Aims & Context

Film Coursework- Aims & Context- Story Board

Target Audience: Teenagers aged 14-18

Genre: Romance

My story board is a montage from inside a film. Each slide and scene is formed into a montage to manipulate time and space. Showing a series of shots tied together to a show a situation in a short amount of time. The montage is about young love and in particular a relationship that went wrong between two young lovers. The montage is mostly made from point of view shots from the main character Danielle. Who tells her side of the story through her own eyes. Everything the audience is shown is memories from Danielle about her boyfriend Alex. The montage shows how Danielle's relationship with Alex deters from good to bad. The good parts of the relationship are shown in colour and the bad parts are shown in black and white. This is to help emphasise the difference between the good and the bad so the audience know what is happening. The editing involved will start off with a black screen opening like an eye looking out as if the audience is Danielle and we are seeing everything that is happening through Danielle's eyes.

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Grimsby- Uk Production- Case Study

Budget- £28 million

Stars: Sacha Baron- Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher, Rebel Wilson, Johnny Vegas

Genre: action comedy

Box Office: £23 million

Production Company: Village Roadshow Pictures

Certificate: 15

Reviews:
4/5 -The Impact
3.7/5 -  Time Out
38% - Rotten Tomatoes

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Divergent Series: Divergent - US Blockbuster- Case Study


Release date: April 4, 2014

Budget: 85 million USD

Box Office: 288.9 million

Production Company: Summit Entertainment

Certificate: 12

Genre: mystery/science fiction film

Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet

 Reviews:
The Guardian- 2/5
Rotten Tomatoes- 5.4/10, 44%
IMDb- 6.7/10

Marketing:

Film analysis -2 - The Shining






The scene begins with a tracking mid-shot of Jack. This is to show jacks anger and madness towards Wendy, showing the camera backing away making jack have the power in the scene. The shot cuts to Wendy backing away from Jack with the camera looking over jacks shoulder. The sound in this scene that is used is both diegetic and non-diegetic. Diegetic sound is used as Wendy and Jack are talking to eachother to show the audience what is going on and what their emotions are like at that moment. Non-diegetic music is used in the back ground to intensify the scene and make the audience more intrigued and on the edge of their seats about what is going to happen next. The shots switch between from behind Wendy's shoulder to behind jacks shoulder. This is what is known as a shot reverse shot. This is to show the emotion and expression on each characters face during the scene. During these shot reverse shots we see a higher angle looking down on Jack and a lower angle looking up to Wendy. Even though this may seem Wendy has the power she doesn't as Jack walks towards Wendy and Wendy is cowering away backward. The camera highlights this using tracking.

The Shining film analysis-1






In this scene Danny is riding round the hotel on his tricycle as he rides round the sound is intense and eerie. the sun that is used is non- diegetic. The camera starts by tracking Danny around the hotel as if we are right behind him, stalking him. The scene starts really fast paced as if someone is chasing him. He comes to a stop as he cycles round the corner at the end of the dim hallway. He stops because there are twins standing across the hallway with vacant expressions on their faces repeating the same monotone words "come play with us". The colours red, blue and white are used throughout the film but in this particular scene the main colour that is green. Green connotates envy and rebirth. Both of these connotations link to the twins as it shows their envy for Danny's life and they're asking Danny to join them by saying "come play with us". Rebirth also links to the twins as they died and they're standing there looking at Danny with blank expressions on their face as if they have been reborn, as if they're not dead.

We see a 3 second long reaction shot of Danny's face when he first sees the twins to show the audience how petrified he is. This is to keep an emotional connection with the audience. The shot switches between Danny's face and the twins to show both sides of the situation at the same time and to portray the emotional distress Danny is going through. The switches between the shots get faster this builds tension and suspense to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. 

My Horror Film Reflective Analysis

The horror film that I created was based around a killer clown in a cemetery. In this short film I used a range of cinematography, including different types of Camera shots and angles. I used an establishing shot to set the scene and to put the viewer in a location to tell them where they are. Throughout the film I used tracking on the main character to track her movements and make the audience feel as if it was so realistic we were there with her. I showed the camera being used handheld by tracking whilst running this was to express disorder in a crazy event and to show how manic the character was feeling.

I used close-ups in order to show significant emotions and trauma the victim was going through and to also show the viewer the essence of creepyness the clown was portraying. As well as to make the audience feel uncomfortable. Almost every close-up on the clown, a Dutch angle was used this was to add a sense of disorientation, to show danger and show true horror. 

Low angles were used in point of view shots from the victims eyes looking up to the clown. This was done to show the clown had the power and was dominant. Also in contrast to this high angle point of view shots were used to show the victim was vulnerable and again to show the clown was more than powerful.

I used an extreme close up on the victims eyes. This was to make the atmosphere feel tense and to also show the look of fear upon the victims face by using only her eyes. This was also shown as a reaction shot to show victims reaction and emotional distress towards the clown.

We used non-diegetic eerie music in our film in order to created an intense, mysterious and dark atmosphere. We wanted to use a clown as they are one of the largest phobias and we really wanted to make our viewers feel uncomfortable and on edge, not knowing what could happen next...

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