Monday 17 April 2017

Final Edit of Title Sequence

Final Edit

This is the final edit and final version of our title sequence, The Journey.


Sunday 16 April 2017

Final Thoughts

Thoughts

With regards to filming, I feel as if our schedule for filming should have been a bit more frequent instead of concentrating on other aspects of the coursework, such as blogging and our evaluation (towards the end of the coursework). I feel as if communication with most members of the group was good and we created a group chat to organise when we were going to film for both our title sequence and group videos for the evaluation. However, I feel as if the communication for the most part of the task was not suitable and we should have made more of an effort to arrange filming dates. 

Saturday 15 April 2017

Preparation and Filming Day 15

Filming Day 15

On Saturday 15th I filmed some extra footage at my house to add the extra and final pieces to our title sequence. I filmed a few pieces of footage to show the comparison and contrast of little Jack's career to older Jack's career. Firstly, I filmed a scene of Spurs shirt with boots and a trophy on top of it with my phone. This is to show it is home footage and how excited I am about having these accolades and items. This is in comparison to Kallum and Kaan filming one of Kallum's brother's shirt and boots to show the progression. Also, I filmed some of my trophies along with some Tottenham shirts for a scene we could add some titles in. I sent these clips to Kaan as he is the head editor and has the necessary tools at hand to edit.

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Evaluation pt7

Question 7

The last question of the evaluation is: Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

We answered this question as a group as we felt our answers and opinions were very similar. We recorded this on Tolani's phone and uploaded it to Soundcloud - 

Friday 14 April 2017

Evaluation pt6

Question 6

The sixth question of the evaluation is: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? 

We also decided to answer this question as a group as we all had different and new experiences with technology as a group. We used a green screen in this video also. 


Thursday 13 April 2017

Evaluation pt5

Question 5


The fifth part of the Evaluation task is; how did you appeal/attract your audience? 

Firstly, I feel as if we appealed and attracted our audience by creating one character who can appeal to many males of different ages. Jack is portrayed to be at two stages of his life in our media product, both at the age of 12-13 and around 17-18. This appeals to audiences because this allows for a wide range of boys to relate to the protagonist and build a connection, whether it be through real life issues, the common interest of football or having dreams and aspirations. This would then build up interest from possible viewers of the media product and would then lead to increased ticket sales. In addition, this story line can also appeal to males of older ages because it could be reminiscent/nostalgic of dreams and aspirations they had when they were younger.

Furthermore, another way in which our media product appealed/attracted audiences was by the use of star power. We tried to use and incorporate big names within the film industry that would be very likely to feature in an independent and niche film. We used stars such as Tom Holland, who plays Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man film, and Jacob Tremblay, who featured in the Smurfs 2. We felt as if these up and coming, young actors would relish the chance to feature in this film and as if they would attract people to come and see the media product due to those being young but at the same time well known and well received actors. 

In addition, we also appealed to our audience by asking them to view our title sequence and fill out a feedback sheet on what they feel would improve the product and what they liked about the product. We felt as if this was very beneficial and necessary because they were the demographic that we were trying to appeal to and getting possibly improvements would give us an indication as to what would make our product better. We did receive good feedback and we made the recommended changes in order to get more people to be appealed to our product. 


Preparation and Filming - Day 14

Filming - Day 14

On Thursday 13th, myself and Kaan got the train to White Hart Lane, home of Tottenham Hotspur, to get some footage around the ground and of a poster inside the Spurs shop. We did this because older Jack does sign for his boyhood club, Tottenham and we felt it would be a good idea to include some footage, and an over the shoulder shot, in the title sequence. We took a tripod and camera with us. 


Wednesday 12 April 2017

Evaluation pt4

Question 4

This is the fourth question as part of the evaluation task, I recorded a voice note and uploaded it to soundcloud. The question is; Who would be the audience for your media product?


Preparation and Filming- Day 13

Filming - Day 13

On Wednesday 12th, Kallum and Kaan filmed Kallum's younger brother watching football and filmed some of his accolades he has received. This is in order to  continue to show and emphasise the transition from younger Jack to older and grown up Jack. Furthermore, Kaan also started to create a newspaper article that will possibly feature in the title sequence, this was done using Microsoft Word and the headline will feature a heap of praise for Jack's recent performance for Tottenham. 

