The Group Members

MEMBER 1:
Name: Oliver Jewers
Candidate Number: 2242

MEMBER 2:
Name: Joe French
Candidate Number: 2205

MEMBER 3:
Name: Joe Fisher
Candidate Number: 2196

The Remake (Oliver Jewers)

As a group, we decided we would create a re-make of the Shining opening sequence. Although not directly linked to our chosen genres now that we have defined what we want to do, it would be useful to us as we want to create this same element of mystery that this film opening has. As well as this, it will also give us insight in to the key ideas in filming which may help us with our film opening, such as how lighting will effect our set, how mise-en-scene is used (through analysing this opening sequence), and ultimately, what gives it the sense of mystery that we want to try and recreate.

This is the opening we created:

The Remake - The Actual Film Opening (Oliver Jewers)

The Shining Opening Titles

We decided to remake this film because we thought the sequence of titles was well paced and shown in a conventional order. therefore it will be a good foundation to base the sequence of titles of our own opening upon. Also, our story shares the same genre of a mystery or thriller type of film, therefore we could take inspiration from it to adopt for our piece. The music in the piece creates an eerie atmosphere and we could use a similar composition in our piece to create a similar effect.

It will help us when creating our own opening as we have a familiarity with the traditional sequence of titles which we will use in our piece.

Remake Timeline (Joe French)

This will help us when creating our piece because it will seem more like a professionally done film.

Start

Black screen for first 2 seconds 0:02

Warner Bros logo appears for 9 seconds 0:09

Cut to an open river for 17 seconds 0:26

Fades into an aerial shot of a road following a car in the forest for 20 seconds 0:46

Cuts into an establishing shot of a road and a mountain in the background for 18 seconds 1:04

Cuts into a cliff and a roadside high angle, it will still be tracking the car for 8 seconds 1:12

'A Stanley Kubrick Film' appears in a cyan colour

Zooming shot onto the car, becoming closer, the camera goes past the car and 'Jack Nicholson' appears for 30 seconds 1:42

Camera passes the car and 'Shelley Duvall' appears for 2 seconds 1:44

Camera goes off the road, showing forests and mountains along with a river as an establishing shot with the title 'The Shining'

Cuts for 5 seconds 1:49

Aerial Shot 'featuring Danny Lloyd' appears and camera tracks at a slow pace

A car enters a tunnel and 'Scatman Crothers' appears, 'Barry Nelson', 'Philip Stone' and 'Joe Turkel' appears for 30 seconds 2:19

Cut - 'Anne Jackson'

Shot of car driving on a grassy mountain 'Tony Burton' appears and tracks car from the side

'Executive producer: Jan Harlan' ' Based upon the novel by Stephen King'

'Product Association with the production circle company Robert Fryer, Martin Richards and Mary Lea Johnson'

The car moves downwards in association with composition as camera tracks whilst moving upwards for 23 seconds 2:42

Aerial shot of the snowy side of the mountain 'Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Diane Johnson'

'Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick' for 10 seconds 2:52

Cut

Establishing shot of mountain in background and hose in the foreground, cricles around to the side of the house for 7 seconds

Total time: 2:59

Remake Storyboard (Joe Fisher)

Scenes 1 - 6

Scenes 7 - 10

This will help us when creating our opening because it will give us a basic outline as to what sort of scenes we should be shooting as a necessity to the running order of the opening sequence. It also means that when we are filming we don' have to keep referring to the original films opening to make sure we've done everything correctly, so we don't have to waste time. This, along with the shot list, will allow us to create our film opening efficiently, presenting the same shots and running order as the original film, allowing us to gain some knowledge of film-making before we start on our larger project.

Remake Shotlsist (Oliver Jewers)

This is the shotlist we made for our remake which resembles the shots in the original film.

Shot Number	What the Shot is Showing
1	This opening shot has the camera move across a river (Blue tarpaulin) and pass an island with a tree (Dirt with a stick).
2	This is an aerial tracking shot which follows the toy car as it makes its way down the road (pavement/path).
3	The next shot follows the car from its left and behind as it makes its way down the road (wooden beam) by the Cliffside.
4	This is a side on shot of the car that follows it as it moves along the Cliffside and the camera passes the car
5	This merges with the shot beforehand and shows the camera after it passes the car, the camera rises to show the river and hills.
6	Shows the car from behind as it enters the tunnel
7	Camera follows over the hill above the tunnel.
8	We see the car exit the tunnel and move further down the road.
9	Another side on shot of the car as it moves on a more flat piece of land.
10	Behind shot of the car ascending the mountain
11	Establishing shot of hotel (Homebase basket) with the mountain beside it (paper drawing)

This will help us when creating our opening sequence as we will understand the importance of planning and how we will organise our piece. Also it will make the filming process easier having a shotlist as we will know exactly what we are doing on our filming days.

