AS LEVEL MEDIA , RESEARCH AND PLANNING

AS LEVEL

MEDIA COURSEWORKB Y : F A T I M A A L S A Y E G H

MOOD BOARD ANALYSIS

A mood board is an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc.,

intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept. Mood board had

showed me a lot about the chosen genre, each character is independent in

their photos which shows there body language while the picture or the

movie was taking place, which makes the audience know what genre of

movie is it, by the name or the picture of the movie the audience will get an

idea of what genre is it going to be about before the audience go watch it,

e.g. One missed call, the audience will get a clear idea from the name that

the movie is going to be a horror genre and its based on a phone call . The

photo shows what the characters are capable of their expression, which

tells us that there, afraid from what’s going to happen after the call.

From an overall perspective I think that the photo's say a lot about each

characters and shows how they react to certain situations and how they

cope with there feelings

TARGET AUDIENCE Since were interested in thriller and horror movies we decided (Fatima AlSayegh (Myself) ,

Imen and Shafeq) to film a Thriller/Action mmovie for our coursework. Our target

audience mostly who enjoy crime thriller, with some action. Mostly ages between 16-35

and targeted between the both gender "Female and Male". As it shows looking back at

our questionnaire's, many students and also adults do enjoy crime thriller and would go

watch this movie because the film involve violence, killing, blood, knife and revenge

scene .

Our target audiences include females because 60% of the females now days enjoy

watching thriller movies and there more into it , but also because of the story plot, the

drama, romance and comedy scene which makes them laugh and more emotional . E.g.

" Ride Along 2" Ben and Angela will get married . Males enjoy mostly the car racing and

the gun shots in the movie . They want to see this because of the excitement. So overall

males and females on the age group of 16-35 is our target audience.

I went through a lot of thriller story plots and thriller opening sequence movies to give me

an idea of what we should include in our opening sequence and what makes our

opening sequence and plot special then others, each one of us decide to have an

individual research and then merge all the ideas together to film an opening sequence.

PRIMARY RESEARCH – QUESTIONNAIRE

The following 10 questions are designed to help us identify our target audience and use it for market research

advantage of the use of questionnaire:-

• Large amount of information can be collected from a large number of people in a short period of time and in relatively cost effective way.

• Can be carried out by the researcher or by any number of people with limited

The main reason we used questionnaire because its an easy way to analyze or evaluate what people like and help us for the movie opening :-

PRIMARY RESEARCH – QUESTIONNAIRE

• Older age group of people prefer Comedy, Thriller ,Horror and Romance .As they say that they chose to watch thriller movie mainly because of violence that took place .

• Almost every person who filled in the questionnaire had different genre of films that are based on a true story and filmed different perspectives.

• People who is in the age group of

18+ prefer to watch the trailer of the

movie before watching the full

movie or the opening sequence.

• Females enjoy Romantic , Comedy

films more then thriller.

TARGET ADUENCE

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AUDIENCE ANALYSIS – QUESTIONNAIRE

In my point a questionnaire has helped me to know more about people

taste of movies and that most people would go and watch the film

because of the story plot and the action scene that will took place in the

movie. Most of the people had chosen knife and shooting films as their

favorite, such as " Mission Impossible" and "Rid Along 2" because these

films have a lot of violence, blood and killing scene. Many of the student

prefer immediate action and explosion's because this is what grabs their

attention and makes them want to see more, and the plot of the movie

especially is more important to them . The adults prefer the story plot

and the actors that will took place in the movies, how good do they play

the role.

My role was to type out the questionnaire and choice particular questions

which help us to choice our target audience and give us an idea of what

our customers like to see in opening sequence..

SECONDARY RESEARCH – NOTES ON CREDIT

SEQUENCE

Ride Along 2 :-

• Factual text

• Loud dramatic club music, cups, people dancing, boat, laughing, blood

• Editing :- very quick camera movements

• Main characters established

• Low lightning used at the killing scene

• Set the story straight away - finding the criminal

• Dark colors, room, killing


SEQUENCE

Mission Impossible :-

• Clam dramatic music (soft, action)

• Location takes place

• Gets to the point straight away

• Spying on other countries

• Mid shot was used to show there facial

expression


SEQUENCE

One Missed Call :-

• Soft scary music

• Door bell sound, foot steps, Windows

• Closing and opening of windows, breathing sound and

screaming of a girl calling help

• Shows ending, and what's the movie talking about

• Close up camera shot, wide shot, extreme wide shot

CONCLUSION – CREDIT SEQUENCE

All the films start differently with all different stories. “Mission Impossible – Rouge Nation” starts with factual writing on the screen and loud music takes place in the boat, the audience wont see the main character yet until they will be introduced, we think the introduction was very good because of the effects they use, and different kind of shots, and it also sets the story straight away.

"Ride along 2" gets to the story plot straight away and gets to the point. There isn’t much special effects in the introduction, it is simple, which we liked .Overall we think the introduction of the movie is very engaging and grabs the audiences attention straight away.

