In The Beginning....

I've done a lot of Media blogs on films and how they have revolutionized cinema and how genius the effect are. So I decided to try something a little different to show the work and genius behind the first piece of filming ever. With limited technology and not have much to work with, I though this would be quite similar to the condition i'll face when doing my media work. (Not having a dig at the media department, the cameras are great and thatt and i know we do have better equipment compared to back then, but its good to see how these people made realist effects from a lack of resources through improvising.) and without this, the film we see today may not of been the same if it wasn't for these early works.

The continuous video above is the first piece of filming to ever exist. Created in 1878 by Eadweard Muybridge, this is a groundbreaking piece of motion photography, the creation of this was actually to answer the question do all the horse's hooves come off the ground (They do.)? Muybridge's motion photography answered the question and kicked off motion photography, leading on to filming, filming lead to movies and movies brought animation. 

Muybridge assembled this filming through placing images of the horse together and playing them over and over again in frames (Like camera frames), to make it look like the horse and human are in motion. The clip on the right is a updated version in 2006 but still uses the same photos by Muybridge. 

Animation has developed so much, why not have a look at my blogs on Aardman And Pixar. 

Vladimir Propp And Tzvetan Todorov

Vladimir Propp was a soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales, that can be recognized in many today's film and TV. Born in 1895 in St. Petersburg Propp published the Morphology Of The Folklore. The Morphology Of The Folklore didn't come over to the west till the fifties and was recognized massively by the media world. His character types are used in media education and can be applied to almost every story in films and TV. Propp managed to break up these fairy tales into sections, identifying key aspects in them, for example a hero or villain is a key character. Most stories have them. Characters are not the only thing recognized by Propp; functions in the story's can be found, for example a rescue (Person kidnapped and needs saving), Departure (Hero leaves where he's from to go off on a adventure) and victory (The villain is defeated.).

Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher who suggested that all narratives follow a structure. This structure is made of 5 parts.

1. Equilibrium- everything starts normal with nothing wrong with the situation. 
2. Disruption- However, something happens to this equilibrium disrupting the balance.
3. Recognition- This disruption has been noticed and taken effect to the everything. 
4. Repair- the problem is fixed, and done in the most highlighted way.
5. New Equilibrium- the problem is fixed but the situation compared to before has changed. 

A Prime Example of Tzvetan Todorov structure is Jaws.

1. Equilibrium- normal small island town that makes money through the holiday season.
2. Disruption- A Shark eats someone.
3. Recognition- the problems recognized as the beaches need to be closed, losing tourist, losing money. 
4. Repair- Three men go out to kill the shark.
5. New Equilibrium- shark killed with the island having the shark's terror gone but sill in the back of their mind. 

Opening Sequence Schedule

Opening sequence schedule:

In order to ensure an organised and stress free project, we decided to create a schedule for the pre-production and production of our opening sequence. Our schedule is shown below.

Location recce

• Sunday 17th November

Our group will visit Spring Electrical and decide on the final location of our opening sequence.

Costume test

• Tuesday 19th November

Our group will decide on what costume our characters would wear.

Opening credits test

• Saturday 23rd November

Our group will edit together a test opening credits font, helping us to establish the font types that we will use.

Lighting tests

• Sunday 24th November

Our group will meet at Spring Electrical on 24th to conduct lighting tests for our project.

Make up tests

• Saturday 30th November

Our group will conduct make up tests onto Joe – as he will be the hitman for our film. This will help us establish exactly how we want the character to look before we start filming.

Voiceover recording

Some time in December before filming, most likely 9th – 13th december

Our group will guarantee to have our voiceover recording completed before filming on the 15th, so we have a clearer vision of what the end product may look like.

Filming

• Sunday 15th December

Our group will start our filming on the 15th of December, and attempt to get all of our film completed before the day is over. This helps us to avoid the busy period of late December.

Editing

• Monday 16th December – hand in date.

We will attempt to have our film edited and completed as soon as possible, meaning we have enough time to make improvements suggested by teacher and others.

