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