"One Missed Call" from the beginning of the movie it tell the audience that it's a horror genre and gets to the story plot straight away. There's a lot of effects in the intro and different scary sound effect. Overall we think that its eye catching

DIEGETIC & NON DIEGETIC SOUND

• A diegetic sound is a source which is visible on the screen ,which

means it is implied to present by the action of the film e.g :- Voices

of characters, sounds made by objects

• A diegetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on

whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame.

• Another term for diegetic sound is “actual sound”

• Non-diegetic sound whose source is neither visible on the screen

nor has been implied to be present in the action. e.g:- mood music,

narrator’s commentary and sound effects which is added for the

dramatic effect.

• Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the source

outside story space.

• Another term for non-diegetic sound is ” commentary sound”

MOVIE ANALYSIS - RIDE ALONG 2

I have chosen this film ‘Ride along 2’ to analyze because I think within just the credit sequence

it tells a lot about the film itself and it also contains much different credit sequence which I can

deeply analyze. The main narrative of this film is that after our heroes' last adventure his plans

for a quick trip to Miami go bad. With the wedding upcoming, James reluctantly takes Ben with

him to Miami to follow up on a lead connected to a drug-ring case he's been trying to crack.

In the credit sequence of this film the first thing that appears up is the production

company's name and the logo. Universal picture is an American film studio, owned

by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBC Universal, It was found in April

30,1912 (103 years ago) as Universal Film Manufacturing Company in the United

States. And it’s known for film such as The Purge, The Fast and the Furious,

Unfriended. (Wikipedia)

MOVIE ANALYSIS- RIDE ALONG 2

Ride along 2 gives us an idea that the company has many good movies under its

banner as it had been around the industry for a long time, raising our expectations of

the film itself. The movie targeted an adult audience 18+.

They used Establishing shot of the buildings to start the film , its the first shot of a

new scene, designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is

usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot.

MOVIE ANALYSIS – RIDE ALONG 2

By seeing the opening sequence the audience still doesn’t know what’s going on the

boat and interested to know farther after all the loud dramatic music that took place

inside the boat (Diegetic Sound). As can be seen in the photo that they used high

angle to show the boat photographed seem smaller, and less significant . with the use

of high shot the destination name "Miami" appears next to the boat in a reflected

purple font in the beach which already tells its viewers the location of this film.

MOVIE ANALYSIS - RIDE ALONG 2

Different type of camera angels used in the movie but in the opening scene they

focused on medium close up to show Antonio Pope and his role in the film which

add mystery to the scene.

Dramatic loud music was played in the opening scene ( Diegetic Sound) which

gives the audience an exciting feeling and adds a dramatic attention to the audience

that makes them wonder what is Ride Along 2 is based on.


They used a good example of Mise en

scene they carefully chose costume,

lighting, location and props to create the

kind of feel and verisimilitude.

Low angle help to give the sense of

confusion to a viewer, of powerlessness

within the action of a scene.


They used 180 degree, the 180-degree rule enables the audience to visually

connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immediate

characters and is important in the narration of the scenes. they also added

an Incidental music which is an background music to let the audience feel the

excitement. (Non- Diegetic ), Dialogue between the three of them ( Foley,

Diegetic sound).

They used two shot of the two characters having a

conversation, they used medium close up shows

the spatial relationship of the two characters, who

are often in conversation. James Payton and Ben

Barber are having a conversation, James refuse to

take Ben to Miami.


They also used over the shoulder

shot ,they use this type of shot when two

characters are having a discussion, which

shows here that James Payton and Ben

Barber are having a discussion, when James

agree to take Ben with him to Miami.

By using extreme wide shot, the point of

this shot is to show the subject's

surroundings, which is Ben being stuck in

the sea.


The aerial shot is an exiting variation of a

crane shot, as can be seen in the picture

they have take it from a helicopter, they

used it at the end of the film in order to

establish settings and moment.

MOVIE ANALYSIS – ONE MISSED CALL

The opening scene start with a title of "Warner Bros. Picture", It an American

company that produces film, television and music entertainment, as one of the

major film studios, It's a huge well known company which has a good

repetition while it was founded in April 4, 1923 (92 years ago).

The audience would understand that it’s a horror movie from the sound of

the opening scene and the darkness of the location and the cover of the

movie, it target an adult audience (18+), Low key lighting was used a lot

especially on the face to indicate mystery and give a donation that it’s a

horror/mystery film.


From the window knocking , breathing and the scream sound effect that appears in

the opening scene of “One missed call” “could tell it’s a horror movie, this represent

the title of the film and display what the film is about. It shows a combined genre of

thriller and horror movie. This could make the audience wonder what’s going on

after the girl scream and what the reason behind her scream is. They also

used diegetic and non diegetic sound. To give the audience frightening.


'Mise - en scene' Setting creates both a sense

of place and a mood and it may also reflect a

character’s emotional state of mind .After the

entire fire scene that took place it shows a

young girl being evacuated from a burning

hospital. A firefighter asks her if her mother is

in there, but she doesn't respond.

