typography - the decoy

We have decided to call our short film 'The Decoy' so I done some research to see what types of fonts will look good for it.

Production Name Ideas

Film production company

For our film we will need a production name suitable for our thriller espionage film. For this I done some research on other film productions to get an idea of the type of name we need. We also done research on this so that we done have or choose a film production name that already exists. 

- dreamworks animation - Shrek, Madagascar and Kunfu Panda 

- 20th century fox - Star Wars, X-Men and Die Hard 

- Blue sky studios - Ice Age and Rio

- fox searchlight pictures - Black Swan and 12 Years A Slave 

- Metro-Goldwyn Mayer - Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind 

- universal studios - Jaws, Dracula, Oblivion and The Wolf Man 

- eon productions - James Bond Series

- Working title films - Love Actually, Shaun Of The Dead, Four Weddings And A Dead Funeral 

- Paramount pictures - Star Trek, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump and Transformers 

- Columbia Pictures - Michael Jackson This Is It, The Karate Kid, Spider-Man and Men In Black 

 

- screen gems - Easy A, Dear John, Friends With Benefits and The Vow 

- sony pictures animation - Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and Surfs Up

- Warner bros pictures - Bonnie And Clyde, Batman, Harry Potter, Gravity and The Matrix 

- castle rock entertainment - When Harry Met Sally and Miss Congeniality

- new line cinema pictures - A Nightmare On Elm Street, Austin Powers, The Lord Of The Rings, Elf, Hairspray and The Hobbit 

- Walt Disney pictures - The Blackhole, The Love Bug, Mary Poppins, The Muppets, Pirates Of The Carribean and Princess Diaries 

- Pixar animation studios - Toy Story, A Bugs Life, The Incredibles and Finding Nemo 

- Marvel studios - Iron man, Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Avengers 

- dimension films - Scream, Spy Kids, Scary Movie, Piranha 

- CBS films - The Back Up Plan, The Women In Black 

First continuity edit

First continuity edit


The first shot of our video wasn't approved due to the fact that the camera work wasn't great, this was because when me and Alex were filming, two of the members of our group were absent so we had to film alone, for this we asked Jamie to help us film, in which he insisted he will hand hold the camera which is why the shots came out so shaky and out of focus, as well as this when cutting the clips it made the video cut to quick from some scene so the pace of the clip was out of time.

shot list for storyboard

Shot 1. two men having a meeting at a table in a cafe 

Shot 2. introduced to the bady terrorist - tracking shot 

Shot 3. Men at the cafe recognize the terrorist "shocked"

Shot 4. Terrorist pulls out a gun - close up shot 

Shot 5. Terrorist in a long shot pointing the gun at the men

Shot 6. Extreme close up of the gun firing shots/slow motion

Shot 7. Long shot of the two men dead on the floor 

Shot 8. Close up of glass on the table dripping

Shot 9. Graphic match to one of the men blood dripping from a part of his body

Questions

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real 

media products? 

Our media product will try and challenge the conventions of real media products by using different methods of filming the opening scene to an espionage. It will use the ideas of a spy and a terrorist usually being the main character within the film. It will develop the fact that espionage films are not made too often and a new era of espionage could be around in the near future.

How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

Our product may contain an Asian person as a terrorist and this could represent the stereotype that asains or Muslims are represented in the media as terrorists. We would also have a white English person as the spy which represents the stereotype of English people as being the hero.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

EON is a possible institute that would distribute our media product because they are known for creating spy films and various crime films across the board.

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

our target audience would probably be for the age group 12+ as they would be able to understand the full extent of what is happening and would still be interested at the same time.

How did you attract/address your audience? 

We would attract our audience with saying that it would be an action packed thrill ride with actual meaning behind the story and this would be shown within the opening 2 minutes that we would produce.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

Our group is already pretty well informed about the technology used to create the product such as the editing programs like Photoshop and premier pro. We also have a good understanding of how to use a dslr camera through experience before hand.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from 
it to the full product? 

So far I have learnt that it is very important to have research that backs up the planning for the task ahead to hopefully succeed in making a successful product by the end.



(by Alex) 

Costume research

Costumes- Spy

For the costumes we decided to research stereotypical outfits associated with characters in spy espionage movies.

We first decided to look up characters that play spys, for example James Bond, ethan hunt- mission impossible, Agents J and K- Men in black and Aaron cross- The Bourne legacy.

From looking at two of the pictures (men in black and James Bond) we notice that the pattern seems to stay the same, they both wear suits, usually black with a white shirt, a dark plain or black tie and black shoes. They are represented as formal and clearly in control and seeming more important because they dress appropriately. 

In the other two pictures (Mission impossible and The Bourne legacy) they do not wear suits or ties. The fact that they are dressed in black or dark clothing could suggest that they may not be dressed like a stereotypical spy, but it could still suggest they are a powerful character. 

The suits definitely make the characters stand out and it is easy to identify who is the good guy, though there is a problem when you have most of the cast dressed in suits, it just looks like a banquet gone wrong. With the casual way of dressing, it is also difficult to identify who is in control because they blend in with the people around them, though it comes in handy if the 'spy' does not want to be recognised immediately.

For the spy we came to the overall conclusion of them wearing a suit, as this is how they are usually/stereotypically represented.

(done by shawnean)

My response 

From this we can come to a conclusion that we want to dress the spy in a suit due to it stereotypically being the type of costume a spy wears. We decided this because not only will the audience recognise him as the spy, we want to keep similar elements of an espionage character so that the audience feel comfortable and don't feel as if its anything out of the ordinary, so we want to keep similar elements. However we will obviously add in our own interpretations of espionage films. 

Characters research

We researched stereotypical characters/villains/terrorists who like to blow things up and looked at different images and compared them.

We thought it would be best the research maybe cartoon movies, as they usually over dramatise everything.

Bomb voyage- The Incredibles

Unnamed terrorist- Team America

This is only a couple examples, but this is usually what type of characters people think of when they think of 'terrorists' and/or bad guys who blow things up.

The bad guys are usually represented as foreign and most of the time at war with whoever the 'hero' is.

Most of the time in spoofs or cartoons, the terrorist is typically of an Asian background and wears a turban and have beards.

We decided to use the idea of a stereotypical terrorist for our bad guy, this is also so they are easily identifiable by the audience.

(done by shawnean)

My response 

From shawnean's research, as a group we can come to a decision on the costume/clothing, from this research we can see that the villains are typically dressed in black or dark clothing to reinforce their character however the unnamed terrorist is in white, although he is dressed in religious clothing, however other ways in which we can tell they are the 'baddy' is their body language and facial expressions and especially in the unnamed terrorist we can tell he is due to his frown and angry facial expression. however these examples are animated characters, we can get an idea of the typical baddy costume.