risk assesment

ACTIVITY ASSESSED Film Production			ASSESSMENT DATE 13/01/13		ASSESSED BY Murat Kurt
ACTIVITY LOCATION Ravens Wood School	WHO’S AT RISK Students, Those involved, teachers				APPROVED BY
HAZARD potential for harm		Residual Risk  level* (before  )	Residual Risk level* (AFTER)	CONTROL MEASURES reducing the risk level to an acceptable level
Exposed cables people trip over them.		3	1	I can can control where the cables are to the corners of the room pressing against the wall. This should stop them being exposed.
Chairs will be everywhere because a lot of work will be going on. The risk of banging your knee on one is great and can cause bruising.		4	3	There is still a considerable risk of banging your leg on one of these chairs as they are needed and are hard to isolate to small areas (this one increase the risk). But if we get rid of as many chairs as we can and only have a few, tucked beneath the desk it wont be a problem.
Dropping the camera and breaking it, if you drop a heavy camera on someone’s foot it could make him or her limp for quite a while.		2	1	We will make sure to have the same, experienced person holding the camera and far away from any other filming people or students that may get to close.
Poking your eye out on the end of a clamp because they are facing upward and if someone leans over and the end hits their face or eye it can be a very serious injury but an unlikely one.		2	1	We will keep them far away from anyone’s reach unless people need to use them.
Could be electrocuted.		1	1	We will keep away from wires and not film around sockets.

Personal Protective Equipment Needed Gloves, and be careful.	Provided By Me	Level of First Aid provision needed Not a lot. But we have them on call.	First Aiders Me
		Nearest 24 hour Hospital and/or Doctor Farnborough
Nearest Telephone Next door

pros and cons of each idea

The Antarctic idea















This would be done in animation.

Pros; Keeps with corporate identity
        Quite funny as well so it would appeal to the target audience
        If its shown in winter it would be relatable or even Christmas
Cons; It would be to difficult to do in animation or real life footage
          Might drag out for to long (ten seconds might not be enough)
          Because of its context this ident may alter the logo of E4 and this will not stick with corporate identity.

Fat man and Burger idea

This would be done in real life footage because it would be easy to do and animation would just be pointless.

Pros; This would be easy to do
         Sticks with corporate identity
         The onions and the mayonnaise would be quite clever to make an E4 logo.
Cons; The burger would cost money.
          We will have to have permission from the Cafe to do this.
          Might be difficult to sort the onions and mayo.

Two people playing catch idea

This would be done in animation as it would be impossible to obtain a large E4 sign and hang it of the roof.

Pros; It would be funny.
         Relatable because we've all been hit with a ball in the face.
         The large E4 sign will constantly attract attention and so it sticks with corporate identity.
Cons; Would be difficult to do on Stick Pivot.
          Might be longer than ten seconds.
          It will take a while to make and I don't know if your able to put an E4 logo in the video        

5 ident ideas

Five Ideas

1.    Two people are playing catch with two different balls (both coloured purple, for corporate identity). A large E4 sign hangs of the roof between the two people, it starts to unhinge and breaks this is when the two people throw the balls. The E4 sign is now planted on the floor between them, their balls bounce of it and come back to hit them both, their knocked down and the E4 sign is the main thing attracting attention now.

2.    Two snowballs are rolling down a hill, both opposite each other and rolling down different hills. One hill has purple slow and is building up a big ball of purple snow and the other is building up white snow. They collide and once all the mess clears it turns out that they formed the E4 sign.

3.    A small metallic ball is rolling through narrow tunnels and, turning in all directions, the small ball collides at the end of the tunnel with a red button. Pinball music starts and the camera zooms out to find a pinball machine with the tunnels that form the E4 sign now lightened up with purple neon lights

4.     A fat man is sitting in a burger restaurant. He doesn’t have very good hygiene and is wearing a food stained vest. On the table he’s eating from his a white plate. The man takes the burger into his hand, and from the rear of the burger white mayonnaise sauce and purple onions drop onto the plate to form an E4 logo.

5.    A man is treading across the Antarctic, up and falls to the ground, he can’t find his way out and all he can see is snow. He gives the camera zooms out and it shows he was in the middle of the E4 sign.       

E Sting Research

Top 5 E Sting idents 

1. http://www.e4.com/video/AuTmYhnJfLU7CmSJXTI29v/play.e4 - E4 Hit Combo

The e4 hit combo was my favorite e sting because of its contents, street fighter appeals to me as a young man and its fun to watch. Its also very clever using the combos to add up to the channels logo. The colours re very bright and therefore eye catching, and mostly purple so it doesn't stray from corporate identity 

2. http://www.e4.com/video/TvNp9ZdD3JpOeAPg7zs3Q/play.e4 - A different kinda war

A different kind of war is interesting because its random which E4 does a lot of. The colour of corporate identity (purple) does not show up often and in that sense the ident does not work well, but is visually pleasing and entertaining.  

