Shot List

Type of shot	Detail	Time
POV shot	Fade in from black, driving on race track	6
Medium/close	Showing  car door opening with feet stepping inside	2
Long shot	Moving traffic at night (speed this up when editing)	4
TEXT	Text added in editing: ‘this summer’	2
Long shot	Guy walking out of prison (slow motion)	6
Close up	Close up of guys face as he steps out of prison slow motion	5
Medium shot	Girl walking/limping holding stomach as if she is injured with blood on face (slow motion)	3
Medium shot	Crew reuniting with main character	5
Close up	Car wheel as it moves (speed this up)	2
TEXT	Text: ‘Everything has Changed’	2
Medium	Girl hiding behind a wall holding the gun as if she’s about to shoot	4
Long shot	Show two cars about to race (revving sounds)	2
Close up	Boy/girls face (driver) looking at the other driver before the race	1
Close up	Changing gears in the car	1
Medium shot	Girl standing telling main character to stop racing.	3
Tracking shot	Cars racing	1
TEXT	Text: ‘vengeance’	2
Close up	Exhaust throwing flame	1
POV shot	Racing on race track	1
Long shot	Police car driving fast	2
Medium shot	Open car bonnet	2
TEXT	Text: ’Leads to this’	2
Medium shot	Burnout	3
Long shot	Car crash	4
Close up	Feet on pedals	1
Medium shot	Girl pointing gun out of car while driving fast	3
Medium shot	Car lights turning on in dark. (car rev in the background)	2
Long shot	Girl standing infront of car with gun pointing at driver.	3
TEXT	Film Name	3
TEXT	Release date	2

Linked Production Research and Planning

Film pitch

An ex-convict is imprisoned due to an illegal race which ended in the death of his competitor, upon his release from prison it doesn’t take him long to return to what he did best, illegally street race with his crew to maintain he’s reputation as the fastest. Inside the prison he falls in love with the new prison guard; as she understands he’s racing again she chases him down telling him to stop racing in order for them to be together. However, the only way to stop this is by racing as they understand that she has a racing background and her brother was killed in a street race, they both race… however there is a twist as she attempts to get revenge on him by trying to cause him to crash as her brother was killed in the race by a fatal crash against him which led to his imprisonment.

This story will be told in a voiceover in the trailer.

Trailers genre- action/thriller

• Fast paced, jump cuts, there is a climax in the music- parallel

Examples-

•  Fast and furious
• Skyfall
• Rush

From these films we can borrow key ideas such as what scenes we can add and how to raise the intensity of the film trailer. Also some of the trailers have the use of text and voiceovers which could prove to be useful as we are looking to incorporate both of those concepts into our trailer.

Project schedule:

Film on weekends and after school.  

Editing: after we have every shot we need we will edit it with a selection of possible soundtracks we have found.

Mise en scene

Props: 

• Gun
• 2 cars

Locations:

• Motorway?
• Empty roads
• In a house
• Racetrack
• Wembley

Costumes: 

• Girl - casual
• Boy - casual

critical investigation feedback

WWW: Some fantastic quotes and a strong central argument gives you plenty to build on here

EBI:

•  Organisation and presentation- topic sentences are weak and this really reduces the impact of the essay
• need to introduce quotes properly  and ensure you analyse/ discuss their context.
• Research isnt good enough for top level: need more books, journals and media theories.
• You need to mention the other side of the argument- a few examples of male dominated films.
• Notable errors Gravity did not make $4 billion on its own.
• Need more footnotes : 30 plus
• NDM section is weak. could add so much more in terms of feminism (this would give you more media theory too) 

Mark: 28

1. I need to include more quotes from books, journals and magazines and make sure they all link by explaining them in the right context.
2. Add more of media debates and theories such as feminism.
3. I could include more examples of film, even the opposite of my critical investigation such as films with dominant males and how successful they were.
4. Present the essay better than what it is, make each topic clear.
5. Focus on the question after every paragraph.

Teacher Feedback

The Godfather Trailer:

• Incredibly ambitious recreation - very tough.
• Agree with criticisms: Setting, Lighting, Sound, all weaknesses.
• Costume, Framing, and editing reasonably solid.
• Lacking professional finish - significantly so.
• Lessons to be learned across the board.

Mark- 16

preliminary recreation questions

1. We chose the Godfather trailer to recreate as we are planning to make a trailer for our final production and the Godfather represents a dominant role for males being strong and ruthless. This is what we plan to create in our final production, instead with a strong female role. The genre also links as we might produce a gangster/thriller/action trailer.
2. The difficulties faced were the time period as we did not have enough time to shoot and edit this trailer, our editing was also quite intense as there is a lot of editing that goes into a trailer compared with recreating any 30 second speaking scene in a movie. Another difficulty was the lighting as we could not shoot in the day time.
3. The strengths of the production were the acting, props, costume and editing which was reasonably good for one days of work.
4. We would improve on the lighting and setting.
5. A lesson that we'll take is that we shouldn't rush.

The Godfather Recreation

Recreational task planning

Name of the text you plan to recreate:
The Godfather 
Scene/section you will recreate:
A part of the trailer

Location you will use for your recreation:
Home and school 

Actors you will require for your recreation:
 Two actors 
Props/costumes you will require for your recreation:
Suits to wear and a fake gun 
Equipment you plan to use:
The camera and tripod