Friday, 10 May 2013
Costumes and Actors
Our costumes are stereotypical for what our characters are - the criminal is hooded and we won't see his face until the end of the opening sequence and it will still be dark around him. I will be playing the hooded criminal. Most of the shots are point of view for my character and others are over the shoulder so my height doesn't come into play. We chose Matthew Sloan to play our stressed businessman because of his willingness not to shave and his overall build. He is broad and tall, wearing a stereotypical businessman's outfit of a suit and tie. This outfit when worn properly may suggest that he is in control, however, in out film, it will look messy and Matthew will look stressed - the illusion of control is taken away by the line of cocaine and the alcohol on top of the messy appearance he no longer has time for.
Script
Our final script can be seen below, as an improvement to the preliminary we have focused a lot more on structuring this script to keep the audience interested and listening, we are still deciding what music to play below the voiceover.
(Voiceover) Matt: Why is it as life's boundaries begin to expand, there's always someone to get in the way? Well. It was while it lasted. Even with all my money...and what I presumed to be a flawless system... I must have missed something - but what?
Intruder *shouting*: There's no point in hiding boy! If you run - we'll catch you!
(Voiceover) Matt: What happened to me? I was a somebody... I was notorious... I was... untouchable.
(Voiceover) Matt: I helped people with drug problems. Then I realised drugs weren't a problem - they were a solution.
(Voiceover) Matt: I helped people with drug problems. Then I realised drugs weren't a problem - they were a solution.
Inside Man
Shot Types
Over the shoulder
Action Match
Wide Shot
Close Up
Two Shot
Arial Shot
Dolly
Titles
The opening scene opens with a character speaking very frankly to the audience in a black area completely devoid of features, this emphasizes the importance of what the character is narrating by ensuring that the audience is focusing entirely on the character and what he is saying. As well as this the blank background adds to the sense of mystery and shows that through the film the audience will be shown only as much information as they need to see, at the time they need to see it.
Music
The soundtrack is very minimal in the first segment to, again, allow the audience to focus on the main character. Despite this there is some non-diegetic synth music if the volume is raised high enough. this is likely to give some ambient noise for the audience as pure silence can be disconcerting to listen to for the audience. In the van segment the music is very loud and overwhelming (in direct contrast to the first part) and seems to be of Indian culture, this may help the reader identify the setting of this flashback. The music track has a very fast tempo and cheery sound which is contrapuntal to the scene, as we know the van is on it's way to rob a bank. This gives a good effect and lightens the tone of the scene.
Mies en Scene
"The only initial clue to the character's personality/purpose are his clothes, which are very dark in color. This would normally influence the viewer into thinking the character was the antagonist or morally corrupt, however this is at odds with the way we are introduced to the character, which immediately makes the audience associate him as the protagonist of the film. These two factors clue in the audience that this character is an antihero of sorts, someone who the audience are intended to root for but who other characters would not. It is shortly revealed that he is a morally corrupt character as he is in a prison cell, however his clothes do not seem to match this (as they don't resemble prison uniform) this could either be an inconsistency in production or be a hint that the man is narrating from a time after he was imprisoned."
Target Audience
The target audience of this film is fans of action thrillers or films which focus on a bank robbery theme, the characters follow general conventions from movies made in this style, the main difference is the story which provides a rich in depth riddle for the audience to follow.
Distribution
This film is distributed by Universal Pictures which usually focus on large budget box office films, the movie was budgeted at 45 Million USD. Other movies on this genre produced by Universal include, fast and furious and the Bourne series.
Social Groups
The social groups represented in this film come in the form of criminals and the investigation and negotiation team, these are portrayed as very advanced and smart characters, the criminals are well organized and are well prepared and the investigation/negotiation team are very intelligent in their ways of resolving the situation made very difficult by the criminals.
Audience Expectations
Any audience who enjoys action thrillers would thoroughly enjoy this film, the constant twists and developments in the story allow the user to try and decipher and attempt to understand the acts performed by the criminals as the film progresses.
Lighting
We are going to use two small lights to help us get rid of any graininess that may show up on our clips due to poor lighting. We have tried this once when filming before and the video quality of an iPhone 4 was also not high enough for what we would have liked so when we next film we will use these two lights again and instead shoot with a Panasonic TM900. We have to be careful about shadows showing due to the way our lighting is done - footage could end up having to be re-filmed which would not be good handling of our time, we were careful with the iPhone 4 and it went well so we have to do the same when re-filming these clips. In the offices themselves we also kept the same lights on throughout our filming sessions so as not to ruin continuity and also to maybe take away a little from our film coming across as too dark from the beginning.
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