Action plan

Action plan

What will be done, and by whom it will be done by?

 The roles of people we have in our group are; Rudi as the camera man 2 and director, James as camera man 1, Lee as the main actor, and Danny as the editor and actor. Originally there was going to be a script but now we decided not to have one.

When will it be done?

 We have 3 weeks to complete our task in which we have to do our production and editing. On Saturday the 3^rd of December we will be finishing our 1st draft of the film. Then gain feedback to develop our film.

What specific resources are available for our film production?

Tasks we have done:

• Script/Dialogues- No Script. It's a silent film, the dialogues is conveyed through pure facial emotions.

• Plot Outline- Helped out via group discussion (Rudi Sampat/James Rose/Danny O'Neill/Lee Arnold).
• Selected Movie influences annotations/screen shots- Completed by Rudi Sampat.
• Location Shots- Completed by Rudi Sampat.
• Focus Group Feedback on influential films- Completed by Danny O'Neill and Lee Arnold. 
• Pitch for Potential film- Completed by Danny O'Neill/Lee Arnold/Rudi Sampat/James Rose.
• Storyboard Photographs - Complete by Rudi Sampat
• Location Permission- No permission needed, filmed at Rudi Sampat's Garage.
• Parental Consent- No children needed in the film, only people within our group.
• Equipment/Props-Hand Wraps, Two cameras, Lamp lights, Treadmill (Use to pan a scene).
• Risk assessment- Complete by Lee Arnold

Influential sets and mise-en-scene

Planning for Million Dollar Punch 

We will film 'Million Dollar Punch' in Rudi's Garage as it is dark, similar to where most fighting films are set in. In our research we found the likely place where illegal boxing would take place is a warehouse, the garage is the closet setting we can get to this.

 One idea we have is to spray water onto both Lee and Danny as they are the fighters, this will look like sweat and make the fight seem that bit more realistic.

 Another way we plan to add realism is to have red food colouring on the fighters, this will hopefully look like blood and show the fight to be tough and violent, like a real illegal fight.

The garage will be very dark but we are going to use lamps and adjust them till they only shine light onto the fighters, we think this will give a very good effect.

 When researching into illegal fighting I found a very good source, which is a Video game called 'MMA Supremacy' this focuses entirely around illegal fighting and puts gamers in control of an underground fighter who is trying to achieve fame, very similar to our plot for 'Million Dollar Punch'. These are some images that I have looked at of 'MMA Supremacy'These have given me a better idea of how our setting and fight can look like:

Rocky III/IV/V 2 minute analysis

ROCKY III:
- Shows studio company logo at very start of movie (United Artists).
- Second company logo shown at start (MGM productions), during which soft music starts to play.
- Fades into directors name 'sylvester Stallone' / who produced it'Robert Chartoff
Irwin Winkler'
- Voice over is conveyed and states "It's blind instinct.
          But now it is Creed coming back with the left hand!
          What's keeping these two guys up? A tremendous closing moment!
          Here comes Balboa back, but the champion's back with another left". during the name of director.
- Crowd noise is inserted to set the mood.
- Prop shown of champioship belt, to show the superiority of the fighter.
- Theme music starts when name of movie enters from the start.
- Music gets more intense.
- Font of title is simple, but big and bold.
- Fades into previous movie of fight.
- Shows fighting straight away.
- Scars and bruises shown, from long distance shot.
- Second shot is from a worms eye view + Low angle shot and shows man falling to the ground.
- Women screams to show shock.
- Referee counts down to suggest rush.
- Boxers struggleing to get up, shown from a high angle shot.
- Medium shot view to show expressions.
- Crowd shown from different perspectives to show the range of people there.
- Music starts with a major key tone, to convey happiness of the win.
- Wide angle shot used to show crowd a celebration.

Shows High landscape perspective of fight.

ROCKY IV:

- Shows studio company logo  at very start of movie (United Artists)

- Shows second company logo at the start (MGM productions)
- Shows who produced the film 'Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler'.
- Music starts duiring the end of directors name showing 'Sylvester Stallone'.
- Music sets a tone of intesnity.
- Gloves appear/ props shown to give a clear perspective of what it is about.
- Music gets louder, could represent punches from boxers.
- Each glove has the flag of both countries U.S.A and the Russian flag, to represent who's fighting and where they are from.
- Shows gloves clashing together, to show how big the fight is. Also shows explosion when gloves hit eachother.
- Goes straight into fight of previous movie.
- Shows a man shouting to repreent the inseity.
- Shows camera view from 1st person perspective, to show his reaction of the fight.
- Shows oppenent hitting the other from over shoulder shot.
- Shown 180 degree rule from outside the ring, to give the atmosphere a mood of exitment and to also involve the audience.
- Blood shown on the face.
- Man jumps to represent his win in the fight.
- Then fades into the movie, and shows name of film 'ROCKY IV' with simple font.

Shows props to give out a symbollic idea of power. Also shows extreme close up, good for detail.

