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- 1. Wraith
- 2. Overall Narrative • Hauge’s Six-Stage Plot Structure. • Male protagonist, female antagonist – slightly unusual for the genre but effective. • Anti-hero of sorts, which fits the genre.
- 3. First 2 Minutes • Poetic thought tracking (voice over) • London Underground • Night time chase scene
- 4. The Rest of The Film • Escape of the villain • Hero tracks her down • The big conclusion…
- 5. The Finale • Dramatic monologue • The conclusion: death scene • “Happily Ever After” • Breaking Hauge’s structure
- 6. Genre
- 7. Certificate Conventions of Action Films • Certificate of 15 due to some swearing/nudity/violence/sexual activity • Not allowed to show much nudity/sexual activity in detail (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15) • Some brief nudity and light use of swearing • (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/12a-and-12)
- 8. Codes/Conventions of action Films • Hollywood action films- generic codes • Dynamic shots, Big budgets, Predictable plot, melodramatic non diegetic sound, A list celebrities looking rugged. • character has to be believable. • City Location, Flats. • Protagonist is rugged • Some comedy in frightening situations • Normally made into a series due to audience appreciation.
- 9. Character
- 10. Character • Antagonists smart looking • They are normally foreign • Antagonists destroy the equilibrium of the film • The Antagonist are also well spoken • The protagonists are rugged and seen as manly and muscular which is generic • Action films’ primary audience are men who stereotypically enjoy watching action, bulky men fight and perform lots of action moves and save the day
- 11. Our Characters • Protagonist: Male • Tall, Messy hair, Geek/messy, not very fashionably aware.
- 12. Our characters • Antagonist: Female • Clean, Smart, High sense of fashion and innocent looking
- 18. Equipment: Canon EOS 70D 40mm f2.4 STM Canon Lens 18-200mm Canon Lens 50mm f1.8 Canon Lens 100mm 1.2 Canon lens 8mm Canon Fisheye Lens Portable bars of light (70 LEDS) Monfrotto fluid head tripod Clip Microphones Canon in-built microphone
- 19. Target audience According to a study made in 2011, men think these ten factors are the perfect film: 1. Car chase 2. Nude scene 3. Action sequence 4. Sex scene 5. Sci fi/fantasy 6. Chase scene 7. Martial arts 8. Violent/gory scene 9. War 10. Interrogation
- 20. • If we were to consider the age group of our audience we would say it would range from young adult males aging from 15 up to men in their early thirties. • This is because our film will feature an intense chase scene and this type of action mostly attracts male audiences.
- 21. Budget • Budget is important within a film because it allows you to spend carefully. • This includes filming equipment such as cameras and lighting facilities along with post production such as editing software, added sound effects, music, marketing and other factors such as actors wages.
- 22. • Any Hollywood action films tend to have a very big budget. Big budget action films tend to start from around $50 million (£32 million) ranging all the way up to $250 million (£160 million). $60 million (£38 million) $150-200 million(£96-£128 million)
- 23. £15M £10M
- 24. Roles • Tom - Editor and cameraman • Dan - Screenwriter & additional shots • Steven – Director • Heb – Cinematographer & producer
Editor's Notes
- Tom : Chose this title as it has links to death and is quite an eerie sounding word – The word has a close meaning to ghost and our film is based around death and murder, so it all ties together quite effectively, and this leads me nicely on to Steven who is going to talk about the Plot
- STEPHAN - We will be following the Six-Stage Plot Structure of Michael Hauge; this follows the idea that the ‘hero’ is introduced as a likeable character, is given an opportunity that leads to the time where the overall goal that governs the story is revealed; the stakes are then increased and the odds stacked against the hero, until the situation is resolved with the hero’s ultimate success or failure. However, we will be deviating slightly from this structure for effect, although I’ll explain that as we come to it in the plot. Our plot revolves around the relationship between our male protagonist and female antagonist.; the villain is despised by the hero, as she murdered his parents after mistakenly thinking he cheated on her while they were together. However, after this occurred, she disappeared without a trace. Until now.
- The film begins with our protagonist sat on a train thinking about his parents’ death, looking at a photo and thought tracking about the fact it would’ve been their anniversary, hinting at the death but not explicitly saying it; then, having got off the train, the hero discovers that villain has moved to London after seeing her get onto the underground, but he loses her before he can do anything. Soon after, he finds her again and is able to chase her down; towards the end of this chase scene, the hero’s thought tracking resumes, reciting a poem that reveals the death of his parents to the audience. This is where the first 2 minutes will end, and the audience would not know at this point if the protagonist physically catches up with and does anything to the antagonist.
- Leading onto the rest of the film, the hero is unable to avenge his parents in that moment as she escapes, although the 2 minutes that we will be filming will not show this, so the audience at that stage are unaware, leading onto the overall goal of the film, as he tries to rectify the situation and avenge his parents by killing the villain. However, obstacles will stack the odds against our hero, as he struggles to track her down and overcome the challenges and dead-ends she leaves for him along the way.
