Evaluation Part 1 Continued

Our own production company; Drunken Elephant Productions would be the main producers, however we would use Universal Studios to distribute the film, as a major name within the film business and an institution which is strongly associated with comedy productions, such as Scott Pilgrim, Kick-Ass, Johnny English and Evan Almighty - with the first two films in particular being very influential with decisions being made in our production.

After having a clip of a close up of the character's faces, then an enhanced freeze frame that has been altered - coloured differently for each actor. All of the actor's names come up next to their character. The colours we chose were chosen because they made the picture still come out properly, yet it was different enough to separate the film from the reality. This was something that was done very effectively in Scott Pilgrim, where the acting credits were done with some strong colours and an original font. The font that we chose to use, was the Comicbook one - the same that we used for the title name.

We used a long shot (to show all of the four main characters and the school in the background) at a low angle to signify our wishful-thinking of the power that we hold.

This is another low angle shot of the four main characters, preparing to go in to the battle. This also gives the viewer the impression that the heroes have the power in this situation, and are looking to win the fight. Yet, afterwards in the plot, they are defeated, so these shots are building up to make the fall of the heroes even more funny.

This is a medium-close-up shot which helps to show the over-exaggerated facial expression, which is designed to make the audience laugh. Inspiration from this has come from the legend that is Ben Stiller, who has produced very comical facial expressions in such films as Dodgeball and Zoolander. Another key inspiration for this sort of body language is Rowan Atkinson, whose performances as Mr. Bean are filled with great comedic expressions, something that he also brought to his role as Johnny English in that film.

This point-of-view shot that shows the zoom to the cigarette packet. We sped up the shot, to put more comedic emphasis on this 'power' and making red to signify the danger and urgency of the situation, and then added in an alarm sound effect - blowing the situation out of proportion for humour.

This is a three shot, from the point of view of Captain Awesome is to catch the reaction of the other heroes to some action. Their expressions are quite funny because of the lack of a conclusive response from them all.

For this shot, we have used the use of lines - from the pointing finger, to highlight the key objects of the shot. As our film has slices of action into it, to appeal to the male teen audience as well as the comedy elements, and the imminent action sequence, to complete the introduction to transition to the rest of the plot.