Work Experience reccord for 16/10/16

October 16 - River Tees Rediscovered, Guided Walks,

Placement: Runner/Camera operator
Contact details: the organisation's main phone number is 01642 616 144
Based at: River Tees Rediscovered, Tees Barrage, Navigation Way, Stockton-On-Tees, TS18 2QW
River Tees Rediscovered is an environment and Historical conservation and awareness project for the River Tees and it's history.
The person in charge of the Guided walk is called Christine (Surname to be added)
She is also currently in charge of the whole project.
My placement offers little but necessary amount to the customers as we were tasked with creating a promotional video for the whole project.
My placement was to aid in the recording of the one of the guided walks through Thornaby Woods.
the health and safety considerations were quite substantial as we were in a woodland area as such when drafting the risk assessments the things that had to be considered were slipping on the mud, tripping over roots and stones on the pathways and water damage from potential rain. aside from editing the footage captured the shoot took the better part of 2 hrs so around 1hour and 45 minutes

Unit 6: critical approaches to creative media products - Task 1

Quantitative audience research
Quantitative audience research is commonly used in Market research in order to find out what the majority desires. Film and television production companies use this determine what kind of products their target audience's desire. For example with the recent Dark knight Batman Trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. The other companies that produced comic Super Hero movies tried to make their movies more dark, even though in the source material is rather light in content like Spiderman.


Qualitative audience research
Qualitative research is where a select group of people which share common key characteristics discuss their likes through a focus group. It allows for topics to be further explored in further depth and details.

25/11/16 - Documentary interview - Mrs Gaughn

On Friday 25th November 2016 Myself and Chloe Handley interviewed Mrs Liz Gaughn for my Documentary. Mrs Gaughn is the Learner support Manager for All Saints Academy in Ingleby Barwick  which is where I attended Secondary School. The questions included what did she do day to day, what kind of students does she interact with And what was her first impression of me.


About 2 minutes into the interview we were interview by one of the school care takers closing one of the windows
after we started the questions again we changed so it was me having a conversation with Mrs Gaughn. about what triggers my anger and then we moved over to the couches to speak about the nostalgia about being back in the building of the secondary school I had attended.


it was a very successful interview all and all

Unit 27-interview techniques

• two types of questions
• closed questions can be  answered with either a single word or a short phrase
• often known as yes or no question
• they give you facts
• easy to answer
• quick to answer
• give control to questioner
• useful in range of different situations
• opening questions
• to test people's understanding
• to set up a desired frame of mind
• seeking yes to big question
• first word of question sets up it's dynamic.
• open questions receive long answer
• contributor can give more elaborate answer
• give you feelings and opinions
• give control to contributor
• asked to reflect and think
• go deep
• develop conversations
• find out more about people, what they are like
• get people to think about themselves more
• trigger points

vf

Unit 27 - Task 1

In factual film making Accuracy is important because the point of a documentary is that it tells facts and if the fact are incorrect then the audience may misinterpret the events in another way that the documentary's creator did not intend. The job of a documentary is that it tells both sides of events in a balanced manner this ties into accuracy, bias and opinion and representation.


When making a documentary the interviewer and narrator must remain impartial and tell the documentary's story as an outsider and not let their opinion and bias towards the subject cloud what they are saying because that could make the documentary inaccurate.


when it come to documentary's, the producer must remain on topic and not veer off on a tangent. when making a documentary you must stay on the one subject that your documentary while you may add other pieces of information it must be relevant to the story of the documentary.


As stated above Opinion can either have a positive effect for the documentary or it could have a detrimental effect on the documentary. The point of a factual film such as documentary is to inform and persuade people of events. For example during the second World War England and it's allies were the ones who won and the Nazis lost the war so we vilify them (which I don't blame them for there was the slaughter of 16 million Jewish innocents) but imagine I the Allies lost the war and the Nazis won if they made the documentaries instead of us we would be the ones vilified not us.


