Ghetto Love Film

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Editing Day 7

We managed to finish all the editing in the previous lesson so all we have left to do is add the "Ghetto Love" title that we made and the credits. After doing this, we asked Ms Slevin to watch our film and to our delight, she was quite pleased.

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Editing Day 6

After adding the soundtrack and having the film almost finished, we watched over the tape and realised that we had to fix some of the lighting in some scenes. We did this using colour corrector.
We also had to fix the volume of the soundtrack. There were some scenes where we needed to hear the character's dialogue so we had to adjust the vloume.
The volume of the soundtrack varies throughout the film (it is quite loud when there is no dialogue but then it goes down when the characters speak).
We then went onto making our "Ghetto Love" title using LiveType. We chose to add a fire effect to the font to reflect the danger of both T.J's relationship with Sarah but also the feud between the gangs that is about to take over once again.

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Editing Day 5

In today's lesson we decided to work on our soundtrack.
This took us a long time as we wanted a beat that started off really soft and romantic but then dropped to a Ghetto, rough beat. We managed to finish the track and added it to the film.

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Editing Day 4

We look back over what we edited last lesson and realised that the film did not all make sense so we asked Ms Slevin and Ms George to watch and they said that we had to add more to it in order for the audience to understand. We decide to film a bit more to help the audience understand how the two main characters first met. We filmed Rahil (T.J) coming out of prison and Genc (T.J's friend) waiting for him outside with Tatiana (Sarah) tayba (Sarah's best friend). This would help the story make more sense. We came back after filming and added this to the film, this helped a great deal although it also meant more editing.


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Editing Day 3

As we had luckily managed to capture everything on the previous lesson, we could finally get going with the editing.
First we watched the video clips that we captured and dragged the bits that we needed and started putting them in order.
There were some scenes in which there was a lot of background noise and we had to block all that in order to hear the characters speak.
Then, we decided that we were going to make our own soundtrack for the film as we did not find any tracks that we liked. So while hind was putting the clips together i went into Logic Pro and started making the track.
The lesson was over before we knew it but we managed to get a lot done.

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Editing Day 2

We had finish all the the filming so we had to capture everything. This took quite a long time as the tape kept freezing.
We decided that we did not want to waste any time so while everything was capturing we started looking for soundtracks we could use. This was hard as we had to find a track that wasn't copyright so there wasn't much to choose from.
When everything was finally captured we started putting bits together on the timeline but unfourtunately that is all we got to do as the capturing took a very long time.

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Editing Day 1

We only had the opening shots so far so we started capturing and importing them, using firewire attached to the camera and the IMac.
We captured the shots onto the IMac. We haven't put the clips on the timeline yet but we have cut what we have so far and have left them on the browser as subclips to make it easier to add onto the timeline when we have the rest of our clips recorded.
Today we learnt that to capture successfully we have to rewind the the tape to where you started recording.

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Shooting script for Ghetto Love

EXT. BEHIND PRISON GATES – DAYTIME

T.J is released from jail and is walking out through the gate, there are two bodyguards at the gate, and one of the bodyguards says a negative remark and then lets T.J out.

BODYGUARD
Don’t worry you’ll be back!

EXT. PRISON CAR PARK - DAYTIME

T.J goes out through the gate and finds his friend LINKZ waiting for him, there are two girls leaning on a car behind him, Sarah and T.T.



LINKZ walks up to him, they share a brotherly hug.


T.J
What’s going on brother, what’s going on? You good yeah?

LINKZ
Yeah man, you?

T.J
Long time man.

LINKZ
I know man, what you saying, how’ve you been?

T.J looks back at prison building.

T.J
Bruv it’s been rough back there. You know I’m glad to be getting out.

Over shoulder shot of T.J looking at LINKZ’S clothes.

T.J
Whaaat, you’ve gone big…

LINKZ
Well yeah.

T.J
… And you’re looking good as well. That’s unexpected man.

LINKZ LAUGHS

LINKZ
Oi, easy man, easy I know you’ve been in prison but still, don’t go too far.

T.J
Nah nah nah don’t worry, don’t worry man.

T.J notices two girls standing by the cars. There is then a tilting shot of Sarah body being eyed up by T.J. He asks LINKZ who they are. LINKZ introduces him.

T.J checking out Sarah

T.J
Whose them beautiful girls over there, you’ve brought with you man?