Constructing Our Remake (Joe French)

Notes on how we made our remake -

(Use photos)

Toy car- We used a toy car in our remake because throughout the opening, a car is driving down a number of roads, we decided to use this because in the opening the car is followed and looks very small when being shown so we used a toy car because they are actually very small and would look no different in comparison to the actual opening because they are both shown as small. We tied a piece of string to the car in order to show it moving without showing our hands, this adds realism because it looks as of the car is moving by itself which is what is shown in the actual opening and this helps make it look as much like the opening as possible.

Mountain- We used a pile of dirt on a garden as a mountain, this is because it looks like a real mountain and adds to the realism because mountains generally have a lot of dirt covering them. It also worked with the toy car to show scale like in the opening because the mountain is huge compared to the car driving through it so when comparing the pile of dirt to the toy car, it actually looked as if a real car was driving through the mountains.

River and Island- For this we used a plastic blue sheet for the river, this is because rivers generally look blue so it would look like the cameras was flying over the river. We also made an island out of some dirt and a stick for a tree which makes it look natural and makes it look as if its real.

Road- We used a long wooden plank for the road that the car would be run along, this is because its long but narrow like many of the roads in the opening of the film but also because we could move it around and put it in different places so we could still have a road but in a different location.  

Knowing this will help us when constructing our film opening because it helps us work with whatever we have so we can still create a good film opening with minimal spending.

What we know about film openings as a group (Joe French)

• Must contain a sequence of titles in the correct order 
• Must have the main title 
• Must give brief narrative without letting the audience know the whole story 
• Genre should be emphasised 
• Film openings last about 2 minutes
• Main characters are shown off in some sort of way 
• Introduces main roles such as director, producer, writer
• Sets the scene and shows of the social, historical, cultural and location of the film
• Music is always included 
• Ideas of what the certification will be is shown off 

This will help us in our production because we know what to put in the film opening in order to make it as realistic as possible

What type of Institution We Will Be (Oliver Jewers)

We have decided that our institution will be mainstream. We chose this because we thought that we would want our film to appeal to a wide audience from both mainstream and niche audiences. We believe we can both enthrall niche audiences with our unique and ever thickening story, as well as including the outstanding action sequences that are expected by mainstream audiences who want to get a thrill from the film. It is a very genre specific film and therefore we believe that because of this it follows the path most mainstream films do and therefore it would be best that it came from a mainstream institution.

The Columbia Pictures most iconic logo. We want to be as much like this as possible.

We want our institution to be similar or comparable to other mainstream companies such as Columbia pictures because this is the kind of size we would want our production company to be. in order to create the illusion that the audience is watching a mainstream film, we would have to make sure that it looks as stylistic and professional as possible, mostly through the use of mise, lighting and camera work.

The moving animated Columbia Pictures logo

Oliver Jewers

Mindmaps On Genres We Could Chose (Joe French)

This will help is when creating our opening because it gives us a better sense of what generic conventions we need to add to our opening to make it as much like the genre as possible.

These are some mind maps we created in order to show the generic conventions found in these particular genres that we could use in our film opening.

Our Chosen Genre (Oliver Jewers)

For our piece we decided to create a primarily crime drama film, but to also have elements of mystery to it. we also want it to be set in a dystopian future. The crime genre is a genre that interests us as a group and therefore we thought it would be best we chose something we all enjoy as it would allow us to bring up more interesting ideas and take inspiration from some of our favourite types of films to create a successful opening. It would allow us to explore various films from the genres to use aspects in our own piece, such as Blade Runner and Sin City, and a number of older crime films  In order to build and write our film so that it matches the generic conventions found in this genre, we will plan to include using props associated with crime or violence as well as unique costumes which convey our theme of the sad and dull world in which our film will take place.

Stills from Blade Runner and Sin City, two of the many films we will take inspiration from when constructing our film

The choice to have elements of mystery to our piece and use some generic conventions from the mystery genre is because we thought it would help  us to tell a more interesting crime story. It would allow us to create more suspense and potential plot twists that would change the pace of the story and keep audiences interested, but without moving away from the primary genre (crime) completely.
this will help us when creating our own film because we will have a better vision of what we want to create in terms of our opening.

