16 : 20

Production Meeting

This lesson we recorded the script for our voiceover. It took a few takes to get it at the right pace and to get the words right but overall we are pleased with how it turned out.
We now have to work on matching the sound to the video clip by cutting different sections of the script and putting them with the right shots.
Also this lesson, we aim to finish editing our video footage so that it flows better and tweak our titles. We are on track for completing our final product for the end of Thursdays lesson :)

Rough Cut

Film Title

After lessons of discussing what our film should be called we finally came up with the name 16 : 20. We thought of this after thinking about names to do with clocks and time as our main character is thinking back to when he was younger and involved in teenage violence. He was around 16 when he was involved in it and in the opening sequence is older (20). So we displayed both ages as a time (:

Titles

The titles which we are including in our opening sequence are as followed:

• Directed by Desmond Creek
  
• Written by Bryony Richards
  
• Editing by Ben Tomlinson
• Camera by Steven Priest
  
• Costume Design by Scott Lansdale
  

Our Script

There was nothing different about me, hangin round on street corners downing stale beers and smokin 6 packs of fags. We used to walk round like we owned the fuckin place. All in gangs, hoods up, thought we looked hard, threatning like.
It was a laugh smashin up cars makin our mark on every wall in the street and occaisionally kickin the fuck outta someone. And for what? The thrill of chasin some old granny down the road threatening to kill her cat? I dont think so.
As i got older i realised what a bloody waste of time it was, spending my days skiving of lessons to have a fag behind the language building. I spent countless evenings hanging round the neighbourhood waiting for some innocent little fucker to shout abuse at and throw beer cans filled with stones.
Its all different now, I dont play them stupid kids games. I dont need to cause people shit to make my life exciting. Now i can just laugh at silly little boy gangs hanging about outside the kebab shop with nothing better to do with their sad lives. I admit, its hard to pick yourself up. Get a job, earn a living, make something of yourself. What else can you do? Becaome an alcoholic, livin on the streets mixin with the dealers. Thats not the life for me.

Video Editing...

This is our footage before we applied any changes to it. It looks a bit too bright and does not conform to conventions of social realism.

After editing our footage, it gives a much better effect and looks more like a professional social realist product than before. We desaturated the clip and also added a strobe effect to the first shot to give it a surreal feel. We got this idea from the opening sequence of Ratcatcher where we see a boy spinning round in a curtain, it is slowed down so much that you can see individual frames. We are not sure whether we will add this to our final product until we have finished the roughcut as the finished sequence may look different.

Production Meeting

This lesson we will be working towards our roughcut deadline on Monday 2nd March. We will be experimenting with the saturation of our footage on final cut to give the sequence more of a drained and poor quality effect, which conforms to conventions of social realism.
We will also be changing and finalizing our script, ready to record between now and Monday's lesson.

Animatic...

This is our animatic enjoy...

Filming Location

We chose to film the opening sequence in Newmarket by the train station. We chose here because it provided an isolated housing estate in a large area.

Below is the location where we filmed:

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Script

When writing the script we looked at professionally made social realist dramas to see what language is used and in what content. We also looked at what slang is used as well as in what accent (Sottish, Scourer ect..)

Below are a couple of examples that we looked at:

Killer Of Sheep:

Football factory:

Before filming...

In the week we have before we film, as a group we need to agree a script for our opening sequence. It needs to be read out by the main character and needs to fit the timing of our sequence. The narrative will start after about 30 seconds of footage is shown. It will start on the 4th shot when we see the main characters face, even though we do not actually see him speak, to give the effect that they are his thoughts.

FILMING

We have agreed to film our footage in Newmarket on Thursday the 12th in our media lesson.

Props and equipment:

Blog Feedback

After members of our class looked at our blog, they gave us points for improvement and positive comments about the blog.

Positive Comments:

• Good amount and content of analysis
  
• Good analysis on professional idents
  
• Good connotation of images
  
• Good ident
  
• Clear prop list

Areas for Improvement:

• More pictures needed e.g. images of costume and location
  
• Character description would be useful
• Use ideas from the moodboard throughout
  
• Complete analysis of Football Factory
  

We have taken all the response to our blog into consideration and will use it to improve and update our blog effectively. This lesson we will be completing a character description and will be getting images of our location.

Possible Prop List

Rather than the audience seeing anti-social behavior in shot (violence, swearing ect..) we have chosen to include props which can be and are associated with anti-social behavior and street violence. Because of this we have chose to include:

• Smoking
  
• Evidence that people have been drinking on the streets - broken bottles ect..
• Emergency sirens - shows that there could have been violence

Story Board

Our Story board:

Mood Board

We choose to really focus our mood board on sterotypical anti social behavior images as this is something that many social realist dramas make their story about. for example 'chav' groups, hoodies, smoking, broken or damaged public features ect...

Shot List...

• Shot One- This shot consists of an extreme close up focusing on his mouth whilst he smokes a cigarette. 10 - 20 seconds.
  
• Shot Two- This shot slowly tracks back showing a full body shot, and we can the actor throw and stamp his cigarette out, and then walk away from the camera.
  
• Shot Three- In this the camera is hand held following social realist conventions and follows him walking down a quite street ( Hearing a muffled siren).
• Shot Four- This shot shows a close up the actor walking as the camera tracks back.
• Shot Five-
  

Pitch Feeback

After pitching our idea to the class, we got feedback telling us what we can improve on and what works well. We need to:

• Think about having less characters in our sequence
• Use sounds and iconography such as signs of vandalism, graffiti, and crushed beer cans etc to suggest violence and anti social behaviour
• Put all of the viewers attention on the main character by keeping the camera on him and not having too much sound to distract the attention from what he saying as he narrates the sequence