Millie Stone - 5317
My group blog is - http://ascvhsmediapmy.blogspot.com/
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Monday 21 March 2011
Filming Our Openings
In these lessons and in my own time this is where me and my group filmed our film and here is how I thought it went.
Saturday 12th March - On Saturday this was when we filmed the voice over of the little girl (Lucy), we didn't actually have to film her in person we just needed her voice so this part of the filming was fairly straight forward. We were very prepared and had all our script ready so we didn't waste time, Lucy (who's voice we are using for our film) is only young so it was quite difficult for her to read the long paragraphs of writing we had set for her, this was a problem but we soon over came it. We split the paragraphs up into just small sentences so Lucy would find it easier to do and she did, once we had shortened them it took a lot less time. Lucy's voice is very young and sweet which is what we needed for our film, we needed innocence. Some of the lines Lucy said, we needed to make her say it a few more times because she either said the line to happy to sad or to slow or fast but in the end we got what we needed so this day of filming went smoothly.
Tuesday 15th March - This day was going to be the hardest day filming because we were going to film the most complicated scene (which was the bedroom scene), we had a problem before we even started filming though which was we only had one camera when we really needed two because they needed to be set up at different parts of the room. We only had one camera so had to try our best and make do with what we had. Before we filmed we wanted to have a run through to make sure things ran smoothly, we then had another problem because our female actor Ellie, really wasn't putting in as much emotion as she should of. She needed to portray the mum in a very destroyed way because she has just lost her daugther. We then had to direct her into how she could become this very emotional and upset character. Because we only had one camera we first filmed the back of Ellie (showing an over the shoulder shot), we had to film this numerous times because something kept going wrong every time, either the actor forgot her line, or there was traffic outside making noise, or the camera wasn't straight. We then went on to film the front of Ellie's face so we could show her emotions, we ran it through without filming and it went fine and then we filmed it and there was a dew problems, first the lighting went very very dark on the camera so we had to figure out how to make the room lighter even though it was day light! Then the second problem was Ellie's hair was covering part of her face so you couldn't see all of her emotions. We then re-filmed where you could see Ellie's face but the lighting still wasn't perfect but we just had to get on with it. When our Male actor had to come in and say his line "what are you doing", we got this bit done fairly quickly, It took a few takes though. We also then just had a shot of Olly walking in and saying his line, without Ellie being in the shot, we thought we could fit this shot in with the editing to show the variety of shots we used.
We finally got the bedroom scene done and then we had some more time left to film so we went to do the birthday scene, we had to change to a completely different location to do this. We though the bedroom scene was going to be quite simply because we only needed one camera to do it as the camera was going to stay in exactly the same place. It took longer here setting up than it did actually filming, this was because we had to turn a kitchen into a birthday party, so we set up banners, presents, balloons and even a cake so the setting would look spot on. Once we had set it up we then started to film and we didn't really have any problems, we obviously had to film the scene a few times because it never comes out perfect the first time you film it. The birthday scene was very simple to do and we got it done without having any major problems.
Wednesday 16th March - This day we were going to film the park scene and the home videos. We started filming the park scene and we knew this was going to be difficult to do because it is in a public place, when we first got to the park there was people in it but we wouldn't be allowed to tell them to get out of it because it's a public place so we waited for a bit and then they finally went. We first had to film a tracking shot of the park but we wanted to have the round about and the swing both moving, and this was very difficult because they were at opposite ends of the park. One of us had to film while the other one had to quickly move the round about and then the swing with out getting in the shot, this took a lot of shots but in the end we finally got it. We then came up with the idea of having a close up of the swing swinging with no one on it and then the roundabout moving with no one on it, these 2 shots were very easy to do and they were going to work really well in our film. We then needed to film Ellie in the park and we didn't stick to the storyboard or shot list here, we came up with a completely different idea, but it was much better than our original. Instead of just filming Ellie in the park walking along for the positive side, we filmed Ellie pushing the round about like her Daugher is actually there and she is smiling and being very happy, we then put the camera high on the climbing frame and face it downwards to Ellie holding her arms up, like the camera is it's child. She then said "come on, come down to mummy", we thought this idea was much better than just having the mum walking through the park.
Thursday 17th March - When we looked over all our filming we realised there was some major mistakes with the bedroom scene, the emotion of the character wasn't there and the camera angles we used were rubbish! We had used an over the shoulder shot of the mum looking through the photos of her child but it also showed the rest of the room and the setting but we then thought, the camera isn't focusing on anything in particular so we needed to re-film this! We also needed to re-film the bedroom scene because we needed more shots of Ellie and more of a variety because our camera shots were limited. We wasn't planning to re-film but we had no choice, we were able to use our female character (Ellie) but then we had a big problem (Olly) our male character was unavailable so we had to figure out to what we had to do. We tried to get someone to fill in but we had no one so we then decided to just go ahead and film Ellie and we would fit Olly in where we needed to when we were editing. We were much more prepared filming the bedroom scene this time, we had both cameras set up on two places of the room, one was focusing on Ellie's face and her emotions and the over was a clear over the shoulder shot of Ellie looking through the photo's, this only took a short while to film because it went smoothly (the only reason we had had to re-film was if there noise outside from the traffic) so it went well. We thought we would film the bedroom scene again changing the shots so when we came to editing we would have a lot of choice, we did an extreme close-up of Ellie's face because we thought it would really portray her emotional character. Lastly we came up with the idea of doing a birds eye view of all the photo's spread out on the bed and Ellie's hands searching through, this looked really good on the camera so we hope we can fit this shot into our film.
Saturday 12th March - On Saturday this was when we filmed the voice over of the little girl (Lucy), we didn't actually have to film her in person we just needed her voice so this part of the filming was fairly straight forward. We were very prepared and had all our script ready so we didn't waste time, Lucy (who's voice we are using for our film) is only young so it was quite difficult for her to read the long paragraphs of writing we had set for her, this was a problem but we soon over came it. We split the paragraphs up into just small sentences so Lucy would find it easier to do and she did, once we had shortened them it took a lot less time. Lucy's voice is very young and sweet which is what we needed for our film, we needed innocence. Some of the lines Lucy said, we needed to make her say it a few more times because she either said the line to happy to sad or to slow or fast but in the end we got what we needed so this day of filming went smoothly.
Tuesday 15th March - This day was going to be the hardest day filming because we were going to film the most complicated scene (which was the bedroom scene), we had a problem before we even started filming though which was we only had one camera when we really needed two because they needed to be set up at different parts of the room. We only had one camera so had to try our best and make do with what we had. Before we filmed we wanted to have a run through to make sure things ran smoothly, we then had another problem because our female actor Ellie, really wasn't putting in as much emotion as she should of. She needed to portray the mum in a very destroyed way because she has just lost her daugther. We then had to direct her into how she could become this very emotional and upset character. Because we only had one camera we first filmed the back of Ellie (showing an over the shoulder shot), we had to film this numerous times because something kept going wrong every time, either the actor forgot her line, or there was traffic outside making noise, or the camera wasn't straight. We then went on to film the front of Ellie's face so we could show her emotions, we ran it through without filming and it went fine and then we filmed it and there was a dew problems, first the lighting went very very dark on the camera so we had to figure out how to make the room lighter even though it was day light! Then the second problem was Ellie's hair was covering part of her face so you couldn't see all of her emotions. We then re-filmed where you could see Ellie's face but the lighting still wasn't perfect but we just had to get on with it. When our Male actor had to come in and say his line "what are you doing", we got this bit done fairly quickly, It took a few takes though. We also then just had a shot of Olly walking in and saying his line, without Ellie being in the shot, we thought we could fit this shot in with the editing to show the variety of shots we used.
We finally got the bedroom scene done and then we had some more time left to film so we went to do the birthday scene, we had to change to a completely different location to do this. We though the bedroom scene was going to be quite simply because we only needed one camera to do it as the camera was going to stay in exactly the same place. It took longer here setting up than it did actually filming, this was because we had to turn a kitchen into a birthday party, so we set up banners, presents, balloons and even a cake so the setting would look spot on. Once we had set it up we then started to film and we didn't really have any problems, we obviously had to film the scene a few times because it never comes out perfect the first time you film it. The birthday scene was very simple to do and we got it done without having any major problems.
Wednesday 16th March - This day we were going to film the park scene and the home videos. We started filming the park scene and we knew this was going to be difficult to do because it is in a public place, when we first got to the park there was people in it but we wouldn't be allowed to tell them to get out of it because it's a public place so we waited for a bit and then they finally went. We first had to film a tracking shot of the park but we wanted to have the round about and the swing both moving, and this was very difficult because they were at opposite ends of the park. One of us had to film while the other one had to quickly move the round about and then the swing with out getting in the shot, this took a lot of shots but in the end we finally got it. We then came up with the idea of having a close up of the swing swinging with no one on it and then the roundabout moving with no one on it, these 2 shots were very easy to do and they were going to work really well in our film. We then needed to film Ellie in the park and we didn't stick to the storyboard or shot list here, we came up with a completely different idea, but it was much better than our original. Instead of just filming Ellie in the park walking along for the positive side, we filmed Ellie pushing the round about like her Daugher is actually there and she is smiling and being very happy, we then put the camera high on the climbing frame and face it downwards to Ellie holding her arms up, like the camera is it's child. She then said "come on, come down to mummy", we thought this idea was much better than just having the mum walking through the park.
