Take 5 Productions presents ‘Our Holiday’
There are many analysis points that we could put into use for our film opening, however we have focussed on the ones in red.
Status-
Gender-
Age- (The words in RED are the areas of representation we are focusing on)
Ethnicity-
Class-
Sexuality-
Disability-
CHARACTERS;
Albert, Kel, Jessica, Jason and Emily.
In the opening of our film, Our Holiday, Take5 productions will represent class, age and gender.
GENDER- In our film opening we have 3 boys and 2 girls. Within this there are two couples. The way gender is portrayed in our film is that both sexes are equal, no one is superior and no one is inferior to anyone else.
CLASS- in our film 'Our Holiday' this group of five friends, who are from Essex plan to go on holiday, but being students, with a lack of money, they can only afford to go somewhere in thr UK and decide that Oxford would be a nice place to visit. Where they are from, they are the lower end of middle class, therefore the contrast between this group and the people they meet in Oxford, is significant, due to Oxfordians being stereotyped as posh and intellectual.
AGE- The characters range from age 16-18 and are stereotyped badly. In the media now a days teens are stereotyped, for example- When the word "teenager" comes to mind, so do drugs, sex, alchohol, pregnancy and school dropout. So in our film opening we want to portray that not all teens are like this. Yes we know there are a few that are like this, but not all teens are. So the characters in Our Holiday, even though they come from a rough background, are actually polite, considerate and kind young people, so everything opposite to what the media says.EDITING - The way in which we plan to edit our opening, is to use some techniques similar to ones used by Spielberg, or Michael Bay. We plan to use quick cuts on more dramatic scenes, involve the wide use of montages, but also colour our film by our lighting, and a bit of post producion to use the colour scemes orange in the foreground and blue in the background. This lighting sceme can be seen in Transformers. It is something we will use. We will use time to our advantage in this film - Eg. Time lapse from day-night.
CAMERA WORK - Our camera is a Canon 110d, so it is practical - EOS Digital. We plan to use a continuous shot in our opening, and by this we have had to build a Steadi Cam out of PVC Piping! IT WORKS! I can't really talk much about this, as we will only find problems when filming, so keep posted here.
MISE EN SCENE - Our opening will be shot in "Essex", but actually Oxford. To do this we have gone all over the city to find a stereotypical Essex road. As the characters range from 16-18 years old, we will dress them in hoodies, jeans etc. Everything you expect a teenager nowadays to wear. We want this opening to be as recent as possible. However, their dress and social being will contrast Oxford, as they are stereotyped to be two different places, and this film is trying to erase those differences, and show it on a different perspective.
SOUND - Again, there isn't much to say about sound.. only that we hope it goes well! One point is soundtracks. As there will be a few montages, music will play a very large part in the film. In our Opening, we have chosen a very appropriate soundtrack (can't reveal yet!)