Oliver Jewers

Group Research Into Our Genre (Oliver Jewers)

Crime

Most crime films have a prime focus on themes surrounding criminal activity or the lives of criminals. They may contain an anti hero (a protagonist which although commits arguably wrong deeds, the audience vouches for them nonetheless). Our piece will take place from the point of view of an anti hero.

Another factor of a crime film is that they commonly present the characters with a problem which they will try to overcome over the course of the film. a great example of this is the film Dog Day Afternoon (1975) where the main character attempts to escape and survive after an attempted bank robbery goes wrong. our film will follow the same structure and have the character try to solve the problem in the broken society he is living in.

The location in which most thrillers take place is in highly populated and possible congested areas (Seven), such as towns or cities. In some cases however, they can take places in rural areas where criminal activity is unlikely being enforced as much (No Country For Old Men). However, for our piece we want it to be taking place in a populated area (London or Chelmsford), we think this suits the story of our piece as we want it to be based in an area where there would be a lot of criminal and government activity.

Stills from Dog Day Afternoon and No Country For Old Men, two suspenseful crime films we will likely take inspiration from.

Thriller

Death is a common theme in thrillers and they are used in order to create suspense for the audience. The main aim of a Thriller film is to build anticipation for the audience and keep them on the 'edge of their seats'. This is usually involving criminal activity and the psychology of characters. Acts such as heists and kidnapping are used often in thrillers as they are interesting and create anxiety for their audiences. we will use all of these elements in our piece as it will focus on the life of characters living in a run down world and committing criminal activities.
Another way in which Thrillers engage their audiences is by putting the characters in danger or at risk of death. Giving them a problem in which they have to overcome is a way in which the audience would want to watch the film as it keeps them involved and wondering whats going to happen next.

Mystery
Most Mystery films involve a character trying to overcome a problem, puzzle or crime. They often keep important plot elements from the audience in order to build anticipation and to involve them more in the story. They usually build tension throughout which eventually leads to a large dramatic climax at the end of the film. They commonly contain plot twists that can completely turn the tables of the story in a matter of seconds, this can completely change the audiences view of the story and its characters.
There is a huge focus on characters in these films as they are the primary way of how the story moves forward. A lot of mystery films will revolve around a crime with various suspects, and the main characters must determine who is the culprit of the crime. A great example of this is The Usual Suspects (1995) where police interview suspects to find out the ring leader of a shootout.

The Usual Suspects trailer, an iconic mystery film that we will take inspiration from in our piece.

Knowing the details of these genres will be a great help for my group and I when we come to film our piece and its structure as we will have to take into account the main themes of these genres that our film is based around in order for it to be successful.

Oliver Jewers

Audience Questionnaire (Joe French)

Audience Questionnaire

Please tick your answer

·         Are you aged between 15-25?

Yes:

No:

·         Are you male, female?

Male:

Female:

·         Do you like watching films?

Yes:

No:

·         If yes, what is your favourite genre?

Action:

Adventure:

Animation:

Thriller:

Crime/mystery:

Horror:

Comedy:

Romantic:

·         Do you like crime/thriller/mystery films?

Yes:

No:

·         If yes, what sort of generic conventions do you normally see within the genre?

Murder:

Police detectives:

Dark locations:

Weapons:

We have done this audience questionnaire in order to get an idea of what our target audience is going to be so that we can create a film based on their preferences and include things that interest and would attract those type of people. It will help when creating our film because it means we have something to base our ideas off of and it means we can look at the things that interest them and include them in our opening so that we can attract the target audience we want. 

Audience Questionnaire Analysis (Joe French)

The first question shows us they are aged between 15 and 25 which shows they are fairly young and that the possible target audience would be young people of that age group. The second question shows that they are a male, this could have an indication of what our target audience could possibly be. This means we may have to include things in it that males are specifically interested in. The third questions tells us they like films which helps because it means there is a chance that they would actually watch our film. The forth question says that their favourite film genre is comedy, this is a negative towards our film because the genre of our film is not comedy and that means that they wouldn't be interested in our film. The fifth question on the other hand, helps because it shows that they like crime/mystery/thriller films so it means they'll give the movie a chance and would watch it at some point. The last question helps a lot because we asked them what sort of generic conventions they would expect to see in our film and we gave them a list and they chose them all, this means that the things we are considering having in our film are wanted and expected in the genre we are doing.


The first question on the second questionnaire is adding to our target audience because the second person is also aged between 15 to 25. This means that our target audience will most likely be people from this age range. Another point that builds our target audience is the second one, indicating that our target audience will most likely be males which means we're going to have to add some things that males would be interested. The third question shows that this person also likes comedy films and this means that they may not like the film opening we are making. The fifth question helps us a lot because even though comedy is their favourite genre, they still like crime/mystery/thriller films which means they would be interested in watching our film. The last question helps a lot because both people have answered that they would expect to see all the generic conventions we listed which means the things we are considering adding to our film are going to be okay to use.