Thursday 17th March - When we looked over all our filming we realised there was some major mistakes with the bedroom scene, the emotion of the character wasn't there and the camera angles we used were rubbish! We had used an over the shoulder shot of the mum looking through the photos of her child but it also showed the rest of the room and the setting but we then thought, the camera isn't focusing on anything in particular so we needed to re-film this! We also needed to re-film the bedroom scene because we needed more shots of Ellie and more of a variety because our camera shots were limited. We wasn't planning to re-film but we had no choice, we were able to use our female character (Ellie) but then we had a big problem (Olly) our male character was unavailable so we had to figure out to what we had to do. We tried to get someone to fill in but we had no one so we then decided to just go ahead and film Ellie and we would fit Olly in where we needed to when we were editing. We were much more prepared filming the bedroom scene this time, we had both cameras set up on two places of the room, one was focusing on Ellie's face and her emotions and the over was a clear over the shoulder shot of Ellie looking through the photo's, this only took a short while to film because it went smoothly (the only reason we had had to re-film was if there noise outside from the traffic) so it went well. We thought we would film the bedroom scene again changing the shots so when we came to editing we would have a lot of choice, we did an extreme close-up of Ellie's face because we thought it would really portray her emotional character. Lastly we came up with the idea of doing a birds eye view of all the photo's spread out on the bed and Ellie's hands searching through, this looked really good on the camera so we hope we can fit this shot into our film.
Wednesday 2 March 2011
Shotlist.
In this lesson I started doing my groups first initial shotlist, we will need this when filming because it will make things very organised for us and also will be a lot easier to film because we know exactly what we are doing.
This is what I needed to cover in my groups shotlist:
The date we will be filming thisshot
The time we will be filming this shot
What scene number the shot is
What shot number the shot it
What camera angle the shot is
The duration of the shot
A description of the shot
The location of the shot
The filming equipment needed for the shot
The actors needed in the shot
The titles that are in the shot
The sound that is in the shot
The setting of the shot
The props needed in the shot
The costume the actors are wearing in the shot
The lighting of the shot
Although this seems like a lot, I have put it in a table so it is very easy and simple to read and when my group come to start filming it will be very straight forward because we know exactly what he have to film so we won't get confused or muddle the shots up.
This is what I needed to cover in my groups shotlist:
The date we will be filming thisshot
The time we will be filming this shot
What scene number the shot is
What shot number the shot it
What camera angle the shot is
The duration of the shot
A description of the shot
The location of the shot
The filming equipment needed for the shot
The actors needed in the shot
The titles that are in the shot
The sound that is in the shot
The setting of the shot
The props needed in the shot
The costume the actors are wearing in the shot
The lighting of the shot
Although this seems like a lot, I have put it in a table so it is very easy and simple to read and when my group come to start filming it will be very straight forward because we know exactly what he have to film so we won't get confused or muddle the shots up.
Monday 21 February 2011
Comparing our film opening to other current films.
In this lesson I compared my tragic drama film opening idea with other current tragic films out in the industry today.
Our films both involve a whole family who are involved in the situation and also there are deaths in both films although in My sisters keeper the death is at the end of the film where as in ours it has already happened.
Discussing the openings there is big similarities, both our films start with the little girl talking now in My sisters keeper the girl is talking about why she was born and in ours the little girl is talking about her memories so they are two different things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS55xHZWzEo
Lastly in the opening we both see clips and images of the family together which is another similarity.
I think that my groups film compared the most with "My sisters keeper" and there are many reasons why.
Firstly I think that normally tragic drama films are independent but My sisters keeper wasn't as it appealed to a mainstream audience, was shown in the cinema and was hugely successful and this is what we want our film to be like.
Also both our films have completely different story lines (My sisters keeper is about a young girl fighting her battle through cancer however our film is about a little girl who has already died and we see the relationship between the girl and father were far from perfect, something isn't right).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS55xHZWzEo
Lastly in the opening we both see clips and images of the family together which is another similarity.
Although there are lots of similarities with our film and My sisters keeper, the whole storyline is completely different we just have similar aspects that you can compare the films with.
Institutional Name & Logo.
In this lesson me and my group had to come up with our institutional name and logo for our film.
We also came up with a second production name as we felt we needed another one which defined our group. We came up with different ideas of what this could be called and all agreed that the kind of name we wanted to go for was something that was quite innocent and child like. We then thought of different toys and objects associated with childhood and decided whether they worked or not. we came up with institution names such as; Finger puppet productions, Roundabout productions, The Music Box and Happy Bean productions.
In the end we decided we were keen on on Happy Bean as we felt this was the most original idea but also was not sure whether the audience would get the wrong impression before our film started and that they may think it was a film aimed at children.
We then decided that The Music Box was something that could fit into our film really well. We decided that the music made from the logo could be a light instrumental tune that could carry onto the beginning of our film.
For our main institution we decided the name that we most preferred was the one we were originally given which was Pink Productions. We decided to stick with this name as it fitted in with our style of film but also was the kind of name which could easily relate to a lot of ideas.
We also came up with a second production name as we felt we needed another one which defined our group. We came up with different ideas of what this could be called and all agreed that the kind of name we wanted to go for was something that was quite innocent and child like. We then thought of different toys and objects associated with childhood and decided whether they worked or not. we came up with institution names such as; Finger puppet productions, Roundabout productions, The Music Box and Happy Bean productions. In the end we decided we were keen on on Happy Bean as we felt this was the most original idea but also was not sure whether the audience would get the wrong impression before our film started and that they may think it was a film aimed at children.
We then decided that The Music Box was something that could fit into our film really well. We decided that the music made from the logo could be a light instrumental tune that could carry onto the beginning of our film.
Planning our film & what we need to consider.
In this lesson me and my group started planning on the things we need to consider in our opening, we discussed actors, location and costume.
Actors - For our opening we will need the voice of a little girl which we will be allowed to do because we are only filming her voice and not actually her physical appearance. We need to find someone to play the Mum, this person needs to be middle aged, they also need to come across distraught and emotional because of there daugthers death, they don't really care about anything else. Lastly we need a Dad, now he is going to be the antagonist in our opening, you see the bad side of him as he didn't care for his daughter, he comes across quite cruel and intimidating.
Location - We started planning where we were going to film and the following locations/settings we will need are:
- A Park
- Kitchen for birthday decorations
- Study room
- Bedroom
All these settings are very easy to get we just need to make sure they look right and consider the mise en scene.
Costume (colour, connotations) - We started thinking about what our characters could wear and this is what we came up with.
Mum - We want the mum to be dressed very casually, in comfy baggy clothes and this is because it shows she doesn't want to make an effort, her daughter has died so she doesn't care what she looks like, she just needs to feel relaxed. I think she should be wearing neutral colours, to show her innocence and portray her as the protagonist.
Dad - We want the dad to wear a black suit, the suit shows him as a buisnessman who cares alot about his work and maybe more than his family, and the black shows him as dark and evil and shows him as the antagonist.
Actors - For our opening we will need the voice of a little girl which we will be allowed to do because we are only filming her voice and not actually her physical appearance. We need to find someone to play the Mum, this person needs to be middle aged, they also need to come across distraught and emotional because of there daugthers death, they don't really care about anything else. Lastly we need a Dad, now he is going to be the antagonist in our opening, you see the bad side of him as he didn't care for his daughter, he comes across quite cruel and intimidating.
Location - We started planning where we were going to film and the following locations/settings we will need are:
- A Park
- Kitchen for birthday decorations
- Study room
- Bedroom
All these settings are very easy to get we just need to make sure they look right and consider the mise en scene.
Costume (colour, connotations) - We started thinking about what our characters could wear and this is what we came up with.
Mum - We want the mum to be dressed very casually, in comfy baggy clothes and this is because it shows she doesn't want to make an effort, her daughter has died so she doesn't care what she looks like, she just needs to feel relaxed. I think she should be wearing neutral colours, to show her innocence and portray her as the protagonist.
Dad - We want the dad to wear a black suit, the suit shows him as a buisnessman who cares alot about his work and maybe more than his family, and the black shows him as dark and evil and shows him as the antagonist.
Wednesday 16 February 2011
Initial Storyboard & Script.
I worked with my group to produce our first initial storyboard and script.
Script - For our script the main thing in the opening is the voice over of the little girl, we thought a opening doesn't have a lot of conversation dialogue because it's just introducing you to the film. The little girl is going to explain whats going on with her family to introduce us to the film, we wanted to make her sound very innocent. We didn't want to the script to be to complicated as an opening is quite simple and we want our opening to end with the dad and the mum just beginning to have a conversation.
At first the script was quite hard to do but once we got going on what the little girl was going to see we started working really well and was very happy with our first version of our script.
Storyboard - I found the storyboard very easy to do, this was because me and my group knew exactly what was going to happen because we had already planned the setting the acting and the titles so it all went together really well. When we finally completed our storyboard we were very pleased with it the only improvement we could make though was to maybe make it a bit more basic because I think its a bit too complicated for an opening but its our first initial storyboard so we can still make a lot of changes if we feel it's necessary.
To see my groups first story board and script you can go onto my group blog - http://ascvhsmediapmy.blogspot.com/
Script - For our script the main thing in the opening is the voice over of the little girl, we thought a opening doesn't have a lot of conversation dialogue because it's just introducing you to the film. The little girl is going to explain whats going on with her family to introduce us to the film, we wanted to make her sound very innocent. We didn't want to the script to be to complicated as an opening is quite simple and we want our opening to end with the dad and the mum just beginning to have a conversation.
At first the script was quite hard to do but once we got going on what the little girl was going to see we started working really well and was very happy with our first version of our script.
