Here is the criteria for marking our work:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25482314/G321-Simplified-Marking-Criteria-as-1-Sheet
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Genre research and Intertextual links
Slasher
In a Slasher movie, there is usually a killer who murders innocent people mainly teenagers, and who are in a large group. Usually when the Murders occur, a person goes missing, followed by the others. The last person finally manages to kill the killer, but this isn't the case in some of the slasher films. More over we have been looking at various books in the library based on slashers. One of the book is asmedia studies handbook, this had information about slashers.
Killer
With notable exceptions, the killer in the slasher film is usually male. His identity is often, but not always, unknown and/or concealed either by a mask or by creative lighting and camera work. He is often mute and seemingly unstoppable, able to withstand stabbings, falls and shootings by his victims. Slasher villains tend to prefer hand held weapons such as knives, axes, hatchetes, and chainsaws as opposed to bombs or guns. As the sub-genre developed, some argue that the real star of a slasher is the killer, not the victims or Final Girl.
Victims
The victims tend to be young, attractive, high school or college-aged adolescents. Mainly Blonde teenagers are ended up being killed.
Final Girl
Slasher films frequently only have a single survivor. She is frequently a female peer of the victims but is cinematically developed. She frequently doesn't participate in the activities of her friends. The heroine is also known as the final girl because by the end of the movie, all of her friends are dead, and she's left alone to deal with the killer. Certain movies do deviate from this in favour of having a final boy who tends to be morally suspect.
In a Slasher movie, there is usually a killer who murders innocent people mainly teenagers, and who are in a large group. Usually when the Murders occur, a person goes missing, followed by the others. The last person finally manages to kill the killer, but this isn't the case in some of the slasher films. More over we have been looking at various books in the library based on slashers. One of the book is asmedia studies handbook, this had information about slashers.
Killer
With notable exceptions, the killer in the slasher film is usually male. His identity is often, but not always, unknown and/or concealed either by a mask or by creative lighting and camera work. He is often mute and seemingly unstoppable, able to withstand stabbings, falls and shootings by his victims. Slasher villains tend to prefer hand held weapons such as knives, axes, hatchetes, and chainsaws as opposed to bombs or guns. As the sub-genre developed, some argue that the real star of a slasher is the killer, not the victims or Final Girl.
Victims
The victims tend to be young, attractive, high school or college-aged adolescents. Mainly Blonde teenagers are ended up being killed.
Final Girl
Slasher films frequently only have a single survivor. She is frequently a female peer of the victims but is cinematically developed. She frequently doesn't participate in the activities of her friends. The heroine is also known as the final girl because by the end of the movie, all of her friends are dead, and she's left alone to deal with the killer. Certain movies do deviate from this in favour of having a final boy who tends to be morally suspect.
Useful resources
Library :
Media film studies home handbook (Vivienne Clark)
Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slasher_film
Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film
Media film studies home handbook (Vivienne Clark)
Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slasher_film
Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Initial notes on film openings
Marley and Me (David Frankel, 2008)
Budget $60,000,000
$60-20th Century Fox
In the opening scene of Marley and me, when the character was with the dog, here a voice over is said from the central protagonist . Also when the boy is in the field with the dog, you think that he is the central protagonist but he is not. Throughout the movie there is a frame shot that it being used to show the character approaching the door. As much information about the main characters, location is fed to the viewer as possible during the opening scene. What the character wear, and act and their personality helps to build their character. The main two protagonist are very well known in england and america.
Van helsing (2004, Stephen sommers)
Budget, $120,000,000 (usa), £15,000,000 (UK)
The opening sequence of the movie is in black and white, and this connote that its a gothic genre.
Napoleon Dynamite(Jared hess,2004)
Budget ($400,000)
Genre: Comedy
Opening: 3 minutes and 33 seconds of credits
Napoleon, central pratagonist, geek
The opening scene of this film, starts with a geek called Naploeon, who is the Central Protagonist. The first impressions we get from this character are that he is abnormal, and strange and this is what makes him a different character. We can tell this by the use of the clothes that he wear, as he wears his jeans very high, and a checked shirt tucked in to his jeans and has big glasses. Also when he is on the bus, he throws out a toy out the window whilst strearing it with a string. These are the first impressions the audience gets of this central protagonist.
Where the heart is(Matt Williams, 2000)
Based on a novel
Budget: $15,000,000
Sean of the dead
Genre: Comedy (WT2)
Linked to hot fuzz
Budget: $4,000,000 (estimated)
Director: Edgar wright
The opening of Sean of the Dead, it is like a socail realism as its set in the bar and not doing much
Scream
Genre horror
Budget: $14,000,000 (estimated)
Director: Wes Craven
The opening of this movie starts with a young woman in a house, who is a central protagonist and lives on her own in a house next to a forest. Through out this scene its set up in a house, where its dark and the music connates tension, and this build up, when the phone keeps ringing. The main camera shot used was long shot to show the background behind, this builds tension and it givesd the audience that feeling that someone is there watching her every move. The first impression we get of the central protagonist is that she is vulnerable and seems lonely.
