Rom Com - Love Actually

We are now going to study the beginning of each of the Genre's openings in detail, looking and codes and convetions, Camera shots, Editing, Mise - en - scene, sound and special effects. The third one we have looked at is Rom Com.

Opening - Rom Com - Love Actually
Hand held - actually looks real - genuine - air port - different examples of love
Costume - Bill - dodgy - mid life crisis! Recording studio - well off
Swearing - funny her forgets words - snile
Dodgy dancing - humorous
Establishing shot - city - christmas - credits beginning lettter red - love - romance
Camera shots - hugh looks back at martine - fancies her - reaction shot
Introduces characters - different relationships included - different kinds of love.
Smiley and happy - girl from gavin and stacey - bumming thing - HUMOUROUS! LOL!
establishing shot - london - capital - christmas
Prestige - london - bigger better - wealthy!
Christmas london - magical - shots of the land marks
Airport - camera - amateur - looks genuine
Editing - story lines - run parralell to each other
Shift in focus on kieragoes with music - impact
Mise-en-scene - Cosyume - bill - rod stewart - keith richards - mid life crisis - dodgy costumes
Hugh - smart sophisticated
Martine - smart sophisticated
Colin ferth - smart
Wedding - look like bouncers at the beginning - unconventional costumes for wedding - (and church)
Mans who's with died - fancy apartment - neat - nice clothes
Selling sandwich's man - status - NOT GOOOD!
Lighting - bright
-Red in titles red white - love - christmas
intertextuality - songs - love actually all around - four weddings
Sound - theme tune

Horror - Halloween

We are now going to study the beginning of each of the Genre's openings in detail, looking and codes and convetions, Camera shots, Editing, Mise - en - scene, sound and special effects. The second one we have looked at is Horror.

Opening - Horror - Halloween
Knife mask - clown masks - child - knife - ARGH!
Happy - jokey things - become quite sinister - clowns - good - evil?
Batman + Joker
Setting - normal american suburbia - dear of the unknown
P.O.V - shot - close up face - verse tracking - crane - see whole scene
Hight pitched mooosik - tension - when light goes off - clock - go upstairs - time is up?
Chanting at beginning - sinister - children - ambient noise - crickets - one shot.

Horror - Scream

We are now going to study the beginning of each of the Genre's openings in detail, looking and codes and convetions, Camera shots, Editing, Mise - en - scene, sound and special effects. The second one we have looked at is Horror.

Opening - Horror - Scream
Post modern
Camera - Insert - phone knife - hand, Medium shot - phone, 1st shot - cliche, inserts - phones, knives, popcorn. phsyco, lock of door, Wide shot - see backgound - know something is going to happen. Reaction shot - zoom in. P.O.V shot - looking at door - into the dark, gives a sence of being watched - shots from outside - P.O.V - killer, Inside and outside - swing - creaking - knows someone has just been there - hanging there at the end, E.L.S - house, and car arriving - remote.
Editing - slow motion! - kills her in slow motion - has a chance to get away - chance slipping away - draws attention to how she is killed - graphic - pauses on knife - zooms in fast on her hanging - P.O.V, credits - scream - white to red sound overlaps to title on the 1st screen.
Sound - stabbing noises - slicing sounds - heart beat - base drums - builds up - eratic, innocent at the beginning - very normal, builds up - strings high tempo and frequency - increases melancholy - music - when she has been stabbed - sad depressing - melancholy.
Mise-en-scene - Costume - mask cloak hood - stereotype killer, scream painting -mask, Innocent girl - blonde - wearing white - teenager - innosence, props - popcorn - symbolic - what is happening - build sup - explodes when killer comes in - tension builds, knives - stabber horror - not supernatural - rference to halloween - knife baby sitter - mask - intertextuality, starts with phone call - ends with dial tone - significant, College kid - football jacket - high shcool, Setting - big house - wealthy - isolated - middle class, lots of glass - doors - windows - few spotlights outside - he can see her, she cant see him - lights. Movement - glides across everywher - creepy - killer.