Storyboard - I found the storyboard very easy to do, this was because me and my group knew exactly what was going to happen because we had already planned the setting the acting and the titles so it all went together really well. When we finally completed our storyboard we were very pleased with it the only improvement we could make though was to maybe make it a bit more basic because I think its a bit too complicated for an opening but its our first initial storyboard so we can still make a lot of changes if we feel it's necessary.
To see my groups first story board and script you can go onto my group blog - http://ascvhsmediapmy.blogspot.com/
Monday 14 February 2011
Timeline.
In this lesson I created two time lines which showed the titles for the opening of films. The reason I did this was because when it comes to me and my group making our film we need to start thinking about the titles as they are very important in an opening! I chose the opening of my sisters keeper because it's a popular tragic drama which is helpful because it's the genre I'm doing. I then chose to do Forrest Gump because that is also one of the best drama films out in the industry today.
My Sisters Keeper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS55xHZWzEo
0.00 - Start
0.02 - Film makers name
0.07 - Main actors name (female)
0.17 - Main actors name (female)
0.24 - Title of film
0.33 - Main actors name (male)
0.37 - Main actors name (male)
0.40 - Main actors name (female)
0.46 - Sub actors name (female)
0.51 - Sub actors name (male)
0.54 - 3 minor actors names (shown together) (male)
0.58 - Casting directors name
1.02 - Costume designers name
1.09 - Music directors name
1.12 - Co-producers name
1.25 - Editors name
1.29 - Production designers name
1.34 - Director of photography's name
1.41 - Executive producers name
1.51 - "Based on novels" name
1.55 - Producers names
2.01 - Screen plays names
2.05 - Directors name
2.05 - End
Forrest Gump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7voy1vit6Y
0:00 - Film production and distribution company logo
0:12 - Film distribution name
0:16 - Film production name
0:23 - Producers name
0:28 - Main actors name
0:32 - Title of film
0:38 - Sub actors name
0:42 - Sub actors name
0:47 - Sub actors name
0:53 - Sub actors name
0:57 - Casting name
1:02 - Co-producers name
1:08 - Executive producers name
1:12 - Visual effects supervisors name
1:17 - Costume designers name
1:22 - Music by name
1:27 - Editors name
1:32 - production designers name
1:37 - Director of photographers name
1:42 - Based on the novel of name
1:46 - Screen plays name
1:50 - All the producers names
2:02 - Directors name
By doing this task I have started to realise how import the titles are in the opening, this opening is only 2 minutes yet it has 23 titles! I noticed that the title of the films came up very early in this both of the openings as well (I wouldn't want ours to come up so quickly. When we come to making our film opening we will defiantly need to add in all the titles because they are very important as that's what makes and opening an opening. I am glad I did this task because it will really beniefet my group because we will be experts in what titles we need and the order they should go in.
My Sisters Keeper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS55xHZWzEo
0.00 - Start
0.02 - Film makers name
0.07 - Main actors name (female)
0.17 - Main actors name (female)
0.24 - Title of film
0.33 - Main actors name (male)
0.37 - Main actors name (male)
0.40 - Main actors name (female)
0.46 - Sub actors name (female)
0.51 - Sub actors name (male)
0.54 - 3 minor actors names (shown together) (male)
0.58 - Casting directors name
1.02 - Costume designers name
1.09 - Music directors name
1.12 - Co-producers name
1.25 - Editors name
1.29 - Production designers name
1.34 - Director of photography's name
1.41 - Executive producers name
1.51 - "Based on novels" name
1.55 - Producers names
2.01 - Screen plays names
2.05 - Directors name
2.05 - End
Forrest Gump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7voy1vit6Y
0:00 - Film production and distribution company logo
0:12 - Film distribution name
0:16 - Film production name
0:23 - Producers name
0:28 - Main actors name
0:32 - Title of film
0:38 - Sub actors name
0:42 - Sub actors name
0:47 - Sub actors name
0:53 - Sub actors name
0:57 - Casting name
1:02 - Co-producers name
1:08 - Executive producers name
1:12 - Visual effects supervisors name
1:17 - Costume designers name
1:22 - Music by name
1:27 - Editors name
1:32 - production designers name
1:37 - Director of photographers name
1:42 - Based on the novel of name
1:46 - Screen plays name
1:50 - All the producers names
2:02 - Directors name
By doing this task I have started to realise how import the titles are in the opening, this opening is only 2 minutes yet it has 23 titles! I noticed that the title of the films came up very early in this both of the openings as well (I wouldn't want ours to come up so quickly. When we come to making our film opening we will defiantly need to add in all the titles because they are very important as that's what makes and opening an opening. I am glad I did this task because it will really beniefet my group because we will be experts in what titles we need and the order they should go in.
Planning our opening.
In this lesson me and my group were carrying on planning our opening we started to think about our script, what the dialogue would be and any stage directions needed, we are going to have a voice over in our opening which will be the little girl talking about memories with her family. The other characters we have are her mum and dad but we are not sure if any of them will say anything yet but we will carry on developing our script next lesson.
We also began to consider mise in our opening, where it would be set, the lighting, make up, costume and props and we will again carry on doing this next lesson.
Lastly another thing we started planning was our story board but just a basic one and then we can make it more detailed when we have the rough idea of what's going to be involved.
Once these three pieces are complete (script, storyboard and mise) they will be on my group blog - http://ascvhsmediapmy.blogspot.com/
We also began to consider mise in our opening, where it would be set, the lighting, make up, costume and props and we will again carry on doing this next lesson.
Lastly another thing we started planning was our story board but just a basic one and then we can make it more detailed when we have the rough idea of what's going to be involved.
Once these three pieces are complete (script, storyboard and mise) they will be on my group blog - http://ascvhsmediapmy.blogspot.com/
Friday 11 February 2011
Scene List.
In this lesson we started to develop our scene list, this is what we have come up with for our opening we were going to have short clips of family videos for scene one, scene two would show the girl having fun in a busy park and then all of a sudden the park is empty, and scene three would be the mum looking at happy pictures of her daughter and the dad isn't interested.
If you go onto my group blog you will see a more detailed version of my groups scenes for our film - http://ascvhsmediapmy.blogspot.com/
If you go onto my group blog you will see a more detailed version of my groups scenes for our film - http://ascvhsmediapmy.blogspot.com/
Planning our film.
In this lesson me and my group started planning our film, we started thinking of story lines and themes because we needed to consider the whole film before we focused on the opening.
I looked at the audience expectations to help me and my group decide what our opening could be about.
The following themes were
- Death
- Terminal illness
- Love
- Money
- Anger
- Depression
- Betrayal
- Family
- Losing someone you love
- Heartbreak
- Family
- Accidents
- Violence
- Abuse
- Problems
- Life changing challenges
- Miscarriage/ Abortion
- Missing
There are a lot of things our film could contain!
We wanted our film to involve a family instead of a couple because we didn't want our film to turn into a romance, we thought it would be a good idea to add in a little girl to add innocence to the film (we decided at the start of the film we could have her voice talking, something is going wrong in her family and you feel more sympathy if a child is talking compared to an adult because you see things in a different light).
Our film is going to be about a family, who have some kind of issue with the dad (we haven't decided what yet) and it will affect the little girl mostly.
With ideas for our opening we were thinking of having the little girl talking about her memories, and all the things she has loved doing but then something always goes wrong and ends up being ruined (but we need to look more into this)
I think we have our basic idea of what me and my group are going to do but next lesson we will develop more into the detail of our film and opening.
I looked at the audience expectations to help me and my group decide what our opening could be about.
The following themes were
- Death
- Terminal illness
- Love
- Money
- Anger
- Depression
- Betrayal
- Family
- Losing someone you love
- Heartbreak
- Family
- Accidents
- Violence
- Abuse
- Problems
- Life changing challenges
- Miscarriage/ Abortion
- Missing
There are a lot of things our film could contain!
We wanted our film to involve a family instead of a couple because we didn't want our film to turn into a romance, we thought it would be a good idea to add in a little girl to add innocence to the film (we decided at the start of the film we could have her voice talking, something is going wrong in her family and you feel more sympathy if a child is talking compared to an adult because you see things in a different light).
Our film is going to be about a family, who have some kind of issue with the dad (we haven't decided what yet) and it will affect the little girl mostly.
With ideas for our opening we were thinking of having the little girl talking about her memories, and all the things she has loved doing but then something always goes wrong and ends up being ruined (but we need to look more into this)
I think we have our basic idea of what me and my group are going to do but next lesson we will develop more into the detail of our film and opening.
Types of audience.
I was looking at the 2 different types of audience (Mass & Niche) to find out what one would suit my groups film opening best and what we would aim for.
I think a tragic drama could hit either a mass or a niche audience.
Mass -A mass audience is a large group, Hollywood films are usually considered mainstream, aiming at a mass audience along with blockbusters, Mass audiences watch films that are advertised absolutely everywhere in the public eye. They have the biggest Hollywood stars in mainstream films, and are also always played in cinemas.
Niche - A Niche audience is small and defined which has a particular special interest in a film genre. They watch films that aren't advertised globally but to a precised audience. The cast in there films are usually not very well known. The niche audience will have a specific interest and not a main genre (example comedy) it will be more defined.
I think a tragic drama could hit either a mass or a niche audience.
Mass -A mass audience is a large group, Hollywood films are usually considered mainstream, aiming at a mass audience along with blockbusters, Mass audiences watch films that are advertised absolutely everywhere in the public eye. They have the biggest Hollywood stars in mainstream films, and are also always played in cinemas.
