Trails Of Water Rough Cut 2

Kieran Belshaw
Joseph Moss
Harvey Andrew

Evaluation Question 7

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?


In the process of creating our film opening, I think we have progressed in terms of what we were capable of in comparison as the preliminary task was one of the first times we had ever used an editing software before. During our film opening production, we were more familiar with the program allowing for more options in terms of how to improve our post production process. The editing software allowed us to make full usage of the camera shots that we took and adapt them to our opening whereas the preliminary task mainly depended on the raw footage captured. We were also able to learn how to add text to the film opening at different points giving us the ability to add titles to our film opening. Finally, we was able to add music in the background of the film opening in order to make the opening more tense and therefore more like a thriller genre film.


The planning stage towards our film opening was more detailed such as the storyboard having more scenes to work with and we had a better shot list in order to guide us what camera shots to take. The detailed planning helped us because it gave a better idea in terms of how our opening was going to be filmed and as a result had a clear plot to the opening. The process was also much smoother as we had knowledge in terms of typical genre conventions based on our storyline. This would make the opening appear more genuine and improve the quality of content as a result. In terms of the location we chose, we was able to choose a location that would suit the opening instead of relying on a school environment which generally made the opening seem more interesting.


In the production of our film, we were able to make better use of the camera such as activating manual focus, making better use of the tripod (at certain scenes) and panning the camera to allow the camera to capture a characters movement. The manual focus helped us focus on the scene where it featured the girl crying because we would be able to closely focus upon her tear which showed her emotions much clearer. We also used it when the detective walks from the bush though this would end up being less successful in comparison as his face wasn’t in focus when he reached the camera.


I think our film opening was quite successful as it clearly illustrates that it is a drama genre film with the narrative showing what the detective is thinking and that moment in time. It also has a clear plot which has benefited from more research than compare to our preliminary task. I also think the quality of some shots is quite effective such as the voice over which can be heard quite clearly. However, I believe we could have improved the film if we had stabilised some of the shots to make them look smoother and for certain moments could have improved the focusing of the camera. I also think we could have planned our film opening in more depth to give us more information when recording our film.



Kieran Belshaw

Evaluation Question 6

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

The camera equipment we used a DSLR camera the Nikon D3100 with the assistance of a tripod in order to make parts of the film stabilised. This camera was quite useful because it allow us to access features that are usually only available on DSLR cameras such as manual focus which was needed for the tear scene. Some members of the group also had experience with the camera meaning it was easy to adapt their knowledge into the making of our film opening.  The tripod allowed us to make use of panning during certain sequences allowing the opening to follow the characters movement and track where they going to. The limitation of the camera however is that because DSLRs can be complex to learn, we believe that we was unable to make use of full potential of the camera. We also was unable to film at a higher resolution which could have been effective in making our film of a higher quality.  This could have also helped when it came to editing the film as we would have been able to preserve more of the quality in the settings. We also didn’t have access to a small tripod which we could have done with in the first scene of the opening as the scene is very shaky as a result. 

 The camera was very effective in teaching us how to film with a DSLR and parts of the film shows that throughout the opening we improved the focus of the characters. It also allowed us to clearly make use of the 180 degree rule because of the fact that we were able to pan certain scenes in the forest. We also learnt how to make use of the focus in the film as the camera was able to focus upon the girls face and as a result being able to show her emotions in the scene. The camera zoom was effective at teaching us how to capture the wide shot into the establishing shot of the forest.

 In terms of editing the opening, we made use of Adobe Premier Pro program because it was accessible to us for a short period of time at home allowing us to spend as much time as we could on editing the film opening. The program has many advanced features such as tweaking the saturation of the film and export many types of media files in the opening. This allowed us to easily import the videos from the camera which enabled us to be able to actually create the film. We was also able to then overlay the narration onto the film allowing for the background sounds to be filled.

