Planning - Risk Assessment

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Written by Ryan

Kick Ass institutions - Josh

Kick Ass

Directed by: Matthew Vaughn

Produced by: - Matthew Vaughn

                    - Brad pitt

                    - Kris Thykier

                    - Adam Bohling

                    - Tarquin Pack

                    - David Ried

Studio: MARV films, Plan B Entertainment

Distributed by: Universal Pictures ( UK), Lionsgate (US)

Comparison: The comparison from this film to ours is that the idea is that people our trying to become super heroes even though they don’t have any real super powers of great use.

Typed and uploaded by Josh Parrick

Planning - Call Sheet

Written by Ryan
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Research into Institutions: Connor

Marvel Avengers Assemble

Directed by: Joss Wheedon

Produced by: Kevin Feige

Starring: Robert Downey JR, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans

Studio: Marvel Studios

Released: May 4^th 2012

Budget: 220 million

Box Office: £518,594,910

Country: United States

Comparison: This movie highlights the idea of collecting the best superheroes to fight the main antagonist. In our short film; ‘The Morning After’ our villain is Michael Gove, and the concept is going against him by collecting all the superheroes we have in our movie universe. With obvious comparisons from decent and very tough superheroes in Avengers to our universe where the superheroes are more simple with a more lighthearted satire approach. 

Posted By Connor Mitchell

Planning - Initial Ideas

Initial ideas;

Idea 1;

Title:  The Morning after….

Synopsis: 3 boys wake up one morning with different super powers with a useless twist that makes then semi useful for their mission defeating the evil villain Michael Gove. They do this by surfing the web looking on all the social media and trying to recruit a team of useless vigilantes’ to take downMichael Gove.

Idea 2;

Title: The unknown

Synopsis: A boy and a girl are walking through the woods late one night, and one of them gets lost and the boy has the girl and he doesn’t know where she is who did it and why, and he is looking for her. Rejected by the police he goes out on a quest for revenge.

Idea 3;

Title: Barry Bear: Time Travel Extraordinaire

Synopsis: Bitten by a radioactive bear, Stanley bled to death his friend Barry having witnessed the murder swore vengeance on all of bear kind, so he took up the mantle of his enemy that he may stalk the streets of Gotham Bearville and defend its denizens from evil, also he has  time machine and is deathly afraid of croissants

Written by Josh and Trent
Uploaded by Ryan

Planning - Pitch Feedback

Uploaded by Trent

Planning - Script

"The Morning After" (1st Revision)

Fades In:

Int. Josh's House -- Day

Location shot of Josh's House Exterior.

Lying down face down in a puddle of water is Trent Nash.

Fades Out:

Cuts to black:
 - Small Title (White Arial Font):‘Trent Nash’.

Fades In:

Ext. Field -- Day

Shot of Connor ‘Double-Teleportation’ lying in field, revealing   shot of him lying there, long shot.

Fades Out:

Cuts to black:
 - Small Title (White Arial Font): 'Connor Mitchell'

Screen Splits, showing a toaster, prior to this, Toast pops up. Under the split-screen is: Small Title (White Arial Font): 'Josh Parrick'

Wearily, Trent slowly wakes up to the dampness of the (table/floor/bed). Looking around he notices that he as awoken in a puddle of water that has unexpectedly formed from nowhere.

Connor awakes then walks from field

Shot of Trent brushing his teeth from directly in front, medium shot

Shot of Connor walking through door

Extremely quick flash of Bat-Creep in bath

In this shot, Sound of door closing, Trent spits, then turns around and begins to leave,

Cuts to shot of black with small white titles: ‘The Morning 
After’, in shot the audio is still present as Trent shouts “Connor? Is that you?”

Shot of toast falling to ground, close up with camera follow, and then foot on toast

Trent looks forward at Connor; shots here are over shoulder shots and from behind the table as a two shot

Trent (Confused): Where have you been?

Connor (equally confused): I woke up in a field. Why is your face all wet?