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Tuesday 11 April 2017

Evaluation pt3

Question 3

The third question of the evaluation is: What kind of media institution would distribute your product and why?

We answered this question as a group and filmed us individually giving our own opinions to the question as they all link. We used a green screen and footage from our title sequence features in the background. 


Monday 10 April 2017

Evaluation pt2

Question 2

The second question as part of the evaluation task is: How does your media product represent particular social groups. 

First of all, one social group our media product represents is the working class. This is shown through the character of younger Jack. Younger Jack is meant to come from a relatively poor background and lives in a small flat in London, with his mum who is a single parent. This is a result of Jack's dad leaving his wife and son when Jack was a young child and this caused a lot of financial problems for them. Jack's PE  teacher, who is played by Alan Shearer, acts as a motivator and father figure to Jack throughout his childhood. However, Jack is represented as the upper working class by the nice TV which features in the title sequence. This is to show that Jack is not really poor and has relatively nice luxuries. We do show the transition as age gets on the richer you get and in this instance it is due to Jack signing for a professional football club. We also show that he is in the working class originally with the scene of him signing his own contract in a public school. This shows he was a regular citizen and could not afford to go to private school and is in fact in state education. 

In addition, another social group our media product represents is the upper middle class. This is portrayed through the character of older Jack. This is shown in the title sequence through the clothing of Jack in scenes such as when Jack is signing the contract and the scene in the changing room where Jack is seen looking at the number 1o shirt. He is seen to be wearing a very nice and expensive shirt as well as a tie. This is to emphasise his wealth he has gained from signing for Tottenham Hotspur and becoming a professional footballer. Although this is not shown in the title sequence, as Jack's income increases his arrogance does also. This is part of the narrative and this is representing a real life problem when people have a sudden influx of fame and fortune it overwhelms them and gets to their head. 

Finally, a social group our media product represents is younger males. In the title sequence there are two stages of a younger male which is shown in the title sequence. Younger Jack is portrayed to be around the age of 11/12 and younger Jack is portrayed to be around the age of 18/19. Despite Jack growing up there is a scene in the title sequence that shows there is a hint of young boy despite Jack growing up. There is a scene where he is looking up at his heroes who play for Tottenham Hotspur. This shows that there is an inner child still in him and he does not forget where his inspiration came from. 







Sunday 9 April 2017

Evaluation pt1

Question 1

The first question of the evaluation task is: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

Firstly, I believe that my media product, The Journey, does use some forms and conventions of real media products. For example, one of them is the type of equipment we used to create the media product we have created. Throughout the process of of our media product being created we have used multiple pieces of equipment and software. We have used things such as; cameras, tripods, lights, dollies, steady cams, Final Cut Pro, Motion. These are things that both independent and big Hollywood film companies use in order to produce their media products. Without these things companies would not be able to make their media products. We did not use unconventional methods of editing and filming, using stock as this method is outdated and we wanted to be conventional in order to be more successful at box office.

In addition, our media product also does use some forms and conventions of real media products. This is because film companies that release Drama/Sport are typically independent, such as Channel4 and BabyCow productions and our media product follows this convention because our film is also an independent film. If our film was produced by a big Hollywood company/conglomerate then it would have gone against the forms and conventions of real media products since there are not many Hollywood companies that have released media products with the genre of drama and the sub genre of sport.

Furthermore, another way in which our media product uses the forms and conventions of real media products is the incorporation of social realism and factors such as settings and characters in the films. Typically, within films that have the genre of Sport and Drama there is a background story involved, such as in Goal! there is always a romantic subplot that audiences can relate to whereas in our media product we added the story of a poor child. In addition, we also had the conventional settings in a Sport Drama film, such as a football pitch, the home of the protagonist and an office (where the contract was signed by older Jack and this setting was established by having a table and Jack in formal clothes). We also have the typical character who features in Sport Drama film such as the protagonist who is aspiring to be a footballer.

Also, like many other media products, we created narrative enigma through the use of shots. A shot we used in order to create narrative enigma is the over the shoulder shot. We used this a few times, namely in the contract signing scenes and the scene of Jack at White Hart Lane. We felt as if not showing his face would create buzz because people would want to know what he looks like and this makes it a bit more mysterious, as we try to incorporate some more drama into the product.

