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• Work completed since 6 January

-All preproduction tasks have been completed including the script in both Spanish and English translation, a film pitch delivered to the class was also completed and a review of this was typed up. Furthermore, several pieces of research on the BBFC and other things. Also, producing a film schedule but this will need to be adapted.

• Any incomplete pre-production tasks

The storyboard and the shot-list need to be placed into my folder and posted to my blog but other than that everything else is complete.

• Next steps/Action plan

The next step for our group is to begin filming and this will take place on 23/01/15 and continue every other day from then, after filming is completed editing will start but this wont be until February and should take a week or two.

• Date filming will be complete

Filming should be completed within the first week of February so to begin editing promptly.

• Requirements for photoshoot next week

Photoshoot requirements are on a previous blog post.

La Sombra

La Sombra will be one film that will catch the countries attention with its breathtaking storyline concerning Spanish hit men failing to meet a drug cartel lord’s duty. This movie is one of the most anticipated films of year.

La Sombra is going to show case a character that is due to his actions a repulsive human being who is very skilled and dangerous. One of these movies main objectives is to try to build a relationship with the hit man and the audience due to his ‘anti hero’ status as the hit mans characteristics isn’t what we would consider a typical hero. Money is irrelevant, to a man who takes so much. The thrill is the drive and the money is the bonus. ‘Silent’ protagonist doesn’t talk throughout film but has independent narrative and thoughts in his head.

After failed mission, using skills acquired over time to stay on the run and stay in the shadows from the cartel whilst fighting against ‘demons’ (drinking problem). La Sombra meets with secret lover, Cartel bosses daughter but still isn’t aware of this. Plans to run away with her and is ready, waiting on boat to ‘disappear’ for good and waiting for Maria to come. After waiting for hours Don Javier comes on to the boat with his entourage and holding his daughter at gun point. La Sombre realises and must choose which one of them dies.

This film will embrace the foreign language that is spoken throughout the film and the Spanish upbringings of the characters in this film. The London location is employed to have a better connection with its British viewers.

La Sombra is believed to have over 3 production companies helping distribute the film to a wider audience. The makers of the film also believe it was essential to cast the right actors for each role in order to portray the film in they it was written. The makers do believe they have achieved this.

Don Javier Sanchez is the leader of a drug cartel. He is marked as one of the most feared men in Spain. It’s not often when a man of Sanchez’s capability shows emotion however when he realises his daughters relationship with Sombra it send him to place he has never been.

Target audience appeals:

• Competitions or free/promotional offers in order to help them save money with the fact that the age range does start from teens
• A  sense of danger due to the more rebellious nature of the teenage age group
• A use of both text and pictures, and not just excessively large blocks of text within the article
• A presence of colours in the article and not being too monochromatic
• A twist on something that has been ongoing for a long time - a silent hitman in a film to do the Mexican cartel

BFI

     

1. This is intriguing in light of the fact that it utilizes straightforward shading plans which could be received and things are spread out unmistakably.
2. A more basic design for the substance page with the page magazine segments on the left half of the page and a photo on the privilege, can really go ahead to emit a more modern appearance to content. That, combined with a straightforward dark or white foundation additionally adds to this same appearance.
3. With this picture, I will jump at the chance to take the thought of utilizing the principle hero face being spot in the centre.
4. From this film advancement I could take the thought of having more than one picture on the front page yet at the same time having criticality.
5. This front page hardly uses an type of text at all, which is the theme I am looking to go for.
6. One central images , shows all page number, contents page heading big and bold.
7. The main protagonist is on the left covering the whole of that side and no bright colours are used
8. Bright colours are used but it work.  White background#
9. This brochure has a landscape layout, possibly making more room to the left or right, depending on the central image subject's position. 
10. The layout on this cover appeals to me, and the fact that the front cover is  a still of the event it sets the atmosphere of a typical film theatre.