Thriller - Red Dragon

We are now going to study the beginning of each of the Genre's openings in detail, looking and codes and convetions, Camera shots, Editing, Mise - en - scene, sound and special effects. The first one we have looked at is Thriller.

Opening - Thriller - Red Dragon
Setting - orchestra - upper class - cultured
Lecturs house - expensive - well kept - old - antique - expensive!
Accentric artefacts - well travelled - wealthy - dining table - candels - expensive dinner sets
Recipe book - in french - libary - educated - cooked dinner - appreciates fine foood...
Props - arrows - recipe book
Lighting - reflects atmosphere
Colour - dark red furniture - house - blood - death
Titles - one word red, one word white, two sides of a person. Tattoo man wrestles with consience - transform - good - evil.
Sits opposite man at desk - facing each other, face off.
Camera! - reaction shots - lectur
Reaction shot - Will - lectur killer
Establishing shot
Zoom on lectur from establishing shot - spatail awareness
Lectur predator - picking out the flute player - intelligent
Edited - slow steady continuity
Shot reverse shot
Attention drawn to flut player - editing
Sound music - parralel to the action - parralel sound
Pian string instruments - formal
Increased in tempo when appropriate in the scene
High strings - edgy
Builds up when Will is looking at the book

Thriller - Memento

We are now going to study the beginning of each of the Genre's openings in detail, looking and codes and convetions, Camera shots, Editing, Mise - en - scene, sound and special effects. The first one we have looked at is Thriller.

Thriller - Opening - Memento
Props - Photograph - insert shots - gives you a picture of the film straight away, Crime scene - clues, Polaroid camera - dated, Gun weapon - Lenny - Armed - Typical thriller, Key for motel, Car windows broke - questions - why is it broken - Hook - unanswered questions - why is he in a motel, End at the start.
Costume - Smart, proffessional, Intelligent - good job - successful, Outfit - Quite business like - more important.
Setting - America! Quiet area of America - Not a very big city (rare for thriller) - Isolated area - dingy, Building shut down - plastic covering - expected.
Titles - Start white fades to blue - Significance - cold colour - cold hearted - empty - no soul - cold - Ice heart - when people die - they go blue - cold.
Black and white shots - editing - past - flashback.
Insert shots of polaroids - significant, Inserts of lots of props, Props - Show the mans condition, Film structure - In his shoes, Bullets, Glasses, Tatoo's, Bags of things he had used.
Establishing shot at the beginning, Music - Slowly builds up - eerie - emotive - melancholy, Digetic sounds - Polariod - guns, Black and white is edited on afterwards, Different to the begginning of seven, designed to set up the confusion seen through the character.

Preliminary Task

What we had to dooo:
We had to create a short film in which we had to have someone walking through a door, sitting down on a chair and having some sort of conversation with someone and then giving them something. We had to keep in mind the 180 degree rule, we had to include a shot reverse shot, and we had to include a match on action. But we were aloud to have what ever we wanted to happen in the scene. We had to get familiar with the equipment and we recorded it all straight onto the camera in order as we would not have time to edit it on the computers. We worked in groups of three, and there is pictures further on of the people in my group, we decided between all three of us what was going to happen in our short film and all gave different idea's, my idea's included: the shot of the clock, and then the had, and the shifty eye's shot that we did.

The Directors:
In my group was Hannah, Lauren and Meeee :)
Check out our little directors photo's! We were getting well into it :)





How well we worked:
I think my group worked really well together, we diddn't have any diagreements on the actual filming of it, or creating the story board, and we managed to record it all successfully, and quickly as well. We also managed to incorporate all of our idea's into the storyboard, and everyone did something in the group, and nobody diddn't input into it. So I was really happy with my group and I am definetly going to working with them when we actually start doing my coursework, although we dont know which genre to do yet!