Bias is like opinion it depends on your perspective on how events played out and what you think of the people involved or how you portray the events to the audience, for example when taking over Germany Adolf Hitler portrayed the Jewish people as villainous and twisted and Hitler blamed the Jews for the why the Germans lost the 1st world war as well as the economic crisis Germany faced in the 1920's. He manipulated the facts to suit his plans.


Representation is extremely important because it ties into both opinion and bias because your opinion and bias could lead to some one being mis-represented in the re-enactment footage of the documentary. for example say that the documentary was re-enacting investigation of a crashed airliner you or a war documentary you could portray some one as either an idiot or  as some one completely vile and despicable. Portrayal is representation.


When interviewing people, one has to be careful not be too intrusive because the subject may be to sensitive for the contributor to speak about. it is important that you know where and when to push people or ask them the questions you want answering but the contributor is unwilling to give those answers.


when making a documentary the producer has a contract with the audience to tell the facts truthfully without mis-representing people, without bias influencing the production of the documentary and with partiality

13/09/16 - The Lift

A single film maker is sitting in a lift of a London tower block observing the inhabitants and speaking with them getting to know them, what they are like and their respective histories.


The film may seem as "It's just a man in lift recording people with a camera" but it's not as Marc Isaacs gets to know the people in the lift what they do in their daily lives, such as them going to or coming from the pub. there are several people who live in the building that he appears to develop a connection with. Very good film with an out of the box premise that you would assume to be dull but isn't.


I believe that 'The Lift' is an interactive documentary because it features the camera operator builds a rapport with people living in the tower block getting to know them as people and their habits.

27/09/2016 - documentary pitch result

Yesterday I gave my pitch for a documentary however it was quickly thrown out because it was more of an advertisement for the course. so my tutor instead made the entire pitch for me, Much to my embarrassment, A documentary about me which most of the group agreed with her throwing in additional ideas.


The pitches that came before and after my own involved a documentary about how some music groups don't reach stardom, about wrestling, about the social stigma about being a teenage mother, the difference of premier football leagues against the smaller leagues, about young people's journey into politics, the people who claim to be able to commune with spirits, foster families.


There were some very good ideas pitched but the way they were pitched was that was quite loosely presented as the people making the pitch were focussing on the wrong aspects and weren't giving the correct details.

Unit 62- digital video production for interactive media

Task 1- Uses of Interactive media
Interactive media has many functions. it's primary method are videos. other forms include photos, sound bites, and gifs. there are many websites that use videos as an advertisement for various products such as movie trailers, and or sneak previews, or to show some kind of new health care/ hygiene product.

Task 2
All websites that use Interactive media

When uploading to YouTube the preferred video file format include MP4, MP3 and .MOV and the recommended video resolutions are 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p

unit 8: Task 2- flowchart

For Task 2 of Unit 8 we had to create a flowchart of the different departments in the film industry such as Technical which includes lighting, camera etc.

Unit 8: BBC codes of practice

Above are photos of the poster I made explaining the BBC's Codes of Practice.



Unit 26 - assignment 2 task 2 - Producers and their Audiences

This task I am going to talk about my favourite film Star Wars The Force Awakens and about it's production and it's marketing strategy.
The producer (Kathleen Kennedy) identified the target audience by knowing who the audience of the previous films were. The audience was attracted by not only the name but the promise of a return to form for the Franchise after the Prequel trilogy failed plot wise. The Producers targeted a teenage audience by getting the film a 12 A rating it received this rating by submitting it to the BBFC for certification and guidance on how to make it a 12 A film


The general consensus from the target audience for the new film was that there needed to be more practical effects, and sets unlike the prequels which was mainly green screen and digital effects.


