating our independent film logs and our posters and advertisment pictures for our film. An example of both are below... We needed are poster to be quite dark and gloomy to resembale our film. Our posters varied as they have no real relation to the film.
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We used the above two to present our film. Prezi allows you to give a far more professional presentation than perhaps Microsoft's powerpoint. We used a mind map option as it was appropriate for when we were exchanging ideas on the way in which the film should be produced.
Blogger was vital throughout the entire production of the film. We used it too store all our work and ideas. We used it for helping each other within our groups. We used it for evaluation and the planning of our tasks. Without blogger our work would have been very scattered and unprofessional. However, using Blogger it allowed us to see our progress and outstanding work.
We were using Sony 8.9 Megapixel hand held cameras to film our work. The cameras have shooting and camera modes this allows us to use the cameras for anything realted to the shots in the task. We used various filming techniques such as running with the camera to create a fast pace. We also shot out the back window of a car by forcing the camera into the bottom left corner of the window frame in order to keep the camera steady over the uneven ground.
Finally, we used Premiere Pro to edit our scene, we found the software relativly easy to use after a certain level of practice. The software allowed us to edit each shot respectivly. It also allowed us to include certain effects into our work such as fade in and outs. Most importantly it allowed us to introduce subtitle and music into our work which was important when producing a polish film for a british audience. The software also allowed us to include a vital slow mo in our clip when the fast paced car scene changes to a slow mo. Finally the software allowed us to make the transitions between each shot smooth.
We used YouTube to upload our film opening. We uploaded two versions of the film the first draft and final cut. This allows us to now compare the two versions of the film. It also allows us to see the improvement we have made since the first draft of the film. The film has also been put in a roll of various films from our school this allows an independent unbias audience such as the examiner to make a judgement on the standard of the film.
We used this software to edit the sound for our film. This allowed us to get the sound to last for the correct amount of time to fit our need for the sound. We have two songs that cover the majority of the film. It was important to get an appropriate change/transition for the music to represent the change in pace of the film. We had to use the approporiate fades in sounds in order to achieve this.
We used had two main uses for Adobe photoshop. Creating our independent film logs and our posters and advertisment pictures for our film. An example of both are below... We needed are poster to be quite dark and gloomy to resembale our film. Our posters varied as they have no real relation to the film.
We used the above two to present our film. Prezi allows you to give a far more professional presentation than perhaps Microsoft's powerpoint. We used a mind map option as it was appropriate for when we were exchanging ideas on the way in which the film should be produced.
Blogger was vital throughout the entire production of the film. We used it too store all our work and ideas. We used it for helping each other within our groups. We used it for evaluation and the planning of our tasks. Without blogger our work would have been very scattered and unprofessional. However, using Blogger it allowed us to see our progress and outstanding work.
Poscig Shot List
Shot 1
Shot 1 is of 3 computer screens with different images on them.
Shot 2
Shot two is of the boss of the hitmen sitting down looking at the computer screens
Shot 3
Shot three is a picture of the target that we are tracking down.
Shot 4
This shot is of our target biking up a hill
Shot 5
This is of our target cycling past our polish hit men who are inside the car
Shot 6
This is as the chase is starting
Shot 7
This is where the hitmen go along side the suspect cyclist
Shot 8
This is of when the car is stops and the hitmen carry the chase out on foot
Shot 9
The hitmans boss is looking at how the chase is unfolding through the computer screens
Shot 10
The polish hitmen have caught up with the suspect
Shot 11
This is where the hitmen are about to get the bag from the suspect
Shot 12
This shows the suspect has been killed and the hitmen are taking the bag
Shot 1 is of 3 computer screens with different images on them.
Shot two is of the boss of the hitmen sitting down looking at the computer screens
Shot 3
Shot three is a picture of the target that we are tracking down.
