BROMA Fight Scene Choreographed - Draft 2

Here we have our second version of the fight scene which will be happening in our trailer, the first clip is a slower version showing various moves, and showing the progression that we had throughout. The second clip is a more fast paced fight scene, going through various angles and shots. Enjoy.

-Nathan Childs/Lewis Kerr

BROMA Fight Scene - Choreographed First Draft

Here in this video you can see the fight scene that Lewis and I have choreographed, it took us roughly half an hour to work out all of the aspects of the fighting. We want to give the impression to the audience that we are both highly trained people and have a lot of experience within the area, and both are a good match for each other. To do this we will do a lot of flamboyant fighting, and a lot of wild kicks and punches. We don’t want it to seem like were just having a simple brawl either, hence the reason we have choreographed everything that we will be doing in advanced. This means that when we come to filming the fight scene we will both no what we are doing and will be expecting and ready to react what the other person is about to do, so for example when I through a punch at Lewis, Lewis will be expecting it and therefore catch it/block it.

One of the issues that came up when doing the fight scene was that we found we were falling to the ground very hard a lot of the time. Thankfully however we had mats to fall on although this may be an issue when we actually come to feeling the actual fight scene. We will be asking the P.E department whether we would be allowed to borrow some of the mat when it comes to filming. An issue that then will arise from using the mats would be if the audience will be able to see them in the film. This could gives an UN professional sense to the trailer, which we don’t feel will make a good. To conquer this issue we will frame the scene if such a way that the mats will be just out of the shot, and when a character I then on the floor and has falling on the match we will switch the angle and take a way the mat to give the impression there was never a mat there.

 - Nathan Childs/Lewis Kerr

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Trailer Research - Taken

Taken Trailer

The film I am analysing is ‘Taken’. I chose to analyse this film as we have already looked at it beforehand for our film last year, and as our film this year is a carry on it compares well and still holds everything we want in our film. The trailer itself is bad quality, but still shows the aspects on which we want to use.

Aspects of the trailer we enjoyed

Whilst watching the trailer for Taken, I really enjoyed the flashes of light effects showing the change from every scene, creating a fast pace for the trailer and setting the normal speed throughout. The story of the film is shown really well, and we get a clear idea of what the film will consist and who the main character is and what he has to do. The music in the film is really well done as it creates a dramatic atmosphere throughout, and keeps up with the speed of how quick the trailer is going. As the trailer goes in it picks up pace, bringing the idea of adrenaline and wanting to know what’s going to happen next, which we aim to produce.

How we plan to take these aspects into our film

Aspects we can use from the trailer of Taken, is the torture scene we are shown, when the male is strapped into the chair and the main character is interrogating him whilst showing a photo. We possibly might use this in our trailer to show the seriousness of what we want to accomplish and how the main character Liam, will do whatever is necessary to finish his mission. Also we aim to take the flashback effects which I have mentioned before into our film when the fight scene is taking place, as each hit is shown, it changes to another short clip of Dhuran and Jason in chase.

In our trailer idea, we are thinking of doing a split screen between me and Nathan as Taken has done. It will hopefully produce and build up tension for the scene and give the effect we are aiming for.

Aspects we didn’t enjoy

One of the aspects that I didn’t enjoy was that the film I thought gave away too much of the story, it told clearly what was happening, what was going to happen, and what he can perform. So it shows no surprises.

What I though about the trailer

I personally thought the film gave away to much information. However then effects used and the transitions between each scene are done perfectly for what the trailer is trying to produce. Also by showing a lot of the action scenes it will cause the audience leaving on edge and wanting to know what will happen next, which will result in people buying to see the film. The trailer for ‘Taken’ in all is very useful for our trailer idea, and has a lot of effects we wish to use and incorporate into our own.

 Lewis Kerr

Trailer Research - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The girl with the dragon tattoo - trailer

One of the trailers that I analyse was ‘The Girl with the dragon tattoo, this was a great trailer to have a look at as the film is out at the end of the year so the distributors have not gave away a lot of footage, leaving those who see it wanting more, Similar to what myself and Lewis plan to be doing within what we make.

