We decided to use and gather information such as opening sequences from these movies such as Snatch, Oceans 11 and Rock N Rolla in order to benefit us and encourage to give us as many techniques and ideas when producing our opening sequences.
At the current time we had decided that our Genre was going to be a gangster movie, which the main characters had each been hustled and hoped to get there revenge by hustling the hustler. The scene was going to begin by either being in a middle of a con which was going well but would make the audience and viewers confused with whats going on and why is it happening. The other scenario which was discussed and decided in our group was a poker game, this would have been much easier what we thought a challange would make this task much more interesting, becasue for the poker game each character would walk in with their briefcase of £10,000 and then a small story explaining how they got there and what they hope to achieve in this game, is it that they want to win the poker game and please the ungrateful girlfriend or is it that they are waiting for the host to go for a ciggerette and then stick a knife through the back, this story we felt would have been extremely successful becasue it would have brought alot of suspense to the audience and the viewers.
These selected films nfluenced us becasue these films had a speciality which was that each character was in a group. Such as Snatch the boxing manager is in a group with his assistant, and also the robbery man is in a group with two other members a getaway driver who weighs more then the car itself and the intelegant one who decided to rob a well armed bookies. After analysing these particular movies we felt that working in a group would make the film more exciting anf give each character a speciality, such as one of us being the Man with the plan, and another person being the brute, or being a ladies man or a pretty boy.
After alot of research into this Genre and gathering resources we felt that this may have already been done, or which may have been made similiar by our colleagues, one memeber in our team Bajrush had an idea which in fact so different from what we were going to do that we felt it may be a great risk, but then again with risk it can come out with the best consequence or the worst. So we took the risk for we felt Bajrush was greatly confident and believed in this idea, and as a group we supported the idea, even thought a few of us had a feeling it would go down as a disaster. Bajrush's idea was that a young man who has no ability whatsoever e.g he cannot play basketball, boxing and even sucks at gym, the character gives his story explaining his emotions of whats going on to him and expressess himself. After filming a few scenes of this all of us felt convinced that this might become successful, the reasons becasue nothing like this has been been made before making it a innovative and fresh idea, we conducted a bit of market research and found that atleast 3/4 media groups were going to make a videa with action and violance in it, and its not like we watch real life violance and action in cinema's where it is in fact 10 times better anf not that of a guy falling onto a spring mattress (not very life like), so we felt our opening sequence would in fact be popular for being so different. Also the acting done by Bajrush the main character was excellant and life like, you can tell from his acting that he expressed his emotions and was fully comitted into the role of his character.
Our target Audience we decided were going to be 14-30+, the reason why we decided this was becasue anyone younger then the age of 14 would find this video boring becasue there is no humour, well there is a little but as much as a more younger person would enjoy, the reason why 30+ because the openeing sequence has no action or violance in it making it a more of a family film and also that of which a more older target audience would enjoy for they tend to enjoy a good storyline in a film and also want more verbal then violance for then it is easier to follow, example if someone gets punches the audience would be like why did they get punched what did it lead to and what did they gain from it, however with verbal they can follow along with whats going on and can understand it more effectively.. Our group thought could this film be successful with no action or violance, but we felt that this was indeed a challange and and i can say on behalf of the group that we had overcome that challange, which allows us in future to undergo difficult situations.
We chose many different locations and each member in the group produced atleast ten locations each, so the problem was not that we didnt have any locations but in fact that we had to many locations. The locations which had in mind to film at was: Coombe Sixth Form - this was to do filming of the main character in his school life, using this location we could have used the main hall for basketball and other such activities, also we have used the exterior of the Sixth form to do the walking scenes, that way we may have saved a lot of time which we could have covered doing the editing. Also another location which we actually used in our preliminary task was a block of flats in Blakes Lane near the A3 roundabout. In the preliminary task we used the location to do the filming of the stairs which we felt was quite impressing, so we thought why not add this to the main task of the opening sequence, as an alternative of the lift, but then we realized that lets try something new, why stick to the basics or do whatever come and goes easily, so we thoughts lets think outside the box, infact rip the box entirely and turn it into a circle, this was going to be our way of thinking from now on. So really we did not use the clip of the stairs but went to a member in our groups house and filmed a scene of a lift there, a problem of this location was that the duration of getting to and from there was indeed lengthy, so we needed to find an alternative. Luckily we realized even though at a late stage that there was a lift in School, which was perfect because it was in the same building as our media class, making the distance less then a minute away.
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