Niche - A Niche audience is small and defined which has a particular special interest in a film genre. They watch films that aren't advertised globally but to a precised audience. The cast in there films are usually not very well known. The niche audience will have a specific interest and not a main genre (example comedy) it will be more defined.
Sunday 6 February 2011
Research on Tragic Drama Trailers.
I am going to look at some tragic drama film trailers because I want to find out the storyline of the film, what makes it a tragic drama and what themes occur in the film.
My Sisters Keeper
Trailer
Narrative – The trailer shows the film is about a girl fighting for her life battling cancer.
Genre – The Genre is a tragic drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere at the start of the trailer is very happy because the girl is talking about her and her family but then when we find out the actual storyline the mood is very sad and emotional.
Titles – The titles do not come up until we (the audience) start to see how tragic the film is going to be, they show there happily family and then once we know the storyline the titles start appearing which I think is really effective because it separates the two atmosphere's well (one positive and one negative).
Sound – Once again the sound separates the two atmosphere's at the start the soundtrack is very happy and enjoyable but then it turns to very sad and serious (when we find out whats going on).
Character – The characters are a family they have a very close bond which shows a tragedy like this will change their lives forever.
Themes – The themes are love, betrayal, terminal illness, death, family and life.
Setting – The setting looks like quite a quiet place, but I think they are still in the city.
My sisters keeper is about a young girl who is battling her way through cancer but in the end she gives up, she doesn't want to do it anymore so she gets her younger sister to help her and make her look like the antagonist but the truth all comes out in the end.
My Girl
Trailer
Narrative – The trailer shows the film is about a young boy and girl who are best friends.
Genre – The Genre is a drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is quite relaxed, at the start it seems very joyful but nearer the end you realise something will go wrong in the film.
Titles – The titles used are quite basic and old fashioned (this is because the film isn't a recent one), the use of the titles being in black and white make the atmosphere very dramatic as you haven't actually got a colour to set the mood.
Sound – I think the music in the trailer is very basic and calm which makes the atmosphere very relaxed.
Character – The two main characters in the film are a young boy and girl which portrays innocence and is quite stereotypical because drama films often use children.
Themes – The themes you see in the trailer is friendship and relationships.
Setting – The setting is out in the countryside it seems, so it's very quiet and calm for the drama film to be shown.
My girl is about a young girl and boys friendship and also shows the relationship between the girl and father and his job. During the film an incident happens where the little girl loses her best friend which is sad to watch as you see her try and cope without the most important person in her life.
The Shawshank Redemption
Trailer
Narrative – The trailer shows an innocent man who has to serve two life sentences in prison.
Genre – The Genre is a drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very tense and serious, especially at the start as it shows a court case but near the end of a trailer but then near the end it all seems quite relaxed, but you know it's not going to stay the same in the film.
Titles – The titles used are shown in the colour red and this connotates death, this makes the audience think in the film there will be death.
Sound – The soundtrack in the film is very basic and slow and is quiet because it has been taken over by the voice over.
Character – The two main characters in the film is two middle aged men, this is quite non-sterotypical as in drama films they normally use families and children or couples.
Themes – The themes you see in the trailer is justice and freedom.
Setting – The setting is in a prison, which you know is going to be dramatic.
Shawshank Redemption is about an innocent man who is sent to prison for a crime he does not commit, later in the film we see him escape freedom and justice is served.
Titanic
Narrative – The trailer shows the true dramatic story of when the boat titanic, hit an iceburg.
Genre – The Genre is a true tragic drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very emotional as you see an old women tell the story of the film, as she was there.
Titles – The titles used are in the colour white which shows pureness.
Sound – The sound at the start is very calm and soothing and then all of a sudden near the end it changes to very dramatic music as the ship is sinking.
Character – The main characters are a couple which is very sterotypical as you see there relatioship throughout the trailer and show how they are destroyed at the end.
Themes – The themes are love, tradegy, and social classes.
Setting – The setting of a film is all on the ship which is out at sea in the middle of the ocean.
Titanic is a true story about how the ship titanic, struck and iceburg and shows the true disaster of what happend. We also see an upperclass girl fall in love with a lower class boy and we see there relatioship expand through the film.
By analysing all these films it has given me an idea of what I want my group to do for our film opening. I like the idea of "My sisters keeper" the most in having a tragic drama involving a family and then having a terminal illness or a death which tears the family apart. I think when we start planning and creating our film opening we will relate to "My sisters keeper" a lot because we like the storyline and also it is also a very recent tragic drama which has made millions so it is very succesful.
My Sisters Keeper
Trailer
Narrative – The trailer shows the film is about a girl fighting for her life battling cancer.
Genre – The Genre is a tragic drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere at the start of the trailer is very happy because the girl is talking about her and her family but then when we find out the actual storyline the mood is very sad and emotional.
Titles – The titles do not come up until we (the audience) start to see how tragic the film is going to be, they show there happily family and then once we know the storyline the titles start appearing which I think is really effective because it separates the two atmosphere's well (one positive and one negative).
Sound – Once again the sound separates the two atmosphere's at the start the soundtrack is very happy and enjoyable but then it turns to very sad and serious (when we find out whats going on).
Character – The characters are a family they have a very close bond which shows a tragedy like this will change their lives forever.
Themes – The themes are love, betrayal, terminal illness, death, family and life.
Setting – The setting looks like quite a quiet place, but I think they are still in the city.
My sisters keeper is about a young girl who is battling her way through cancer but in the end she gives up, she doesn't want to do it anymore so she gets her younger sister to help her and make her look like the antagonist but the truth all comes out in the end.
My Girl
Trailer
Narrative – The trailer shows the film is about a young boy and girl who are best friends.
Genre – The Genre is a drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is quite relaxed, at the start it seems very joyful but nearer the end you realise something will go wrong in the film.
Titles – The titles used are quite basic and old fashioned (this is because the film isn't a recent one), the use of the titles being in black and white make the atmosphere very dramatic as you haven't actually got a colour to set the mood.
Sound – I think the music in the trailer is very basic and calm which makes the atmosphere very relaxed.
Character – The two main characters in the film are a young boy and girl which portrays innocence and is quite stereotypical because drama films often use children.
Themes – The themes you see in the trailer is friendship and relationships.
Setting – The setting is out in the countryside it seems, so it's very quiet and calm for the drama film to be shown.
My girl is about a young girl and boys friendship and also shows the relationship between the girl and father and his job. During the film an incident happens where the little girl loses her best friend which is sad to watch as you see her try and cope without the most important person in her life.
The Shawshank Redemption
Trailer
Narrative – The trailer shows an innocent man who has to serve two life sentences in prison.
Genre – The Genre is a drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very tense and serious, especially at the start as it shows a court case but near the end of a trailer but then near the end it all seems quite relaxed, but you know it's not going to stay the same in the film.
Titles – The titles used are shown in the colour red and this connotates death, this makes the audience think in the film there will be death.
Sound – The soundtrack in the film is very basic and slow and is quiet because it has been taken over by the voice over.
Character – The two main characters in the film is two middle aged men, this is quite non-sterotypical as in drama films they normally use families and children or couples.
Themes – The themes you see in the trailer is justice and freedom.
Setting – The setting is in a prison, which you know is going to be dramatic.
Shawshank Redemption is about an innocent man who is sent to prison for a crime he does not commit, later in the film we see him escape freedom and justice is served.
Titanic
Narrative – The trailer shows the true dramatic story of when the boat titanic, hit an iceburg.
Genre – The Genre is a true tragic drama.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very emotional as you see an old women tell the story of the film, as she was there.
Titles – The titles used are in the colour white which shows pureness.
Sound – The sound at the start is very calm and soothing and then all of a sudden near the end it changes to very dramatic music as the ship is sinking.
Character – The main characters are a couple which is very sterotypical as you see there relatioship throughout the trailer and show how they are destroyed at the end.
Themes – The themes are love, tradegy, and social classes.
Setting – The setting of a film is all on the ship which is out at sea in the middle of the ocean.
Titanic is a true story about how the ship titanic, struck and iceburg and shows the true disaster of what happend. We also see an upperclass girl fall in love with a lower class boy and we see there relatioship expand through the film.
By analysing all these films it has given me an idea of what I want my group to do for our film opening. I like the idea of "My sisters keeper" the most in having a tragic drama involving a family and then having a terminal illness or a death which tears the family apart. I think when we start planning and creating our film opening we will relate to "My sisters keeper" a lot because we like the storyline and also it is also a very recent tragic drama which has made millions so it is very succesful.
Certification for audiences.
In this lesson we were learning about certification for audiences because it's very important we decide what age certificate our film has.
What's the point ?
This is what the British Film Institution have said. (The reason why we have certification)
- Legal Obligations - To prevent material from breaking the law.
- Protective - Audience may need protecting from items that may cause harm.
- Societal - To consider broader public opinion in mind with regard to language.
BBFC (British board of film classification) - They decide every certification of every film in Britain.
To help me see what age certification my group could have for our film, I have looked at existing tragic drama films and there certificate age.
My Sisters Keeper (2009) - 12A
Beaches (1988) - 12
Time Travellers Wife (2009) - 12A
Ps I Love You (2007) - 12A
Step Mom (1998) - 12
Seven Pounds (2008) - 12A
If Only (2004) - 15
Shawshank Redemption (1994) - 15
Benjamin Button (2008) - 12A
The Green Mile (1999) - 18
The Champ (1979) - PG
A walk to remember (2002) - PG
My Life (1993) - 12
My Girl (1991) - PG
Titanic (1997) - 12
The Notebook (2004) - 12A
The Last Song (2010) - PG
Gone With Wind (1939) - PG
By looking at these existing films I have noticed that most Tragic Drama films have a certificate age of 12, when me and my group create our film we would like it to have a certificate age of 12 this is because most of the films out there are a 12 so we think it would be most suited to what we want to create.