After 2 minutes the main character was introduced Shelley she received a call from

her friend and after the call, the mystery begins Shelley hears her cat making

strange noises. Shelley walks towards it but after a quick second, she finds it

standing on the other side of the pond. She suddenly hears strange murmuring in

the pond and out of nowhere, a hand emerges ( Medium Close Up shot) and drags

Shelley into the pond, drowning her . The audience could clearly recognize what

the movie is talking about, they introduced a female victim in the opening sequence

because they know that the female gender isn’t strong.


They used different type of shot but mostly they focused on Medium close up to

show the character facial expressions.

They used Establishing shot of buildings

to provide a view from above the subject,

the reason why they used this method

because its a rewind for the entire thing

that happened in the opening sequence, so

that the people get excited to know what’s

the reason behind all the thing that

happened.


They also used good example

of customs which give a since of terrifying

since it’s a horror movie. However they

used dim lighting to create a horror

threatening atmosphere to the audience

and make them feel worried about what’s

going to happen furthermore and who’s

behind this mask!

They used low angle to show the fiscal

expression of the people, The added height of

the object may make it inspire fear and

insecurity in the viewer, who is

psychologically dominated by the figure on

the screen.


Two shot techniques has been used here as can be seen at the first photo they

used medium close up to show the type of phone and all the contact and how is

it scrolling down by itself . However the second shot they use a zoom lenses,

they zoomed into the contact to make the audience shiver from the excitement.

Eye level shot is the one in which the

camera is placed at the subject’s height,

so the actor is looking at the lens, he

wouldn’t have to look up or down. Eye

level shots are incredibly common

because they are neutral and shows the

look of the character.


Extreme close-up they used a very

artificial shot, to show a dramatic effect .

To let the audience want to know what's

inside the whole .The tight focus required

means that extra care must be taken when

setting up and lighting the shot .

High Angle the camera is elevated above

the action using a crane to give a general

overview. High angles make the object less

significant and scary, the character here is

looking at the time.


Over the shoulder this shot helps to

establish the position of each character,

and get the feel of looking at one person

from the other's point of view.

They used 180 degree to show the fiscal

expression of the character and how she's

terrified from the call.

MOVIE ANALYSIS – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE –

ROUGE NATION From the title of the film the audience would directly recognize that it’s an Action

genre film and it’s based on sending an agent a mission in the rouge nation .The

story plot of this film is that after intercepting nerve gas being sold to terrorists in

Minsk, Belarus, Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt is convinced he can

prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international criminal consortium that the

Central Intelligence Agency does not believe exist.

The film was produced by Paramount Picture Corporation; it is commonly known as

Paramount Studios and formerly known as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation is an

American film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor,

consistently ranked as one of the “Big Six” film studios of Hollywood.


ROUGE NATION

Skydance productions is an American film and

television production company based at

Paramount Picture in Hollywood, California.

Skydance was responsible for the feature length

of this film.

Alibaba picture group is a Chinese film company

under Alibaba Group. The film company was

formerly ChinaVision Media, of which Alibaba

Group bought a majority stake late 2014. It

subsequently renamed as ChinaVision as Alibaba

Picture Group. Alibaba picture has huge role in

Mission Impossible – Rouge Nation they were

the investors of the film.

MOVIE ANALYSIS – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE -

ROUGE NATION At the beginning of the opening sequence they used medium close up and set the

location names in a black font “Minsk Belarus”, filmmakers choose to shoot on

location because they believe that greater realism can be achieved in a real place,

however location shooting is often motivated by the film's budget. The audience

would be able to recognize the destination by its appearing. They directly used an

( Diegetic) which is dialogue between different character with a incidental music to

represent action (Non-Diegetic).

Medium close up to show the character and a little of the

background, they used a good customs to show the agent

is covered up with grass so that he doesn’t show, which tell

the audience that he’s in a mission. “Mise en scene” with

a high key lighting.

MOVIE ANALYSIS - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE –

ROUGE NATION

Most movies take place over at least a few days of story time, many take

places over several months and years, but how can a film be reduced to

100 minute of running time, by the uses of Ellipsis. In the second scene

they used Ellipsis shot to show different locations of each character it

allow scenes that happen in different locations at the same periods of time

to show in the screen.

As can be seen they used an establishing shot it is

designed to show the audience where the action is

taking place.

MOVIE ANALYSIS -MISSION IMPOSSIBLE –

ROUGE NATION

Low angle used when the main character was

introduced, the audience know about a

particular character right up front, from the

action that took place, it increase height useful

for short actors like Tom Cruise and give a

sense of speed motion.

Match on action, cutting on action refers to film editing and video editing

techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the

first shot's action. They used it here to show different type of shot filmed to show

the action that are taken place.

MOVIE RESEARCH – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE –

ROUGE NATION

They used close up shot and pan right camera

movement to show the audience the newspaper

that the agent collect, it follows a moving object

which is kept in the middle of the frame.

They used medium close up shot and dolly in camera movement

and high angle to show the audience the opera event that are taken place

in the mission. They used dolly shot to gradually focusing the audience

on a particular object and character.


ROUGE NATION

Eye level camera angle with medium close

up it allows the audience to feel comfortable

with the characters or tell the audience that

something might to happen by the look of the

character.

