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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Vindictive - Bullet Styling

Title Research - Bullet Styling

For our title sequence we wanted to incorporate the speed and tension often associated with action films and allow the title to be effective.

We have selected to look at this bullet styling title sequence to help give us an idea of how a moment often shown in horror movies such as a bullet firing can be shown from the very beginning of the film to help infer the audience of the contents in the movies plot. The bullet helps add emphasis on the titles being presented to the audience and helps portray the action movie qualities to the audience. Once again the font is basic but also metallic which allows a contrast with other action movies with a similar title including films such as Transformers.

Vindictive - Cast

Matt - Protagonist

We have selected to make Matt one of the two main protagonists as we believe that he can create a character who is professional but somewhat light hearted. We believe that Matt can portray his character as a natural leader and someone who both creates plans and follows through with them, this will hopefully allow us to easily portray these qualities through the dialogue and body language we will use in our film.

Luke - Protagonist

We have selected to make Luke the other protagonist as we believe that he can provide a stark contrast to Matt's character; in which involves him acting as more of a serious character compared to Matt's charismatic one. We have decided to make Luke more of a follower to help portray more of the relationship between the characters as we believe that this can help emphasise the overall balance between the two characters.

Conor - Antagonist

We have selected Conor as the main antagonist in our opening scene as we believe that he can create a more serious and professional character and he will also be able to portray the professionalism of his character through the fight scene we are planning to incorporate. We believe that Conor will be able to portray his characters individual qualities during the opening scene and we also believe that his character can emphasise the plot of the story and also the storyline between the characters in the opening scene.

Bill - Victim / Boss

We have selected to make Bill both the victim and the other antagonist in this scene as we believe that he can portray an accurate death in which we are required to have in the film and can also provide the voice and body for the background boss of the protagonists in our scene. We selected Bill to play two roles as we believed that due to the quick demise of Bill's character we believe that he would be the appropriate choice for another character.

Vindictive - Fight Scene Choreography

Establishing moment; carries on from chase scene

1. Conor shoves Matt past him
2. Conor turns to see Luke
3. fight begins
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First part of the fight: 2 vs 1 on opposing sides

4. Conor faces Luke in which Matt attacks from behind with a right hook
5. Conor parries with the outside of his right arm and kicks Matt into the bridge with his left leg
6. Matt is knocked into the side of the bridge
7. Luke attacks this time with a low punch
8. Conor parries once again by pushing the punch downward and kicks Luke back
9. Luke is temporarily stunned, leaving Matt and Conor to fight
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Second part of the fight: 1 vs1

10. Matt attacks with a superman punch with haste
11. Conor has no time to react and is swiftly punched
12. This is then followed by quick kneeing / kicking to Conor
13. Conor deflects one of Matt's attacks and retaliates with a low sweep
14. Matt is knocked to the floor, in which Conor repeatedly attacks Matt
15. Luke regains his composure and tackles Conor off of Matt
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Third part of the fight: 2 vs 1 on the same side

16. everyone proceeds to get up
17. Matt and Luke remove coats to symbolise the intensity of the next part of the fight scene
18. Luke does a spinning kick in which Conor easily dodges by rolling to his side
19. Matt follows up with a push-kick in which Conor is hit but swiftly reasserts himself
20. Matt goes in with a right hook, which conor dodge again by ducking under
21. Conor counters by uppercutting Matt and then side-kicking him away
22. Conor follows this with a roundhouse kick on Luke, knocking him to the side
23. Conor proceeds to kick Luke in the back of the leg and punches him, leaving him out of the fight
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Fourth part of the fight; Conclusion

24. Matt attacks with an array of moves in which he uses a right hook and uppercut followed by a leg-sweep
25. Conor is hit by both punches by jumps the leg sweep
26. Conor follows in with a right hook
27. Matt blocks it and elbow Conor rendering him out of the fight
28. Conor is knocked down and Matt subsequently restrains him
29. short dialogue between Luke and Matt
30. scene ends on a phone ringing - signifying that it is not over

Vindictive - Fight Scene Camera Angles

establishing shot

1. match on action, high angle, pov
2. over the shoulder
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4.shot behind conor, medium shot
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6. side shot
7.over the shoulder
8. over the shoulder
9.high angle
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10. birds eye
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14. diagonal shot, medium shot
15. pov
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16. medium shot
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19. side shot, low angle shot
20. side shot, medium shot
21. side shot
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24. low angle
25. low angle, close up
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28. floor shot
29. shot / reverse shot, close up, high angle
30. match on action

