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This power point presentation outlines ideas for a British social realism film including possible plots, characters, locations, props, and costumes. The main character is a teenage girl dealing with issues like teenage pregnancy, family arguments, and recession. Key characters include her boyfriend, younger sibling, and single mother. Locations may include a flat, shopping estate, town center, car park, school, and park. Costumes aim to look casual and reflect the main character's unorganized nature as she gets out of bed in pyjamas and wears her boyfriend's hoodie. Sound, lighting, and dialogue will aim for naturalism.
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This document summarizes how the media product challenges existing conventions and forms. It incorporates recognizable character archetypes but subverts expectations by making the protagonist also be the villain. It uses common horror film techniques like lighting and shot types to set mood but takes inspiration from other works to make some scenes its own. Elements like isolation and shadows fit with Burton's theory on creating unease. It challenges expectations by not using typical slasher film or male gaze tropes and having a psychologically complex plot. The narrative focuses on a man's involvement in murders while giving the audience insights into his memories and mental state through techniques like flashbacks. It deals with themes of mental health and its effects on individuals and society.
Analysing film paul
There are two main types of film analysis: genre analysis and auteur theory. Genre analysis examines codes and conventions, themes, characters, settings, narrative, iconography, and ideological messages within a film genre. Auteur theory posits that the director is the author of the film and creates an individual style or theme across multiple films. Films can be analyzed based on how they conform to or break conventions of their genre. For example, the film Leon breaks conventions by having the main character be a hitman who befriends a teenage girl, whereas a James Bond film follows typical action film conventions. Settings, characters, narratives, themes, and iconography all provide meaningful elements for analyzing a film's genre or director's style.
MES planning - sjfo
This is our mise-en-scene planning powerpoint on all the different actors, clothing, props and lighting that will be used during the filming of our opening sequence.
Poster Analysis 3
The poster for the slasher film "Sorority Row" uses dark colors and imagery of a burning house to set a scary, suspenseful tone. It depicts the film's protagonists - a group of teenage sisters - lined up in front of the fire, looking distressed. While unconventional for not featuring an antagonist, the poster effectively conveys the horror genre and hints that the sisters will face danger and death over the course of the film.
Poster Analysis 3
The poster analyzes the "Sorority Row" movie poster. It features a group of teenage girls standing in front of a house on fire. This sets up suspense about what dangers the girls will face. The poster is effective through its use of bold dark colors that clearly indicate it is a horror genre. It analyzes lighting, costumes, facial expressions and other techniques to provide clues about the narrative and characters. Overall the poster fulfills conventions of horror posters but makes them unique through its image and style.
Evaluation 1
The document summarizes the opening of a student film project that challenges conventions of traditional action films. It introduces two teenage siblings on the run from mysterious attackers after their father goes missing. The opening scene shows one such attack at a church, setting up the film's mystery-action genre that combines elements of District 13 and Sherlock Holmes. Camera work and editing were adjusted to speed up the pacing and action. Costumes and props were used to convey the characters' backgrounds and the premeditated nature of the attacks.
Production concept
1) Two teenage girls are babysitting when one convinces the other to try an online midnight ritual. They perform the ritual but break the rules, angering a supernatural entity.
2) Strange events begin occurring in the house, like lights turning off and a voice whispering names. The girls try to find answers but discover the fuse box is destroyed.
3) Trapped in the house, they realize the entity is still present and now targeting them. They must survive the night without encountering the vengeful supernatural force.
Question 2
The document discusses how a film represents particular social groups through its characters. It focuses on two social groupings portrayed in the film's opening: a young girl dressed in pink onesie who plays with dolls, and her 19-year-old sister dressed in a casual outfit who cares for her younger sister. Mise-en-scene and camerawork are used to represent the different perspectives and behaviors of each age group. The film aims to conform to horror movie conventions so viewers can relate to the familiar stereotypes.
Poster Analysis 3
The poster analyzes the "Sorority Row" movie poster. It uses conventions like a dark color scheme and imagery of a burning house to set a scary tone. The poster features all the protagonists which is unique. Their fearful facial expressions build suspense around the danger they may face. The tagline "Sisters for Life...and Death" hints that the sisters will face death together. Overall the poster effectively conveys the horror genre and builds intrigue around the film's narrative.
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1) The document discusses the creation of characters for a psychological horror film opening called "Aura". It focuses on two main characters: Sam, a 17-year-old girl, and Stephen, a 9-year-old boy.
2) Sam is dressed casually in leggings, a cardigan, and vest top to appear realistic and relatable to a teenage audience. Stephen wears plain black trousers, a white shirt, and boots to seem unfamiliar and mysterious.
3) The characters were inspired by villains and victims from other psychological horror films like "The Ring", "The Omen", and "Orphan". Stephen especially resembles the villainous child character from "Orphan".
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Ideas
- 1. Film Ideas This power point presentation involves brainstormed ideas for my film based on British Social Realism. I have brainstormed ideas for things such as: props, locations etc. so when it comes to producing an exact storyline for my film I can relate back to the ideas I have produced.
- 2. Possible Plots: Gang Culture Drug Dealing Leaving Home Teenage Pregnancy Recession Family Arguments
- 3. Possible Characters Main Character (teenage girl) Boyfriend Younger Sibling Single Mom (Main characters Mother who doesn’t seem to care) Sub Character (main characters best friend)
- 4. Possible Locations Flat Shopping Estate Town Centre Car Park School Park
- 6. Possible costumes: Here is some of the possible costumes our girl character will wear in our opening two minutes. To begin with she will be wearing pyjamas as she is getting out of bed. The pyjamas will be loose and baggy (hiding the pregnancy) and will be mis-matched (reflecting her character of being unorganised). When she gets changed she will be wearing casual clothes and her Boyfriends hoody. She dresses casual to show she doesn't really care about her appearance and by wearing her boyfriends hoody the audience will know she has a boyfriend.
- 7. Sound, Lighting, Dialogue: Improvised speech when the character is given a topic to talk about then talk about it naturally Naturalistic= wind, birds Diegetic/ Speech Non-Diegetic/ song On-screen= Speech, door slamming Naturalistic lighting to make the mise en scene as believable as possible