Hello and Welcome to my AS Level Media Studies Blog! We live in a whole media-saturated world. From TV ads to blockbuster movies to the music in your ears, you are surrounded by media messages throughout your life. This is why i have chosen media as an AS level subject as i feel it is an incredibly essential subject to take that will be incredibly useful in life!
You kill for nothing which is odd because youre unrecognised
You let 5 people die
Youre locked in here with me , so you better start talking
No, you're locked in here with me , and you're not going anywhere
What do you want?
Your life
These images are our location shots we have taken which are the areas that our film is going to take place when the anonymous character is ecaping outside after being interviewed in the interview room.
Title of film: Me and Rob have decided to call our film opening 'Anonymous'
In charge of:
Filming:(Me) Alex Muir
Editing:Robert Johnstone
Sound:Alex Muir/Robert Johnstone
Actors: Robert Johnstone: The Interviewer , James Mccullin: The Anonymous character ,
Alex Muir: The Civilian that gets assaulted for his clothes for disguise.
Our Pitch:
We've decided to go with our genre being based on action/adventure as we feel we can get the most mileage out of it by getting the most marks.
We both also watch a lot of action films so we have a range of ideas which can help us with our main task.
We said to the class that we were going to start off with an interview in our main task about an anonymous/unknown agent that has been seen out of duty that maybe a danger/outsider to the force.
This anonymous person escapes by violence basically , and lifts the table up at the interviewee and injures him , escapes promptly , takes clothes off another worker in the other room nearby , free-runs out of the building and dives into a car window that is the getaway car or dives off a bridge into the water (in slow motion).
Feedback from audience/their ideas:
Fist thing they said was thai our pitch dounded great but it would take time and would need a lot of time looked inti it to create a masterpiece.
They also said they should make the anonymous person 'rude' towards the interviewer when in the interview room ( like the Gary the character off the kingsman).
The audience also said to make the freerunning as effective as possible with impressive flips etc. So this is why we are getting my cousin 'James mccullin' to play the anonymous interviewee in our film opening.
An example of James Mccullin back fliping off a rail:
What we have learned:
To make the violence look as realistic as possible
Dont get too detailes/complicated with storyline, try to be simple but effective.
Props: As ou opening sequence is an action/adventure genre there will certainly be weapons like guns involved which is a classic weapon to draw in the viewers.
Locations: For the first shot our opening asequence will be filmed in a drama studio as we can experiment with the lighting on the characters faces/bodies to really give off effects. Recce-shots: (a pre-filming visit to a located place to see if its suitable for filming).
Costumes: As our first shot is an interview the interviewer will be wearing a smart suit ( black) an the villain will be wearing rough smart wear like an undone up shirt and tie etc. Examplesof our costume thoughts are shown below:
Actors: There is one interviewer , one villain and one innocent local that gets assaulted and gets his clothes taken off of him for discuise for the villain.
Lighting: In thew first shot there will be very good and concentrated lighting as we are using the drama studio which can go pitch black as there are blackout blinds in there and the walls are co,oured black, this will become very handy for perfecting our opening scene.
Atmosphere: In the inverview room , the atmosphere mst be very iscolated , quiet with no noise whatsoever so the sound is only concentrated on the voices of the characters and their movements (footsteps). However after the villain escapes the interview room and runs out the music will get more dramatic and the atmosphere will become more hectic as the scene is now outside.