Extreme close up, extreme close up to show

only the eyes, with no background detail its an

artificial shot, and can be used for dramatic

effect.


ROUGE NATION

Over the shoulder this shot used for looking from behind a person at the

subject, usually when two characters are having a conversation.

FILM CONCLUSION

Overall all the films got very good reviews and “Ride Along 2” got

the highest rated one the reason for this is because it has a very good story plot with a combination of comedy and shooting scene. Which makes the audience get interested to watch it As will also “ Mission Impossible “ it has a good story plot while it was produced by a famous film company its also well known because of the actor “ Tom Cruise” and has a lot of action, violence and killing scene in it however “One missed call” was the lowest rated between the others while it didn’t get a good review because the story plot was too simple and hasn’t got much story between each character . The introduction didn’t really explain much and throughout the story many people was wondering why did the girl get gripped by someone arms and under the water.

From an overall perspective I think that they had a good reviews and this is because of the story plot and the audience reaction

FILM THAT HAVE INFLUENCED ME !

The two main films that had influenced me are “ Ride Along 2” and

“Mission Impossible”

The reason for this are because “Ride Along 2”, gets to the story

straight away as it shows in the credit sequence of the movie, the

main characters will be mysteries at the beginning and they wont

know who’s the reason behind the crimes that took place, it begin

with showing each character role in the movie ,e.g.:- Ice Cube as

Detective James Payton , Kevin Hart as Officer Ben Barber . The

main characters will get gun-shot but they will service and seek for

revenge.

The second film is “ Mission Impossible” the reason for this is

because it shows us who the main character is brave and know

how to solve problems since he’s an agent he tries to prove the

existence of the Syndicate , an international mysterious in terrorist

consortium.

I decide to merge the ideas of these two films with our own idea. We

will be using some ideas of “Ride Along 2” as the gun shots and

the killing part , and “ Mission Impossible” Agent tasks and skills.

SHOT REVERSE SHOT

• Shot reverse shot is a continuity editing technique used in conversation or simply

characters looking at each other or objects

• A shot showing what the character is supposedly looking at ( either a point of

view or over the shoulder shot ) for example its is followed by a reverse angle

shot of the character themselves looking at it, or of the other character looking

back at them, for example

• Shot reverse shot often ties in with 180 degree rule to retain continuity by not

distorting the audience’s sense of location of the characters in the shots

(Wikipedia)

180 DEGREE RULE

• The rule states that the cameras should remain the same

side of an imaginary line

• The line is drawn perpendicular to the cameras

viewpoint in the establishing shot of the scene

• The rule enforce continuity of the film

• An example is that in a car chase scene, if the car is

travelling from right to left, the next shot must also be

shot from the same side, meaning the car has to enter

the frame right to left again.

• Camera must always be on one side of the line

• Never break the rule cause it might create confusion of

audience , audience lose focus, become disorientated

and miss vital parts of the film

PLANNING

2 MINUTE OPENING SEQUENCE

By: Fatima AlSayegh

Group team : Shafiq , Iman

INITIAL IDEA

This page contain all the idea ,each individual member has come up within our group

for our opening of thriller film :-

Idea 1 by: Shafeq Belaroussi

Thriller sub-genre : Mystery

Intended target audience : 15-30 ( Both gender)

Setting : Compound location

Idea: - The opening start with the company logo that going to present the movie, the

opening sequence will start with a boy laying down his hand trying to reach to the

gun, end of part one shot . And then rewind to what happened in the past to make the

audience have an idea what the movie is talking about and what's the reason of the

beginning of film sequence . He suggest to film it in a dark backyard and we focus

white on the hand with a white lightning.

INITIAL IDEA

Idea 2 by :- Fatima Al-Sayegh

Thriller sub-genre : Obsession / Revenge


Setting : Killing shoot in the club room, the main character tries to save his friends from the killer add knife killing sound effect to the movie sequence . I preferred the lighting to be medium lighting not dark and not light. Film the second part in the restaurant the main character get a unknown call from the killer, we voice audio the killer sound and change it later using audacity to sharpen the voice .

Idea 3 by : Imen Jamal

Thriller sub-genre : Mystery


Setting : Aspire Park

Idea: When the rewind goes back it shows that the main character is having fun in his life enjoying his time and living a normal life, she preferred to film it in the after-noon , and we focus on his legs that he's doing sport activities .

Date

(Start/Finish)

What we will do

11/2/2016

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6/3/2016

We will start filming directly after the

spring break and continue with it till the

end of term 2 and during school days

.We started filming some of the shots

from the storyboard . The scene we will

do is scene 1 ,2 and 3 . We aim to finish

the filming by the beginning of march so

it will leave us plenty of time for editing

18/2/2016 We will be shooting the official scene

after school in the compound gym and

the club house

21/2/2016

25/2/2016

26/2/2016

We will be filming the rest of the scene

on the empty backyard on Thursday

afternoon and on Saturday morning he

killing shot which takes place on the

roof .