The first question helps a lot because all people that answered the questions are aged between 15-25 so this means we have to include things that people of that age relate to.The second question firmly establishes what our target audience is, all the people that answered the questionnaire have been males so that helps us in what we have to include in our opening. The third questions tells us that they like films which means that there is a chance they will watch our film. The forth questions suggests that they may not be interested in our film because they said they're favourite genres were 'action' and 'comedy' which means they may not like our genre. The fifth question helps because it shows they think that crime/mystery/thrillers are okay which shows that they may give our opening a chance. The final question helps us a lot because the things we were considering putting in our film is what they expect to see in the genres films.




This will help us with our opening because it tells us what our main target audience is what type of things we have to include in our film opening.

Our film moodboard (Joe Fisher)

Our Mood board

In the mood board i tried to recreate most of the common iconography featured within film Noir that will also be featured within our film opening, setting the mood, scene, and tones on screen, as black and white will need some careful composure and editing so it looks good, as well as natural at the same time. I also included the sort of text style fonts that are used in the opening of films to sate the films name at the beginning, and as we're going to include this, we need to know what sort of font we will need so it will fit. I also included a sample case file and document as we will need to recreate one for Mise-en-scene, and to help us lead in to how we're presenting our institutional logo. I included pictures of a lot of buildings and interiors which look like they would be a Noir film set as this will probably be the most important thing within our film, as the set will help us create Mise within our film.

The Whole Film (Joe French)

The film begins with the main character looking over his case file for a person he is planning to kill who is apart of the government he is planning to destroy. He then leaves his house and makes his way to the last known location of the person. He arrives there to find his target and they engage in a fight between each other, the detective is slowing and is about to be killed when out of nowhere, he is saved by a masked individual. He later wakes up to find himself laying down in a room that is unknown to him, he later speaks to the individual who saved and they explain that they are apart of a small, anonymous group that is trying to take down the government as well. He becomes apart of them and starts training in combat and becomes a vital asset to the team due to his inside knowledge on the government. They devise a plan to start picking off the individual government leaders, getting information from them in the process. A montage of them killing each of the leaders is shown which then shows a scene in which the highest leader is hearing word of all of his mean being killed, he then rounds up lots of of his men to start an attack on the group. The detective is currently resting in the hideout when he hears screaming coming from outside, he looks out the window to see all the government leaders and men walking in a line towards them all. A full scale battle begins and people from both sides end up dying and some survive, the detective comes face to face with the government leader and they engage in a small fight which leads to the detective becoming severely injured, he later is dragged away by his masked individual friend to another secret location which then fades away into the credits of the film.

Our Audience Moodboard (Joe French)

Our audience will be:

• Aged between 15-25 
• Male
• Have interests in the crime/thriller/mystery genre 
• Be middle class, average people 

For audience theories, i think our audience would have to be an active audience because there is a lot of things and a lot of objects in our opening/movie that will have significance and the audience need to look at these things in order to understand certain things about the story and about the characters and what things they are going to do and what applies to them.

For demographics, the audience would have to be middle class, average people. This is because it means they can still enjoy the film whilst being able to understand the certain things in our piece that would have a higher significance than just looking at it and having an obvious thought about it.

This will help when making our opening because it helps to know what the interests are and the age and gender of our audience because then we can plan what things we want to add to out film in order to appeal to them as much as possible.

Our target audience Continued (Joe French)

This will help when making our opening because it shows us who we need to make our opening for and then this tells us what sort of things we are going to have to include to attract our audience as much as possible.

Our Target Audience (Oliver Jewers)

My group decided that our piece can appeal to most, however, it is mainly focused on older audiences, most likely people from ages 16 and above. If shown in cinemas our film would most likely be certified at a 15 due to its dark and violent themes found commonly throughout the film. After an in depth analysis our our audience questionnaire, it has shown that our target audience would in fact be fairly young. The questionnaires have also shown that our target audience will consist of a mostly male audience, therefore in our film we will have to take into account our target audience and meet the expectations of these people.
Although our film will be targeted at older audiences, with regards to mainstream and independent audiences, the film could be viewed widely by all. Its action sequences and suspenseful scenes would be a great thrill and entertaining for mainstream audiences. In addition, its in depth story and interesting world surrounding characters would also appeal a lot to niche audiences. We would have to make sure to use a good balance of themes and content to entertain all types of audience.

