Like most spy-thrillers we are going to target our movie around 15-50 year old's.
The reason behind the age range is that we cannot present a movie that will contain offensive language, explosions, death, blood and maybe drug use to anyone under the age of 15. As it would be immoral to show them it as it may scare them or scar them. And the reason behind the top age limit, some elderly people may not like action violence as it may startle them, older people may want to watch a romance movie or drama as it may be more suiting for them.
The reason for the gender is that there will be explosions and men seem to enjoy action movies more than women i'm not saying that for all women but its just known.
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Genre conventions we must abide by! but probably won't
White middle class males as the star of the story: such as James Bond, Jason Bourne, and many more.
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The damsel in distress normally featured in James Bond.
Foreign villains again James Bond and Bourne.
Things that blow up.
And last but not least some mystery.
All these aspects make up a genre convention for Spy-Thrillers.
Shooting Day, and its cold!
Setting up the camera for our first scene
We just shot our 1st scene and we are watching it back
We had to give spy 2 the camera to do a P.O.V shot
The ally by queens square, where we shot spy 2's death scene
While filming, Spy 2 was just killed, sad times
The shot is being set up for the death scene, I'm just in the way.
Filming a scene spy 2 walking away
Over head shot used when brief case exchanges hands
Props and Costumes
The important brief case, what it contains only the character know.
The queen of hearts the calling card or the female murderer
The dress worn by the female murderer
Its not what your thinking Justin Timberlake wasn't a costume but a suit was it was worn by our 2 spies
Evaluation Question 1
This scene is a panning shot of the main area. It is used to show the viewer the area in which the scene takes place. We needed to do this as its not only a genre convention to set the scene but a movie convention. You will probably not find a movie in the world where it doesn't set the scene at least once. The point of setting the scene is to show the audience where the next clip of action is going to take place and its used to make the viewer feel welcomed into that environment with the characters. We believed this would be a good place to shoot our scene for two reasons, easily accessible from school so if we need to do two days worth of work then we were able to. Also the grassy area surrounded completely with buildings gives that kind of safe guard feel, that when one of the characters leaves he will die. All in all no Genre conventions were challenged.
The queen of hearts, the reason behind the title of our movie. This is a calling card for the main female villain. Most killers have a certain calling card. Such as in 'Saw' the killer cuts out a piece of jigsaw out of his victims to show that he is missing something. This shows that the card could mean something about her kills and why she is trying to obtain the case. This is used to show mystery of who this woman is and why she wants the case and why she leaves the card behind, is it just to show who finds the body who she is or is there a deeper meaning behind it such as her father killed her mother with a playing card and now shes messed up (random i know but it could happen)
This is another setting the scene shot, this time of a suburban road in the Bristol area. We had no money to make an action packed opening. so we wanted to keep it simple. This is the scene before the getting ready scene in the bedroom. Its setting the location and scene. The next scene is an indirect warning to the spy that danger lies ahead.
Over head shot used to show that even though the characters believe they know what they are doing that they are still vulnerable and only human and are able to die like everyone else. This still shows spy 1 moving out of shot away from the bench where the case is exchanged hands and that spy 2 is picking it up to see the content of the case. When we show spy 2 looking at whats in the case we don't show whats in the case, this too keeps the element of mystery under genre convention about whats in the case. This scene shows the viewers for the 1st time that they are spies using code words to transfer brief cases seems pretty spy like to me. This is the 1st instant that we know what genre the movie is going to be, if we went in not know anything.