The film is set thirty years after Return of the Jedi, It features both the cast of the Original trilogy and new cast as well. the plot of the film is about making sure that a map to Luke Skywalker does not fall into the hands of the Evil Galactic Empire's fanatical successors The First Order. The main stars of the film are Daisy Ridley who portrays Rey a desert scavenger who takes her first steps into a larger world, Finn a former storm Trooper who defected from the First Order, Poe Dameron an ace resistance Pilot whose round astromech Droid BB8 carries the map to Luke Skywalker, Kylo Ren a former Jedi apprentice who idolises Darth Vader.


the Film was distributed by The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures across the US with 4000+ screens making it the biggest domestic release in all time across the United states. the Film made Sixty million dollars in pre-release ticket sales alone. and in the UK the film was shown on 2500+ screens and 670 cinemas in Ireland.
The film was marketed and advertised through various Books that filled in the gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, trailers, the official merchandise for the film was released on Friday 4th of September 2015. The film was distributed worldwide by Walt Disney studios. The film's soundtrack was released December 18 2015.


the publicity for the Film started on November 18 2014 with the first teaser trailer a whole year before the film was released. but before that the title of the film was released earlier in the month and even before that there was a cast photo with Director JJ Abrams the photo was released onto social media and into various film magazines. further teaser trailers were released in the following months there were Comic-con appearances. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher also appeared on Graham Norton's BBC chat show's Christmas special along with the newer cast members John Boyega and Daisy Ridley. which helped to create publicity. The Film was reviewed in newspapers and Film Magazines such as Empire Magazine and featured numerous alternate covers. the film also had numerous product tie-ins such as fruit, make-up this also generates attention and income




The Film was a financial success not only because of the marketing and advertising but also the fan base that Star wars possesses millions of fans world wide would come to watch it simply because it is a Star wars Movie like the prequel trilogy. The film in total grossed $2 billion worldwide


The Force Awakens was nominated for five academy Awards and 4  British Academy Film Awards where it won the award for Best Special Effects, It won five Awards of Empire Magazine's 21 film awards.


To build up to the film A series of comic books and novels were released that told the story of what happened after the conclusion of the original trilogy.
To also build up to the film's release there was a charity campaign set by Lucasfilm and Disney and the ones who donated the most would get to feature in the film as an extra

Unit 8 - Changes in film making technology

Below is the time line of how the history of the technology of film making and how things have changed
1897 - The first rotating camera for panning shots created for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1898 - Double exposure of films is discovered.
1899 - The first use of animation in films
1899 - Changing the film's speed of motion first appeared.
1900 - Shot continuity definitively established by George Albert Smith and James Williamson
            First reverse Angle cut used in 'Attack on a China Mission Station'
            First five minute film created by James Williamson
1903 - The chase method of film making was extended by several British films.
            The Great Train Robbery, the first film with multiple shots and locations was produced
1906 - 'The Story of the Kelly Gang', the first feature length film was produced in Australia.
1909 - The first feature length adaption of  Les Misérables
1927 - The first non Silent Film was released.
1941 - 'Citizen Kane' sets the standard for modern day (war) films
1967 - Multiscreen now known as Imax was founded
1968 - MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) established to rate films
1976 - Rocky was the first film to use a training montage
1977 - the first Star Wars film was released and is now considered one of the most important films in the history of the medium
1977 - ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) created to provide the special effects for Star Wars and is now used
1982 - George Lucas establishes THX.ltd as a division of LucasFilm.ltd
1988 - 'Who framed Rodger Rabbit' was the first film to combine live action actors with hand drawn cartoons
1993 - Jurassic park was the first film to seamlessly mix CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) with life size models
1995 - Disney Pixar's 'Toy Story was the first feature length film to be made with CGI
2002 - First successful use of motion capture in 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' with the character Gollum
2003 - 'The Matrix Revolutions' was the first live action film to be shot with Imax 3D cameras.
2009 - James Cameron's 'Avatar' became the highest grossing film of all time so far after his previous film 'Titanic'

Unit 26 - Assignment 2 - task 2 - Conecting with films

The films I connect with the most would be the Star Wars saga. I interact with them and the films' genre is, I watch the films I listen to the sound tracks, By reading the genre I know that the star wars franchise while the films may appear to just be Science Fiction it is in reality science fantasy due to the presence of the force which is a mythical energy field.


