Improvements

I have moved groups now as we thought I would work better with my new group.
This is their first cut:


The improvements for their first cut are:
-To include a shot reverse shot(over the shoulder)
-To include match on action
-The 180 degree rule was broken at 00:00:51
-More varied angles need to be used
-The framing needs improving. In one scene the top of her head was cut off and so was her chin.

Continuity Task - First Cut

This is our first attempt at our continuity editing task. We are going to have to film another one as there are quite a few improvments we need to make. In our extreme close up, which was the establishing shot  we didn't focus on one part of the head and also we cut off the top of her head in the shot after that. We also didn't include any match on action and our shot reverse shot wasn't done to the best of our ability. These are the main things we are going to have to focus on when we re film it. It is important that we pick out our weaknesses now as when it comes to making the real thing we have had practice and we know what we need improve on.

Typography

Above are some fonts that can be used in thrillers,usually used for the title of the film.  In the title sequence they also use quite simple/minimalistic fonts for names in the opening, some of the minimalistic texts are animated with the style of the movie.

                                     

We are thinking of using,the ALCATRAZ.ISLAND.CA.FONT as its professional looking and fits into the genre,psychological thriller. We ended up with this font as we watched the Shutter island opening and like the font used, we then decided we would use a simple but eye grabbing bold font.

We ended up with the ALXATRAZ.ISLAND font,  this font is similer to shutter islands but slighty modified. The other fonts we looked at also would not have fitted in with the possible story lines we had chosen.

Possible movie titles using the chosen font:

                 

Finding out about typography is useful because we know what types of fonts are used in thrillers and when it comes to making our opening we have already got a good idea of what font we are going to use.

The Evaluation Questions

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• Who would be the audience for your media product?

• How did you attract/address your audience?

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

It is useful for me to know these questions now as while I do each peice of work I can do a small evaluation of it, then when it comes to the real evaluation I can just expand on what I have already done instead of going through all my work again. 

Continuity Editing Task

This is the task sheet telling us what shot types we need to use and the tasks we need to complete.

Film Noir

This was researched by someone else in my group:

Film Noir  beginning in the early 1940s was one of Hollywood's original, artistic movements. Being inspired by American crime fiction and mostly brought to the screens by European directors who shared a story telling gift. Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, and Otto Preminger were further creators of the film noir style.

During and immediately following World War II, movie audiences responded well to this original, creative and adult type of film. Many writers, directors, cameramen and actors were eager to create something as new and fresh as this idea. Largely fueled by the financial and artistic success of Billy Wilder’s adaptation of James M. Cain’s novella Double Indemnity (1944), people starting coming out with new crime thrillers and murder dramas to heighten intensity and darkness in the film industry.

Few, if any of the artists in Hollywood who made these films called them “noir” at the time. But the vivid co-mingling of lost innocence, doomed romanticism, hard-edged cynicism, desperate desire, and shadowy sexuality that was unleashed in those immediate post-war years proved hugely influential, both among industry peers in the original era, and to future generation of storytellers, both literary and cinematic.

To this day the debate goes on as to whether “noir” is a film genre, circumscribed by its content, or a style of storytelling, identified by its visual attributes. The debate — in which there is no right answer — is only one of the things that keeps noir fresh for successive generations of movie lovers.

Response to comments: From all of this I can understand that film noir was a budget film for post war purposes however it went down well with the majority of audiences. It is not a common film genre used these days so if we used it for our film opening people may like it because it is something new that they haven't seen for a while. It might draw in a wider audience because it is new and interesting. I think people will enjoy the fact that it is an old film technique(black and white) which is being used to create a modern film for example the film The Artist, which used the same kind of style as film noir, released in 2011 was very popular and won 5 oscars which shows that something different appeals to the audience.

