Genre with Student Made Films.

Horror-

This horror movie is made by an A level student , its called Friend request, he gets a friend request on Facebook from someone he doesn't know, she likes various photos of his and messages telling him she is coming to his house. He looks out of the window and see a teddy bear hung at the fence, we see the girl walk past the door behind him, he is still unaware. This is all reasonably apparent to the audience however after this he seems to be in complete darkness and needs light of a candle to see, I assume that the lights have gone out however this was not apparent to me. After he turns the lights back on he sees the door shut and as he reaches for the handle it moves up and down vigorously without him touching it. He runs in a looks through her Facebook it's seems that she is dead and he is being haunted by a ghost. further up there are photos of him through the windows of his house. He goes to get a gun with for me isn't needed in the film but makes the character seem to fearless. The use of the creepy innocent girl with a teddy.

This horror movie is made my an A-level film. In it we see a girl walking home, over the top of this is quite slow but sharp music. She gets home and behind her in the window is masked man she is unaware of this, she sits down to watch TV the door the masked man puts his head through the open window, she still is oblivious, she goes up stairs to bed when the masked man and an associate they take her to an enclosed rooms and tie her up, she screams and resists she is then covered in fuel and burnt.
This film uses various Horror conventions such as the pacey loud, sharp music. The use of masked men is another Horror convention. When we see the women tied up and taped at the mouth it shows many horror movie conventions where the victim is trapped and immobilised.   

Action with Some Crime-

In Caught we see a man walking out of his house looking very pleased and happy, he gets into his car, however in the back seat is a man who puts him to sleep. The film jumps to the inside of a garage, here the man is tied up and the while the man from the car has a gun pointed to his head he wants answers, he then leaves to deal with one of the victims friends that's come to help, he returns and say his friend has been shot during the time he left the tied up man has released his hands and punches the gun out of his hand they fight. The victim is knocked out, as the gun is raised to shoot him another gun shot is heard and the friend, injured has returned to kill him and save his friend. During this film there are many conventions from action films such as the guns, fighting and hostility. Also the use of camera work is a good convention such as the lagged video that allow or a blurry duplicated clip to show unconsciousness.
 

In this short film we see a foreign drug dealer that receives a large amount of cocaine from a larger dealer, he pays him then takes a line of the cocaine to then find out that the cocaine is not cocaine at all he sends his associate to chase him and retrieve the money from him, they chase through the town and up a set of stairs to the roof of a multi-story building the dealer is trapped and the associate fights for the money back when down the associate is trapped and the dealer is ready to kill him however the associate sees a shape metal spike in the flower bed and uses it to counter and stab the dealer killing him and taking the money back. This film contains lots of Action conventions such as the cocaine, dealers, guns, high speed chases, fight scenes and the rural setting that makes the film look really professional. Also the slow motion and rewind shots are used in lots of action films like this to mark important moments and stunts which this film had done.

 

 

 

Forgotten Love- Film Idea(Practice in Pitching a Film)

PLOT- Henry has dementia. He is involved in a car crash and he ends up in hospital and can’t remember any family members because of his mental illness. He then meets Lola, a 60 year old nurse who is working on the ward. They fall in love because charming nature. Doctors are adamant that he stays for a few more weeks but he feels ready. Lola retires and runs away with Henry. We see this love until Henry dies the funeral is organised by his brother who invites people he has forgot as well as people he knew. Little did Henry remember that he already had a wife! throughout the film we see Henry's grandchildren looking longingly for him and his wife searching for him but little do we know that its actually his wife.

Cast-
Michael Caine as Henry














Jessica Lange as Lola













Julie Walters as Henrys Wife
















Opening 2 Minutes- Henry is in his car driving down the road when a young teen pulls out of the junction and hits Henry traveling at 50MPH he is servilely injured and the screen slowly fades black. 

