Audience Research and Profiling

The audience that would be attracted to our film would be mainly males. this is because you have the typical male interests like chase scenes, fighting and death and secrecy. It will also attract a male audience more as their is only male characters with in the film.
If there were females then a female audience might be more slightly intwerested as there could be scenes of romance which is the typical stereotypes of females.
The main age range for our film will be for higher aged teeneager like 16+ to middle/old aged men. This is because the film goes at quite a fast rate e.g. there are running scenes and the fighting happens quite quickly and so it wouldnt be suited to the elderly as they are unable to be like this e.g. running fast.
It can also be aimed to middle aged men as there is some sort of mystery to it aswell like what what is in the briefcase and what content might there be on the disc.
Our target audience is roughly the same to films like James bond because of the action and fast flowing movement but it doesnt have the romance side.
Overall our target audience is mainly males aged 16 to roughly 50s/60s.

Certificate Research

There are 6 main certificates for films according to the British certificates since 2009, they allow and forbid certain people to watch films due to age restrictions.
The certificates are the following:

This certificate's Name is Universal. This means that the film is suitable for all ages and that the younger generation does not need to be accompanied by an adult. However before 2009 there used to be a certificate which was Uc. This was suitable for all, but especially suitable for young children to watch on their own. But because the certificate U pretty much covered this they scrapped this from 2009 onward.

The name of this certificate is Parental Guidance. This is for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. So this leaves the parents to decide whether they accompany their child or not.







The name of this certificate is 12 Accompanied/ Advisory. This means that it is suitable for those aged 12 and older (cinema only) so this is only used in the cinema not on films or TV programmes that you watch/buy;under 12s admitted, but only if accompanied by an adult








The name of this certificate is just 12. This is suitable for those aged 12 and older (non cinema only) So this is not used in the cinema only when buying films etc.








The name of this certificate is just 15. This is suitable for those aged 15 and older and the person does not  need to be accompanied by an adult. Sometimes if this were to be used in a cinema or when buying/renting a film then they may get asked for id.

The name of this certificate is just 18.It is listed on films and TV programs. and is suitable for those who are 18 an older. This probably because the scenes that are within the film may be unsuitable/violent for those who are at a  younger age.

Soundtrack research

Here are several website for possibilities of getting our soundtrack from for the opening two minutes of our film, this is because we are not allowed to use copy written material.
http://www.freesoundtrackmusic.com/














http://www.freestockmusic.com/2011/cinematic-production-music/free-cinematic-production-music-resistance/

This song has a very high possibility of being the soundtrack for our opening two minutes, this is because it fits the criteria , 2 minutes long, and is fairly fast paced which is ideal to fir the clip that we are creating as it is a fast paced action scene.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSat61A4kr8
















This sound track is highly interesting as it uses a range of tempos throughout the song. This would be ideal for are piece as are tempo changes due to the flashback. The songs tempo starts of slowy so we can use this when are actors are making the deal or walking. When the tempo is fast this will be the start of something exhilarating within are film such as the fight scene or the chase. The song uses uses string instruments and drumbs this make the soundtrack highly dramatic and heart pounding. However, over all we cannot use this as it would be copyright of the jason bourne.

This sound track is good, however it could be used for certain sections of are film such as the chase scene maybe. Their use of drums however can be could change of effect for the fight scene as the drums could be a representation. However I find that this soundtrack will be good if went straight into a chase scene but because we don’t, it won't be ideal. It also doesn’t consist as fast enough tempos as other soundtracks I have researched.

Prop Research

Props

• Guns (pistol)
• (maybe knives)

The guns will painted black to make them look more realistic and will only given to our main characters in are opening, because we do not have enough gun props to allow all characters to have them, plus their is no need for them too have them.

• Briefcase

Briefcase is the main attention and is the reason why the chase is happening however in the opening it will never be opened, this is to create suspence in the audience.

• fake money for exchange - if needed.

We may use fake money, during are flashback during the meeting while making the exchange. Most likely monopoly money.

• Earpiece.

We will use an earpiece to make our main character look more realistic at his role of being an agent. Also if we wish to add more dialogue we could make it so he communicating to someone.

Costume Research

There will be two types of costumes which the actors will be wearing during the first opening two minutes of the film.
The first type will be suits. This will be for the Villain and the Hero who are the two main characters in the opening two minutes. The hero who is a undercover agent who is looking through the villains eyes will be wearing a light suite to show that he is the good guy out of the two people who will be in the scene. This is because he is going under cover and will be doing business with a Man who is quite powerful and you would want to look quite respectable when dealing with someone like him. The villain will be wearing dark colors probably a black suit because that is what you usually get villains wearing in action movies.
The Suit will look quite similar to this:

Its a grey suit and will be perfect for the agent to wear as its smart and its something that we already have to hand so we won't have to buy it from online or anything.









The Villain will be wearing a suit that will probably be completely black. This'll show that he is the bad person in the first two minutes being that he is in all black like most villains are. For example.









For the people who are chasing the Agent in the alleys they will be wearing hoodies and genes/track suit bottoms as they technically have an importance in the film and so we will not need to see their faces hence why having a hoodie on with the hood up will be showing that they are the hench man of the villain.