The story board:
Check out my amazing drawing! How good is that?? NOT! LOL!
&& I'm doing art aswell... No A Level Art for Matt... :S



















Storyboard description -
Establishing shot of the door, Close up of door - insert, Clock - close up - Ticks for a while - Hand on table whilst clock is clicking - fingers tapping, Medium close up of door - Burst through the door, Pan follows her running, Medium shot - Man sitting down - girl runs into shot, Shifty eye's - extreme close up, Medium close up "Your Late" , Shot reverse shot - dialogue - excuses, Close up of hand "ENOUGH" slamming of hand, MCU - "Have you got it" - man, Insert of bag - pulls out envelope, Handing over envelope - low angle shot - high angle shot - match on action, doing up bag, tilts up to her face, door slam - long shot.

Here is our actual preliminary task:

Individual Research on Thrillers

Settings for Thrillers:
exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas.
Typical Characters:
Hard men, law enforcement officers, spies, soldiers, seamen - Sailors, or ordinary citizens drawn into danger. Mainly men, but women lead characters have been cast before.
Thrillers can often be similar tomystery stories.
Thrillers - Theme crime: the crimes commited are usually serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments.
Violent confrontations are usually used somewhere in the plot.
Mystery films end when the mystery is solved, in contrast to a thriller which climaxes when the hero defeats the villain.
Thrillers have been influenced by horror films.
Monsters have been used in the films, these could be a physical force, something supernatural, aliens, serial killers, or microbes or chemicals.
Thrillers are defined by their approach to the storyline. Many thrillers involve spies, but not all spy stories are thrillers.
Thrillers can be defined by the mood that they create - fear, excitement.

Thriller - Seven

We are now going to study the beginning of each of the Genre's openings in detail, looking and codes and convetions, Camera shots, Editing, Mise - en - scene, sound and special effects. The first one we have looked at is Thriller.

Thriller - Opening - Seven
Detective Somerset - Morgan Freeman:
Smartly dressed, Important, Established, Nice house, Meticulously in order - Proffessional - Methodical, Lives on his own - Lonely, Camera shots - tracking when walking down the street - comfortable with surroundings.
Sounds - City - Dark - Sinister, Theme of City, No sence of community in the City, Everyone keeps themselves to themselves - Good setting for thriller - Crime theme, Metronome - Thinking - Methodical.
Detective Mills - Brad Pitt: ;)
Young, Black leather jacket, Rebellious, Not comfortable with surroundings - Camera shot - tracking when walking down the street - posture - uncomfortable, Loose tie - messy - doesn't tie it everyday. Contrat to Morgan Freemans Character
Scrap Booook:
Music - Edgy - Distorted Screams - Sinister, Storyline - Serial killer on the loose.
Pathetic Phallacy - Miserable, reflects the mood of the scene.

Purpose of an opening

We are learning the purpose of the beginning of different films, so that we can interpret how they are used differently in the different genre's we are studying.

Purpose of an opening:
Content
Setting
Hook the reader in - Unanswered questions
Intro characters
Mood/atmosphere tone

Codes and Conventions

To find out what the code's and conventions of a Horror, Thriller and Romantic Comedy. We watched all three of these film genres. The films we watched include Red Dragon, Halloween and Four Weddings and a Funeral. This is what we found out from our research:



Horror - Halloween:
Young girl/innocence, Devil, Sound - Scary music - Builds up tension, Blood/Gore, Death, Supernatural, Gun/Knife, weapon, Suburbia - equilibrium broken, Survivor/Hero, Dark, Evil, Teenage victims.







Thriller - Red Dragon:
Close ups, Angles, Theme - Crime killer, Mise en scene - Dark/Creepy, Sound/Music - Strings, Tension builds, Red Herring, Twist in the tale.








Romantic Comedy -
Four Weddings and a Funeral:
Resoloution - Usually happy, Funny, Music - Sound track, Romance, Couple - Third Party, Different classes, Middle class - usually, Barrier why the couple aren't together, True Love, && Whats a rom com with out Hugh Grant :)

Introduction

This is my AS Media Blog, that I will be using to record and research what I am doing in my coursework. I will be making the opening three minute's of a film from one the three genre's; horror, thriller or romantic comedy. I will have to research into these three genre's and then decide which opening I am going to create. I will then have to film and edit the opening three minutes of my piece in my group of three people.