Sound and Editing used in Thrillers

Sound:

Sound is used in thrillers to help the audiences understanding of what is going on. Sounds are used to evoke characters feelings and emotions and get a response from the audience. It is also often used to symbolise both the protagonists and antagonists movements in the scene. By carefully using the sounds employed in the scene it creates the right mood and atmosphere and in the context of the thriller genre, helps to build suspense and tension.Thrillers are typically noisy and they uses lots of diegetic sound throughout the film. Common sounds include bangs, ticking and screams, they use these sounds to build tension and to create suspense. These sounds are normally heard by both the audience and the characters and they are normally very jumpy. Non diegetic sound is also used in thrillers. They sometimes use a steady drone which puts the audience at unease. Also as the action increases in the film and the tension builds the music speed up and increases in unison. Hitchcock used sound in a very new way than was typical at the time. For instance in Blackmail he demonstrates ongoing tactics, such as: withholding sound from the viewer to pique curiosity which is shown in the murder scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POMvKwfBVWo, there is no sound during the murder and we can’t see what is happening which leaves us wondering what exactly is going on. It subverts our expectations of a murder as we would expect lots of screams but we don’t get anything. He also exaggerates sound as a form of narrative emphasis and creating tension through both ambient noises and silence. Further, in a world where music was the dominant form of narrative accompaniment, he stripped music score away from his scenes and instead used the act of singing (and whistling) as a suspense device. Lastly, Hitchcock’s manipulation of human speech ranged from technical malfunctions of telephone calls to dizzied audio abstraction of the characters’ subjective thoughts.

Editing: 
To create tension thrillers use pace. Fast cutting can help to create suspense. The pace of the shots usually go in unison with the music. Cross cutting is a common editing technique used cutting between the victim and their threat. This sequence normally ends when the two individuals or groups meet in a final climax. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmptU7vEkNU . This clip from inception is an example of cross cutting. The editing creates tension in the film because we see the same character in two different places going through dangerous things in both places. His life is in danger in both places which creates tension for the viewer because we don't know if he is going to survive in both of the situations. Motivated cuts are often used in thrillers to make the audience want to see what happens next. A motivated cut is when a character is looking out of shot with an expression on her face that makes the audience want to see what she is seeing. This is a very good technique to use and an example of this is in the film The Silence of the Lambs when the women is looking at the board and it makes the audience want to see what she is looking at. 



 We will most probably use some of these techniques in our film opening because they are commonly used in thrillers so this would help us to acheive some of the codes and conventions of a thriller.

BBFC Certificate Ratings

This was researched by someone else in my group.

15

Only people under the age of 15 can buy or rent a 15 rated film. They are not allowed to include:

Discrimination-t

he media text can’t encourage discriminatory language or behaviour.
Drug Abuse-drugs can be shown as a whole but you cannot promote or encourage the use of them. Showing the misuse of solvents and alcohol are unlikely to be acceptable due to them being easily accessible.

Horror-horrors can be “threat” and “menace” but sexualised and  sadistic is unacceptable.

Imitable Behaviour-hanging, suicide and self harming shouldn't be shown in detail as it could be copied. Easily accessible weapons can’t be “glamorised”. 

Language-strong language can be justified if in the right context. If they are repeating the strongest language this could be seen as unacceptable.


Nudity-nudity is allowed in educational sense and in a non sexual sense. Nudity is allowed in sexual scenes but not in detail.

Sex-s

exual activity is allowed but without detail. This includes sexual references,works whose primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme-n

o theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds.

Violence-

violence can be strong but not in infliction. Sexual violence is allowed but mildy. The strongest “gorey” violence is unlikely to be acceptable.

18


The BBFC says that an adult should be able to choose their own entertainment however, they shouldn't be watching things:

“• where the material is in breach of the criminal law, or has been created through the commission of a criminal offence.
 • where material or treatment appears to the BBFC to risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour, to society – for example, any detailed portrayal of violent or dangerous acts, or of illegal drug use, which may cause harm to public health or morals. This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualised violence which might, for example, eroticise or endorse sexual assault.
 • where there are more explicit images of sexual activity which cannot be justified by context. Such images may be appropriate in ‘R18’ works, and in ‘sex works’ would normally be confined to that category. In the case of video works (including video games), which may be more accessible to younger viewers, intervention may be more frequent than for cinema films. Sex education at ‘18’, where sex material genuinely seeks to inform and educate in matters such as human sexuality, safer sex and health, explicit images of sexual activity may be permitted. Sex works at ‘18’, sex works are works whose primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation. Sex works containing only material which may be simulated are generally passed ‘18’. Sex works containing clear images of real sex, strong fetish material, sexually explicit animated images, or other very strong sexual images will be confined to the ‘R18’ category. Material which is unacceptable in a sex work at ‘R18’ is also unacceptable in a sex work at ‘18’.”