3. http://www.e4.com/video/mkRyNWPf1Uwe2Xd7vSzotF/play.e4 - My Kingdom for a Horse

This is a very interning and also funny ident (it appeared on E4). The randomness does not alienate the audience to much from the original e4 ident style.  

4. http://www.e4.com/video/l3PHc8TebfPgMT1X7AAeRm/play.e4 -  E4 logo built in Mine-Craft 

The Mine-Craft ident works well because of the popularity of the game so it appeals to a lot of E4 viewers who may play the game so find the ident interesting. The logo is also very big and draws the attention of the viewer so they don't actually concentrate much on the game.  

5. http://www.e4.com/video/BVRiCAumq8t7FmlIO7dBC/play.e4 - Morph E4

The morph ident works well because of the randomness and the morphing objects are all purple which sticks to corporate identity. It ends with a TV and then turning into a massive E4 logo, these are all relevant things so works well.  

Ident Research analysis.

Stle is very random but is centered around the bear on the tractor.
There is animation because it would be harder to do this in real life, more laid back.
The ident starts as a quite barn but explodes into fames and liquid purple, this purple stands out beause it is important to show their identity. The ident is very short, only twenty seconds, so its straught to the point and finshes before it gets to confusing. It appeals because its laid back.

The concept of this ident is again randomness but all of it centered around the colour purple. The bear again is a main part of the ident. The main colour is purple and it is leaking from the fridge and the windows. Again this ident is only twenty seconds long. It appeals because it is in animation format and is very laid back which suits the target audiance. it ends with a large e4 symbol created by different aspects of the ident.

Again all of these e4 idents are very similar. Randomness, the wash of pruple and the bear are all main parts, so it does not alienate the audiance. The colour is again pruple. The bear allways finds himself in the middle of this. E4 is again created from the randomness out of popcorn. It hits the target audiance well to because these are all things young people do. They go to the hairdressers which is featured in this ident, they go the the beacha dn tehy eat popcorn so its relatable.

This CBBC ident works well. The colour is all green which is usually associated with laid back calmness which would apply to kids coming home from shcool. The use of colour (black, white and green) makes the CBBC logo stand out and makes the company noticable. The ident is around twelve seconds long. Each character is shown in the format of actors that appear in CBBC shows and speedy cars (all things kids like) this is why it is relatable.

BBC has different target audiances for different parts of the day. during early morning it is aimed at kids who want to watch cartoons, this washes out into the early afternoon then BBC begin to broadcast other shows made for older audiances. They would not this ident early on as it is more sophisticated and more made for adults. the use of the colour red on the monks and reflected in the calm water clearly advertises that the audiance is wathcing the BBC, the use of sophistication gives the viewer an idea about their corporate identity. The music is calm and foriegn to add a realistic feel to the ident.

How does sound and Mise en Scene create a response from an audiance in a 3-5 min clip of the film Shawshank Redemption?


The film depicts the life of a young prisoner called Andy, who is serving two life sentences for a murder he did not commit. Throughout the film he is shown to be strong against everything he faces and the use of the stoic theme (Phillip Newman) and mis en scene really highlights these moments, the tone of the songs and the pitch. While in prison he befriends the inmate red and together they share their troubles.  Finally Andy does escape and Red (Morgan Freeman) follows him soon after. Throughout the film we are driven by hope, promises and good but we also see the ugly side of life and how the better side overcomes it.

Tall drink of water scene (Andy entering the Shawshank)

Sound

As we all know the music and sounds in the film are just as important as the visuals.The stoic theme presented in this film do a lot of things and make the audience feel very attached to the character Andy. The song maintains a high pitch through out which dominates the lower pitch throughout the two minute piece. I believe this in its self tells the story, the high pitch representing hope and the lower pitch representing his struggle, but just as Andy conquered his struggle the music does the same. Though when it ends we are left with a eerie low pitched violin which leaves us with a sense of fear. The music does not really reach a climax and stays the same throughout, that is more common in horror films, in the Shawshank Redemption it does not idolize prison as many other films do, and so the music is simple and slow which describes to the audience how bad a situation it is, Andy is not in an action film where he will fight and become the Alpha male, he is a man who will just be trying to survive like most of the others. The timbre of the song is heavy throughout, that heavy underlining violin is the constant reminder of bad things happening. We are exposed to violins playing throughout this piece and overlapping each-other and also a trumpet towards the end. Throughout the scene and overlapping the music are the shouts and swears from the other inmates which tells us that this is not going to be an easy ride for Andy and these men are not just others who have been accidently put in the Shawshank but killers and rapists. Even though at this point we have neither seen or heard Andy deny these murders so we do not know if he is innocent or not and so do not sympathize for him but more get a better understanding of the Shawshank. Also whenever the guards seem to speak the camera closes up on Andy and the guards voices seem to be distant perhaps showing that Andy is far away from the prison mentally or perhaps tries not to listen to the guards and the hoots showing the pressure he is under. When Reds friends and him are speaking and betting their voices are the only ones that seem calm and friendly in all of this chaos of screaming and cage rattling and it almost gives the impression to the audience that they are a source of calm and good  compared to everything else around them.

