Fighting to Survive FINAL

Moodboard

Other Stereotypical action/drama features are:
- One character is usually an outcast
- Chase Scenes
- Fight scenes
- Two main characters with an emotional story-line
- An event which brings the characters together
- Emotive action

Films with a similar genre

The Fighter: American welterweight boxer from Lowell Massachusetts. Managed by his mother, Alice Ward (Melissa Leo), and trained by his older half-brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), Micky has not had a particularly successful career. The story is just about his redemtion and training for the fight of his life.

Rocky: A struggling boxer gets the opportunity of a life time when the world heavyweight champion sets a fight up. It was suppose to be an easy win for the Champion but no one told Rocky that.











Never Back Down: At his new high school, Jake Tyler is lured into an ultimate underground fighting club in a Backyard Fight. After receiving threats to the safety of his friends and family, Jake seeks the mentoring of a veteran fighter, to train his mind and body for one final no-holds-barred elimination fight.










Warrior: Two brothers face the fight of a lifetime - and the wreckage of their broken family - within the brutal, high stakes Mixed Martial Arts tournament where winner takes all.















Karate Kid: 12 year old Dre Parker ends up moving to china with his mother where he manages to make an enemey of the class bully and one of the best kung fu fighters in his year. He has no one to turn to when he meets the maintenance man who trains Dre for the fight of his life.


 

Feedback from First Draft

We Presented our first draft to a group of Media students and gave them a sheet to fill out with certain questions on and here are some of the responses that we got:

Is it obviously an opening sequence?
All of the comments we got said that it was very clear that it was an opening sequence.

Is it clear who the target audience is?
On this question we had a mixed response some people though that it was really clear who the target audience was but others thought that it wasn't very clear. So to make this better we will have to add some hints so they know who the target audience is.

Titles go with the genre. Is the genre obvious? Are they clear? Are there enough and are they in the right order?
Most of the viewers found that the titles really fitted with the film and that the transitions between each title was really good. However a couple of people thought that the titles were too simple and that they were in the wrong order.

Think about the sound and the images are they appropriate? Do they fit together?
We got a good response with the sound of the opening, everyone thought that the song really fitted with the whole mood and the emotional side of the film and the storyline and that they automatically feel sorry for Jack.

Camera- Are the shots appropriate and relevant? Is there controlled use of camera attention to framing, variety of shot distance and angle? Close attention use of mise en scene?
The audience felt that the shots that we chose were very good and very effective at introducing the characters and setting the whole theme of the film. But a few people felt that even though the shots were very effective that we needed to have some more variety of certain shots that we use.

Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transition and other effects.
The people that we asked thought that the editing was excellent and they really liked the whole mirror effect to show the differences between the two characters. They also thought that the opening flowed really well and that the transitions between each scene was very clever and worked really well.

Total Score
Taking an average out of the 22 people that we asked the score that we got was:
47.3

Improvements
To improve our first draft we will need to finish filming all the shots especially the last shot needed which will saught out any confusion about what the film is about and the whole boxing theme to it. We will also need to change the order of the titles to make it more professional and to cut certain scenes like the chase scene so there is less time for the audience to wait from one scene to the next.

Risk Assessment

Music Ideas

We had a few ideas of the song we was going to use in our opening scene:
The Beatles- Yesterday
The Animals House of the Rising Sun
Mozart
Gene Pitney Somethings got a hold of my heart
Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - Sugar Shack

It was difficult to find the right music for our film that was over 50 years old. This is because the songs that we studied in the 1960's were too up beat for our film opening. We found a few songs which we thought fitted our opening scene but after a discussion we decided that they were too up beat.
After looking through youtube we decided that we would go for a cover of a more recent song, we found this one:

Hurt (Cover) Johnny Cash

After listening to this song a few times, we decided that we would put it as the back in track to the first scenes that we filmed to see if it fitted to the images on screen. Watching it with the opening we realised that it did fit the scenes and that it was perfect for the story of the rich and homeless boy and the emotion of the storyline. It was also a cover which meant we could use it for our opening scene which was brilliant.

Shooting Schedule

Thurday 28th November

Jack, Ben, Elise
Location: Ben's House

14:15- Leave school and walk to Ben's house
14:30- Arrive at Ben's house
14:35- Film first shot of Ben waking up (Ben's House)
14:40- Filming walking out of bedroom shot (Ben's House)
14:45- Film bathroom shot of looking into the mirror (Ben's House)
14:50- Filming walking down the stairs into the kitchen and eating breakfast scene.(Ben's House)
15:00- Filming leaving the house scene and walking around the corner.(Outside Ben's House)
15:10- Finish filming


Sunday 1st December

Jack, Ben, Elise
Location: Chelmsford City Centre

12:15- Meet outside Mcdonalds in the town centre
12:25-Film first scene of Jack waking up on a bench in central park
12:35- Elise filming Jack looking into a mirror (Chelmsford)
12:40- Filming jack eating a burger (Chelmsford)
12:50- Meet Dom and Max outside the library (Chelmsford)
13:00- Film chase scene (Chelmsford)
13:10- Film escaping from two men (Chelmsford)
13:20- Film Ben meeting up with mates and walking off. (Chelmsford)
13:35- Finish filming

Opening Credits order

·         (NAME OF THE STUDIO -  Lions Gate

·           PRODUCED BY -  Lunar Productions

·          Jack Jordan

·          Ben Caleno

·           Max Johnson& Dominic Freedman

·         DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY- James Crabe

·         MUSIC -  Jonny cash (cover) - Hurt

·         EDITED BY- Jack Jordan

·         STORY BY - Ben Caleno

·         DIRECTED BY - Elise Franklin

·         FILM'S TITLE - Fighting to Survive

Fighting to Survive Rough Cut