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Presentation of our media asfoundation production of

FRAMED

Amy Antoniou

Centre Number: 12528

Candidate Number: 2215


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Research


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Example of OUR Questionnaire


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Questionnaire analysis


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Questionnaire analysis


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The screen is split on each

character which leads to the

audience witnessing each oftheir journeys home edited

together in short, sharp editing.

From David Finchers Panic

Room


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It is currently racingahead in the UK box

office. In its opening

weekend last weekend it

took5,332,096. Quote from

telegraph.co.uk


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Some still shots of the movies listed,

and that are directed by these directors

present. The taking of Pelham 1 2 3

showing the shootout that has been said

Tony Scott tends to use in his movies

along with some shots of Trespass' and

one of the main protagonists.


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Genre Grid


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Genre Grid


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Genre Grid


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Genre Grid


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In our pre-production planning, we talked about ideas we liked and disliked and came to conclusions about what would be best to use in

our opening sequence to a film. We discussed genre and sub-genre films we each enjoyed and this helped in the outcome of planning to

create a crime film opening. We thought crime would work best as it could include the sub-genres of action or drama which are hugely

popular. We each found many various directors that have directed world-wide and popular films in the crime genre and could gather

information from these directors to help with our pre-production planning and eventually our filming and editing. In Katerinas research,

she found the director Steven Spielberg who uses flashbacks in films such asJurassic Park. This gave us an insight into ways in which theflashbacks could be used in films and how we could interpret the flashback into our product. We visited the BBFC website to acknowledge

what is acceptable and unacceptable to be exploited in our production and how the use of some things (e.g.- violence, drug use) needs to

be subtle in a 12/12A certification. However, the use of these examples could be of a stronger use in a film with a 15 certif ication. We had

to converse about what certification we would like our production to be, and we finally came to a result of it being a 15 certification. With

our research, we visited the BBFC website to find out what certificate we should make our film be. Visiting the website allowed us to see

what would be allowed to be included in our chosen 15+ production as we did not want to make the film inappropriate for some

audiences or too bland for others. As the BBFC website states In a 15 certification; the work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory

language or behaviour. Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse.We used this

knowledge when creating our product with the idea that the topic of drugs would be involved in our production, but this informationallowed us to know how far this involvement could go without the risk of having to alter our production to a higher certificate. We devised

a spider diagram of titles that could possibly be used for the name of our production, resulting in all our ideas put into consideration for

Framed. In our group, we reflected on the fact that dodgy drug deals and crime interrogations are not an everyday occurrence for many

teenagers to witness, so this could appeal to the teenage audience. In our director research, Amy found the director Noel Clarke who has

directed, starred and written many films; one of these films being 4.3.2.1. In this, the uses of flashbacks are also present and include

exploitation of drugs, much like our own film. Katie was able to find research on the director Martin Scorsese who has directed films that

often take a section of the film from either the middle or end and starts the film with that. She found this to occur in his films such as:

Raging Bull, Casino and Goodfellas. This research helped us out as we to have began our opening sequence from mid way of the film and

then include the flashback to take the audience back to how the storyline got to that point in time that was shown in the opening scene.

We developed a questionnaire to gain knowledge into other peoples opinions on crime films that they have seen. The outcome of the

questionnaire results benefitted with our pre-production as we could recognise what other people and our target audience like and

disliked in the crime genre of films and we could work on these things within our production to make it the most appealing it could be.

Final Group Evaluation


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Pre- Production


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Title: Framed

Duration: 2 minutes (30 seconds)

Medium: film

Certification: 15+ Target Audience: Older teenagers, Young Adults and Adults

Synopsis: A man goes to pick up drugs and is called by a dodgy undercover cop which warns him the police areonto him and that he should get rid of the drugs.

The drug buyer panics and dumps drugs in a near by strangers bag who is now framed guy James Philips. Drug

buyer tells undercover cop that they dumped it on a guy called James Philips.

The police search and arrest James Philips, with the help of the undercover police, and he is questioned and pleads his

innocence but is not believed. The interview however is the beginning of the film and it has quick flashes of filmleading up to the part when A man goes to pick up drugs and is called by dodgy undercover cop this shows what

actually happened.

