CUFFS: REAL LIFE

 How far does the extract try to create a scene that is portraying real life.

The extract attempts to place the police officers in 'real life' with everyday people in order to make them appear normal and a part of society. This is seen in the locations used. The police officers are seen in a café, in a town centre and on the motorway. All of these locations are seen in everyday life and people go to them or visit them. seeing the police here and not away from the public makes them appear included and part of everyday life and society.

During the chase sequence, a bird's eye view tracking shot displays the many cars, roads and roundabouts in the area of the chase sequence. This is effective at making us feel as if we are watching 'real life' as all the locations are recognisable as real, helping us to draw connections, as we would in real life, with where we may have been and what we may have seen.

However, the extract is unable to fully show real life as it is unable to break certain rules of television. Many things are affected by these rules. For example, due to being broadcast pre-watershed, swearing

or adult references are removed and cannot be shown as younger audiences are not supposed to be exposed to swearing or adult references.

CUFFS MEDIDA LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION OF CHARICTERS, SOCIAL ISSUES AND CONTEXT

 We watch Cuffs using ClickView and work from the GCSE text book starting on page 5

Non Diegetic Sound- Sound that doesn't exist within the world of film. it is added on after 

cuffs offer excitement and the police working but also comedy within the police force and how they actually feel. 

Simon the duty solicitor (the only other gay character in this episode)

Two shot, Ryan in the shot talking to the lady but making sure that Jake here's the line "we don't care what your parents do" the focus then pans back out to Jake to show jakes reaction to this comment. then a motivated edit to jakes dad in his uniform. 

POPCORN PREP

 What is a two-shot and how can it be used?

A two shot is a shot which frames a view of the subjects. The subjects do not have to be next to each other but the effect will be the same for each time. The shot is used to show the emotional reactions between the subjects. The two shot is often used for romance, tension, and action.

THE OBSERVER TWITER

 

LEGO INDUSTRY TERMS

 

•  franchise- is defined as a film series, or a collection of films, that share the same fictional universe or have beef marketed as a series. these films all take place during the same timeline, in the Marvel Climactic Universe and were marketed as a series of interconnected movies.
• tent-pole production- a big-budget movie whose earnings are expected to compensate the studio for its less profitable movies. In broadcast programming and motion pictures, a tent-pole or tentpole is a program or film that supports the financial performance of a film studio or television network.
• ensemble cast - an ensemble cast is one which is composed of multiple principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.
• conglomerate -  a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, is something that not many people even know of, but it is crucial in understanding where your news is coming from
• vertical integration -  Vertical Integration is when a Media Company owns different businesses in the same chain of production and distribution. For example, a 20th Century Fox owns the studios in Hollywood, they also own the cinemas, the TV channels and the DVD rental shops.

LEGO MOVIE

To children, Emmet would come across as a very heroic, positive, humorous, lively, good character who they can look up to. The line said by Emmet " I'm just a regular normal guy," when he is chosen to be "The Special" shows children that they might think that they are just ordinary people but truly there is special in everyone. The lady with the blue and pink fringe said that "I believe in you," which shows to the children that no matter what, there is always someone who will believe in them. I think that this trailer would be effective as many young children would be very exited by the thought of Emmet overriding the superheroes as he is the chosen one.

The Lego Movie (2014) was given a U rating because it has positive overriding the negative as it is about a hero saving the world from negative forces. The trailer does not show any dangerous or anti-social behaviour, there is no discrimination, drugs, nudity or sexual content. However, there is very mild bad language (butt) and only mild violence which is acceptable within a U certified movie.  

FILM MAKING

Our production company is called Blackjack Studios. We made our logo by first finding a real blackjack board, chips and cards and then started to place the chips over the Blackjack sign. Kai and I then attached a HUE camera to the Apple Mac which allowed us to take photos as we gradually removed the chips to create the imagery of them moving away by themselves. We did not add any extra sound effects to the animation.

To do our table top filming we found many items such as: newspapers, blue prints, images of people, maps, jewellery, post cards, a hat, money, cigarettes, scarf, a business card and top secret files. Oliver held the camera horizontally above the table and moved it around slowly over the items, making sure that nothing but the items on the table could be seen in the video. We wanted the audience to focus on key headings in the newspapers (about the kidnappings), the blueprints, business cards and the top secret files with a police file inside. We paused on these specific items for longer than the others to achieve this effect.

For our live action filming my group and I found a mysterious looking area of the school as the setting for this. Our film consisted of two characters, one of the characters wore a long trench coat and trilby hat and I wore a blazer and a trilby hat. Oliver did the filming and with the camera he followed Luca in the trench coat walking down some concrete stairs then he focused on me with a cigarette leaning against a wall. When Luca reached me we did a transaction: I gave Luca money and he gave me  the business card shown in the table top filming, Oliver continued filming as we walked away and out of the camera shot.

Kai and I edited the film trailer with the production name of Blackjack Studios. We added a song during the table top filming and film opening but paused it during the Blackjack Studios animation to create a dramatic affect. The song chosen was .... we chose this song as we thought this would create an atmosphere of a 1940s thriller and we edited the film into black and white to support this theme. Our film title was No Return, which we thought would be relevant to the table top filming as we focused on the newspaper headlines about kidnapping. Kai and I listed all of our names in the credits: Oliver Max - Camera Man, Toyan Arif - Director, Actor and Editor, Luca Puri - Actor, Kai Wakeford - Editor.  

I think our production went very well, as we achieved our aim of creating a very captivating film opening and we also worked very well together. However, there  were many obstacles that we had to overcome to reach the finished film production. The greatest challenge was that the HUE camera constantly fell off its stand during the filming of the production logo so we had to keep restarting the sequence of photos; another difficulty that we faced was that it was very hard to hold the phone camera straight to do the table top filming. Overall I think that our film opening was a great triumph as we have created a strong film opening reminiscent of a dark 1940s movie which will draw in the audience.