Audience theories we will use:
The Hyperdermic Needle Theory - This is a theory we will use in our piece. The films action scenes and story would provide a way in which the audience will be interested and sucked into the world that our film takes place in so that they can leave the cinema having had a great experience.
The Gratifications Model - This is a theory in which we will use to interest and enthrall our audiences. We want them to be able to learn something or gain new ideas or understanding of society through the themes explored in our piece. We also want this to be an enjoyable experience for them
Oliver Jewers

Audience Figure Research (Joe French)

Crime genre:

The top 5 most popular films in the crime genre on IMDB are:

• The Shaw shank Redemption 
• The Godfather 
• The Dark Knight 
• The Godfather Part 2 
• Pulp Fiction 

Although The Shawshank redemption is voted the best film ever on IMDB, it didn't gross that much on opening weekend. On the opening weekend in the USA it only grossed $727,000 whereas in the UK it grossed $1,732,000. It only had a $25,000,000 budget which is a major loss for a film with a such a high budget. It also was only shown in 33 screens in the USA but then was released to a wider audience of 944 cinemas. It was also produced by an independent company which can hint at the type of audience the film was directed at. The company was not owned by any of the big six which can tell us the type of audience may be a niche audience.

The Godfather was released on 15 March 1972 and on opening weekend in the USA it grossed $302,393 and overall grossed $133,698,921. On the 26th of March it was released on more than 300 screens and ended up grossing $5,264,402 on that weekend. This film was produced by Paramount which means it would reach a wider audience in comparison to a smaller and more independent company who wouldn't reach such a wider audience. The fact that the film was produced by a larger company could be one of the reasons it was and is so popular. Although, in the crime genre, gangster films are often quite popular and they were much more popular at the time of its release compared to present day.

The Dark Knight is a little different, Batman is a very widely popular character and comic book which may be one of the reasons its such a popular film, its also a sequel to Batman Begins which means that the fans of the film were already excited for the film as well which helps make it more popular. On opening weekend in the USA, it was released to over 4,000 screens and grossed $158,411,483 and in the UK it was released to 502 screens and grossed £11,191,824 on opening weekend. It was released in the USA on 20th July 2008 and was released in the UK on 27th July 2008. It also had a budget of $158,000,000 which could also be its reason for such popularity because they could make all the scenes more realistic and add more intense crime scenes in it.

This will help in our opening because it shows how films in our genre became popular and what we need to do in order for our film to look just as good and be more like these films. 

Our Film Certificate (Oliver Jewers)

We have decided that our film will be certified as a 15 rated film. Although originally we wanted it to be an 18, we think it would be best for the film to be a 15 as it would allow for it to be seen more widely by more people. Our target market according to our analysis of our audience questionnaires have shown us that younger audiences around the ages of 16 would be interested in seeing our film, therefore the choice to make our film a 15 is a great choice for the film from an economic standpoint as it would allow people from our target marker (under 18) to see the film in cinemas, giving us much more viewers.
With regards to the content of our film, we believe it best suits the 15 certification. After studying the guidelines for classification on the BBFC website, we have taken into account the For example the film contains a fair amount of strong violence and graphic images, but not to the extent that it is dwelled upon for a long period of time. There may be brief references and slight uses of drugs or sexual portrayal during the film, however the film does not base its themes around it nor is it glorified. Imitable behaviour however would be a prime factor of our piece, it would involve makeshift weapons and illegal firearms. Therefore we would have to take into consideration the severity of this and make sure that we can limit it to an extent to keep it at a 15 rating to reach our target market.

This is the BBFC 15 certificate. It will most likely be our film certificate when it is shown in cinemas.

Oliver Jewers

Attracting Our Target Audience (Oliver Jewers)

When creating and advertising our film, in order to gain as much support and to bring in as large an audience as possible, we will most definitely have to take into account our target audience and the best ways that we can advertise our project to them.
Our research into our audience and certification for our film has left us with the conclusion that our target market will be of people aged 16 and above who are mostly males. This means that in order to reach them through advertising, we will have to target parts of the media that are most widely used by our target market.

Social Media
A platform used very widely by our target market, I believe that this is the primary way in which we will be able to reach our audience. Our marketing would consist of setting up various social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram etc). This would allow us to advertise the films through showing trailers, news and posts that would involve and show the public what the film is all about. It is a very cheap way of advertising as social media accounts are free, however we could also put money towards advertising our film across social media.



