Monday, 3 December 2012

audience research part 2

audience research part 1

Character and respresentation

Characters and Representation 

Adam

Adam in our film is represented as a lower class citizen compared to the other characters in the film. This is shown as Adam has a lower class life style as he lives in a rundown apartment and can’t afford nice clothes. This shows the representation of Adam being poor and can’t live a normal life style than the other characters in the film, this is because he can’t exceed on his own strengths and ability’s and can’t complete any tasks given to him. This lack of ability has got him nowhere in life and can’t live life to its full extent, because due to the lack of ability and effort Adam approaches, he has got fired from his job causing Adam’s self-esteem to plummet.  


Freddy

Freddy in our film is represented as a middle class citizen; this is shownas he lives in a modern class house and wears casual/smart looking clothes. This shows Freddy is represented as a character that takes pride in what he has become and what he wears. This shows the representation of Freddy being a wealth man who has  succeed in life and can afford the things he wants out of life E.g.: House, car, nice clothes. Having worked hard in life he can have these sorts of privileges. Freddy is a kind and caring character and looks after his family well.

Luke

Luke in our film is represented as a middle class citizen; this is show as he lives in a modern class house and wears casual/smart looking clothes. This is shownLuke is represented as a character who is well presented and looks after himself. Luke is the  younger brother to Freddy. Freddy is represnted as a wealthy man who has succeed in life aswell as his brother, This means Luke can afford alot of things in life that he wishes to buy E.g House,car, Nice clothes. Having worked hard in life he can have theses sort of differemt privileges.

 




Saturday, 1 December 2012

Garage band


Garage Band

Garage band is worldwide multimedia product for the Mac. It allows you to create your own pieces of music to add to other multimedia themes such as: Films etc. Here is a quick tutorial on how to use garage band and how to use it to its best ability to get the best music tracks out of it.

Step 1:
Once you open up garageband, on the left hand side you can see the all of the different options on what you would like to choose to create your own music. If you click on the App: Magic Garageband. It will open up an interface on the right hand side with all different options of music such as: Rock, jazz, reggae, punk etc. This will allow you to pick any music type between the 9 different genres you wish to create your own music on. Each of the different genres has one music song but you can altar the music within the genre.

Step 2:
Before you start to choose the music type you wish to play with and develop, you can listen to a small preview of the song. You can do this by hovering your mouse over the any of the different genres and a small icon will appear with the word preview. After you have the icon appear all you simply do is click the little arrow next to the preview button and It should start to play you a song to give you the taste of the genre music. Once you find your music you want double click the genre and it should take you to a window where there is different instruments.

Step 3:
After opening up the correct genre you would like to develop further in, it will give you a 6 instrument to set up for different music sounds when you are making your own music piece. Firstly on the far left is the guitar; this will allow you to play the rhythm track. Also on the left hand side is the bass guitar. In the middle at the back are the drums. In the right hand corner at the back is the keyboard, and in the left hand corner at the front is the melody. In the middle at the front is the “my instrument.” This allows you to plug in your own music to play with garageband. If you don’t want this there is another option of making garageband do the work for you.

Step 4:
If you double click on the centre piece so the “My instrument” Icon, it will take you to a little icon at the bottom of the screen which looks like this:
From here you can choose your own voices or music instruments, this is what the customize icon does. On the far right you have the option of deleting the “My instrument” icon, this will remove your instrument so you can just let garageband do your own music. If you decide to remove your instrument your screen should now look like this.


Step 5:
This is now where you can start to create your song, by doing this firstly under the instrument icon you will find a time line of different sections of the song. At the start of the timeline you will find the intro, Verse 1, Chorus and finally verse 2. Also below the song timeline you can see the icon “change genre” As you can tell that icon allows you to change the genre if you disagree on the genre you have chosen in the first place. Also under the song timeline there is the icon where it shows snippet and entire song. This allows the user to either use small parts of the song or they can use the whole song for creating their own music. Next to the snippet and entire song there is a play button and a volume icon. Finally next to the volume, there is an icon called “Open in Garageband” This allows you to send your creation to Garageband to create a more advanced creation.

