Expired trailer

Evaluation question 2

Evaluation question 3

Questions:

• From what you have seen what genre do you think this is?
• Does that narrative make sense to you?
• Do you think the cinematography was effective?
• Do you think the editing and sound are effective in portraying the narrative of the story?
• Would you watch this film?
• Do you think anything could be improved?

Evaluation question 4

Vlog

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Evaluation question 1b

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Evaluation question 1a

Film director case study

Martin Scorsese is an American film director from America. He was born in Queens, New York, however his parents were from Sicily in Italy. As a child he was often taken to the theatre by his parents, which sparked his love for film.

He attended New York university’s film school where he produced a umber of short films.  In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film called I Call First, which was later renamed Who's That Knocking at My Door with two friends from university. In 1973, Scorsese directed Mean Streets, his first film to be widely acknowledged as a masterpiece. Revisiting characters from Who's That Knocking at My Door? The film showcased elements that have since become typical features of Scorsese's filmmaking, including dark themes, unsympathetic lead characters, religion, the Mafia, unusual camera techniques and contemporary music.

Over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese directed hard-hitting films that helped define a generation of cinema, including Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The departed. 

Poster production: Step by step

Investigation board

Organising through social media

Social media such as whatsapp really helped when organising filming for our trailer. It meant that we could communicate quickly and easily with a variety of people, including other members of our group and our actors. It also meant that we could make decisions with eachother easily regarding the different aspects of our film.

Music

In order to help reinforce what's happening on screen we needed to find music to match the action within the trailer. It was important that we found royalty free music and sound effects so that we didn't violate any copyright regulations. We found that youtube was best for this as it had a large variety of tracks we could use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5w5VX4tAD4&nohtml5=False


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEywPvJRc5A&nohtml5=False


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbC-vUPMR7k&nohtml5=False

Location shots

LOCATION: Deserted Street 

DESCRIPTION: One of Koncheski's men walks the deserted streets of London dealing drugs to vulnerable addicts

LOCATION: Deserted Street 2
DESCRIPTION: After trying to protect the drug addicts best interests, Lauren becomes victim to Koncheski's operation, and is left for dead

LOCATION: Kitchen
DESCRIPTION: Leon stands alone comtemplating all he has lost. Overcome with emotion he finds it hard to concentrate on his work, leading to problems with his case.

LOCATION: Police Chief's Office
DESCRIPTION: Leon's lack of work since the sudden loss of his girlfriend lands him in trouble with his boss. Despite worries regarding his work he assures his chief he'll crack the case and bring down Koncheski once and for all.

LOCATION: Leon's Office
DESCRIPTION: Leon's frustration build up and he becomes impatient trying to investigate Koncheski. He realises he has to look deeper to find out the truth behind the mysterious villain, but doesn't realise he could find out more than he bargained for.

LOCATION: Investigation Board
DESCRIPTION: Leon gradually collects more information about Koncheski and finds out that the death of his girlfiend could have been linked to the criminal he's been trying to take down all along. This only pushed him further to try and combat the kingpin's operation, in hope that he'll not only stop one of London's biggest drug operations, but also uncover the truth behind Lauren's sudden demise.

Magazine cover final draft

MES mood board

Scene outline

Scene 1) Leo and Lauren spending time together. An establishing shot shows them sitting together, enjoying each others company happily. 2 shot of them talking, close-ups of each character laughing.

Scene 2) Lauren gets strangled on a deserted street. A tracking shot follows her as she confronts a man dealing drugs to a woman on the street. Then a midshot captures the killers hands around her neck, and we see her fall to the floor.

Scene 3) An establishing shot of a cemetery shows a crowd gathers at Lauren’s funeral, a pan shot shows grieving  mourners. A close up of Leon shows his heartbroken face. 

Scene 4) Leon gets called into the police chief’s office, and they dispute over his case. Tracking shots or police chief and Leon, point of view shots from over their shoulders as they talk about the lack of evidence Leon has collected over Konceski.