For our research and planning, we made use of Blogger, a website that lets you create and control your blog posts. This was effective for our work because it allows us to access the work from almost anywhere and

Kieran Belshaw

Evaluation Question 5

When we first thought about the people who are going to watch it we mainly focused on the age of our characters because the audience will be able to relate to them and have some sort of connection with them even before they have found out more about them by watching the film. Our age group target was 15 to 30 we have done this because our 2 main characters the detective and the female protagonist were young characters. the type of audience we were looking for is someone who is young between the ages of 15-20 so they are sensitive and they will be emotionally connected to the movie and would react to some of the scenes in our movie because they will have sympathy for our characters this type of audience member would connect with the scene where our female protagonist is crying could be very emotional depending on the member of the audience. We are also looking for an audience member who is slightly older and more intellectual from the ages of 25-35 that will try to analyse the movie and guess what will come next because we open with a cliff hanger and no information is given, this is effective because it entices the audience member to watch the whole movie so they understand the whole story and see if their theories are correct.

               

The use of camera work is the most important way to connect to your audience because it allows them to put themselves into the character’s shoes this can help making the audience feel the emotion in the scene. We used this in the starting scene of the movie with the close up of the young female protagonist with one tear on her face this instantly makes a connection with the audience and this character.  This enigma works well with the detective because the audience puts themselves into the detective shoes and tries to come up with a solution before the detective does himself.  It is stereotypical to have these realistic characters and events in crime dramas like this. For example, in a crime drama there is stereotypically a male character playing a detective and a young female character who is in danger so the detective has to save her.

When conducting a survey to see how people will react to the clip we got these results.

What impact did some of the shots have on you?

“I really felt sorry for the young female, even though I didn’t know what was wrong with her”

“I wanted to be the detective myself”

“I wanted to watch the rest of the film”

What was your opinion upon where the opening took place?

“I thought the forest was a unique idea because it seems as if the detective cannot find her due to how vast it is”

“the river was very impactful as it gave the opening a sense of eeriness”

These questions shows that the audience of our product generally felt impacted after watching the film and shows that the cinematography in the opening was very effective to making the piece emotionally powerful. This is what we aimed for because of us targeting the drama genre and shows that our film definitely suits this genre.

Harvey Andrew

Evaluation Question 4

4. Who would be the audience for your film?

For our film we have chosen to target a niche audience between the ages of 15-30. The content of the film is not suitable for younger audiences but wouldn’t be as appealing to older audiences mainly due to our main characters being relatable to our target audience. Being an independent film it is focused on drawing in a specific niche audience who enjoy watching crime dramas similar to our own. Our film is also likely to attract some audience who watch TV crime dramas.

Like the majority of crime dramas, our film features many difficult subjects and explicit content due to the nature of the genre. Much of the planned film would not be suitable for viewing by a younger audience and we didn’t want to aim any of the content in our film towards a younger audience. We knew early on that we would be dealing with content and subjects that would be restricted mostly likely to a 15 rated film as we want our film to be.

Our target audience is mixed for both male and female. We picked a main character for each to relate to, a male detective and a female protagonist. The film planned to focus on each fairly evenly throughout the film to cater for the wider audience in that manner.

We want to attract an audience that enjoy thinking about what they are watching and solving puzzles, intriguing story, maybe even an element of adventure following the two protagonists travel in search for clues and answers. We chose drama to allow us more opportunity to attract that specific audience and focus on story and character. Our film doesn’t have the action or great spectacles to attract a main stream audience.
Joseph Moss

Evaluation Question 3

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your film?

With our film, we knew we were probably going to be aiming for a niche audience rather than mainstream. The content of our film was never going to be big enough to appeal to the wider audience as we did not have the budget or ability to incorporate any amazing CGI or practical effects that will be found in the majority of mainstream films to appeal to the audiences. Along with many other limits we had, we had to focus on producing an interesting, unique and compelling story that would attract a niche audience.