Step 6:
Once you have completed what you want in step 5 you are ready to start adjusting your music. To do this firstly, click on the play button so it starts to play your song. Once you get to a point where you would like to change the song you pause the song and then go to the main screen and highlight a certain instrument you would like to change, like this:
Once you have highlighted the instrument you would like to change in the song, Double click the instrument and should bring you an instrument tool bar.
Once you have got to this screen it will show you a variation of different instruments similar to the one you have picked to change the song piece you are creating. Each of the different instruments has a certain sound and a certain way of playing to create different effects in the music you are going to create. You can listen to each of the different instruments by clicking play and choosing the instruments whilst the song is playing to create the perfect sound track. After you have finished with your first instrument all you do can repeat the same way for all of the instruments on the stage. If you don’t like a certain instrument in the music piece you have delete it, this is done by highlighting over the certain instrument and click the no instrument icon. This will make the instrument disappear and not in your music piece. Once you have the perfect piece, which suits your taste, it’s time to transfer your piece to the main frame of Garageband. To do this all you do is go to the icon “Open in Garageband” and click on it. And it should bring you to do this Page.



Step 7:
After you have opened up the page Garageband will display your different samples making up your own personal song. At the bottom of your page will show your own personal LCD window. If you click the little music icon on the left of the LCD window, it will show a little drop down menu with four different options. Theses are: Time, Measures, Tuner and Project. To move to the different points what you do is click the little up and down arrows next to the music icon to change to the different options.
Time

The option time allow you to find out how long your music track is and also allows you to put it up next to the play head at the very end of your music piece.


Step 8:
Second from last step, (This step is optional) if you wish to make your song slightly longer you can, this is done by holding down holding down your mouse on a section you wish to copy just like in the picture. This will repeat the section you are going to copy so you can move it to the end of the song to make it become longer. Next you hold down the option key and click and drag the selected section in your song to the end of your song to make it become longer. Last step now is to upload the song you have made to another multimedia product. To do this you go to the toolbar on Garageband and click the option share. This will open a drop down menu with the option to either: Send to itunes, send as a ringtone to itunes or send podcast to iweb. Once you have selected your option to take it to share it will bring up a box, which you have to fill out. On the box it’s important to check the compress button otherwise you can’t upload it to your area. Lastly all you do is press upload and then it will play in your area.

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

shooting script for the opening scene of 'Only takes a second'



Shot type
Description
Audio and dialogue
1
point of view
Adam waking up and going to open the door.
Alarm.
Creaky door.

2
match on action
Opposite side of door Freddy walks through.
ambient sounds
3
over the shoulder shot
Freddy walking down the stairs and heading to the kitchen.
Footsteps.
Ambient sounds.
4
long shot
Freddy walking into kitchen going to kettle with Luke sitting down by the table in the scene.
Kettle boiling.
Greeting of the brothers. ‘good morning’
5
point of view
Freddy getting a clean mug and then looking inside the mug.
ambient sounds
6
point of view
(from the cup)
Adam looking inside a dirty mug. Puts down the mug and turns on the dirty kettle.
Ambient sounds.
Kettle boiling.
7
mid shot
Adam picks up the newspaper and sits down,
Ambient sounds.
Paper rustling.
8
over the shoulder shot: (match on action)
Freddy reading the newspaper with the cup of coffee, Luke starts talking to Freddy and Freddy looks at Luke.
Slurping of coffee.
Interlinking conversation about London.
9
mid shot
Responds to Freddy talking (says what time they should go), eats some toast.
Freddy responds.
Ambient sounds.
Crunch of toast.
10
close up
Of the left side of Adam’s face on the phone, matching Freddy/Luke’s conversation. (asks where)
Adam on the phone.
‘Yes, i am going to London’.
11
wide shot
Of Luke and Freddy, Freddy answers question.
‘London eye’
‘better get ready soon’
Ambient sounds.
12
low angle
Inside Adam’s leather case, showing Adam closing the case, goes to black.
Ambient sounds.
13
mid shot: (camera inside wardrobe)
Fade to normal, Freddy open wardrobe, picks out some clothes.
ambient sounds
14
long shot
Freddy walking down stairs in new clothes.
ambient sounds
15
two shot
Luke asking if Freddy is ready, then opens front door
‘are you ready Freddy’
ambient sounds
16
match on action
panning
Adam walking out of door with leather case, he then walks down the road.
Ambient sounds.
17
wide shot
Camera behind Freddy and Luke.
ambient sounds
18
two shot
Camera facing Freddy and Luke. Freddy starts to talk.
Conversation about trip to London. ‘i am really excited!’
19
shot-reverse shot
Conversation between Freddy and Luke.
‘Have you ever been to London?’
Ambient sounds.
20
shot-reverse shot
Conversation between Freddy and Luke.
Conversing about trip.
Ambient sounds.
21
shot-reverse shot
Conversation between Freddy and Luke.
Conversing about trip.
Ambient sounds.
22
shot-reverse shot
Conversation between Freddy and Luke.
Conversing about trip.
Ambient sounds.
23
shot-reverse shot
Conversation between Freddy and Luke.
Conversing about trip.
Ambient sounds.
24
shot-reverse shot
Conversation between Freddy and Luke.
Conversing about trip.
Ambient sounds.
25
shot-reverse shot
Conversation between Freddy and Luke.
Conversing about trip.
Ambient sounds.
26
over the shoulder
Adam buying a ticket at the ticket booth.
‘ may i have a one way ticket to London Liverpool street’
Ambient sounds.
27
mid shot
Camera looking at Adam (shallow focus on his face) in the corner Freddy and Luke enter.
Distant chattering in the background.
ambient sounds of trains etc.
28
long shot
Adam walking outside entrance and onto platform.
Ambient sounds.
29
point of view
Freddy and Luke buying train ticket and receiving it from the train ticket lady/male.
‘Can i have two return tickets to London Liverpool street please?’
Ambient sounds.
30
long shot
Freddy and Luke walking out to the platform. Adam in background sitting on chair.

