Re-edit of narrative film: Youth of Today

I decided to do a re-edit of my narrative film where I cut some of the scenes down slightly so your not watching the same thing for a long time and I decided to cut a bit at the end of one of the scenes because I wanted it to be continuous and make it look like one shot rather than two and so it looked smooth and easy to watch.

I’m unsure whether I need to add music to it or not, because i’m not sure if it will make sense and whether there would be a reason for me to add music to it and at the moment there isn’t any reason for me to add music to it.

Final Draft of Youth of Today Narrative Film

This one is slightly different to the first one as I’ve added a title sequence and an ending with some facts about the symptoms of video game addiction, I felt that I had to add these facts because I believe they are quite important facts to know and there are a lot of people who are addicted to video games, and you don’t realise as you are the one who lets them stay on it for so long.

Some other facts, teens are spending more than one third of their day using media such as online video or music and for ages between 8 and 12 is nearly 6 hours per day. According to Nielsen the average U.S. gamer aged 13 or over spent 6.3 hours a week playing video games during 2013. Children aged 2-11 watch over 24 hours of tv per week, whilst adults aged 35-49 watch more than 33 hours of tv per week, according to the data from Nielsen he suggests that TV time increases the older you get.

They have also found out that if your child exceeds that rather strict hour per day threshold, the study found the positive effects suddenly vanish. There’s no noticeable effect, positive or negative, for kids who play one to three hours of video games compared to kids who play none.

A couple of quotes from famous tech developers and company owners, Patience is a key element of success (BIll Gates), everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future (Steve Jobs), video games are bad for you? that’s what they said about rock and roll (Shigeru Miyamoto).

Youth Of Today Narrative Film

I’ve had to make a different narrative film as I wasn’t happy with the one I made before the one i made the most recently, as there was no continuity compared to the latest one as it was just one scene in one room without a lot of dialogue, so it didn’t really make a lot of sense how the person got there, and it didn’t work the way I wanted it to, so I changed my idea completely.

This next idea is about a teenagers addiction to video games or just screen time, as parents always have a go at their kids for being on it too long or they’ve been watching tv for too long etc. So I wanted to depict a young teenage lad playing on an xbox for a while without doing anything it’s the first thing he does when he comes home from school all he thinks of and all he wants to do day in day out.

So the film basically shows that the boy has been playing for hours and then his parents come in, have a go at him for not doing anything, and then time goes by, he’s then asked to do revision but he answers after this game etc, he then is basically forced to turn it off and walks off to go and do revision.

 

The Game Narrative Film

Well this film was based on the main idea I was going to do but when it came to the editing stages of the film it just didn’t work out how I wanted it to, so I decided to leave it where it was and just restart all over again with a different film all together with a different idea.

As I wasn’t happy with the outcome that was the main reason I decided to change it and make a completely different film, as the shots I imagined didn’t turn out the way i expected them too as the game wasn’t played correctly and there wasn’t much dialogue throughout the film even though I wanted there to be quite a bit of dialogue, as it would have made the film more interesting and more narrative.

it was quite hard to cut as well and it was all really one scene there wasn’t any continuity there at all and no one really moved so I don’t think it worked too well really. There wasn’t a lot of dialogue throughout the film as we had to change the script because i didn’t have enough people to film with so we couldn’t use the script that i had previously written.

Location for Narrative Film

I have found the perfect location for my film, as it makes it look really authentic, even though there is a skylight when I wanted it to be dark/gloomy, but it might add effect and I could also change the white balance on my camera to make it look darker and also through the editing stage, to make it look really authentic.

Hopefully I will be able to use this location, as the room is also the perfect size and it looks like you could put an underground betting ring in there, so I think this location would really add to the film in a massive way, and i’ll be really glad if i can use this location.

Within this location I will also be able to get a lot of various different angles as well so it will be very different from how I was going to film it, i will also bew able to be a lot closer to the table with the microphone as well so i will be able to get it all synced together as well hopefully pretty well.

Backup narrative film idea

My second idea is where, there is a group of friends, who start playing together in a forest, just joking about playing man hunt,  but one member of the group decides to take it very seriously and brings a knife with him. The game starts and the players all run away in different directions,  and the chaser begins to count, and all the players run deep into the forest, so he decides to run one direction which he saw one of them running, so he decides to make chase.