The last scene will be in the restaurant

on Sunday afternoon

29/2/2016 Editing will begin once all the filming is

done, we will use “Serif Movie Maker “to

start editing the film

MOVIE SCRIPT

Our story plot is going to be about a guy called Sam who decided to work with a powerful killing organization, he sign a contract with the organization and the only rule they has is that once someone joins them, he can never leave again worrying about him spreading the organization secrets and if he did he will face some consequences. After all the thing that Sam faced with the organization he decided to leave the organization and live a normal life since he’s only 17 years old , but he has special skills in fighting and using different weapons. But he still choices to live a normal life away from killing.

On evening Sam was sitting in the restaurant with his friends waiting for Jessica , he received a call from Jessica but a stranger pick up the phone , Sam and his friend realized that Jessica got kidnapped by an unknown agent and that what the consequences he will face , killing all his friends.

He went to the killing organization to look for Jessica and save her but he didn’t find her there, he escaped from the organization and went to Jessica house and faced the unknown agent face to face, he saw that one of his old friend was killed by the agent, he tried to self-defense his self and kill the agent while saving Jessica. He doesn’t want his friend to face his consequences, the day after he decide to change from who he is and do live away from his friend.

MOVIE SCRIPT

But still the organization is seeking for knowing that he was the best in the

organization, they recruit a new agent to go look for Sam and put his life in

threat, which he got killed or get back to the organization

It was a really hard decision for Sam, so he decided to die rather than killing

people.

STORYBOARD

STORYBOARD

SHOOTING SCRIPT

Scene 1 :- Camera Movement (Zoom) focuses on the hand

:- Heart beat sound Fx (Non-Diegetic Sound)

:-Lighting:- Black outs

Scene 2:- Background music

:- Dialogue (Between Sam and Jessica) (Diegetic Sound)

Scene 3:- Fade In

:- 3 friends siting in the coffee

:- one of the friends asking about Jessica

Scene 4:- Dialogue ( Between Sam and his friends)

:- Fade out

:- Background Music ( Non- Diegestic Sound)

Scene 5:- Close up shot on Sam phone to show the receiving call (Diegetic Sound)4

:- Ringing sound Fx

SHOOTING SCRIPT

Scene 6:- Sam leaves the table to answer the phone call (Diegetic Sound)

:- Fade Out

Scene 7 :- Fade In

:- Sam speaking on the phone

:- Background music (Diegetic Sound)

Scene 8:- Black screen

:- Fade In

:- Sam jogging next to a lake (Non- Diegetic Sound)

Scene 9:- 20th Century Fox intro

:-Fade out

Scene 10:- Killer kills Sam friend

:- Sound Fx of the axe killing the victim (Diegetic Sound)

Scene 11:-First person camera shooting

:- Special Fx that made the scene mysteries

:- Sound Fx of the knife hitting the ground (Non-Diegetic Sound)

Scene12:- the killer pushes Sam on the ground

:- Sound Fx of the pushing and falling (Non-Diegetic Sound)

SHOOTING SCRIPT

Scene 13:- Sam runs and jumped on the chair , turn his back to the enemy ,aiming with

the gun.(Self-defense)

-Slow motion effects

- Fade out

Scene 14:- Fighting continue between Sam and the killer

- Sound Fx of the dodging and punching (Diegetic Sound)









SHOOTING SCRIPT

Scene 19:- Side angled camera showing the killer pointing the gun on Sam’s

face

-Sound Fx of quick heart beats (Non-Diegetic Sound)

-Black screen with gun load and shot sound Fx (Diegetic Sound)

Scene 20:- Credits

:- Text:- Coming soon

TITLE

• Title of our film is Beware

• The title of the movie is going to appear at the end of the opening

sequence in a black screen and the title will appear in white so that

the audience can tell that it’s a thriller/horror movie and it will only

appear for less then one second.

• The reason why we chose the name of beware is because as can be

seen in the trailer that the boy he's trying to self –defense himself

from the ghost so that he doesn’t end up winning on him and kill

him. BEWARE FROM YOUR CHOICHES .

FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT

We made some changes to our old shooting script since we filmed an extra scenes which we didn’t planned to film at the beginning so here’s our final shooting script for our opening sequence.

Scene 1

• Camera :- Extreme close up ( focuses on the hand)

• Lighting :- Low keylighting being used however we will focus to put the yellow lightning on the gun and the hand to show how Sam is trying to reach the gun

• Weather :- Windy , cold

• Sound :- Heart beat sound effect being used ( Non-Diegetic Sound)

• Location : - Backyard

Scene 2

• Camera : - Two shot ( of Sam and Jessica face)

• Talk :- Sam “ So Are you free tonight” , Jessica reply “ I guess so” , Sam “ So 8 clock were going to see some friend” ( Diegetic sound) , ( Foley)

• Lighting :- High keylighting

• Weather : -Windy

• Location :- Backyard

FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT Scene 3

• Camera :- Two type of shot first one ‘Medium close- up” to show Sam friends in the restaurant , Second ‘Over the shoulder’ focuses on Sam face when he replies back to his friend


• Talk :- Sam friends “ Where’s Jessica” , Sam “ I don’t know man, she should had arrived 15 minutes ago” ( Diegetic Sound), ( Foley)

