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Evaluation Task 7

For this task I used Microsoft Word 2007 and then uploaded it to Scribd.com which is a website which allows me to upload documents such as Word documents or OpenOffice documents, then you can get the embed code, and paste it onto any blog/webpage and view the document as it was made/designed to.

This is our Final version of the film we made titled, "Time Won't Tell", I have added annotations using the YouTube onsite editing web application. I have commented the USP's, Genre Conventions, Music used and the Similarities between our film and others



Genre Conventions Comments
Unlike most films of the same genre as our film we have broke the conventions, these broken conventions include;

• Budget
• Dangerous Phyical Stunts
• and destructive disasters

We have broken the budget convention by the conventions of an action film, by having a really small budget, involved in the film making compared to standard films of this genre such as Bourne Ultimatum, James Bond and Die Hard, which have budget rising into the many hundreds of millions of dollars to blow on awesome special effects, etc.

Secondly We don't have any dangerous physical stunts involved in the sequence because we don't have any professional stunts person to cover for the actors, unlike any of the general films which would employee specialists stunt people and co-ordinators to do the stunts, like jumping though a window two stories below from a balcony of another building or crashing and flipping a car at high speed.

There isn't any destructive disasters which include; Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Volcanoes, etc. The reason why these aren't include is because of Costs/Budget and Special Effects, the costs of making these would be enormous and we didn't have either the computing power or specialist software to create these special effects.

We have followed the conventions of this genre of film in the following ways;

• High Tempo
• High Energy
• Allows for Audience Escapism 

The Film is a of high tempo and energy, and due to this it'll have the audience members on the edge of their seats wanting to see more of the adrenaline pumping, fast pace action film, along with that we have used the music accordingly.

Our film allows the audience to discover escapism whilst watching it, the film is believable, enjoyable and watchable it makes the audience want to watch, due to the fact that for a hour or two the audience can watch a film which makes allows them to relax but at the same time enjoy it and have their heart beat faster than just sitting watching a tv show, because of the high octane fast pace fof the action film.

We have decided to give our film opening a 15 rating becuase we feel that the genre of film will contian alot of violence, and from the oepning you can already see that it will cotiain violence the way that the assasisng is trying to blow up the other character.Alothe fact that we see him prepare his gun in the opening which indicates he is into violence.

This our film with a directors commentary style voice over, I talk about What kind of Media Institution might distribute our media product and why, also I talk about the titles and the logo.





The commentary on the YouTube video is a lot better as I have edited most of the clips so they don't sound as bad, although they aren't great quality which I'm apologetic for, the reason why it's so bad is because I ended up using the microphone on my headphones to record, other wise the sound files wasn't audible as I tested.
I have ended up shortening my speech on the video as when I read all of the text I couldn't fit it all into the length of the short 2 mins 35, so as a result I have ended up shorten what I say.l


This is the script for our Evaluation Task 3.Script for Evaluation Task 3
Playlist of Directors Commentary, separate from Film
 
Directors Commentary for Time Won't Tell by thetyro



Sorry I'm having problems converting .m4a format (from my iPhone recorded the sound clips to) to .mp3
I need to add to the film. the youtube video will be uploaded shortly

This is our final film.


I have added two video's because sometimes the YouTube video doesn't work, and sometimes the blogger video doesn't seem to work, so it was basically a back up feature, to make sure that the video was on my blog, sorry for any inconvenience.

These are video's of draft versions of Time Won't Tell



This is our Preliminary Film

This is a short list of shots that we used during our film,

• Bird's eye view
• Long shot
• Medium shot
• Close up
• Extreme close up
• Snail eye view
• Over the shoulder shot
• Point of View
• Panning

The props that we used on the final filming are;

• Black Shoes
• Black Trousers
• Black Shirt
• Leather Jacket
• Leather Gloves
• Helmet
• Black Jacket
• Bomb
• Motorbike
• Messenger Bag
• 2 Laptops
• Gun
• Folder
• Watch
• Car
• Motorbike and Car Keys
• Two iPhones
• Paper with text and photo's on
• Desk
• Pliers
• Trainers
• Tie
• Hooded Jumper
• Scarf

This is the Ident that we use on our film and the what we planned on using

These pictures are of me and Damon filming and editing, as you can see from the pictures we both took it in turns filming and filming on all occassions.

This is mine and Damon's Preliminary Video

Sounds
We have decided to use two different sound clips on our final version of the film. The two clips are going to be applied to each individual actor in our film, so this means when ever the person is shown we will use the song which is linked to the actor such as the business man. We have used a slightly upbeat song for Rhys who is the business man and a more calm and relaxed song for the assassin who is played by Richard

Edtiting Styles
Our film editing has the main effect of Cross Cutting, this is where you are watching two characters go about their life, and we keep changing between each character, e.g. you are watching the assassin one shot and then we will switch to the life of the business man and then back agian, we decided to use fade in and outs as the transitions on most shots this because we wanted to show that we constantly switch between each character to allow the viewer to get to know the character and by using fades between each change of actor. Another reason why we used fades was because it helped the change of scene smoother, and helped it be believeable. I believe that how we have used these effects and not added any cheese and rubbish effects has really helped us to improve on our draft where we used some effects that make our look poor and amateur

(Contrast between character roles and theme of song such as evil assassin and calm music)

Richard Anderson is the second of our actors that we chose for our final filming, When we chose Richard to be the actor who plays the assassin, because he is more mature, when he had his leather coat and gloves on with his  cap, he looked similar to how you would expect an assassin to dress he didn't look to casual but didn't look to obvious that if you walked around a town, that he wouldn't stick out from the crowd, and that is what we wanted, we also knew that we wanted it for the viewer to know which character was which and with Richard wearing this type of clothing, I believe it did make it obvious.

Rhys Withers is one of the two of our actors we chose for our final filming. He is 17 years old, lives in Narborough and enjoys playing sports which includes Football. Rhys is also interested and enjoys Computing, and as well as playing on his Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. He is planning on going to university to get a Degree in computer games programming, to get a job as a computer games programmer.

I believe that Rhys was the perfect actor for us to choose because he fitted what we both wanted of the actor, who  is a casual man who was on his way to work.

The person Rhys plays is a casual business man who is being targeted by an assassin, yet he isn't really aware of if (for sure) or when he's going to be killed.

We told Rhys to wear black shirt and trousers, along with his and black shoes which are shown below

Watch the clip and answer the following question.




Discuss the representation of gender and ethnicity.



Make sure you comment on the sound and editing too. This will reinforce the separate work you have undertaken in these 2 areas.