Foundation Portfolio in Media

The brief we was working to was to create an opening sequence to our own action-comedy genre film called ‘Ace Kurtis’. We named the movie this as Ace Kurtis is the full name of our main protagonist and he also has a significant link with playing cards,   However, as the opening continues we start to notice the presence of a child and a women as children’s toys are scattered around and the main character puts on a wedding ring. This then sets an enigma for the audience as it asks the question ‘’where are they’’ as we only see one character throughout the sequence. Also, throughout the sequence the audience will notice lots of playing cards are being used as these are significant to the story and set another enigma because the audience don’t know why. The comedy element of the film is vaguely seen during the sequence, for example our main protagonist wears feminine slippers, his tie is scruffy and he struggles to put the kettle back. The truncheon he reveals could also add a comed

For our A level Media coursework, we had to make an opening sequence of our own choice and we had to decide on our own genre. yfgylgyilhv=

On my other post I spoke about the our background music, we had to change our background music because the current song we had (Emergent Dead Letters) didn't go with our edit, so as a group we had to decide on a new song, and our song that we have chose is another non copyrighted rock song which is called  

The idea for me getting the idea of the cards and pinning them on the wall was from a TV series called Daredevil. They would pin the cards up every time they find a new lead to one of the biggest criminal in there city. Also there is also a card game called  killer, which is basically about cops and robbers and you also need to know how to wink.

Our teacher reviewed our footage whilst i was editing, and we realised as a group we need to re shoot some more scenes to get the most possible marks to get the grades we want. We need to focus on mise en scene as some shots that we had should not be there. To get more marks we need to : wide shot of the bedroom 3 shots of him changing clothes Variation of shots  Alarm heard on black screen The phone having a picture of his family as his background.