• Weather :- Normal , Windy

• Location :- Restaurant

Scene 4

• Camera :- Two shot being used the first one is “ Close up” the part when Jessica call we will try to close up he camera on Jessica name so it shows , Second “Medium close up” shows Sam picking up the phone

• Lighting:- High keylighting

• Talk :- Sam “Alright guys give me a second “ , Sam “ Hey Jessie” Stranger answer from Jessica phone “ Hello sir ,I see that your waiting for someone ! She's busy at the moment , please try another time” ( Diegetic sound), ( Foley)

• Weather : Normal , Windy

• Location :- Restaurant


Scene 5

• Camera :- Close Up ( Show Sam feet running , doing exercise)


• Weather :- Hot

• Sound :- Shoop – Self-N-Papa song , (Non Diegetic Sound)

• Location :- Aspire Park

Scene 6

• Camera :- Mid shot ( Killing scene)

• Lighting :- Low keylighting

• Weather :- Normal

• Sound :- Knife sound effect ( Diegetic sound)

• Location :- Compound , Club house


Scene 7

• 20th Century Fox intro

• Fade out

• Sound :- (Non-Diegetic)

Scene 8

• Camera :- Medium Close-Up

• Sound:- Fx of the axe killing the victim (Diegetic Sound)

• Location:- Club House


• Lighting : Low keylighting

Scene 9

• Camera :- Close Up

• Sound :_ Special Fx that made the scene mysteries (Non-Diegetic) , Sound Fx of the knife hitting the ground (Diegetic Sound)

• Location :- Club house




Scene 10

• Camera:- Medium close- up

• Slow motion effects

• Fade out


• Sound :- Background Music ( Non-Diegtic)

• Weather :-Normal

Scene 11

• Camera :- Medium close up

• Sound :- Fx of the dodging and punching (Diegetic Sound)


Scene 12

• Camera :- Close Up on fighting

• Sound :- Fx of the dodging and punching (Diegetic Sound)




Scene 13

• Camera :- Side angled camera showing the killer pointing the gun on Sam’s face

• Sound:- Fx of quick heart beats (Non-Diegetic Sound), Black screen with gun load and shot sound Fx (Diegetic Sound)

• Location :- Roof

• Weather : Windy


Scene 14

• Credits

• Text:- Coming soon

SOUND

We will be using sound in our film opening to set the genre and the mood story and the mood of the story :-

• Scene 1 :- Heart beats sound effect (Non-Diegetic Sound)

• Scene 2 :- Sam “ So are you free tonight”, Jessica “ I guess so”, Sam “ So 8 clock were going to see some friends (Diegetic Sound, Foley)

• Scene 3:- Sam friends “ Where’s Jessica”, Sam “ I don’t know man, she should been arrived 15 minutes ago “ ( Diegetic Sound, Foley)

• Scene 4 :- Sam “ Alright guys give me a second”

• Scene 5:- Sam reply on Jessica call “ Hey Jessi”, Stranger answer in Jessica phone “ Hello Sir, I see that your waiting for someone ! She’s busy at the moment, please try another time” ( Diegetic Sound, Foley)

• Scene 6 :- Axe sound effect ( Diegetic sound)

• Scene 7,8,9 :- Shoop – Self-N-Papa song, ( Non-Diegetic Sound)

• Scene 10,11,12:- X Gon’ Give It To Ya – DMX song. (Non-Diegetic Sound)

• Scene 13 :- Gun Shot ( Diegetic Sound)

• Scene 14 :- X Gon’ Give It To Ya – DMX song (Non- Diegetic Sound)

HEALTH AND SAFETY

We filmed in four different secure location ;-

• the first one was in a gym we make sure that all the machines are safe .

• The second place is Aspire which was in a public place ,it’s an environmental friendly place and has a panoramic view with no hazards which might harm any participants or damage the equipment , security cameras are everywhere and security police are spread out all over the place.

• The third place was at an empty backyard behind the compound.

• The fourth place was in the restaurant.

• There are no dangerous props being used in any scene.

One of the main thing that I was concerned about is the health and safety . I make sure that everything was safe example, location, props, costumes , equipment that have been used to film the opening sequence . Since we filmed in a public places we weren't allowed to use real equipment like gun, knife so we used the fake one which is smellier to a real one .

LOCATION

We used the gym and the club house in Shafeq compound to film the

movie since it has a huge empty places and its still under construction

which we found it a good place for filming a horror/thriller movie

however we had a lot of choices to shot in different places e.g. the roof,

gym, backyard and the club house

We will use the gym for the first sense as the main character try to

defense himself from the ghost and runaway . We tried to take shots

where there was no one in the gym so that the ghost main focuses is on

him and his friends.

Restaurant the scene where the main character receive an unknown

call.

Aspire park to film the beginning part of how the boy was living a

normal, healthy life.