Target Audience- Young Adults and older Women (16-50)  

 

Genre With Profesional Films

Some Types of Genre-

Action
Adventure
Crime and Gangsta
Comedy
Horror 
Sci-Fi

(some ideas are taken from earlier posts on my blog and have been used to create a sing post purely on Genre)

Crime and Gangsta/ Comedy-

The film consists of Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega, two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents. This film consists of generic conventions of an Action film, including gun fights, lots of heavy language, smoking and money. It also includes the main protagonist's and the rivalry between two sides that we expect to see from an action film. Comedy is also used in this film however is mainly based on our violent humour as an audience of Action films.

 In 21 jump street we see Schmidt and Jenko are high school students, one an honour roll geek, the other a cool, athletic underachiever. By 2012, they are rookie cops, paired together, on bike patrol yearning to make arrests. After a screw up, they're sent undercover back to high school to find the source of a dangerous synthetic drug. They mix up their names, and Schmidt gets the no-brainer classes where he auditions for Peter Pan and falls in love with Wendy; Jenko gets AP classes where he falls in with high-achieving dweebs. This second chance at high school gives Schmidt delusions of grandeur, which threaten the operation. This film is great example of a Crime/Gangsta film containing all the expected conventions such as the guns, fighting's, crimes, drugs, women but challenges these conversions setting it in a high school where they are undercover and has a sub story beneath it where Schmidt is desperately becoming attached to the change in high school life in which he is the most popular kid in school

Action-

In the opening of this film we start with a high speed chase where Vin Diesel is on a run at hijacking fuel tanks on the highways of the Dominican Republic, While his girlfriend Letty is hanging on for her life after jumping off the fast moving fuel tank with no drive after the drive was quickly brought to see the near edge of the road and jumped out without hesitation. Vin Diesel is rationally trying to save Letty driving in reverse at high speeds hanging out of the window grabbing Letty and pulling her onto the bonnet of the car. The fuel tank hits a lump in the ground and continues to roll continuously narrowly avoiding Vin and Letty's car and exploding

In this opening we see James 
Bond leave a wooden lodge
after a night with a girl,
classic bond! He makes a swift
exit leave on skis traveling down
the snowy cliffs when he is
confronted by a group of spy's
that start a icy chase with shots
being fired. James Bond manages
to dodge all the bullets and
explosions to then turn around
and shoot bullets from the end of
this ski pole killing off the spy's and finally bailing of the side of the cliff to fall quickly and leave audience in suspense until he reveals his parachute to float slowly to ground. This parachute is of the Great British flag. This contains many basic conventions of Action, these include the fast speed chases with loads of amazing stunts, guns and various crimes, a lot of murder and the use of specialist equipment such as the gun in the ski stick.

Adventure-

Once upon a time, the Kingdom of Erebor in the Lonely Mountain was taken from the dwarfs by the evil dragon Smaug. One day, the young Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is unexpectedly visited by the wizard Gandalf the Grey and twelve homeless dwarfs led by their former king Thorin and decided to vanquish Smaug and recover Erebor and their treasure. Bilbo joins the company in an unexpected journey through dangerous lands of the Middle-Earth where they have to fight against Trolls, Orcs and other magic creatures. Bilbo also meets the Gollum and finds his lost magic ring. This contains many adventure conventions such as the long journey traveling containing fantasy creatures and animals with one leader that is the superior being in the film    

 

Horror-

The Devil Inside is set in Italy. A women becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism. The daughter is determined to find out the story of how her mother turned out like this and why all these exorcisms are happening. She goes through a series of processes to try and take the exorcism out of her mother and return her back to normal. An exorcism is a very common convention in a horror film. It challenges the conventions of a horror film and is clearly shown throughout the contents of this movie. The use of religion is also a very important convention in Horror movies that shows the work of the devil which is cleverly shown through-out this film.   

Scream is a great example of a classic horror movie where we see an average girl having a night in watching some movie's, she's cooking pop corn when her phone rings. A man on the other end explains that he can see her and explains exactly what she is doing and what she should do. She begins to worry and looks all her doors, he gets angry and ends up killing her. This is then discovered by the police and the masked, cold killer continues killing and taunting the police killing various people from his high school. There are many conventions of horror movies such as the cold killer and the use of death and weapon, a victim and blood. However this film challenges these conventions using the setting of a high school surrounding and also the use of masked human rather that some mythical creature that is born to kill!   