However, as well as this I believe our media product also challenges the forms and conventions of real media products. This is due to the genre we chose, which was drama with the sub genre of sport. This challenges the forms and conventions of real media products because it is very unconventional for a film to be released with the genre of drama and the sub genre of sport. There are very few examples where this type of film has been released and these examples are; Bend it Like Beckham and the Goal! Trilogy. 


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Saturday 8 April 2017

Evaluation Questions

Evaluation


1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?


2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?


3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?


4. Who would be the audience for your media product?


5. How did you attract/address your audience?


6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?


7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?



Friday 31 March 2017

Preparation and Filming - Day 12

Filming - Day 12

In the week before we broke up for the Easter holidays, alongside the ongoing work for our title sequence myself, Kann, Kallum and Tolani started to prepare for our evaluations. In both lessons we used the green screen, a tripod and camera to record two videos for two out of seven questions as part of our evaluation. In addition, we also recorded an answer for one of the questions on soundcloud as part of using a variety of ways in documenting our evaluation.

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Thursday 30 March 2017

Preparation and FIlming - Day 11

Preparation and Filming - Day 11


Over the weekend, Kallum took home a camera and tripod to film his brother doing kick-ups and reacting to parts of a football match. This is to give a better idea of the narrative and to give some further background knowledge of younger Jack's story and upbringing. In addition to this, we will film myself doing kick ups as well to show the transition between younger Jack and older Jack.


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Preparation and Filming - Day 10

Preparation and Filming - Day 10


On this day, Kaan took home a camera and tripod and decided to film a few of his football shirts and some trophies and take some shots of those. In addition, he also drew a picture of a football player in a scrapbook. this was in response to the feedback we received during the lesson and this was to make the narrative clearer by showing a bit of background on younger Jack.  

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Preparation and Filming - Day 9

Preparation and Filming - Day 9


On this day, myself, Kallum, Kaan and Tolani went to the changing room in dance to continue with our filming for the title sequence. Myself and Kallum went to the PE department to get some shirts from the school football team, this is because we needed to film the back of the shirts (the numbers). This was so we could show the transition between the younger Jack's shirt and the older Jack's shirt. We put the number ten under the light to show that that shirt was Jack's shirt. We hung the other shirts around the main shirt to make it look like a football changing room. After we had set the scene, we did an over the shoulder shot of myself looking at the shirt using the camera and tripod.


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Wednesday 29 March 2017

Feedback

Feedback from First Screening

These two sheets are the sheets that we received from our first screening to the rest of the class. Two other groups filled these out and gave us some constructive criticism. We felt as if this was very beneficial and necessary because they were the demographic that we were trying to appeal to and getting possibly improvements would give us an indication as to what would make our product better. We did receive good feedback and we made the recommended changes in order to get more people to be appealed to our product. Some of the feedback included:

Emphasise the narrative more- This was due to there being a clear lack of narrative and we tried to improve this by adding more scenes of Jack growing and developing as both a footballer and a person. 

Font - Both the colour and type of fonts needed to be changed. The colour needed to be changed because in some scenes it clashed and therefore it would make it harder for the audience to read what was said. The type of font also needed changing because we had selected our main font, Jersey M54, but we did not use it throughout all of the credits and the feedback stated that we should use it for all of them. 

More football shots - As this was a sport film, it was suggested that we needed to add more football shots to establish the genre further and we took this on board and did this by including some shots of younger Jack and older Jack doing some kick ups. 

      

First Draft/Screening

First Screening

This is the video in which is our first draft for our title sequence, The Journey. We showed this to the rest of the class and received constructive criticism. However, it is not our finished title sequence and this is evident due to their only being thirty seconds worth of footage. Our main focus was on the soundtrack as we found that the hardest thing to find and we wanted to make sure that the feedback was positive with regards to the soundtrack. 


First Screening

Feedback 


On Wednesday 22nd, we showed our title sequence to the rest of the students in the class as well as Miss McGrath and Meredith. Each group filled out a feedback sheet and this included; things we needed to improve on, things they liked and things that were good but needed to be developed further. People said they liked the soundtrack and thought it went well with the video and the contents. However, people said they did not have a clear clue on what the narrative was and that we needed to make it clearer. As a result of this we plan to include more shots that show the transition between younger Jack and older Jack.