What Independent institutions would be the likely candidates for distributing our film. Likely candidates that we would chose are film 4 or an online distribution to secure the highest profit. Social media like Facebook and twitter through this we can reach a range of people in a very short amount of time and we would advertise the release of the film by creating our own website it would be cost effective easy to do in these modern day times. Our film could be compared to a field in England because they made as much profit as possible with making use of all sources of media available to them but because of our low budget this would be our only 2 formats we could offer. If film 4 were to distribute our film if it was successful, then later on film 4 could eventually distribute it into physical media. In the future this movie could have been so successful that the fan base around it wanted another one then we could make a sequel and possibly generate a series of crime movies connecting them all, or with the money we made make another film and because by this time our company would have a fan base we know we could make a profit out of it even if the next one we made may not be as good as the first. This all can eventually grow our production company and then turn away from independent films and make some mainstream ones, but if we have a niche audience it could prevent us from this success because when making and independent movie you don’t expect to make much of a profit.

Harvey Andrew 

Evaluation Question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
 

The young female protagonist in the film is represented both stereotypically and non-stereotypically. It is stereotypical of the blonde female girl to be innocent and be the damsel in distress relying on the hero to save them which is somewhat true with the way our character is represented as it is sown that the detective is trying to save her and she is shown to be upset and scared, however she is represented non-stereotypically as she shows independence as a main protagonist taking responsibility for herself running through the woods by herself and taking her life into her own hands. She is fairly unique as a character and there are not many characters from other films to compare her with. She has similarities to characters like Clarice Starling from silence of the lambs even if she isn’t a detective she is trying to do her best to solve and prove her mother murders guilty, being an independent in her own investigation and search, but a lot less professional, and getting herself very close to danger at times showing vulnerability throughout the film.

The detective in our film is a mostly stereotypical representation of the detective character, as in most films, the detective is adult male wearing the stereotypical suit and coat to connote the fact that he is a detective. As a middle class male he is represented stereotypically as being professional, dominant, braver and heroic attempting to chase after and save the girl protagonist. The detective character fits stereotypically with a male character to have these stereotypical characteristics. There is, on the other hand, an element of non-stereotypical representation as he is shown to have fear of loss in failure realising the girl has drowned. He shows a consistent fear of losing her throughout the opening showing a non-stereotypical weakness of a male character to have a connection to another character. The detective is also represented to be slightly younger than expected which is non-stereotypical as this connotes he is less experienced and more fearful.

Thinking about our whole film, we have planned to have to have some stereotypical representations of criminals as there are two murders in the film. We would have liked to emphasise their look as dark and cold hearted killers however we had an idea for one of them to be younger and less experienced or non-professional. He would show remorse and mercy towards our female protagonist and show his weakness throughout the film.

A victim and mother figure was planned as well; she was to not feature for very much of the film at all but would represent a stereotypical innocent damsel in distress. We planned for her to wear lighter colours to emphasise again her innocence.

 Joseph Moss

 

Evaluation Question 1

1.      In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film compared to other media products was limited in terms of the resources that other companies have access to. For example, we was unable to have access to expensive camera equipment that could have improved the quality of our film. We was unable to employ professional actors for the film so we had to use those who suited the role of each character that our group was associated with. In order to prevent these two factors from affecting parts of our film, with the usage of editing, we was able to improve the look of our film to make it look more like a film opening which improves the quality of our films. We also feel that we chose the best actors available to us for the film, so that minimised issues in terms of acting out each of the characters.

Our film differentiates itself compared to other films as in the film, the protagonist is shown to be the girl as she is seen throughout the opening and that she is the main reason as to why the detective is following her tracks. This is different other films that involves a crime, as the main character is usually a male (such as The Departed which features two male protagonists and Lethal Weapon which features both the main characters being both male). However, the detective is stereotypical as the male is usually shown to be of this role in films like these and is often seen as the person who is trying to solve the situation. 

The content of our film makes use of the location of where we filmed which is stereotypical because most films emphasise on their location throughout. This is effective because our film is mostly about the girl committing suicide in the river, which throughout our opening, nature is present to illustrate this setting. However the location itself is non stereotypical because most drama films take place in a more urban environment. This emphasises the fact that our film in an independent film because a typical mainstream film involves more characters. It is also non-stereotypical because the film is based around murder where the location is actually a peaceful and quiet environment. This shows the disturbance of the equilibrium because of this situation.