YouTube
This too is a widely used by our target market and would be a great way of getting our film out to a number of viewers. It provides a basis for which we could display the films teasers, trailers and potentially things such as interviews which could further involve audiences and advertise the film. In addition to this we could also invest into showing adverts for films on the site which would reach out to an even larger audience as more people would see the trailer.

These are some of the social medias and platforms we will use to promote our films, they will be a foundation to put news and trailers about the film, as well as promotional material such as photos and interviews.

Press
Due to our appeal to the niche audience, I think that we would have to take into account the number of film fans and critics we would have to reach in order to give our film the boost that it needs from this kind of audience. Therefore I think that press advertising and putting our film into programmes, magazines and potentially newspapers would allow us to reach this vital market to our film.

Another way in which we could attract our audiences is through the content of the film itself. An example of this is that many of the characters in the film will be young such as many of the rebels, they will play a large part in the story and therefore it would involve younger audiences. We will also use older characters and memorable actors which would involve older audiences who would want to see the film so they can see these well known actors in a new film based in Britain.

Potential young British actors we could use in our piece.

The film being set in Britain (more specifically - London) would be a great way to attract British audiences as a large mainstream film set in London is a rare occurrence, therefore many British audiences would be curious and interested in what may occur that has been filmed and is set in their local area. Therefore, they may want to see the film.

London is a likely filming location of our piece.

Oliver Jewers

Our 25 Word Film Idea (Joe French)

Here is a 25 word pitch of our films narrative we made in order to create a basic story which we can use to structure our opening around.

Current police officer recruited by secret society to destroy the corrupt police force to start a revolution to create new leadership in broken, brainwashed society.

Characters In Our Film (Oliver Jewers)

In our film there will be various characters with different motives and emotions. Each will provide a different individual story behind them and each main character will have their own conclusion at the end of the story.

List of Characters:

Main Character - Geary - This character has been deprived of all his dignity, after working as an officer of the government, he recognised his own wrongdoings and faults in the dictatorship leading the country. His superiors noticed this and in an assassination attempt they raided the characters house before murdering his wife, son and dog. He has now resorted to living in the dark remnants of London in poverty, in which he plots to exterminate corrupt government officials and spread the word of their wrongful doings.
His time spent in the secret police force has given him insight into government activities and how they operate, as well as the motives and locations of highly ranking members which will be of much value to the stirring rebellion operating in Southern London. They would eventually find him and through negotiations he will agree to cooperate with them to brew a revolution throughout Britain against the state.

Side Character - Daegan Dibble - An eventual associate of the main character, he operates as an officer of the rebellion as well as being the brother of one of Hugh Dibble. Both insecure and considered insignificant by lower members of the rebellion due to his lack of self esteem and physical strength, however he provides a great help to the leaders which will be vital to the success of their mission. He will also be a very important informative for the rebellion as well as discovering a mole in the rebellions works.

Elizabeth - Young high ranking member of the rebellion, she would eventually die in an attempt to murder Geary after he questioned the ethics of her belief.

Rebel Leaders - Clifford and Hugh Dibble -  Two ring leaders of the rebellion, young communists who operate and fight on the same level as the rebels, most of the reason why they are so highly respected in the rebellion. Friends from birth and loyal servants to their lord. Clifford, the member considered the righteous leader by the lead character would eventually oppose the views of the lord and Hugh would murder him in front of the rebels and the protagonist.

Rebel Lord - Ebenezer - Leader of the rebellion, although he plans all operations, his disability has left him unable to fight. He resorts to speeches and motivating the public
through his powerful ideas and images. He will eventually lead the county as a dictator leaving the audiences wondering whether the country will actually improve under its new communist leadership, i would like to compare this character to Fidel Castro (pictured below). They are both physically similar and in their motives against their leaders.

Current Overlord - Christopher 'Julius' Robbensen - Britain's current leader. He took the title Julius after Julius Cesar. He has a strong belief that what he is doing is the best for England and he is unaware of the severity of the corruption in his forces, It is in fact his adviser which organises all these illegal operations and ethnic cleansing. The rebels murder both nonetheless.

Police Chief - Walter Stanley - Head of the secret police and a prime target for the rebellion due to his violent and immoral acts against the poor.

What we would expect the rebels in our piece to look like in our piece

Knowing the main characters in our film will help us when constructing our opening as it will allow us to consider who will play a large part in our piece and how we will have to structure our piece around them in order to create a successful opening.

