Shooting Schedules

SHOOTING SCHEDULE NAME: Cloud 9 productions
Scene	Date/Time	Location	People	Equipment	Props
Union inn pub and hotel scene	Febuary 15th 2011 am	Union inn pub and hotel old Windsor	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris	Tripod, Camera	Alarm clock, I phone for picture on screen saver
Bathroom scene	Febuary 21st 2011 am	bathroom	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris	Tripod, Camera.	Lithobid antidepressant tablets.
Shooting scene clewer park	March 2nd 2011 pm	Clewer park	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris JJ Moss	Tripod, Camera.	Masks, balaclavas, handgun
Garden scene	March 3rd 2011 pm	Garden at home	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris JJ Moss Gus Bowles	Tripod, Camera	Football, trampoline
House/ birthday scene	March 3rd 2011 pm	Kitchen at home	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris JJ Moss Gus Bowles	Tripod, Camera.	Birthday cake, candles, present, cups, food, birthday things

Filming Risk Assesment

Filming Risk Assessment

Date	Location	Potential Risks/Hazards	Level of risk (L/M/H)	Actions needed to minimize risk
February 15th 2011	Union inn pub and hotel.	N/a	Low	N/a
February 21st 2011	Bathroom scene.	N/a	Low	N/a
March 2nd 2011	Shooting scene Clewer Park	We were carrying a fake gun this is potentially dangerous as dog walkers or passers by may think this is real and call the police.	High	The filming crew wore high visibility jackets to show we are part of a filming crew and we told people in the area before filming what we were doing to minimize risk of this.
March 3rd 2011	Garden scene	Had a local neighbor and friend playing the part as the hitmans kid, he did a back flip on a trampoline as part of our film.	Low	The neighbor Gus is very confident in doing this so there was little risk but we put the padding on the edge of the trampoline back on to protect him from the metal poles and holes in this area.
March 3rd 2011	House scene	N/a	Low	N/a

Our film Lithium is a fairly Low risk film as seen here, we do not have any dangerous or risky scenes in our opening 2 minutes of our film, our only potentially risky scene was our shooting scene as passers by may of mistaken this for a real gun, we did our best to minimise this through telling dog walkers and every one in sight within the park we were filming and the director and camera man wore high visibility jackets.

jarhead

Jarhead is a film Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best selling 2003 book about his pre Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait the role of Anthony Swafford is played by Jake gyllenhaal and the film directed by sam mendes. The film had a budget of $70,000,000 and in its opening weekend recieved $27,726,210 with an overall gross being $62,647,540. The film opens from a blackout using a fade in to a wide angle shot of the army boot camp where anthony swafford has joined, this is probably used to show the negative begining the film hosts, the film is very stereotypical straight from the start as his staff sergent begins to scream and shout ordering the new recruits around like in every typical war film. This is the realistic stereotype used of the training and toughening process used for setting marines up for future war which they will be servicing in. The film is a stereotypical view of the war as it shows from the very first day that swafford begins to regret applying for the army as most new recruits do realising the demands put upon them, to lighten the mood happy non digetic music is played as he gets on the bus to his traing corp. From this point the expressions on the recruits faces tells us they have underestimated the marine corp and what it will require. The mise en scene is used very well in this film from the start as marines are dressed in full kit, they have many background actors, they have used a realistic scene and base and the film feels real from the first instance. the camera angles from the beggining have been set upon using simple techniques, following all the rules of continuous (invisible) editing to give the viewer the feel they are in his shoes. The camera has not broken any rules of invisible editing and the editing within this intro seems basic but effective. Jarhead has used sound very effectively within this film opening to portray the mood and feel of the soldiers, for example the loud shouting from the staff sergents, the distant muffled orders from other platoons, the mumbling of the marines and the soundtracks used to lighten the mood and darken it in the corect times.

 

In more detail the film is set about Anthony Swofford, a Camus kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girl-fiend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, toilet cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm becomes mentally hard for swafforf as in less than five days he gets his chance for a kill but is finnaly denied by senior officers. Before he knows it the wars over and after everything he trained for, did and saw he did not get that kill he went for.

here is a table showing the most important demographics of viewers, Age, gender and class. The table i have put in to show i have also researched into the type of films i will be creating (Action) the film was rated a 15 so obviously no one under the age of this viewed this film in the cinema, as predicted there was a larger percentage male audience and  the highest percentage viewers from 15-24 year olds.

final film !

Unfortunately i was not in school on the thursday last week and wednesdasy could not transfer our video to my blog so when im back to school on tuesday i will make sure the video is up :)

cast

 Aaron Harris: Directing and Filming

 Danny Pyatt: Directing, Filming, Acting















Ollie Webster: Directing and Acting

Jamie McWalter: Acting

props and costumes

our hitman (ollie) wore his bed clothes, trackies and a top for when he wakes up in bed and for when he goes to work he wears a suit, there is a perpose complete opposite clothing style because it will develop later on in the film to show his split personality. the terrorists (Jamie and me) were wearing terrorist/criminal wear, we wore balaclavas, scalf over the head, i wore a hoodie and jamie wore casual clothes other than his mask. ollie has a hand gun for his props he is an assasin/hitman so this is a vital prop for the killing and to show his charachter build up. The bag, we used a bag to put over the wife of the hitmans head, this means he could not recognise her and in the moment did not see. the mask ollie used a clown balaclava mask, he is a hitman but due to he has a wife and kid he wants his identity hidden when he works to take out the risk of his family getting hurt.

story board

here ive uploaded the basic story board to our final film, it goes through scene by scene with a different picture representing the beggining of each scene.it tells you the time scale of shots for filming and the sound or dialougue, i also in some columns filled in with a bit about the story.

target audience

When considering our target audience for an Action/Thriller or well for any genre of film there are some aspects of people we must look at first so we can match our film to the greatest target audience possible for your genre and film. The greater the film fits the profile of our target audience the more likely you are to reach a higher profit margin, this is due to the fact if your film suits peoples taste and needs then people will pay to watch it.

