| I have researched into the types of film that are similar to my own. This survey is from the film Sorority Row which shows a similar target audience that we would use for our own film. This is what we found; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Monday 29 November 2010
MAIN CHARACTERS
Ambrose will be playing the character BEN ( Emma's boyfriend)
Bel will be playing the character of Emma's Sister
Emma will be the main character and the attended target of the killer
Bayman will be the KILLERWednesday 24 November 2010
PHOTOS
In one of our media lessons our group decided who was going to do what. I was assigned the task of taking the photos, Emma was completing the storyboard and Sarah was thinking about the music we could use behind the film and also costume ideas.
I took the photos in locations up my road. Some of the photos were just objects however I edited the pictures to give them a 'darker ' look. I took a picture of a gate but made it black and white so the effect was more powerful. Another example is the picture of the letter box with eyes peeping through which was edited so the picture was red therefore implying danger. The picture of the footprint is effective as it suggests that someone is around and the shot of the footprint will be a close-up shot.
The pictures are just ideas for where we might locate the film, we may end up not using particular locations however it was good to have a idea of what we could possibly use. We will definitely be filming in the night for our short film similar to the photos taken however we will have to take into consideration the weather.
I took the photos in locations up my road. Some of the photos were just objects however I edited the pictures to give them a 'darker ' look. I took a picture of a gate but made it black and white so the effect was more powerful. Another example is the picture of the letter box with eyes peeping through which was edited so the picture was red therefore implying danger. The picture of the footprint is effective as it suggests that someone is around and the shot of the footprint will be a close-up shot.
The pictures are just ideas for where we might locate the film, we may end up not using particular locations however it was good to have a idea of what we could possibly use. We will definitely be filming in the night for our short film similar to the photos taken however we will have to take into consideration the weather.
Monday 22 November 2010
Brief summary of the plot
Emma and her boyfriend Ben decide to have an early night in, until they are woken by a mysterious phone call and appearance at the front door from Emma's sister Bel. All may seem like a normal night to Emma and Ben , but they are mistaken as they start to receive more than one mysterious phone call and numerous door bell rings..this night could possibly become the night of HELL!
Possible Names for our film
- Killer
- Night of HELL
- Paranoid
- Two Girls, One boy and A Killer
- Somebody is watching you
Shots
Today in the lesson we went over various shots we may be using, this isn't definite but its a brief idea to help the film making process.
1. Establishing shot of house to show where the film is taking place
2. High angle shot of Emma and Ambrose asleep in bed
3. Close-up of phone ringing to build tension and mystery
4. Medium shot of Emma picking up the phone and jumping when she hears the door bell
5. Long shot/zoom o0f the killer going through the alley way
6. Over the shoulder shoulder shot of Ambrose opening the door to Bel ( Emma's sister)
7. Arc shot of the action in the living room
8. Long shot/tracking to show Emma getting up and going into the kitchen
9. Medium shot from behind the the killer walking towards the house
10. Cut to close-up shot of the killer scrolling down the contacts in his phone
11. Close-up of Emma's phone ringing
12. Extreme close-up of Killer's finger on the door bell
13. Over the shoulder shot of Emma opening the door but finding no-one is there
14. Long shot showing the killer
15. Close-up of the letterbox
16. Medium shot showing Emma holding a letter and facial expression scared
17. Extreme close-up of whats written in the letter
18. Long shot of Ambrose walking out the kitchen
19. Medium shot of both Ambrose and Emma hugging
20. Extreme close-up of the killer's eyes
1. Establishing shot of house to show where the film is taking place
2. High angle shot of Emma and Ambrose asleep in bed
3. Close-up of phone ringing to build tension and mystery
4. Medium shot of Emma picking up the phone and jumping when she hears the door bell
5. Long shot/zoom o0f the killer going through the alley way
6. Over the shoulder shoulder shot of Ambrose opening the door to Bel ( Emma's sister)
7. Arc shot of the action in the living room
8. Long shot/tracking to show Emma getting up and going into the kitchen
9. Medium shot from behind the the killer walking towards the house
10. Cut to close-up shot of the killer scrolling down the contacts in his phone
11. Close-up of Emma's phone ringing
12. Extreme close-up of Killer's finger on the door bell
13. Over the shoulder shot of Emma opening the door but finding no-one is there
14. Long shot showing the killer
15. Close-up of the letterbox
16. Medium shot showing Emma holding a letter and facial expression scared
17. Extreme close-up of whats written in the letter
18. Long shot of Ambrose walking out the kitchen
19. Medium shot of both Ambrose and Emma hugging
20. Extreme close-up of the killer's eyes
Sci-fi Cliches
There is always something out there in the classic science fiction film. No one knows what is out there, or where it comes from, or what it wants, but it is out there. As a rule, it will continue to stay out there for a long time, because the film-makers understand that letting the audience think about what may be out there is a lot scarier than actually seeing what is out there.