Changes

In light of recent critique of our idea for our opening film, we will be changing the character of the 'Hitman' a little. Instead of him being a hitman, he will instead be a henchman; forced into his violent job by the cartel that murdered his family and took him in when he was at a very young age, the same cartel that are after Tom Longley, the drug dealer. He will be just one of the men sent after Tom Longley by the cartel, but he is the one that we will focus on for our opening sequence. This is because a seventeen year old hitman hired for a serious job has been recognized as being very unbelievable, and we want our audience to be feeling tension that is vital to the thriller genre, that they might not feel if the character is completely unbelievable. A henchman character, asked and made to do his job by the cartel is more believable because it is convenient for the cartel and he is not theonly one sent to do the job (which might not be believable because they wouldn't rely 100% on a 17 year old).

This will still be deliberately unclear in our opening sequence. We still want the audience to be left intrigued - wondering who this character is and what he wants so that they would be wanting to watch the rest of the film to find out, but it is always good to have a planned background story for the characters so that we have a better idea of how to mould them when we begin filming and acting.

Lighting Test

We decided to test the lighting in our location before going and filming to give us some idea what lighting we are going to use. The black curtains which block the natural light from outside, will not be present when we start the filming- therefore, we chose to test the lighting in the parts of the shop (and our script) which would realistically remain similarly lit when we actually start filming. The only place we decided might be realistically lit is around the counter/till. 

 

Our opening takes place during the daytime, so we decided it may be best for the lighting in our film to be kept mainly as high key lighting. This leads the opening to look realistic, and the fact that it looks like it took place during day time (it does) may add to the tension of the scene, as it may seem unconventional for an intense and possibly frightening scene to have taken place in a bright setting, much like the"'Heeeeere's Johnny!" scene from "The Shining". 

However, when the hitman approaches the till/counter, we decided it would be best to utilize the top lighting of the shop, from above the till, in order to exaggerate certain features on the hitman's face and make them stand out - which creates a more sinister character conventional to our genre. 

Another thing that we decided to do was to leave off many of the lights that the shop usually has turned on, and instead opt to turn on only the lights that were around 4k kelvin. With the curtains open for our actual film to allow in natural sunlight (which would be around the warmth that the lights we leave on are at), this creates a colder and more intense atmosphere than warmer lighting / lower kelvin would create.

The colder tone of lighting also emphasizes the cold and inhumane nature of the hitman - as it makes him look paler and this leads to him becoming distanced from the audience, insuring that they do not empathize with him.

It also makes the opening sequence seem eery and as if something bad is about to happen. 

Film Classification

In Britain, films are classified in what audience they are suitable for by the BBFC (British Board Of Film Classification.). All films have a classification on level through regulators watching the film and deciding what age you should at least be to watch this film. These levels are U, PG, 12, 12A, 15, 18 and R18. The BBFC has come under controversy of either not taking enough action on films that are "damaging" the minds of the britain and should be banned and other are saying just let anyone watch any films,  its down to the parents responsibility. Through these criticisms the BBFC changes it regulation standards across time to meet the social and cultural change going on in the world today. Established in 1912 the BBFC, monitors the films through certain categories including Sex, Violence, Drugs And Swearing. The BBFC has also has the power to have film cut if they are too bad, For example in my article about Tom Six;  his film Human Centipede II was originally cut by approximately 2 minutes through being so violent. The BBC also has the power to have films banned from being in UK cinemas by refusing the classification of a film.  Many films have not been classified.

• Reservoir Dogs was originally not given a classification. Although it did get into cinemas the film was not given a classification till a few years after. 
• Many films such as the The Good Son, Mikey and Hell Of Living Dead were all banned at first through the James Bulger case. 
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre was not shown in its uncut version till the year 1999 after it was released in 1973.
• Clockwork Orange was also banned at director Stanley Kubricks request. It was taken off the ban list after Stanley Kubricks death in 1999. 
• The Exorcist was allowed in theatrical release uncut, however, Warner Bros didn't want it classified and shown due to it content. Meaning it was unclassified by the BBFC and not classified again till 1999. 
• Today only one film is seen banned by the BBFC out of all the film brought to the UK, normally through being discriminating towards a certain group of people. Many old film originally bad are being re-released as the content might not look as realistic compared today and when originally released, not socially and morally accepted. 

Films are classified into 6 categories, U, PG, 12 and 12A, 15, 18 and R18. All films follow a certain guideline.

• "First, films and video should be allowed to reach a widest audience appropriate for their theme and treatment."

• "Second, adults should be free to choose what they see, provided it remains within the law and is not potentially harmful."

All films get a classification that will feature along all film advertising, DVDs and associates with the film, to make the target audience clear. 