Vindictive - Final Script

Characters:
Matt - Primary protagonist / best friend
Luke - Secondary Protagonist / action hero
Conor - Main antagonist / murderer
Bill - Victim

introduction:
establishing shot
CWP Films

*scene is introduced with Matt and Luke walking out of a suburban housing complex in which they are contacted by Matt's phone*
Matt: Hello?
*the question is answered silently to Matt but to the enigma of the audience*
Matt: alright . . . . Got it
*Matt puts the phone down and turns to Luke
Matt: we have a homicide at 5 Tilt meadow
Luke: 5 Tilt Meadow? thats down the road from here
Matt: ok lets go!
*Matt and luke are seen to be running to the specified location, the scene cuts to a supposed fight between Conor and Bill in which Bill is seen to be overpowered and eventually thrown down and supposedly killed by Conor*
*The scene shifts again in which Luke and Matt are shown to run towards a specific house and enter with haste, in which they discover the body of Bill on the floor. After checking for a pulse, they find out that he is in fact dead, Matt goes to check out the window in which he spots Conor attempting to flee out the back.*
*Matt and Luke split up in which Matt travels round the back in pursuit of Conor whilst Luke exits out the front in an attempt to cut off Conor's escape. Matt and Conor are seen to be running through the various gardens of the residential house in a full out chase scene in which they eventually run out onto an open field in which they are seen to be heading down a mud path*
*Eventually they are seen to get onto a bridge in which Matt catches Conor and is actually pushed past him, Luke eventually catches the other two in which they engage in a fight. After a long fight between the three Matt and Luke are shown to be victorious of the fight ending the opening scene*

Vindictive - Stereotypes

Stereotypes in Our Film

We tried to make our Heroes as close to action heroes as we possibly could, we tried to act tough when we got the phone call. So when we got the phone call we ran straight away to the scene like we are trying to look like we care about people. When the body is found we go down to see if he has a pulse, when we find out he doesn't we make it look like we are sad but soon we forget about the body and go out to chase the bad guy.

Also we tried to make them fighters. When we go into the fight scene we try to make the heroes look really good at fighting by making them do all kind of fancy moves for example a round house kick, which is when the person spins around and kicks out from behind. This shows that they have a good knowledge of fighting and that they are experienced fighters so people should be careful when fighting them.

The Bad guy that we are fighting in our film is a assassin, so he has been in the military in the past and has a lot of experience in fighting. So he is a trained killer who is taking care of a persons problem. In this scene we make him look very aggressive to the heroes because of the way he fights. He fights very professionally in the film, he blocks and dodges most of the the hits thrown at him.

Overall the heroes are the ones that come out in the end defeating him by a Knock Out scene, but the bad guy is the one who is the better fighter out of the three and is the one who is intended to be more tougher than the other characters.

The clothes that we wore were not very close to what action heroes wear we wore coats,jeans and trainers, which is not accurate to normal action hero clothes, they are usually in soldier uniforms and suits, Sometimes they can wear normal clothes but that is usually when they are a undercover cop or a secret agent.

Action film - Online Editing Tutorial

Online editing Tutorials

For our editing of the film we used Adobe Premiere Elements 10 which is a software that lets you create films by putting clips together. For our research on how to edit we looked up "adobe premiere elements 10 tutorial" and came up with a video called "Getting started with Adobe Premiere element 10" and is by the YouTube channel Youthdigitalstudio.

In the video it shows you how to start up a new project and how to put clips into the software. It does this in great detail and explains it very well. He also tells you what tools are on there and they can do to improve your film. He talks about the timeline which is most probably the most important tool in the software it is where you put all of you video, audio and text files to edit it. Another useful tip that he shows is the arrow tool on the timeline which shows the where the line is on the timeline, which is useful because then you can see what part you are editing in the film. Also he explains how to cut the video file, how to make it shorter what to do if you have messed up on the timeline and want to undo it. All this information is a good starter for us to edit our film and make it look very good and professional like a real action movie

The text tool is also explained in the film as well so how you can edit the text move it around with the arrow to a place of your liking which is useful for making the title of the film.

He also does go into a lot of detail on how to the effects on the screen like blur,make it look more dynamic, and how to change the color of the clip. For example you can change it from color to black and white which is good if you want to make your clip look like a flash back.