Murder scene, yes some action entertaining this is the scene where we watch beloved spy 2 kick the bucket, we don't know why hes dying we don't know who pulls the trigger we don't know anything really other than that he dies. this brings in the major mystery that will go throughout the movie and will keep the viewers hopefully on the edge of their seat. The death of dear spy 2 wasn't going to be through a major explosion or car crash, just your bog standard ally murder pretty boring, but don't worry action will come later. This death is meant to be low key so viewers don't get distracted by the pretty explosions and focus more on the unfolding of the story so they can focus on whats going on and when they grasp the who story add the cool stuff later
Scene from movie where spy 1 gets ready in his bedroom, he has a fireplace so we must be able to assume he must come of some money as low budget houses don't tend to have fancy fireplaces. Behind him is a radio which is emitting a broadcast about a fellow spies death and it shows the spy and the audience that there is danger ahead of him but he is persistent to carry on and not worry about it. This is the 1st scene where we can see a human but no head. this keeps the mystery on who he is and why we cant see his head. he must come in later in the movie after about 1 hour or so but his name may be spoken a few times before.
Overall we didn't break many conventions, we kept the protagonist two white middle class males that look pretty strong who will probably follow genre convention to beat up men and save women. The only convention we seemed to create was the slow opening. If you watch movies such as 'Salt', 'James Bond' and 'Bourne' the opening is mainly action packed with guns and explosions, while we did have a gun it wasn't used in a overly action packed style way. the opening is meant as a story setter.
Evaluation Question 5
Genre convention
Atmosphere:We wanted to create a mystery atmosphere, we feel we did this correctly with the lac of faces seen. we wanted to follow up the genre convention of a suspenseful atmosphere. to entice people to watch our movie. We hope that this will attract the audience into viewing all of it. With the handheld camera shot it will hopefully make them feel as they are part of the movie, and what happens will effect them, its hard to do that from the beginning as people only care when they build a re pour with a character.
Character:With our genre convention we decided to not show the faces of our characters, this will keep suspense over who they are. We used them for a suspense filled mood. we also kept genre convention by making them white males who are middle class. This follows gene convention. I believed that if maybe some things under genre convention then people may watch it as society seems to complain about change all the time and seems to like the same old stuff again.
Music and sound.
For music everything we used had to be non-copy write, under law. Our music is similar to that of 'James Bond' this is good as our target audience are fans of that series. there is very little diagetic sound, the only really sound is on the radio broadcast and the gun shot, this was used to create tension.
Cinematography
To set the scene of queens square we used a panning shot. This is let the audience know what kind of area the action will be taking place in. This allows the audience feel like they are part of the shot and almost feel there watching in real life. This will hopefully attract the audience into watching our movie as we want them to feel part of the ride the characters are going to take. We also used an overhead shot to show the people that even though the characters seem to know what they are doing that they are still vulnerable and able to be killed .
Mise-en-Scene
Costume:We used a suit and tie combination to show that the characters are above class, that they have formal wearing jobs and probably earn above the average pay.
Props:The only props we had were a brief case and a gun used to shoot one of the spies. The queen of hearts is another prop its used as a calling card by the woman, we hope that this will entice people to keep watching to find out who she is and whats in the case.
Setting:Queens square, main reason close to school but the underground reason is the building cage in a grassy area it shows that there is no hope for one of the spies who's about to walk out of the grassy area into the dark ally of death.
Lighting:The area where the two spies swapped cases is well lite but when one leaves its dark this represents danger, as that's the place he died we felt this sitting to the situation.
Editing
We used a lot of fades in and out, this represents mystery of the scene and that its not just simple to cut out of it. Also the text colour that we edited in is blood red and black, this shows that the movie could be quite dark and that the happy colours aren't here. Also we edited it into black and white. While we aren't going to keep this throughout the whole movie we found it suiting to show that this is a dark movie throughout.
Unique selling point.
The main USP of the opening is that we don't show the faces of the two characters. This leaves open the element of mystery and makes the movie seem like it could have a few good twists that make you go 'ohhh' or just gaze in awww. We hope this will make people want to see our movie.
Atmosphere:We wanted to create a mystery atmosphere, we feel we did this correctly with the lac of faces seen. we wanted to follow up the genre convention of a suspenseful atmosphere. to entice people to watch our movie. We hope that this will attract the audience into viewing all of it. With the handheld camera shot it will hopefully make them feel as they are part of the movie, and what happens will effect them, its hard to do that from the beginning as people only care when they build a re pour with a character.