Oliver Jewers

Celebrity Casting (Oliver Jewers)

We think that in order for our film to be a financial and critical success, it is vital that we have talented actors to play our characters. Having famous actors in our film would also provide a large boost to the films success. However we believe that our film would mostly consist of young or relatively unknown actors as this could give way to upcoming stars and we may even have media attention from the press from our use of new actors that have never been seen before.
Because of this, think the best option would be to have new actors to play most of the young characters but save some older, more well known actors for the characters who play a main role in the story. Below I have listed the main actors we would like to have in our film, along with what role they will play and why I think that it suits them the best. Another thing we have had to consider is the nationality of actors, we want the film to be an all British cast to suit its theme of patriotism and nationality.

The Overlord - Ian Holm - For this character we wanted to have a once powerful looking figure but now his identity has been hidden from the public through his age and disability. Throughout the film he will be presented as a powerful character. However, in their final encounter, Geary will recognise that he is nothing more than a weak, confused old man who is used as a puppet by his evil advisers.

Ian Holm, our potential actor to play The Overlord in our film.

Ebenezer - Alfred Molina - For this part we wanted a younger but wise looking man, they would also have to look quite scruffy and poor due to the bad living conditions. But nonetheless they had to be widely respected as a powerful figure by the working class public.

Alfred Molina - Who we would want to play Ebenezer in our piece.

Advisors - Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes - For this we wanted sinister and evil looking characters that would carry out murder without batting an eye. They also need to be intimidating and scary looking. These two actors have played fantastic 'evil' characters in the past and I think they suit this role best.

The two actors we want to play our government advisers in our piece 

Other actors considered -
Anthony Hopkins
Sean Connery

Knowing the potential actors for our piece will help us when constructing our film opening as we will know who we will have to design our characters around in order to make them fit the look of the actors.

Group Research on institutional logos

To summarise our notes, This is what we found, and what would be the defining factors in the creation of our logo
- Mainstream company's would use high budget logos to promote themselves, features include
   - Animation
   - Custom music
- Independent institutions logos would be silent
- Independent institutions sometimes use still illustrations to represent themselves
- Very rarely would they be animated, and if they were to be animated, they wouldn't have a very high budget
- Mainstream companies (which include the big six) appear for a longer amount of times than independent films
- However, there are some independent institutions which have higher budgets than some others of it's kind

To come to these results, we use
The Universal logo

20th century Fox

Film4

Our institutional logo designs (Joe Fisher)

Our institutional logo main design
To have a logo that we could agree on, i needed to inform my group members as to the developments i made to our logo as i came up with every draft. This was good because now, it is visible that the progression made between the first logo, and the last logo is much better, and if i had left the logo as the first draft without feedback, it could have looked much worse.
In terms of design, we wanted our institutional logo to look professional, but also look like it was from a mainstream company. Unlike most mainstream institutional logos, this logo is not animated. Generally speaking, huge institutional, mainstream logos are animated, such as universals logo, or paramount, but because it wouldn't look professional if we animated our logo, we decided not to.
As far as taking in to consideration is concerned, we have come up with some ideas as to how it can be animated, such as moving the letters in to place to form the logo, or making the logo wobble a bit, like a wave, but we discarded these ideas as they would make the logo instantly look unprofessional.

Here are some of the examples of what I mean by mainstream animated institutional logos:

Universal Pictures (2013) (HD)

Paramount Pictures 100th Anniversary (2012) (HD)

In no way am i saying that these logos that i gave as an example are bad, but i'm using them as a comparison in quality and design, and how animating our logo will never come out with a result such as this (not without serious practice, anyway).

Our logo progression

Stinky Sock productions logo 1

Stinky Sock productions logo 3

Stinky Sock productions logo 2

Stinky Sock productions logo 4

Stinky Sock productions logo 5

This shows the main progression of changes that happened to our logo whilst i was initially designing it. I had my group members advice to take in to account when i designed this logo as well. for example, one of the biggest changes made was colour, and that was because certain colours will look better and look natural with a black and white filter. Another large change was the font, and how it went from completely different font styles and being stretched, to a rather defined, unstretched font style that looked more professional.

Conclusion
I think the decision from all of us to not make the logo animated was a good idea as it would take up so much time, especially making it look professional and unique to us. I also think that this blog post justifies this decision, especially as most mainstream logos are animated but ours isn't.

Our institutional logo (Joe Fisher)

Our chosen logo for "Stinky Sock Productions"

Why we chose this specific design

This is our institutional logo. We wanted a design that looked formal and one that looked fitting in our opening by looking formal. There is one floor in our logo, and that is that it is in colour, whereas our film opening will be in grey-scale. However, this is good because we plan on having a transition from blood to our logo, and seems our institutional logo is a blood red colour (intentionally), it means that the gradients will not differ to much from the original gradient, making an easier transition from the blood to logo. Overall, it fits with the theme of our film, and it can be adapted however we want it to, as well as look good, as it is not too detailed.

