Production Schedule for our main task

Unfortunately the computers were down at school which meant we couldn't access our saved work within school nor homes, therefore instead of the times in school me and my group were going to spend using the computers (on blogger)  we decided to meet up and make a production schedule.

As a group we decided it would be best to involve myself and Jess again in the opening sequence like we did in the preliminary task, because we believe it flowed. However, looking at our evaluation from our preliminary task we concluded that it was key to add a male protagonist, therefore we are using Laurence  (Jess' friend) who had an acting experience at GCSE which is a bonus for us as it implies he may find the task more efficient than others who hadn't had the opportunity to study drama.

 

We created a productin schedule in order to have a routine to follow so we were prepared for the times we needed to be avaiable. We made sure all times listed on the production schedule suited myself, jesss, beth and Luarence (jess' friend), this was important as it allowed us to have a clear understanding of what was happening on each day.

Title for our opening sequence

We decided to make this our title because we believe it is the most effective out of the three we designed this is because we believe the font stands out as it's different to the rest. Therefore it intrigues the audience because of many things such as the colours used in the font, but using the word red in the colour black and vice versa shows a twist which could foreshadow the twist which is going to happen in our opening sequence, which shows the titles effectiveness.

Our alternatives were:

The reason we didn't decided on this title in the final decision is because compared to the other ideas we created it seemed to basic and didn't convey anything. We decided we'd like to convey and be clever in the way we style the title. However, basic isn't always bad as it could suggest the film is classic and therefore has a good representation but in this case we wanted to create a title which was easy to understand and intrigue the audience as much as we could.

We decided against using this as our title because once we came ot the agreement that the title needed colour in it to intrigue audiences. Although, Jess research the ideas behind fonts and she found that dark and bold colours are most effective in these circumstances, In the final decision days we decided against this idea because it could be misinterpreted as an army film therefore giving a false representation which could attract the wrong target audience and we wouldn't want complications especially when they could be avoided.

Representation of characters based on appearance and Representation of female characters

The connation’s of a smart looking protagonist especially a male is that they are going to be a gentlemen for example James Bond he is a gentlemen as he always as a lady yet he always fights his way out of situations. Also, a smart female protagonist connotes intelligence and they usually play a role of a woman who is very intellectual and usually helps the meal protagonist’s especially in action films to save the day. Therefore, smart protagonists are usually the ones who save the day and are known as the ‘goody’ however, films that are unpredictable and have a twist may not always necessarily be the smart protagonists saving the day.

On the other hand rough looking protagonists are usually connoted in a light where they are either poor or in need of help. This is because rough looking protagonist are more often than not portrayed to be living on the streets or in some kind of difficult situation where they are alone and fight themselves out of the situation alone. This contrasts with smart protagonists who are usually stereotyped to have more than an companionship with one person to help when in need of help; however it can twist as some narratives do have a twist.

An  example of a narrative with a twist is a character starts of as a smart protagonists and then becomes a rough look pragmatists is in south paw the main character who is a boxer starts off with everything, the dream house, cars, family, the lot. But then he loses it due to his wife dying and then he has his daughter took off him it end very badly as he ends up with nothing. This is an example of a unpredictable story line with a twist as more often than not boxing type films are the other way round as usually the boxer starts off with nothing more often than not living on the streets and then becomes wealthier as they progress new skills are fights and it usually ends with a happy ending.

An example of female representations in action genre films: 'Salt'
The main character who is known as Angelia Jolie who is first portrayed as mysterious as she is shown as she has been involved in a fight with her black hair and dark clothes. This kind of clothing can suggest both power and weakness as black connotes a very powerful colour that also portrays one of class elegance and wealth. But in this case the black could suggest weakness of the character because she is covered in dust suggesting she has been in trouble implying she is weak which is the stereotype of females in action genre films specially.

As the film goes on Jolie is shown to change in character as she then changes her hair colour to blonde which implies she is now sexualised as she is seen to wear red lipstick, which connotes a powerful emotion of passion, lust, sex, energy, blood and war. Which is stereotypically the norm within action films as the women used are usually dressed provocative and sexualised,  It is a noticeable colour that is often used on caution and warning signs. It is often associated with stop or "beware". Therefore, this could suggest this female character is portrayed to have power and strength unlike most action genre films which suggests this film has used the final girl theory.



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Location for our Opening Sequence in our main task

Yesterday, myself and my group collaborated together to make a decision on our film title (previous blog post). Once we had come to the conclusion on our title for our opening sequence we believed it was important to start to think of possible outcomes for our setting/location of our opening sequence- listed below. 

Warehouse

We are going to use the settings around the warehouse as we believe as a group it is a good and effective location for our genre. This is because it is a stereotypical mystery setting which links to the genre action, therefore this will help to attract our target audience. In order to use it effectively we could for example have to a character around the building looking suspicious, or a unusual text message of the unknown to build up the tension which is needed in our action genre opening sequence.  

Bridge 

My group and I feel it would be effective to use a bridge in our opening sequence this is because a bridge is stereo typically were characters in action film go to hide to make a phone call for example. In addition a bridge could led t making the audience feel unsettled as  usually there is lots going on around a bridge for example to bridges on the motorway. However the bridge we are using is in a very quiet surrounding which may lead the audience to fell on edge as they may not know what to think nor what to expect. Therefore we believe using a bridge is effective for many reasons including to cause tension as it’s a familiar setting but with unfamiliar surroundings.

Canal

We have also decided to use a canal which is located in Timperley this is because we think it would be a good idea t have a chase along the canal as it will cause tension for audience as they will be lead on to believe that one of the character’s will get caught as it may lead to a dead end at the end of the path way. Or even more dramatic that one of the characters may fall into the canal. Also canals are known to be dangerous which could foreshadow that our film will be dangerous and intense in the aim that it will intrigue our audience to want to watch more.

Forest 

By using a space such as the above implies it’s a big area which could be a good place to hide for example. There is also a narrow stream which could be used to be effective as we could have characters jumping across to cause tension. However, it is unknown where it is possible to do so.

Railway

 It is believed that the railway in the picture above will be effective for our opening sequence because it implies to be a mystery and dangerous place to film. As stereo typically in action films they use dangerous surroundings and location to build up tension to their audience, also this setting implies mystery and it looks run down and graffiti which could suggest that it isn’t a nice setting and bad things are to come.

Decision of our title for our Opening sequnce for the main task

Not long ago,me and my group collaborated to design fonts for our title of our opening sequence which is going to be called ‘Red Bullet’ we used the website dafont.com to create our font. However today, my group and I came together to come to the conclusion on a title/name for our opening sequence in order to discuss what type of name we was going to call our opening sequence we used our questionnaires which were filled in earlier in the week. We decided to use  our questionnaires to decide the title of our opening sequence by using a tally chart to add up who voted which to conclude which was the most popular, it was a tie vote between our title being either short and simple or conventional. So Jess suggested  it would be a good idea to make our title both conventional and short and simple, me and Beth agreed. Therefore, we then produced a mind map of all the action conventional words we could think of, then added the word either love or heart to them, but unfortunately most of the ideas we suggested had already been taken. Finally, we came to a final four which were  Crimson Robbery, Red Bullet, Fight for Devotion or Behind Devotion, we all came to the agreement that Red Bullet was most suitable. This is because in our opening sequence/film we are going to include action with a sub genre Romance, we believe that it is suitable as the 'red' connotes love more often than not although it could also suggest blood and fighting, and the the word 'bullet' implies violence.