Preliminary Task

In our group CASE Production, which is Chris, Adnan, Ekjot and myself we have decided in order to acheive a suitable preliminary task we needed to not make it perfect but simple enough that it has all the rules and requirments for the AS coursework which were;

* 180 degree rule
* Match on action
* Shot reverse shot
* Dialogue

so as a group we had thought of a simple and recognisable idea, which was a typical Mafia deal scene, where one member of a gang hands over the "goods" towards the other member of the gang who are the "Mafia" in which they give something back in return, however once the members of the gang hand over the merchandise to the Mafia leader and walk away, the boss realises he had been scammed. then we had thought of scripting a well enough dialogue for the characters so that it would look realistic enough that the audience would notice what is the storyline, we had filmed this in a school outside a building which wouldnt reveal too much detail of the location, because it was a secret gang deal.

after we had filmed it, we had edited on Apple Macs and used a software called Final cut express, this is where i had did the most of the editing because i wanted to get alot familiar with the tools so that my final peice would look better which is the whole point of the preliminary task, after i had edited and used my own sound from garage band, i then asked ekjot to finish it off with the credits and publishing our logo with it which should be uploaded soon on Youtube on our channel. so please feel free to check it out and subscribe, here is the link to our Youtube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CASEproductions1

Hermeneutic Codes

Roland Barthes, who was known as a french literary therorist had devloped a theory which are five major codes within a story that are interwiven in order to create a meaning, two of the codes are proaretic code and the other is Hermeneutic code. these narrative codes help film producers to find out what is going to be in the audiences minds by the storyline or a sequence of a film so that it is the story is effective and makes sense.

Also known as enigma codes, Hermeneutic codes are simply unanswered questions that the audience have which want answered, this is where a film storyline doesnt explain into too much detail and leaves unanswered question, therefore the audience wishes it to be resovled. normally many films leave a question in the beginning and reveal the answer at the near end, some may leave cliffhangers in order to keep the audience attention drawn in. Hermenuetic codes consists a variety of points in order to acheive it. which are, The snare, where there is a deliberate avoidence of the truth or a tease which sends the audiences mind into a diffrent path. Partial answers, which reveals some but not all of the final truth, mainly used to increase suspense of the storyline. Equivocation, this has a mixture of the first two points, where theres is some reveal of the truth but not all and a diversion in order to create suspense, and the last one Jamming, where the story suggests towards the audience the the problem is impossible to unsolve or finish it.

Proairetic code, is simply actions that suggest further actions/reactions hence why its known as the action code. for example to gang leaders meet up with their gangs the two leaders have an argument, the audience will make guesses of the outcome of this action and reaction, which is why in alot of films proairetic code is useful to build suspense and tension.

for our 2 minute film opening, we are going to use many types of hermeneutic codes but a main one at the end where the audience have a big question in their mind which is "why" typically ask alot in horror films especially zombie based horror moves, where the question asked by the audience why is everyone chasing or eating one another. in Case production we have thought of doing a similar story to 28 days later or 28 weeks later which is a horror genre and zombie attacking based storyline, we thought it would be perfect for the target audience we are aiming at and the idea is simple and unique.

Film openings

I Robot

I Robot, has a interesting film opening because it starts of with credits showing law of what robots have to obey otherwise they are breaking a law. The credits where shown in a unsual place which had looked like people drowning in their car in a deep river and saved by a robot, then Will smith wakes up after seeing a flash back of the past, he turns to the side stoping the alarm clock while holding a gun and looks to be getting readying for his work although it is set in the future Will Smith's character seemed to be more backward and prefered to be more retro fashion for example converses, old stereo and the props around him. he seemed not to like the looks of robots after a robot had knocked at his door to give him information about a business which he had ignored and carried on walking away.

This film is about a character which is Will Smith who is in the far future, but is very retro and old fashioned in the way his lifestyle is compared to others, he prefers it to be like this because he is used to the way that people get up and did things themselves rather than having computers and robots to do work automatically, he has a fear with robots and doesnt seem to trust them, although he is in the future and everything and everyone has something to do with robots Will Smith character doesnt want to see them at all because of his past event that reminds him of his loss of family due to the robots. however later on in the film he begins to find out what really is wrong and what really is right with having robots around you doing what humans used to do.

The day after tommorrow

This film starts of with a birds eye veiw seemed to be p.o.v. shot of a helicopter going over the Arctic where many ice bergs where in many peices and seemed to be melting away then you see a couple of scientists researching in the arctic and digging deep with a drill type of machine after a while the ice starts to crack and begins to fall which one scientists is hanging on to the edge and the other two are trying to help him up.

TDAT is a great film which shows mainly on New York City hitting and Ice age and getting wiped out by the sea, not only is new york getting this disaster but the rest of the world. this film mainly shows a couple of students who have come to study but end up being in this natural disaster and have no way of escape otherwise they could freeze to death, the only way they survive is staying indoors and burning books to keep themselves warm but for how long will they be able to do this? which is why this film is significant and thrilling by its storyline and its suprising scenes of New York City in a massive ice age disaster.

I am legend

this film opening starts of with a scene from the news where a reporting is asking the scientists that if she has found a cure for cancer which she replies "yes" after this it cuts to New york city in 3 years later showing how empty and unclean it is becuase of the fact know one seemed to be alive after a veiw over New York being empty, someone in a mustang seemed to be driving really fast in the emptyness of New york City. It cuts to see the characters in the car who were Will Smith and his dog hunting for something after a while it showed they where trying to hunt down a heard of deers that were running around New York aimlessly. then Will Smith trys to aims his sniper at one of his deers but fails because the heard of deers had ran into a underground passage, but then Will Smith trys to chase them behind but ends up being stuck because of the amount of cars ahead of him was stopping him from reaching the heard of deers ahead.

I Am Legend is a film about scientist discoverying a cure for a uncurable disease which is cancer, this was shown in the beginning of the film from a news report, and later showed the disaster which led the whole of New York City to be empty and left alone, the city is literally living by its self there is know other life other than Will smith and his dog who are still there finding a way to get people out of this mess in new york, we see in the film that there is other people living in new york but hiding because they are not in human form, but are changed into zombie like people living in the darkness of the big apple, Will Smith is taking the responsibility to search for other human beings around and save them, and also to find a cure for the zombie like people who were originally human beings.