The document provides summaries of four inspirational films: Blood Diamond, John Q, Precious, and their conventions, characters, scenes, and target audiences. Blood Diamond is about the Sierra Leone Civil War and diamond smuggling, featuring a fisherman trying to rescue his family. John Q is a drama about a father taking a hospital hostage to save his son's life. Precious tells the story of an abused teen mother struggling to escape poverty. All films contain violent and emotional themes but aim to inspire audiences with stories of determination.

1. Inspirational Films

2. Blood Diamond
• Sub-genre
- Adventure/Drama/Thriller
- True story: Western Africa
- Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999,
• Convention
- Violent
- Blood
- torture
• Country torn apart by the struggle
between government soldiers and rebel
forces

3. characters
The Good guy
A fisherman
Loving father/husband
Strong/determined
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenp
lay/vi314245401/

4. character
• The Good/Bad
• A smugger who will do anything to
get diamonds and exchange them for
gun
• Secret Close up Reverse shot
• Towards the end he changed his Angry
mind, and be the nice guy
2 shots
He founds love

5. Character
The Bad Guy
knife, glass
- Runs the slave camp
- Forces children to kill
- Exchange diamond for
weapons
- Loses his eye Violent knife
in the child's
throat
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi
364577049/

6. 2 shot of them
Long shot Long shot
running
Mid-shot
Mid-shot
2 shot
2 shot Mid shot
Full shot

7. Target Audience
• Violence
• Violence may be strong but should not
dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.
They are many violence portray in this film
• Guns, war, child's rights, killing people

8. Sound/lighting
Low beat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G7xHTW
8pao Med beat
High beat
The music begins at a low beat then towards the end its gets higher
and higher showing that something bad is about to happen.
The music also build tension to the viewer because the beats keep
on building, starting from low to high. Making the audience
emotionally attach

9. John Q
• Sub-genre
• Drama Thriller
• Convention
- Relationship
- Society
- hostage
• A down-on-his luck father, whose
insurance won't cover his son's heart
transplant, takes the hospital's emergency
room hostage until the doctors agree to
perform the operation .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjwA1vuiUfE&feature=
related

10. characters
• Loving father/husband
• Determined to save his son
• Worried
• sad
• Angry
• Stressed out

11. John Q
Scene 13: saying goodbye
to his son
Reverse shot
John giving his
son advice
Mid-close shot/ Reverse shot
of John crying and saying
goodbye to his son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
jbkzGiM2sE

12. John Q
Scene 3: John at home
completing medical
papers for his son
Close shot of John
frustrated
Close shot of him
completing hospital
form
Mid-shot of him
completing the form
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=i7R4a-W7FiI

13. Target Audience
• Violent
- When John punch one of the worker because
they wanted to stop him from saving his son
• Hostage
- Kidnapping people without their rights
• Gun
- He has a gun so people will be scared of
him, but he has no intention of using it.

14. Precious
• Genre
- Drama/Biography
• Convention
- Isolation
- Violent/abuse

15. character
• Isolated
- Has no voice
- Abused by her father/mother
• Dreams
- Future
- Become a star/dancer
- fantasy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4accnr
OF_UM&feature=related

16. Character 2
• Hatred towards her child
• Violent
• Monster
• Lazy
• Grandmother of 2 kids
Always seating a
rounding smoking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
GcU8DWN9x5k&feature=related

17. Precious
Scene 1: Precious in
the class room
Close shot
Precious thinking
about her teacher
Long shot Maths class room
Over voice is used in this scene
Extreme Zooming as
Precious talks about
her teacher
Mid-shot of
the teachers
face http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=f7OKSq0MKXQ

18. Precious
Scene 7: Precious comes
home with her new baby, and
then mum starts a fight with
precious
Two shot of mum arguing Two shot mum grabs
with Precious her violently
Two shot Precious
takes her son, and
leave
Mid-two shot of Precious Precious falls on the
standing up for herself floor

19. Target Audience
• Violence
- Violence may be strong but should not
dwell on the infliction of pain or injury
(example scene 7 mum violent throws a
glass at Precious).
- Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is
also unlikely to be acceptable( the scene
where Precious is sexual abuse by her
dad).
• Language
- There may be frequent use of strong
language (example scene 1 Precious says “
shut the fuck up”) to one of her class mate

20. Reference
• http://freetownsociety.org/2008/09/02/ban-blood-diamond-the-film/
• http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/film/dvd/Blood-Diamond-1-disc/
• http://300mbmovieslinksforall.blogspot.com/2010/10/blood-diamond-720p-2006.html
• http://connect.in.com/blood-diamond-movie-review/photos-kids-in-training-071cee80be685c08.html
• http://www.wiki-cine.com/photo-33654-anointing-lukola-benu-mabhena-djimon-hounsou-edward-zwick-
photo--blood-diamond.html