Women play an important role in sci-fi movies. Feisty, resourceful, indomitable women have pivotal roles in all the Star Wars films, the Aliens franchise and the Terminator movies. Since women are far less visible in conventional action films, this suggests that armed women get more dangerous as they gravitate away from our galaxy.
As soon as the aliens start killing humans, the heroes seal off parts of the spacecraft, but that never works. Somebody always gets left behind. A similar problem arises when a member of the crew, against the wishes of his colleagues, ventures outside to make repairs to the spacecraft. Always a bad idea.
Women play an important role in sci-fi movies. Feisty, resourceful, indomitable women have pivotal roles in all the Star Wars films, the Aliens franchise and the Terminator movies. Since women are far less visible in conventional action films, this suggests that armed women get more dangerous as they gravitate away from our galaxy.
As soon as the aliens start killing humans, the heroes seal off parts of the spacecraft, but that never works. Somebody always gets left behind. A similar problem arises when a member of the crew, against the wishes of his colleagues, ventures outside to make repairs to the spacecraft. Always a bad idea.
Romance Cliches
According to popular lore, the romantic film is based on a simple formula: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again. But that is not true. For the most part, the boys have nothing to do with it. The cliche that actually serves as the infrastructure of the classic romance is that the female lead almost never ends up with the man she was originally supposed to spend the rest of her life with.
Romantic films wend their way to the altar as inevitably as action films lead nowhere. Powerful, ubiquitous cliches associated with the genre include the bride or groom suddenly getting ditched at the altar (The Philadelphia Story, The Graduate, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Runaway Bride.)
Romantic films frequently feature the pushy but lovable mother, the harried, befuddled father, the fat, mouthy but highly supportive girlfriend who wears glasses and has never had a date, and the gay neighbour or co-worker who knows what you're going through because he's had his heart broken so many times himself. In a number of contemporary romances, the male lead has a best friend who is a lovable slob.
Teen romances have their own separate cliches. Actually, they have one separate cliche: teens from out of town find it hard to fit in so they start hanging around with social misfits or goths or beatniks or vampires suffering from social anxiety disorders. In teen romances, the jocks are invariably portrayed as cruel, self-absorbed idiots.
Romantic films wend their way to the altar as inevitably as action films lead nowhere. Powerful, ubiquitous cliches associated with the genre include the bride or groom suddenly getting ditched at the altar (The Philadelphia Story, The Graduate, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Runaway Bride.)
Romantic films frequently feature the pushy but lovable mother, the harried, befuddled father, the fat, mouthy but highly supportive girlfriend who wears glasses and has never had a date, and the gay neighbour or co-worker who knows what you're going through because he's had his heart broken so many times himself. In a number of contemporary romances, the male lead has a best friend who is a lovable slob.
Teen romances have their own separate cliches. Actually, they have one separate cliche: teens from out of town find it hard to fit in so they start hanging around with social misfits or goths or beatniks or vampires suffering from social anxiety disorders. In teen romances, the jocks are invariably portrayed as cruel, self-absorbed idiots.
Crime Cliches
Most of the essential,indispensable cliches in films about crime - the police are as bad as the gangsters, just try find an LA cop who's not on the take-were established many, many years ago, and films that ignore them rarely succeed in the box office.
Crime movies almost always have a rat, and sometimes several. Gangsters have a hard time identifying the rat in the crew, even though the rat is always the newest and best looking member of the gang, and never seems to belong to the same ethnic group as everyone else in the gang.
Gangster movies often include a scene in a restaurant or nightclub where somebody says the wrong thing to the wrong guy and later regrets it.
In crime movies, there is usually one straight arrow whom the gangsters respect because he is not completely crooked like them.
The crime genre must also be looked at from the perspective of the cops. For a crime film to work, there must be a wizened, cynical cop who is close to retirement and has seen it all. There must be a young cop who just got married, and who will almost certainly die. There must be a full-dress funeral service, preferably in the rain.
Finally gangster movies would not be gangster movies without the crucial scene in the hospital where a good looking young cop comes on duty to replace the cop who is guarding an important witness, and then turns out to be a hit man.
Crime movies almost always have a rat, and sometimes several. Gangsters have a hard time identifying the rat in the crew, even though the rat is always the newest and best looking member of the gang, and never seems to belong to the same ethnic group as everyone else in the gang.
