Idea 1

WW2 based theme

Location: based in the air field of Folkingham
Icludes- historic equipment, war machinery, fields, tractors, hangers, silo's

The story line of this would be a pilot going to war and dies, his soul still stays at the air field, His wife/girlfriend visits it to "feel his presence" as something is telling her that he is still alive.

Costume ideas:

 The women would wear dresses just below the knee, normally with pleats in them to make them look as feminine as possible. Little gloves were popular in those days with lots of frills and buttons to do up. Fashion was a big importance in the 1930's and women dressed as women, trousers would not be worn by women during these times. Hats or head wear would be worn regularly as accessorising an outfit was important and having a full set (hat, dress and shoes) would be worn when going out on an occasion.

 The man would wear a full pilot outfit. It would need to have the ranking stripe on their blazer to show the importance and the wing badge to show they belong to a regiment. The hat and goggles are important pieces of this outfit as it gives a strong indication that the character is a pilot. The mise-en-scene would work well in this location as the idea of a pilot would fit perfectly in the field full of planes and equipment based on wars.

Location:Brief history outine.
There is a very old road leading down to the airfield. It was open in WW1 in Folkingham due to England needing as many military bases as possible. It was originally a "decoy" site. During the days there were many planes and military forces taking up the air fieldIn 1943 it was redeveloped into a bomber airfield. Then in 1959, it was turned into a missile base. When the missiles were used and taken out by the late 1960's the airfield was left weaponless.

Titles And Credits
Paranormal activity- The titles will be placed in a blood red colour to represent the idea of death which occured in the film. Paranormal is about ghost activity reflecting on our main idea of this thriller opening and we thought it would be aesthetically effective to use as our credits.

Donnie Darko

To focus on the symbolisms within a text...

 The Rabbit which occurs throughout the film “Donnie Darko” is a surprisingly scary feature of the film. Rabbits, to most people would be thought of as a fluffy cute animal, known as a pet for children. An innocent child’s mind would be unable to think of such a horrible creature. Doing so would suggest to us that the child could be experiencing some problems occurring in the mind and seen by many members of the audience as mentally unstable.  “Frank” (the bunny rabbit) could symbolise the mentally traumatic childhood which Donnie Darko has experienced to be on the pills, which are displayed, as being so important in the film.

The BBFC

 British Board Of Film Classification

What is it?   The reccomended age which a person aught to be to see the film in question.

 This is very important for many reasons. Firstly, if parensts let their child watch a film which was very violent and had lots of scenes including nudity, they would be outraged that they didn't know this information before going into the cinema and sitting their child down to watch it. The trailer advertising a film doesn't always add in the most horrific parts of the film, so when paying customers sit down, they get a film which they did not expect to see and this could cause many complaints and leave cinemas with minimum profits as people would stop buying tickets. The BBFC give a fair opinion what audience the film is most suitable for. 

 SUITABLE FOR ALL. It's hard to know what could effect and upset each individual child. How ever a "U" film is an all rounder, for anyone over the age of 4 years. No threatening behaviour or bad tensions should be made through these films. Nothing relating to sex, horror or threats should be in a "U" film to ensure the younger members of the audience can watch it without feeling uneasy. It should have a positive moral behind the film and should be suitable for the individual watch of a pre-school child.

PARENTAL GUIDENCE. A General film how ever some specific scenes may be unsuitable for a pre-school child to view alone without becomming a little scared. A child of the age of 8 should be fine to watch it alone however any child younger than 8 should have parental permission before viewing it to ensure no problems will be caused after the showing.

 12 YEARS AND OLDER. A young child could find the scenes in one of these "12/12A" rated films unsuitable for a child under this age. This age is for cinema use only. No child may enter a "12A" without being accompanied by an adult. The parent has the right to decide whether the child would be ok to watch the "12A" but the same film could not be brought or rented in a shop for video use by a child under the legal age of 12.