Character:With our genre convention we decided to not show the faces of our characters, this will keep suspense over who they are. We used them for a suspense filled mood. we also kept genre convention by making them white males who are middle class. This follows gene convention. I believed that if maybe some things under genre convention then people may watch it as society seems to complain about change all the time and seems to like the same old stuff again.
Music and sound.
For music everything we used had to be non-copy write, under law. Our music is similar to that of 'James Bond' this is good as our target audience are fans of that series. there is very little diagetic sound, the only really sound is on the radio broadcast and the gun shot, this was used to create tension.
Cinematography
To set the scene of queens square we used a panning shot. This is let the audience know what kind of area the action will be taking place in. This allows the audience feel like they are part of the shot and almost feel there watching in real life. This will hopefully attract the audience into watching our movie as we want them to feel part of the ride the characters are going to take. We also used an overhead shot to show the people that even though the characters seem to know what they are doing that they are still vulnerable and able to be killed .
Mise-en-Scene
Costume:We used a suit and tie combination to show that the characters are above class, that they have formal wearing jobs and probably earn above the average pay.
Props:The only props we had were a brief case and a gun used to shoot one of the spies. The queen of hearts is another prop its used as a calling card by the woman, we hope that this will entice people to keep watching to find out who she is and whats in the case.
Setting:Queens square, main reason close to school but the underground reason is the building cage in a grassy area it shows that there is no hope for one of the spies who's about to walk out of the grassy area into the dark ally of death.
Lighting:The area where the two spies swapped cases is well lite but when one leaves its dark this represents danger, as that's the place he died we felt this sitting to the situation.
Editing
We used a lot of fades in and out, this represents mystery of the scene and that its not just simple to cut out of it. Also the text colour that we edited in is blood red and black, this shows that the movie could be quite dark and that the happy colours aren't here. Also we edited it into black and white. While we aren't going to keep this throughout the whole movie we found it suiting to show that this is a dark movie throughout.
Unique selling point.
The main USP of the opening is that we don't show the faces of the two characters. This leaves open the element of mystery and makes the movie seem like it could have a few good twists that make you go 'ohhh' or just gaze in awww. We hope this will make people want to see our movie.
Evaluation Question 4
Using the surveymonkey questionnaire at the top of my blog i was able to obtain answers that will help me see who is going to watch our movie. 16-25 seems to be the main age range for the people who like
spy-thrillers, which came out on top of favourite sub-genre.
To the left and right of this text are two questionnaire we used these to help us decipher a target audience for our film. We came out with young male 16-30
Meet Brian
Brian is an ideal target audience member.
Brian is 21 years of age and is into Indie rock, he stays away from mainstream music but has a few guilty pleasures in the pop world. Brian shops in TK maxx and is a sucker for a bargain. Brian enjoys popular comedy TV shows such as 'FRIENDS' and 'Two and a half Men' But does enjoy other shows such as 'Top Gear' and 'Mock the Week'
Brian is a fan of the 'James Bond' series and is always looking for new films such as those ones to watch. Hes also a fan of comedy's and sci-fis. Brian shops in such shops as Top-Man and NEXT he is a fan of branded clothes but will purchase an unbranded shirt if its good. Brian is a uni student and works in a retail shop.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, Brian doesn't exist. I made him up as he represents our target audience.
Once filming of our movie opening I asked a few people some questions after letting them watch it: these were the questions
1.Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
2.What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
3.What was your least favourite moment?
4.What could we improve on?
5.What did we do well?
These were their responses.
Person 1:James M
Me:Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
James M: Yes i feel that the story could really pick up.
Me:What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
James M: I enjoyed the death scene of the spy at the end because the black screen and then the gun shot took me by surprise and left the question of was it her who shot him or did she have a sniping helper.