BFI leaflet of 2015 unquestionably has tried different things with the utilisation of various hues a great deal, and the shading plan is what they're typically known not. However this handout specifically from them has rather utilised models that has the brilliant plan connected.

In this handout central image gives the idea that film the BFI will be promoting will be a horror movie due to the the scary image look. This is the case due to the extreme close up into the eyes of the character that are being shown in the title. The text that is shown is based in the top and middle third of the front cover and is in big bold writing perhaps to be original.The colour scheme that is used suggests that the content of the film festival booklet may be full of horror films. this is the case due to the dark colours used in the central image.the colour scheme is constant and consistent as it goes together in the genre of horror. 

RESEARCH 

The title is put withing the top third segment and the organization is surely understood so the title is incompletely secured by the focal picture, likewise a straightforward shading plan of chiefly essential hues is utilized with red and yellows additionally a compelling dark foundation.

photoshoot

Photoshoot 

1. The Protagonist that'll be showing up on the first page of the print will be the focal hero of the creation itself - La Sombra. This will give the open door for the character to be showcased successfully notwithstanding the film/creation he really stars in itself. 
2. I would like the main character have his back towards the camera while holding his syringe on double page spread.
3.  The content page will consist of a series of props used in the film for example the masks.

Run Lola Run

Lola (Franka Potente) receives a phone call from her boyfriend, Manni. (Moritz Bleibtreii) Manni accidentally leaves a bag carrying $100 000 on a train, which is picked up by a homeless man. This leaves Manni in quite a predicament. He is supposed to deliver the money to a gangster by noon, if he fails, then he is likely to be killed. Lola has twenty- minutes to save his boyfriend. Twenty short minutes to somehow find the money and get it to him.

Run Lola Run is a film you expect to see at a Independent film festival, or in a Professor's office at a film school. In no way do I mean that in a negative way, I mean not to intend that the film is of a lower standard with lower production values, rather that the film is a beautifully mastered technical film that uses every filmmaking technique in the book. It is refreshing to see a film like this in the midst of the commercialised, dry-cut, 'traditional' filmmaking that we see on the silver screen so regularly.

As stated before, the film attempts to use a wide range of filmmaking techniques to help get the director's meaning and vision across to the audience. Some of these include speed-up, instant replay, black and white, and even animation in some parts.

Pre-production

1. Shot list:

• Long shot - La Sombra with his side to the camera (full body shot)
• Medium shot - La Sombra holding the mask he uses in the party scene
• Close-up - La Sombra wearing the mask (only having half of his face visible)
• Long shot - protagonist drinking from a hip flask (full body shot)
• Medium shot - shadow with a briefcase next to it
• Close-up - showing La Sombra with his fingers on his tie as he undoes it, perhaps with a splatter of blood on his shirt
• Medium shot - La Sombra holding a briefcase with both hands
• Medium shot - La Sombra sitting down with a hip flask in his hand and briefcase placed in front of him
• Close-up - syringe in protagonist's hands
• Medium shot - protagonist proceeding to kill his supposed target with the syringe his hand, as if it is captured just a moment before he gets killed
• Long shot- of the La Sombra leaving the party agitated 
• Over the shoulder- of La Sombre pulling out his picture of the real victim
• Close up- on the picture showing it was the wrong person
• long shot- of La Sombra leaving and walking away
• Long shot- of the cartel boss finding out about what La Sombra did

     5. Costume, props and make-up:

• Syringe
• Alcohol bottle
• Hip flask
• Suit
• Tie
• White shirt
• Briefcase
• Mask

     6. One of the things I'll be doing to ensure everything is prepared for the actual photoshoot is            talk to both the person being cast as La Sombra and also the unintended victim to make it            clear when they need to be coming to the classroom for the photoshoot. Not only this but I'll          have to make sure we have all the props necessary such as the hip flask and mask to                  deliver on the planned shots as I envisaged them to have been taken.

Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Pre-production

Pre-production

Project schedule

(To be completed once the group has discussed availability)

Mise-en-scene

Casting details

• Khalid Abdillahi – will be doing La Sombra’s voiceovers as he’s had sufficient experience in actually speaking Spanish. Not only this, but he'll also be the unintended victim that ends up getting killed by our main protagonist at the mask party
• Mamduh Adan – will be acting as La Sombra since he too, has had previous experience but this time in the area of acting with other media productions
• Mr Halsey – could potentially be cast to perform as the cartel boss to make the film appear more authentic
• Deepak Marok - will be cast as the bouncer for the mask party by the lecture theatre doors
• Callum's dad - will be cast as the taxi driver for the cab scene
• Range of people from Year 12 - a range of people from the year will be cast as the partygoers at the masquerade

Location scouting with photographs

• Grand Union Canal – While we had originally planned for our setting to make use of Brighton Pier as a primary location for the film, we considered things like timing issues and weather and realised that going to the nearby canal would be a much more viable option. Not only is it more local, but it’s also a location that has many aspects to it that could help in making our film come across to viewers in the exact way we want it to e.g. the more murky tinge to the water could help contribute to the darker undertones the production is supposed to have.

• Drama studio – this location will be used for the party scene to take place in where La Sombra plans to take out his target discussed with him by the cartel boss (Don Javier). It would make for an effective setting for this to take place in as with the studio being quite large, if presented well enough with different props, it could pass off for being the location of a party.

• (Outside) lecture theatre – this location will be used for the scene that involves La Sombra’s interactions with the bouncer at the door of the party since the completely opaque double doors of the lecture theatre, look like something you might see at the entrance of a (private) party.

Props

• (Fake) phone – will be used by La Sombra to communicate to the cartel boss
• Briefcase – contains the details about the target La Sombra is pursuing
• Hip flask - contains the alcohol La Sombra constantly consumes
• Masks – the party is a ‘masquerade,’ so each of the attendees will be shown wearing masks
• Syringe – will be used by La Sombra to take out the target
• Target details – sheet of paper that’ll be found in the briefcase detailing the characters of the target

Costume and make-up

• La Sombra – will be wearing somewhat of an ‘ill-fitting’ suit with undone buttons on his shirt just as a way of suggesting his more unkempt and rough nature being drunk a lot of the time 
• Partygoers – casual shirt and trousers 
• Incorrect target – may have to use make-up as a way of showing his pain while succumbing to the lethal effects of the injection

Lighting 

• Natural light – will be used during the canal scene just due to the fact that it takes places in an outdoor setting 
• Low-key lighting – will be used in the party scene as way of making the location look all-the-more glamorous as well as mysterious

La Haine

Reminiscent of Costas-Gavras' film Z with its fast fire dialog and staccato rhythms, La Haine (Hate) coordinated by 28 year-old Mathieu Kassovitz, is an enthusiastic take a gander at racial pressures at a Paris lodging venture. Despite the fact that medication managing, urban rot, and police fierceness have been appeared in movies some time recently, seldom have they had the feeling of essentialness and direness appeared in La Haine. 

Three companions from various ethnic foundations live in the Bluebell lodging ventures on the edges of Paris. This is not the Paris of travel leaflets or movies like Amelie, however a forlorn urban scene, brutal and dismal with lodging extends that look as though they could be in any enormous city on the planet. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), is a common laborers Jew; (Hubert Kounde), the most clever and self-intelligent of the three, is an African boxer; and (Said Taghmaoui), an Arab from North Africa is more youthful however generally as disillusioned. 

The film portrays their wrath against the police whom they see as oppressors. Underestimated financially and politically, without occupations, folks who mind, or seek after the future, the boulevards are their home and they are open focuses for police who are appeared as merciless and supremacist. In one startling scene, a veteran cop insults and physically manhandle Said and Hubert while preparing a tenderfoot cop. The new kid on the block can just look on and shake his head in dismay.