GoldStar Production

For our media project we decided to do a movie around the sub-genre Boxing.
In terms of stereotypical characters and how social groups are shown, we have two dominant men which are boxers which does involve the stereotype of boxers being hard and having a rough personality although we have one boxer that is a lot meaner looking than the other, him being Russian in our film which we stereotyped Russian men that boxed to be scary and to be feared. There aren’t any women that have a dominant role in our film, we only use the women in our press conference scene, so in a way, we have men dominating women who follow the stereotype that men are dominant and women are passive. We have stereotyped class a bit in the boxers everyday where in the press conference where we have our Russian boxer that has come from a poor background wearing a lumberjack type jacket which shows that he is of a poor background and that he might have to do manual work to earn some extra money, it also shows that he comes from a foreign country as we associated attire like that with the Russian men with how we’ve seen the on films like Rocky.
I feel that our film would be a small-budget film that would be mostly shown at an art house as it wouldn’t cost as much to make as a film like Rocky and also that they have big-named actors and a storyline that you can tell it’s a big budget film where as ours we have it set in a room and a gym, and the storyline shows it is unlikely to be a big-budget film. I think that the film would be like to go into the cinema but only at an art house as the bigger cinemas would be unlikely to want to play a film like ours and we would like to have a good base for our film being shown, and that it would be released on Freeview TV viewing within 6 months of the cinema release meaning people can watch it and hopefully they could buy it on DVD the only disc release we will have as I don’t feel the movie will be popular enough to compete with big budget films on Blue Ray, I think it would be good if we can get legal downloads available for it too as it would all be revenue and people can find it on iTunes and online store like that. I don’t think our film would offer much in franchising or merchandising as it would be a small budget film so it would be pointless to bring out merchandise people wouldn’t be interested in. I feel a distributing company more likely to distribute our film would be Metrodome as they distribute small budget films and they are quiet successful in it.

As a group we came agreed that our film would be a 15 rated film as if it was a full film not a 2 minute opening then there would be inappropriate material for under 18’s to view as there will be links to prison and brawling in prison, quite a bit of swearing and violence of a nature that is inappropriate for under 16’s. I feel it wouldn’t be something we would want to bring onto the streets to young people so it would be best at a rated 15. I feel that the target audience for our film would be males in the age gap of 18 to 35 as they are more likely to be interested in this sort of film. I feel our film would be more like Undisputed than Rocky films as it as different storylines and more violence and obscene drama. And undisputed as a similar storyline to us in that there in a boxer convicted of an offence and sent to prison and trys to work his way back up again.
I feel that Undisputed would appeal to the same type of audience as ours as it is of a same nature.
I feel that our desired target audience cannot be attracted by our opening scene as there is no obscene language or behavior to show that we would like to attract males aged 18-35. More likely by our opening we will attract males aged 12 – 17. I feel that if we did the whole film, we would need to get into some obscene language very quickly as we would lose our target audience if not cos we wouldn’t keep them interested enough in the opening. This also is because of our camera shots and facial reactions, they seem too petty and not good enough to grab our attended audience but attract the lower age males that we wouldn’t like to attract to our movie.
We found out that during our filming we did some shooting for our building up to our press conference and the camera we used failed and we had done it for nothing so we learnt a lot about camera work, like checking it regularly to see if it is still working correctly. Other wise I feel we had no other interruptions by the camera but by ourselves either not being there or not having the correct wear on to shoot. We also had to re-film part of our press-conference to enhance the belief it is a real life press conference. We resolved this be re-filming and also filming in our own time after lessons to catch up, we feel also the camera we used was of a basic standard with the sound being not very good but the quality is decent and it was very easy to carry round.
We used Final Cut Pro on the Apple Mac’s to edit our film and we found it was harder than we thought to edit our film into sync correctly and to have everything there within 2 minutes. The effects we used most was the Fade in Fade out as it was the only effect we really needed to use.
For our music for the film we used the Copyright Free Cd’s provided by our media groups so we had an adequate choice to what we wanted to use and in the end found it very easy to choose music for our film. For our planning, we decided what genre our film was going to be and we had quite a few discussions that did turn out into arguments about what genre and what movie we was going to do as everyone in the group had their own ideas. From the preliminary we learnt that we had to plan things better and have back up actors and back up ideas in case we was unable to follow up on original ideas, although we learnt this, we didn’t put it into plan and we may have struggled doing this, and also I feel we struggled to get the grasp of this genre as a whole as it not one many good films have been made out of boxing genre, and it may have been easier to go with a genre where there is more knowledge and more ideas to be thrown around. I think after doing this we as a group are more confident with the equipment.
The things in our film that make it a boxing film is that we have a press conference which is usually associated with events and fight hype towards boxing fights. We used rocky to help us with this part of the film as it has had a press conference between rocky and Apollo creed. We also feel that the scene at the end of the film with the boxing bag also promotes it to be a boxing film, as you associate hitting a bag to be training for boxing matches.
I think that our opening is different to most boxing films as they do not have a press conference to promote the fight at the beginning of the film but introduce the main character so throughout the film we get to know what he’s thinking and feel the same as him.

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