Actors

Well, we have before you is a behind the scene look at who our Actors who starred in the 2 minutes short film of OUTGONE.
These actors have starred in various other films such as;

• The lookout
• Darkness
• Hold up
• Batman - The Dark Knight
• Star Wars trilogy
• Blood Diamond

And plenty more.

Here we have a photo of one of our actors playing a part of a Native American in the film "The Lookout"

Here is our very own actor, Avraj, he is a very popular actor around the globe, mainly in America and has starred in the films such as "The lookout", Batman - The Dark Knight and played a small role in Blood Diamond.

That was only a little bit of fun, now to the serious agender.

We all enjoyed making this openiong 2 minutes of our film (Outgone) and we have here the two main actors that were a part of our final piece, unfortunatly one of the other actors who starred in the film has departed from our group and wont be showed in this post. In the picture below will have a picture of our actors, Max Chillman and Avraj Chagger.

Max Chillman, on the left, played the role of the 'Henchman' in our opening two minutes of our film and enjoyed playing the role, he quotes "It was an enjoyable experience, one that I will take everywhere I go".

Avraj Chagger, on the right, played the role of the antagonist which was the lead interrorgator, also known as "The King" in the opening two minutes of our film and enjoyed playing the role, he also quotes "It was a conjunction of both high intensity, emotions and hardwork.

We also have the actor, Sam McCool playing the part of the protagonist who was the person being interrorgated, sadly he departed from our group and we also dont have a photograph of the actor

Overall, the opening 2 minutes was a success and was highly enjoyable to direct and watch the actors do their work. 

Soundtrack Research (2) - Interrorgation Room

This type of interrogation is one of the soundtracks that we all looked at and one of the various pieces of soundtracks that we might of used in our opening two minutes. This soundtrack sounds very hard-hitting and 'dark' in the sense that this type of soundtrack is a very good piece to use if making an interrogation room scene. The use of drums in this piece of music gives it that hard hitting/dark feel to it as it increases the tempo of the music giving us the nervous feeling and would have an effect on the audience. We didn't use this soundtrack due to the fact that it would be a bit 'epic' for our opening two minutes and also that it is copyrighted by the Alpha Protocol game and their producers, but this could easily be mimicked in the sense of using drums to make a dark/hard-hitting/scary piece of music. We used this type of music to get various ideas for our music soundtrack for our opening 2 minutes, the use of drums was a part of it. Overall, this is a very good piece of interrogation music and it does give us the nervous feeling and the nervous/hard-hitting impact on the audience and this is what we intend to do with our opening two minutes.

Audience Research - Action

This audience research is what we used to help make our decision on what genre to make our opening 2 minutes. We can see from the Age, Gender and Children categories on what sort of audience are more likely to watch an action film

In the Age category, the ages more likely to watch an action film would be from the ages of 18-44 with an overall percentage of 69%, this could be because most action films are around 15 years+ making it more appealing for the youthful/young adult population and also the middle ages population.

The Gender category shows that the Male Gender is more likely to watch an action film than the female audience. With the male audience having 61% of the total percentage, this means that action films are more likely to appeal to the male audience, this could be because of the fight scenes, car chases, shootings, blood etc. this could be what appeals to the male audience stereo-typically, but this wouldn't appeal to most of the female audience.

The children Category shows us the percentage of adults that have/do not have children and how action films would appeal to them. The highest being people with no children with 54% this could be that they would be able to watch the films they like, without any hasell of a young child, who would not be suitable to the young child.

 Overall, this is what helped us make the decision of making our opening 2 minutes an action film, as this audience research show us what type of audience that our film would appeal and also what target audience we should be going for.