Monday 20 March 2017

Editing Session 2

Editing

Today, as a collective we were incorporating pieces of footage we had gathered recently. we did this as a group because thus far we had not sat down together and analysed and evaluated the footage we had. we also used this opportunity to get to grips with final cut pro and this consisted of us using it on our own and trying new things as well as Kaan showing us and helping us on how to perform certain actions on Final Cut Pro. this is since Kaan had extensive knowledge of Final Cut Pro from the continuity sequence and in the early stages of the title sequence. actions we performed and learnt how to do were; adding transitions on to the clips and moving and changing the font in order to suit our needs. we also discussed as a group today what positioning of the titles we felt was best and in addition to this what colour we felt would be best for certain scenes. 

Friday 17 March 2017

Preparation and Filming - Day 8

Preparation and Filming - Day 8

On Friday the 17th I had to teach a year 8 PE class as part of my sports studies coursework and my group took advantage of this by bringing a tripod and camera to the astro turf and filmed the students during the lesson as we could use this in our title sequence having younger Jack in training. Also, the group filmed a student walking into the changing room acting as younger Jack and this will transition well with the scene of myself walking into the changing room. we will be looking to replicate the transition we added when we had close ups of myself and younger Jack dribbling at goals.                                                                                               

Wednesday 15 March 2017

Finding the Soundtrack

Soundtrack Search

Today,  as part of constructing our title sequence and starting to prepare and gear towards the first screening of our title sequence, myself and Kallum started to look for a suitable soundtrack for our title sequence, The Journey. Our aim was to find a touching and smooth song with the characteristic of a build up. This is because our title sequence is a comparison between younger jack and older Jack and we felt a build up in the title sequence would be very suitable and receive positive feedback. We firstly found The xx - Intro but however this soundtrack is copyrighted so unfortunately we could not use this soundtrack. 

Preparation and Filming - Day 7

Preparation and Filming - Day 7

On Wednesday 15th myself and Kaan went to the drama studio and in the changing room to film a few scenes for our title sequence. Firstly, we went to film myself walking into the changing room with my boots on and then Kallum will go and film his brother (younger Jack) doing the same thing to show the transition of Jack through the ages. In addition, we filmed myself opening my bag and taking out my new stuff from Tottenham as a result of myself signing the contract. 


Friday 10 March 2017

Editing Session

Editing

Today, myself and Kallum sat in the mac room at school and went through some of the footage we had recorded at goals the day before. This footage included me dribbling towards goal and shooting at goal, with Kaan being the goalkeeper. It also included myself doing some kick ups and some more footage of Kallum's brother (younger Jack)  doing the same things as me so we could show the transition and time lapse. Myself and Kallum edited the footage by adding some titles, choosing the fonts and colours of the titles and adding cuts. This was very successful since Kaan, the main editor of the group, agreed with the majority of our choices and decided to leave them in for the first draft and screening of our title sequence to the rest of the class.

Preparation and Filming - Day 6

Preparation and Filming - Day 6

In preparation for our first screening, myself and Kallum sat in the mac room and was editing our title sequence to ensure our narrative, story and genre are clear to the audience. We had to delete some scenes and remove some titles in order to have the best possible title sequence and as well as that we added some titles and effects to our footage to show the time period of when it was set in. 

Typography and Titles

In this lesson we looked at the order in which titles should appear in our title sequence. We did a task in class where we had to predict the order in which the titles appear, the title  sequence we used was 'Catch Me If You Can'. Here is the order in which the titles should appear in our title sequence;

Typography/Titles

1. Studio name
2. Main star - star power
3. Co-star
4. Title
5. Secondary actors
6. Side characters
7. Casting director
8. Co-Producer
9. Music
10. Costume designer
11. Film editor
12. Director of photography
13. Executive producers
14. Screenplay
15. Director

Title Sequence Design
  • Genre
  • Style/Mood
  • Possible narratives
  • Production values
  • Themes

Notes

Notes

  • Genre
  • Narrative
  • Iconography 
  • Characters
  • Settings

Skyfall -Action and Adventure - Spy
  • Narrative - Tombstones - foreshadowing death 
  • Iconography - Costume (suit), soundtrack (orchestral conventional of action)
  • Characters - Narrative enigma created by the protagonist shooting shadows, which signifies that their are antagonists. Sexualised women (conventional of both the genre and the sub-genre).
  • Settings - River red mist - shows their is danger ahead for the protagonist. 