Opening Sequence of film. (Prezi)

Parental Guide & Target Audience

The target audience for our production is over 18 year olds. The film product should be at this age and for the audience as the film contains scenes of fatal shooting, intense scenes which could frighten younger audiences. According to the BFI an 18 is; "Passed only for persons of eighteen years and over. No person apparently under the age of 18 years shall be admitted to any exhibition at which there is to be shown any film which has received a '18' certificate from the British Board of Film Classification." film's age rating and target audience is decided in these categories:

Sex and Nudity.

• None

Violence and Gore: 

• The opening scene contains two people being shot. Both are off screen but you can still hear the gun shot. Two innocent people are killed, through the hitman.

• The whole film is based around a drug dealer escaping a hitman, meaning its life or death situations. 

Profanity:

• The opening sequence contains no swearing.

• The rest of the film does contain some swearing and the use of God's name. 

Alcohol/ Drugs/Smoking:

• The films main character is a past drug dealer so the film includes references to drug dealing, drug taking, drug addictions and how drugs has ruined the lives of many. Including how drugs has ruined the main character life. 

Frightening/Intense Scenes:

• The opening scene sees a someone held at gunpoint forced to speak with a gun at them, this could be seen as frightening and intense to some viewers. 

• The film is about a cat and mouse chase that includes life or death sequences that could be frightening and intense to some.  

Location Recce: Lighting Shop

Location Recces:

Lighting Shop: The hitman is trying to find the target by go searching around places where the target goes to lives and gets his shopping. A lighting shop could be a place nearby which the target has gone in before. All the lights in shop can be used to our advantage as some can be on and some can be off. Certain colored lights for example red can be on the characters face to present some sort of emotion like anger. The shop has a trolley which can be used for steady camera work. The  black curtains will be removed but the way the shop is presented will make more realism to the audience believing this is an actual shop. 

The counter will be where the hitman and shop assistant will talk and lead to the shot fired. The counter is long and big meaning lots of space for camera shots including long shots. The shelf in the middle can also be used for the camera to go through a space between the shelf. All the lights on the ceiling could be used to our advantage for lighting. The left of the picture is the entrance to another room, a bright light can be used for when the hitman walk out of that room to make a powerful shadow. Making the audience feel like the character is filling the room, through his presence.

The room to the right of the shop has many lights facing the way out. The hitman will walk out of this part of the shop. this room can very bright in the scene but have the brightness turned down during editing.

The till for customers to pay has all the props to make the shop look like a shop, cash register, screens and bags.

Motifs of Titanic (Prezi)

Film Composer: John Williams (Prezi)

New Script (Originally from Joe Panton)

(Underlined parts I've changed)

Script – 

• Camera
• Stage directions

Premise: A drug dealer who had built his business to be worth millions tries to escape his past and lead a normal life whilst an ambitious professional hitman is hired onto his tail and a cat and mouse chase across England ensues.

The time and date appears, the whole film's story is told at different times, 

Spring electrical (an electrical wholesaler/ lighting-shop) – Mid-afternoon

It’s mid-afternoon about 4:00pm with heavy rain outside, inside the ironically-bleakly-lit-room of a lighting-shop. The lighting shop is situated next to a bustling bypass road/ dual carriageway, allowing for new customers and visitors at any time, each visitor has a story of where they've come from and where they're going. The shop starts nearly empty, with the exception of the much organised and very experienced sales assistant/ cashier behind the till who, at the time, is having a conversation with her also present mother, and a a young man with sunglasses and a black tie suit on examining the products in the display room, which isn't visible for the entirety of the film.

[Camera starts with a shot of the window on the right side of the door, from the right side of display shelves, showing the grim and rainy sky and the busy bypass road, slowly the camera starts to move backwards through the shop as a dolly shot from a one point perspective] 

Voiceover of man: If you look at me – in all my riches, and you told me that what you saw was an innocent man who got lucky, I’m not proud - but you’d be wrong. 

(Background conversation)

Sales assistant: - Oh! Mum, do you not want a bag? 

Customer/mother: Oh no thank you love, that’s fine, I’m rushing home to escape the rain, are you all coming for lunch on Sunday? 

Sales assistant: It doesn’t look as if it’s about to get any brighter does it! Yeah, yeah we should be there about 2-ish? Thanks mum, see you. 

Customer/mother: See you soon, love.