From all of this I can learn what is not appropriate to put in our film openings when it comes to making them. It also gives us an idea of what age rating we want our film to be depending on what we want to include in the film. 

Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GP7AD1w5HYSk0TCMnl-6XSkVduOCIc3bCtbSBfzP0W0/viewform

Analysing Thrillers

Anatomy of a Murder
The opening of the film uses cartoonised body and uses close ups on differents parts off it. This is not very graphic and its quite simplistic which gives the impression that the film isn't going to be extremely violent even though it is about murder. We get an impression that it could possibly be quite light hearted. Also using the body it makes it clear that the film is going to be about people being killed as we are shown all the body parts seperatly. This clearly links in to the title. The font they use is a white sans-serif font. This makes it quite informal which links into the sense that the film could be lighthearted. Using white subverts our expectations. White connotes to innocence and purity which is not something that is at all related to murder. However, it is written on a black/grey background which relates more to murder as black can connotes to death and danger. The music used is quite upbeat which is contrapuntal. It yet again subverts our expectations of a film about murder, it is quite disturbing that the music is so happy when the film is going to be about people getting murdered.

Se7en
The establishing shot of the film is a close up on the pages of a book. This suggests it will be quite a significant item in the film as it is an image used constantly throughout the opening. Also throughout the opening they use quite a few close ups on the hands which suggests they are also quite important. They are busy doing things and they grate off their own fingertips which adds a sinister mood to the film almost immediatly. The music used goes really highpitched at some parts of the opening. This adds to the tension which is being built by the sinister images being shown. It is quite jumpy which adds to the impression that this film is going to be scary. It is parallel sound, we would expect this music to be used in a horror film. Lots of sharp silver objects are shown throughout the opening like the sissors and the needle. This adds a sense of danger and helps to build the tension, also the impliments are very clean which could show that they are well looked after or that they are new either way they are going to do their job properly and professionally. Just like in Anatomy of a Murder they use white font on a black background. The white stands out on the black which juxtaposes, it gives the impression that innocence doesn't belong in the film and that purity isn't going to be shown. This emphasises the horror genre of the film.

Grand Prix
They uses a sound bridge right at the beginning of the film the lion roarign turns into the sound of a car reving. This instantly lets us know the film is about cars and racing. It also flows smoothly straight into the film which gives it a sense of continuity. The establishing shot of the film is a close up of the car exhaust. This confirms to the viewer where the reving sound came from. They also use close ups on the tyres and other parts of the car which shows that everything is new which makes it look like this is a professional race. One of the drivers is in a white tracksuit which gives the impression that this character is quite innocent and he will race fair. Compared to drivers in black tracksuits which could be implied that they will be more relentless to win. Yet again the film uses a white font on a black background(this appears to be a common feature of thriller films) which makes the writing stand out so all of our attension first of all is on who is going to be in the film. They clearly thought that telling people the actors and film producers was the most important thing to start the film with.


Response to comments: From analysing these openings I now know what is commonly used in thrillers which gives me an idea of what should be included in our opening. White font on a black background was used in all of these films which shows we should consider using that.

What is a thriller?

For my group I had to research what is a thriller?
This is what I found out:

If a thriller were to be defined strictly it would be said to be a genre with a single goal; to give the audience “thrills” and keep them on the edge of their seats as the plot develops to a climax. These are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. The tension usually arises when the main character(s) is placed in a menacing situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Their lives are usually in danger because they are unknowingly in a dangerous situation.

Thrillers are often hybrids - there are lots of varieties of suspense-thrillers:

• action- or adventure- thrillers

This uses physical action to create suspense throughout the film. This sub-genre will often have continuous motion and action including physical stunts, chases, fights, battles, and races which contribute to the sense of danger the main character(s) are facing.

• sci-fi thrillers (such as Alien (1979))

A Science Fiction film will incorporate heroes, villains, unexplored locations, fantastical quests, and advanced technology. These elements can be used to create anticipation and suspense. Often it explores the theme of “future gone bad” for example alien invasions.