Deadpool - Action and Adventure/Comedy - Superhero
  • Narrative - Established by writing on the screen, gun and flipped car on fire shows action 
  • Iconography - Props were comical eg Hello Kitty lipstick, this is conventional of a comedy as well as a contrapuntal soundtrack
  • Characters - Deadpool and villains, shows superhero genre (protagonist)
  • Settings - Title sequence set on the motorway in the city, it is conventional for a city to be the location of an action and adventure film because that is where conflict happens and there is a threat of the civilians' safety.

Preparation and Filming - Day 5

Preparation and Filming - Day 5

On Wednesday 7th of March myself, Kallum and Kaan went to goals in Bexleyheath to film myself in the football scenes of our title sequence and we also filmed Kallum's little brother, who is plays younger Jack in our title sequence. In addition, on Wednesday myself and qualm also filmed the scene of Jack walking into the changing room and siting down with his boots on. We will also film Kallum's little brother (younger Jack) doing this as we will continue to show his progression as he grows up. As myself being in charge of props and costume, I brought the kit in for myself which included a Tottenham shirt, adidas shorts and adidas boots.


            


        

Preparation and Filming - Day 4

Preparation and Filming - Day 4

In addition, on the Friday myself and Kaan re filmed the scene that consisted of me signing the contract. We found a year 10 student who looks similar to Jack and would portray a young Jack well to sign a pretend contract whilst in class. This is to show he aspires to be a footballer and it will show the progression of him when we fade it into the scene of myself signing the contract.


Preparation and Filming - Day 3

Preparation and Filming - Day 3

Next week on Thursday, myself and Tolani found a location in school and filmed two scenes that we will include in our title sequence. We filmed myself signing the contract that will make Jack a Tottenham Hotspur player as well as filming Jack receiving his new equipment as a result of signing the contract. He received, shin pads, boots, shorts and a spurs shirt and it shows Jack presenting it and then it goes into a shot of the equipment he had received.



Preparation and Filming - Day 2

Preparation and Filming - Day 2 

On Wednesday at school, Tolani, Kallum and Kaan went on the field to film students from the younger years playing football whilst I was writing up the pitch in which we will present to the class. After this, Tolani was looking on dafont.com to try and find the suitable font for our title, which is called 'The Journey'. We chose the font called Jersey 54. In addition, Kaan will start to edit and upload the animatic of our storyboard, which Tolani drew.




Wednesday 1 March 2017

Release Date

Release Date

We have chosen the release date for our film to be Friday 14th of April because it is during the easter holidays and therefore this will mean kids are off school so we hope that this will increase the gross overall and the gross during the opening weekend. We have also chosen this time of year because it is just before the summer, which means that film festivals will be looking to nominate films for awards. We hope that our film will be considered for nomination and even possibly have a chance at winning an award. This is because one of the main successes for an independent film is to feature at film festivals and receive awards. In addition, many film critics will be at the film festivals and independent films also look for positive critic reception.

Director

Director

The director of our film is Frank Darabont. We chose this director because he has proven himself as a very successful director with directing films and series such as The Shawshank Redemption and The Walking Dead (2010-2011). His successes in drama was vital to us because that is the main genre of our film and some of his other works have been with films with small budgets. This proves that he can make a good film with a small budget. His success with films and series with different sub genres also attracted us to use him because it proves that he is not limited to one sub genre and is very flexible.

Budget

Budget


Taking into consideration that the average budget of an independent film is £1,000,000. We believe that the most suitable budget for our film is £3,500,000. We believe that it is a suitable amount in order to make a successful film and our target in the opening weekend is £1,500,000 and we hope the final total gross to be £4,000,000-£4,500,000. We hope our multiple production companies will market our film successfully as well as organizing for our film to feature at at least two film festivals, which would hopefully lead to a positive critic reception and nominations for awards. 

Audience Profile

Audience Profile



As a football film, the target audience of the movie will be young male teenagers. The main reason being that most teenagers play football and always dream of becoming a footballer. Teenagers will be the primary audience as well as football fans. I would argue that the secondary audience of our film will be young adults. This is because the films' sub genre is drama, so they will take the film a bit more seriously compared to young teenagers who would mainly be going to the film because of its sports genre. We also believe the secondary audience of this film would be young adults because some of the issues in the film could be similar to things those people are currently going through/have gone through and they can relate to the charter in he film.


