Task 1 (Ahmed Mohammed)

One of the genres I am planning to use is action/adventure. This is because there are lots of audiences who prefer action/adventure rather than horror. The horror genre is one of the most uncomplicated forms of entertainment. However I intend to use more than one gene, this give a wider ranger of different genres in which audience prefer. If I only had one genre it would be boring and might not attract the audience that well. The word genre means "kind of" or "sort of and comes from the same Latin root as the word genus.

One of the films that inspired me is “Johnny English” as it has got enough action and adventure, but more humour into it. This is directed by Peter Howitt. The main character in this film is obviously Johnny English as (Rowan Atkinson) with is amazing acting as a role of a spy agent. Unlike drama, where the goal is to get the audience to experience a range of emotions, action has a much simpler goal. The goal is to get the audience to experience a bit of action or an adventure.

There are some amazing scenes which show clearly how an action should be done. No matter if it’s a stunt or just a minor action. And one of them is when Johnny English jumps of a plane and lands onto a building for his mission. When he reaches the building he gets out his gadgets and makes a huge hole through the glass window. This has lots of special effects, but also it has the same amount of action in this scene. However, later in this scene, when he enters the building, he realizes that he is in the wrong building. This film has lots of humour parts including this one. According to me, having a bit of comedy won’t suit my shot movie. This is because normally in a comedy genre, the actor/actress as their personality, they have this humour in them which the audience know. But if you tell a horror film actor to act into a comedy film for some humour, the audience will no find it humorous.

Acton/adventure genre should be a good genre for an audience in school. This is because they get attracted more easily, adding some suspense will keep then focused and interested. Also adding a bit of SFX special effects will inspire them more.



Written by Ahmed Mohammed

Wednesday 30.09.09 Media Studies

Today we filmed our Preliminary Task with success and had a lot of good shots and different camera angles using two cameras.
What we need to do is to cut the film material and put it together.

Written by Ahmed Mohammed

Task 1 (Sultan Mackinnon)

The film that I have watched that inspired me is a horror film called The Ring.

The Ring

The Ring is mainly based on mysterious videotape that is cursed, the footage contains lots of disturbing images. After the tape is watched the viewers get a phone call warning them that they have seven days to live.

When I watched this film for the first time I had shivers down my spine, this is what kind of effect that I would like the viewers to experience when they watch our work (trailer). This gender appeals to me because it is mysterious and also I lie films that have a twist in it, a good example of this is the Skeleton Key. Also films such as The Ring or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre always have suspense, even at the beginning of the film you always wonder what will happen next because you know the type of genre it is, for example if the film is a comedy then you predict that the opening scene will have lively music and a few lines of dialogue, a film such as Bruce Almighty is a good example of these qualities. I also like horror movies because it contains different genre, if you watch an action movie then it will contain action and maybe slight sings of comedy, but a horror movie has its own genre that no other can consist of. The main characteristics that a horror film contains are fear, mystery, action (sometimes intense violence) and suspense. All these characteristics combine together to make a horror film. For our trailer we could use different locations such as the Michael Kirk were there are graves, this will give the trailer a sinister feel to it, also you can use different props such as knifes or guns. In the trailer there will be special effects present so you could make the brightness dark, all these small things will make a difference.

Written by Sultan Mackinnon

Task 1 (Henri Yueksel)

Task 1 Prep,

Movie: The Haunting in Connecticut

What I really like about this movie is the creepiness and the horror factor in it. It's quite like an classic horror movie; Something happened to someone, we don't know what but we are going to find it out while watching the whole movie. Because this "person/thing" has disappeared something is happening in this case there is a haunted house because something happened in this house, somebody died... You don't know how or why. During the movie you're finding out more and more about it. But while this person died in a strange way, and you know that something bizarre happened in this house. This whole mysterious happenings are really thrilling and scary because things happens in this house and the family living in is really scared. That is kind of art to scare people only with a good story, acting and mostly everything else doesn't play a role if you've got a very good story. The characteristics of this movie and most of those movies are the mysterious and often very scary stories that you can follow while watching the movie. Often the actors are really bad but that doesn't matter in this kind of movies, because if they are good camera shots, good music and/or a good story you will certainly be scared even if the actors are really bad. For example: Hitch cocks "Psycho" was one of the best horror thrillers ever! Everybody can recognize "Psycho" because of the background music (Of course there were good actors too...) and the good story. You don't need spooky zombies or monsters, the story etc. tells you everything and scares you often much more than a monster or whatever.

There are not lots of special effects and there's no violence in most of psycho/horror movies, (depends on the exact movie genre, if it's a slasher horror movie or if it's more like a high-tension movie with a good and very scary story...) so there would be no real restrictions for the movie... We just need a good story and good camera shots plus a very good and specific soundtrack. You don't need good actors or costumes for this kind of movie so we'll have a good base to work on and I'm really looking forward to it!

Written by Henri Yueksel

Preliminary Task

Today we have started to discuss our preliminary task.

Our group consists of 3 members:

Sultan Mackinnon

Henri Yueksel

Ahmed Mohammed

Preliminary Task:

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite, with whom she/he then exchanging a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Story

A young teenager is going to a medical centre, where he has booked an appointment. As the teenager enters the room the doctor asks him a couple of questions. After the short interview the doctor gives the medication to the teenager. The patient leaves the room.

Dialogue

Ahmed: "Hello Sir, have you got an appointment?"

Sultan: "Yes I do" (hands sheet over)

Ahmed: (checks computer for details),
(gives medication to patient) "There you go sir, you will need to take it every three houres."

Sultan: "Thank you doctor. Have a nice day!"

Camera Angles (filmed by Henri Yueksel)

In our preliminary task we will have varieties of filming techniques, such as 180 degree angle, shot-reverse-shot…

Written by Henri Yueksel