Kieran Belshaw

Rough Cut 1

What worked well:
*Some beautiful shot compositions - well done
* Nice use of voice over to help aid the narrative
*The CU of the tear on her cheek is lovely!
* Lovely ending - I want to see the rest of the film!

Even Better If:
*Add institutional logos
*Watch the jump cuts of the girl running at the beginning - it is too jumpy!
* Show that he is a police officer, even have a police file at the beginning with her photo and name in it
*Camera is wobbly from the step up to follow Dan running across the field
*Consider adding in non diegetic sound - see if it helps add impact
*Add titles - remember the correct order too!

Kieran Belshaw

Harvey Andrew
Joseph Moss

Institutional Logo Reasearch

Institute logos are often made up of a signature object or being in their logos such as the Universal Globe and MGM’s Lion. This shows that by having this feature will make the logo more likely to be remembered by the audience of the film allowing the institute to become well known. They also usually feature an animation instead of a still image in order to make the logo look more interesting to the audience and many are made up of bright colours in order to make them appealing.

Kieran Belshaw

Filming Schedule

Saturday 18^th March 2-6 PM - recording of girl in the opening

Sunday 19^th March - recording of detective in the opening

Monday 20^th March – Editing of Rough Cut 1

Kieran Belshaw

Organisation Of Sound

In our film opening, we want the sound to be made up of three different things. One thing will be that the natural sounds inside the forest in order to make the location seem more realistic and to be able for the audience to identify where the girl was and show how peaceful the environment is. This will be recorded during the raw footage of the scenes. Another will be to have a monologue in order to clearly show the detectives trail of thought through the opening. The monologue will be recorded during the post production stage of our opening allowing for higher quality sound to be recorded then placed into the opening.  Finally, in order to make the film more intense, we will add a non-diegetic piece of music in order to fill the background noise in the opening. This will be done through the post production of the film such as during the editing by downloading a royalty free tune. This can then be applied to the different layers of the opening allowing for the different sounds to be of different volumes.

The diagram shows the different levels of audio within Premier Pro and therefore allowing us to adjust the volume of different parts of the film.

Kieran Belshaw

Location Choice For our Film

The key part of choosing the location for our film is that we would require to have a water natural source available to us because we would require this in order for our plot to work. We also wished for a forest based area because we wanted to clearly show the disturbance of the peace of the area as a result of the situation the girl has been placed in. We choose Little Waltham Nature Reserve because it fit the criteria for both these options and we wouldn’t be affected by others as not many people visited the reserve. It also has a clear path in the forest showing a clear route for the detective to follow in our film opening. Finally, as a result of a bridge, we would be able to record certain scenes from the other side of the river in order to receive a different perspective of the character.

Kieran Belshaw

Logo Choice

Kieran Belshaw

Audience Appeal

To make our film more appealing, the film will emphasise on the emotions of the girl in order to show that she is the victim of a crime. This will be effective because it will clearly show her feelings and how she is dealing with her difficult situation allowing the audience to feel empathy for her situation. This is necessary for our opening because it clearly shows that she is upset and explains her actually committing suicide.  By having her react to her situation this way, shows that obviously something has occurred to the girl and leaves an idea for the rest of the film. The detective is also shown to be young in order to allow the audience watching the film to be more relatable as a large amount of the people watching the film will be young adults so having the detective at the similar age may engage the audience more. The environment shown will also be interesting because the environment is mostly calm so having the film set place here will make the film more interesting as most dramas are set place in urban environments. Finally, by narrating over the opening will allow our film to be more interesting as it will allow us to show the thoughts of the detective.

Kieran Belshaw

Film Certificate

Our film rating is going to be a 15 because of several factors that would feature in the whole film. One thing is the fact that it is indicated she committed suicide showing that the theme is very serious and generally wouldn't appeal to those who are of a younger age. This is because these dramatic often appeal to young adults or adults and wouldn't appeal to children as a result of the serious theme. I think being a 15 will also allow us to show what exactly happened to her parents in the film as if the film was based around a younger rating then the film would be forced to leave out any strong violence which could impact the atmosphere of the film. I feel it would be unnecessary to limit this film especially since the majority of people who will watch the film will be above this age. The film may have a fight scene between the police detective and the criminals who killed the girl’s parents showing that the violence seen in the film can be shown to be of ‘strong violence’. Due to the nature of the crime, I think it also may contain strong language as a result that the police officers anger at the situation though this will not be shown within the film’s opening.

