Risk Assessment.

Throughout the filming of the title sequence we tried to keep the risks that occured to a minimum, so our risk assessment was low. The big risk in the filming was the fight scene, we kept the hitting to a minimum so no one would get hurt during the scene. Another risk was when I filmed James thinking during the first scene in our sequence. The risk was that had to get close to railings which on the other side had water, so the risk was that I could of fell in. So as a group we where as safe as possible.

Location 1.

During the filming of the title sequence we used 4 locations to make the title sequence.

Location 1 - near hadleigh football club.
this location we filmed the thinking scene, where James is leaning on a fence thinking. This was a good location as there was good lighting.

Voice Over Script

My Dad always said to me "Opting to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have" but for me, the couldn't be more wrong. I made choices in my life that have nearly lead to my death more than once and you say that's freedom?

No restraints on my life has plunged me head first into a living hell and there's nothing I can do about it. Irreversible decision made by a naive young, still plaguing the life of that same young mind, not wiser and filled with regret.

I wasn't always a football hooligan, I was very young, looking for a buzz and it gave me one. I got sucked into the abyss and failed to release the seriousness of what I was becoming involved with. Yeah I worked my way up, and even though I was naive, I got smart. I became the youngest firm boss in history and reveled in the power for a while. But the whole time, I find myself looking over my shoulder.

Useful Website

http://www.thewildclassroom.com/wildfilmschool/gettingstarted/camerashots.html
We carried out some research on various different techniques we could use and this website helped us out a lot with more advanced camera angles and movements for if we felt they would be appropriate.

Colour Correction Settings for Second Part of Title Sequence

Here are the colour correction settings we used for the waking up sequence that made up the second part of our title sequence. The colour correction barely changed the clips saturation or gamma however they did deepen and purify the colours enough to improve the quality of the overall production.

Shot Size Chart

This is a chart displaying all of the different shot sizes we may use on our production

Voice Over Idea

Recently we have thought about recording a voice over to narrate what is happening on screen at the time just to make sure everything is clear to the audience, we think making the narration mainly about the choices the main character has made to end up in this situation. We have decided the voice used in this should be soft so it challenges the audiences expectations of a football hooligan and he should say about the influence his parents had on him growing up. We feel this would be effective because we don't really want to use the stereotypical football hooligan in our film, we feel if we mix it up a bit and challenge people's mindset about it the sequence would be far more effective. Much like Danny Dyer in 'Football Factory' or Morgan Freeman in 'The Shawshank Redemption'

Colour Correction Settings for Thinking scene

We decided to go for a washed out look with this part of the clip making it brighter. To gain this effect, we used a medium to low saturation and a medium gamma whilst using high alpha.

Font Styles

We experimented with a few different fonts when picking one for the final cut.

On the earlier drafts I used a font called "Coalition", a rough looking font that seemed to suit the rough and ready style of the football hooliganism genre.

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Later we decided that this font just was not working, so opted for a more clean cut font named “Cafe Nero”

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football Factory - Inspiration - Textual Analysis

Today i watched the football factory first 2 minutes, this is to try and get inspiration from it. The first 2 and half minutes is full of clips and pictures of football hooligasm this is to grab the attention of the viewers and show what the film is about. While the clips are going on there is title between clips, the titles are white on a black background and in the middle. This is done to make the titles stand out. In the last 30 seconds of this clip you see a man with blood over his face and looks in danger, then a voice over starts and this is done so the viewer can understand the scenes within the title sequence.

Second to Last lesson.

In this lesson we are coming near the end of finishing the title sequence. We have notice that it is difficult to understand and following due to the change of location throughout the sequence. As a group we decided to have a voice over like in football factory. This will help us overcome the confusing caused in the title sequence. 

Football Factory - Inspiration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdbmjmvdILI
In this clip of the beginning of football factory, 2 mins onwards there is a voice over by the main protagonist to introduce who he is and make everything clear for the viewers, much like we plan to do with ours.

Cass - Inspiration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9kIEmLCwcY

This clip of Cass brings inspiration to our group, this is because it starts of with a flashback like we are trying to do in Forever United. Cass is also a film based around football hooliganism. The reason  this is used in Cass is to show how he got caught up in football hooliganism. Its used as an indicator of a big event which is going to be coming later on in the film.

Improvements and Discussion

Over the last week we have had a few discussions with our teacher, our teacher said about possible ideas to help us improve our sequence because the characters were not very clear, so we were looking for ideas to make it a bit more understandable. We have a few ideas which involve going out and getting more footage and a voiceover.

Last Filming Session

The last time we filmed we recorded the second part of the sequence, I came into Hadleigh so I could film while both Ben and James acted. Initially we filmed James stood on his in quite an isolated area so it shows he has gone out of his way to get away and be on his own. He appears on camera deep in thought, we filmed him like this for about 30 seconds. After we done that I filmed James meeting Ben, leading into a small fight between the 2 characters. We used an over the shoulder shot following James' character so we can see ben walking past, we then edited it back into James deep in thought for a few seconds. It cuts between the 2 events through a 25 second period while the problems start between Ben and James. We then moved location to where i fall against a wall due to the beating i just endured and we then get a close up of me falling to the ground. This is where we finished the filming for that sequence and left it for another day when we have edited this all together and need some more footage. All this shots that I filmed James is going to edit it, so it looks like a flashback sequence to see what is going to happen later in the film.