Aspects of the trailer that we enjoyed

One of the key aspects within this teaser trailer that we enjoyed would have to be the very fast passed clips and the quick changes in transition from one short clip to another. We feel this was definitely a good route to go down for the film as it meant that the distributors were not giving away an awful lot about the film, and it would also be creating a very intense atmosphere for those who ere watching it. Another aspect that we enjoyed was the music, to begin with the music was very calm and subtle, however as the trailer progressed slowly the music began to pick up become more creating a sense of intensity.

How we plan to take these aspects into our trailer

One of the shots that we liked within this trailer was the scene of a point of view shot were there man is looking at various pictures of different people, we want to take this into our own film, where the assassins are looking through some pictures of victims that they will be taking out, one of these pictures will be of me, however it will have a question mark on it, stating that I am of a possible higher threat and a main character within the film.

Aspects that we didn’t enjoy

One of the things we did not enjoy about the trailer was that it did seem to tell a lot about the plot, although this can been seen as a good thing, there is also issues with it, as the audience will not understand enough about the film to want to go and see it.

What I though about the trailer

The trailer did not give away an awful lo about the movie itself, however I feel that this is a benefit to distributors, as the audience will be left on the edge of there seats wanting to find out more about the movie, and the only way to do that is to research into it, and buy a ticket to the movie when it comes out. The trailer consists of very short intense clips; this is something that I also plan to be doing for our trailer, giving it almost a disorientating effect.

- Nathan Childs

First draft - Poster idea

Here we have a rough idea of the layout of our poster, we are aware that this image lacks detail and realism, however we have a clear idea of how it will turn out.

Issues we may face.

A list of issues that we may run into and how we plan to resolve such issues

• Fight scenes looking UN professional and amateur - This is one the issues that came when we conducted some audience research, if we are just random throwing punches with no thought behind it we won’t look like highly trained assassins and more like two drunken people at a bar.
• Public safety/well being - as with our trailer it consist of a lot of weapon usage, the public may not realise that in fact we are filming, and go on to believe that we are having a real gun fight, causing them to possible call the police or take action into their own hand. We plan to avert this by conducting filming when there is a minimum amount of people about, and for who ever is not currently playing a role within the scene, to be a steward warning the public who is near of the events.
•  Running out of time - this is one of the problems that we can to face when making a first short film in year 12 media, we found ourselves filming for far too long and in the end we had to squeeze it all into one day which may of had a effect on the outcome of what we produced, to avoid this problem we will save ourselves a large time slot to film what we need, and instead of filming it all in one day, have different slots in the day were are actors a free to film. We will also do a shot schedule whereby will we work out how long it takes us to film scenes, and bring this all together to work out our total film time.
• Possible glitches and faults in the editing stages - This wasn’t such a big thing with our first short movie there were a couple of hiccups, however nothing big enough to slow production down to a fall halt. This is definitely something that I need to consider however. To prevent these issues from happening I will be practising various editing techniques on clips of film that I do not need, that way I will be able to fix anything that does not go right, before I put it onto our actual trailer.
• Mis-en-scene looking un-professional - When making a fairly dramatic trailer like ours, with a lot of different stereotypes and representation we have to makes sure that actors are playing the characters are presenting them correctly, otherwise the message will not be conveyed well enough for it to be suggestive. by placing things like tattoos and scars etc on characters it gives them a séance of toughness therefore the audience will be able to tell that they are the 'baddies'.

- Nathan Childs

Film Analysis

Film analysis.

Phone booth

How is it similar?

The main plot of phone booth is a hitman setting up his victim in order to cause him chaos. Similar in too our movie, the victim has been phoned and asked to meet in a certain area, where the hitman will be prepared to take him out. In phone booth the hitman is very stealthy and prepared to kill the victim, this is the same as our movie, as Lewis will be lying in the bush aimed up and ready to take out his awaiting person.

Both our and the movies hit man’s will be unseen to the unsuspecting victim. This builds tension for the audience, as they too will be intrigued to where the sniper is hiding and when he will take the shot.

How we can take examples from phone booth

In phone booth the victim is warned that he is about to be killed. Lewis and myself like this idea of suspension so we may consider putting this aspect into our movie trailer.

In phone booth we enjoyed the feeling of tension that was noticed throughout the movie. We too want to be able to take this characteristic into our own show, built up through the use of suspense; an example of this could be when I am trying to track down the hitman that has tried to kill me.

Aspects of the movie we didn’t enjoy.