FIFTEEN YEARS OLD ONLY. Noone under the age of 15 could enter a "15" film at the cinema of buy/rent the film from a shop. Even if accompanied by an adult the individual child must be over the legal age to go into the film and see it. Cinema's regularly ask for the birth date's of the people going in to watch it as no legal ID can be given unless a passport is taken, however this is unlikely to take to the cinema and is the legal age group which is broken mostly at cinema showings as children can easily lie about their age. It is up to the ticket seller to look to see whether they believe the birth date which they have been given to let the child in question in or not. This age group is allowed swear words of a thame nature. Sex, nudity and violence but not in extreme proportions.
This is the right age group to set our thriller opening at. A good thriller should have a sense of mystery involved and fear should flicker through the audience at different points of a film. The feeling of fear should not become so intense and over powering that viewers find it distressing. Violence should not be very over the top, not only would this be a component of a film rating"18" but could also lose many viewers, through making it to hard to watch. Sex and nudity could be involved in a thriller film but by making the age rating "15" you would not see the act happening. The film would give hints to suggest that it would happen but not show you the actual scene.

 18 YEARS OF AGE ONLY. Noone under the legal age of being classed as an adult in the UK may see an "18" film. In the cinema ID will be asked from individuals as the film could be very graphic with violence, sex and nudity, swearing or sexual violence. Nobody under the legal age of "18" could rent or buy the film without identification of either a driving liscence, passport or other formal document.

 LISCENCED CINEMA'S ONLY. This is the most unknown age restriction. This film can only be displayed in liscenced cinemas. Involves alot of sex and adult scenes with things such as fetish material involving adults. These kind of films can only be sold/rented in "sex shops" by a person over the legal age of "18". It is the strictest age liscencing and identification would be very strict. It is the only age restriction which says you CAN NOT order a film by mail to arrive at your house. It HAS to be purchased. It would contain very extreme scenes found very distressing by a person under the age of 18.

PARAMOUNT PICTURES

 Started up as an American company in 1912. Paramount was one of the very first national distributors. In the early days they were only sold with in their reigon, this was very costly as it wouldn't reach the maximum target audience it could expand too otherwise.
 Paramount Pictures believed that Actors were crutial in the films and that companys would invest in them through the ownage of these actors.People who wanted the early stars which paramount had invested in such as Mary Pickford needed to pay for a years worth of other paramount pictures. Paramount was then in a very good position of wealth.
Paramount was very popular in the famous "New York City" not only through shooting films there but by displaying their cartoon characters in the theatres there.

 During 1931-1940. America was going through the "Wall Street Crash" which nearly left Paramount Pictures in deverstation. Zukor got rid of his earlier partners during this time and was voted up to chairman of the board, luckily this abled him to get the pictures out of bankruptcy! When they were fully recovered, they invested in many more actors/actresses and were selling around 70 films each year. They were very famous for creating Betty Boopy, this ran smoothly for a while however people thought of her as too "sexy" and demanded more clothing and a longer length skirt. Paramount rebounded with Popeye The Sailor Man making people think of them as good again and regaining loyal customers.

During the years of the way, Paramount Pictures drew back strongly on the amount of films which they were creating as they realised that people wouldn't buy them when on rations and extreme money shortages. People would stay at home not go out to be entertained.

The next major event for Paramount Pictures was that it teamed up with Universal Studios to form Cinema International Cooperation this meant distributing films out of the US as a pair.

1984-1990 Paramount Pictures hit Hollywood! Paramount is part of Viacom (an international media company) and features in over hundreds of films and cartoons. It is very popular and has gone through success after success from the early 1900's and is getting bigger and better each day and providing people with hours of entertainment from timless classics to modern action movies. It's a globally known industry. They also linked in and paired with dreamworks for other films and earns billions of dollars each year through the popular demand of sales by consumers eager to watch the latest releases.

Our Prelim

FINAL PRELIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90lQq1wEoo&feature=player_embedded

This is the improved prelim which we finalised. The sound track has been added and the editing is much smoother. It makes the prelim look slightly more proffessional by adding elements such as a good theme tune and taking care in our work.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHxRVMSmmWc&feature=player_embedded

This is our unimproved prelim, this isn't our final one as we thought it still needed more work done to it before we could show it to the class. It has some obvious differences to our final one and still looks very ammature. Shooting this prelim was very exciting for us as a group. A video camera still seemed alien to us all and figuring out through trial and error what worked best at what angles was both extremely satisfying and fun to do. As well as learning about the camera, we managed to get the basics of the Apple Macs which are in our media room. By understanding the basic programme of iMovie09 we felt confident in creating a prelim which the rest of our class could watch and enjoy just as much as we enjoyed making it.

iMovie 09
 This is what we see when editing, we made it so that we were working in timing's less than one second long so that we could make our editing for our prelim as smooth as possible without it having a "cringey" atmosphere to it. We went through it at a slow pase to ensure that every detail was covered as best as it could be with the knowledge we knew about the programme.It is a professional programme allowing us to create movies with not only pictures but we are also able to attach audio to it to make it as realistic as possible.