Suitable for 12 years and over
What's the point ?
This is what the British Film Institution have said. (The reason why we have certification)
- Legal Obligations - To prevent material from breaking the law.
- Protective - Audience may need protecting from items that may cause harm.
- Societal - To consider broader public opinion in mind with regard to language.
BBFC (British board of film classification) - They decide every certification of every film in Britain.
To help me see what age certification my group could have for our film, I have looked at existing tragic drama films and there certificate age.
My Sisters Keeper (2009) - 12A
Beaches (1988) - 12
Time Travellers Wife (2009) - 12A
Ps I Love You (2007) - 12A
Step Mom (1998) - 12
Seven Pounds (2008) - 12A
If Only (2004) - 15
Shawshank Redemption (1994) - 15
Benjamin Button (2008) - 12A
The Green Mile (1999) - 18
The Champ (1979) - PG
A walk to remember (2002) - PG
My Life (1993) - 12
My Girl (1991) - PG
Titanic (1997) - 12
The Notebook (2004) - 12A
The Last Song (2010) - PG
Gone With Wind (1939) - PG
By looking at these existing films I have noticed that most Tragic Drama films have a certificate age of 12, when me and my group create our film we would like it to have a certificate age of 12 this is because most of the films out there are a 12 so we think it would be most suited to what we want to create.
Suitable for 12 years and over
Choosing Genre of our opening film.
In this lesson we had to choose the genre for our opening film, my group narrowed the genres down to three, these were tragic drama, psychological thriller and romantic comedy.
The reason we wanted to do a tragic drama is because the storyline is always something realistic but quite sad which we could easily think of a tragic real life story line, also we have all seen a lot of tragic drama films so we know lots about this genre and what kind of scenarios we could of had.
The reason we wanted to do a psychological thriller is because its a very interesting genre, you have to think more about whats going to happen because you want the audience to piece the film together and figure out the storyline, we thought we could come up with a very clever storyline however a disadvantage is that in my group none of us have seen a lot of these films so we wouldn't be an expert on them.
The reason we wanted to do a romantic comedy is because its a very happy feel good film which we would love to do, its fun energetic and humours and we are all and expert on these films in my group. The disadvantage we had with this though is that we didn't think we would be able to make it half romance and half comedy and we would end up focusing on one more than the other.
In the end we have decided to make our opening film genre a tragic drama, this is because there are a number of story lines we could have because there is a variety of different tragic situations in everyday life and also we are all experts on this genre and out of the three we know about tragic drama so this is the genre we have decided to do for our opening.
The reason we wanted to do a tragic drama is because the storyline is always something realistic but quite sad which we could easily think of a tragic real life story line, also we have all seen a lot of tragic drama films so we know lots about this genre and what kind of scenarios we could of had.
The reason we wanted to do a psychological thriller is because its a very interesting genre, you have to think more about whats going to happen because you want the audience to piece the film together and figure out the storyline, we thought we could come up with a very clever storyline however a disadvantage is that in my group none of us have seen a lot of these films so we wouldn't be an expert on them.
The reason we wanted to do a romantic comedy is because its a very happy feel good film which we would love to do, its fun energetic and humours and we are all and expert on these films in my group. The disadvantage we had with this though is that we didn't think we would be able to make it half romance and half comedy and we would end up focusing on one more than the other.
In the end we have decided to make our opening film genre a tragic drama, this is because there are a number of story lines we could have because there is a variety of different tragic situations in everyday life and also we are all experts on this genre and out of the three we know about tragic drama so this is the genre we have decided to do for our opening.
Audience Theory.
In today's lesson we learnt about different audience theories, before we make our film opening we need to consider our audience and what our film opening will do to them.
Here are some of the audience theories we learnt.
Hypodermic Needle Theory
This is when the audience receive the information from the film without having to think about it (using their brain), the audience can watch a film easily without actually having to work out what is going on. It shows the audience are manipulated and sometimes are influenced by what they received in watching a film, this is why some people shouldn't be exposed to certain films because they will copy what happens in the film (example - Jamie Bulger Case).
Uses and Gratifications Theory
This is when the audience can then go on to think about the film and maybe feel connected with whats happened, (example there own experience). This can be split into different sections.
Entertainment - Taking a break from everyday life, sitting down watching a film which is relaxing and enjoyable.
Personal relationships/social interaction - Identification characters (and whats happened to them) and being able to discuss the film with others. ‡
Personal Identity - Where you compare your life to the characters, you relate to what situation they are in or what situation you wish to be in. You either feel alike with that character or really want to be that character and have there life.
Information - To learn about what is going on in the world (educating yourself).
Reception TheoryThis is when the audience watch a film, they are given the information but they have to piece together whats happening, they have to find out the plot. This is very different from just enjoying watching a film, you really need to figure out what the storyline is and think about what the resolution is of the film.
After learning about audience theory me and my group went off and needed to find out audience expectations of our film genre (tragic drama), we needed to know what they thought needed to be including in a tragic drama.
My Audience expectation task is on my group blog.
Here are some of the audience theories we learnt.
Hypodermic Needle Theory
This is when the audience receive the information from the film without having to think about it (using their brain), the audience can watch a film easily without actually having to work out what is going on. It shows the audience are manipulated and sometimes are influenced by what they received in watching a film, this is why some people shouldn't be exposed to certain films because they will copy what happens in the film (example - Jamie Bulger Case).
Uses and Gratifications Theory
This is when the audience can then go on to think about the film and maybe feel connected with whats happened, (example there own experience). This can be split into different sections.
Entertainment - Taking a break from everyday life, sitting down watching a film which is relaxing and enjoyable.
Personal relationships/social interaction - Identification characters (and whats happened to them) and being able to discuss the film with others. ‡
Personal Identity - Where you compare your life to the characters, you relate to what situation they are in or what situation you wish to be in. You either feel alike with that character or really want to be that character and have there life.
Information - To learn about what is going on in the world (educating yourself).
Reception TheoryThis is when the audience watch a film, they are given the information but they have to piece together whats happening, they have to find out the plot. This is very different from just enjoying watching a film, you really need to figure out what the storyline is and think about what the resolution is of the film.
After learning about audience theory me and my group went off and needed to find out audience expectations of our film genre (tragic drama), we needed to know what they thought needed to be including in a tragic drama.
My Audience expectation task is on my group blog.
Jelly Baby task.
The reason we were doing this is because it helps us prepare for creating our actual film opening, to make sure its not too complicated as an opening scene doesn't give to much away.
This is the film opening I created, the genre of it was horror, It starts off with a house in the middle of no where in pitch black then it moves along to showing the little baby asleep, the teenager on her computer, and the mum and dad asleep, next we go to a forest which is next to the house which is dark and scary later we then see a man wearing a mask in the forest and lastly we then see the house the next morning in daylight.
By doing this task it has taught me not to over complicate things, you don't want to have to much in your opening because you don't want to give away the whole story line, you want to keep it as a open narrative so there is still things to come. I thought that my opening was a good idea (as a horror with a house out in the open) but I thought mine was too complicated, you just want to set the scene and not add to many things in, your just introducing the film and it's genre.
Friday 4 February 2011
Film remakes (3)
This was our last hour to film our remakes and we filmed the rest of 50 first dates.
It was quite easy to film there was just a lot of different shots and settings to do, we needed to film in a kitchen, outside, corridor and a salon and we had to have 7 actors. However we used our sixth form kitchen as the kitchen, we filmed outside for outside, we used our school corridor for the corridor and we used a classroom for the salon, we used the same actress in every scene but just changed costume and wigs which worked perfectly and made filming more straight forward because we only had 1 actor.
Out of our three films I think Vertigo was the hardest to film because we had to be very steady with the camera zooming on the face.
I thought Strangers was the easiest as we only had to do 4 shots and it didn't take us long.
I thought 50 first dates was average as it did take the longest to film but that's only because it had the most shots but the shots were simple to do.
It was quite easy to film there was just a lot of different shots and settings to do, we needed to film in a kitchen, outside, corridor and a salon and we had to have 7 actors. However we used our sixth form kitchen as the kitchen, we filmed outside for outside, we used our school corridor for the corridor and we used a classroom for the salon, we used the same actress in every scene but just changed costume and wigs which worked perfectly and made filming more straight forward because we only had 1 actor.
Out of our three films I think Vertigo was the hardest to film because we had to be very steady with the camera zooming on the face.
I thought Strangers was the easiest as we only had to do 4 shots and it didn't take us long.
I thought 50 first dates was average as it did take the longest to film but that's only because it had the most shots but the shots were simple to do.
Film remakes (2)
We started to film Vertigo and managed to film it all in that hour.
It was much harder to film than I thought it would be, as it was difficult to keep the camera steady on the woman's face and zooming in.
We used our shot list and story board to help us whilst filming and it really did benefit us as it made our group very organised and made filming a lot quicker because we knew exactly what we wanted to do.
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We gave ourselves an hour in our own time to film strangers to make sure we would get the filming done for the deadline, We started filming Strangers which was quite simple and straight forward to do as there was only 4 shots we needed to film, this took us about half an hour so for the remaining hour we started to film 50 first dates so when we came to our final lesson of filming we would of filmed some of 50 first dates already.