Mise en scene

The camera is watching from above as it sweeps through the prison and through its guarded walls. The largeness of the walls and their density strongly relate to that sense of being caged and so far away from the outside world, it comes as a shock to the audience. The use of uniforms the guards wear and the prison jumpsuits worn by the inmates also gives us a good understanding. The guards wear black which is commonly regarded to be the colour of danger, evil, and other things that are not good, and through just the colour of their clothes the audience is instantly given the impression that they are all those things that are associated with the colour black. This also gives a clear distinction between the two people as they are very light and dark colours. The use of confined or caged spaces in which the guards and the inmates are surrounded in strongly suggests that they are dangerous but also acts as the physical metaphor of the obstacles Andy will face during his stay at the Shawshank. When Andy gets of the bus ad through the gate the camera closes up on his face as it begins to sweat his features became a little distorted which suggests he is under a lot of pressure. As the camera sweeps quite close to the cage and the inmates behind it it is almost like were are looking through Andy's eyes and hearing the rattle of the cage as the prisoners screams get louder, perhaps meaning Andy's is beginning to get more nervous. At this point in the film we understand Andy is a banker and during the trial we see him dressed smartly and neatly but now he is dressed messily and his hair untidy again highlighting the fact that he is scarred and this makes the audience really believe and feel sorry for what's going on for him. Through showing Andy in that bad state and seeing the change he goes through the film it really shows the audience latter on how far he has come from entering the shawshank. The men that come out of that bus are dressed poorly, others rich, old and young, it almost shows the audience that whatever you were like outside the prisoned walls and the cages your all the same inside. The audience's first view of the shawshank are the guards dressed in black standing in between the bus, and the in mates and this perhaps is a metaphor for what stands in between Andy's struggle are the guards. The lighting in this scene is very dim even though it is the middle of the day. the walls are grey and the area seems gloomy, grey is usually associated by the audience's with; Lifeless, no imagination, oppressed, there is no life in the color so the lighting effect works well to show the audience exactly the kind of place the shawshank is. And also because this film is set in the past the lighting is an important part of reminding the audiences that as people usually associate the old ear through the black and white films they watched and so the dim lighting works well. During the scene when Red and his friends are making bets we notice they are wearing their clothes in the exact same way as each-other and their caps are identical, this shows the audience that they have a friendship or a bond of some sorts. another interesting thing is I think the audience would take a liking to them for that exact reason. among all that chaos and shouting that group are standing quietly and this separates them from the others. Later on in the film the use of Red (who is an African American) and Andy's (who is white) inter racial friendship during such a racist time period makes the friendship even more special for the audience and again showing them that they are all the same in the shawshank.          

Taken 2

The film was directed by Oliver Megaton and was produced by Luc Besson who also wrote the film. it stars Liam Neeson and others.

The film took place during early 2012 and was first shown on the 7th of September in the American film festival, i think one of the reasons it was shown in America fist is because the protagonist is American and so it would appeal to them a lot more then most other countries.   on the 7th of October it was released in 25 international countries, this would be because Hollywood produced it and so it would be shown in America first.

Box Office

As of october 21st the film had grossed 105,832,339 in north america and internationally 174,452,000 which is very good, this is due to the success of the first film so fans of that were automatically drawn to this. This brings the total amount to 280, 284,339. For the opening day in north america and canada the film grossed 18.4 million. 1.5 of this came from midnight showings which again sows that the people really wanted to see this film and the first film helped the sequel succeed in the box office. During its second week in the box office it dropped 55.8% from its first week, this could be for a number of reasons; word of mouth, for example someone might have seen it and disliked it and told his friends not to watch it. Another reason could be the arrival of other films like; Sinister and Looper, both of which were box office hits. Taken 2 earned 37 million in the first week of showing in the UK. Compared to north America this is lower maybe because the protagonist is American and it was released in america earlier.

The film got mostly mixed reviews from critics, it got 21% on rotten tomatoes, other critics said the film was "Taken 2 is slick, professional action".




Production

Filming took place throughout early 2012; scenes depicting Neeson and Grace's characters in Los Angles were shot in January.

Istanbul scenes were shot in November 2011 but were delayed due to unforeseen weather.

Sequel  

Liam Neeson doesn't know if there will be a sequel but twentieth century fox say that there will be but the story line will be completely different from the same formulae Taken has used in the last two films. This should be interesting and I think some thing called taken, the next film something or someone will have to be Taken so instead of a family member being taken an important piece might be taken and Liam Neeson will have to find it.