Unit 16 - Task 1

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Unit 16 Task 1

• By Luca Munro

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Purpose

• To tell a story, as that is what most films do
  but in a way that is manageable for those who do
  not have such a big budget. 
• Education, entertainment and experience for film
  makers. Including proving their talent in order
  to gain funding for a film or possible hiring as
  the director.
• Many films and TV shows can apply to the real
  world, for example Breaking Bad and The Hunger
  Games can serve as a warning to how drugs can
  affect an individual and how the government
  running your life can affect the population.

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Form and Style

• The length maximum for a short film is 50
  minutes, and scenes/story all are shot from one
  persons perspective, normally the central
  character(s).
• There would most likely be editing for sound, on
  screen imagery etc. such as jumping from relevant
  scene to another and different camera angles,
  from close up to wide.
• For example a scene in Love Hate, Whishaw and
  Atwell were being shot from a close-up angle at
  Whishaws left on a train platform. Then it cuts
  to the other side of the platform as the train
  pulls up.
• The film itself is not a part of a series. It is
  made by Origin Pictures and directed and wrote by
  Dylan and Blake Ritson.
• Kiwi! has a close angle shot placed upon the
  character and keeps the camera close in one
  particular scene when it is nailing a tree into
  the cliff. It keeps the audience guessing.
• The film is an animated short and is one of the
  most viral videos on YouTube, one of the first on
  the website. It has amassed a total of 38 million
  views.

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Form and Style (Continued)

• The mis-en-scene is this scene here

Things you will find in this scene are Atwell
holding a Carling, Whishaw holding a box of
chips, photos, a mirror, loads of cushions and a
sofa. The clothes they are wearing, Atwell is
wearing leopard skin clothing ranging from shirt,
coat and headband, with Whishaw sporting a vest
and dressing gown. All of this does make the
environment seem a lot more real, you can
definitely believe this happening. Also the dim
lighting make this look like an evening, and
neither of them have bothered to turn the light,
with the TV lighting on their faces going on and
off showing Atwells character changing the
channels. The contribution of humour is through
Atwells drinking and comments about what is on
TV such as Shit and Hes a tosser, also
saying Wouldnt you just like to smash his face
in?. Acting as comic relief.
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Form and Style (Continued)

• The mis-en-scene is this scene here

In this scene from Kiwi!, you see the titular
character placing a nail in the trunk of a tree
with a hammer. So what you see in this scene are
the Kiwi, a hammer, nails, the cloud and the
sky. The scene doesnt really do much for any
deeper meaning, it just shows the Kiwi trying to
place a load of nails in the tree so it attaches
to the cliff.
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Content

• The film is about Ben Whishaws character Tom,
  who all his life has just put up with life and
  try to be positive all of the time. But by
  bottling up his feelings, he has become mentally
  weak and develops this image in his head of hate,
  and subconsciously lets it take advantage of him.
• It is set in London, with most scenes set near
  the London Eye when Tom is looking to get
  signatures for his clipboard. With a train
  station saying Kentish, and no other real
  pinpoint of where it is based other than London.
• Apposed to Kiwi, this short film reflects on how
  people who want to do one thing in their life go
  to extraordinary lengths to make it possible and
  how people who dont have long left to live do
  what they want in order to have lived a full
  life.
• Theres no real idea of a location but with it
  being a Kiwi, I imagine itd be in New Zealand.

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Meaning

• The issues raised in this short film are about
  in my eyes mental health and about those who
  bottle up their emotions.
• Love Hates Tom neglects his hatred and it begins
  to come out in a very odd manner, in the form of
  a female human body.
• This way of forming his hate as a reminder to
  himself of how he feels about certain things
  reflects in a way that he is unsure of his hatred
  but because of the form it has taken, he begins
  to open himself to it. That is showing he is
  losing it mentally.
• Kiwi! like I have touched upon before, has the
  meaning of attempting to teach people to try and
  live your life whole and full and try and do what
  you want to feel fulfilment before you die.

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Genre

• Love/Hate is seen in my eyes as psychological,
  drama and comedy. It also has romance in there
  too due to the budding attraction between Ben
  Whishaws and Hayley Atwells characters.
• Kiwi is an animation if that can be seen as a
  genre, along with humour, action and drama.

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Target Audience

• Love/Hates target audience seems to be an easy
  going bunch of people since the film was never
  marketed widely as far as Im aware. It was
  distributed via the BBC, so I imagine the target
  audience are adults who are easy watchers, who
  dont invest themselves too much into the film.
• Kiwi! was distributed via YouTube and its appeal
  being the charm of its animation style and how it
  doesnt have any dialogue, so it crosses language
  barriers and means for a bigger audience and a
  universal understanding.

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Frequency

• Love/Hate was released in 2009 on June 26th to
  co-inside with the Edinburgh International Film
  Festival. Further releases were October 15th for
  the London Film Festival and November 18th for
  the St. Louis International Film Festival.
• The only two major events to collide with the
  initial release date were the President of
  Honduras refusing to comply with a supreme court
  and there was a bombing at a Baghdad market. I
  can not think of how these tie in with
  Love/Hate.
• As for the other two dates, nothing happened to
  co-inside with the release for both film
  festivals.
• Kiwi! was released on May 5th 2006 at the
  School Of Visual Art MFACA Thesis Presentation,
  and nothing big happened to collide with the
  release of this film.
• Both films were one-off pieces, and did not apply
  to a series of films.

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Production Process

• The stars of Love/Hate are Ben Whishaw and
  Hayley Atwell, who are both big in Hollywood
  right now. Whishaws most notable role is that of
  Q in Skyfall alongside Daniel Craigs 007,
  whereas Atwells most notably known for the role
  of Agent Peggy Carter from Captain America The
  First Avenger and her own stand alone TV show
  Agent Carter.
• The directors are brothers Dylan and Blake
  Ritson, the latter of which appears in the film
  as the character of Rob.
• No special effects were used for the film, as
  there is no stated editing software and this film
  doesnt have any scenes that require such special
  effects.
• The location of filming took entirely in London.
• Concept was not derived from any source material
  such as a book, more of an original idea from the
  Ritson brothers.
• Love/Hates technical specifications are that of
  a Dolby Digital sound mix, a 2.35 1 aspect
  ratio, an Arriflex D-21, Hawk V-Series Lenses
  camera, HDCAM-SR Negative Format, a 35 mm Kodak
  Vision 2383 Printed Film Format and a Digital
  Intermediate 2K master format and Hawk Scope
  anamorphic source format for the cinematographic
  process.

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Production Process (Continued)

• Kiwi! doesnt have any actors but is directed
  and wrote by Dony Permedi. Notable work by
  Permedi is as an animator on the abysmal Ghost
  Rider Spirit of Vengeance, post-visual animator
  on Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides
  and the post-visual animator for Life of Pi.
• The film is ran with 1.33 1 Aspect Ratio. Also
  Kiwi! would have had a low production budget and
  was not adapted from a book or has any source
  material, the story is original.
• Kiwi! won Most Adorable video of 2006 in the
  first annual YouTube video awards on March 26th
  2007. This drew multimedia and international
  attention with ABC News describing it as So cute
  it hurts.
• I could not find any more info on Kiwi! regarding
  the production process than this.