Investigation of Institution and Distribution

Investigation of Institution and Distribution

The institutions that’s would make these films would be Warp Films they’ve made the following:

Four Lions,

This Is England,

And many other films.

Distributors would probably be supermarkets to sell on DVD’s, the film wouldn’t make much money in a cinema as football hooligan films are very Niche.

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Date	Time	Place
Wednesday 9th December	12:20pm to 1:25pm	Cox Green, England
Friday 11th  December	11 am to 4pm	Maidenhead, England.

 

Representation within chosen genre

Representation within chosen genre

In our main task intro with have to represent a group of young football hooligans, the stereo typical look of football hooligans in England is Adidas trainers and expensive clothing such as Stone Island, Ralph Lauren and Fred Perry. They wear this type of clothing to better and more powerful than the firm they are fighting. Costume is the main focus throughout this sub genre of film so would be our main priority in the intro

Another way we will represent them in our intro is by the way they talk, they're usually known for being white, young to middle aged, working class men. Our piece involves Chelsea fans from West London and Liverpool fans from Merseyside so we will have two different stereo typically accents, Scouse and Cockney, this will emphasis where each of the firms are from and how they communicate with each other and to their opposites. Usually both sides would mock each others accent to seem like they're from a better area of the country than the other.

A final way to represent the groups would be how they walk and where they are walking through such as run down urban areas. For example you wouldn't expect to see the group walking slowly through a park as this wouldn't be associated with young football fans interested in football violence. However you would expect to see them walking with a purpose through an urban or metropolitan area and trying to keep there heads down and go by unnoticed. The reason you may expect to see them in this kind of area is because they are usually represented as middle class men and this is an are that would be associated to that level of class.


We analysed the intro to football factory to help with our representation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNun3GwpK48

Order of Opening Credits in Most Films

Order of Opening Credits in Most Films

• Name of Studio- The name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced the film such as ; Disney Pictures, Columbia or Lions Gate

 

• Name of Production Company- The name of the production company that actually made the film or the name of investment groups or companies who finance a part of the film, usually credited as "in association with".

 

• Possessory Credits- The primary artistic credit for the film, usually the film director but can sometimes be the producer or writer, usually shown as "A (NAME) FILM".

 

• Starring- The main actors in the film, isn't specifically before or after the producers or directors names.

 

• Films Title- Name of the film

 

• Casting, Music and Production- The casting director, composer of music, production designer and sometimes ; set design, costumes, hairdresser, make-up artist

Risk Assessment

Hazard	Risk	Control
Wet Surfaces	Risk of tripping or slipping and injuring yourself.	Watch where you are walking and try to avoid the wet surfaces if you can.
Camera getting wet	The rain getting to the camera can cause lots of damage to the camera.	Take some sort of umbrella or get a waterproof case for the camera,
Beer bottle	The bottle can break and smash therefore glass going everywhere. The person could get cut or injured.	Take great care whilst holding the bottle and don’t hold when your hands are wet.

Soundtrack Evaluation

Soundtrack Evaluation

Park Life – Blur: We’ve decided to use this song as it’s very upbeat, we will use it when the 2 mates are walking in the street and will play it in time to the footsteps.

 

Investigation of Genre

Investigation of Genre

Violence

Violence is mainly based within the thriller genre. In a typical thriller movie you’ve got your good guy and the bad guy. There’s also normally a good looking woman involved and of course lots of violence.

Our sub-genre is football violence. Films such as green street, the football factory and football hooligans all pretty much follow the same storyline. 2 teams that hate each other get drawn against each other in a competition.

Fans from rival teams meet up and have a scrap. Before the fights the fans normally meet up in a pub, do drugs and are drinking booze.

The end results normally ends in the main characters either winning the fight, losing the fight and ending up in hospital or arrested.



Here is a short clip of VFB Stuttgart and Chelsea fans fighting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsOvDMN7jY

The conventions of a football hooligan film are shown in this short clip.
Lots of violence is the main convention in football hooligan films.

The violent part of these films mainly comes from the two fans history. Local derbies such Manchester united v Manchester City and Arsenal v Spurs are huge local derbies and the fans of the two teams hate each other with a passion and want to be the best club in their city. Therefore off the field  fans want to fight with each other.

 

Story Boards

 

Preliminary Task Evaluation

Evaluation of Preliminary Task.

 

Whilst filming the preliminary task lots of things went well such as, we learnt the basics of filming with the camera and putting it into focus and how to pan the camera and zoom the picture without it jumping or looking unprofessional. Also we used the angles which we learnt can portray a characters power or where they are in a hierarchy. Such as a high up shot showing that a character has less power and authority than the person they are talking to. We also followed the criteria and had one person walking through a door and then having dialogue with the other character. Also after filming we picked up skills on editing on the programme Adobe Premiere Pro which is what we have to use for our main task as well. The skills we picked up were cutting each different scene so they linked up well and looked professional and not jumpy.

 

However we also found some things which we would not do again such as in one shot we kept the shot out of focus until the person had stopped talking. Although we did this on purpose it was a test to see what it would look like and whether it would work for the main task but after analysing the prelim and evaluating it we decided it didn’t work well so we won’t use it again. Another thing we realised we could of done better after watching our task back is that in some shots there were lots of background noise and when we next film we will have to be more careful and make sure there isn’t as much background noise for our main task.

Preliminary Task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjfsNlj6cLc

Investigation into Age Ratings in film.

Investigation into Age Ratings in film.

 

As are film is about football hooligans and football violence the first age rating I researched was 15 on the bbfc ( British Board of Film Classification) website. The information it had on 15 age ratings were that films with this rating may contain ; strong violence, frequent strong language such as f***,  portrayals of sexual activity, discriminatory language or behaviour and drug taking. The main factor that would come into our intro may be violence and the bbfc response to the question “Can there be strong violence?” was as follows Yes, at 15 violence may be strong. It should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury, however, and the strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence is also unlikely to be acceptable.

 

Next I looked at the bbfc guidelines for 18 age ratings, the things expected to be in 18 rated films are as follows; very strong violence, frequent very strong language such as c***, strong portrayals of sexual activity, strong horror, strong blood and gore, discriminatory language and behaviour and strong blood and gore. There view on violence in 18 rated films is similar to 15s except the strongest gory images are permitted to this category and also drugs can be shown but must not be promoted.

Cast List

Cast List

Max Fullerton – Dave Smith (Liverpool)

Josh Neiman – Hugo Skillen (Liverpool)

Harry Farnon – Steve Jennings (Chelsea)

Jack Hillyer – Tommy Hill (Chelsea)

Harry Rogers – Vinnie Thomson (Steve’s Mate)

Morgan Sumner - Barry Tuffers (Liverpool)

Actors and Prop List

Actors and Props

Actors – Max Fullerton, Josh Neiman, Harry Farnon, Jack Hillyer, Harry Rogers, Morgan Sumner

Props – Coats, hats, shoes, jacket, blue/black jeans, chair, table, beer bottle, match day programme, stickers.

Preliminary Task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjfsNlj6cLc

Rule of Thirds

Max Fullerton – Media Studies – 16/9/15

Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds is a concept in video and film production in which the frame is divided into nine imaginary sections. Creates reference points that act as guides for framing the image.

 Points (or lines) of interest should occur at 1/3 or 2/3 of the way up (or across) the frame, rather than in the centre. Like many rules of framing, this is not always necessary (or desirable) but it is one of those rules you should understand well before you break it.

Josh Neiman's Blog (Group Link)

http://joshneiman19.blogspot.co.uk/2015_10_01_archive.html

Name And Candidate Number

Name - Max Fullerton
Candidate Number - 0064