• crime-caper thrillers (such as The French Connection (1971))

It uses the suspenseful aspects of a thriller and a crime film plot. The plot usually centers on a serial killer, murderer, robbery, or manhunt. They use both action and psychological aspects to build tension and suspense.

• film-noir thrillers (such as Double Indemnity (1944))

Film Noir is not just a sub-genre but a term for a distinct type of crime-drama or thriller that was popular throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It is characterized by a black-and-white style with stark lighting effects. The main character is usually a cynical hero. It relies on a narrative voice and various flashbacks to explain the intricate plot.

• western-thrillers (such as High Noon (1952))
• even romantic comedy-thrillers (such as Safety Last (1923))

The horror gene is also very closely related to the genre of thriller. They create tension and suspense and take the viewer through agony and fear.

Psychological thrillers are fictional thriller storys which emphasizes the psychology of its characters and their unstable emotional states, with similarities to gothic and detective fiction in sense of “dissolving sense of reality”, moral ambiguity, and complex and tortured relationships between obsessive and pathological characters.

Psychological thrillers often incorporate elements of mystery, drama and horror.

Examples: The Machinist, House of 9, Straw Dogs, Shutter Island.

Characters in thrillers include convicts, criminals, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims (often on the run), prison inmates, menaced women, characters with dark pasts, psychotic individuals, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, fugitives, private eyes, drifters, duplicitous individuals, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men and women, psycho-fiends, and more. The themes of thrillers frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder.

Alfred Hitchcock had a huge influence on shaping the modern genre of thriller. He manipulates his audience’s fears and desires and allows his viewers to associate with the representation of reality that faces the characters. He often places an innocent victim into a strange or life threatening  situation by mistaken identity, misidentification or wrongful accusation. He often used a “red herring” to catch the viewers attention. Also known as a McGuffin which would drive the plot forward. It initially appears to be very important but it intentionally misdirects the audience, it then quickly fades into the background and ends up being trivial, irrelevant, or incidental to the film's story. For example: The 39 Steps (1935): the nature of the 39 Steps, and the smuggling of secret plans (vital to the country's air defense) out of the country and Psycho (1960): the stolen money, the $40,000 wrapped up in a newspaper in the motel bedroom.

Response to comments: Overall from this I have learnt what a thriller aims to do and how they start to create tension, I know about a few different sub-genres of thrillers, I have learnt some of the types of charcters which will help us to decided what types of people we are going to have in our opening and I have learnt about some of the things Hitchcock did in his films and I have learnt what a McGuffin is so this is something we could possibly use.

Post Production:Sound

Parallel sound-music that matches what you see in the film.

Contrapuntal sound-sound that opposes what you see in the film.

Sound bridge-when the music from one scene goes into the next.

Ambient sound-sound that you expect to hear in a location e.g traffic on a road.

Foley sound-everyday sounds that are added to a certain clip.


We watched a clip from the film Fast and Furious 2 and had to analyse the sound used in it:

How is the sound used to create tension?

In the clip from Fast and Furious 2 there is a use of parallel sound. The music is fast and upbeat when all of the cars are driving around. This shows how chaotic it is. In the beginning of the clip they use ambient sound with the police car sirens. The sirens are only heard when the police have some power, when they loose there power and control when all of the cars come out we don't hear the sirens anymore because the police have lost all control they had.

Semiotics Revision

We had to analyse this album cover and write a paragraph about it.

How is 50 cent represented?

In the image he is represnted as an urban gangster. This is shown by the baseball cap he is wearing. It signifies he is urban because of the writing on it. This is reinforced by his underwear which is on show, it also has the words "G-unit" on them which emphasises to the viewer his apperance is very urban gangster. The use of binary opposition is prominant in the image. We are shown a "parental advisory" sticker which contrasts to the cross he is wearing round his neck. The cross noramally connotes religion but in this sense it just adds to his apperance of urban gangster. The "parental advisory"sticker signifies that his music is going to have quite violent or offensive lyrics, this contrasts to the cross he is wearing because in religion what he is singing about would be frowned apon. The sticker also contrasts against the white background which usually connotes as something pure and innocent unlike what he is going to be singing about. The image of 50 cent denotes his masculinity because of all of his muscles on show and his stance. It adds to the sense of violence (which is also shown by the gloves he is wearing, he is prepared for a fight) that we will get from his music and adds to his apperance of urban gangster. The overall representation of 50 cent is that he puts his apperance across to be very urban gangster and he is quite violent.