He then gets closer and closer as he can hear one of them, so he edges closer and closer, until he gets right behind them and all you see is him drop her from behind as he’s killed her, so he then starts to run in another direction desperately looking for the other players, he then begins to scream as he can’t find them, shouting ‘come out, come out wherever you are’, he then hears the rustle of leaves as one of them moves so he sprints towards that sound and he then finds one, and the player begins to panic as she can hear him breathing heavily and his heavy footsteps and then you hear the incision of the knife.

Then he finally finds the third player hiding very well and he jumps them very quietly and kills them brutally with the knife in a way that you wouldn’t really expect them to and he leaves them all there to die slowly by bleeding out as he runs off victorious to hide and act like he was never there.

 

 

Cast For Narrative Film

Main Character: Alex

Dealer/Debt collector: Ken

Player 1: Chanelle

Player 2: Courtney

Player 3?: Asiaa

Draft script for narrative film

The first scene starts with the main character (Ken), playing blackjack on his phone, then he begins to get excited as he starts to win, so he then believes he can play for a lot of money but in person, rather than through a screen.

Ken: ‘I should do this for real money’

He then decides to go to an underground betting ring

Where there are two other players already sat around the table playing as he joins in

Dealer: Evening Sir, care to join?

Ken: Oh yes of course

Player 1 (Chanelle): You realise it’s for real money now bigshot

Player 2: Come on Join, We’re waiting here!

Ken: Ok, Ok

Ken then joins the table and the dealer begins

Dealer: Place your bets, the more you put down, the more could be won

Ken hesitates, he then only puts a small amount down

Player 1 (Chanelle): Not so big now are we bigshot

Player 2: Leave him alone

Dealer: No More Bets!

Ken then starts to panic, thinking what if I get a rubbish hand etc, or could I win massive

The dealer then places the cards down

Dealer: This is all a game of chance and thats it!

Ken suddenly his heart drops as he sees his first card is a face value

The dealer then puts down the second card and the tension in the room is very high as he slowly puts it down

Player 1 (Chanelle): Well hurry up I want to see if i’ve won or not

Player 2: Calm down, there’s no panic

Dealer places the cards down and the other two players ask for a third card and bust and Ken is hesitant to ask for a third card so he doesn’t and sticks hoping he beats the dealer

The other two players only play a couple more rounds until they both run out of money leaving Ken left alone with the dealer

He then keeps playing and drinking at the same time, not realising that he’s slowly building up a debt with the dealer he is then taken out as he begins to argue with the dealer

He then wakes up the next day checks his account and its completely empty, so he starts to really worry about how he’s going to pay off his debt with the dealer/debt collector

He starts to panic and then starts begging people for money to help him pay off this debt

Ken starts ringing around, ‘Please anyone, i need some help with a money problem I have’

Then Ken begins to realise he has no way of paying off the debt, so he starts to scream in anger and sadness at the same time

He then hears a sudden knock on his door, just ‘bang,bang,bang’, he doesn’t want to answer as he can see the silhouette in the door

He then opens the door, unwillingly, sees who it is and then proceeds to slam it shut, but then the debt collector then realises he didn’t lock it and just barges through and slams the door behind him, as Ken then fears what happens and the scene ends there.

Sub Framing, Rhythm and Tempo

Sub-framing is where you take a photo of a frame inside of a frame, such as using a hole to take the photo through but the background being in focus rather than the subframe in complete focus so it is making the photo subframed, which is a very popular method to use.

Rhythm in photography is where you have a sequence of the same thing in the same photo in a certain rhythm, it works really well within colour photos, I think it is a really cool method because sometimes you don’t realise that it’s a rhythm photo until you properly take a look at it.

Tempo is where a sequence is used throughout the photography with rhythm as well, so this method works really well with black and white photos as well and I may use this method within my photography later on in my career.

 

 

Music videos similar to our coming back video

Some videos similar to the one that we filmed are videos that royal blood normally make as they are a two piece as well and they are also a rock band, so we wanted to re-create something like royal blood’s hook line & sinker, and there lights out video has a lot of visual effects around something simple like them just playing in the middle of all this happening.

There are also videos such as the white stripes, seven nation army, and even though it is full of visual effects the video looks incredible as they are only a two piece but its all done with lighting and visual effects which makes the video work so well and make it really effective.

Then another two-piece which makes a different style of music, Daft Punk, which I really enjoy their videos as they make it so different and it makes it unique as neither of them have ever shown their faces since the early 1990’s when their careers started, so every video is unique as they have a different outfit around there helmets for each video.