Budget $60,000,000
$60-20th Century Fox
In the opening scene of Marley and me, when the character was with the dog, here a voice over is said from the central protagonist . Also when the boy is in the field with the dog, you think that he is the central protagonist but he is not. Throughout the movie there is a frame shot that it being used to show the character approaching the door. As much information about the main characters, location is fed to the viewer as possible during the opening scene. What the character wear, and act and their personality helps to build their character. The main two protagonist are very well known in england and america.
Van helsing (2004, Stephen sommers)
Budget, $120,000,000 (usa), £15,000,000 (UK)
The opening sequence of the movie is in black and white, and this connote that its a gothic genre.
Napoleon Dynamite(Jared hess,2004)
Budget ($400,000)
Genre: Comedy
Opening: 3 minutes and 33 seconds of credits
Napoleon, central pratagonist, geek
The opening scene of this film, starts with a geek called Naploeon, who is the Central Protagonist. The first impressions we get from this character are that he is abnormal, and strange and this is what makes him a different character. We can tell this by the use of the clothes that he wear, as he wears his jeans very high, and a checked shirt tucked in to his jeans and has big glasses. Also when he is on the bus, he throws out a toy out the window whilst strearing it with a string. These are the first impressions the audience gets of this central protagonist.
Where the heart is(Matt Williams, 2000)
Based on a novel
Budget: $15,000,000
Sean of the dead
Genre: Comedy (WT2)
Linked to hot fuzz
Budget: $4,000,000 (estimated)
Director: Edgar wright
The opening of Sean of the Dead, it is like a socail realism as its set in the bar and not doing much
Scream
Genre horror
Budget: $14,000,000 (estimated)
Director: Wes Craven
The opening of this movie starts with a young woman in a house, who is a central protagonist and lives on her own in a house next to a forest. Through out this scene its set up in a house, where its dark and the music connates tension, and this build up, when the phone keeps ringing. The main camera shot used was long shot to show the background behind, this builds tension and it givesd the audience that feeling that someone is there watching her every move. The first impression we get of the central protagonist is that she is vulnerable and seems lonely.
Film tastes
I dont remember the last 5 movies i have seen
The favourite two film genres are: Action and commedy
Top 5 films:
Rush hour
Bad boys
Gridion gang
The godfather
fast and the furious
Out of all these films Bad boys is my favourite because its an action movie
The favourite two film genres are: Action and commedy
Top 5 films:
Rush hour
Bad boys
Gridion gang
The godfather
fast and the furious
Out of all these films Bad boys is my favourite because its an action movie
Coursework task
Our coursework task is to produce the opening to a horror movie. we have to edit and produce posters.
For our preliminary task we have to film a scene using match-on-action, When there is a hand on a door, and from the other side we walk in to the room. The deadline for the preliminary task is 1/3/10 and the deadline for the final task is 3/5/10
For our preliminary task we have to film a scene using match-on-action, When there is a hand on a door, and from the other side we walk in to the room. The deadline for the preliminary task is 1/3/10 and the deadline for the final task is 3/5/10
Podcasts
Podcasts : Podcast 1 and 2 is on the link below
link
www.youtube.com/user/hellodaveproductions
There is a link on Useful Resources
link
www.youtube.com/user/hellodaveproductions
There is a link on Useful Resources
Thursday 11 February 2010
Avatar swede and preliminary task
This task is to produce a match-on-action sequence involving a hand on the door handle, and another camera other side when the person walks in
Me, jonny and Kane have sweded Avatar. Despite being an Avatar swede, we have no footage of avatars!
Me, jonny and Kane have sweded Avatar. Despite being an Avatar swede, we have no footage of avatars!
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Research in to Slasher movies.
Work in progress
slasher film: A subgenre of horror, related to the splatter movie. The villian, a blade welding serial killer, often has apparently supernatural powers of survival. The victims are usually youg, attractive and sexually active. Early examples include peeping tom (Michael Powell, UK, 1960) and psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960). The genre really developed in the 1970s and 1980s with Haloween (John Carpenter, USA, 1978) Friday the 13th (sean Cunningham, USA, 1980) and a nightmare of elm street (Wes Craven, USA, 1984) by the 1990s the slasher movie was seen as a format that had run out of ideas, but the postmodern ernist series of Scream films brief revitalised the genre.
slasher film: A subgenre of horror, related to the splatter movie. The villian, a blade welding serial killer, often has apparently supernatural powers of survival. The victims are usually youg, attractive and sexually active. Early examples include peeping tom (Michael Powell, UK, 1960) and psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960). The genre really developed in the 1970s and 1980s with Haloween (John Carpenter, USA, 1978) Friday the 13th (sean Cunningham, USA, 1980) and a nightmare of elm street (Wes Craven, USA, 1984) by the 1990s the slasher movie was seen as a format that had run out of ideas, but the postmodern ernist series of Scream films brief revitalised the genre.
Tuesday 2 February 2010
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