PHOTOS OF LOCATION

PARTICIPATE

• Fatima AlSayegh (Director, Movie Script Writer)

• Shafeq Belaroussi (Main Character, Director)

• Lujain Hasan (Main Character )

• Iheb Ben Ali (The killer )

• Harith ( Friends of the main character)

• Mohammed Farhan (Friend of the main characters)

• Hatem Kanjy (Friends of the main characters)

• Imen Jammeli (Costumes)

MY MAIN ROLE

My main role was to give cooperation of many different creative individuals with possibly strongly contradicting artistic ideals and visions as well as directing the shooting timetable and meeting deadlines. However It is my first time to be a director since Shafeq was the main director and I was the second but he was the main character in some of the scene I choice to be the second director, I faced some difficulties in organizing but later on I fixed it and tried to improve it in the second filming day, check and call the character make sure that there prepared for filming, costumes are ready, equipment, right location and following the right camera movements . It was really fun and I gained a lot of experience in having this role while it improve my communication skills and encourage me to talk with stranger people instead of being shy. However I was the movie script writer and we just got maximum 2 minutes ,I decide and give suggestions of what are we shooting that day, and shortcut for our film opening sequence by not changing the movie plot itself .

Storyboard :- I analyzed the shooting script and the movie script and decide to make a storyboard the reason why I made a storyboard is because when I storyboard a video I'm setting up a plan for production including shots we will need the order that it will laid out and how the visual will interact the script, a storyboard is a starting point or suggested through line around which I can plan your coverage all the angles you will shoot of a scene as it ensure me not forgetting any scenes and helps me piece together the video according to my vision .

FINAL TITLE

We met as a group together and decided to chance the title and have a final one by improving the old title we deiced to name our film 'friendship'

The reason why we choice this name because going back to our opening sequence we can tell that the story is about friendship, how to be loyal to your friend and care about them, which teenager nowadays face problem with trusting there friend and having the wrong friends in there life, Sam tries to save his friend from getting kidnapped and went looking for her, so he doesn't put her life in a risk after all the thing he faced in his life and he decided to leave the killing company since he was an agent there for a week and they told him that he will face consequences while the thing that he face is kidnapping his friend Jessica to get him back to the company .

WHICH FILM COMPANY WOULD PRODUCE OUR

FILM !

‘Universal Studio’, The reason why I choice Universal Studio because

it’s a large well-known film company they have produced many

crime, action and horror films such as Furious 7, Ouija, The boy

next door and etc . This is a spectacular company to produce with

because many people care and recognize the production company

and its been producing film since 1912, all of the major films that

have had good hits have been produced by ‘ Universal Studios’

BEHIND THE SCENE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvukwQLl8SM&feature=youtu.be

This video includes all the part we filmed from the beginning without any editing.

The reason why I put it is to show all the original clips we filmed before I produce

the first editing, to get an clear idea how I edit my movie without changing the

story plot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvukwQLl8SM&feature=youtu.be

FIRST EDITING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxlDdDsw3c

This was my first editing part there would be some changes in the second

part due to some missing video part ,each one of us in the group

decided to do individual editing so that we can come up with different

ideas and come with an conclusion of good opening sequence.

Date : 1/3/2016 - I tried to make the

opening sequence appealing as much

as I can so it attract our target audience

and customers to watch the movie, I

decided to begin with the scene where

Sam try to reach the gun and add some

action sound effect to make it better.

FIRST EDITING

Date: 1/3/2016 - I added an rewind tape

sound effect to show what's the reason of

the first part of the opening sequence, so

that the audience will get an idea upon the

movie

Date :- 2/3/2016 - After editing the

last part I export the movie as an

MP4 video clip.

FIRST EDITING

Date:- 5/3/2016 - Due to some

error and mistakes that occur in

the first video editing I edit it in a

different way to make it a better

version.

Date:-5/3/2016 - Uploading the first

editing in YouTube.

SECOND EDITING

This is my final individual editing. the reason why I did a second final editing

because I there's a lot of missing parts in the first editing and the sound

effects wasn't placed on the right place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Mpy4PkjNI

Date :- 6/3/2016 I improved the sound

effects that I used and placed them in the

right place so it match and collaborate

with the scene.

Date :- 6/3/2016 I added an extra scene, try

to cut the bits that I don't need it to appears,

I also added different sound effects , music (

Diegetic and Non- Diegetic sound ) to

create atmosphere to the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Mpy4PkjNI

SECOND EDITING

Date :- 9/3/2016 Editing the final

sound effect to export it as an Mp4.

OPENING SEQUENCE

After all the ideas we collect from each other editing we decide to make a final

opening sequence and share all the special ideas together . We questioned

our self 2 question

1. What will make our opening sequence unique then others?

2. How would we merge all the ideas from our editing together, and make the

opening sequence understandable?

This is our final product that we came up with :-

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

1. As can be seen in the first part we added an image of the MPAA green

preview screen , this is for all the aspiring filmmakers that want to create a

trailer with the green rating intro at the beginning, which means that this it is

appropriate for audience in theaters, taking into account what movie the

audience is about to watch while it been approved by the motion picture

association of America, In.

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

OPENING SEQUENCE

2. We added a slow motion scene which shows a close up of the hand and Incidental

music ( Heart beats sound effect) I used it to provide a sound background in the first

scene to present mystery (Non-Diegetic sound ) the characters wouldn’t be able to

hear it .