Kieran Belshaw
 

Ideas For Films

Kieran Belshaw

Initial Shot List

• Logo Company
• Name of the Film
• Long Shot - Establishing Shot of the Woods
• Mid to Long Shot - Detective runs down the path
• Panning shot - to close up then over the shoulder shot
• Long shot in the woods
• Over the shoulder shot - Girl runs as Detective follows
• Long Shot of the girl running near the bridge
• Close up of the Girl crying
• Panning of the Detective chasing after the girl
• Over the Shoulder Shot of the Detective at the end of the film opening

Kieran Belshaw

Harvey Andrew

Joseph Moss

Initial Hand Drawn Storyboard

   Joseph Moss

Research Into Drama

The genre Drama evolves all around the realistic and emotional aspect of films and heavily on audience reaction to the actors and story line this can make for some really intense movies and TV series that can send deeper meanings. Drama films tend to focus on themes such as corruption which puts the character in conflict with themselves in terms of their feelings. This is what occurs in our film because the girl is having a conflict with herself as a result of her situation which has caused her to wish to kill herself. By showing this development of character, will be effective because people will be able to see how she is feeling resulting in a more realistic film. This allows the film to draw in its audience more and allows the audience to become more attached to the characters and may cause them to feel sympathy for the characters. This can often lead to the experience of the film being improved and can assist in terms of providing a better experience for the audience.  The usual situation shows the character being a normal person being placed in a difficult circumstance. This helps the audience be more relatable in terms of the characters of the characters and allows them to feel empathy as a result making the experience of the film much more enjoyable.

Kieran Belshaw

Harvey Andrew

 

Audience Mind Map

Mind Map to help pin point our target audience and the people likely to watch our film.

Joseph Moss

Audience MoodBoard

This mood board shows the type of audience of our film opening which as you can see are mainly made up of young adults

Harvey Andrew

Characters we have and why

Detective/Hero: We are having a detective because we needed a hero to save the young female protagonist from the antagonists and lets the audience know they can trust someone because he is a good person so they know that there is a chance of the girl being saved. We chose him to be a male because males are stereotypically shown to be powerful and very intelligent.

Young Female Protagonist We are having a Young female protagonist because we can present her as innocent and venerable throughout the film so then this allows us to implement a new character to be the hero to help her or save her from the antagonist. This is effective because we are doing a drama and allows us to connect emotionally with the audience because we can make the audience feel sorry for her because of the things that could possibly happen to her.

Young Male Antagonist: We chose a young male antagonist because he would stereotypically be inexperienced and venerable meaning he could be manipulated easily also he had to be a similar age to the young female protagonist because then he will have some sort of a connection with her and he would be merciful when coming to revelling where she was hiding.

 Middle Aged Male Antagonist: We chose a Middle aged male antagonist because stereotypically he would be very powerful also because of his age he will be experienced and wouldn’t be so venerable to other powerful characters.

Male Antagonist/Father: We chose the Young females father to be an antagonist because then he has a direct connection to her and he will easily have power over her stereotypically because he is a male and has power but also because he is her father and can tell her what to do and have full control over her this would be effective in a drama because it can make the audience more emotional because they know they can’t do anything about the power he has over her because rules of general society.

We chose to have more antagonists because it allows us to maximise the struggle for the protagonists and the Hero to return everything back to normal.

Harvey Andrew 

Questionnaire

How often do you watch films of the drama genre?

This question was to receive information regarding the amount of people who watch drama on a regular basis and to see how many people generally watch drama films. The results were that most people who watch drama films often watch them monthly though this can depend on the time of year and what is being released at the moment of time. This can also depend on the amount of mainstream titles being released at that time because this can affect the amount of films of the genre the audience may watch.      