Innocent man is charged guilty and goes to prison. Innocent man finds out from cell mate who put him in prison as the

cell mate also had an encounter with the same group who the drug buyers with, however his situation was worse and

hes in there for life. James Philips and cell mate unites to get back at drug buyer. Cell mate has flash back to show

what happened to him and how he ended up in prison.

10 years later innocent man (James) and cell mates friend get out of prison and end up stitching up drug buyer, and

getting him put in the same prison as the cell mate who was put in there for life. The scene ends with the drug buyer

walking into the cell where the cell mate is sitting there and he laughs and cracks his knuckles as the door slams shut.

Key Scenes:Interview, Drug Dumping, Prison, Getting caught.

Titles of the film along with the names starring and working on the production. Camera Shots:Big Close Up, Panleft and right, PED up and down, High angles Low angles, Canted, Tilt up and down, Mid Shot, Medium Close Up,

Long Shot, Eye Level

Treatment


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Key Characters:

James Phillips:Street rat, attempting to clean up his life, short tempered and sarcastic, doesnt like being assumed wrong.

PC Rodgers: Sly, quick witted, secretive, dirty cop, confident, trusted in police and drug community.

PC Welch: Trusting, loyal, caring, loves her job, thrives to succeed, never wants to leave a case unsolved.

Key Scenes:Interview room

Drug deal

Getting caught (Phillips)

Getting rid of the drugs

Camera Shots:Big Close Up

Pan left and right

PED up and down

High angles

Low angles

CantedTilt up and down

Mid Shot

Medium Close Up

Long Shot

Eye Level


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Synopsis

A man goes to pick up drugs and is called by a dodgy undercover police officer, which

warns him the police are onto him and that he should get rid of the drugs.

Drug buyer panics and dumps drugs in a near by bag of a stranger, who is framed

(James Phillips) .Drug buyer tells undercover officer that they dumped it on a called

James Phillips.

The police search and arrest James Phillips he is questioned and pleads his innocencebut is not believed. Innocent man goes to prison. Innocent man finds out from cell

mate who put him in prison. They unite to get back at drug buyer. Cell has flash

back to show what happened to him.

10 years laterInnocent man and cell mates friend gets out of prison and stitches updrug buyer. Buyer gets put in prison cell with both. Innocent man and cell mate

(Innocent man gets friendly with the guard).


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Set design ideas

The high street Could be used for the dropping off of the drugs in a bag. Has to

be relatively quiet but busy enough for the person being framed, to not realize he

is about to get framed.

The Car park This could also be used for the dropping off/framing of the drugs.

However it could also be used for the drug buyer and the drug dealer to meet. We

would need it to be quiet, not busy and mysterious.

The interrogation room Used for the questioning of the framed man (James

Philips). Dark, hardly able to see anything around all apart from the characters in

the room (James and The two police). One light, shining on James Philips so your

able to see his facial expressions and see him clearly.

The Script


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The Script


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Shot- Over the shoulder

Music- Garage band music (eerie)

Sound Effect- Dialog

Lighting- Dark room, table lamp

Time- 5 seconds

Shot- Extreme Close UpMusic- Garage band music (eerie)



Time- 2 seconds

Shot- Close up

Music- Garage band music (eerie)



Time- 3 seconds

Shot-Mid ShotMusic- Garage band music (eerie)



Time- 10 seconds


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Shot- No shot- Fade out

Music- No music

Sound Effect- Rewind

Lighting- N/A

Time- 2 seconds

Shot- No shotMusic- Garage band music (eerie)

Sound Effect- No sound effect

Lighting- N/A

Time- 4 seconds

Shot- Long shot

Music- Garage band music (Upbeat)


Lighting- Natural day light

Time- 10 seconds

Shot- Extreme Close up

Music- Garage band music (upbeat)

Sound Effect- No sound effect


Time- 4 seconds


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Shot- Close up

Music- Garage band music (quiet upbeat)

Sound Effect- Telephone ring, voice over, dialog


Time- 15 seconds

Shot- Depth of fieldMusic- Garage band music (upbeat)

Sound Effect- no sound effect


Time- 15 seconds

Shot- Extreme Close up

Music- Garage band music (upbeat)

Sound Effect- no sound effect


Time- 4 seconds


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Production Schedule


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Contingency Plan

In the case of the locations or actors which our group has chosen to use for our AS Media Production are not available, we needed to

make a contingency plan for back up purposes so our filming and AS coursework could continue.

