Anamatic Feedback

after class discussions, we found out our shots need 2 show more representative detail as to highlight our genre. the music soundtrack will be edited to acccomadate a good opening.

ideas

Opening planning

Our initial idea, in the style of a crime caper, is to have a set number of characters, four or five, who are involved in a high stake robbery, characters come into shot and are established in the opening sequences. All characters have extremely different personalities and have their own original forte e.g. One is the brute with the brawns, another the get away driver/ car robber and another an Internet hacker .ect. The opening will go straight into action to catch the audience’s attention and will involve this very short and eventually unsuccessful robbery. With each of them being at fault they all naturally blame each other. Our main idea, after the operation fails and they all go their separate ways, is to have the plot following these characters throughout the movie as they all go for the same heist at the end of the movie. So the characters link up again at the end of the movie as they try to rob the same place.

Mood Board

This is our Mood Board. It is a selection of images that inspire the genre and ideas of the film.

Completed logo-intereactive

logo design

This is our Badman Obama logo. After deciding our genre of film, we wanted images that would depict powerful, authoritative figures as in the world of gangsters status is everything. Who better than the world's most powerful figurehead:The president of the United States of America. And we kept the theme of America throughout the logo with the flag in the shape of the country behind Obama. America is renowned for their movies, with places such as Hollywood being a symbolic to the movie industry. This is simply a still image yet we hope to have 'productions' fade in across our image and lay below the 'Badman' we already have.

Film Idea Brainstorm

To ensure our film includes elements which are wanted by all group members, we have decided to have a verbal brainstorm, and feed off ideas to improvise and create a sequence which we all want.
our choice of crime caper with ensemble cast gives us a lot of room to work around. we want to use a martial arts style in our sequence, modernizing the film as martial arts is very sophisticated and grabs the viewers attention with the quick movements and fast shots used. However we want to keep the crime element strong, so the martial arts element. maybe starting off with one man and then others joining him, or him having to fight his way to the other men. maybe on a rooftop, as if the sequence was to start on the roof the next scene will be able to explain how and why he got to the roof. then we can use establishing shots.


we have resat and thought of our sequence. we want the characters to seperately be working on the case which is influenced by each members role which they are playing. we want

conventions to opening sequences

The opening to a film normally establishes the:

- Location
- Characters
- Plot
- Genre

In our choice of film (crime caper with ensemble cast) normally creates a hierarchy within the characters, normally ranging from the big powerful boss to the no hope runt of the group. This is the case in the film snatch.

normal conventions to our genre are things such as: money, guns, fighting, crime, murder, cars, shanks, drugs and business that don't concern you...

Analysing film sequences in relation to our chosen genre

We have decided as a group (Jack, Damien, Louis) to choose the genre of our opening sequence to be a 'Crime Caper with Ensemble cast.' We have decided to analyse some opening sequences in relation to this genre from Youtube. This will help us to get an idea of Micro and Macro elements that will be needed in our sequence.

we analyzed the film snatch directed by Guy Ritchie and the fight scene.


We have embedded this sequence onto our blog as we plan to have a fight sequence in our opening and we have looked in depth at the camera shots and the effect it has on us as a viewer, the macro elements in a sequence such as the camerawork and the sound and lighting are varied in a fight scene. the way the camera has quick transitions/fades/cuts,zooms and pans. the sound is both diagetic and non diagetic as the music in a fight scene builds tension and shows a struggle, and the diagetic sound highlights the noises which the character hears, such as the sound of his/her nose getting broken. we have taken from this scene that we will need both diagetic and non diagetic sound,
lots of quick camera shots to show active moments in the character, and close ups and establishing shots to show where our scene is taking place and the facial expressions of the characters to show emotions such as pain when taking a punch or fear of getting punched prior to getting punched. :)

AS MEDIA film openings

The beginning of a film generally gives you a hint to the narrative which is to follow, creating a fast action packed opening to catch the audiences attention. The genre is distinguished through the general atmosphere of the opening and also by the sort of things you would find on the mise-en-scene, e.g. A Crime caper with an ensemble cast would have features of fighting with dark colours. The setting is normally established via long range and panning shots; as well as the main characters being recognized through close-up shots so the audience remembers their physic and facial features.

homework ting

Damien Crosby
Media AS
My task is to analyze the micro and macro elements of an opening sequence, preferably one which relates to which genre i wish to analyze in my project. The opening sequence i have chosen to look at is Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarentino). The plot is a simple jewellery heist gone wrong between thieves who know themselves only by there “colour”. And as they try to figure out what went wrong, they each become paranoid to one of the gang being a police informer. The sequence starts with a ongoing conversation as the production company logo appears. The camera then cuts to a conversation between an all male cast , all in suits except one. The camera moves slowly as the conversation between the cast ensues, moving in a circle around the table, only speeding up to cut between sharp quick sayings from members of the cast. The scene is an american diner where they are drinking coffee and smoking cigars and ciggarettes. The diner seems quite small and there are 8 cast members sitting around one table. The fact 7 of the 8 members are in suits suggest they have a high paying job, but in this case they are known as gangsters and this is what enables them to wear the suits, and shades. The sound is diagetic as the scene opens as we can hear the conversation between the cast. The camera shots are pretty basic, many close ups and extreme close ups , a couple of establishing shots to show where they are and what they are wearing. The facial expression and the personality of the character is what tarintino is trying to acheieve here though, as at this moment we know not much else about them. Except that one of them doesnt believe in tipping waitresses. As they exit the diner, there is a fade into a dark screen and the narrative begins. It is a dj introducing a song, “Little Green Bag”. the next shot is what we believe is outside the diner as the narrative will follow on from the first scene. The men are walking down the road in slow motion, and the song is the only sound we can hear, and it is non diagetic in this case. The shot shows a side on view of the cast walking, but as each character is introduced the shot becomes a face on close up of the character, with credits underneath representing that this person is playing this character. The slow motion effect entwined with the song promotes the fact that they are cool and relaxed people, with no fear. The lighting at this point is natural as the sun is out and do not need to highlight anything furthermore, as the effect the sun gives on the shades makes it understandable for them to be wearing the shades also. After all cast members have been introduced, a camerashot of them from behind established them as a group and then the credits say “are” , then cuts to a large yellow font of “Reservoir Dogs” the title of the film but tells us that this group are the Reservoir Dogs. The sequence then ends and in the common tarentino style the ending credits listing camerawork cast lighting sound makeup direction etc, are played at the beginning, before the next scene.

Damien crosby.