LINKZ
Come let me introduce you init.

T.J
Yeah do that, do that.

Mid shot of linkz introducing Sarah and her friend T.T. She attempts to shake T.J’S hand, hemoves in for a hug.

LINKZ
This is SARAH my boy’s sister.

T.J
Nah girls we only do hugs round here.

LINKZ points at T.T, Sarah’s friend

LINKZ
And her...never mind.

EXT. PARK – DAYTIME

Establishing shot of street and park followed by zoom in on couple in the park. Cut to Couple kissing, meanwhile figure appears from behind then. However they do not know. Zoom in on masked figure cut to

INT. BEDROOM

MAGNET answers phone

MAGNET

Hello

EXT. OUTSIDE PARK – DAYTIME

MURDER replies

MURDER

Yo MAGNET it’s MURDER. Oi listen, you see that waste man T.J. He’s out of pen you know.

INT. BEDROOM

MAGNET
Alright we’re riding out tonight, call up the famdem init. Alright safe, easy.

EXT. ROAD - EVENING

Cut to road sign. Cut to mid shot of HAMEED calling someone, on the phone. Cut to

EXT. UNDRGROUND – NIGHT

Blood gang are chilling out, smoking and socializing.
Cut to one of the blood members, PEEKER on the phone.

PEEKER
Hello? Alright say no more, mans there now init.

PEEKER walks out of the underground. His gang follow him.

PEEKER
Oi mandem, come we roll.

EXT. OUTSIDE PARK – NIGHT

MAGNET is walking towards Blood Gang. He greets them and tells them what has happened they walk into the park and search for T.J.

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Creating Our Production Logo

We decided to create a logo that represents me and Tatiana. Our logo is in black with a red outline and a shadow of a soft red with a italic font. The red represents our strong, feminine,independant side along with the italic font.The black shows our rebellious, urban side which is softened down with a light red shadow. Tatiana and I agreed on this logo together and used photoshop to create it. We had some problems downloading the font from www.dafont.com, a site which provides free fonts. Alternatevely we wrote the text (t.h.t productionz) into the site and the site generated it into the font we chose. We chose this logo design because it represents our urban personalities with a feminine,sophisticated edge. Our logo design had two sides to it, just like our personalities and film productions too.

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Production Day 1:

We went out to the locations that we are going to use for our montage, which we are going to use as our establishing shot.
We filmed this using a mini DV camera, as the Cannon XM2 DV were unavailable. We also used a Tripod to take steady shots and a brand new tape to avoid any problems or confusions. We also made sure that the camera was charged so that the battery did not run out when we were filming.
We had a fun experience and enjoyed working together. However, we found taking panning shots a bit difficult.

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Urban Films

Adulthood (Noel Clarke, 2008) - Starring Adam Deacon, Nathan Constance, Ben Drew

Kidulthood (Menhaj Huda, 2006) - Starring Ami Ameen,Red Madrell, Noel Clarke.

Bullet Boy (Saul Dibb, 2004) - Starring Ashley Walters, Luke Fraser, Leon Black

Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton, 1991) - Starring Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Angela Bassett

Poetic Justice (John Singleton,1993) - Starring Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Khandi Alexander

Beat Street (Stan Lathan, 1984) - Starring Rae Dawn, Guy Davis, Jon Chardiet

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (Jim Sheridan, 2005) - Starring 50 Cent, Joy Bryant, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje


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Bullet Boy Opening Analysis

Bullet Boy is the debut feature by British writer-director Saul Dibb. Though the story itself is a familiar one, the film distinguishes itself through confident direction and strong performances from its two leads.
Set in East London, the film stars Ashley Walters (also known as So Solid Crew’s Asher D) as Ricky, a young black man fresh out of a young offender’s institute. Though determined to go straight, Ricky doesn’t even make it home before he’s in trouble again, thanks to his best friend Wisdom (Leon Black) and a confrontation with a local rude boy that leads to a series of escalating incidents.
Shot in and around Hackney, the film makes good use of its locations. In addition, Dibb and co-writer Catherine Johnson have a good ear for dialogue and their well written script gives Bullet Boy an authentic London feel. It also has a decent soundtrack

Narrative - the narrative of Bullet boy is shown in a very basic manner through voice over’s and texts shown throughout the trailer to back up and go with the voice over’s.
The narrative moment in the trailer in my view was the words "one shot" displayed and Ashley Walters shown with a gun to go with the text.
The trailer shows that the film uses Prop’s theory as you can identify Ashley Walters as the hero, his lover to be the princess, his mum to be the diner,
His friend to be the helper and the police to be the villains.
They also have used binarry opposition in the trailer by showing a child with a gun in several scenes.