(Customer takes product and walks down the right aisle and out of the shop, walking past the camera)

 [Camera has made it across the right aisle and to the end of the shelves, and dollies over to the left side of the shelves, facing across the left aisle to the window now to the left side of the door, in a one point perspective shot again]

 Voiceover of man: All that I built is now crumbling, and I turn away without looking back. 

(Hitman walks into the main area from the display room and kneels onto the floor to examine products enthusiastically)

Voiceover of man: But others can’t… and they won’t. 

Sales assistant: (Shifting her attention to young man leant down) Can I help you sir? 

Hitman: [the camera switches to behind mysterious suited man shoulder, showing the sales assistant for the first time] (He turns to assistant and nods his head) actually you can! (Gets up and starts walking slowly towards counter) Bit of a weird thing to ask actually but (smiles sisterly and lays hand onto till, [a medium two shot taken from one side of the till, showing the pair on the opposite sides] could you just tell me what you know about this man. (Throws photograph onto till, picture looks torn and beaten up )

Shop assistant: (Looks down, shaking her head, gulping) I’m sorry but I don’t think I can give out that information, why?

Mysterious mans facial expression changes to anger.

Hitman: (Pulls gun from waistband – back of jeans - raises gun level to her head) [Music starts]

Shop assistant: Oh… I don’t... h- he came in earlier – this morning. H-he knows our boss - my boss, his name – I think the name is Tom Longley, please don’t – 

Hitman: (Puts photograph back into pocket and lowers gun to the base of the till) Where can I find your boss?

Shop assistant: (Eyes shut just wanting the experience to be over) He lives in Ashtead… Overdale… please don-

Hitman: And his name? 

Shop assistant: … 

Hitman: (Raises gun again) 

Shop assistant: It’s Brian Greene! OK!!! Please just leave!!!

[Screen turns to black promptly and a second later a gunshot is heard, followed by a stumbling onto the floor, before jumping to a medium shot of the teenager, taken from behind the till, with the hitman obscuring the view of a 4^th character who witnessed the act in the background]

Hitman: (Lowers gun and sighs deeply before slowly turning around, we see the other customer standing limply in shock, and the hitman raises his gun once more) [The screen blackens before the title of film fades in the color of blood red]

Opening Sequence: Jaws

Jaws is a 1975 horror film about a shark terrorizing a small island community. Directed by Steven Spielberg the film, this is one of my favorite films and is loved around the world. The opening sequence shows the sharks first attack.


Mise-en-scene:

The scene starts with two teenager running along a broken fence, showing the area is remote and not many people care about the area now. The teenager are possibly far from civilization as this area could be seen as forgotten. One of the teenagers is drunk and is shown stumbling along trying to chase the girl. Showing he's drunk connotes to the audience he isn't that much of a use. Especially when the girl is being attacked by the shark the teenage boy lies slowly passing out, meaning no help is coming as help is laying on the beach drunk. When the girl swims out to sea, a buoy can be seen, this can give the quick impression of a shark fin. Although its not this could build up tension, especially with the audience knowing that this film is about a shark attacking people.

Camera: 

A point of view shot is used when the women is in the water. With the Point of view of the shark, the camera starts very deep in the water, showing how isolated the women is and how far away from the shore she is. When the women stop swimming a close up of here above the water with coast in the background gives a clear understanding to the audience of how far the girl is from the shore. As the women is being attacked the camera goes back and forth to the boy on the beach passed out and the girl being attacked by the shark, connoting no help is coming, the only person who knows where she is, is passed out.

Sound:

A diagetic sound can only be heard all the way through the scene until the shark attacks. Before then only the waves crashing against the beach, footsteps and voices of the actors can be heard. Using diagetic sounds this whole time shows isolation and remoteness, as what is heard is only from the actor or the surroundings, not from other people for example cars going past. Connoting that only the boy and the girl are around. Non- Diagetic sound of the Jaws theme tune is used when the shark come into the scene. A famous track by John Williams this soundtrack is only heard when the shark is present. This soundtrack creates huge tension to the audience as the music gets louder and faster. When the women is eventually dragged under completely by the shark the music stops immediately, connoting the shark is gone and so too the women. The loss of sound could also be to connote the fact when you go underwater you don't hear much if not anything.

Editing: 

The women is seen skinny dipping, editing has been done to avoid any nudity being shown throughout the attack. The attack is synced in time with the music, making the attack look more realistic.