It was much harder to film than I thought it would be, as it was difficult to keep the camera steady on the woman's face and zooming in.
We used our shot list and story board to help us whilst filming and it really did benefit us as it made our group very organised and made filming a lot quicker because we knew exactly what we wanted to do.
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We gave ourselves an hour in our own time to film strangers to make sure we would get the filming done for the deadline, We started filming Strangers which was quite simple and straight forward to do as there was only 4 shots we needed to film, this took us about half an hour so for the remaining hour we started to film 50 first dates so when we came to our final lesson of filming we would of filmed some of 50 first dates already.
Film remakes (1)
In this lesson we got into our groups (who we would be working with for our final film opening coursework), In my group there is me, Yasmin and Paige.
We got show 9 openings altogether, there were 3 comedy, 3 horror and 3 thriller.
Horror - Stangers, Halloween and se7en.
Thriller - Vertigo, The Shining and Memento.
Comedy - 50 first dates, Superbad and Juno.
We then had to choose 3 openings that we would remake (choosing one from each genre).
We choose to do
- 50 first dates (comedy)
- Strangers (Horror)
- Vertigo (Thriller)
We then had to start planning our remakes and had to do a shot list and story board for each.
Paige did the story board and shot list for Vertigo.
Yas did the story board and shot list for 50 first dates.
I did the story board and shot list for Strangers.
We got show 9 openings altogether, there were 3 comedy, 3 horror and 3 thriller.
Horror - Stangers, Halloween and se7en.
Thriller - Vertigo, The Shining and Memento.
Comedy - 50 first dates, Superbad and Juno.
We then had to choose 3 openings that we would remake (choosing one from each genre).
We choose to do
- 50 first dates (comedy)
- Strangers (Horror)
- Vertigo (Thriller)
We then had to start planning our remakes and had to do a shot list and story board for each.
Paige did the story board and shot list for Vertigo.
Yas did the story board and shot list for 50 first dates.
I did the story board and shot list for Strangers.
Thursday 3 February 2011
Narrative.
We needed to research more into narrative because it is very important considering a film.
Narrative is the organisation given to a series of facts which are linked, a story is a way its substance however a narrative is how it's shown.
There are two types of Narrative - Open & Closed.
An open Narrative never has an ending and is ongoing, this applies to mostly TV Soaps and Dramas, with a open Narrative you can change the situation, add in new characters (example East enders).
A closed Narrative applies to mostly all films; it has a clear beginning, middle and end.
"Narrative keeps the action going" - Vladimir Propp.
Narrative Theories
Vladimir Propp. He has come up with 8 characters that can be applied to a film.
- The hero
- The villain
- The dispatcher
- The helper
- The princess
- The father
- The donor
- The false hero
This can be applied to the film "Shrek", the hero is Shrek, the villain is Lord Farquaad, The dispatcher is also Lord Farquaad, The helper is Donkey, The Princess is Fiona, Her father is the king, the donor is Puss in Boots and the false hero is again Lord Farquaad.
Todorov
Todorov came up with the 5 stages.
- A state of equilibrium at the outset
- A disruption of the equilibrium
- A recgonisation that there has been a disruption
- An attempt to repair the disruption
- A reinstatement of equilibrium
An example of this could be spy kids, you first see them as a happy family (Stage one), then a problem occurs that the Mum and Dad have to solve (Stage 2), The kids then find out what’s going on and that there Mum and Dad are spies (Stage 3), They all work together to defeat the disruption (Stage 4), Everything then goes back to normal and a happy ending (Stage 5).
Linear Narrative
A-B (Film doesn't stop still problem is solved.
Fractured Narrative
When the story jumps back and forth and the viewer has to put the pieces together to figure out what’s going on.
Sunday 30 January 2011
Identifying Genre.
We were set the task to look at a range of openings and identify the genre and comment about what makes it that certain genre, this will help us when we decide on the genre for our film.
The dark knight
The genre from The dark night is action.
The setting is in a big city, lots of banks and places with money, everything is faced paced which is what you usually see with an action because a lot is happening (chasing, crime, undercover), also with an action there is always guns involved (which there is in this opening scene) and the people are undercover robbing a bank which shows they are breaking the law and committing a crime which you also see in an action. I find that with action films everything is quite obvious, they are robbing a band in day light, flying over buildings in day light and also wearing obvious masks in day light!
28 Weeks Later
The genre from 28 weeks later is horror.
The setting is very dark and the only light source used is candles and horror films normally are very dark and creepy, also there is no sound track and everything is quiet so your just waiting for something to jump out at you. Near to the end of the opening scene the editing goes fast paced and everything is very panicked which shows that something is going to go wrong or jump out at you. Finally at the end we see zombies which definitely shows 28 weeks later as a horror.
Step Brothers
The genre from stepbrothers is a comedy.
The soundtrack at the start sets the fun atmosphere as its very up beat, cheerful and happy, you are just seeing to men having fun watching television, eating food, playing guitar while there parents are off to work which is very realistic as the kids have an easy life compared to the adults. The setting is in two houses, the lighting is very naturalistic but quite bright (not low key lighting like a horror would be). The editing is normal paced (not faced like actions or slow like horror).
By doing this task I am starting to realise different genre's have certain things in them that specifically make them that genre.
Horror Film - would contain a obvious villain, blood, death, darkness, normally someone is killed, not a happy ending, dull, scary, victims, always very eerie music, slow paced.
Action Film - would contain a protagonist + antagonist, more physical action than dialogue, violence, face paced, chase, a women in the middle, a hero in the end and the bad guy gets defeated.
Comedy Film - humor, happy ending, up beat, very light hearted, simple story line always enjoyable.
The dark knight
The genre from The dark night is action.
The setting is in a big city, lots of banks and places with money, everything is faced paced which is what you usually see with an action because a lot is happening (chasing, crime, undercover), also with an action there is always guns involved (which there is in this opening scene) and the people are undercover robbing a bank which shows they are breaking the law and committing a crime which you also see in an action. I find that with action films everything is quite obvious, they are robbing a band in day light, flying over buildings in day light and also wearing obvious masks in day light!
28 Weeks Later
The genre from 28 weeks later is horror.
The setting is very dark and the only light source used is candles and horror films normally are very dark and creepy, also there is no sound track and everything is quiet so your just waiting for something to jump out at you. Near to the end of the opening scene the editing goes fast paced and everything is very panicked which shows that something is going to go wrong or jump out at you. Finally at the end we see zombies which definitely shows 28 weeks later as a horror.
Step Brothers
The genre from stepbrothers is a comedy.
The soundtrack at the start sets the fun atmosphere as its very up beat, cheerful and happy, you are just seeing to men having fun watching television, eating food, playing guitar while there parents are off to work which is very realistic as the kids have an easy life compared to the adults. The setting is in two houses, the lighting is very naturalistic but quite bright (not low key lighting like a horror would be). The editing is normal paced (not faced like actions or slow like horror).
By doing this task I am starting to realise different genre's have certain things in them that specifically make them that genre.
Horror Film - would contain a obvious villain, blood, death, darkness, normally someone is killed, not a happy ending, dull, scary, victims, always very eerie music, slow paced.
Action Film - would contain a protagonist + antagonist, more physical action than dialogue, violence, face paced, chase, a women in the middle, a hero in the end and the bad guy gets defeated.
Comedy Film - humor, happy ending, up beat, very light hearted, simple story line always enjoyable.
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Analysing Student Films
We watched 3 film openings created by students.
Clip one (Peephole)
Strengths - The sound was used really well and was effective, I also thought the camera angles were used well especially as there was a variety of them. When the camera was going around the tree, it kept really steady (and that was probably really hard to film).
Weaknesses - I thought that with the basic filming (mid shots) the camera was very unsteady, so when they had harder bits to film (the tree) they kept the camera steady but with easier bits to film the camera wouldn't stay still. The title appeared really early and thought it would of been better if they introduced it a bit later. Lastly I thought there was too much in the opening, it was more like a trailer because you basically see everything happen and with a film opening you just need to lead people in and not give away too much.
Clip two (Shadowing)
Strengths - I thought the camera angles were used really well! The camera was steady, and there was a variety of shots. I also thought that the editing was done to a high standard especially with jump cuts to reveal the stalker.
Weaknesses - It has the same weaknesses as clip one, it just gives to much away, its more like a trailer than an opening. They need to keep away from a closed narrative because in there opening the whole storyline is put out.
Clip three (Solitude)
Strengths - Like the two clips before, all the three clips have had a really good variety of camera angles. The reason this clip was probably the best is because it was a film opening, they didn't give to much away, it was an open narrative as there was lots more things to happen yet.
Weaknesses - I thought that the titles were used badly because it didn't fit with the genre, it was poorly made as well (made of paint). Also they need to be careful with there props as at one point the windscreen wipers were up and then the next they were down.
By looking at previous student films I know that when I create my film, I need to keep away from a film trailer, by the looks of it lots of students make the mistake of making there opening more like a trailer and making it a close narrative where as it should be an opening narrative as there is still lots more to happen in the film.
Clip one (Peephole)
Strengths - The sound was used really well and was effective, I also thought the camera angles were used well especially as there was a variety of them. When the camera was going around the tree, it kept really steady (and that was probably really hard to film).
Weaknesses - I thought that with the basic filming (mid shots) the camera was very unsteady, so when they had harder bits to film (the tree) they kept the camera steady but with easier bits to film the camera wouldn't stay still. The title appeared really early and thought it would of been better if they introduced it a bit later. Lastly I thought there was too much in the opening, it was more like a trailer because you basically see everything happen and with a film opening you just need to lead people in and not give away too much.