ambient sounds
31
over the shoulder
Freddy and Luke seeing Maxwell.
‘Hey man!’
Ambient sounds.
32
pov/eyeline match
Maxwell looking at text then looking up at Freddy and Luke approaching.
Ambient sounds.
‘Hey guys!’
33
over the shoulder
Adam looking at Freddy, Luke and Maxwell meeting.
Ambient sounds.
34
long shot
Train arriving, Freddy, Luke and Maxwell getting up from bench to board train.
Train sounds.
Ambient sounds.
Everyday chatter of characters.
‘You ok?’
35
over the shoulder
Freddy, Luke and Maxwell walking onto train.
Ambient sounds.
36
long shot
Freddy, Luke and Maxwell looking for a seat, Adam already sitting down near them.
Ambient sounds.
37
point of view
Adam looking at Freddy, Luke and Maxwell sitting down and looking at watch.
Ambient sounds.
38
zoom in
zoom into watch
Zooming in swoosh.

39
zoom out
Zoom out from big ben.
zooming out swoosh
40
long shot
Freddy, Luke and Maxwell looking up at big ben.
Ambient sounds.

41
shot-reverse shot
conversation between Freddy, Luke and Maxwell


42
shot-reverse shot
conversation between Freddy, Luke and Maxwell

43
shot-reverse shot
conversation between Freddy, Luke and Maxwell

44
shot-reverse shot
conversation between Freddy, Luke and Maxwell

45
shot-reverse shot
conversation between Freddy, Luke and Maxwell

46
long shot
Adam walking behind Freddy, Luke and Maxwell.
Ambient sounds.
Footsteps.
47
point of view
Adam shoulder barging Freddy and then making eye contact with Freddy.
‘sorry mate’
Adam stays silent.
Ambient sounds.
48
point of view
Freddy making eye contact back. Slow motion.
Silence.
49
shot-reverse shot
Freddy, Luke and Maxwell talking about what just happened. 
‘What was his problem??’
Laughing in background.
50
shot-reverse shot
Freddy, Luke and Maxwell talking about what just happened. 
‘Some people are just rude!’
Ambient sounds.
51
shot-reverse shot
Freddy, Luke and Maxwell talking about what just happened. 
laughing
Ambient sounds.
52
shot-reverse shot
Freddy, Luke and Maxwell talking about what just happened. 
‘i recognise him from somewhere, but i can’t remember where’
pause of silence


53
cross cutting
over the shoulder shot: Adam walking up to the London eye
Narration of Adam getting fired.
Noises in his head.
ambient sounds
Muffled speech.
54
cross cutting
Back to Freddy, Luke and Maxwell, setting up a camera and starts a timer.
Laughing and joking.
Ambient sounds.
55
crosscutting
Over the shoulder shots, point of view shots and flash backs of Adam.
Narration of him getting fired.
Noises in his head.
ambient sounds
Muffled speech.
56
Close up
Close up of terrorist face grinning, as he walks away from the London eye.
Ticking of the bomb.
Evil laugh.