An aspect of the movie that Lewis and I found frustrating was the lack of movement, and change of scenery. In our movie to avoid this we plan to change the scenery a couple of time and vary between different scenes. we feel it will be more entertaining for the audience to watch as they are not being made to watch the same scenery over and over again. And it will be interesting for them to be exploring a wider range of changing scenery, such as forestry, play parks etc.

Mr and Mrs Smith

How is it similar?

In a whole to two movies are fairly different. However in some certain scenes there are definitely similar aspects. On of the examples of this would be the cat and mouse strategy that the two people have, similar to that of Lewis and I. In this certain scene both characters are attempting to kill each other, a lot of tension is built up throughout, this is created by the music that is being played slowly in the background and also the way both the actors are taking precautious routes around the house.

 How can we take examples from Mr and Mrs Smith?

When watching certain scenes in Mr and Mrs Smith, we found plenty of different aspects that we felt would benefit our film. We were struggling to think up of something after the chase was over and they had both found each other, but thanks to this film we needn’t look any further. At the end of this seem, both character have guns aimed up at each other head at arms length, we would like to take this into our film, however instead of someone taking the shot, both guns will jam. This may be fairly comical for the audience as they would not be expecting it.

More examples that we will be taking from this movie is the wide range of camera angles that are occurring throughout. We found a certain camera angel that will feel would be suiting perfectly in our film; this is a sort of first person angel. We feel that this would suit our film perfectly and is puts the audience into the shoes of certain characters, and gives them a good sense of what they are seeing and experiencing.

Aspects of the movie that we didn’t enjoy

One of the aspects that we didn’t enjoy, was how all of the scene was based roughly in the same area, we feel that this can become fairly boring for the audience to watch, And felt that it was important for us to change the environment, and keep up with the fast passed nature of our film. Another aspect that we don’t feel will be good in our film would be the spraying of the weaponry, we like would like to take a more subtle approach with our weaponry

Taken

How is it similar?

Taken is similar to our trailer in many ways. The film is based around fight scenes, gun fights and manipulation. We aim to use some of the ideas Taken has used and incorporate it into our own Trailer. Such ideas are the camera angles, dark settings and mercenary like appearances. High tension moments used in Taken will definitely benefit us as we can take notes on how they have been performed and try to mimic or add our own style to it.

The characters are roughly the same as well. Nathan plays the hero of the trailer saving Jason’s character, also standing up for what he believes, relating to Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) character.

Jason plays the ‘damsel in distress’, like character, where Nathan has to come save him from the villains, relating the Liam Neeson’s characters daughter Kim (Maggie Grace).

Dhuran plays as one of the mercenary thugs in our trailer, relating to the kidnappers or henchman in Taken, taking Maggie Grace at the beginning of the film which could also relate to trying to kill Jason’s character at the start of our trailer.

Lewis plays one of the higher up mercenaries, the boss' assistant. And has a crucial fight in the middle of our trailer, demonstrating that both Nathan and Lewis have the abilities to fight. Relating to Taken, the character Lewis would play or be referred to would be Arben Bajraktaraj as Marko, the head boss’ assistant and at the end of the film, also performing a hand-to-hand fight with Liam Neeson.

Liam plays the ‘mastermind’ of the mercenary group, setting up the assassination, providing the weapons for the mission and ordering where the men to go. He would be referred to as Gérard Watkins as Patrice Saint-Clair, the main mysterious mastermind.

How can we take examples from Taken?

Camera angles, atmosphere, lighting, appearance and props, mis-en-scene and character presentation. As mentioned before, we aim to take parts of the film and recreate it into our own, for example, during the end of Taken, there is a crucial fight scene between Arben Bajraktaraj and Liam Neeson, showing the fight between the right hand man of the villains’ and the main hero character. The outcome will change or set things into motion, and we aim to use this idea.

Aspects of the movie that we didn’t enjoy

Taken is a film which didn’t require much editing or effects. In our trailer we aim USE more editing and effect wise as we don’t have the luxury or brilliant equipment.

- Nathan and Lewis

First Draft Trailer Outline

First Draft of how the trailer will play out.

5-7 seconds

·         Starts with close up of Nathan’s eyes, he is having a night mare, sweating, eyes open rapidly.

10 seconds

·         Goes to a short montage of clips, consisting of Nathan boxing, and the mercenaries preparing their weapons.