What is the purpose of censorship?

Censorship is used in media to stop people from seeing things that are considered too innapropriate. For this reason the Hays Code was introduced. It was formulated and adopted by  The Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc. and The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. in March 1930. They recognised their responsibility to the public because they realised entertainment and art are important influences in the life of a nation, they know that the motion picture within its own field of entertainment may be directly responsible for spiritual or moral progress, for higher types of social life, and for much correct thinking. This shows that the media effects nearly everyone whether the are actively taking it in or passivley.  Its general principles are:

1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.

2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.

3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.

When it comes to music videos there isn't a lot that is censored however distributers will try to make the music suitable for a wide audience in some songs swear words are bleeped out and in videos they try to limit nudity and strong sexual imagery as they want to be able to sell to the widest audience possible and a majority of people would find that innapropriate and unacceptable.

The watershed is a time of night when the things shown on tv contain adult content. It is at 9pm because it is considered that children who shouldn't be seeeing or hearing certain things will be in bed. This suggests that if the children see or hear "adult" things enough they will start to copy it which would be inappropriate as far as society is concerned. Children are quite a passive audience. They probably don't understand any rude words or inappropriate actions but if they see it enough they will presume it is acceptable and it is very likely they will copy it.

How far do you agree with the comment that mass audiences are still passive recipients of media?

This question is asking me whether I agree that most people take in media passivley.

I do agree with the question quite a lot. When you are passive you are taking in meaning from the media without really noticing it. The media use this quite a lot to get their messages across, people subcontionsly take in meaning and ideas from the media without really knowing it. For example we all see adverts but most people probably don't really realise that they have taken in the message from it and that it influences on what they do. In the 1920's things were censored from films so the audience wouldn't repaet any of the actions or think in a certain way that wasn't considered aceptable. Things that were considered unsuitable were: white slavery, ridicule of the clergy, scences of actual childbirth, misusing the american flag, using words such as Christ, Lord and God in a rude way and showing leg above the knee. They didn't people to think it was ok to act in this way. This is ideology which is a set of beliefs that were dominant in society at the time. The idea of being able to inject ideas into someones head is the Hypodermic Neddle which was a type of audience theory.

The way we view people can be influenced by the media. We have ideas on stereotypes and what is acceptable but it is debatable whether its what we think or what the media has told us to think. The media shows us lots of stereotypes and we believe them and catagorise people because of them without really knowing them. However we have little choice to believe what the media tells us because we are shown the ideas all the time and they are everywhere. I almost completely agree that mass audiences are passive recipients of media.

Audience Theory

A target audience are the people something is aimed at which they should enjoy. This is what makes a target audience:
-age
-gender
-race
-hobbies/interests
-experiences
-class
-reginal identity
-disabiltiy

There are 3 main theories if audience, which are:
1) The Effects Model or Hypodermic Needle
There are 3 parts to this theory. The first is imitation. This is where you copy what you see. The second is catharsis. This is where you watch soaps for example and they make you feel better about yourself because their lives are worse than yours and there problems distract you from your own. The last one is desensitisation. This is where you get used to what you see and it doesn't have as much of an effect on you.
2) The Uses and Gratifications Model
It covers: personal identity, surveillance, pleasure and diversion/escapism.
3) Reception Theory

There are also 3 different ways of taking in meaning from media texts:
Primary-they physically engage with a media text
Secondary-for example you have the radio on in the background but you are doing something else primarily.
Tertiary-when you know its there but you aren't aware you are taking it in.

There are 2 key types of audience which are an active audience(engaging with a media text) and a passive audience(tertiary, they don't conciously take in the message being portrayed).

Representation

Representation is the way people, groups, cultures and ideas are shown by the media. Media texts show us not the truth but an interpretation of the truth therefore what we are shown is not always realistic, the media makes us beleive what they want us to beleive.

Semiotics is the study of sign systems which allows us to deconstruct media texts to understand how meaning is being created.

Semiotics are a sign, the reader creates meaning for the sign unless there is already a meaning there.

The signifier is the object itself e.g a rose.