Others may interpret Star wars just to be Science Fiction but as stated before the franchise is science fantasy due to the mystical presence of the force.
The attraction of Star Wars I suppose is the escapism which is apart of uses and gratification model, the ability to see new vast worlds, the characters, the battles and the music, and the ability to interact with others about theorising about future releases. 

Star Wars' online presence is massive with social media, games, videos on YouTube such as trailers interviews with cast and crew. The fandom is also represented via cosplay which is where people dress as their favourite characters from films. And then there are the fan made productions, there is even a yearly competition for the best lightsaber choreography in a fan film I am not even joking. A competition winning example is below.

Active spectatorship is where a member of the audience actively agrees with preferred reading of the film an example of this would be the film "Avatar" which has the message of that we shouldn't interfere with indigenous species and their natural resources. Passive spectatorship is where an audience member just watches the film for what it is or could be influenced by it such as the James Bolger incident where 2 young children brutally murdered  an even younger boy after watching Child's Play 3. This was seen to have an effect on their psyches this event allowed people realise that some films may have an adverse effect on certain members of audiences. I would say that when it comes to Star Wars I am a mixture of both because when it comes to watching the films, I just that but I also research the expanded universe material to learn more about the franchise.

Before the Latest Star wars film came out I interacted with the online media by watching the trailers or interviews with the cast and crew.

I own at least three releases of the original trilogy one was the 1997 VHS special editions, the 2004 DVD release and 2011 blu-ray release. and I have two versions of the Prequel Trilogy.  

Star Wars has Several Facebook pages for it's various things Such as it's main page for Facebook and twitter, Star Wars Rebels, and for the charity events that Disney and Lucasfilm has set up for advertisement. I prefer to watch the saga on Blu-Ray due to the Better quality of visuals and audio.

Unit 24- Future learn course

While undergoing the pre-production process for the short films myself and the rest of my class had to take an online course on the future learn website.


The point of this is to learn about the jobs and positions we could take in the short films and in the industry. the things we learned about included the art department, the production staff (Producers, writers, Directors, Production co-ordinators etc.) the camera department (Director of photography, camera operators, the grips.) The Post Production Department(aka Editing and Promotion, Distribution).

Unit 26 - What is Queer Theory and What is Genre analysis

Queer theory is built upon the challenges of feminism to the idea that gender is apart of oneself as well as gay/lesbian studies' examinations of the constructed nature of sexual acts and identities.



The tern 'gay' normalises homosexuality however the term 'queer' is a break with the belief that gayness arises from gay liberationist  and lesbian feminist models.


Queer theory is based in sexuality and gender, due to this association a debate often arises weather orientation of sexuality is natural or if it is essential to one's person or if sexuality is a social construction that can change.
Queer theory was originally associated with radical gay politics and that the term 'queer' became an identity label.
Two examples in films where Queer theory is used is Brokeback mountain which is set in the 1960's where homosexuality is seen as wrong and vile and the two main characters have to hide their sexuality. A second example is in X-Men: The Last Stand however this is more of an comparison as Sir Ian Mckellen who plays one of the films antagonists compares the cure to mutations in the film like a cure to homosexuality which is like removing a part of who you are.


Genre Analysis
Genre analysis is the academic subject which studies genre theory as a branch of general critic theory. literary genre studies is a structuralist approach to the study of genre in film theory and other cultural theories. Genre is used by audiences and production staff to match a film with a set of conventions. Audiences expect certain things from different Films. And production staff use it as a set of rules to know how to create the required elements of certain genres and how to much to spend.
For example Science Fiction often abbreviated to Sci-Fi. Science Fiction often features aliens, spaceships, advanced technology, moral and ethical issues. the expected conventions are

• Aliens - independence day, Star trek Star Wars, Doctor who these films show that the sci-fi genre of Aliens either they be invading the earth or just part of a cultural menagerie.
• More advanced technology then current human technology such as faster then light travel, the ability to destroy a planet in a single shot for Example Star Wars
• Another convention of the Science Fiction Genre is the moral and ethical questions which asks she would we let technology replace what we are as humanity's core, and what it means to be human, like Blade Runner which had replicants for example or Transcendence which dealt with downloading a human mind into the internet.  