5-7 seconds

·         The leader of B.R.O.M.A is prepping his agents on a £50,000 kill that they need to get, the camera pans over a list of bounty’s at the top is a picture of a question mark, with a £5 million bounty.

5 Seconds

·         Zooms into picture of Jason, where a graphic match will occur to show the real life Jason outside.

7 seconds

·         Mercenaries will be placed around the area in which Jason is situated, getting ready for the word from Liam to kill him. What the mercenaries don’t know is that Nathan is if the area watching what is going on.

15 seconds

·         Mercenaries get the word to kill Jason, Jason is currently dealing drugs, dhuran shoots the dealer, and Jason runs.  Dhuran will chase on foot, Nathan stands and watches Jason run past, and when Dhuran passes him, Nathan hits him in the face with his elbow. Bringing him to the floor, picking up his gun and killing him

5 seconds

·         Lewis runs into Jason and is about to kill him, Nathan jumps in, and starts a fight with Lewis.

25 seconds

·         The clips of the fight a short condensed 1/2 second clips, switching between the fight and other scenes such as Liam finding out who Nathan is/other parts of the film and explaining why he is worth so much,  aborting the original plans, to go all out to kill Nathan and get the £5 million.

15 seconds

·         Finally the last scene is of Nathan on the floor with Liam standing over him with a gun pointed to his head, saying ‘You’re worth way more than £5 million.’

-Nathan Childs/Lewis Kerr.

Feedback from class

Audience Feedback/Research

After we made the initial ideas we drafted up a pitch, which consisted of a variety of different aspects of the film such as the genre, the storyline, editing and so on. We presented this pitch to the class in order to find out whether our movie would attract the people we were aiming it at. Once the pitch was completed we asked the class to relay information back to us, on what they liked, and different variations that we should be thinking about when producing our trailer.

Feedback -

Establishing every character within the film -

This is one of the things that we have to make sure that we cover correctly. If the characters are not well established within the trailer people may be unclear on what the story may end up like, therefore may be withdrawn to going to see in the cinema. We will make sure the characters are well establish by filming a large amount on each individual person, this way i am able to chose the appropriate parts in the film to put in the trailer, and i will only be choosing the parts which establish each character in a good manner.

Choreographing the fight scenes -

I feel this is definitely something that me and Lewis should be thinking about, if we plan to make a good looking professional trailer then all the fight scenes have to be choreographed sufficiently, we cannot just have random punches and kicks being thrown. We want our characters to look like that they have been trained to handle with such events, therefore planning ahead on how to fight while be necessary.

Expanding/developing characters more -

This basically means that the characters based within our film have to be developed a lot more than they were in our first short movie. To do this we have to present the emotions of each character individual, showing their various temperaments, and how they may react to different environments.

Conventions/editing style -

I will need to do a very intense edit if I want to attract the correct people, I want to jam as much as i can into the trailer, however I wasn’t the audience who are watching it almost to be disorientated to what they are watching, a leave them wanting more, so that they will visit the cinema to watch the movie.

- Nathan Childs



Pitch for B.R.O.M.A

Here is our pitch what we presented to that class, about the movie we will be producing -

Initial idea

Initial ideas/Pitch

Lewis and I plan to carry on from our first short sequence film. We felt the whole assassin idea was for us, doing a trailer for this would definitely suit the way that I like to edit, and also the way that Lewis and I like to produce and direct what we make.

The film will contain a head assassin who is practically ‘the boss’ of his assassin gang. He tells his subordinates what to do and how to do it, and has complete control over his illegal company that he is running. This ‘boss’ will be left a mysterious man throughout the trailer until the very end where his face is then revealed.

The team of rogue agents/mercenaries will go out hunting a drug dealer who currently has a bounty of £50,000 on his head, little do they know, a highly dangerous target is watching their every move, and plans to put a stop to the act. This man is an ex NSA militant agent, who has a wide array of trained skills, and a much larger bounty on his head of £5 million.

The movie consists of the group of illegal bounty hunters attempting to kill/capture this man, and get redemption after the amount of their own people he has killed and sent to prison.

I will be taking on the role of editor and plan to do an intense and adrenaline filled edit, containing a montage of hard hitting clips short clips, none lasting no more than 15 seconds.