final version of Geisel film opening

Giesel draft opening

possible props that i will use in my film

this might be used by the robber who is being chased by the undercover police officer

this might be used by the criminal kidnapper

this might be worn by the criminal kidnapper to hide their identity

this might be used by the undercover police officer

names for the characters in the film

Rhys = John Castelbury

Damon = Danny Hudson

Joe = Jason Fleymin

decision on film title

i have decided to go with Geisel, this is because the meaning of it fits in with what the storyline is all about in the film and it sounds catchy. because of these reasons i have decided to us Geisel as my film title.

a look into film text media

Text Examples

title ideas for film

• Back with a vengeance
• Betrayal
• The missing
• The inspector
• Geisel
• Taken
• Genommen

These are just a few of many ideas for a name of my film, I have looked at some of the names in different languages e.g. Geisel is German for hostage. Some of these named titles may not work once I have applied them with the opening scene so I will be making my title a working progress, I will test all of the different possibilities for the title and I will also test them.

ident / logo research

here are some existing examples of film production logo's

possible clothing for the actors

I have thought about the costumes that will be used in my film opening scene and I have decided to fit them in with the urban surrounding and also the different styles of clothing that people wear now a days. I have been looking on the internet and in stores for some ideas of clothing that can be worn by my actors and I have decided on a black coat with a black jumper and a blue t-shirt, with dark denim jeans and black shoes for the actor that is chasing and for the actor that is running away I have decided to use a black hoodie with a white football t-shirt and a dark pair of denim jeans and the shoes will be white.

Example of clothing for the chaser:

Example of clothing for the runner:

decision on characters for my film opening

i have decided to use Damon Coates as the undercover police officer, Rhys Withers will be the bank robber and Joe Greenhill will be the criminal kidnapper that holds the police officer as a prisoner

a look into possible characters

1. This is Rhys Withers I have considered to use Rhys as a character in my film opening scene, this is because I think he will best suit the role of the robber… I will then base all of the costumes and the clothes around the character in the film to make Rhys suit the role even better.

2. This is Damon Coates I have considered to use Damon as a character in my opening scene, this is because I think he will best suit the role of the undercover police officer… I will then base all of the costumes and the clothes around the character in the film to make Damon suit the role even better.

3. This is Nick Emmerson I have considered to use Nick as a character in my opening scene, this is because I think he will best suit the role of the undercover police officer… I will then base all of the costumes and the clothes around the character in the film to make Nick suit the role even better.

4. This is Joe Greenhill I have considered to use Joe as a character in my opening scene, this is because I think he will best suit the role of a criminal that kidnaps the undercover police officer… I will then base all of the costumes and the clothes around the character in the film to make Joe suit the role even better.

5. This is myself I have considered to use me as a character in my film opening scene, this is because I think I will best suit the role of the robber… I will then base all of the costumes and the clothes around the character in the film to make me suit the role even better.

6. This is Tom King I have considered to use Tom as a character in my opening scene, this is because I think he will best suit the role of the undercover police officer… I will then base all of the costumes and the clothes around the character in the film to make Tom suit the role even better.

location decision

for the location of my film opening sequence i have decided to go with Croft and have the chase around Bala Road, this is because it is a built up side street area and I will have no problems getting there also the actors will have no problems getting there.

storyboard

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Location pictures in Lutterworth.

Location Ideas In Lutterworth

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age rating for my film

the film that i am creating will be a 12a, this is because there will be some, but not much strong language such as f*** and the guidelines that are used by the companies that decided the age rating follows this method for the age rating, if there is frequent strong language in the film then the age rating will either be 15 or 18 depending on the type of words used. but my film opening has little strong language in so it will be a 12a

location idea (Croft)

Location Pictures 1

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Rush Hour chase.

Rush Hour chase scene

I have looked at the film ‘Rush Hour’ as a chasing scene because it has an enigma code in it, this is because the baddy gets away, but he leaves a vital piece of evidence behind after the chase. This film stars two very well known actors called Jackie Chan (playing inspector Lee) and Chris Tucker (playing Carter). This chase starts off with Lee looking back and he then spots Juntao (the baddy), Lee then chases Juntao and then Carter follows, the next shot is of Juntao running down an alley way followed by Lee, then Juntao climbs a ladder and pulls it up and Lee then jumps off of a wall and then climbs the ladder and then pushes it down for Carter, the next shot then turns into a fight in an old deserted building, then when Carter comes through the door Juntao runs away and Lee follows with Carter behind, the next clip is of Juntao running on a scaffolding bridge and he then throws an axe, then Juntao runs across a damaged bridge and stumbles and this makes him drop an object, then Lee and Carter go on the bridge and fall through it, finally Juntao gets in a car and Carter opens fire, shooting the car. I may decide to use some of the ideas that have been made in this chase clip from Rush Hour in my opening scene of my film.

pitch feedback

Whilst I was presenting my pitch to the class they were noting down what they thought of my idea for the film opening that I will be producing, they would be noting down things like what genre they think it is, who the target audience is and what age they will be, whether they like / dislike the story line of my idea, whether they like/ dislike my ideas for the locations to film at, they will also note down what they like and they will then be finishing that off with suggesting any potential problems and solutions to them.

Target audience

In my pitch I mentioned about the age of what I think would be the target audience and the class members seemed to agree with what I have fort it would be, then the class made notes on what gender would be best suited for my idea and the majority of the answers was teenage boys. This meant that the target audience was easily visible to the class and this was a good sign as it will be easy to spot what audience will best suite my film genre and story.

Results from the storyline

The results that I got back from the storyline of my film idea was mainly positive, but there were a few students that thought it wasn’t a very good story to use and one of the points that were made against my story board was that it seemed a bit bland for an action thriller and that I would need to make is sound more exiting.

Results from the location ideas

Almost all of the students in the class said that the location I have chosen is not suited for the genre of my film opening scene and the comments that I received were all saying that I could find a better location to film it at, an example of a better location was in a more urban surrounding e.g. down a street.

Suggestions on improvements

I have looked at all of the results from presenting my pitch and I have found out that there are some helpful suggestions that I may consider to use with my film and they are: to find a better location that suites the genre of my film (an example was to find an urban street), to find a well suited song for the chase (an example was to use a rock genre of song), to improve the story of the opening (an example was to show that the hostage is having a flashback). I will take all of the points that have been made with my pitch and I will consider using some of the points that have been made.

25 word pitch

Pitch For Media Studies...

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decision on the storyboard for my film

after viewing all of the different genres that are in films i have also made a decision on what i want the storyline to be like and this is to be similar to the hot fuzz film and irobot film as they both involve police officers and they both involve chasing and they are of a similar genre....

so i will start looking into chase scenes from films