Unit 26 - American film industry vs British film industry

British films are generally a smaller scale in production then most American Movies with much smaller budgets. This can be seen with smaller scale stunts and effects as well as lesser known actors.




A co-production is where a larger company mainly American provides funding and is the company that distributes it, however that only happens if 10% of both cast and crew are American. The UK uses these to allow for greater tax returns which are used by the larger American companies to get interested in the production of any sequels.


the factors that influence production are finance/budget. most British film productions either get funding from either the BBC, the BFI film fund, Film 4 or as stated previously funding from the larger American companies.




The tax incentives for Shooting a film in the UK is that there is 25% Tax return from the British Government for shooting in the UK, this would interest the overseas production companies because it means they can make more money out of the film's production.




The technologies used in production that influence production have differing effects such as filming and presenting the film in either 3D or Imax increases cost because of the equipment. DVD's are cheaper to make and purchase then Blu Ray disks which is due to the fact of it having more behind the scenes features then ordinary DVD's


Films are exhibitioned usually at cinemas or at film festivals. the reason that most of cinema chain lines present the larger films is because the larger production/distribution companies have got shares of that company meaning they can exhibit their films easier then the smaller companies. Films are usually distributed by one of the film's main production companies. The marketing plan for the film like the Avengers (Assemble) they had several solo films to build up to it, trailers, posters video games and cartoon shows. In America film promotion is massive, posters everywhere in towns and cities on giant billboards at the side of the roads, race tracks and Comic Cons. In the UK however it is slightly smaller scale.


Vertical integration is where one Company handles all three stages of the film's life which are Production, Distribution and Exhibition. Horizontal Integration is where different companies handle production, distribution and exhibition.


The regulatory issues of film distribution and exhibition is that it means that only a certain audience can see the movie for example the film Deadpool was rated R in America by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America, but in the UK it was rated 15 by the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification

The Tech Team shot sizes video tutorial

This is my contribution to the single camera techniques for my group the Tech Team and that contribution is Camera shot sizes.

Unit 24: Short Film Self Evaluation

The two weeks we spent filming were long and tiring but the end result I'm sure will be worth it. The first week of filming was probably the most difficult especially the first day of shooting due to lack of communication between the director and the rest of cast and crew. allowing us only to wrap one scene and only film part of another. The rest of the week actually quite fun to do.


The second week I think went much better because we mostly didn't have to work on heavy make up and most of the scenes were shot inside (Monday at Teeside University and Tuesday we filmed at the Director's old House until 4pm. On Wednesday morning the rest of cast and crew filmed in Billingham town centre which I could not take part in due to having maths lessons in the afternoon.)
 On the Wednesday night we filmed a werewolf transformation so it was a bit nippy, and I'm pretty sure that the actor's screams for the transformation scared a few people that were walking past where we were filming because a police car passed by where we were filming several times. The day after that we filmed in an abandoned house in Ingleby Barwick where I played a dead body.


After the Half term Holidays we returned to Preston Park to shoot the fight scene for Shadows walk among us which involved fake blood, fake organs and an actor who's knee landed into a pile of dog poo during a take where he was flung over while chasing the protagonists. two days later we went to Norton high street to once again shoot several scenes which were lost due to the tape being lost or damaged I am not sure which.


once all the scenes were shot we had to edit them and compile the first cut/draft of the film by the 25th of April which was extremely fun.