- At the end of the film, he catches up to her for the climax. As he monologues to talk to her about what she did and the effect it’s had on him, she stabs him in the stomach with a blade that had been concealed. However, before he dies, he is able to stab her in the throat and they both die in a pool of their shared blood; this is significant as he, despite being the protagonist, is on a villainous quest for vengeance and blood, and this death scene highlights that this has turned him into a monster just the same as her actions, and that they are both villains in a sense. The conveyance of villainy in both characters at the climax is significant as it follows suit with the archetype of this kind of ‘hero’ that has major villainous character flaws, such as Dexter, Judge Dredd, Breaking Bad and others where their actions don’t bring about a rosy end, where they live happily ever after. Furthermore, while following Hauge’s structure, we will be deliberately breaking it by having no ‘Aftermath’ stage; this is both to add ‘shock’ factor because the deaths will be the final scene of the film, but also that it would be irrelevant to have one: both the protagonist and antagonist are dead, so while this could have an effect on other people, viewing the impact of the aftermath on their lives would take more away from the finish than it would give.
- HEBPHEN
- Heb – Action films are bound to have violence, it is one of the codes that makes an action film. If the films are designed for children then they are allowed light swearing, nudity and violence. It has to be brief. Even though these are more mature features being shown to children, they are needed as it adds to the mise-en-scene and makes the film more authentic. They can be shown in the films – cannot promote the use of violence/drug use Certificate 12 no aggressive use of strong language/sex no drug use for fear of promoting it to young children
- Hollywood action films- generic codes Dynamic shots, Big budgets, Predictable plot, melodramatic non diegetic sound, A list celebrities looking rugged. Film not realistic but character has to be believable. Location is stereotypical- City Location, Flats, Lots of people Protagonist is rugged but usually generic, until faced with the danger for example the character of Liam Neeson is ‘Taken’ Some comedy in scary situations Normally made into a series due to audience appreciation
- Antagonists are generically smart and dressed well They ae normally foreign e.g Die Hard where the antagonists are Eastern European and the Lethal weapon series… and for Hollywood its good because people will feel patriotic towards it and subconsciously relate to it Antagonists destroy the equilibrium of the film, which is the generic plot in any film. James Bond series, Mission impossible series and Bourne series are perfect examples The Antagonist are also well spoken, which brings some truth to the fact that British actors play good antagonists. The protagonists are rugged and seen as manly and muscular which is generic in Hollywood, sometimes the protagonists are women but this is rare. Why? who enjoy watching action, big men fight , perform lots of action moves and save the day and ideally watch big muscular men do this.
- An example is Jesse Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg) from the social network. This makes it more believable because it is an ordinary person who is the main character and it helps people relate to the film because not everyone is a generic action film protagonist.
- An example is Chloe Moretz This again adds a sense of realism to the film and makes it personal to the audience because they could relate it to their own life but not on a big scale like this e.g they could relate it to their sister or friend who looks innocent but does wrongdoings and gets away with it.
- TOM : We decided to look at some our favourite films individually to gather ideas and inspiration for the way we are going to film, edit and produce our movie
- This is a reverse over the shoulder shot from a Death note scene which actually inspired us to use public transport as the main setting for our film, as this scene in the anime is filmed at a tube station. This shot is interesting as it makes the character in view more imposing and sinster, with the costume adding to this as the characters hood is up.
- I took two scenes, the top one from a documentary about a celebrity, and the bottom one from the film ‘kill your darlings’ and we liked the close up shot on the face on the left photo, and liked the soft background on the shot on the right, especially with the lights blurred.
- We wanted to use a shot in this style as our first scene, with a voice over of some kind of poetry or influential speech relating to the main character’s past life and tragic events. We might include a little more of the shoulders and body than this scene depicts, as not to distort the face as a close up of this proportion can distort the face and make it look strange, but this is something we will have to look into to on set as we cannot predict the outcome of this practicality. To create the the blurred lights in the background, often called a ‘soft background’ as the focus is ‘soft’ we will use a 50mm lens, which is a portrait lens, and use it on a very wide aperture of either f1.2 or f1.8.
- TOM : We wanted to use a relatively unknown film opening as we thought all of the big film companies openings that we looked at didn’t really fit in with the unique style of our movie, so we deciced to try and find a small indepedent film company, and we found this animation opening made by an individual.
- This is the list of equipment we are going to be using, there is not a lot of dialogue in the film so we are just going to record some ambient noise from the train stations and on the train to add in, on top of a minimal soundtrack.
- Dan : On a general representation, action films are mainly targeted for a male audience. This is probably because most action protagonists are a stereotypical ‘manly’ man. Most men would like this because they would idolize this character profile. Men are more likely to enjoy watching action films because of their masculine nature. This is because men have more testosterone than women and they enjoy the masculine nature of an action film.
- If we were making this into an actual film we think that it would be the budget of around £10-15 million. This is because we will be relying on perfectly composed shots and camera techniques such as long takes for action scenes. We will not be trying to do car chases and explosions because it would be unrealistic to film these things with our budget
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