Here is the audience profile I created on photoshop for our film.




Appointing Cast Members

Cast Members


—Jack (Protagonist) – Tom Holland
—Young Jack – Jacob Trembley
—Iris (Love interest)– Candice Patron
—Mr Jackson (Jack’s PE Teacher) – Alan Shearer
—Jeremy (Bully 1) – Miles Teller
—Kaan (Bully 2) – Ahmet Calik
—Director/Producer – Frank Darabont (Tolani)
—Costumes/Make-Up – Lindsey Pugh and June Brickman (Jack)
—Cinematographer/Lighting – Maryse Alberti (Tolani and Kallum)
—Editor- James Haygood (Kaan)
—Music Advisor – Jason Alexander (Kallum)
—Graphics Editor – David Carson (Kaan)

We chose these actors because we felt as if they would realistically feature in this film and other films such as 'Swiss Army Man' have managed to attract big stars, such as Daniel Radcliffe, to star in their films.

Genre and Similar Films

Genre and Similar Films

Our film fits in the genre of a drama and it fits under the sub genre of sport. We believe that it is a drama because the film includes scenes that focus on issues such as single parenting, lack of financial support and bullying. it also includes a romantic sub plot in which the protagonist has to choose between his girlfriend and his footballing career. Examples of similar films to ours are;
  • Goal Trilogy 
  • Creed
  • Fight Club
  • Moneyball
  • Bend it like Beckham

Production Company

Production Company

Our film is an independent, British film and this means that there will be multiple production companies in order to generate the funding for the film. We chose these production companies because we believe that these will both fund and market our film effectively and successfully and help us be successful at film festivals and at release. The production companies we have chosen to produce our films are;
  • Antenna Pictures
  • Baby Cow Animation
  • Creative England
  • Grass Roots Media
  • TVE

Monday 27 February 2017

Animatic

Animatic

Here is the animatic our group produced, Kaan added the soundtrack and edited it and Tolani and I drew the storyboard whilst Kallum added the type of the shot. The animatic shows the narrative of our whole title sequence, which is; 

Equilibrium - This is where Jack, the protagonist, is at school, his mum is a single mum, they are not well off and Jack has an interest in football but he is unable to fully pursue his dream of being a professional footballer due to the fact he doesn't have good football boots and has no encouragement. His PE teacher acts like a father figure to him and encourages him to keep on following his dreams. He has a contact who is a scout for Tottenham Hotspur and organises and trial for Jack. Jack then gets signed by Tottenham and has the financial support he has always lacked, allowing him to buy nice football boots and clothes.

—Disruption - Jack starts to let the fame get to his head and some of his friends start to lose patience with him. 

—Disequilibrium - Jack gets injured playing for Tottenham and the person who injured him was one of his bullies from Secondary School. Jack breaks his ankle and is out for a lengthy amount of time, whilst he is recovering a friend of his visits him a lot and they get closer.
—Attempt to restore Equilibrium - Jack is recovering from his injury and is striving to hit the form he once hit. His aim is to return for the cup final. His girlfriend says to him that she doesn't want him to behave like he did before.


—New Equilibrium - Jack returns for the cup final, against the team in which he broke his ankle against. Jack scores the winning goal.


Friday 24 February 2017

Fonts

Fonts

Here are some of the fonts my group and I considered using for our title and also the font we have decided to use and why. All of these fonts are sans serif and this represents our genre. In addition, the sporty themes of these different fonts connotes the genre of our media product, which is Drama with the sub genre of sport. 











My group and I have decided to use the font Jersey M54. This is because we felt as if this font suited the title and that the other options we had looked at were more suitable in a cartoon picture or a magazine cover. In addition, we also asked some of our classmates what font they would feel would be the best to use and the vast majority agreed with us and chose Jersey M54 to be the most suitable. Moreover, on a deeper level we chose this font because of the rough edges the font has and we felt as if this linked to the film because it shows that nothing is smooth in life and there will always be challenges and obstacles in your way.

