YOA Productions - Estate of Mind
Revolver Entertainment - Adulthood
Here are some selected snapshots of two films, Our YOA Productions film, Estate of Mind and Revolver Entertainments, Adulthood.
Estate of Mind
The Title of the Film
1. The first snapshot is he title of our film 'Estate of Mind' we chose this title and a motto to support it which was 'An estate is not only a low class building it is a state of mind' .
Title Font & Style
2. The second snapshot is me focusing on the font and style of the title itself. As you will be able to see there is a blur on the title background this is done purposely to give the effect of a shadow and darkness, this gives the audience the impression that our film will be about characters who are always being stereotyped as being the whole reason behind the 'Estate of Mind' hence the shadow.
Location
3. Snapshot 3 is of the location, this is very important when identifying our genre and target audience, because we needed to locate in an area which our genre of an urban drama and for the audience of a young, usually ethic teenager a location such as Buckingham Palace, would not be conventional to either the audience and the genre of our film.
Camera work & Editing
4. This shot is of a vodka bottle's contents being 'un-poured' into a glass. This scene is very effective as it shows our skills of editing and what skills we have in order to manipulate our footage, it also suggests the storyline as this could be interpreted by the audience as the storyline sort of going back in time, and also showing things from the past, hence the black and white effect and the final like spoken in our opening sequence 'It wasn't always like this'.
Costumes & Props
5. This shot focuses on Josephine's face, this shot shows her smoking a cigarette the significance of the cigarette is to show the addiction of which we have talked so much about in our blog so far, we tried to show this in the best possible way we could.
Genre, And How It Is Suggested
6. This shot shows cocaine being shown on the table, this scene is used to show how drug taking is usually associated with people from an urban background and people that normally live on estates are usually stereotyped as drug addicts. As we chose a genre of an urban drama, this shows the stereotype of drug addicts and in some ways enforces it.
How The Characters Are Introduced
7. This shot is of Terry (me) being followed by Myrin. This is a scene where the audience can sense that something is about to happen to Terry as the suspense and tension has been dragged along across a long period of time period to this particular where the confrontation actually begins.
Storyline, And How It Is Set Up
8. This shot shows Myrin grappling Terry against the wall. For someone who is yet to watch our film or even be aware of its storyline they will be able to make out that Myrin is a character which is more dominant than Terry and makes it seem like Terry is a character who has done something wrong in the past and maybe Myrin wants revenge, which is basically the basis of our synopsis. During our opening sequence we decided on an enigma code which means we were not prepared to give away too many answers in our opening sequence but leave our audience asking many questions.
Special Effects
9.The last scene of our opening sequence is of a split screen between me, Myrin and Josephine. This is the scene where we all come together and say the words 'It wasn't always like this' which could have easily been the title of our film, these words sum up our whole purpose of the film and again leave many wondering 'what wasn't always like this?' and 'how have things changed?'. Which made our opening sequence very enticing and make our audience want to watch the whole of our film
Adulthood
The Title of The Film
1. The first shot is of the title of the film 'Adulthood' This is a follow up from the film 'Kidulthood'. which had the same distributor, Revolver Entertainment, and the same creator; Noel Clarke.
Title Font & Style
2. The second snapshot is of the title itself, the 'd' in the 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood' is the only letter which is lower case, and the reason for this is that it is the only letter that is both is the words 'Kid' and 'Adult' which is used to represent that fact that some things never change, no matter how old you are.
Location
3. Adulthood, is set in the same town as our film, London. This was crucial when trying to find a film which was much like ours, and this is the main reason why we chose this film over films such as 'One day' and 'Dead man running' because they are not in the same location as our film. London is seen as a more exciting place that other places in England, which is important if a film like Adulthood wishes to gain a more worldwide appeal.
Camera work & Editing
4. This shot is of a split screen, this is a shot which is something like what we did in my last snapshot frame, this shows how good we became at using the programmes we were using the same things that our influences are using, and using them to create a similar effect.
Costumes & Props
5. In this shot, this shows Sam wearing a jail attire as this is him in prison and this is used to express that you can identify from what all the people in this scene are wearing that they are in prison, this just shows how important costumes are in scenes.
Genre, And How It Is Suggested
6. This shot is of a crowd dancing to music which is being played, the genre of music is important in this scene as the music being played is grime, and grime is usually associated among people from an ethnic background and from urban areas, other genre's which would have been acceptable possibly would have been, hip-hop, rap and RnB. However, if there was Pop, Jazz, or even classical music being played you would be wondering what is going on and thinking the audio had been switched.
How The Characters Are Introduced
7. In this scene, Sam is coming out of prison, after doing time for killing Trife in Kidulthood. This lets the audience know that the film carrying on from where it left off and that most of the same cast from the previous film is going to be used.
Storyline, And How It Is Set Up
8. This shot shows a couple of youths in a group talking about robbing a man who is parked outside the rave in his car, this gives the audience an idea that the whole film is going to include this group of youngsters doing these reckless activities. This is part of the plot of the film where they are asked to kill Sam and are paid for it.
Special Effects
9. This shot is of a flashback being used, this is also something we used in our opening sequence, a black and white effect is used when showing a flashback and expresses that what is being shown is something relevant to the storyline.
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