Do you enjoy watching drama? If so what are the main reasons you enjoy watching a drama film?

This question was to investigate what aspects of a drama the general audience enjoyed so that we can apply these positive features to our film during the film taking process. The results show that many of the people who watch drama films tend to like the evolution in characters stating that it was interesting seeing the progression from beginning to the end of the film. Others stated they liked the emotional side of dramas. 

Name 3 films you have seen that fit in the drama genre?

This question was for us to receive examples of key movies that most people generally remember and would allow us to then look into these films and see the key factors as to what they did right. Many of the people stated different films though the key film that got the most attention was The Shawshank Redemption, which also was a very popular film on the web. This shows that this film definitely got the piece correct and by analysing this film will give us ideas as to how to make our film.

Do you think the Drama genre goes well with any of these genres? If so why?

This question was for us to see what other genres went well with drama as this could impact our film if enough people suggest a certain sub-genre as this would show that the elements of other genres would attract other audiences. The results showed that many people believe that thriller suited drama the best and that our film would be best if we could have certain elements inside our film.

Where do you often see movies for this genre?

This question was to see where our film opening would most likely be viewed in order to become aware of what type of people we go to see the film. The results show that many people would see this film at the cinema though this would depend on the trailer and how anticipated the film is.

What age rating do you think a drama genre film should be?

This question was to see what age rating we should target our film at as this could affect the types of things we can feature inside the opening. Most stated 15 because drama films are generally targeted towards adults so there is no need in making the film at a lower rating.

Kieran Belshaw

Film Opening Moodboard

This mood board shows and reminds us of our ideas and themes of the film and film opening.

Joseph Moss

Our Film Opening Genre

Our Film Opening Genre

The Bear Productions team finally agreed on Drama as the genre for our film after some debate but we each had ideas for a Drama based film. Our film idea is also quite Neo-noir but we are still sticking with Drama being the key genre and Neo-noir being the sub-genre of our film and opening.
 

We chose Drama as this allows us to make the most of our film. This genre fits with our independent film targeted towards a specific audience focused on the story rather than action content which we are unable to cater for.

Joseph Moss

Props, Characters and Costumes

Detective: Brown Hair, White Shirt, Smart Black Shoes, tie, Trench coat and work trousers

Props: Photos and Badge

Age: 30s

Girl protagonist: Blonde Hair, Blue eyes, Trainers, Jeans, White top and coat

Age: 16

Mother: Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes, and casual house clothes stained with blood.

Age:: 40s

Father: Shirt, Tie, Suit Trousers

Age: 40s

Antagonists murderer 1: Black Jumper, Black gloves, Black Boots

Age: 20s

Props: Knife

Antagonist murderer 2: Leather Jacket, Black gloves, Black boot

Age: 40s

Props: Knife

Harvey Andrew

Bear Production Narrative

Bear Productions Presents

A Narrative in Association With

No-Fro Studios

Trails of Water

Young female protagonist (Samantha, approx. Age 14) commits suicide by jumping into a river after being chased by a detective trying to help her. This is due to her and her mother once living happily together until two men were sent by her father to kill her mother. They leave the daughter alive and the police show up. Custody of the daughter is given to the father as he wanted. A detective (John Cartwright?, approx. Age 28-34) is sent to question the girl and father and investigate the murder.

The father is into some dodgy activities (e.g. drugs). The daughter knows her father killed mother and is dealing with drugs. Daughter runs away and leaves clues for the detective to follow. Father sends the 2 murderers after the girl before she gives away too much information. One murderer runs into the detective and is killed in a small fight. The detective finds clues left by the girl leading to father being guilty.

Detective chases girl along riverside. Girl commits suicide by jumping into the river. She leaves behind enough evidence to prove the father guilty.

 

Joseph Moss, Harvey Andrew, Kieren Belshaw

25 Word Film Brief

25 Word Film Brief
 

Story of a girl witness to her mother’s murder trying to prove the killer guilty, commits suicide, leaving behind clues for the detective to follow.