                 

The signified is what the object represents e.g love.

                                                  

Denotation is the literal meaning of a sign and connotation is the interpreted meaning of a sign or signs.
Connotation is the interpreted meaning of a sign or signs.

Polysemic-more than one meaning e.g in a dictionary one word can have more than one meaning.

Types of signs:
Iconic-those which work through resemblance (photographs)
Symbolic-thise which are learned (arbitary signs such as words)
Indexical-those which work through a casual link e.g smoke as an index of fire.

Camera Angles

In lesson we learnt all about the many different camera angles and we applied them to a video clip we watched.

Terror in the Night-Editing and Narrative

In lesson we made our own storyboard for the film "Terror in the Night". We had to decide what the story was going to be, which cuts we would use between each scene and how long each each scene would last. We mainly used straight cuts and we used quite a lot of jump cuts near to the end when the film was getting more scary which should create suspense and shock the audience.
















How our story relates to the modern narrative theories:
Propp-our story has a hero who would be the woman, a sidekick who would be the dog and a villain who would be the crazy man who hung himself in the woman's house.
Todorov-it follows the classic hollywood narrative.
Strausse-the binary opposites are man and woman, inside and outside.

We also changed the sequence of our films by putting the 4th scene at the beginning. By putting it first we had to change nearly the whole narrative so that it would make sense. This meant the structure changed as we started with a linear sturcture but once we moved things around it became a circular narrative as it goes back and starts at the same place it began. The meaning of the story and the way the audience view the charcters has also changed because before they don't meet the killer until near the end but now they meet him closer to the beginning so their view of him has changed.

Editing and Narrative

Editing is changing the narrative (the story), it constructs a narrative out of footage.  It is part of the post production in making films/tv.  The role of editing is to create meaning for the audience. Scenes can be changed to portray things in a different way. The audience is manipulated into thinking certain things and feeling certain things. The way the camera cuts from scene to scene is quite important because it creates a certain effect. Producers can use a straight cut or they can use a jump cut to create shock or surprise (this is common in horror films). Other ways of changing scene are used dissolves, fades and wipes. Ellipses is another important part of editing. It makes the audience fill in the blanks, they presume things even if they are not true which is how they form the story in there heads. What the audience is shown isn't necessarily true.

Narrative is the story that is being told. It explores the conventions of: genre, character, form and time. The most common way of structuring narrative is the linear structure. This is when the story has a beginning(introduces the characters and the story), a middle(events happen and the story builds) and an end(closure for the audience). There is also open structure where the audience is left to wonder what happens next and they are left to make sense of it. There is closed structure where there is a definite ending, there is  clear conclusion for the audience. Finally there is circular structure where the narrative begins where it ends.
Theories to explain narrative structure are:
-Vladimir Propp-he says that the characters drive the narrative.
-Roland Barthes-who thought that a series of codes were read and interpreted by the audience. They are: the action code which is literal, enigma code which is hidden, semic code which is recognised by connotations, symbolic code which is abstract concept and the referential code which is cultural understanding.
-Tzvetan Todorov-came up with the classic hollywood narrative.

Equilibrium-everyday life (sets the scene)

-Claude Levi-Strausse-beleived in binary opposites e.g love and hate, good and evil, old and young. He describes narrative as created by contrasting conflict of binary opposites. This is a branch of semiology(the study of signs).

Knowing editing and narrative is important because it will help me to decided the most appropriate way to edit my film and the way to structure it when it comes to my controlled assessment.

How can genre aid me in relation to the brief?

Genre will help me to decide which type of film I am going to make, without an understanding of genre   I wouldn't know how to make an effective film that would be appealing to a wide audience.
I know that genre is not fixed, it is in a constant state of flux. This means that there is no particular way to classify a film because you can get sub genres(different forms of the same genre e.g action thriller) and you can also get hybrids(two genres mixed together e.g romantic comedy).
Knowing there are lots of varieties of film it means I can create a film that will be currently appealing to a wide audience.

Main Task

As the main task we have to make the titles and the opening of a new fiction film that has to last for only 2 minutes.
There are four parts we will be assessed on which are research, planning, filming and post production.
All of the video and audio must be original (produced by myself) apart from if there is music/audio I can use that is copy right free.