Scene 5) Leon going through a computer looking at files regarding the Koncheski case. Point of view shot, midshot. he gets frustrated and acts out.

Scene 6) Shots of Koncheski to establish his dominant role. Tracking shots, long shots, and close-ups.

Scene 7) Leon meets Vladimir for the first time on the roof. They bond over their common traits and go into business with eachother. 2 shot, mid shot.

Scene 8) Leon finds out that Koncheski is responsible for Lauren’s death.

Scene 9) Leon has to choose whether to betray Koncheski or join him.

Poster complete

Production logo

Poster draft

Poster mock

Poster sketches

Storyboard

Our group storyboard is a visual presentation of the project. Each picture has a small general description in order to give a clear indication of what goes on in each scene. The storyboard also outlines the plot and storyline of each production.

Poster mocks

Magazine mock

Gangster Squad website analysis

http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/gangstersquad/dvd/#home

This is the official website of the movie Gangster Squad. This website markets its genre of film by giving the website the house style conventions of a gangster film website. On the homepage of this website there is a poster in the background with the main lead characters on it. The gun held by one of the character, shows the audience of this website that this film will have some violence in it. It also makes the audience aware of the genre of the film; if there are guns involved then it must be a gangster or police action film. The background colours used in this website is dark, such as Black and Grey. These colours are conventions of a gangster film and these colours convey the main themes associated with this film. For example, the main themes could be murder, sadness, betrayal and misery. 

This website has the name of the film, credits and the tagline on the home page. At the top of the website, where there are navigational buttons, the release date of the film is state and at the bottom it has a logo of YouTube and Facebook. This gives the audience of this website extra information about where to find more things about this film. In addition to this the navigational buttons used in this website makes it easier for audiences to navigate from one page to another to find out other information's about this film. For example, there is a navigation button, that will direct the page to where it will give information about the plot of this film. There is also a navigation button to watch the trailer of this film and to look at images taken at shooting spot in the gallery page.

Furthermore, every time you navigate to another page, the background image changes to different characters. This gives the audience a chance to look at the images of different characters that appears in the film to see how they look like and it might give them ideas about the roles each one might play in the film. This website also has a background theme music. The theme music is very tensed and pulsating, which makes the audience engaged and interested when going through the pages of this website. The makers of this film website have made effort to make the audience attracted to this website and i think that it did work, as i was eager to watch the film once i went through this film website and gathered information about the film 'Gangster Squad'. 

Social media marketing for the departed

In the 21st century social media is the power to everything. Social media can make anything viral and it take can take even a small information to a majority of people around the world, as nowadays most of us are always using social media. The Departed is one of the many movies that used social media to promote itself to the people around the world. This movie promoted itself by publicising its trailers on TV adverts and on YouTube channel. Publicising trailers on YouTube is a great way to promote a movie as YouTube is the second best visited site on the internet with 790 million monthly visitors.

The departed also used the buses and train stations to promote its posters. The use of social media networking such as Facebook to create a page for fans of this film to like it and to follow updates about the movie, allowed a lot of people to know more about this film in depth such as the release date. On Facebook this movie page had just over 2 million likes, which shows us how popular this film was.

Film director case study

Martin Scorsese is an American film director from America. He was born in Queens, New York, however his parents were from Sicily in Italy. As a child he was often taken to the theatre by his parents, which sparked his love for film.

He attended New York university’s film school where he produced a umber of short films.  In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film called I Call First, which was later renamed Who's That Knocking at My Door with two friends from university. In 1973, Scorsese directed Mean Streets, his first film to be widely acknowledged as a masterpiece. Revisiting characters from Who's That Knocking at My Door? The film showcased elements that have since become typical features of Scorsese's filmmaking, including dark themes, unsympathetic lead characters, religion, the Mafia, unusual camera techniques and contemporary music.

Over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese directed hard-hitting films that helped define a generation of cinema, including Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The departed.