Sequence of Titles (Oliver Jewers)

This is our first draft of our sequence of titles which we will use in our piece. It follows a generic sequence of film titles. By planning this out, it has allowed us to begin considering who we use for our actors when creating our piece.

0:00 - 0:05 - Stinky Sock Productions
0:07 - 0:11 - Producers Present
0:14 - 0:19 - A 'Director' Film
Main Actor In
FILM TITLE
Supporting actress #1
Supporting actor #2
Supporting actor #3
Co Producers -
Original Screenplay -
Original Soundtrack Composed By -
Edited by -
Production Design -
Visual effect Supervisor -
Costume Design -
Director of Photography -
Sound Design -
Casting
DIRECTED BY -

Our Film Title (Oliver Jewers)

During discussion, my group and I had come across many potential titles that we could have for our film. After a number of ideas, we eventually came to the final decision that our film would be called 'Metropolitan'. We chose this as it stood out above all previous names for titles, metropolitan (meaning an important state or colony) would stand out and match the colossal scale of our films story and how the events in the film could shape a new society or metropolis.

Other potential names for our film:
1st Option - 2027 - This was one of our first ideas, it would represent the year in which the events of the film would take place. We thought that this title would be interesting as the audiences would be interested and wondering why the date is significant, therefore they would be drawn into seeing the film to find out more about what would happen in the film.

2nd Option - *The name of the main character*
We never chose a name for the main character of our piece, we believe that it added to the mystery of the character and the mysterious secrets kept from the audience throughout the film. Therefore, the choice to name the film after the characters name proved irrelevant in the end. I also believe that this is a very mainstream title as it is commonly used in a lot of action films (John Wick, Jack Reacher etc), our group thought that it would be inevitably uncreative and boring.

The title 'Metropolitan' was decided after researching into names and stumbling across the film Metropolis, which follows a similar story to our own. They are similar words with similar meaning and we thought it fit perfectly with the story and themes of our piece.

Oliver Jewers

Location Scouting (Oliver Jewers)

The purpose of this task was to find out the potential places in which we could film our piece in, it helped us to consider the size of rooms and whether they would be suitable for our scene or not.

1^st section of our piece

The location of our piece takes place indoors. More particularly a dark and gritty home which has been affected by the run down society and represents the low quality of life in this universe. So when filming our piece, we will use a home which we will decorate with mise to create this atmosphere.

1^st Option

This is our first option, a terraced house in a suburban area. This would be a good place for filming as the smaller rooms are more representative of the claustrophobic atmosphere we want to use in our piece. Also it represents the main protagonist as they are being hunted and commuting to a hidden place, away from anywhere where attention could be possibly drawn to them. Drawbacks of filming here is that it doesn’t contain all the props we may need, transporting them could be a difficulty and time consuming.

2^nd Option

This is our second option for filming, a rural detached house. It would be suitable as it would already contain various props which we could use in our piece, making it easier to organise. However, it put restrictions on what we could film as the style of the house does not suit the mood or target location of the film. Therefore, it reduces what we could film and could impact its overall quality and realism.

3^rd Option

This would be a good place for us to film in as it also represents a good area which suits the aim of the film, this would create a good and realistic atmosphere matching our plan. Also, the houses rooms are suitable for the areas which we want to film, in size and proportions. Drawbacks of filming here would mean that we would be unable to use certain props and ideas.

2^nd Part of Our Piece

Our opening also consists of an establishing shot at the end to show where the film will be taking place. For this we have two potential options that we can use for this:

1^st Option - Chelmsford

This would be good for our opening as it is local and therefore it is easy to shoot in as we can get there with relative ease, this would make the film process a lot less time consuming for the whole group which would allow us to put our focus into other aspects of our film. The drawbacks of filming here are that it may not look as professional or capture the large scale civilisation that dominates the lands in our piece.

2^nd Option - London

This would be the most ideal area for filming, it would provide the large scale industrial look we are going for and therefore it would suit the mood and atmosphere of the film over Chelmsford. The drawbacks of this are that it is difficult to transport our group there due to the distance so it would be hard for our group to get there to film, this would take up planning time which could otherwise be spent somewhere else. In addition to this, if we were unable to get enough footage or if the data was to be lost, we would have wasted a large amount of time and the trip to London would have been pointless.

Knowing the potential areas in which we can film will help us when constructing our film opening as it will allow us to be more organised and prepared for the filming date, making it much easier on the day to construct our set and choose what we will film