Prelim Plan

Actors: Henry Louth (The Don)

Kingston Capes (Agent)

Film Crew: Hannah Phillips

Jessica Cooke

Mission Impossible Sound Track.

1) Shot of agent Capes coming up the stairs. Camera slightly to the right, high angle shot.

2) Freeze frame of agent Capes at the top of the stair case with the title coming across the screen, this gives a propper introduction of his character showing his job title and giving the audience some information on the type of person he is.

3) Mid shot of agent Capes walking from the top of the staircase on the approach to the first corner, this shows his authority by him being shown in a sharp suit and gives the impression of wealth whilst the audience can clearly see his facial features to get familiar with his face.

4) Low close up of agent Capes feet walking around the corner after from the top of the stairs on approach to the door.

5) Mid shot of agent Capes opening the door, this shot is taken from behind the character to show his hand move to the door handle.

6) Camera changes perspective to the other side of the door, another mid shot of agent Capes coming through the door walking towards the camera to avoid confusion of the audience, it needs to be edited to ensure it runs smoothly and isn't joulty.

7) CCTV long shot from the end of the corridoor of agent Capes walking down, should be edited to black and white to look as realistic as possible. Filming things to consider; Health and safety- when filming stood on a chair it is important to stay as still as possible and bring the camera up as high as possible on the tripod to keep a steady shot.

8) Midshot, again of agent Capes walking infront of the camera towards the second door.

9) Extreme close up of agent Capes' hand pulling down on the door handle.

10) Close up shot of the sign on the door "Meeting In Progress" to show an importance of the room.

11) Midshot from the other side of the door, camera stood in the room which agent Capes is walking into.

12) Over the shoulder shot of "the don" from agent Capes' shoulder, this shows you the second character as if you were really in the room.

13) Freeze frame of "the don" as the title comes across the screen indicating to the audience that he is the one in charge. All titles last for 1 second approx.

14) Over the shoulder shot of "the don" saying the words "Ah, Kingston, i've been expecting you"

 It is VITAL during this conversation to remember the 180 degree rule!

This line should not be crossed at any time to ensure the conversation makes complete sense on screen and that the characters aren't swapping sides all of the time due to the arrangement of the camera.

15) Over the shoulder shot of agent Capes picking a letter out of his pocket to give to "the don"

16) Extreme close up of agent Capes' eyes intensely staring at the camera.

17) Extreme close up of "the don"s eyes staring back at the camera from the opposite side.

 This is to create a tension which would be related to a Thriller.

18) Two man mid shot of the exchange of the letter. Agent Capes hands it over to "the don" who takes it at a half way point.

19) Mid shot of the letter being taken by "the don" as the words "What is this?!" are worryingly expressed, after this question, a low tone voice is used as he states "i'm disapointed in you Kingston!"

20) Mid shot of agent Capes as he speaks the words "It's not my job anymore."

This causes a puzzled atmosphere and leaves the audience guessing what happened for agent Capes to of changed his mind and not like his job anymore.

A pause is then put into the editing expanding the tension to an uncomfortable level.

21) High angle shot. "The Don" says "I'm disapointed" he reaches underneath the table, keeping an intense focus on agent Capes.

22) There is a sudden blackout on the screen.

23) "BANG" the sound of a gun goes off during the black out.

 A big shock to end our prelim should give a result to the story line.

 Things we changed during filming:

At first we had no sound track, we thought that the sound of agent Capes' shoes walking down the corridoor and up the stairs would create tension more with each step, how ever when we looked at it on the Mac, we couldn't hear alot of sounds and it lost the interest of the people who were watching it. We decided it would be a good idea to add a track which relates to our story line. Mission Impossible is all to do with action and spies and we thought this would fit nicely as it is a popular and easily recogniseable theme tune. We also edited a lot of footage which we recorded out as it didn't fit smoothly with what we wanted to include. We needed to make sure no continuety errors occured and that it all made sense to the audience without confusing them and looking unrealistic.