Clip two (Shadowing)
Strengths - I thought the camera angles were used really well! The camera was steady, and there was a variety of shots. I also thought that the editing was done to a high standard especially with jump cuts to reveal the stalker.
Weaknesses - It has the same weaknesses as clip one, it just gives to much away, its more like a trailer than an opening. They need to keep away from a closed narrative because in there opening the whole storyline is put out.
Clip three (Solitude)
Strengths - Like the two clips before, all the three clips have had a really good variety of camera angles. The reason this clip was probably the best is because it was a film opening, they didn't give to much away, it was an open narrative as there was lots more things to happen yet.
Weaknesses - I thought that the titles were used badly because it didn't fit with the genre, it was poorly made as well (made of paint). Also they need to be careful with there props as at one point the windscreen wipers were up and then the next they were down.
By looking at previous student films I know that when I create my film, I need to keep away from a film trailer, by the looks of it lots of students make the mistake of making there opening more like a trailer and making it a close narrative where as it should be an opening narrative as there is still lots more to happen in the film.
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Anaylsing Film Openings.
To help us understand film openings even more and see whats involved, we were set the task to analyse a number of openings and by doing this, once we come to creating our own film opening we will be an expert about whats involved.
Reservoir Dogs
Narrative – A gang, going somewhere to cause trouble.
Genre – The Genre I think is gangster/thriller.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere in the opening scene is very cool, rough and serious but fun at the same time.
Titles – The titles are used well as when the camera does a close up on each of the characters, there name appears below so you can tell easily who is playing what part.
Sound – There is background music playing which is a juxtaposition because it really doesn’t suit, they should be having a very cool song playing but the song doesn’t suit their style.
Character – There are a few of the gang members in suits then there are others dressed very casually which already gives us an idea about what each character is like.
Themes – The themes I get from the opening is gang culture, smoking and swagger.
Setting – The opening is set in the streets in an urban city as it looks quite rough and loud.
Hitch
Narrative – Men are trying to get women but they need help from a matchmaker.
Genre – The genre is a romantic comedy as the films about love but humour is also involved.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very happy, humorous amusing and cheerful (high spirits).
Titles – The writing is small and is before the action, the text also signifies business (matchmaker because that is will smiths business).
Sound – Non diegetic soundtrack is played which is very positive and slow (perfect song about love), also Will smith does a voice over talking about relationships.
Character – There is going to be a lot of women and men (couples) as the film is to do with relationships and also there is Will smith (the matchmaker).
Themes – The themes are Love, relationships and men trying to get women.
Setting - The film is set in a city and uses iconography of yellow cabs.
Saving Private Ryan
Narrative – The narrative it quite hard to make out from this opening but I think it's about a man who was a soldier in the war once, and he is telling us his story and what happened to him on his journey and at the end i think you discover that he is a hero.
Genre – The genre of "Saving Private Ryan" is war.
Atmosphere – The atmopshere is quite dull and emotional,obviously because there has been a lot of deaths as the film is to do with war.
Titles – The title of the film comes at the very start before we see anything, it is very plain (black and white) and suits the genre (as its to do with war you wouldn't expect lots of bright colours and fancy fonts) its basic.
Sound – There is non-diegetic soundtrack in the background which is very slow and respectable (you could imagine and army with this music) its also quite moving and royal so fits perfectly with the the genre as well.
Character – You see one main character, an old man who has obviously been in the war when he was younger and lost a lot of friends as you seem him visit graves. Also by watching the opening he seems like a hero this is because as he is walking people are behind him following so he must be well known.
Themes – The themes I get from the opening are war, death, courage and bravery.
Setting - The opening is set in a graveyard with thousands of graves which represent the soldiers that died in the war, it also shows the iconography of the American flag (they fought for their country).
The Shining
Narrative – There is going to be some sort of "bad evil" guy in it, who is going to trap and murder a lot of people and because it's in the middle of nowhere he will get away with it.
Genre – The genre of "The shining" is horror.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very tense, you have a feeling something is going to happen and you are just waiting for that moment.
Titles – The timing of the titles i thought was excellent, they came up just at the right time but i don't think the style of the writing suited the genre because it's suppose to be a horror yet there is baby blue writing, I really don't think it went well with the opening.
Sound – Throughout the opening there is a non-diegetic sound track played with is very eerie and nervous.
Character – We don't see any characters in the opening just see a car which I think either has a couple, or a family in it.
Themes – The themes I think that there is going to be is death, violence, torture and kidnapping.
Setting - The setting is in the middle of nowhere (which is perfect for a horror) in some sort of hotel in the mountains which looks very old and creepy.
Superbad
Narrative – The film is going to involve two guys (best friends) just having fun and having a laugh with their life.
Genre – The Genre of "superbad" is a comedy.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very cool, relaxed amusing and enjoyable.
Titles – The titles I think are spot on, they come in at the right time, the style of them is very bright and cheerful which fits with the genre of comedy.
Sound – There is a soundtrack being played which is very fun, up beat and is what you would expect with a comedy.
Character – In the opening we see two male characters, look like there young, funny and just having a good time.
Themes – The themes I think that will be involved is friendship, girls, college/high school and growing up.
Setting – We don't actually find out where the setting is as the opening is in animation with a coloured background.
Reservoir Dogs
Narrative – A gang, going somewhere to cause trouble.
Genre – The Genre I think is gangster/thriller.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere in the opening scene is very cool, rough and serious but fun at the same time.
Titles – The titles are used well as when the camera does a close up on each of the characters, there name appears below so you can tell easily who is playing what part.
Sound – There is background music playing which is a juxtaposition because it really doesn’t suit, they should be having a very cool song playing but the song doesn’t suit their style.
Character – There are a few of the gang members in suits then there are others dressed very casually which already gives us an idea about what each character is like.
Themes – The themes I get from the opening is gang culture, smoking and swagger.
Setting – The opening is set in the streets in an urban city as it looks quite rough and loud.
Hitch
Narrative – Men are trying to get women but they need help from a matchmaker.
Genre – The genre is a romantic comedy as the films about love but humour is also involved.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very happy, humorous amusing and cheerful (high spirits).
Titles – The writing is small and is before the action, the text also signifies business (matchmaker because that is will smiths business).
Sound – Non diegetic soundtrack is played which is very positive and slow (perfect song about love), also Will smith does a voice over talking about relationships.
Character – There is going to be a lot of women and men (couples) as the film is to do with relationships and also there is Will smith (the matchmaker).
Themes – The themes are Love, relationships and men trying to get women.
Setting - The film is set in a city and uses iconography of yellow cabs.
Saving Private Ryan
Narrative – The narrative it quite hard to make out from this opening but I think it's about a man who was a soldier in the war once, and he is telling us his story and what happened to him on his journey and at the end i think you discover that he is a hero.
Genre – The genre of "Saving Private Ryan" is war.
Atmosphere – The atmopshere is quite dull and emotional,obviously because there has been a lot of deaths as the film is to do with war.
Titles – The title of the film comes at the very start before we see anything, it is very plain (black and white) and suits the genre (as its to do with war you wouldn't expect lots of bright colours and fancy fonts) its basic.
Sound – There is non-diegetic soundtrack in the background which is very slow and respectable (you could imagine and army with this music) its also quite moving and royal so fits perfectly with the the genre as well.
Character – You see one main character, an old man who has obviously been in the war when he was younger and lost a lot of friends as you seem him visit graves. Also by watching the opening he seems like a hero this is because as he is walking people are behind him following so he must be well known.
Themes – The themes I get from the opening are war, death, courage and bravery.
Setting - The opening is set in a graveyard with thousands of graves which represent the soldiers that died in the war, it also shows the iconography of the American flag (they fought for their country).
The Shining
Narrative – There is going to be some sort of "bad evil" guy in it, who is going to trap and murder a lot of people and because it's in the middle of nowhere he will get away with it.
Genre – The genre of "The shining" is horror.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very tense, you have a feeling something is going to happen and you are just waiting for that moment.
Titles – The timing of the titles i thought was excellent, they came up just at the right time but i don't think the style of the writing suited the genre because it's suppose to be a horror yet there is baby blue writing, I really don't think it went well with the opening.
Sound – Throughout the opening there is a non-diegetic sound track played with is very eerie and nervous.
Character – We don't see any characters in the opening just see a car which I think either has a couple, or a family in it.
Themes – The themes I think that there is going to be is death, violence, torture and kidnapping.
Setting - The setting is in the middle of nowhere (which is perfect for a horror) in some sort of hotel in the mountains which looks very old and creepy.
Superbad
Narrative – The film is going to involve two guys (best friends) just having fun and having a laugh with their life.
Genre – The Genre of "superbad" is a comedy.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere is very cool, relaxed amusing and enjoyable.
Titles – The titles I think are spot on, they come in at the right time, the style of them is very bright and cheerful which fits with the genre of comedy.
Sound – There is a soundtrack being played which is very fun, up beat and is what you would expect with a comedy.
Character – In the opening we see two male characters, look like there young, funny and just having a good time.
Themes – The themes I think that will be involved is friendship, girls, college/high school and growing up.
Setting – We don't actually find out where the setting is as the opening is in animation with a coloured background.
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Stating the difference between a film trailer and a film opening.
We needed to learn the difference between a film opening and a film trailer as when we make our opening to our film we must clearly show it is an opening and not a trailer.
