Criteria 4 and 5

My film intro

Prelimenary task

Textual analysis

Textual analysis – Train spotting


During the first two minutes of Trainspotting’s intro we can see many key textual analysis points. For example, we can see that there are many interesting shots that are used straight away that help the audience see what kind of characters are in the film. This can be seen with a shot of the characters as they run away dropping things as they go along, this suggests they are running away from someone and that they don’t care about the items they lose. This I think shows the representation of the characters as they are in some sort of trouble and just want to escape. These shots also show a sense of adrenaline running through the characters at this point which I think makes the audience feel this way as well This combined with the use of a tracking shot helps to enhance the shot showing the speed at which the characters are running. This shows the audience their desperation to get away but the fact that they are laughing as they do this could suggest that they are hyped up on drugs at this point. Other shots help with this in the intro for example when the main character who is narrating this scene jumps down some stairs which is shot in a looking up shot to make the jump look as if it is from much higher up. The following shot is then a tracking shot of him as he continues to run away but it has a slight handheld feel to it which again link back to the point I made about the adrenaline. A connotation of the hand held movement could be the characters unstable health.

The whole film is about a group abusing heroin and we see the full effects of this during the film. We can see the kind of people these characters are straight away in the film as they run away. This suggests that they have stolen items from a shop to then sell so they can feed their habit. This is why think, during the intro, the director chooses to use fast hand held shots with loud Diegetic music to show the rush that the characters are on due to the abuse of heroin. I think that this is made louder to show just how hyped up the characters are as they will be more alert, jumpy and paranoid.

The music in the intro helps with the points made above but also shows the audience that the director has chosen to aim his film at, young people of a similar age to the characters of the film. The reason that this thought comes to mind is at the time of the film’s release, the song that is playing would have been released around the same time and this would help to attract the audience that the music is aimed at.

During the intro we can work out what kind of people the characters are from the mise en scene, and the easiest one is the costumes. During the clip we see the main group of friends in the film playing a small football match. During this match they are playing a serious team as we can tell from the matching kit whilst they are playing in the casual clothes. This helps show the representation of the characters as it shows they don’t care and just want to play for a laugh. Whilst the game goes on we see a lot of cheating from the main characters team, this could once again show that they don’t care about the result. This could reflect back on the characters status. This could show that they can get a high from playing football as well as taking drugs, so maybe they play this game when they are not busy getting high, to get a good feeling.

In conclusion I can see that the films intro has many aspects of its genre, Social Realism.

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Criteria 3

Criteria 3 - What kind of Media institution would distribute my Product and why.

My media product is a two minute film intro to a social realism film. During this film I have tried to show as many aspects that are commonly found in these types of films. For example my film is about an 18 year old boy who starts taking drugs and steals from a local drug dealer. The drug dealer then goes after him to get his money that he is owed. As this film is a social realism I decided to look at a distribution company that has done films like mine in the past. I found that Polygram filmed entertainment have distributed social realism films in the past such as ‘Trainspotting’ which is a film that is also about drug abuse. I chose this distributor over others as it is a European distributor which is good as these films are getting bigger in the European audience.  This is the audience that I would like to aim my film at so this is why I would prefer a company like this to distribute my film.

Criteria 7

What have I learnt in the progression from my preliminary task to my full film Intro.

From re-watching my preliminary task I can see that there is a huge difference from my full film Inrto.  For example even the way that I have filmed has changed, in my preliminary I shot all of each character’s shot’s at once which I found confusing when it came to using avid express pro to edit the clip. So when I shot my full film intro I shot each scene in order of appearance so that it was less confusing when editing as well as using it as a sort of time line so I could see my progress. 

Criteria 6

Shooting Shedule

LBC Media
“MDRSD”
SHOOTING SCHEDULE

PRODUCER: Will Sinclair FILM SHOOTS –1 DAY
DIRECTOR: Will Sinclair TUESDAY, FEB 15, 2011
PRODUCTION MANAGER: N/A
1ST ASST. DIRECTOR: N/A


DATE SET/SCENES CAST LOCATION

55 Boundary road
Wallington
Surrey
SM6 0SZ

1ST DAY
15/02/1 George walks around the George Sinclair
house looking for intruders PROPS
Knife


MAKE-UP
N/A
NOTES: N/A









END OF DAY 1

Film Interview Podcast

What have I learnt in the progression from my preliminary task to my full film Intro.

From re-watching my preliminary task I can see that there is a huge difference from my full film Inrto.  For example even the way that I have filmed has changed, in my preliminary I shot all of each character’s shot’s at once which I found confusing when it came to using avid express pro to edit the clip. So when I shot my full film intro I shot each scene in order of appearance so that it was less confusing when editing as well as using it as a sort of time line so I could see my progress. 

Representation Prezi

Target Audience research

Criteria 1

criteria 2

Full film Synopsis Draft 2

My film Summary.

A young man, James (18) lives in a typical suburban home with his working parents.  He owes some drug dealers money. He wanted a change in his life so he gets into drugs and becomes addicted to Cannabis. He is eating dinner with his parents one night and his Dad asks him about how he is getting on at school and what grades he is getting. He then snaps at his Dad and storms out as he is clearly not doing as well as he should be.  He is a very active person and plays Rugby. As he gets even more addicted to Cannabis he starts missing his practice and his coach gets very worried about him as he is usually very dedicated to the sport. He then tells James’ parents about this and they find out that he is taking Cannabis.  Through the stress of his parents finding out he then wants more to make everything better so he tries to scrape money together to feed his habit. After he gets enough money he then visits his local drug dealer who refuses to sell the amount he has, so James steals it from him. The drug dealers then are after him as they want to kill him for stealing from them. They eventually find James and they fight him. James is on the brink of death when a passer by see’s him being assaulted and phones the police. Both the drug dealers and James end up in Court. The dealers end up with a prison sentence and James gets rehab. James then spends 7 months in rehab and eventually gets over his addiction.

2nd Script draft

Loc	Video	Audio
Suburban area Inside a suburban house at night. Bedroom Landing Stairs Front room Hall way Back room Bed room	A large semi-detached house at night. The stairs in the house. The reaction of James as he wakes up. A typical teenage Bedroom, messy posters on the wall etc. James getting out of his bed James gets out bed and of his room with his cricket bat. A close up shot of his feet as he walks down the stairs. The door opening from the inside as he walks in. We see him looking into the room. See him walk out of the front room into the back A big pile of books, files paper etc. And the cat right next to it , we then see a close up shot of his relief to find it was the cat that made the loud noise. Him climbing back into bed to go back to sleep.(wideshot)	The wind blowing, the sound of a car engine. Silence. A loud crash, then the gasp of James as he wakes up. Silence as he is cautious. The creek of the opening door. His footprints Cat meows He laughs. Sighing as he relaxes to go back to sleep.

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