HOW AND WHY WE CHOSE ACTION FOR OUR MAIN TASK.

To begin with, we struggled to find a genre that we all agreed on that wouldn't be too complicated to produce. As we couldn't make a collective decision, we decided to write all of our personal choices and we put them in a hat, shuffled them around and got a different member of the class to pull a bit of paper out. The paper that was chosen said action.

When we discussed ideas for an action film and we realised that doing an action gives us a lot of opportunities to make our Main Task individual from others.

This is each member of our group thinking of a name for our company. The one we have chosen is 'RunAway Productions'

Mapping of our Main Task

Effects in Movies

What effects sound creates...

Sound creates tension and thrill to viewers.  The use of sound adds emphasis to loud noises or scenes that the audience may be on the edge of their seat for. Tension is created when a scene is slowly building up to be more exciting or scary, the use of sound alongside things such as slow or fast past shots/scenes shows to us (the audience) that something scary is about to happen. Sound can be diegetic, non-diegetic, asynchronous and synchronous. There are many more examples and forms of sound but these are the simplest and most basic to talk about to people who don’t study media for example. Sound is there to add to the movie or whatever is being filmed, similar to the effects of colour for example without this it would be boring because having sound enables us to hear conversations, music added for tension as well as sound effects for extra emphasis.

What effects pace creates...

Pace is the speed of something. This is often used in shots and characters movements. If something big is about to happen in an action movie, the pace of the shots picks up, the characters may start running, panicking or reacting fast this is a change in their pace. The effects of this create excitement or fear for us the audience when watching as we don’t know what is about to happen. Some people are on the edge of their seat in situations like this depending on the effects and intensity. Pace can also change to slow. This often represents something negative or sad. When a character acts in slow pace or the movie stops for a second and slows down this shows death or a serious incident. The producers do this to put an effect on the audience and enable us to take it in as well as trying to get us to really feel a characters point of view. Often they may show the person dying or in pain really slowly from their point of view but everything going on around them really fast. This effect helps up to deeply understand what is going on. Pace can be fast, normal or slow. Fast and slow are there to create effects on the audience when something important is happening within the movie.

What effects camera movements, angles and shots create...

Camera movements consist of Pan, Tilt, track, Steadicam, handheld and crane. These are a few examples of the different ones yet they all do different things. These play a big role because if they weren’t there the movies wouldn’t be as creative nor to as high of quality and standard. They enable us to psychically see the movie moving and if not the camera would stay on the same scene throughout which would be boring. Camera movements capture things such as flying, driving, walking, falling and everyday other movements. These affect the movies ability to be extensive and shoot scenes such as superheroes flying and falling for example. With camera movements films have been able to extend what they can film and share with the rest of the world especially with a crane tool for example. This captures heavy movement and shots other cameras wouldn’t be able to get to.

Camera angles: these show us characters in different lights. If a camera is held at a low angle it shows a person in a strong and powerful way but if the camera is at a low angle it shows the character as weak and submissive. These make movies better as it helps us the audience get a clearer and better understanding of the movie and character. There are 4 main angles the audience should be aware, low, high, point of view and canted. Point of view gives us the scene from the characters perspective whilst canted shows the movie in a more dynamic composition. This is a strong point to movies as it gives it the creativity and as I mentioned it shows us the audience the characters in different lights giving us a clearer understanding.

Camera shots: these are the different ways the camera is positioned to give us a different view of the movie, the main shots are close up, extreme close up, long shot, wide, extreme wide, point of view, mid, birds eye view, over the shoulder, and low angle. The shots such as extreme close up show us something in close detail such as someone’s eyes and what we can connote from seeing their eyes in a close shot. Extreme wide shot shows the setting which benefits the audience to understand where the movie is taking place. This often used in the establishing shot which sets the setting to the audience like I mentioned. An over the shoulder shot is used to show conversations between characters, it is usually used alongside a shot reverse shot scene where the camera flips between two characters which are having some form of dialogue to show the conversation from both points of view.

What effects editing creates…

Editing is the way a movie is made to make sense and understanding to the audience, because if they filmed all the shots in chronological order the production team would have to continuously move location back and forth whereas for example in Fast and furious 7 they film in America and Dubai therefore they film all the Dubai scenes in one block and all other scenes the same way. They then edit all the scenes in to an order. This is known as continuity editing. There are other types of editing but continuity is the main one everyone should be aware of. When a conversation is taking place in a movie they usually use straight cutting to show the realism of the conversation. Pace is also included as a part of editing but I used it on its own in this piece of work as I believe it is big enough role in a movie to talk about it on its own.

What effects lighting creates…

Lighting makes movies reflect there genre in a clearer way, as well as individual scenes. If a movie consists of low lighting throughout It suggests it’s scary and frightening which tells me that it is a horror or thriller of some sort and isn’t a fun or childish movie. If a movie features low and dark scenes only at certain points this tells me something bad is about to happen whether that be scary, sad or just negative I get that idea from low lighting in a movie. On the other hand high key lighting suggests it is fun, positive and not particularly scary. Comedies often have extreme high key lighting as well as musicals to suggest the positivity of this movie. Lighting can be detailed and effective, as well as sometimes be used in the same ways as camera shots and angles. What I mean by this is like when a movie uses an under light it is placed directly below a person’s face this is often used in horror movies for that extra effect or in chick flicks when the girls tell their confessions in truth or dare. Top lighting is the opposite, it is place above a character or object to light it up and show it even more clearly. 

What affects the setting plays…

The setting in a movie is the plan and location of a movie. If it is set in the past there is often low lighting, unclear scenes and dull colours to connote this. If it is set in the city it would be busy, high key lighting, and a lot of other things going on around the movie. The setting should be shown to the audience at the start of the movie to get that understanding. Big movies use famous areas that people often go to site see such as New York, London or Dubai.

Why it is good to create an effect on the audience…

It is good to create an effect on the audience because it can make them feel a certain way. If someone feels sad after watching a film people often begin to appreciate life, and how blessing it really is no matter how negatively we see it sometimes. If the audience leave feeling excited they would often want to see a sequel to this movie and cheered up appreciating the movie for making them feel this positive way. When left on a cliff hanger the audience feel impatient but this is good because usually there is a sequel coming and the audience will be eager to see it ASAP. Rarely people leave watching a movie feeling angry therefore this wouldn’t really be taken in to consideration.

OUR CHOSEN LOGO

This is the logo we have chosen for our company. We chose this as we felt it went best with the title of our opening title sequence and the name of our company. This will be put onto a program where i will then annotate it and add it in to the Main Task product.

Institution Idents

These are a few pencil drawings of some design ideas we had for our Production logo.

FINAL LOGO ANIMATION

This is our chosen logo design once it had been put onto a program that allowed me to animate it. Originally, the idea was that we wanted to make the man look like he was running but with time limits and deadlines the least i could do was make the text move. This is the FIRST DRAFT.

This is our final design. We chose this as when the writing was on the leg it was unclear when it came to adding it on to the main task opening title sequence.

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MAIN TASK - EQUIPMENT WE USED