For our film we are going to use horror because we feel that the conventions are so strong and our overall understanding is good in order to create and exciting and thrilling horror movie.

Original 2 minute opening. Brief Start

Analysis of Big Fish

I really enjoyed Big Fish, it's mix of Adventure, Fantasy and Drama Genres merged well to create a believable but fun, enjoyable film. The episodic structure of the film helped to create an atmosphere in the audience of which we felt part of the film and as thought the stories were being told directly to us. However in some circumstances this became confusing as to how the film was structured. It also left us constantly questioning whether Edward Bloom's stories about his life were true or if they were all just lies to make events of his life sound more exciting. There were small foreshadows throughout the film that suggested truth such as when William Bloom was in his fathers shed and discovered letters from the army but also some foreshadow to say that it was lies such as when Ed was in hospital with will when Dr Bennett told Will of exactly how he was born. These were effective to keep the audience engaged in the films and caused us to develop our own opinions on how the film was going to finish.

This leads me to another piece of the film that I really felt helped make the story the audiences own. This was the end, we see William in the funeral after telling his a story about his death much like the stories he had been told as a child. At the funerals were all the characters from Edwards stories. This goes un-explained and we as an audience are left to decide fore ourselves weather this is reality or a story that goes unmarked.

Big Fish Trailer-2003-

The Heist Edited Film(Practice 2 mintute Opening)

 

 



Making of The Heist (Practice 2 mintute Opening)

When making our Two Minute opening of the Heist we ran into some problems such as having to change the script. We had originally planned to use Body Guards in the film that would protect Ricardo and were used to create the climax after Fizz Shoots them accidently. When it came to our day for shooting the film the bodyguards were unavailable so change to the script was needed. In the end we decide that climax would be build through Fizz accidently pulling the trigger and firing his gun into the air allowing Ricardo to act on Fizz. We feel this was a better idea than our original idea because we wanted to condense the film down more because we felt the opening would become to full using un-needed characters to portray the opening meaning of the film. 

After shooting all the shots and ensuring they were of a great standard I started to put the clips together editing the shots, we condensed some of the longer clips that wasted our 2 minutes for example when walking out of Ricardo's Den the clip was 7 seconds, I then condensed it down to 3 minutes to keep the opening smooth and clean with constant action and movement. Our film had very little dialogue but used a song instead that ran over the whole opening this created a nice atmosphere and kept the audience drawn in because it became a lot more exciting with the use of music. It then came down to inserting sound effects such as gun shots, cocks and car door slams etc. I put these on a separate track and unlinked the original recorded sound and silence it then put the music on another track and inserted sound effects through on another track as shown here-

   If you look closely at the first section of audio on Audio Track 2 you can see it has a purple underline on it, this is were I have used a volume and a de-hummer effect to increase the volume and to cancel out any unwanted hum that I could hear.

Genre

Classic films such as Pulp Fiction that create an Action Comedy. The film consists of Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega, two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents. This film consists of generic conventions of an Action film, including gun fights, lots of heavy language, smoking and money. It also includes the main protagonist's and the rivalry between two sides that we expect to see from an action film. Comedy is also used in this film however is mainly based on our violent humour as an audience of Action films.

 More Modern films such as 21 Jump Street take these generic conventions of Action films such as Pulp Fiction and change them ever so slightly in order to create something new to meet the modern audience. Examples in taking the comedy element and extending it to meet the audience. In 21 jump street we see Schmidt and Jenko are high school students, one an honour roll geek, the other a cool, athletic underachiever. By 2012, they are rookie cops, paired together, on bike patrol yearning to make arrests. After a screw up, they're sent undercover back to high school to find the source of a dangerous synthetic drug. They mix up their names, and Schmidt gets the no-brainer classes where he auditions for Peter Pan and falls in love with Wendy; Jenko gets AP classes where he falls in with high-achieving dweebs. This second chance at high school gives Schmidt delusions of grandeur, which threaten the operation.