Film Production Company: Aardman

Full name Aardman Animation Studios LTD or just Aardman is a animation studio that specifies in stop motion and clay animation. Based in Bristol, Aardman is behind characters Wallace And Gromit, TV series Creature Comforts and film Chicken Run. Since founded in 1972 Aardman has released 5 films, 12 television shows, 47 animation shorts and many commercials. Aardman has entered into the computer animation market too with films such as Flushed Away. 

Stop motion is an animation technique where physical objects are made to look like they move through taking photos of them whilst moving the object in small motions. The photos are then put together in a continuous sequence. The video on the right shows how stop motion can be used through making a short film using the stop motion with lego. This process can take a long time and require a lot of patients as every single action wanted (i.e. walking, facial expression) by the director has to be handmade and then slowly moved after each photo has been taken. For example Nick Park (creator of Wallace And Gromit) said it the filming rate was about 30 frames per day when doing Wallace And Gromit. This is the reason such lengthy gaps between Wallace And Gromit episodes.

Clay animation is a form of the stop motion animation. However instead of using physical objects like lego as characters or backgrounds. Instead a plasticine clay is used to mould and create unique characters. Clay is also very good for the movements required in stop motion. Each object or character is sculpted from clay and using a exoskeleton of wire to keep the clay upright. Wallace And Gromit (right) are made of this clay. Aardman use this clay for all of its productions stop motion productions.  

Aardman was founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972, making tv series for deaf children with the BBC. This helped create morph, a simple clay character. Aardman then went on to make music videos for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer and other artists. Aardman then went on to work with more animators. Nick Park joined Aardman through all the projects Aardman was getting and eventually Wallace and Gromit were created, as Park had slowly been working on the pairs first adventure "A Grand Day Out" before joining Aardman. Aardman helped finish the long stop motion process with him. The pair were a hit and sparked three more adventures. Park also got released another project of his, Creature Comforts, winning an Oscar. The Wallace and Gromit films also won Academy Awards.

In 1997, Aardman teamed up with Dreamworks creating its first movie, "Chicken Run". The deal between the two companies lasted for ten years. In that time Aardman and Dreamworks made Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. Using the stop motion animation its known for. However Aardman made Flushed Away, unconventional to the stop motion they were known for. Flushed Away uses a lot of water, too difficult to be clay made and real water could easily damage the clay models. So the film was computer animated, still with the same design as the the clay figures. The films complications led to a split between Aardman and dreamworks. Today Aardman still makes small stop motion films for adverts and campaigns. A fire destroyed many props, character and awards the company received, slowing progress on the company. However the creations Aardman has created will live long in the memory for people around the globe. 

Opening Sequence: Back To The Future

Back To The Future is a science fiction film about Marty McFly a teenager accidentally sent back in time through a time-travelling Delorean created by his friend Dr Emmett Brown. Made in 1985, by Robert Zemeckis, this film is world famous for its iconic car, characters and scenes. The opening sequence is set at Dr Emmett Brown's home, where Marty is looking for him, but he's not there.

Mise-en-scene:

The film starts with loads of clocks, all ticking and at the same time, showing the film immediately focuses on time. And whoever owns all these clocks has spent a lot of time getting all these clock to the exact same time and has a real interest with time. As the scene progresses a newspaper article is shown with the headline, "BROWN MANSION DESTROYED" creating a enigma to the audience of what destroyed the mansion", a mansion is a big building so if something destroyed it, then it must be very dangerous to cause such huge damage. Straight after the newspaper, the audience are shown two picture of famous scientists, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. Showing that the person who lives at the house loves science and admires the work of these three people. The whole room is messy, showing the person who lives here possible doesn't like cleaning, However you cannot say he's dis-organised as the scene shows a chain of items like a domino effect come into life, making the radio, tv and kitchen appliances come one.
The TV turning on creates an enigma of what could have stolen the plutonium, this is later answered in the film, but the director creates sub- plots in the film. If people don't know what plutonium is, the news connotes the idea as dangerous with the radiation logo.
The dog food machine, connotes the owner has a dog, but also shows both the dog and the owner are missing with the large disused quantity of dog food on the floor. Creating a enigma of where have they gone. The entrance of the main character is shown of just his legs and feet. Jeans, trainers and a skateboard show the boy is a typical teenage boy of the time. When he puts the key back under the doormat, connotes the boy knows the place well as he knows where the spare key is kept and he knows the owner. The plutonium enigma is soon answered when its revealed under the bed, showing the plutonium is being hidden and is a secret and that even the boy who has just entered does not know about it when his skateboard hits it. The many switches is being hit at the end of the scene question audiences of what's gonna happen, certain knob and diles and shown going to the max create the impression that something big is about to happen.