We looked at the film Casino Royal and had to analyse the opening and the trailer to see what they both involve and what the difference is.
Casino Royal Trailer
Genre- The Genre of the film is action.
Narrative – From the trailer it seems like a spy on a mission.
Character – In the film there looks like there is going to be the following characters, a spy, a villain and a woman who will come between the two (so there could be a love triangle).
Atmosphere - The atmosphere is going to be quite serious as there are guns involved, and a lot is going to happen.
Themes – There looks like there is going to be the following themes, violence, poker, romance and death.
Setting – The setting looks like it is somewhere abroad in a casino.
Titles – At the end it uses iconography with the gun and 007.
Casino Royal Opening
Genre- The genre is action.
Narrative – There is a spy on a mission and poker could be involved.
Character – The character involved is a spy.
Atmosphere - atmosphere is very rushed and excited (adrenaline).
Themes – The themes in the opening are violence and romance.
Setting – The setting is in a casino
Sound – There is a soundtrack played which is diegetic and fast paced.
Titles – The titles used are very serious, shows the action and the severe things that are going to happen.
Analysing the difference between a film opening and a film trailer
The difference between a film opening and a film trailer is a film trailer shows pretty much the whole storyline, and the best parts of a film because it needs to attract and audience where as a film opening needs to introduce you to the film and include titles to the film, it also needs to set a mood in the first 2-3 minutes.
The difference between a film opening and a trailer is:
A film trailer needs to involve things such as a overview of the plot so the audiences understands what the film is about, it needs to create a sense of interest, it has to show the best bits from the film, create a sense of curiosity, who stars in the film, it shows the genre of the film, lots of shots in a short two minute clip, faced paced and discontinuous editing, a voice over sometimes accompanies it and also it needs a dramatic sound track.
A film opening must intrigue the audience, it must set as mood within the first 2-3 minutes, the viewer should end up being absorbed with the film and it needs to have a sense of curiosity for the viewer and there must be a good use of titles, font and choice of soundtrack.
The opening of a film needs to create a sense of interest it needs to give away some of the story line so it attracts the audience to watch it, it must also make the audience constantly question what they are being shown. This is in contrast to a film trailer which has to keep the audience on the edge of there seat constantly and create a high level of excitement to attract the audience to watch it.
We looked at the film Casino Royal and had to analyse the opening and the trailer to see what they both involve and what the difference is.
Casino Royal Trailer
Genre- The Genre of the film is action.
Narrative – From the trailer it seems like a spy on a mission.
Character – In the film there looks like there is going to be the following characters, a spy, a villain and a woman who will come between the two (so there could be a love triangle).
Atmosphere - The atmosphere is going to be quite serious as there are guns involved, and a lot is going to happen.
Themes – There looks like there is going to be the following themes, violence, poker, romance and death.
Setting – The setting looks like it is somewhere abroad in a casino.
Titles – At the end it uses iconography with the gun and 007.
Casino Royal Opening
Genre- The genre is action.
Narrative – There is a spy on a mission and poker could be involved.
Character – The character involved is a spy.
Atmosphere - atmosphere is very rushed and excited (adrenaline).
Themes – The themes in the opening are violence and romance.
Setting – The setting is in a casino
Sound – There is a soundtrack played which is diegetic and fast paced.
Titles – The titles used are very serious, shows the action and the severe things that are going to happen.
Analysing the difference between a film opening and a film trailer
The difference between a film opening and a film trailer is a film trailer shows pretty much the whole storyline, and the best parts of a film because it needs to attract and audience where as a film opening needs to introduce you to the film and include titles to the film, it also needs to set a mood in the first 2-3 minutes.
The difference between a film opening and a trailer is:
A film trailer needs to involve things such as a overview of the plot so the audiences understands what the film is about, it needs to create a sense of interest, it has to show the best bits from the film, create a sense of curiosity, who stars in the film, it shows the genre of the film, lots of shots in a short two minute clip, faced paced and discontinuous editing, a voice over sometimes accompanies it and also it needs a dramatic sound track.
A film opening must intrigue the audience, it must set as mood within the first 2-3 minutes, the viewer should end up being absorbed with the film and it needs to have a sense of curiosity for the viewer and there must be a good use of titles, font and choice of soundtrack.
The opening of a film needs to create a sense of interest it needs to give away some of the story line so it attracts the audience to watch it, it must also make the audience constantly question what they are being shown. This is in contrast to a film trailer which has to keep the audience on the edge of there seat constantly and create a high level of excitement to attract the audience to watch it.
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Notes On Film Openings.
We looked at two film openings "My best friends wedding" + "Catch me if you can", which are two very different openings, we had the analyse both to help us with our research on openings.
My Best Friends Wedding
We watched the opening to the film “My best friend’s wedding”.
Genre – The genre of the film is romance, this is because the opening of the films shows a bride which means there is going to be a wedding as two people love each other (romance). The colours used in the opening are mostly pink which also represents love and romance.
Narrative – In the film there is going to be a wedding as we see a bride, but you also get the impression that something is going to go wrong and it is maybe to do with the brides’ friends as the film is “My best friend’s wedding”.
Character – There is going to be a bride, as we see her in the opening and if there is a bride that means there is also going to be a groom and bridesmaids, best man, lots of family and friends as there is going to be a wedding.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere in the opening of the film seems quite light and happy, also love and lots of femininity, this is because in the opening the women is talking about getting married (happy), everything seems perfect (light), she is talking about her man (love) and everything is very pink and girly (feminine).
Themes – From watching the opening from the film the themes I think it will involve is romance, love, wedding, happiness and friendship.
Setting – The setting of the opening is in the studio and this is because it’s taking the mickey out of the film because it’s very “cheesy” and “happy” also it shows a stage performance.
Sound – The sound played is diegetic and is a song which is a reference on how to love and keep your man which shows romance, love and happiness.
Titles - The titles used are in a handwriting style which makes them look like an invitation which links with the theme of a wedding.
Catch Me If You Can
We watched the opening to the film “Catch me if you can”.
Genre – The genre is action I think because there is a lot which is going to happen there is going to be a chase, maybe something to do with a mystery and the film also could have something to do with detectives.
Narrative – The film will involve some sort of chase, now we don’t actually find out in the opening why someone is going to be chased but I think there could be a chase because someone is undercover as a detective trying to catch someone out.
Character – There looks like there are going to be characters in disguise and detectives, which shows us there will be good and bad people in the film.
Atmosphere – The Atmosphere looks like there is going to be a lot of suspense and waiting because you and just waiting for someone to be caught as it says in the title “catch me if you can”.
Themes – The themes that will be involved in the film I think are danger, crime, chase and disguise.
Sound – There is a non diegetic soundtrack played which is very sneaky and suspicious which makes me think that there is a lot of sneakiness and suspicion in the film.
Titles – The titles are used in a very creative way as they link in with the animated opening and are used (for example an M is also used for a ladder which someone climes up).
By looking at these two openings, I am learning more and more about what needs to be involved, this will help me when I come to making my groups film opening. We need to make sure when planning our film we consider all of these points above (Genre, Narrative, Character, etc......)
My Best Friends Wedding
We watched the opening to the film “My best friend’s wedding”.
Genre – The genre of the film is romance, this is because the opening of the films shows a bride which means there is going to be a wedding as two people love each other (romance). The colours used in the opening are mostly pink which also represents love and romance.
Narrative – In the film there is going to be a wedding as we see a bride, but you also get the impression that something is going to go wrong and it is maybe to do with the brides’ friends as the film is “My best friend’s wedding”.
Character – There is going to be a bride, as we see her in the opening and if there is a bride that means there is also going to be a groom and bridesmaids, best man, lots of family and friends as there is going to be a wedding.
Atmosphere – The atmosphere in the opening of the film seems quite light and happy, also love and lots of femininity, this is because in the opening the women is talking about getting married (happy), everything seems perfect (light), she is talking about her man (love) and everything is very pink and girly (feminine).
Themes – From watching the opening from the film the themes I think it will involve is romance, love, wedding, happiness and friendship.
Setting – The setting of the opening is in the studio and this is because it’s taking the mickey out of the film because it’s very “cheesy” and “happy” also it shows a stage performance.
Sound – The sound played is diegetic and is a song which is a reference on how to love and keep your man which shows romance, love and happiness.
Titles - The titles used are in a handwriting style which makes them look like an invitation which links with the theme of a wedding.
Catch Me If You Can
We watched the opening to the film “Catch me if you can”.
Genre – The genre is action I think because there is a lot which is going to happen there is going to be a chase, maybe something to do with a mystery and the film also could have something to do with detectives.
Narrative – The film will involve some sort of chase, now we don’t actually find out in the opening why someone is going to be chased but I think there could be a chase because someone is undercover as a detective trying to catch someone out.
Character – There looks like there are going to be characters in disguise and detectives, which shows us there will be good and bad people in the film.
Atmosphere – The Atmosphere looks like there is going to be a lot of suspense and waiting because you and just waiting for someone to be caught as it says in the title “catch me if you can”.
Themes – The themes that will be involved in the film I think are danger, crime, chase and disguise.
Sound – There is a non diegetic soundtrack played which is very sneaky and suspicious which makes me think that there is a lot of sneakiness and suspicion in the film.
Titles – The titles are used in a very creative way as they link in with the animated opening and are used (for example an M is also used for a ladder which someone climes up).
By looking at these two openings, I am learning more and more about what needs to be involved, this will help me when I come to making my groups film opening. We need to make sure when planning our film we consider all of these points above (Genre, Narrative, Character, etc......)
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