Setting - This film is set in London and this can be seen through the scenes during the trailer, also during the trailer they show the awards won or nominated for the film and the awards are British.

Characters - all characters in the trailers are shown in tense scenes and no characters are shown in any shape or form happy or with nothing to worry about.
Ashley Walters is clearly shown as the main character as most the trailer is revolved around him and his fight against avoiding the police.
Other character roles in the film aren’t shown as of more importance as Ashley Walters although the child shown with the gun really gets the audience’s attention as this is something nobody wants to see.

Iconography - In the trailer I think the gun is used to link to the title of the film "bullet boy". The gun is clearly a major factor in the film and the trailers revolves around this and the title suggests so does the film.


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Kidulthood Opening Analysis

Set in the area of Inner West London, Kidulthood is a 2006 British drama film which tells the story of three friends who quickly realise that life comes at a price and that it is not to be taken granted for. Kidulthood is based on a group of West London school kids who react in different ways to the suicide of a classmate. It focuses around the character "Trifle" who is caught between his pregnant ex-girlfriend (Alisa) and gun running for his malevolent uncle. Then there's Trifle’s mates (Jay and Moony), spoiling for a fight with the neighbourhood bully (Sam).
Costumes - The costumes that are worn in the film as you can see from the trailer are mainly hooded clothing, tracksuits and trainers, this represents today's youth in a huge way as many teenagers in today's society wear these sorts of clothes. With many of the characters wearing hoods, it represents the major issue of crime within today's youth as many teenagers wear hooded pieces of clothing such as jackets and jumpers to cover their faces when committing a crime such as shop-lifting of which you may be able to see within the trailer.

Lighting - There isn't very much use of lighting within the trailer, but from what I could see, during the parts where crime or violence is taking place, for example, when Trifle is getting beaten up the lighting is very dark and dim whereas during the parts where they are outside in the city, the lighting seems to be very dim which symbolises the darkness of the film and what is going on. Right at the beginning of the trailer it shows a party taking place where extra lighting has been added to show the excitement of being in that sort of environment.

Actors - Even though Kidulthood will mainly appeal to those of a young age group, it could possibly appeal to those of the older generation due to the actors and actresses. Noel Clarke who is the writer and plays the character of "Sam" also stars in Doctor Who playing the character of "Mickey Smith". The way in which the film will be able to attract those of an older generation is if they like the way in which Clarke is able to adapt to his characters and how well he plays them

Props - Throughout the trailer you see that there are a lot of props being used, especially during the clips where violence is taking place, during these clips there are guns and baseball bats being used showing that even the easiest of things can be used as weapons, it also raises the awareness of the crime that is happening among teenagers in today's society where a lot of them are being attacked and even killed.

Setting - The setting is based in the deprived areas of Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road where crime is most common and violence seems to take place more than anywhere else
Due to the portrayal of teenagers within this film, it seems that a lot of people who watch this trailer may be able to develop their own opinions of what they think teenagers in today's society are like based on the language in which they speak. There seems to be a lot of "ghetto" language used within the trailer, Kidult HOOD is filled with a lot of modern slang which greatly characterizes today's youth.
...Appeal...
The target audience for this film is mainly aimed at people aged between 15-24, the film itself attempts to represent a serious number of issues of what some teenagers growing up in today's society have to go through; this explains why so many people who are in this age group may watch it. There is also a very realistic approach within this film as most of the actors and actresses are within this age group and therefore know what others their age go through.
Sound...
The mood of the film is set within the trailer based on the music played. Throughout the trailer, the music is very upbeat which keeps the audience engaged and focused, added to the music are sound effects which also keep the audience engaged as it not only shows the level of violence within the film but also a view into what the film is about and what kind of film it is.
Camera shots
A variety of shots are used within the trailer; close up camera shots are used to provide a dramatic emphasis, highlighting characters' expressions which gives a sense into what will happen within the film based on their emotions and how they are feeling. Long range shots have been used to show viewers the environment and surroundings of which the characters are brought up in.


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Preliminary Task

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