Final Task: Costumes

We have decided that the costume for the hit man character will be slightly more casual than the costume for the character who gets killed. We still want to present the hit man as professional, so we will have him wear a suit but without a tie and perhaps the top button of the shirt undone. This will create the sense that the hit man is both professional but casual in his job, emphasising how to him killing someone is just a daily occurrance. An example of this ideas is the characters Tommy and Turkish from the film Snatch.

Final Task: Costumes

We want the costume for the main character in the opening sequence to be a very ordinary representation of a professional individual. We want the audience to be able to relate to this character and believe that what happens in the film could happen to them, which is why we want a very plain costume. For this reason we will use a black suit for the main character's costume.

Final Task: First Meeting

In class we are deciding on the locations and the script for our opening sequence.

Locations:
One of our first ideas for the locations are Canary Warf Tube station in London. This is where the titles will begin.

We have also decided that our other locations will be a small alley near St.Johns College in Oxford and Joel's house, which will be the scene of the shooting.

We also have a first draft of the script (written by Joel Pickard);

“Being a Hitman is a fine art; it appears spontaneous, impulsive, brash. But what you don’t see,  is the meticulous planning, the perfect timing, the outstanding execution.

A Hitmans job is to get away with murder so you’ve got to be bloody good at it or else, well you won’t. Now I can see why most people don’t appreciate the service that I deliver, but you don’t give the post man a hard time for delivering ransom letters or fake cheques.  

I’m just a messenger, with a gun, a middle man if you will. Don’t ask me about my business and I’ll leave yours alone. I’m just there for the hit.”

Final Task Film Pitch

For our final task, we have to create an opening sequence to a film. The first thing we needed to do was create a pitch for the film that we want to create. 

Final Task - Pitch

Main Task: Brief

Film the opening sequence of a new fiction film, including titles and soundtrack to last approximately two minutes.


Key Points:


Opening sequence- We need to show understanding of what makes an opening sequence. To do this we looked at opening sequences from films such as Dinner for Schmucks, The conjuring, Coraline and Catch Me if You Can.

When we are working on our final task, we need to make sure that we don't tell a short story, but that we introduce the characters and setting.


Titles- We will need to include titles to introduce the principal actors and people involved in the film.


Soundtrack-We will need to include a soundtrack, which means we will have to create an original soundtrack using royalty free sounds, and possibly our own sounds as well.


Fiction-This means that out opening sequence can be any genre we like, as long as it is under the fiction category. This will give us pretty much free reign over what we do.

Preliminary Task

Here is the preliminary exercise that we have made in class.
Preliminary Task Brief

Lighting

In class we learned about different types of lighting and how they are used in film. We had to find the definitions for the following lighting terms:

Key Light: The main source of light in a film.

Fill Light: Supplementary light used in filming that does not change the character of the main light and is used to lighten the shadows.

Backlight: Lighting from behind an actor, object or scene.

Ambient/Naturalistic/Artificial/Low Key: Light not supplied by the photographer.

Chiaroscuro: Strong contrasts between light and dark.

Accent Light/ Spot Light: A lamp projecting a narrow beam of light onto a character, object or place.