Representation

RepresentationFrom watching action and spy films i can see that men are usually the main part for example die hard and Johnny English excluding films like Tomb Raider, Lara Croft.
Lara Croft is represented as a strong woman who doesnt get emotionally attached and always beats men, she rarely has to fight women.
Bruce Willis in Die Hard is very hard and cold he doesnt cry and takes the whole situation as a joke, murdering people and not being bothered by it. All of the enemies in the Die Hard films are men, so he doesnt have to fight a woman.
In my spy action spoof i will take tips from these films and over exaggerate the 'hard' personalities that the main characters have...... to be continued

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Mr and Mrs Smith Analysis

In the first two minutes of this clip with the credits on I could not tell that this film is an action spy film but I could see that it had hints of comedy. After this I can see that it is starting to turn into an action because there is a high angle pan shot which shows a helicopter then cuts to a hotel where in subtitles a man says that someone has been shot. This makes the film seem more like a spy film now because a lot of spy films have subtitles and undercover spies which we can work out Brad Pitt is because he has a gun in his back pocket. The scene after this is mainly romantic and doesn’t show signs of it being a action spy film but a romantic comedy with the mise en scene. The lighting is very dull which suggests romance and there are flashes of red which shows romance and love but however still shows danger to demonstrate that the film is a dangerous action film. Also they are dancing to romantic music but over that sound is the sound of helicopters so even though it is not an action scene there are still elements of action in there.

I will use tips from this opening sequence of Mr and Mrs Smith in my clip, when there is not a dangerous part I will still put danger signs in there using the mise en scene and sound.

...so it is hard to say which institution is most famous for making spoofs. New Line Cinema is not very well known, comparing it to Universal or Fox but because of the success Austin Powers' has had New Line Cinema's is more well known making more money. For example 'Austin Powers Goldmember' made $213,307,889 3,613.
New Line Cinema


New Line Cinema was established in 1967 by Robert Shaye. They have distributed many films up to now since then and have made spoofs which benefit my research. These include Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery in 1997, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999, Little Nicky 2000, Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002 and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny 2006.

Institution

Austin Powers is a very famous and popular spy action spoof. It is distributed by the institution of New Line cinema. Box office mojo shows that the three Austin Powers' movie's are in the top ten for most popular spoofs. All of them were distributed by New Line cinema. There is not a specific institution for spoof films it has a wide range of institutions....

to be continued.

Audience

Our primary audience for our spy, action comedy spoof film will be teenage boys. Our secondary audience for the film will be teenage girls and older men, aged around 20-30. The film will have a wide range of viewers but this is who we think will be most likely to view our film. We think this because this is the primary and secondary audience for normal spy and action films so they will most likely be the same for the spoof because they will understand the jokes like what are in Johnny English and Austin Powers.  

Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Lifetime Gross / Theaters		Opening / Theaters		Date
1	Austin Powers in Goldmember	NL	$213,307,889	3,613	$73,071,188	3,613	7/26/02
2	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	NL	$206,040,086	3,314	$54,917,604	3,312	6/11/99
3	Scary Movie	Mira.	$157,019,771	3,301	$42,346,669	2,912	7/7/00
4	Scary Movie 3	Dim.	$110,003,217	3,505	$48,113,770	3,505	10/24/03
5	Scary Movie 4	W/Dim.	$90,710,620	3,674	$40,222,875	3,602	4/14/06
6	Starsky and Hutch	WB	$88,237,754	3,185	$28,103,367	3,185	3/5/04
7	The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear	Par.	$86,930,411	2,378	$20,817,139	2,378	6/28/91
8	Airplane!	Par.	$83,453,539	-	n/a	-	6/27/80
9	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	Par.	$78,756,177	1,969	$9,331,746	1,576	12/2/88
10	Scary Movie 2	Mira.	$71,308,997	3,220	$20,503,356	3,220	7/4/01

Questionnaire

We are making a spy, comedy, action spoof. We are focusing our work on a few different films such as Austin Powers, Hot Fuzz, Johnny English and Zombieland.

1. Would you go and see this film in the cinema?

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2. What would you expect to see in a film like this?

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3. Do you have any ideas about what we could include in this film? If yes, what?

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4. Who do you think the audience would be for this type of spy-spoof action comedy?

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5. What do you think we could do to make our film different from every other spy-spoof?

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	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Week 1	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Die Hard. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Bourne Identity.	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Mr and Mrs Smith. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Bounty Hunter.	**********	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Indiana Jones. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of The Dark Knight.	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Hot Fuzz. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Hancock.
Week 2	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of James Bond. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Red.	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Austin Powers. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Transformers.	***********	***********	************

Media Studies P3

-Decide who you are working with for your project (if anyone) - Kelly Senior and Louise Browbank

-Decide on the genre of your film - Action/Comedy/Spy

-Brainstorm ideas for at least 5-10 films from your genre (use the web to find ideas if you can’t think of any). If working in a group, you should look at 5-10 films each (although these could be the same films) 

-The Bourne Identity (we will use the action and mystery aspects of this film)
-Johnny English (we chose this film because it's an action but it's funny)
-Die Hard (action)
-Red (action)
-Bounty Hunter (comedy/action)
-Hancock (comedy/action)
-Hot Fuzz (comedy)
-Mr and Mrs Smith (action/interesting storyline)
-Knight and Day (action/comedy)
-Dark Knight (action)
-Indiana Jones (adventure/action)
-James Bond Casino Royale. (action/spy)

Continuity Clips

On the day that we chose to film our continuity we found that we had some complications and we had to end up changing the location. We also found that the person we were going to have acting in this clip as unable to. In the end we chose to film our clip on the school sight with some of our classmates. We also decided it would be better to change the story line to a couple that work together at school and end up fighting over an affair. During filming we found that we had problems with the 180 degree rule as i felt i didnt understand it fully. This becample an issue for filing the shot/reverse shot and later effected our clip as we had to slip the shots to make it fit to this rule.

This is our final submission for our prisoner project where we had to experiment with various shots and focused mainly on dialogue. I enjoyed this task because i felt i was a lot more confident with the camera and was able to experiment with more tactical shots and different settings. Kelly and I chose to go out of the school grounds to shoot our film as we thought it would be more effective and the setting we used contributed well to the dialogue and mood. I think we did quite well considering it was our first film that we've made the full way through but it had a continuity error because the shot changed and it didnt look right. We used loads of different camera angles and shots aswell which i thought was good. We had music at the begining which was really jolly and contrasted with the mood of the movie but the music went on a bit too long before the dialogue started. The light when she was abducted in the movie was good because it was in an old barns then we shined a light on her face.

Just working on my story board today because me and kelly are filming tomorrow :)

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We have decided to put this song on at the beginning of our film, this will contrast against the negative atmosphere of her walking, as this song is quite upbeat and happy.

We were given a list of shots that we had to go out round the school and film. These included over the shoulder shots, handheld and more. We did this to get used to the camera's and the different shots we would need to make our movie. It was only the second time using a camera so i found it a bit tricky to start with. I also found using the tripod difficult as i had never set one up before.  

First Shots

For this video we went out filming around the school. We worked together quite well but found it difficult working with the camera for the first time and setting up the tripod. We filmed various shots such as 'close ups', 'long shots' and 'medium close up' etc. I think we could improve this video by adding more texts and playing around with other video transitions. When filming we found that the wind was an issue as it effected the noise that the camera picked up. To stop this from becoming a problem with the final piece of work we decided to make the whole clip silent. Video by Kelly, Sarah and Louise.