Group Wildernesse woods footage

Group: Audience Research

We used the website 'Survey Monkey' to complete a survey to receive some audience research.

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GROUP: Treatment/Ideas

Treatment

A young character playing a boxer is working his way up through the levels of amateur boxing and soon finds himself one of the most notorious boxers in the country. His dad is his inspirational figure within his life, being a boxer himself. Throughout the boy’s childhood his dad tries to re-live his life through his son, however when the boy reaches the age of 16 the dad’s past criminal life comes back to haunt him and he gets brutally murdered. The young boy doesn’t take the hard hit too well, and finds himself in major depression, however he knows he must fight through and do what his dad wanted for him and continue on boxing, and be the best.

Characters for Opening Sequence

•                Protaganist (main boxer)

•                Trainer

•                Antagonist

•                Father figure

Plot Outline

·      Starts with voice over very little dialogue.

·      Panning up shot of boxer sitting down, hood up.

·      Montage editing of running and training

·      Flash backs to fathers influence of his life.

·      Fast forward giving the audience a slight appetizer of whats to come.

·      POV shots of either hitting speed bag or sparring shot through ring ropes.

·      Blood washing from hands in the sink

·      Bright lights and digetic crowd noise however blurred vision acts as a cliff hanger of what’s to come

Location

Boxing gym

·      Industrial environment

Soundtrack

•                Non-diegetic soundtrack - atmospheric, major key, inspirational, fast paced.

•                Digetic - selective sound of gloves connecting with bags, chants from the crowd, footsteps, cameras.

LF:Costume

http://www.sugarrays.co.uk/shop/adidas-b8-boxing-robe-black.html

This is a great website for selling boxing attire, I really like the simplistic black gown with a hood allowing us to create a mysterious personality of the main protagonist. Furthermore we can use some Sevenoaks amateur boxing short which are black and white, which would go with this particular gown. What do you think?

DRAFT Frame Sizing Group

Within the class group we discussed the frame size of a shot and how important it is when trying to shoot and edit footage. We learnt that if the sizes do not match from the camera with the settings of the editing software it will cause problems when transferring and trying to edit footage.


The normal frame sizes are usually:

720,576...


and 1080, 1900

Another thing we have to take into consideration when filming and editing our footage is the frames per second. This is vital with transferring the shots on to the software we will be editing on, as it is set to a particular setting. The frames per second we will be working at is 25 frames per second, or alternatively 50 frames per second. Also the frame size we are using is 1440, 1080.

JI:Boxing Gym Recce

Great day out today Luca on our recce at the boxing gym. Although we were un able to get any video footage, however we got some really good actions shots on the camera which we can upload shortly. This has given us some great initial ideas for the location and props, and we have now got a great visual idea of how it's going to look, and I feel our idea could look really rich and authentic.

Here are some shots of our the risk assessment and call sheet which he had to fill out before we were able to film.

Wildernesse woods Recce Group

What is the point of a recce?

• The point of the recce is too gaining an insight into a certain location, try to gain some ideas you can use whilst filming and to see if there are any serious risks to consider. It also gave us a good experience of working with the cameras.

What did you learn about the process of filmmaking on the recce?

• We learnt that with certain shots you need to shoot more takes in order to create the effect you are looking for as often there is a human error involved. Furthermore considering natural light and the gradient of the terrain the tripod is standing on can make filming harder, so the positioning of the tripods legs is important.

Did you try out any shots that didn't work?

• We tried to film an action shot of Timo completing pull-ups on a climbing frame in the play ground however the shot did not flow properly and seemed very unrealistic as ideally we would have liked an indoor location.
• The only other problem we faced was keeping the camera still whilst filming, even when the camera was on the tripod often the shot gave a feeling of a handy cam because he camera exaggerates any slight movement.

What ideas were the most successful?

• The tracking shot of Jack running down the path in the woods was the most successful shot we filmed. His committed acting allowed us to gain an authentic shot, furthermore when the camera panned right filming Jack it allowed us to merge it with another shot using continuity editing.
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How did this exercise generate ideas for your opening?
•  The panning up shot of Jack revealing his character slowly gave us the idea of how to generate a characters introduction without revealing to much of their personality and characteristics, creating a feeling of mystery amongst the audience.

• The POV shot running down the hill allowed us to gain a good insight into what our POV shot of either running through an industrial environment would look like or the gloves coming out hitting the speed bag or the heavy bag.


What will you do next in terms of your own locations?
Next we are going to go to Sevenoaks Amateur Boxing gym to have a look weather it would be suitable to film the opening to our film there to give us an idea of shooting through the ring ropes and looking at props we could use.