Camera:

The whole opening sequence is done in one shot, almost like a point of view shot of the audience looking around trying find out who lives here and searching for clue, little shots of photos, newspaper articles and the state of the place give ideas to the audiences into a character profile of what the guy who lives here is like through his home. The one shot does stop once the teenager starts pressing and turning switches, giving a point of view shot of the boy seeing what he's doing.

Sound:

A diegetic sound can be heard throughout the whole scene, of a ticking clock. a sound that can come quite a annoyance after a while, especially with all the clocks in the scene to the audience. The ticking could be used to portray the idea of time which this whole movie is based on and maybe the person who lives in this home, works around this all the time, showing he has a real interest in time. Another diegetic sound is through all the dials and knobs being pushed on the amp, creating a weird low pitch, tension can be created of what's gonna happen. The sequence could be made to look like a science experiment but instead anti-climaxes to wiring up a guitar. No non-diegetic sounds can be heard making the idea that the doctor lives in isolated area and that nothing but the ticking goes through the owner head. The director might want to get this into the audience too .

Editing:

The ticking of the clocks doesn't starts when the actual scene starts, instead the tocking begins when the opening credits begin. Enforcing this idea of the film being about time. The credits during the scene are in plain white font with a black shadow connoting the idea of two opposite colours similar to two opposites minds a teenage boy and a scientist.

Film Title Creator: Saul Bass

Saul Bass is an graphic designer who creates film title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. Born  in New York City, Saul Bass has worked with some famous movie names including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese in his 40 year film career. Many famous films Saul Bass has worked on include North By North West, Psycho and Goodfellas. Famous movie sequences have come from him and are remembered for its originality.

Opening Sequences:

Saul Bass has been the man behind many film sequences recognized in the film world. The Man With The Golden Arm is a a 1955 drama which Saul Bass did the title sequence for. The title sequence connotes many of the films subjects, the choice of an arm represents the controversial heroin sequence in the film. The film's opening sequence includes animation of a cut out arm of a person addicted to heroin in paper form, to connote a sensation to the audience. North By North West, Vertigo and Psycho are Alfred Hitchcock films which Saul Bass did the title sequences and are widely praised for its new animation method of kinetic typography. Kinetic Typography is a animation technique which creates moving words. First used by Saul Bass this innovating method recognized Saul Bass as a great to Film Title Sequences. Psycho's film opening sequencing (Above) is remember in particular through it being in sync with the music. His title sequences are still payed homage today by films out today including Catch Me If You Can and X-Men: First Class.

Movie Posters:

Film advertising changed through Saul Bass' designs. Before The Man With The Golden Arm, film posters where just images of key scenes and characters in the film its advertising for. Alternatively Saul Bass changes this conventional concept to a more symbolic design. Similar to the opening sequence, Saul Bass portrayals the arms of a heroine addict, to show the main character heroin issue.




Vertigo was also designed by Saul Bass the unconventional figures are sucked into this hole, portraying how the characters are sucked into the film plot.


After Saul Bass' death in 1996, he was regarded as one of the greatest, if not these greatest graphic designer. His work won him academy awards and will stay in Hollywood history for many many years.

Script: Opening Sequence

Midday, overcast could rain any second but hasn't yet. Alley way between shops on a English high street, midweek so not packed full of shoppers, enough to create attention. 

Two men, one a rookie [J] a young man, who has never been done robbery before constantly checking he has all equipment speaking very fast through the nerves, has a blank face almost like he dose not know where is. Today is his first bank job. The other [M] slightly older has more experience,waiting lent back against a wall, watching J as if he was an amateur. Speaks slow and wise and thinks before he speaks. Both men waiting for the clearance to enter the bank around the side. 

Both put masks on, J has a small superhero mask whilst [M} has a balaclava. The scene starts in Black with M saying the first line. Letters used as names to hide identity. 

[Scene starts with a black screen.]

M: Masks on.

J: You Sure.

M: Now.