ROCKY V:
- Shows production company logo at the very start of movie (united artists).
- Second production company logo shown at start (MGM productions)
- Fades into the name of the second production company.
- Font size is big and bold and has white colouring.
- Conveys crowd aswell as music into the title sequences.
- Director name is shown with the same consistent font size and colour.
- Actors names shown with same font size and colour.
- Music theme starts just after the first actor is named.
- Name of film appears from the side, sliding in from the right side of the screen.
- Font size is big and bold.
- Colour of font is replaced with video footage of past fight.
- Shows name of movie in white capital letters.
- Shows medium shot used on both characters.
- Shows a low angle perspective whilst having an over the shoulder shot but a lower version.
- Use of 180 degree, of the two boxers.
- More use of extreme close ups, to show all facial expressions.
- Names appear at the side of each actor.

Rocky IV

Questions:
These are the questions that ill be asking to our collegues, Rocky IV:

-How does the music make you feel? in the fight scene? and does the music affect the fight?

-What do you think are the good and bad points in this scene?

-How realistic is the fight and what are your reasons?

Feedback:
- Music give a sense of adrenilline and also goes reallu well with the tempo of the fight shown.
-The sound effects of the punching do not seem to fit the punches itself, almost dubbed punch effects.
-Puches looked fake therfore giving it an unrealistic view of filiming boxing.

Rocky III. Questions and Feedback

Questions:
these are the questions im going to be asking the class about the first two minutes of Rocky III

1. What impressions does this give of the person that has the belt?
2. The fighting in this scene is slow, do you think this is effective and why?

Feedback:
1. The belt shows a sense of power and proess from the boxer who owns it.
2. The slow camera effects gives out an impression of tiredness from the boxers and also shows the puches clearly, but can easily see that the puches are fakely done.

We will use this feedback to help us make our movie by using props and different ways to use the camera to make our movie look better with the effects

Main Film Pitch Feedback

1. How are we going to show and set a fight scene?

• Use of dark background then light up a certain area to create a spotlight.
• Use of decent location.
• Important to other films, to get an expierience of how to set a fight scene.

2. How are you going to start the film?

• We were thinking of starting the film with flasback of the fighting event, to show the story in a short view.
• Have text, to brief the audiece on what is going to happen. But make sure the text is a suitable size and font.
• Rather than have text have a voice over explaining what is about to happen, then opening scene shows 'the fight'.

3. How are we going to do the make- up?

• Try to go on youtube. You can find make-up turtorials on there.
• Group member know contacts for make-up artists.

Preliminary Questions and Answers

Media studies questions and answers

   Did you observe the 180-degree rule?

   yes

Can you explain the 180-degree rule?

T the 180 degree rule is when the camera man stays one side of the people he is videoing and doesn’t switch sides as the audience would get confused who is who.

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·  What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task?  (e.g.  filming, acting, editing, equipment organisation etc.)

A acted as the hitman.

·  How would you assess your contribution to the group?

I played the part as the main character and helped in writing the script for myself.

 What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?

I feel more confident in acting for when the main task is brought to us as we had a few cock ups in the preliminary task but in the end got a good video.

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'Million Dollar Punch' Pitch

. This is our pitch for the 'Million Dollar Punch'.

Premlimanary video

The video may have a couple of mistakes to it.

Main task Pitch for: Million Dollar Punch

In our group we have decided the name of our film Million Dollar Punch.

Audience:  The 16-24 year old age group and mainly men.  Also fans of fighting films such as rocky will be attracted to this feature film.

Start: In the opening of the film a slide of information will appear and the story so far of our character will be explained, the opening scene will be Lee Arnold getting ready for the anticipated fight which our character dreads. 

Plot: Orphaned Kid Boxer Jimmy Sharman (Lee Arnold), condemned to a lifestyle of illegal boxing after a poor childhood. He needs money, in order to do this he puts himself for a test to fight for survival. He wins his first few fights earning himself a reputation of redemption in the ring. His status is heard by ‘’jonnie Stevenson’’ (Kieran Tyler) and then wants to fight Jimmy Sharmen (Lee Arnold). This is hyped as being one of the biggest illegal fight of the decade and many people are in earnest to watch the fight. After a tough fight, He earns his prize through blood and sweat and gets his million dollars. The fight ends with a powerful punch hence the title ‘million dollar punch’; also it will end when the last punch is done.

Ending: Lee Arnold hits the opponent, and once the opponent hits the ground the camera blacks and the title and credit shows.

Form: Feature Film         

Genre: Action/ Comedy

Influences: Raging Bull, Slum dog Millionaire, Fight Night, Million Dollar Baby and Rocky.

Based: 1980’s

Actors: Lee Arnold, Kieran Tyler.

