Beehive is the new Set

We have chosen to use the Beehive pub instead of our first idea of Paolo's Restaurant. This is mainly for two reasons;
 1) It is a lot closer to the school meaning easier transport for our Actors and Actresses (and possibly extras)
2) We (me and my group) were lucky enough to bump into the owner and ask his permission to use his pub to which he accepted.

Settings Update.

One place our group would like to use is Paolo's restaurant. I have just had a look at their website and have found their opening times.
 http://www.paolos-restaurant.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=4
The restaurant would be the perfect set as it features all the aesthetic qualities and surroundings needed; - The right mood, lighting and there is an alley way next to it which could be used to create a moody entrance for the "mobsters" if filmed at night or early morning.

UPDATE

Due to the fact that time is running short, me and Matt have been discussing an idea by Sam, suggested at the start of the project. This idea is to use the Beehive pub instead as it is nearer to the school and has roughly the same aesthetics, however, its location is not as good for certain scenes, such as the mobsters entering/walking into the pub. A pro of using the pub would be that it would be easier to get the cast down to it as it is only 5 minutes  away from our sixth form.

The six degrees of separation.

Whilst looking at some possible ways of displaying our film opening to as many people as possible when I came across the theory of six degrees of separation. This is a theory that states that through friends of friends you  could only be 5 people away from anyone on earth. although unproven the theory got me thinking about using social networking sites and viral advertising. If I was to send it to 5 people and they were to show it to 5  people  and so on and so on, it would soon be seen world wide, however this idea has a flaw that not everyone would be willing to show the footage or, if sent by email, seen as a junk email, as it would be a type of chain email. The other side to this is that people could send it to more than five friends. For this reason I think it would be a good idea to use Viral Advertising across Email and Social networking sites such as Hotmail, Googlemail, Facebook, and possibly Twitter.

Audience Task 3

The Hypodermic Syringe effect is a theory in that films and other media will directly effect the audience watching.  For example, if the film is a violent action film the the audience will want to do something violent. This theory led to the films "A clockwork orange" and "Mikey" being banned in fear that the violence in the films would be re-enacted by though who watched it. However some people believe that this is just a theory and that it does no account for peoples individuality. However most TV advertising works in this way. They will show the product being used in hope that it will influence the watcher into doing the same, and buying the product. I think that the Hypodermic Syringe theory could work, however, I do think that human nature and instinct could and do, over rule it. For example; Watching a commercial to get a drink might make someone want to get a drink because it would benefit them and would work along side human nature. Watching a violent film and being influenced to go and act violently should go against human nature and therefore the audience would not be affected.
Examples of how the Hypodermic Syringe effect has effected the media are as follows:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ A clockwork Orange, a film banned due to multiple rape scenes as censor groups were worried that audiences would try to re-enact them.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104870/ Mikey, Another film banned due to violence, however it was worried that if any children saw the film they would be influenced to kill.

Props.

We are looking for our props and we are using the website "google" to find images of optimum prop choices. Matty has been using window's movie maker to put together our animatic. Sam has been assisting with both of us, he took the photos for the animatic, and has helped me with the search.

the types of prop we would like to use are;

Summery of the past few lessons.

I realize I have fallen behind with my media posts, so here is a short summery of what has happened:
I presented my pitch with my group mates, Matty and Sam, to our class; however there were critisms over our casting, so we have had a group discussion and have decided to recast. I recently went and saw the schools production of "fame: the musical" and have spotted some possible candidates for characters, and once the performance was over I hunted them down and asked if they would like to be a part of our production. There was a mixture of maybes and yeses, however I think that some of these people would be better than our original cast as they would be more professional. During the lessons we have started looking at the significance of props and the meanings behind them and audience research. Due to the cast's age I am thinking that our target audience would be of a similar age however, due to the film genre a more adult audience might be more interested. I will have to research this further, possibly using viral advertising (using social networking sites) to get the general opinion of it. I should be shortly posting some images of possible props and what they signify.

UPDATE:
See Sam High's blog for our latest task of creating a mindmap.

Original Inspiration.

This is the original inspiration for my group wanting to use animation in our Film Noir intro. Using animation breaks the normal conventions of a film noir however I think this will work as it will be a modern-day twist on film noir and help it stand out from the other films.