Me:.What was your least favourite moment?
James M:The getting dressed part at the start, it may have been a story setter but it was slow and low on action.
Me:What could we improve on?
James M:Im put off by the name to be honest.
Me:What did we do well?
James M:I liked that you couldn't see their faces, kept the felling of mystery the whole time.
Person 2:Ellen F
Me:Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
Ellen F:No as its not my type of movie
Me:What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
Ellen F:I enjoyed the bench scene particularly the camera shot above their heads looking down on them.
Me:What was your least favourite moment?
Ellen F:The death scene, no particular reason just didn't work for me.
Me:What could we improve on?
Ellen F:The name.
Me:What did we do well?
Ellen F:The fact you couldn't see their faces really worked for me, kept it in mystery.
Person 3:Max P
Me:Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
Max P:Yes
Me:What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
Max P: The house scene was my favourite especially with the radio broadcast in the background.
Me:What was your least favourite part?
Max P:The bench scene, i know it was a story setter but it wasn't that exciting there are many other ways he could obtain the briefcase.
Me:What could we improve on?
Max P:The name will put people off as its not English people may be put of by it.
Me:What did we do well?
Max P:The fact you couldn't see their faces kept mystery.
spy-thrillers, which came out on top of favourite sub-genre.To the left and right of this text are two questionnaire we used these to help us decipher a target audience for our film. We came out with young male 16-30
Brian is an ideal target audience member.
Brian is 21 years of age and is into Indie rock, he stays away from mainstream music but has a few guilty pleasures in the pop world. Brian shops in TK maxx and is a sucker for a bargain. Brian enjoys popular comedy TV shows such as 'FRIENDS' and 'Two and a half Men' But does enjoy other shows such as 'Top Gear' and 'Mock the Week'
Brian is a fan of the 'James Bond' series and is always looking for new films such as those ones to watch. Hes also a fan of comedy's and sci-fis. Brian shops in such shops as Top-Man and NEXT he is a fan of branded clothes but will purchase an unbranded shirt if its good. Brian is a uni student and works in a retail shop.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, Brian doesn't exist. I made him up as he represents our target audience.
Once filming of our movie opening I asked a few people some questions after letting them watch it: these were the questions
1.Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
2.What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
3.What was your least favourite moment?
4.What could we improve on?
5.What did we do well?
These were their responses.
Person 1:James M
Me:Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
James M: Yes i feel that the story could really pick up.
Me:What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
James M: I enjoyed the death scene of the spy at the end because the black screen and then the gun shot took me by surprise and left the question of was it her who shot him or did she have a sniping helper.
Me:.What was your least favourite moment?
James M:The getting dressed part at the start, it may have been a story setter but it was slow and low on action.
Me:What could we improve on?
James M:Im put off by the name to be honest.
Me:What did we do well?
James M:I liked that you couldn't see their faces, kept the felling of mystery the whole time.
Person 2:Ellen F
Me:Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
Ellen F:No as its not my type of movie
Me:What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
Ellen F:I enjoyed the bench scene particularly the camera shot above their heads looking down on them.
Me:What was your least favourite moment?
Ellen F:The death scene, no particular reason just didn't work for me.
Me:What could we improve on?
Ellen F:The name.
Me:What did we do well?
Ellen F:The fact you couldn't see their faces really worked for me, kept it in mystery.
Person 3:Max P
Me:Would you continue watching the film after seeing the opening?
Max P:Yes
Me:What was your favourite part of the opening? and why?
Max P: The house scene was my favourite especially with the radio broadcast in the background.
Me:What was your least favourite part?
Max P:The bench scene, i know it was a story setter but it wasn't that exciting there are many other ways he could obtain the briefcase.
Me:What could we improve on?
Max P:The name will put people off as its not English people may be put of by it.
Me:What did we do well?
Max P:The fact you couldn't see their faces kept mystery.
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