[Scene opens with a close up, with both men wearing masks. M looks at J unimpressed by J mask choice.]  

J: So.... You've done this a lot...right?

M: Yes, but its your day rookie, show me what your worth. 

J: Just remember its my first time. 

M: [Holds ear, like an ear piece is inside]......understood.... move out.

[ J goes out of shot first, camera stays on M who waits, scream heard as M rushes out notices Bank is fine to turn around to see J in the wrong building (light shop), M rushes in to J]

Two people taken as hostages, lie on the ground, nervous as across the room lays a body]

M: What have you done? 

J: I don't know, I was confused.

M: Confused over the difference between a bank and a light shop. 

J: I'm sorry Matt.

M: Don't say my name you twit, i'll get sent down.

J: ergh...don't they'res loads of Matt's in the world, at least they don't know your surnames Bender.[Hostages laugh] 

M: You idiot you've just given my identity away...and...and what    the hell is that all about. [Looks are body]

J: Sorry Matt, he was gonna call the police. 

M: The gun was to be used only as a deterrent.

J: What about the police? And A guns for are made to shoot.

M: God sake.. The Police, they would eventually come anyway, you had a gun, didn't you threaten him by pointing the gun at them to make him stop. 

J: No

M: Why?!?!

J: He was gonna call the police.

M: ergh..... we might still have time to get to the bank. 

[Camera looks at M through a window, Blue light flashes at his face, represents a siren.]

M: oh shi......

[Cuts to title] 

  

Films I Hate

My blog has talked about some of my favourite films (Article), alternatively this blog will be about the films I hate. Films made up of bad acting, unrealistic special effects and disastrous plots. I have two films that I see as awful in all aspects, Jaws: The Revenge and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2.

Jaws: The Revenge is a 1987 fourth installment in the Jaws franchise. Starring Lorraine Gary and legendary British actor Michael Caine, in my opinion this is one of the worst film I have ever watched. The first film Jaws bends the rules of a Sharks nature for example a Shark is not a man eater but confuses human with its main food source seal. However in Jaws: The Revenge the film does not take into account any factual information of the shark. For example the Shark is seen roaring at the end of the film and the whole film is based on the Shark following the widow of Chief Brody (Chief Brody is the main character in first two Jaws films.) from Amity Island to the Bahamas which is roughly going along the whole east coast of America and across the Gulf Of Mexico, no animal could track someone or even have the feeling to track someone down. This unconventional idea ruins any realism people get with the Shark as it shouldn't be there. Factual mistakes like this make this ruin the realism of the Shark which is one of the most important aspects of the important aspects of the film as the Shark doesn't look real in the first place through it being mechanical and made of rubber. The finale of the film is very confusing, the film doesn't give no clear meaning into how the shark dies, according to Wikipedia the Shark blows up, but the director does not make this clear to the audience through have the action fast paced cutting between different shots making it so difficult to understand what's going. Jaws: The Revenge will remain in my view one of the worst films ever, the main reason I hate it however is how it used one my favorite film (Jaws), in a franchise that collapsed with unconventional story lines to create attention and use the greatness of the first film to get as much money as possible.



The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is similar to Jaws: The Revenge as its the last film in its franchise. Released in 2012 I had to go and see this film as a suppose "Treat" for GCSE work. However this film was shocking. The films plot continues of the birth of a baby between the two main character that see's a false allegation on the baby. This connotes that the all the action, suspense and actually the entire movie is not needed as a simple explanation is needed to explain why the allegation is not true. Obviously this never happens, so the film drags out a storyline that is not needed. I know this film isn't suited for me but I was just shocked on how poorly made this film was. Acting by Kristen Stewart was heavily joked before I watched this film, in particular the lack of facial expression and just a muted body language, I thought this was just a Joke that appears in one scene and not every scene like the jokes persist, however I couldn't believe how true this joke was Kristen Stewart shows off such poor acting through being unable to change hardly any facial expression to show what the character feels. The CGI is very unrealistic in a scene where the lead girl is running through the forest, the special effects are something you would find in a B-movie, some stages to me looked like a cartoon. This film franchise which grew such a high fan base, grossed millions and sent the actors fame skyrocketing, surprised so such on how poorly made this film is. I was expecting it to be bad when I saw it as its a teenage girl film but I was shocked in just how this film was and questioned how it got all this fame when it was just made bad.