Analyses of start of movies and Things important to the Film

Things Important To the Film:

1.       Titles- make them simple i.e.: Font size, colour and font style.

2.       Camera work- must be good quality.

3.       Effects- Make effects simple, only lighting are effects are important in our film.

4.       Narration

5.       Setting (s) - give a glimpse of what the setting looks like i.e. give a shot of the environment.

6.       Performance- The performance must be good as it can show first impressions of the actor.

7.       Dialogue- it must be clear and spoken clear via the actor to give a clear view of what it is going on.

8.       Props- Showing of props to show an idea of what they are doing.

9.       Editing

10.   Genre- Convey the Genre through the way they speak/ act/ settings.

11.   Music – play music to also set the mood of the scene.

Analyses of Movies:

Shifty-

§      Presents Production Company at the start and also shows names of distributors.

§      The intro is simple, as in the camera shots and the where about of where it is being shot. Also no effects used, this shows simplicity.

§      Shows the name of actors at side of image/person, but not so standing out , mainly simple text.

§      The intro lasts for 2 minutes.

§      Generally showing main characters at the start of film.

§      Use of music to set the mood of the character and atmosphere.

§      3^rd character shows person with cocaine, gives us hints of what the film is about.

§      Shows road sign to show where about it is set.

§      Shows who funds the movie, and when it was funded.

Trainspotting-

§      Presents the main distributor at the start (Universal studies).

§      Shows who produced the movie (Channel four film production)

§      Opening scene show man running, gives us a sense of enigma, and why he is running? What is he running from?

§      Upbeat music, to convey the chase at the start.

§      Use of close up shots

§      Characters throwing things on the ground, to show that they have maybe robbed from somewhere.

§      Narrated while film is playing- voiceover.

§      Low camera angles used, mostly throughout first 2 minutes.

§      Hit by car and laughs at the driver, gives a sense of enigma yet again.

§      Characters name, big font to stand it out.

§      Drugs are shown being used; this can reveal the main focus of the film.    

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels-

§      Distribution/producer logo shown at the very start of the movie.

§      Shows one of the main characters at the start talking about cards. This could give a sense of what the movie is about and what he does for a living.

§      Music in the title sequence of ‘SKA Production Company’, sound of bass playing a short riff, could give out a starter vibe for the audience.

§      Character at the start shows scars on face- can give a message of how he got those scars? Additionally camera shot take is taken to an ‘extreme close up’- could suggest the intensity of the moment.

§      Character at the start shows him talking to the camera directly, as if he were talking to use, the audience.

§      Second camera shot was taken behind over two men’s shoulder’s (Double over shoulder shot); this is used as the camera is involving the audience as if the audience were sitting behind the two men.

§      Second location is shown, where it shows the lifestyle that the movie is going to be set.

§      2^nd character is shown selling goods. This reveals their tone of voice and therefore the audience knows where he is from.

§      1^st person shows up again, but without any scars. Could suggest a sudden flash before he had the scars or could give out a sense of enigma.

Preliminary Task Questions:

1. Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?

Yes, some of the events are clear and therefore convey  sequence of relevence to wrds the audience at to put the idea across to them. But we have missed a few editing moments for our video.

2. Have you followed the directions in the brief? (A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character. An exchange of dialogue occurs.)

Overall we have followed the directions in the brief, but we have changed quite abit of our short movie. Our two characters that we used (Lee Arnold and Kieren Tyler) did exchange diolougue but at the start of the short movie.  

3. Have you used match-on-action?

Yes we used the match-on-action when the main chrarcter (Lee Arnold) opes the door, also when he enters the room and shows him waliking to the chair and sits.

4. Can you explain what match-on-action involves?

Match on action means that when something happens in the scene. For example when the main character in our movie walks down the corridor, then the following match-on-action shot was when the actor enters the room and makes his way to the computer and sits down. This is an example of a consistent editing and it is very important in helping the audience continually understand exactly what s happening.
5. Have you used shot/reverse shot?
We have used shot/reverse shot when the main chracter walks up the corridor and then walks towards the camera, then the camera reverses the shot from behind the character.  Also we use this when both characters are exchanging diolougue, as the camera goes from both chracters point of view.
6. Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?
Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character shown. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, this then gives the view of how both chracters are looking at eachother.
 7. Did you observe the 180-degree rule?
Overall yes we did. We observed the ‘180- degree rule’ when the main actor talking to the security Guard at the door.
 8. Can you explain the 180-degree rule?
The 180 degree rule is where you film a scene/dialogue and not to change side or moving in different way.
 9. What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task?  (e.g.  Filming, acting, editing, Equipment organization etc.)
In the preliminary task I took on several roles, such as: Filming, editing and directing. I took these roles on as I wanted to experience more than one role to see what I am good at.
10. How would you assess your contribution to the group?
To asses my contribution to the group, I think contributed quite a lot towards the group and the task that we do.
11. What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?
 Overall I have learned that team work is acquired to film a movie, also I have realized that editing film isn’t easy as it seems. But everything that I have learned from this is that planning is the very important key in making a movie.