Final thoughts

It has been a bumpy ride having done 3 attempts and editing them all. Now we have a final piece to be proud of and we are hoping for a good grade. Today is the deadline and we have met it (thankfully)

Making our DVD menu and final movie script

We went on the programme IDVD and made a DVD menu where we have our final film, and our 2 attempts along with our preliminary excersise and took pictures from stills of the film and put that as our background. We also converted the song 'Along the watchtower' by Jimmy Hendrix and put is as the background music

We made a final script for out final movie (Outlaw) which can be seen below:

Officer 1: Name



Faisel: Faisel Al Hamden, and what do you call yourself?



Officer 2: How did you learn to speak English Faisel?



Faisel: In school, and my Father was originally from here… he looked a bit like you. He used to take me a lot to the movies and I learned… I always know one day I would live here



Officer 2: And where is you Father now?



Faisel: Dead, he died



Officer 2: Mother?



Faisel: Dead too



Officer 1: What kind of work did you do in Iran Faisel?



Faisel: I was in the, you know… construction business; I used my hands a lot. I was also in the army.



Officer 2: Any family over here, cousins, siblings?



Faisel: No all dead



Officer 2: Ever been to jail Faisel?



Faisel: Jail, me? No!!



Officer 2: Ever been in a mental hospital?



Faisel: Yea, the ride over here!



Officer 1: What about homosexuality, you like man Faisel, you like to dress up like a woman?



Faisel: What kind of question is that?



Officer 2: Just answer the question!



Faisel: Ok… NO!



Officer 1: Ever been arrested Faisel?



Faisel: No



Officer 1: You do drugs Faisel, Marijuana, Heroin, Cocaine?



Faisel: No



Officer 1 where did you get the beauty scar Faisel?



Faisel: Ohhh, that was from when I was a kid…you should see the other kid!



Officer 1: And this? (Lifts up hand with tattoo)



Faisel: That was from my childhood sweetheart



Officer 2: Sweetheart my ass! I’ve seen more and more guys coming in with these, its some kind of code these guys used in the can…pitchfork means assassin!



Officer 1! You want to tell us about it Al Hamden or are we going to have to take you on a little trip to the detention centre?



Faisel: Ok…you got me; I was in the can one time for practicing my religion



Officer 1: (LAUGHS) Pretty funny Faisel



Faisel: Well its true!



Officer 1: Ok, ive heard enough, get this guy out of here



Officer 2: Ok let’s go



Faisel: Wait holds on; let me tell you something…are you religious? Huh?? How would you like it if your government told you what to do, who to believe in, how to live your life. You wanna be a sheep like the rest of them (BAAAAA BAAAAA)



Officer 1: Ok, that’s it! Get him out!



Faisel: You wanna work 10 hours a day and have nothing, earn nothing! You know I eat octopus 3 times a day, I have octopus coming out of my ears man. I got such big holes in my shoes you can see my toes, how would you like that? What do you want me to do, stand there like everybody else and do nothing! Im not an animal, my name is Faisel Al Hamden and I am a political prisoner from Iran AND I WANT MY HUMAN RIGHTS NOW!



Officer 1: Ok I don’t believe a word he is saying, take him to freedom town!



Faisel: You know you can send me anywhere, there’s nothing that you can do to me that my government hasn’t already done!

What i have learned since my preliminary exercise

It was before Xmas where we filmed our preliminary task which i shot with another member of my group. There we learned about the camera we used (SONY PD170) and we learned the standard shots and panning. Now we have shown a vary of shots in our attempted and final films.

Editing

We found some footage of London in the 1970's and added it to our movie over the titles for background knowledge for the audience. We made loads of sub-clips and eventually put it all together to make (in my opinion and i hope your too) a great movie. We added the song 'along the watch tower' by Jimmy Hendrix as that was a 70's hit and also the lyrics relate to the movie. The chorus 'we need to some kind of way out of here' relates to our main character (Faisel) as he wants to get out of his country and in to England or he wants to get out of being interrogated by the officers.

Our mise en scene

We made our hall look like an Immigration office in England during the 70's by putting a picture of Maggie Thatcher on the wall, as she was the Prime Minister at the time. We also made our detectives look English and spoke with an English accent even though half the cast in American. We also put a pot of tea on the desk as that is typically English.

Shooting our final piece

We woke up early to shoot and dressed the set. We made the hall look like an interviewing room by putting a desk in the middle and putting a cup of tea on it, files, pens, paper and a photo of Maggie Thatcher. We all dressed up in police like cloths and i wore a admirals jacket to show that i was a superior, and our main character dressed like an immigrant from Iran.

AUDIENCE

As]If our film were to be a full length film, it would be targeted at 18+ as there would be violence, drugs and use of strong language which are all conventions of the gangster genre. People who like violent video games and crime fiction novels because the godfather video game has had millions of copies sold. Also the novel by Mario Puzo is one of the best selling books of all time. As the Godfather belongs to the same genre as our film we can only assume that those who like violent video games and crime fiction novels would like our film. Of course hip hop fans would also like our film because lots of songs quote lyrics from Scarface and Goodfellas.

e.g...

Scarface - 'stay in your place i reccomend or say hello to my little friend' - 50 cent (platinum selling artist)
Goodfellas - 'One day some of the local kids took my mothers groceries all the way to the door....do you knOW why? IT WAS OUT OF RESPECT!' - SHY FX (platinum selling artist'

The new film

As the last film didn't go to plan we have to re-shoot. I watched the beginning of SCARFACE as we are taking the interviewing scene and changing the script around. Instead of a communist coming over from Cuba, we are making the main character an immigrant from Iran coming to England. We are going to be shooting very soon as we have re-written the script and done the shot list so we are going to be shooting very soon. We have our actors and they are currently memorizing the script. Hopefully the 3rd time will be the charm!