3. We added the scene where Jessica and Sam meet together (Two shot) ,

which is a flashback to show the chronological narrative by going

backward in time to recall the past event ( The reason behind the first

scene we add) , I also used an Incidental music to show that its a thriller

movie , however I used two sounds (Diegetic and Non-Digetic

sound) , Diegetic sound , dialogue between Sam and Jessica and Non-

Diegetic sound when we added an Incidental music a background music .

4. I added a black image with a white text in a medium font, which creates

enthusiastic feeling to the audience, we used the text “When everything

seems to be normal”.

OPENING SEQUENCE

5. We merge the scene where Sam and his friend in the restaurant waiting for Jessica,

we added an Incidental music, and dialogue between Sam and his friend .

6. Close Up shot of Sam phone to show Jessica calling, we added an Iphone ringtone

sound effect .( Diegetic sound ).

7. We used cutaway, its a brief shot that momentarily interrupts the main action of a

film by showing a related action, by showing Sam leaving his friends and pick up the

phone . We used an Incidental music (Non-Diegetic) to show action and added

a Foley that we created of the kidnapper (Diegetic ) .

8.I added a black Image with a white text in a medium font, to tell the audience when

is the movie going to be released “This March”.

9. Add the scene where Sam living a healthy normal life (Medium -Close Up

shot) with an Incidental music.

10. Before the 11th part starts I have added the ‘20th Century Fox’ to be our movies

“Film Distributor” as this company is a major and popular American Film Studio.

OPENING SEQUENCE

11.We placed the scene where the beginning of the fight between Sam and

the kidnapper happens and add an Incidental music.

12.We added a black Image with a white text in a medium font, in between the

fight to create excitement and to tell the audience who’s it produced by .

with an Incidental music.

13.Continue the fight between Sam and the kidnapper, we made it shorter so

that it doesn’t take a long of time .Incidental music

14.The final part I add Sam when he got killed with a heart beats that we used

in the beginning(Non-Diegetic) and gun sound effect (Diegetic ) .

OPENING SEQUENCE

From an overall perspective I think that the opening sequence went the way we planned it to be, I followed the story plot and the storyboard perfectly. However we didn’t had any difficulties in editing but we had difficulties in the restaurant, the manager thought that we are making a bad advertisement about the restaurant and in the transportation since each place was far from each other we tried to solve it and scheduled our timing dates of filming in different locations, we planned to do it this way so it becomes easier for us. It toke us 2 weeks to shoot the film since we used to shoot it mostly on weekends. While it took us a long time for editing because we did it individually to collect ideas from each other’s for the final opening sequence while we weren’t sure about our ideas so many ideas have been added . We used Foley in some of the clips to create the kind of feel and verisimilitude, for example the part when the kidnapper replayed back on Sam.

We made an opening sequence which follows our genre Thriller/Horror. With a help of Imen, Shafiq and myself (Fatima AlSayegh) we were able to work together as a team and contribute. We had many volunteers from our friends to participate with us in acting.

THEORIES THAT WE INCLUDED WHILE FILMING

We used Todorvo theory which helped us in filming the video and judge them upon theses consequences :-

1. Equilibrium : Right track , Everything is good

2. Disruption : Something goes wrong

3. Recognition : Something is wrong

4. Resolution : Resolve the problem

5. Equilibrium: Return to new Equilibrium

1. Equilibrium :- Sam has powers he decided to hide it and live a normal life , by doing sport exercises in Aspire park.

2. Disruption :- Jessica get kidnapped , meanwhile Sam and his friends didn’t receive a call and waiting for Jessica.

3. Recognition :- Kidnapper calls Sam from Jessica phone , Sam recognized that his friends are facing the consequences .

4. Resolution :- Sam and his friend was looking for Jessica.

5. Equilibrium :- Sam find the kidnapper and saves Jessica .

1. Equilibrium

2. Disruption of

the Equilibrium

3. Recognition of

the disruption

4. An attempt to

repair the damage

5.New

Equilibrium

MATCH ON ACTION

We used match on action or cutting on action as an editing technique for

continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the

action of the subject in the first shot this creates the impression of a sense

of continuity – the action carrying through creates a “ visual bridge”

which draws the viewers attention from slight cutting or continuity issues.

Its not a graphic match or match cut it portrays a continuous sense of the

same action rather than matching two separate things.

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

SHOT REVERSE SHOT .

We used in our film a Shot reverse shot it’s a continuity editing techniques

used on conversation or simply characters looking at each other . As can be

seen in the photo below that the character is looking at each other and there

having a conservation . It is a shot showing what the character is supposedly

looking at the character in our film is looking at his friend in front of him

and it’s a point of view . We made sure that we don’t distort the audience

scenes of location of the characters in shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CkSL1k9F1A

LOW ANGLE SHOT

A low angle shot , is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical

axis, anywhere below the eye line , looking up . Sometimes , it is even directly

below the subject’s feet. We used this shot to show how strong and powerful the

character can preform in kicking and how well does he preform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOfeU5ldnn8

Education

AS LEVEL MEDIA , RESEARCH AND PLANNING