Overall I enjoyed working on both short films. I did have a few problems due to the location being cold and the background noise from cars when filming in Norton High street but I enjoyed working with the cast with the jokes. In between takes. some of the crew were fun to work with the ones who did work anyway during the pre-production process.

Unit 24 - Week 2 of filming production diary

Monday - Location Teesside college, thankfully filming went well today despite the fact that the tripod didn't have a plate on it, we had no extras resulting it myself and most of the production crew acting as extra's instead.

Tuesday - Was a mild shoot in comparison. Based in Norton at one of the Production crew's house. Filming went until 4pm.

Wednesday - Filming started at the Billingham Forum theatre in the morning which I could not attend due by the time we started filming I had to be in Maths and then back to Norton in the afternoon. where we would film the werewolf transformation scene as the sun set we may have scared a few people due to how loud the screams got. we were filming under a bridge so the sound echoed slightly.

Thursday - Location, The Rings, Ingleby Barwick, Firstly when we got the first location we got everything we needed done but then the Camera Operator left to go on Holiday leaving us to get filming done on our own. the second location was an abandoned house which was used as a prison cell, I was a dead body lying against the cell wall.

Unit 24 - Week 1 filming Production diary

The Monday of the first week of filming was not very good because it took at least three hours for the actors to get their make-up done. When we got too location it took at least another hour to get anything done. due to the Director's lack of communication with the cast and crew meaning that there was a great deal of confusion and delay including the fact that we only got one scene wrapped.






Tuesday on the other hand however was much better we were ahead of schedule by at least 2 hours and we got all of the scenes we needed done except the final fight scene but we be shooting that after the Easter break. however it got to the point where it got too dark for us to film so we wrapped for the night.

 

Wednesday morning we did the narrating voice overs for both films as well as filmed the first scene of Oblivious as well. which was set in a classroom

Unit 24 - Pre-Production report

Once the finalised scripts were handed in it was a matter of selecting which ones were to be made into films. Once all nine selected films were chosen it was matter of which student did what. We were then told to write a letter asking for what position we wanted to perform during production.


Personally I requested to be a Boom microphone operator because I felt that since it wasn't my film I should stay out of the way.


My job during the Pre-Production was to create a sound folly, which is a list of background sounds in scenes or what sounds would need to be where. I also took up the task of seeing what props would be needed for which scenes they would be required in.


I was one of the first finished with my own work when I helped with the others such as filling out the risk assessments.
as soon as most of the Pre-production work was done we started the auditioning process for the actors.


Once the actors had been cast for both movies I worked on. we used several of the same actors in both films so that made it slightly easier. we needed to prepare the make-up for them which included werewolf fur, zombies (Scarred and pale skin).


The day that all of the Pre-Production paperwork was finished was on the first day of filming. because of the Director for the first film (Adam Mclean)  really didn't care about the paperwork. much to the chagrin of myself, Honey Louise Ryan (director for Oblivious and assistant director for Shadows that walk among us) and Kelsey Ellington (Assistant Director for Oblivious and Production co-ordinator for Shadows that walk among us.)


All in all the Pre-Production process was good but could have been better.

Unit 24: Script to Screen – writing a short film script: Task 1 – Working as a Writer

Commissioning a script

When a script is commissioned by a film production company for a new film a writer is selected to write it. The script then goes through several drafts before the final one is produced. Even then while the shooting of the film is taking place, there will be small changes in dialogue to better suit the setting of the film.

Writers contracts and employer expectations

When a writer is hired to write a script the production company will make them sign contracts so they won't sell the script to other companies. The production companies expectations is that the script is well written (Though sometimes it is doubtful that production companies know what a good script is sometimes) and keeps to the story of the proposed film.

 Legal and ethical expectations that concern writers.

The legal expectations for writers is that once a production company commissions a film for the script. They essentially own the script so you can’t sell it to another company. The ethical expectations are that they have to be paid well, except that they are not when they provide the skeletal structure for the film.