Joseph Moss

Audience Research

Drama is the forth most popular Genre at the time in north America grossing over $31.6 billion dollars of revenue. The most popular Drama feature film at the moment is The Revenant making £405.1 million so far. Its average gross is $7,600,000 this low compared to Thriller bellow it that on average grosses $19,000,000, but drama makes up for I with how many films they out put and being able to gain revenue from it for example the Genre Drama has had over 4000 movies made when the Genre of thriller has only had near to a thousand.

Most popular Dramas 2005-2016

2005- Million Dollar Baby 2006- The Departed 2007- American Gangster 2008- Twilight 2009- The Twilight saga: New Moon 2010- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 2011- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 2012- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 2013- The Great Gatsby 2014- The fault in our stars 2015- American Sniper 2016- 13 Hours: The secret soldiers of Benghazi

Harvey Andrew

Our Institution

Our Institution

Bear Productions are in agreement that we are an independent company focused on providing an original story for a specific range of people interested in crime drama. The ideas we have for our film are shall be focused on a target audience and will appeal to specific groups of people.

We as a small company with barely any budget and very limited equipment and editing software. This means we would be restricted with trying to make main stream films. Similar to production companies such as Film Four but on a far smaller scale. Film Four are responsible for films like Trainspotting and Slum Dog Millionaire.      

 Joseph Moss

Drive Shot list

We made this shot list to help us storyboard and film the remake to get the same angles and cut our clips to the right lengths.

 

0:01-0:09

Establishing shot

0:10-0:22

Low angle

0:23-0:40

Over the shoulder shot

0:41-0:49

Over the shoulder

0:50-1:00

Close

1:01-1:14

Panning Establishing shot

1:15-1:20

Close up

1:21-1:25

Long shot

1:26-1:30

Over the shoulder shot

1:31-1:34

Long shot from point of view

1:35-1:39

Long shot

1:40-1:48

Tracking

1:49-2:01

Panning Mid shot

2:02-2:22

Long shot tracking

  

2:23-2:34

Over the shoulder

Harvey Andrew

Drive Story Board

This storyboard will help us to film the remake of this opening and remind us exactly what camera angles and scenes we need to do.

Joseph Moss

Drive Timeline – Opening Titles

Here is the timeline for the titles in the Drive opening so that we can remake it accurately.

 



0.05 – Ryan Gosling

0.15 – Drive

0.25 – Carey Mulligan

0.29 – Bryan Cranston

0.33 – Christiana Hendricks

0.37 – Ron Pearlman

0.42 – with Oscar Isaac

0.46 – and Albert Brooks

0.52 – casting by Mindy Marin, C.S.A

0.56 – costume design Erin Benach

1.01 – music by Cliff Martines

1.06 – production design Beth Mickle

1.11 – edited by Mat Newman

1.16 – director of photography Newton Thomas Sisel, A.S.C

1.40 – executive producers Bill Lisclak, Linda McDonough, Peter Schlessel

1.45 – executive producers David Lancaster, Gary Michael Walters, Jeffrey Scott

2.02 – produced by Marc Platt, Adam Siesel, John Palesma

2.07 – produced by Gisi Pritsken, Michel Litvak

2.13 – based on the book by James Sallis

2.18 - screenplay by Hassien Amim

2.25 – directed by Nicolas Winding Reln

Posted by Joseph Moss

Why We Chose To Remake Drive

We chose Drive for the remake of a film as a result of its effective use of text placement and the theme it illustrates with the usage of sound and mise-en -scene. The low key lighting used within the opening is emphasises the placement in Los Angeles and creates the atmosphere of where the film is based in. This will help us with our film opening in regards to how we will set the theme of our opening and how to make use of sound and mise effectively. We also chose Drive for its elements of the neo-noir genre in which our narrative also fits into which shows a good example as to how we should set the theme to our film in and how to make use of these features. Finally, I think the opening is of a reasonable size close to the 2 minutes limit in which our opening will be running for which means the opening can be used as a clear comparison to the drive opening.

 Kieran Belshaw