Gangster movies often include a scene in a restaurant or nightclub where somebody says the wrong thing to the wrong guy and later regrets it.
In crime movies, there is usually one straight arrow whom the gangsters respect because he is not completely crooked like them.
The crime genre must also be looked at from the perspective of the cops. For a crime film to work, there must be a wizened, cynical cop who is close to retirement and has seen it all. There must be a young cop who just got married, and who will almost certainly die. There must be a full-dress funeral service, preferably in the rain.
Finally gangster movies would not be gangster movies without the crucial scene in the hospital where a good looking young cop comes on duty to replace the cop who is guarding an important witness, and then turns out to be a hit man.
Action Cliches
Many cliches in action films are too obvious to mention however here are some.
The Classic action film features a small group of world-weary asassins or Green berets or Navy Seals or mercenaries who assemble to pull off one last suicidal mission,after which they will retire.
In the contemporary action film, the villains are either heavily accented Russians, Serbs, or unidentified, all-purpose eastern European sociopaths.
The women in action films tend to be promisicuos femmes fatales or crusading journalists or medical support staff or hapless rebels or vitims or miscast.
Nobody drives a car in action films:off-road vehicles only.
The Classic action film features a small group of world-weary asassins or Green berets or Navy Seals or mercenaries who assemble to pull off one last suicidal mission,after which they will retire.
In the contemporary action film, the villains are either heavily accented Russians, Serbs, or unidentified, all-purpose eastern European sociopaths.
The women in action films tend to be promisicuos femmes fatales or crusading journalists or medical support staff or hapless rebels or vitims or miscast.
Nobody drives a car in action films:off-road vehicles only.
Tuesday 16 November 2010
PICTURES
Tonight I will be taking pictures of the main settings. The pictures will be an alley way, the outside of the house, another alley way near a motorway and the inside of the house.
I will be uploading them and putting them on my blog.
I will be uploading them and putting them on my blog.
CHARACTERS
In our film the characters will be played by either ourselves or drama students at our school. If we used drama students the film may be more effective although if we needed to rehearse or schedule times to do a scene it may be harder to gather everyone.
We are asking George Bayman to be the killer in the film as we feel he would carry out the role the best.
There will be two girls in the house acting as the scared,vunerable teenagers. The characters will be played by Emma and a drama student to balance out the acting and they will be the lead roles in the film.
We are asking George Bayman to be the killer in the film as we feel he would carry out the role the best.
There will be two girls in the house acting as the scared,vunerable teenagers. The characters will be played by Emma and a drama student to balance out the acting and they will be the lead roles in the film.
Monday 8 November 2010
Different Film Genres
We've been looking at different genres in film such as horror, romance,action and crime. We will be looking at sci-fi next lesson. It is helpful as each group doing a different genre has an idea of the stereotypical features of that particular genre.
As our film is a horror movie we have been looking at the typical cliches included in the film. Horror movies divideinto several different categories : slasher,zombie,vampire,mainstream horror and Asian horror.
All of the subgenres rely on worthy,battle-tested cliches. Horror is the one genre in which the absence of cliches would ruin everything.
Cliches in a horror film is that the children are often evil and the setting is rural. The resason for this is because rustics are scary in and of themselves, and because there are lots of frightening farm tools on hand, and also because there are no neighbours to beg for help. It is always a bad idea to go to sleep in horror films, or accept a ride from strangers, or respond to a personal ad. It is an even worse idea to get in an elevator , a popular hideout for the promiscuously dead.
Horror movies do not work well in places like Holland, because horror films require basements. Linen closets and tidy storage areas are suprisingly common in Asian horror films, which may have cultural ramifications that go over the heads of moviegoers in the west.
These were some of the cliches we had been looking at.
As our film is a horror movie we have been looking at the typical cliches included in the film. Horror movies divideinto several different categories : slasher,zombie,vampire,mainstream horror and Asian horror.
All of the subgenres rely on worthy,battle-tested cliches. Horror is the one genre in which the absence of cliches would ruin everything.
Cliches in a horror film is that the children are often evil and the setting is rural. The resason for this is because rustics are scary in and of themselves, and because there are lots of frightening farm tools on hand, and also because there are no neighbours to beg for help. It is always a bad idea to go to sleep in horror films, or accept a ride from strangers, or respond to a personal ad. It is an even worse idea to get in an elevator , a popular hideout for the promiscuously dead.
Horror movies do not work well in places like Holland, because horror films require basements. Linen closets and tidy storage areas are suprisingly common in Asian horror films, which may have cultural ramifications that go over the heads of moviegoers in the west.
These were some of the cliches we had been looking at.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)