Unit 30: Self-evaluation of Christmas adverts

The theme of the project was Christmas adverts which were intended to test our skills for narrative creativity and editing skills.

We developed our ideas by group discussion such where and when we should film the adverts. Our work didn’t change throughout the project by much. Although we did change our shots to fit the location we were shooting at.

I don’t believe that the research materials I provided assisted the project much because I researched copyright although I did help with the health and safety slightly. I think I should have done a lot more to assist the project both in pre and post production of the advert.

Other examples I looked at were the Christmas adverts that John Lewis has released over the years such as “Monty the Penguin” or “Man on the Moon” so that I could understand the types of techniques that were used in them.

The techniques that were used included slow focus, and panning shots with a mixture of long and mid shots.

My skills have not developed much during this project. Because most of the time I stood in the background making sure everything technical was working right such as the tripod and camera. While my team mates worked with the cast member.

The aspects of my studies I wish I further explored was my research I feel like I should have done more of it and took a greater part in gathering the research.

The decision to do the shoot on one day and in one location I think was good in concept but I think that if it was done over two days we could have gotten better shots as the child actor we used kept smiling during filming 

The meanings and messages I wanted to convey is that no one should be left alone on Christmas.

I am mostly happy with the final piece however it is without music and the logos aren’t exactly accurate. To the proper adverts but that’s minor.

I think I would change the layout of the advert and maybe use a different actor. Because the one we used as previously stated kept smiling while we were filming.

Unit 30 - Adverts via YouTube

Hello there here is the final product of my Christmas adverts I apologise if the music is slightly distorted or the video quality is low. I look forward for the feedback

what we did today 14/01/2016

Today we are presenting our completed adverts to a focus group for feed back to make final changes to our adverts, however the advert that I made is still lacking music and logos but thankfully my version of the adverts are not being be used. So yeah. I will report back when the feedback has been received


*Edit the feed back was needed a shot showing the boy entering the front door and a shot showing the boy's grandmother other wise it's child neglect.

Unit 16 - Auteur task

Film 1: Grand Budapest hotel
Clip 1- the police arrive at the hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yFPjtGQvaM
Subject Matter,  the police arrive to arrest Gustave H for murder.
Cinematography, the final shot when Gustave speaks to the police and then runs away. the clip has several uses of long shots
Mise en scene, the lobby boys Zero has a coat hanger and the police inspector has a warrant for an arrest.


clip 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOs-4J6rr-w the society of the crossed keys.


subject matter: fellow hotel concierges help Gustave anyway they can by calling each other
Cinematography - repetition of mid shots with the concierges calling each other with other little inserts.
Mise en scene - the concierges call each other. they have the same layout but they each have their own unique outfits that match the hotel they work at.


clip 3 -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B28JEFkBzxc - The Lobby Boy


Subject Matter: Zero's position is to be approved by Gustave


Cinematography the main shot of this scene is a tracking shot that follows Gustave as he is interviewing Zero but is interrupted several times throughout the shot.


Mise en scene: Gustave has a small note book in which he notes down Zero's credentials

Unit 26 - Research for short film

For making the Eternal Wanderer I looked at the Highlander movie Franchise, Doctor Who, Dracula and Disney Pixar's Wall-E for the inspiration.


Highlander was for the story of two Immortals fighting each other across the eras. Doctor Who was for the Immortal wandering across the world. Dracula was for the Evil Immortal wanting to spread chaos across the world. And Wall-E about someone who has been alone for so long falls in love with a girl.



For inspiration for the characters themselves I used Connor Macleod (Highlander), The Doctor (Doctor Who), and Wall-E (Wall-E) for Nathaniel because of how they have lived their lives as Immortals who open up their hearts but when their loved one pass on they remain young except for Wall-E who is a robot that cleans up the rubbish left behind by humans when they left the planet but when a female robot arrives to survey the earth to see if it's habitable. Wall-E after centuries of being alone is instantly attracted to her.




