AT THE END OF THE TRAIL The Times The Review The Guardian Guy Pollard Toby Orchard Jack Fullerton George Nicheli Life or death is a sport
Aug 14, 2015
AT THE END OF
THE TRAILThe TimesThe Review The Guardian
Guy Pollard Toby Orchard Jack Fullerton George Nicheli
Life or death is a sport
Adventure definition: Adventure fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and
physical danger, forms the main storyline. Drama definition: A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly
on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.
Thriller definition: Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and
excitement as its main elements
Genre: adventure, Drama, Thriller
Story line and shots
The quick pace of the shots reflects the fast pace of the mountain biking, this idea was taken from go pro videos on you tube.
The up beat music will compliment the fast shots which emphasises the adventure of the sport
We will use the natural light of the forest which is generally dark and gloomy, this indicates the imminent danger on the rider
The fish eye lenses on go pro and the POV shots will give the film a more realistic and sportier look, this will make the film more immersive
The landscape time lapses taken on the go pro will give the music time to build up at the start, this will also build up tension
The close up shots of the bikes different parts will suggest to the audience that something is going to go wrong
Style
Target audience• Tintin is an example of
a Adventure.• This show use who the
audience of these films.• By doing this it will
allow use to know who will be watching are film opening.
• Monsters: Dark
Continent• Shares the genres Drama
and Thiller. • Again this will show us
the audience who would go and see a film in the genres above.
• By doing this we can then know who we are targeting.
Location and time framesSaturday the 7th of February Sunday the 8th of February
• Opening of time laps and adventure shots of scenery
• Bike maintenance shots • Dramatic close up shots of
character
• The shots of the mountain bike going down the trial with GoPro and tripod camera.
• Close ups of danger to emphasise the thrilling concept
Leith Hill- this is the highest point in the south of England and is situated right in the middle of surrey hills. It is a prime
mountain biking locations and with the Forrest and its natural lighting we can use it with effect. The trials it has provides
enough actions to show a sense of adventure.
Influence and inspirationGrand prix
From this film we were given the inspiration for
making our title sequence. We liked how there was a montage of
close ups of people setting up the car for the race. We then started to develop this mechanical
setup process with a mountain bike. We
expanded it more by coming up with the idea
of having cut shots of when the bike is actually using the features that
had just been set up. for example a shot of setting
up the breaks then cutting to them working
on the trail.
Downhill mountain biking film
From this film we are taking a lot of the
shots and techniques used to film the bike
as best as possible. In this film they use
similar camera which capture both on bike and off bike shots. We are able to establish what shots make the
film exciting and when to use effective
landscape shots. Also it helps us decide how we edit the film and how long each shot should be. We have decided to use more
POV shots
127 hours This film has the same
genre of our title sequence. We can use
some of the same methods they use to
create paranoia within the audience. 127
hours also shares a similar bike sequence to scare the audience. this is an effective way
of intriguing the audience drawing
them in closer to the drama adventure and
with some specific moments with focused
close ups we can emulate the danger for
the thrill of it.
Thank you for listening