Research and planning provisional mark

Name of student: Max Chillman

	Done?	Comment/target
RESEARCH
Genre Research and mind-maps	YES
Uploaded YouTube videos of openings - analysed	YES
Opening titles analysed in detail – font researched	YES
Uploaded YouTube videos of similar genre openings analysed in detail	YES
Costume and location research – google earth and pictures you’ve taken.	Comment on the setting image you uploaded – how it has contributed to your planning and ideas
Actors and props photos and interviews	Props photos	Upload some interviews with the actors – these could be video diaries.
Soundtrack research (non-copyright music)
Audience Research and Profiling (typical audience member and similar films)	Make sure you get this completed and uploaded
Institution research (Paramount etc)	YES
Certificate research	YES
PLANNING
Own film idea brainstorm	YES
Own film treatment	YES
Relevant Online Tutorials and Comment	YES
Documenting of influences on production	?
Shot lists	YES	Comment on this post – why have you made the choices you have? Did they change when you filmed? Develop your comments in more detail, showing clearly your thought processes and the journey you have undertaken
Consideration  of representation in your film and stereotyping – use theory from G325.	?
Questionnaire (and feedback) Get some feedback on your initial ideas!	NO
Diary of filming/editing etc with photos and screen grabs	NO
Mood board	YES
Script	YES
Practice titles created and uploaded	YES	Make sure you comment on you posts
Storyboard – animatic.	NO	This is vital to your mark
Time Management Schedule	YES

 

 

 

Research and planning mark scheme:

 

Level 2

8–11 marks

Planning and research evidence may be partially incomplete;

There is basic research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is basic organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is basic work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is a basic level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management may not be good.

 

Level 3

12–15 marks

Planning and research evidence will be complete;

There is proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is proficient work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is a good level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management is good; there is a schedule of filming

There is no animatic storyboard and/or mood board

 

Level 4

16–20 marks

Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed;

There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management is excellent.

 

Research and planning mark      12/20       Level 3

Max - make sure you comment on each of your posts - – why have you made the choices you have? Did they change when you filmed? Develop your comments in more detail, showing clearly your thought processes and the journey you have undertaken

Interrogation soundtrack

Even though this is a popular Call Of Duty game that is played on Xbox, Ps3 and on the PC, this Interrogation room soundtrack is the type of soundtrack we need for our opening 2 minutes, as a background soundtrack as it fades into the titles. This soundtrack has the eeary effect of being rapped ina room by yourself with one other person who's trying to ask you questions, hence it being called an Interrogration room. This soundtrack is quite easy to mimic if the right software is involved. It starts off as a hard drop of a slight bass with a crackling sound to give the sort of scary/eeary effect that it is trying to achieve and is the same throughout the soundtrack, this would give the audience a fearful effect as they would be able to relate to the person who is getting Interrogated as the actor would feel helpless, full of fear and scared on what is going to happen to him. Overall, this soundtrack is personally the right type of soundtrack needed for our film, due to copyright we are unable to use this soundtrack as it is a part of the Call of Duty franchise. We are going to try and make one ourselves for our film by hopefully using the right software and tools for making a quality Interrogation soundtrack

Codes and Conventions- Our opening 2 minutes- Crime-Action

These are some of the codes and conventions of our Action/Crime/Interrogation opening 2 minutes, some of these were included in our opening 2 minutes but someone of these codes/conventions are the sterotypical action/crime film.

These are some of the codes and conventions used in our opening 2 minuutes of our film

• Weapons - Knifes, Guns etc
• Outbursts in settings
• Outbreaks in windows, doors, houses, walls etc.
• Fights
• Antagonist and Protagonist
• Sinister, up beat nerve racking music

Those codes and conventions are just some that were included in our opening two minutes. There are more stereotypical action/crime codes that are used, these are;

• Hi-Tech equipment - Gadgets etc
• Mass destruction
• Car chases/Chase scenes
• Explosions and crashes
• Many Fight scenes

Comparing the Old and New Titles for Outgone

The two title sequences for our short film were both done on Sony Vegas Pro 11, which is a very good and highly rated editing programme. The first one is just a simple fade in and out from different letts spelling out - OUTGONE. Where as the new finalised one has a more action theme towards it as there is a bullet and the crashing of the title at the start with the title (OUTGONE) highlighted in the centre of the scree, adding bullet holes around the title aswell to give it the action feel towards the audience watching it. It is also 3D in a way as it catches the viewers eyes.
These two were made by two completely different tutorials where one of them was on youtube and the other was on a website that I found by typing it in on google.
Overall i am proud of both of these as they all took time to make and shows the progress of the different types of editing used.

The new one will be used in our opening 2 minutes as it gives the audience a more action/thriller/crime effect that will be useful for our film. It also links in with our interrogation scene that we are using for our film, hence that this will give us the effect needed for an action film.