Demographics, the age of our target audience, we are aiming for the age groups between teens to 30s, more specifically we are aiming for 15-25 year olds. Gender, we are aiming our film at both genders but it will suit the male gender more and potentially will be enjoyed more by the male population. Next is class, class is a big factor in target audience as the actors involved, speech used, body language and so much more can either attract or repel a target class, our film specifically will be aiming at working class to middle class, aspirers will look up to the film and will be interested in this type of movie. Race, does not often concern people in films but it is still your target audience so you may aim a particular type of film to a specific race but again this minimizes your target audience and overall profit, our film is aimed at any race. Geographical location, this plays a large part in target audience , you must find areas which suit your audience, for advertising, promotion and viewing of the film, these are the people which are going to watch it so aim for areas with a large audience to suit your film.

i believe the largest factor of target audience is gender as boys and girls have such different views on films and their ideas of entertainment, here you can see out of action/thriller movie views 59% were from the male population and 41% female. action thriller is a good genre to use as females often prefer thrillers to males and males prefer action, with the two put together as one it attracts both genders and widens the target audience of the film.

The graph below is comparing cinema audience from the demographics of Age, Gender and Class from the age 15+ compared to the population. This graph will give us an idea of our target audiences for Action as it is aimed at the young and upmarket cinemagoers that will be commonly viewing films at the cinema within this genre. This graph shows that genrally there is a slight larger percentage viewing from females over males which means we loose part of our target audience already as action appeals largely to the male audience.

 

This table is showing the results of a survey for the film wanted, this was taken of the pearl and dean buisness planner website which again emphasises the male domination of views in action and the age of 15-24 year olds shows up again as they have the most cinema views within this survey.

 

Below we have a quick questionaire i have created and asked the people around my school that take media to answer to help me with my target audience research, because this was answered at random when i could find the students i did not manage to get all the students in for the questionaire unfortunately but i have counted the results and put forward the final result for each question.

 

Our Target audience questionaire

 

would our film be better matched to the male or female population ?

 

Male?               Female?

 

What age group would most likely view our film?

 

4-6?       7-11?       12-14?       15-24?       25-34?       35-44?      45+?

 

what sort of psychographic would watch our film?

 

strugglers?                              aspirers?                           explorers?

 

 

 

Question 1 answer = Male population

Question 2 answer = A tie between 12-14 and 15-24

Question 3 answer = Aspirers

 

The first question i agree with and believe the male population are more matched to our film this is  true, the second question our film was aimed at 15-24 year olds as our film was aimed with an age rating of 15 but because of the action people believed the 12-14 year olds would be intrested which is potentially true. Finally question 3 aspirers is corect, people aspiring and relating themselves to this kind of movie are often the target audience you recieve in this action thriller genre.

 

research into similar media and texts

Action thriller, this is two genres within a film, our film would be based around these two genres and seeing as they are often closely used within the film industry it would make the perfect genre for our film with action films based around a hero that faces a series of challenges that will often require physical feats, extended fights and frantic chases and with thriller basing its self on its extreme elements of suspense, tension and excitement this would create a very exiting film if directed and filmed in the right way. While action films have traditionally been aimed at male audiences from the early teens to the mid-30s, many action filmmakers from the 1990s and 2000s added female characters in response to the expanding social conceptions of gender. Our film will not have a female character of high status or heroicness, this means we have narrowed our target audience again from the teens to the 30s of both male and female to just male.

The genre we picked is a very competitive area with so many new media technologies and the effects on films these days it will be a struggle to stand up to many action films. With films such as Jarhead making a loss in gross profit of around 7 and a half million dollars it is very clear it is a hard market to win in, but films such as Wanted making a 59 million dollar profit if you do get it right, it can be very very good.

To research into the viewers of these films i have found some tables of cinema views, showing age, gender and class, this is done by surveys and allows us to see what kind of films are prefered by who, at what age or gender and potentially why.

firstly i have Jar head.

This table has shown me that this action film is male dominated in cinema views, it has had the most views by 45+ which is suprising as action is generally aimed at 15-24 year olds but it is only a 2% decrease from 45+ showing that there was still a large number of people viewing this film from this age group this is common in action films as they are generally more enjoyed by the male population.

This table is showing the results for the film wanted

Wanted here has shown the common trends of a action film, the same genre we are aiming at, it shows that the film views were mainly male dominated with 65% views to males, and a huge 47% of viewers were from the ages 15-24, the film was rated as 18 so this shows ratings from 18-24 year  olds 47% were in this boundary. These figueres show that the genre of action has moulded itself around there audience.