The genre of film which I would like to use as inspiration for my coursework is thriller. I chose this genre because it is one that I am interested in and also enjoy watching. This genre appeals to me because I enjoy the feeling of tension when watching films. To me, this is important because when you are affected mentally by a film it makes it far more memorable. The use of scary occurrences and situations which intend to frighten the audience is an easy way to entertain and keep audiences entertained throughout the film. The genre of thriller is also a good genre to use for our coursework because many other genres can be incorporated into it.
The main characteristics of a thriller movie is the use of tension and suspense, a storyline which involves good versus evil or contains a villain and one or more victims and frequent action. They usually contain one main hero who survives throughout the movie when many others don’t or who takes the life of the villain. Thrillers can range from a story about a supernatural being stalking one person or a group of people to a large scale terrorist attack and the fight to prevent it.
This genre is also a good one to use for coursework as it is possible to create a short film in this genre within the confines of school. Thriller films can be represented by the use of fast editing, music and sound effects. Especially when only the beginning two minutes of the film has to be made because the villain isn’t required to appear, only their presence needs to be recognized. This can be easily achieved using different locations for filming, skillful camera work, good actors and through the effective use of the resources that are available to us for our coursework.
(Gabi)
30.9.09
Main Task: Research Task 1
(Prep to 1st October 2009, G321 p.11 q.1)
The science fiction genre is without doubt one of the most challenging genres in the film production scene. For us as students it is even more difficult, to make a science fiction film, we have to confine to our possibilities to work. But the challenge makes it for us even more interesting.
In the big science fiction movies there are lots of animated scenes, for example Star Wars is made nearly without exception made in front of a green screen. The movies takes often place in the future, they are (at our point of time) not realistic; that makes them to science fiction movies. This genre is really interesting. In all science fiction films directors imagine how the world could be, they make their own world. It’s interesting for the viewer to see; eve if of course not all science fiction movies are expectations of the future. In these worlds there are often horror scenarios; these makes the movie exiting. The viewer wants to watch it. There is often a bad guy as well; in this person the viewer sees the horror scenario. Science fiction movies sometimes work with over lighting effects on the sequences, these gives the impression to the viewer that it takes place on a different point of time.
Some of these points can we as students incorporate in our films as well. We can’t use green screen and/or special effects, but this building our own world is a thing we can and have to do, this will be a really important point in our course work. We also can use typical shots of the science fiction films. The editing gives us the possibility to use science fiction typical sound, we also can make the sequences appear in a special light etc.
(Simon)
The science fiction genre is without doubt one of the most challenging genres in the film production scene. For us as students it is even more difficult, to make a science fiction film, we have to confine to our possibilities to work. But the challenge makes it for us even more interesting.
In the big science fiction movies there are lots of animated scenes, for example Star Wars is made nearly without exception made in front of a green screen. The movies takes often place in the future, they are (at our point of time) not realistic; that makes them to science fiction movies. This genre is really interesting. In all science fiction films directors imagine how the world could be, they make their own world. It’s interesting for the viewer to see; eve if of course not all science fiction movies are expectations of the future. In these worlds there are often horror scenarios; these makes the movie exiting. The viewer wants to watch it. There is often a bad guy as well; in this person the viewer sees the horror scenario. Science fiction movies sometimes work with over lighting effects on the sequences, these gives the impression to the viewer that it takes place on a different point of time.
Some of these points can we as students incorporate in our films as well. We can’t use green screen and/or special effects, but this building our own world is a thing we can and have to do, this will be a really important point in our course work. We also can use typical shots of the science fiction films. The editing gives us the possibility to use science fiction typical sound, we also can make the sequences appear in a special light etc.
(Simon)
Preliminary Task: Dialogue
The dialogue we intend to use for our preliminary task is:
Character 1: (Enters the room and wakes up character 2) What are you doing?
Character 2: (Wakes up and laughs) Working really hard on our prep.
Character 1: So what have you done so far? Because I've finished all of my part. (Shows character 2 the work on his laptop)
Character 2: Well done! And I've done this. (Hands character 1 a blank piece of paper)
Character 1: This is useless, you haven't done any of the work, I'm going to speak to Mrs Downes! (Storms out of the classroom)
(Gabi & Simon)
Character 1: (Enters the room and wakes up character 2) What are you doing?
Character 2: (Wakes up and laughs) Working really hard on our prep.
Character 1: So what have you done so far? Because I've finished all of my part. (Shows character 2 the work on his laptop)
Character 2: Well done! And I've done this. (Hands character 1 a blank piece of paper)
Character 1: This is useless, you haven't done any of the work, I'm going to speak to Mrs Downes! (Storms out of the classroom)
(Gabi & Simon)
Preliminary Task: Planning
Today we began planning for our preliminary course work task. We decided that our short film would be about two students who are working on a prep task together. Their different view on school is resulting to displeasures. The two characters have a small disagreement because one character has done all of the work and the other was lazy and didn't help.
The actors we plan to use for our film are Charles Lambourne and Henri Yueksel.
1 (Henri): He is the nerdy person. The character wears glasses and his buttons are done up. He works hard for good marks and takes school very seriously.
2 (Charles): He is wearing not correct school uniform, don’t likes school and don’t want to work for it.
The two characters are meeting after school in a classroom to work on their prep together. Character 1 enters and finds character 2 asleep on the desk. He wakes him up and it turns out that character 2 hasn't prepared anything. After a short argument character 1 leaves the room angrily.
Character 1 appears to be smarter and more mature than character 2. That is why we intend to film him using high angle shots and to film character 2 using low angle shots. We plan to film their argument with two cameras, that gives us the possibility to edit it as a shot reaction shot. We will also use tracking shots to film character 1 walking towards the classroom and match on action to show him entering the classroom.
(Simon)
The actors we plan to use for our film are Charles Lambourne and Henri Yueksel.
1 (Henri): He is the nerdy person. The character wears glasses and his buttons are done up. He works hard for good marks and takes school very seriously.
2 (Charles): He is wearing not correct school uniform, don’t likes school and don’t want to work for it.
The two characters are meeting after school in a classroom to work on their prep together. Character 1 enters and finds character 2 asleep on the desk. He wakes him up and it turns out that character 2 hasn't prepared anything. After a short argument character 1 leaves the room angrily.
Character 1 appears to be smarter and more mature than character 2. That is why we intend to film him using high angle shots and to film character 2 using low angle shots. We plan to film their argument with two cameras, that gives us the possibility to edit it as a shot reaction shot. We will also use tracking shots to film character 1 walking towards the classroom and match on action to show him entering the classroom.
(Simon)
28.9.09
Preliminary Task: Introduction
This blog has been created by Simon Dethleffsen, James Grieve and Gabi Paterson to record our progress on our AS level coursework.
Preliminary Task: The preliminary exercise which we have complete for our coursework is a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task has to demonstrate our understanding of match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
(Gabi)
Preliminary Task: The preliminary exercise which we have complete for our coursework is a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task has to demonstrate our understanding of match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
(Gabi)
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