Another piece of toast falls to the ground, birds’ eye view of toast, on the toast is a sad face

Trent: (Wipes face) I don’t know, I just... Where is Josh?

Another five pieces of toast fall to the ground

Trent and Connor turn and stare at the toaster

Side shot of Connor standing beside Trent

Connor:  “That’s a large amount of toast”

Close up of toast as it shakes then a flash and Josh lies in his underwear on the ground, covered in a couple pieces of toast

Josh stands up and looks at us

Josh (Confused): What is going on?

Bat Creep walks out of bathroom and speaks “Isn’t it obvious?”

Shot of the three all looking equally bewildered

Bat Creep: “You’re all”

Close up of Kieran’s mouth with dramatic whispering “Super-Heroes”

Shot of all three, medium close up of Trent: “What, Like? Do you mean proper super-heroes?”

Shot of empty doorway, Bat-Creep has disappeared

A note left on the ground ‘You must assemble the greatest group of Super-heroes, to face the might evil, Michael Gove’.

As Double Teleportation walks to the computer, a side shot of Bat-Creep running away outside

Close-up of Hands on the computer

Josh (Puzzled): “What are you doing?”

Connor turns around and as camera pulls closer “I’m searching for the best superheroes”

Montage begins with audio of singing the Pokémon, whilst searching Facebook for other super-heroes. 

Uploaded by Josh Parrick

Typed by Connor Mitchell

Basic plot-line by: Connor Mitchell, Josh Parrick and Trent Nash

Planning - Shot list

Shot list-

1: Eye level/close up

2: Black screen with text

3: Revealing shot/ minor tilt down

4: Black screen with text

5: Medium close up/ eye level shot

6: Black screen with text

7: close up, then pulls out as actor rises with a crane lift turning into a medium close up

8: close up with slight tilt up

9: long shot with minor right pan

10: medium shot into close up, eye level

11: medium shot, eye level

12: Medium close up

13: medium shot, crane lift

14: Medium close up

15: Black screen with text

16: medium close up and pan

17: Medium close up

18: Medium shot

19: Medium shot, two shot, slight pull in

20: (when dialogue starts) Medium close up

21: Medium close up

22: Close up, birds eye view

23: Medium close up

24: Medium close up

25: Two shot, medium shot

26: Two shot, medium close up

27: Big close up

28: Birds eye view with minor pull in

29: Medium shot, crane lift with minor pull out

30: Camera moves with actor with a medium close up

31: Medium close up

32: Close up

33: Extreme close up

34: Medium shot

35: Medium close up

36: Medium close up

37: Close up, with pull in to extreme close up

38: Camera moves with actor at medium close up

39: Big close up

40: Medium shot

41: Medium shot to medium close up

42: Montage accumulated of multiple shots.

Typed by Connor

Uploaded by Josh

Planning - Equipment List

Equipment List:

Dolly:
Used to create track shots, to allow a much larger variety of dynamic shots.

Camera:
To record the film and take photographs for the animatic storyboard.

Tripod:
To keep shots steady and allows scenes to be much smoother when different Camera shots are used.

Editing Software:
To edit the pictures/footage that has been recorded. (Photoshop CS3/CS5/CS6 and Adobe Premiere Pro)

Computer:
To use the editing software and to access our blog to upload the planning and parts to the main task. (I.e. Pitch, Pitch Feedback, Script, Film etc...)

Pressurized Water Cannon:
To create the illusion that 'The Drip' is summoning forth a stream of water.

Toaster/Other Inanimate Objects:
An inanimate object in question will be the aspect that 'Dr. Morphenstein' will have morphed into.

Microphone:
To Record the voice of both Trent and Josh, for their roles as the narrator and toaster respectively.

Typed by Trent
Uploaded by Ryan

Planning - The Pitch

The Morning After: 

Title –

The Morning after

Genre –

Thriller

Form –

The opening of a film

Location –

Josh’s House & school grounds

Time –

Over a day

Characters –

The characters are being left as a surprise

·       - Michael Gove – Connor Mitchell

Plot outline -

3 Boys wake up with superpowers hoping to aspire as a gang of super heroes, trying to defeat the villain ‘Michael Gove’

Key micro features –

·        - Quick cuts - quick cuts of really boring and mundane.