This shot is of our target biking up a hill
This is of our target cycling past our polish hit men who are inside the car
This is as the chase is starting
This is where the hitmen go along side the suspect cyclist
This is of when the car is stops and the hitmen carry the chase out on foot
The hitmans boss is looking at how the chase is unfolding through the computer screens
The polish hitmen have caught up with the suspect
This is where the hitmen are about to get the bag from the suspect
This shows the suspect has been killed and the hitmen are taking the bag
Other polish film inspiration
These are 3 Polish films that we researched to take motivation and ideas for our opening scene we watched Rouge, Zemsta and Dlug in detail and observed what makes a film polish. We were looking for specific traits, colours, amount of speech and opening titles. These are the main things we had to consider when attempting to make a polish film. We wanted to gather ideas and a bit of motivation when watching each film. We thought with an idea from each opening and our own ideas we could have a very independent yet fundamentally Polish film. We will be analysing roughly the first 2.5 minutes of each of the three films.
Rouge:
The start to the film is of a very high quality. We see the man punching a number into a telephone connected to a line. We then see the line follow a pathway in order to connect with another telephone, demonstrated with a flashing orange light. The fast pace to the the camera appearing to fall through the overlapping telephone wires is a very effective technique. Although we cannot incorporate this actual technique into our film, due to the fact that we do not have the financial or editing capabilities. Something that is quite noticeable in the polish films above is the colours are often very bland and almost dull. There is a frequent use of Browns, Greys and Black which is something we must incorporate into our own film to ensure that the film is unmistakeably Polish. Finally the opening title is something that is very clear we see the word ROUGE displayed clearly so the audience is very clear on the title of the film. We will make sure this is in our film, it is vital that our audience knows our title.
Questionairre Feedback
Questionairre Feedback
In order to get a feel for how our target audience felt about our film, we handed out questionaires at several lunch time screenings of our film, below are a few examples of the feedback we recieved:
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How effective was the music and speech that went with the sequence?
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Very effective, music worked the sequence effectively. Polish language with subtitles allowed the scene to be more realistic.
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Was the film aesthetically pleasing?
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The contrast of indoor and outdoor shots allowed the film to be easy to watch and exciting. The shot from the car following the bike was very steady.
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How well was the film edited?
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The editing was clever in particularly where the video footage appeared on the Mac as part of the scene. The editing seemed seamless to my untrained eye!
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Is the name of the film appropriate for the genre and sequence?
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The film name added suspense to the scene.
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Would you want to see the full feature?
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Yes, It seemed like a Robert Ludlum (Bourne) style film.
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What would you change about the opening sequence?
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Nothing currently.
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Answer
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How effective was the music and speech that went with the sequence?
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The music its well and makes a dramatic impact on the chase scene.
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Was the film aesthetically pleasing?
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Yes.
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How well was the film edited?
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Good.
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Is the name of the film appropriate for the genre and sequence? (Poscig means ‘The Chase’ in polish).
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Yes the title of the film fits well.
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Would you want to see the full feature?
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Yes.
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What would you change about the opening sequence?
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The bit where the boy runs goes on for too long. Breathing over dramatic.
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Answer
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How effective was the music and speech that went with the sequence?
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Good, nice polish speech.
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Was the film aesthetically pleasing?
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Very good, liked the title.
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How well was the film edited?
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Really well.
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Is the name of the film appropriate for the genre and sequence? (Poscig means ‘The Chase’ in polish).
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Yes fitted in with the polish.
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Would you want to see the full feature?
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Yes I would was ‘sick’.
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What would you change about the opening sequence?
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The shot where you go from getting out of the car to chasing.
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Answer
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How effective was the music and speech that went with the sequence?
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Good, speech sounded African not polish.
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Was the film aesthetically pleasing?
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The film was well put together, very dark.
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How well was the film edited?
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Good, transitions were sometimes quick.
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Is the name of the film appropriate for the genre and sequence? (Poscig means ‘The Chase’ in polish).
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If I knew polish, sure.
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Would you want to see the full feature?
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Yes, not sure where it can go from here.
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What would you change about the opening sequence?
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Not sure.
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Answer
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How effective was the music and speech that went with the sequence?
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Good. Very dramatic, great acting. Subtitling good – not intrusive but explained.
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Was the film aesthetically pleasing?
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Yes, Really effective- dramatic tyre squealing etc.
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How well was the film edited?
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Really good. Liked it when the shot of the bike slowed, shots of leaves too.
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Is the name of the film appropriate for the genre and sequence? (Poscig means ‘The Chase’ in polish).
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Yes, once I understood the meaning of the title.
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Would you want to see the full feature?
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Yes.
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What would you change about the opening sequence?
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Subtitle the title.
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