Pitch

Pitch

Narrative (Todorov)

Equilibrium - This is where Jack, the protagonist, is at school, his mum is a single mum, they are not well off and Jack has an interest in football but he is unable to fully pursue his dream of being a professional footballer due to the fact he doesn't have good football boots and has no encouragement. His PE teacher acts like a father figure to him and encourages him to keep on following his dreams. He has a contact who is a scout for Tottenham Hotspur and organises and trial for Jack. Jack then gets signed by Tottenham and has the financial support he has always lacked, allowing him to buy nice football boots and clothes.

—Disruption - Jack starts to let the fame get to his head and some of his friends start to lose patience with him.  

—Disequilibrium - Jack gets injured playing for Tottenham and the person who injured him was one of his bullies from Secondary School. Jack breaks his ankle and is out for a lengthy amount of time, whilst he is recovering a friend of his visits him a lot and they get closer.
—Attempt to restore Equilibrium - Jack is recovering from his injury and is striving to hit the form he once hit. His aim is to return for the cup final. His girlfriend says to him that she doesn't want him to behave like he did before.
—New Equilibrium - Jack returns for the cup final, against the team in which he broke his ankle against. Jack scores the winning goal.
Production Company 

Our film is an independent, British film and this means that there will be multiple production companies in order to generate the funding for the film. We chose these production companies because we believe that these will both fund and market our film effectively and successfully and help us be successful at film festivals and at release. The production companies we have chosen to produce our films are;
  • Antenna Pictures
  • Baby Cow Animation
  • Creative England
  • Grass Roots Media
  • TVE
Genre and Similar Films

Our film fits in the genre of a drama and it fits under the sub genre of sport. We believe that it is a drama because the film includes scenes that focus on issues such as single parenting, lack of financial support and bullying. it also includes a romantic sub plot in which the protagonist has to choose between his girlfriend and his footballing career. Examples of similar films to ours are;
  • Goal Trilogy 
  • Creed
  • Fight Club
  • Moneyball
  • Bend it like Beckham
Cast

—Jack (Protagonist) – Tom Holland
—Young Jack – Jacob Trembley
—Iris (Love interest)– Candice Patron
—Mr Jackson (Jack’s PE Teacher) – Alan Shearer
—Jeremy (Bully 1) – Miles Teller
—Kaan (Bully 2) – Ahmet Calik
—Director/Producer – Frank Darabont (Tolani)
—Costumes/Make-Up – Lindsey Pugh and June Brickman (Jack)
—Cinematographer/Lighting – Maryse Alberti (Tolani and Kallum)
—Editor- James Haygood (Kaan)
—Music Advisor – Jason Alexander (Kallum)
—Graphics Editor – David Carson (Kaan)

Audience Profile

—As a football film, the target audience of the movie will be young male teenagers. The main reason being that most teenagers play football and always dream of becoming a footballer. Teenagers will be the primary audience as well as football fans. I would argue that the secondary audience of our film will be young adults. This is because the films' sub genre is drama, so they will take the film a bit more seriously compared to young teenagers who would mainly be going to the film because of its sports genre. We also believe the secondary audience of this film would be young adults because some of the issues in the film could be similar to things those people are currently going through/have gone through and they can relate to the charter in he film.

Budget

—The budget for our film is £3,500,000. We believe that it is a suitable amount in order to make a successful film and our target in the opening weekend is £1,500,000 and we hope the final total gross to be £4,000,000-£4,500,000. We hope our multiple production companies will market our film successfully as well as organizing for our film to feature at at least two film festivals, which would hopefully lead to a positive critic reception and nominations for awards.

Director

—The director of our film is Frank Darabont. We chose this director because he has proven himself as a very successful director with directing films and series such as The Shawshank Redemption and The Walking Dead (2010-2011). His successes in drama was vital to us because that is the main genre of our film and some of his other works have been with films with small budgets. This proves that he can make a good film with a small budget. His success with films and series with different sub genres also attracted us to use him because it proves that he is not limited to one sub genre and is very flexible.

Release Date 

—We have chosen the release date for our film to be Friday 14th of April because it is during the easter holidays and therefore this will mean kids are off school so we hope that this will increase the gross overall and the gross during the opening weekend. We have also chosen this time of year because it is just before the summer, which means that film festivals will be looking to nominate films for awards. We hope that our film will be considered for nomination and even possibly have a chance at winning an award. This is because one of the main successes for an independent film is to feature at film festivals and receive awards. In addition, many film critics will be at the film festivals and independent films also look for positive critic reception.