Planing: ideas

planning ideas

First Idea

• Narration of current character
• I was only 19 when I saw my dad being taking to hospital, i didn't know this would be the last time i ever saw him alive. (muffled coughing
• Cuts between now and flashback
• Up and coming racer crashes because dad dies, now he's back for first race since injury
• FLASHBACK:
• WAS:young, over confident (stupid because young), not afraid of anything.
• brother telling him there dad died.
• Filming pictures of dad and son
• Walking towards car, getting ready for the race.
• Newspaper, "CRUSHING NEWS, young racer's dad dies of cancer, leading to a near-fatal crash

Showing crash - long shot of car, commentator talking over it . cuts to black screen with crash sound happens and echo's out, then fades to several newspapers in a close up and medium shots, with sirens and screams. Narration over the top?

Second Idea:

ALL FLASHBACK,
engaged girlfriend: just broke it off,
Filming pictures of gf and bf
Argument

Third idea

• Driver out of racing
• injured bad
• Narration over the top - "the worst thing that could of happened to me, happened 10 years ago on this day"
• "But it wasn't too bad, as now I own the greatest racing team in f1, and this is my story of my days in racing, and my days after"
• Owns a racing team now

Forth idea

Filming pics of dad, coughing, crys, he dies.

racer is heartbroken, but he has a race coming up so he needs to get his head sorted.

"It was the day before my big race when my life was turned upside down" dad dies

"Now i have to do my dad proud, and answer all the critics that thought i wouldn't race"

"This is my time, im doing this for my dad" FADES TO BLACK, TITLES COME UP 

"Unbreakable

Legistics

logistical positves

1. We get to use the track

2. We are allowed to use the cars

3. We can film in school hours

4. We can film in the school

5. We can use students as extras

logistacal negatives

1. We can't drive the cars

2. We only get a limited amount of time on the track

3. We can't film on the track outside of school

4. We can't use the official racing suits or helmets

planing: team intro

Planing: team intro

In are media class, we have been set to plan and creat a film opening using the genre of action and the theme of car/racing.

I have chosen to work with Alex Purdy, and we are already starting to come up with plans.

(alex purdy)

film poster analysis

iconograpy in Rush

Analysis of the opening scene of “Rush”
Looking for iconography


The iconography of car action in this scene is very strong and shows up from the second the scene starts.

The scene starts with the tittle sequence, where there is a background of the sky, and the titles are appearing. While all this is happening the first iconography starts to make itself known, some mumbled voices start to talk and become more clear after a few seconds, it becomes clear that there racing commentary voices of past races. This signifies that the film has something to do with racing.

After the tittle sequence there are many more iconography’s and the most obvious of them all are the close up shots of the actual race cars, tis signifies speed,danger and implies the film is definitely about F1.

There are also many other icons such as the costume of both the main characters and the backup cast. The main characters both Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl are both wearing professional race jumpsuits, signifying professionalism and power in the sport.

And the background cast are the ones working there who are wearing yellow water prof overcoats, signifying that they are workers, and there are also paparazzi, who are all wearing normal cloth but all have cameras, this signifies that this is a well known sport.

iconograpy in dukes of hazard

Opening scene of dukes of hazard
Looking at the iconography


The iconography of a typical car action film in the opening scene doesn’t pop up till about a minute into the film, but when it does show up it shows up hard.

The first 55 seconds of this opening scene have no iconography of a typical car action film, but after that there is a clear and obvious piece of iconography, there is an orange 1960 Dodge charger that jumps into the shot. This signifies that this is a fast pace and dangerous race film.

After that there is the mid shot of the two drivers, where we can tell there both young, adventures and they’re both hillbillies. They are also working against the law, shown through a close up of moon shined alcohol in the back of the car.

There are then many shots of the car drifting in the dusty roads, this signifies that this is a fast and dare devilish film, which are all trates of an action/adventure film.

iconograpy in days of thunder

Opening scene analysis of days of thunder
Looking at the iconography


This opening scene starts straight off with iconography everywhere, as it begins with some early morning long shots of a race track, this immediately signifies to the audience that this is a racing film.

The scene carries on with the shots of the track, and now we have been shown shots of NASCAR’s and drivers. The drivers are all wearing professional race suits with sponsorship all over them, this signifies that there is a race happening and that this is a very competitive race.

The whole track has flags on the side lines, all showing of different companies, this signifies that this is a very important race, so something with a lot of action is going to happen.