Our Chosen Locations

For the interrogation scene which occurs in our opening scene of our sequence, we have chosen to use one of the connexions roomsin our school. These rooms provide and small and secluded yet easily accessible space to film in which is perfect for the

confidentiality of the scene. If the connexions room in which we chose was unavailable at the time in which we needed it, we would

either book another time (during our lesson if approved or after school) or use a different connexions room.

Another location which we were planning to use for our production was Cockfosters High Street. Our particular chosen place to

film here was at a bus stop. This was for a scene in which we had planned out for a scene we were going to film with two of our

characters. We decided that if this chosen place was unavailable to film at we would use a close by park. After some considering and

future planning, we had decided to change this scene we were going to film due to the fact that as a group we believed it gave too

much information away for our film as it was only the opening and so therefore altered our decision on filming here.After consideration, and rearranging our script and ideas on our product, we have finally chosen an office that will appear to be one

of our characters work place.

In the possibility that any location would be unable to be used at the last minute, we needed to have a back up just in case. We

booked and checked with the teachers who supplied access to the connexions room in advance so that we could be sure that the

room 1 would be free for our use of filming. However in the event that the connexions room 1 was not available, we would have

used one of the other connexions rooms supplied or used either an office or classroom available to us. The fact that we checked

ahead of our use of the room, that it was available, allowed us to focus on finding other locations when knowing that one was okay

to use. If by any chance we needed to change to Cockfosters High street bus stop scene, we had planned out the choice to either use

another high street/road or to use our school as a setting for the flashback of the film. This would entitle us to us one of our chosen

actors and show the build up to the drug deal that would occur. If the weather was not suitable (for our high street scene) we could

have either chosen to wait and film another day, however this could delay filming time and the editing process or we could have

chosen to do the scene inside the school. However this was before deciding to alter this scene and so therefore had to check with our

teachers whether the office we wished to use for the modified scene was going to be available at the time we hoped to use it and

booked it in advance so we could be sure we would be able to use it for our product.


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Our Chosen Actors

Choosing appropriate actors for our film was something the group put into consideration. We had to bare in mind that the

people who will be in our opening sequence would want to and like to be in it and also gain their consent with a letter of

permission in which we wrote detailing what they would be partaking in along with details about it for them to sign. We

have three characters in our product and obtained their letters of permission from them signed. A man being framed for adrug deal, the good but harsh interrogator and the dirty cop who is a sly interrogator. If it was to found out that any of

the people who we planned to ask to act in our production didnt want to or couldnt, we had to contemplate using other

people to act. If any of the individuals chosen to act in our production was under the age of eighteen years old, they

would need to have a letter of permission signed by their parent or guardian to authorize their child to partake in it.

However our three individuals chosen are all over the age of eighteen, therefore being able to sign the letters themselves.

We previously had a person under the age of eighteen going to play a part in our opening sequence however they had to

withdraw, resulting in another person adopting their roll, leading to our over eighteen cast.With the fact that at the times we needed to use the filming equipment, another group or class were using or in need of it,

we needed to take precautions to make sure we could use the equipment and at the correct and easiest time. We decided

to write down the times we would be aiming to film, and this allowed us to find out if our chosen actors would be able to

film this day, along with being able to confirm the fact we would be using the chosen equipment on that day. By doing

this, it allowed us the time we needed with no delays, to film our 2 minute 30 second piece.


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Set Design Connexions Room


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Set Design - Cockfosters

Various

Camera

Angles/Shots


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Recce Form

Description of the Location: Media Office

Purpose: Part of the flashback at (James Philips) work place

List three points that make this location suitable for the purpose:The appearance of the office shows the audience he is at work.

Empty space so there is more places to film the scene.

We can use the recourse within the office as part of our film

(i.e. The computer and desk.)

List two points that might make this location unsuitable for your

purpose:

The background noise of people in the hallway, may interrupt

filming.

Staff may be using the office space when it will be needed.

If you use this location what will you have to be aware of at all

times?

Make sure our equipment is safe and on us at all times as if it is

left unattended people could steal or we could lose theequipment.

That we do not capture footage of unnecessary aspects and

objects within the office space that will not need to be in the

opening sequence.

Will you use this location? Yes/No


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Booking Form


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Room Booking Form


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Consent Forms


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Co se t o s

Consent Forms


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