OCR Media Studies

G321

 

Evaluation Activity 1

There are many ways throughout my film where my film shows typical sights of other opening minutes of other football hooligan films. Also it is the same with other normal films. We made sure that the opening title was at the start of the opening two minutes instead of towards the end. This is because we felt it would be more effective having the opening title at the start as straight away the name of the film will be getting into the audiences head and this is good advertising for the film production. As you can see from the snapshot of the final video our opening title is very clear and bold and this stands out to the audience when they are watching the film. This then means if they ever want to let anyone know about the film and suggest someone to watch it they are going to remember the name as it is so noticeable at the start. The font that I put the title in is I believe the perfect type of font for this type of film. The film is a hooligan film so it is thought to be very serious and at some times extremely violent however it does have some funny points to it with many scenes later on in the film being filled with comedy such as quick fast jokes. Adult humor that only our target audience would understand. So this is why I think that this font is the best as it fits the type of the film so perfectly.

The next part of the opening two minutes that I will be analysing is the setting/location of the film. As you can see from the snapshot below the opening two minutes is set down an alley with a train track beside it. The actual train station is actually a 30 second walk down from where we located the opening couple of minutes. This is a typical stereotype for hooligan films to be located so I was very proud with the fact that we were able to film there. In famous hooligan films such as Football Factory there are many scenes where it is being filmed down a dodgy alley or by the train tracks and this is because with hooligan films there are a lot of fighting scenes so to be down a dodgy alley where there is no one around it is the perfect place to set a fight scene up.          

The next part that i am analysing is my third snapshot which is a long shot from the front. This shows clearly the costumes that we are wearing. It was quite easy to pick the costumes to wear, we looked at other football hooligan films such as Green street and Football Factory and we noticed straight away that in both films all characters are just wearing casual clothing so nice jeans, white shoes, hoodies and smart black jackets. This was very easy to produce as this is normally what we all wear. As you can see from the snapshot both me and Ryan are using this convention Ryan has his white trainers on with a hoodie and black jacket and I am in all black with a grey hoodie. Then with Ghalib in the next scene he is wearing a smart Green parka with smart jeans and Adidas gazelles which are the stereotypical football hooligan trainers. So as you can see we followed all of the conventions when it comes to costumes in football hooligan films.

The fourth snapshot that I will be analyzing is all about camerawork and editing. I used this snapshot from the opening two minutes of my film because I feel like it was the best shot to analyze. This scene starts off with a over the shoulder shot and then the two characters run off in to the distance and it becomes a long shot. So we used two different types of camera shots within this small scene. It makes this scene very powerful and grabs the attention of the audience as they see that there is going to be some exciting action within this particular extract. The editing within this scene is also something that im quite proud about. I edited so that each name fades in one by one then fades out. this just overall makes my film look more professional and well put together.

The last and final aspect of my film that I will be analyzing are the titles font and style. Throughout the whole film I stuck with the same font for every single title that I made. This once again made our film look more real and very professional as we didn't have random title fonts flying everywhere and just like i said in the previous paragraph for every title that i created i edited so that it both faded in and faded out which once again showed the professionalism of our film. I felt that each title was put in the perfect size font I believe that it was about a size 30, this didn't make it huge but wasn't too small either just perfect. We also believed that the type of font is perfect as well. We done a bit of research and watched the start of other football hooligan films and they all had fun yet not stupid fonts. This font suits that very well as it looks quirky and exciting and its very bold and in your face which is good for a football hooligan film.