·        - Montage

·        - Costumes

·        - Dramatic music (copy right free)

·       -  180 degree rule, Match on action, Shot reverse shot.

·        - Pans, tilts, low angle, Birds eye, extreme close up, Establishing shot, medium shot, -        
   track in, track out.

Target audience –

Teens aged 14 - 17

Audience appeal –

People like a super hero movie

Influential films –

·        Kick-Ass

·        Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

·        Marvel: Avengers Assemble

             

Opening scene –

The opening scene of the film is the end of the film, this scene will contain us fighting the main villain Michael Gove with our pretty useless powers then it will flash back to the beginning of the Film to contrast how the story has developed.

The film will cut away at the key point of the battle with Michael Gove, to go back to the beginning.

Roles –

·        Josh – actor, co-director,co-writer

·        Connor – actor, co-director, co-writer

·        Ryan - Camera man, co-editor, Mise-en-scéne

·        Trent – Editor, actor, co-writer, co-director & Special Effects

Self Assessment (Re-Upload) - Ryan Fearne

-Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?
I feel that we were able to achieve continuity editing, but our Preliminary Film had quite a few jump cuts/missing shots which prevents continuity from being achieved in some areas, this is because during film making we missed a few shots, and failed to get the missing shots in time.

-Have you followed the directions in the brief? (A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character. An exchange of dialogue occurs.)
Our original idea involves having the two main characters in the room to begin with, rather than entering. However, during the film both the characters open/close the door a couple times as a part of the storyboard and exchange dialogue throughout the scenes.

- Have you used match-on-action?
Originally we were going to use match-on-action, where trent opens the door, with the door handle in the shot, then cut to the outside. However this was changed to Walking up to the door with the intent of opening it and cutting to the outside.
- Can you explain what a match-on action involves?
Match-on-Action involves creating a scene that shows an event that has happened or is taking place and then showing the event after.

-Have you used shot/reverse shot?
We used shot reverse shot to show the exchange of dialogue between our two main characters, which is seen at 0:43 when the shot cuts to james before trent opens the door, then cuts back to trent opening/closing the door.
-Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?
Shot/reverse shot involves two edited scenes that swap between one of the scenes, then swap to the other scene and back. This is done to show a event happening or a scene taking place, for example; A conversation between two people.

- Did you observe the 180-degree rule?
Yes, Our 180 Degree rule involved trent being on one side of the table and james being opposite him. We also had a scene where james was getting up to open the door while trent remained in his sit opposite him.


- Can you explain the 180-degree rule?
The 180 degree rule involves an axis in which the camera rotates/pans around an object or maybe even two characters so one character stays on on side while the other stays on another side. The camera will stay on one side of the 'axis' for each shot of the scene.

- What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task? (e.g. filming, acting, editing, equipment organisation etc.)
During the making of the preliminary task, I played the role of cinematography/filming and editing recent posts and organisation of each role.
- How would you assess your contribution to the group?
In the beginning I would say I hadn't done enough to aid the group, and needed to organise myself more to get things done on time. However, towards the end of the preliminary task, I would say I had a dramatic improvement as I got unfinished work completed and posted onto our blog: I will say that I could have helped the group more to increase the pace inwhich we worked at.

- What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?
I have learned that i need to work with my group more, with improved cooperation. I have also learned that I need to manage my time more carefully and to be more organised, in order to get things done before/on due date.

Links to Preliminary Task Blogs

Having changed groups since the preliminary task we figured things would be easier if we just made a comepletely different blog for the main task.

The following are links to our previous blogs:

-COSH (Connor and Josh's blog):

 http://www.mitchrrick.blogspot.co.uk/

-JOTR (Trent and Ryan's blog):

 http://omackmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/