editing my main film

On Friday i edited our main film. The editing process itself was quite simple and straightforward as we had a good variety of sub clips as we had filmed allot of shots. Most of our shots were quite dark which lead to the final product itself being dark so we may have to re-film earlier in the day to get lighter shots, i am now going to go through the edited film with the rest of my group and decide weather to re-shoot or stick with our original film and enhance it 

My preliminary task

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lb0oOSNcPU

Shooting my main task

Yesterday my group and i shot our main task, it was allot harder and longer than we anticipated even though we had planed everything out we came across some problems as our location was not as big as we anticipated and the cars we used both broke down as we had been using there headlights for a few hours. Also shooting in the dark was also allot more difficult than we had anticipated but we dealt with these problems one at a time and eventually finished shooting our film 

We uploaded our film on to the computer today and no we look forward to editing  

Researching for my main task

i chose to study the first 2 minuits of the film casino which is set in the early eighties in america

It begins with a bank screne with credits fading in and out slowly in the middle of the screen, and the sound of trafic is heard in the background. there is then a wide shot of a man walking out of what looks like a hotel or an up scale shopwho is wearing a pink and white suite and a voice is heard which we immidiatley link to the mans thoughts the camera follows the man as he walks across a street and gets into what looks like a classic old american cadilac. He gets in the car, turns on the engine and the car explodes, when the car explodes the fire from the explosion covers the whole screen and the screen remains covered in fire as dramatic operatic music starts and black shapes of bodies float across the screen as credits fade in and out slowly in the middle of the screen. The operatic music then becomes calmer and the bodies stop floating across the screne and the fire slowley merges in to brightly coulered neon lights which keep changing coulers and shapes (credits still running) 

researching for my main task

for our main task my group and i have decided to go for the genre of gangsta/action the film that i decided to research is called rise of the footsoljer, it has a very wide spread of allot of different types of illegal organised crime from football firms to clubs and drugs and everything in between and gives the viewer a very good idea of how British crime has been run throughout

 

In the opening 2 minuets of the film the there are wide shots of the countryside covered in snow and the music is slow and peaceful and credits are fading in and out slowly in random positions in the screen the camera then cuts to a hospital where 3 men are lying fully clothed on metal tables and they are covered in blood and bruises and there is a man taking photos of them, the music sounds like church bells giving us the impression that these men are dead the music is very slow and erie .A fone is heard ringing over the sound of the music. A camera pans across these men's bodies slowly then stops at the fone. we then hear a voice coming from the fone and the voice sounds out of breath and panicky and is asking to be called back as he is worried, we immediately link the fone with the 3 dead men then the screen goes blank and a voice is heard telling us a bit of back information and then the title of the film fades into the middle of the screen. The music is then up beat as it cuts back in time to a football firm getting in to a fight and the voice of the narrator (who is also the main character) is introducing  few of the other characters.

This film is an example of British gangster, i am now looking forward to researching gangster film from other cultures. 

Props in British gangster films:the stereotypical car used in British gangster films is the classic range rover as shown here on the front cover of the film layer cake.                                               

  This film is similar to rise of the footsoldier but it is set in central London as apposed o Essex and it is also set in the 20th century 

      

British gangsters are usually seen wearing suits and looking smart, i found some pictures on the internet of clips from british gangster films and front covers of the films