I used the Joker from Batman and the Master from Doctor Who as well as Norman Bates from psycho for Perseus because they are insane and have grudges against their respective heroes.


I used Mary Jane Watson from Spider man because of the Damsel of distress trope and Clara Oswald from Doctor Who because of her caring nature for Charlotte.






Connor MacLeod is a Scottish Immortal born in 1518, when his Immortality was first discovered he was threatened to be burned at the stake because of witchcraft but was banished instead. Over the centuries he fought Immortals while fighting other to the death. the prize being able to die which is a desire I think Nathaniel the protagonist from my short film would have after being alive for centuries.




The Doctor is a time travelling alien who is roughly two thousand years old. During his travels he had numerous companions who are usually Human and female, however he has had several non human companions who also been female but he has had at least two mechanical companions traveling with him a dog-based robot called K9 and a shape shifting humanoid robot called Chameleon. he has had several male companions bot human and non-human the female companions hold the majority. When the doctor is mortally wounded or his physical age gets to certain point the Doctor has the ability to regenerate literally becoming a new man (Height, voice, eyes, hair, skin colour even his personality is changed.) Through varying circumstances his companions leave him either death, they walk out the doors/get left behind or they forget him. The reason I used him for inspiration for Nathaniel is for the wandering across the world. as time changes he does not.


The Joker is a psychopathic comic character that was first introduced in the 1940's and has had numerous iterations across the decades. the particular version of the Character I am drawing inspiration from, is from the 1990's batman animated series iteration voiced by Mark Hamill. He Joker while working in a chemical plant fell into a vat of chemical waste that bleached his skin, turned his hair green and his lips bright red. said disfigurement rendered him insane. The Joker is a champion of chaos and destruction willing to kill everyone on a whim.


The Master is from the same species as the Doctor. they were even childhood friends but when they left Gallifrey they chose different paths. The Doctor chose to explore the universe and to help where he could. whereas the master chose to conquer the universe. his personality changes with each iteration but like the doctor a few things remain the same. His intelligence, his ruthlessness, his complete lack of regard for sentient life and his determination to take over the universe.


Patrick Bateman is a from a wealthy American Family so he has taste for the finer luxuries of life. but he is also a psychopath who kills his co-workers just for having better business cards then him. the reason I chose him for inspiration when coming up with Perseus is because in the original novel he is slightly schizophrenic.
I used Mary Jane Watson for inspiration for Charlotte mainly because of the damsel in distress trope in which the protagonist and antagonist fight over her in a final battle. which is what happens.
I used Ashilda/Me from Doctor Who for inspiration because she is Immortal and I can't think of any other Immortal Female characters that aren't either gods, witches or demons. Ashilda was born in Scandinavia several hundred years ago in a Viking village. After the Doctor helped the town repel an attack from a warrior alien race. in which Ashilda died. The Doctor using alien medical Technology brought her back to life however doing so made her essentially Immortal.

Unit 26 - comparing movie posters

The Star Wars Poster has use of special effects, it's cluttered with multiple characters and objects in it where as the Indiana Jones Poster just has the title character roughly in the centre of the poster and the supporting characters and one of the antagonists in the corners.

the genre of the Star Wars poster is science fiction which can be seen with the lasers and space ships

where as the genre for the Indiana Jones poster is action/ historical/ fantasy which can be seen in the way the poster is styled. is looks like it was painted

Interestingly Harrison Ford is a main character in both movies.

what we did on 20/12/2015

Today, myself, Taylor, Matthew Taylor, Chloe did the filming for our four Christmas adverts for John Lewis. The adverts were filmed at Taylor's mother's house in one afternoon. Taylor was director
Matthew was camera operator, Chloe was production designer and I was there to sort out any of the technical issues such as how to remove the camera from the tripod and how to place the camera on the tripod which my fellow members of the crew had no idea on how to do.


We spent most of the time shooting in the living room with Taylor's younger brother, Georgie