Setting Research

The settings for our film:

Beginning: 0- 40 seconds:

In the opening few seconds of our film, the audience get to see the real discrete location for the high profile deal taking place.

The reason for this discrete location is because the deal is going to have a lot of money dealing taking place and so having it in an easy visible place could cause problems for the dealers.

Middle: 41 sec- 1min 20sec:

As the deal has taken place but has gone horribly wrong, the runner decides to head towards more people hoping to blend in and hide from the chasers.

The settings of these scenes keep changing as they are going at a fast pace through the town.

After a few scenes of chasing down alley ways and in between buildings, the runner does not make it and is caught by one of the chasers.

End: 1min 21sec:

As one of the chasers finds the runner he holds a gun to his head. they are still in a discrete location and so the runner can’t do anything it except hand the package back over.

As they have a standoff the scene goes black and then the audience hear the sound of a bullet. This means that one of them has died in this location.

Initial Ideas of the content of the opening two minutes

Here are our first inital ideas of the content of our first two minutes. This isnt really saying anything about the background information about what is in the brief case, it will be more what the audeince will be seeing.

Analysis of Opening titles.

Analysis of James Bond- Skyfall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNG-3W9i3k
The opening of James Bond is about 3:50mins. Within the titles we first get show the Producers who present the film.Then we get the main actor who in this case is Daniel Craig who acts as James Bond of course. We then get a title straight after his name saying 'as IAN FLEMINGS's JAMES BOND 007 in'. This the author who wrote the James Bond books. Then it Carry's on from in to the film title 'SKYFALL'. While all of these credits are going on there is a scenes of him which looks like he is drowning and getting pulled underneath the water. We then get a list of titles naming who is starring in the Film, The music is still going and we are still getting a series of underwater images, the next one is a target of James Bond and he has bullet holes in it and the bloody is all cloudy in the water.And the camera shot then goes into the hole and then goes into the next scene
 with more titles, the images behind this is now of a woman underwater the camera shot of this is a vertical panning shot so that you see the whole of her body up and down. As she is rising we then get a shot of a gun being dropped in the water and disappearing in the sand on the sea bed, this then gets another name next to it.
We then get a whole new scene which looks like is has been animated but still underwater where knives are dropping and the camera is going forward into a graveyard straight into one grave at the end. This then disperses into what looks like blood vessels.
Now you are starting to build up a story on whats going on, so I think that that the woman shot James Bond and then he died and then he is then coming back to life or going into another world as it looks like he is meeting Somone at the end as there is someones eye.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

You will be assess on your ability to demonstrate continuity in filming.
IN your evaluation comment on: your choice of setting situation, relationship between the characters and dialogue.
Shots that should be included: Match action, shot/revers shot, the 180 degree rule
What shots did you use?
How effective were they?
Were the cuts clear and seamless?

Here I was to demonstrate my ability of continuity in filming. I created a short clip of a scene where somone walks through the door and then walks across the room and then had a shot conversation. For this we decided to go to the main hall of the school as there was a door that one of us could walk though and then had a long walk way to track one of us walking across the room, this gave us enough space to be able to do what we wanted to do. The relationship between the two characters the audience doesnt really know, but the impression they should get is that the one already sitting down (Aaron) is the boss.


We used a series of shots to capture our clip, our first was a mid shot of myself coming through the door. The camera was stood still and did not follow me at any time. Then there was a tracking mid shot of me walking across the room. This effect gives the audience the impression that the actos is on a journey somewhere.There is then an over the shoulder shot from Aarons point of view of myself walking towards the chair and then sitting down. We then used a shot reverse shot as we exchange lines and Aaron says that i'm late, I apologise and then he tells me that there is some work for me,which needs to be done.

While we were speaking we made sure that the dialogue we were saying made sense and that it was also clearly spoken, so that the audience can hear what we are saying.
When we put all the shots we made it so that the shots were cleanly put together so that there is no pause between shots, which doesn't make a very good scene because the audience wouldnt really want to keep seeing pauses between the two shots.

Through out we had a few problems occur while filming and editing the clips. As it was a first time on Adobe Premiere we did not really know anything about it and what we could use on it to make our clip better. The first thing that I will look into doing next time is to reduce the camera shake during the scene. However I could reduce this while recording by using a tripod when doing still scenes. Then when it came to noise reduction we were in the hall and the noise travels very far because of its acoustics so maybe next time we should go where there is noboy else and then there would not be as much noise in the background of our clip.
The last thing that we could improve on next time is to make sure that what we have is what we want in the clip, what i mean by this is that at the end the camera had not stopped recording and so we had a pointless piece at the end where Aaron gets up and tells the person behind the camera to stop recording.

Lastly something that we did not do was the 180 degree rule which is  a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene. The part of the clip that we would of used this in would of been after the shot reverse shot. We could then talk a little longer so that we can add this shot type in.
Something else that we could add when we took the clip into editing was to add titles at the begining of the opening, also we could of addded a shot burst of music at the begining as well with the title, like a lot of films have at the begining.