Treatment analysis

From the feedback we have decided we should either change the idea or plot or change the genre.  the plot and ideas we described were more like a horror movie and had been seen many times before.

Group 1- Treatment

Group 1 - Treatment

continue of Foundation Portfolio Research

Images and film titles of Thriller Movies:

 The Dark Knight
The image goes with the title of the film as it is quite dark as it is called the DARK knight.  It also shows that there has been an attack on the building behind.  
The Dark Knight - the film title insists that it may be a thriller because of the word 'dark', it makes you think why is the knight known as the 'dark' knight.

 Psycho
The images used for the film cover doesn't really give you the idea that the film is a thriller.  This might be because it was made in 1960 and it advertises the film more than making you want to watch it from the cover art like a more modern thriller film would do, such as the dark knight uses the main character - Bat Man as does Psycho but it shows you a part in the movie where the film is at a thrilling point in the movie, whereas Psycho doesnt, it quotes someone's opinion on the movie, which is usually done in newspapers or magazines.
The film title gives you an idea of what the film is going to about. It's known that a psycho is dangerous and scary to come across, this can also give you an idea that the film is a thriller.

  The Silence of the Lambs
The  cover art of the movie doesn't show you much about what the film is like once you have watched it. it's like you need to watch the movie to know what the cover art is showing you.  For exaple the butterfly is seen throughout the movie, so knowing that the cover art makes sense to me.  On the other hand, the film title doesn't make sense at all, even after watching the movie i still wonder why it is called 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Common Actors seen in Thriller films:

Janet Leigh

1. Psycho (1960)
2. Touch of Evil (1958)
3. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
4. Vikings, The (1958)

Leonardo DiCaprio

1. Titanic (1997)
2. Departed, The (2006)
3. Inception (2010)
4. Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Tom Cruise

1. Magnolia (1999)
2. Rain Man (1988)
3. Risky Business (1983)
4. Collateral (2004)

Grace Kelly

Rear Window (1954)
1. High Noon (1952)
2. Dial M for Murder (1954)
3. High Society (1956)

Foundation Portfolio

Foundation Portfolio

Genre convention research: Peer assessment Feedback

1)The Dixonators are an underground organisation that dig out dirt about big bands worldwide.  for example, You me at six. The get hired by rival bands who are trying to upstage them for example Kids in glass houses. they ask the Dixonators to spy on said band by stealing un-published lyrics/cover art etc...

5 Things i will need to keep in the genre :

• black back ground with white writing (typical gangster style writing)
• hiden identities
• Hired by someone higher
• they use a lot of violence
• illegal

One thing i would change to adapt the genre is to base the film on bands.

The opening would the Dixonators in the studio holding the lyricist hostage while they steal all new lyrics and ideas for rival bands.


2) Dark throughout with white text
films in black and white
the gangster group are there to take in the criminal kids, hired by the police, so that the kids have a future in something other than becoming the people the gangsters are after

• black back ground with white writing (typical gangster style writing)
• hiden identities
• Hired by someone higher
• they use a lot of violence
• illegal

different to other gangster movies because the gangsters are the goodies changing the bad.  they make a change to the community instead of causing trouble for the community

opening sequence is a child in a room with just a table

close up on childs face then it reverse creeps to established show of the room 

camera stays on the child and you can hear the gangsters come in the room and you can only see their shadows on the wall (3 of them)

3) horror gangster movie.  

the gangsters  are clowns. disguised as clowns to do their dirty work easier, as clowns are seen as loving entertainers. The clowns are hired as hitmen. 


The best plot that was chosen was number 2.  This was because it's orginal as the gangsters are to help the police, rather than be chased by the police.

Prelim evaluation

Overall, I think we worked well as a group.  We made sure that we each had equal amounts of tasks and time spent on those tasks.  At one point we all had a go of both videoing and editing but each of us showed strengths and weaknesses with different parts of the process. We all decided to use Michela's Story for our prelim task.  Renee drew up the story board as we told her what shots and ideas we wanted use. We also naturally done more of what we were best at in the task.  For example Renee had strengths in both filming and editing from previous experience, I focused on sound and editing more than filming but i still had a go at filming.  Michela focused on the plot of the video and contributed to sound too. and Finally Teni did a lot of filming and showed good ideas in the different editing techniques such as the choice of transition and text. Although i spent more time on Editing that Filming i did have my turn on filming some parts .



this is the shot i filmed.  this shot went on to zoom in onto the phone so the text message was clear








The brief was to show:
match on action
The 180 degree rule
a person walking across a room and sitting down
dialogue between two people
and it had to be 30 seconds long

We tried our best to  meet our brief as best as we could.   For example

match on action

Match on action shot 2

180 Degree rule

180 degree rule shot 2










The 180 degree rule shows the conversation between 2 people.  I think we showed all of the points of the brief.  The only thing we didn't meet in our brief is the time.  The brief says we have to make the video 30 seconds long, although ours is 48 seconds, i think we did well for fitting everything in and only going over the target time by 18 seconds.

Prelim

Preliminary task

Today for our preliminary we wrote a script and filmed it.  We had to film a face to face conversation between two people.  We also had to show the filming and editing of match on action and a 180 degree rule.

Tasks:
opening a door [match on action]
walking across the room
sitting down
face to face conversation [180 degree conversation]

The Dilemma 
Script:

[Becky walks through door, walks across towards Ryan and sits down]

Becky: Hi, Ryan I have something to tell you
Ryan: What's wrong?
Becky: I um, don't know how to tell you this but [pause] I'm pregnant
Don't worry it'll be alright.
[Becky walks away to sort herself out]
[black out]
[becky's phone goes off. Ryan picks up the phone and reads the text]
Text: Last weekend was good, I hope I see you again ;) x]
[Ryan cries]
TO BE CONTINUED...

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