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RESEARCH
Genre Research and mind-maps (3 posts)	Genre Map Reasearch is completed	Action and Crime mind maps are included
Uploaded YouTube videos of openings – analysed (10 openings)	10 Youtube Clips uploaded and Analysed - Whole range of different genres	All have been completed and uploaded to the blog - Various different
Opening titles analysed in detail – font researched	Completed - Fight Club	Different Font research completed, Title research completed
Uploaded YouTube videos of similar genre openings analysed in detail (3 posts)	Completed	This has been completed today with me uploading 2 more posts - The Departed and The God Father
Costume and location research – google earth and pictures you’ve taken. (At least 2 posts)	Completed	Changed the loaction from outside to an Interication Room
Actors and props photos and interviews	Done and uploaded	Completed
Soundtrack research (non-copyright music)	SoundTrack research has been completed - Our favourite one has been uploaded to our blog - Try and compose something simular	More sound track research has been uploaded on other soundtracks that we have looked at and dicussed about using
Audience Research and Profiling (typical audience member and similar films)	Completed
Institution research (Paramount etc)	Completed	More detail has been added
Certificate research	Completed
PLANNING
Own film idea brainstorm	Completed and uploaded to the blog
Own film treatment
Relevant Online Tutorials (on filming and editing) and Comments (At least 2 posts)	Completed	Added the tutorial on how I made the practice titles - Added new tutorial about the Make-Up use for our film
Documenting of influences on production
Shot lists	Completed	Completed the shot list and shot types of filming/editing and they're in depth
Consideration of representation in your film and stereotyping – use theory from G325.
Questionnaire (and feedback) Get some feedback on your initial ideas!	Completed
Diary of filming/editing etc with photos and screen grabs (At least 3 posts)	Completed - Needs editing and uploaded	Completed on Film day - just needs editing and uploaded
Mood board	Action mood board is completed
Script	Script is Completed	Uploaded and Completed
Practice titles created and uploaded	Completed - Uploaded New one has been created and uploaded	The new one is made and uploaded to the Blog
Storyboard – animatic.
Time Management Schedule – what you did& when, problems you encountered& solved	Completed	Filming is finished and uploaded to the blog
Codes and Conventions featured in your Opening Two Minutes	Completed
Ensure that all posts have a title, detailed comments and relevant pictures which are commented on.	Completed

Soundtrack Research (2) - Interrorgation Room

This type of interrorgation is one of the soundtracks that we all looked at and one of the various pieces of soundtracks that we might've 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 interrorgation 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 didnt 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 mimiced 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 interrorgation 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.

Actors - Behind the scenes

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.



Codes and Conventions - Our Opening 2 minutes - Crime/Action/Interrogation

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

Outgone - Brainstoming Ideas

This is just a simple brainstorm/Mind Map of our movie - Outgone. The different colour arrows show what exactly what we are going to use in our film. The Green linking up to the right type of setting/location, Costume, Genre and Extra on what we are going to use/do in our film. The Purple Arrows show the other ideas/possibilities on what we were thinking about using or the setting we were going to use, just before discussing it and then choosing our film idea. The Red Arrows simply just show the different subheadings/sub categories.

We all decided that in our film we are going to be wearing suits, the setting will be in an interrogation room where questions and answers will be asked (action scenes too) and the genre will be Action/Crime.

Touch of Evil Analysis

 In the introduction of the scene, there is a immediate close up shot of the bomb device. Following this close up, the scene progresses, as the use of the crane shot seems to progress and follow the action in the particular frame of the scene. The cinematography seems to be varied in terms of camera movement and camera angles, giving the sense of suspense within the scene.

The use of a close up shot of a person setting the bomb could connote how something tragic is about to happen and gives an insight into the expectations of the narrative as a whole. After the activation, the use of a tracking shot is evident, as the camera seems to follow the assassin planting the bomb in the car boot, which could be an enigma code, as the audience could wonder why the assassin is planting the bomb and who he intends to assassinate.
Although he is the villain, the audience are encouraged to identify with him in the form of tracking shots, as we are seemingly following him and realise his motives and intentions, ie setting a bomb, planting it in a car boot. Shortly after this, a crane shot is used to show how the car is significant in the result of the scene.

Immediately, the scene cuts to an establishing shot of the town, the use of a high angle shot is used to show how other charters are unaware of what is about to happen, normality is conveyed here. By using these shots, we are encouraged to identify with the villain, as we are seemingly observing the plan in action.

The use of long shots and medium shots are used to show how the car is being positioned intentionally in a public place within the town, in order to target the people to which the bomb was intended for.

At the beginning of the scene, there is use of non digetic sound and normal parallel sound of ticking noises coming from the bomb, excitedly the music seems to slowly rise in tempo, which could signifies how the assassin is joyfully anticipating destruction, to an extent the audience could identify with him, as we share the assassin's mood of sadistic violence, which could arouse certain pleasures from the audience.

However, there is a shift in music , when the couple get into the car, a more lively jazz music plays, this seems to pacify the scene and seems to cut the tension, from the more tense drum sounds. This music could connote a sense of irony, as the couple are unaware of the bomb in the car boot, and are not expecting a bomb to explode. The music could act as the disequilibrium, as it defecates the lively jazz music, and could connote trouble and tragedy