Shot lists

In our trailer we are going to use a variety of shots. the opening shot we are going to zoom in to the red tornado title. In the next bit its going to fade out and alex is going to be opening a door with some tense music then it turns out he is going into his bedroom to see conor gaming.In the next scene we use match on action when alex's phone rings twice one from his mum and the other they get a job to do.we will also use the close shot a lot during this sequence.

we came up with very very little ideas and found this very hard to think of a name but in the end we decided to go with this title Red tornado  which is the man character played by alex valente's name. the other character names are the hawk played by conor redmond and the plague played by me and we all have our own individual mask. Alex's and conor's head will appear in the bottom of the this in the masks.

Comedy fonts

for a comedy films there are many fonts we could use but mainly i have found out that they are rather plain and revolve around ameteurish looking titles but each has its effect on what the audience feel about the film they will watch, some like superhero movie has the effect of the trail of the title as a good superhero effect, also is used in superhero comics.

we would like to use something more along the lines of the cover of the comic superman vs flash frontcover has the same kind of effect that we will use, as it shows the comic book feel and thats the kind of feel we would like to use as our frontcover.

film questionnaire

We then asked the question what is your favourite comedy film the results were interesting with the majority decided hot fuzz was their favourite comedy so we are going to look more into that then the inbetweeners movie was menton bruce almighty and run fatboy run also hangover 1 and 2 was mentionand step brothers. as a group we are all going to look at the films and decide what makes them so engaging and funny.

this pie charts represents the question what do you find funny?

blue:- falling

green:-awkward moment

red:-stereotypes

light blue:-prejudice

The results from this question came out the way i though it would because people generally have always found awkward moments and when people fall, the audience do find it funny so i am not surprised that the results from this question where to to funnies things in comedy from our choices where awkward moments and falling but what did surprise me , i thought that sterotypes would have done a bit better.

this charts shows the research of the question what do you most like to see in a comedy? and this was our results

blue:-comedy movie
green:-slapstick
orange-:pardoy
red:-screwball


when we asked this question i thouht it would be obvious that a parody would be at the top and would be the most popular because there are so many popular parodys that have done so well like superhero movie and many others so when slapstick comedy won i was a bit surprised but i think the results are good because it shows more or less a clear standings between the choices.

soundtrack research

we have started our soundtrack research and we are still not sure whether to make our won soundtrack. We have found out that from this research each charachter will need its own music so for the villian something a bit darker and flat notes where as for the hero we need the music to be jumpy and heroic like in pirates of the carribian. i think that this soundtrack will work for our film so something like this for the heros.
this soundtrack has everything from a slow and epic beggining to the jumpy bit which we would like to get across in our film.

Film questionnaire

we asked a varity of people this question and here is our results. i think that the question asked here is a bit silly but we did get results we didnt think we would get because some people did answer to having a clever twist and a bit of romance in a comedy but 75% still answered the thing they wanted most wasnt a romance of a clever twist they just want to be made to laugh.

this is our film questionnaire

Film Questionnaire

What do you want to get out of a comedy film?

o   Laughter

o   A clever twist

o   A bit of romance with a complicated relationship

o   What types of comedy would you like to get?

o   Slapstick comedy

o   Parody

o   Screwball

o   What do you find funny?

o   Falling

o   Pie in the face

o   Awkward moments

o   Prejudice

o   Stereotypes

o   What would you like the hero to reach?

o   Beat villain/kill

o   Win a hot girl

o   Both

What is your favourite comedy film?

Fill in here ………………………………………………..



In our search to find the type of comedy people liked we decided to make a questionnaire with these questions. The questionnaire is alright i think but it needs improvement to pinpoint and to be more accurate with the type of comedy and what makes a good comedy film. I think that more questions and a few more options for the audience to choose from we would have got better results but i am still happy with this questionnaire because it asks the questions our group wanted to know.

Adam and will might be in our film as a possiblity if needed.

storylines for comedy

in a classic comedy film the storylines are mostly the same having a girl for the guy to win and a big task for the hero to do e.g. beat the villian in a fight to the death with henchmen along the way. most superhero comedys start of as a geek wanting to be a hero then actually becoming a super hero appearing in the news then becoming well known then other wannabe geeks look up to this new hero and want to be him and attempt it but end up getting hurt.

Transport for film

in our film the film we are not going to use cars or anything because in a conventional film the hero and villian would both have a super tech car which we do not have instead we are going to ride bikes and have knee pads on and helmets this will also be seen as comic because it  is the opposite cliche.

Leg wear for film

for leg wear for the fillm we are going to have cargo shorts but this is not for definate. We would use this becuase it will be cold and this will be seen as comic and hopefully will make our audience laugh. Our second option for leg wear would simplily be jeans just for practical reason or tights because that is what super heros wear.

  we have decided to use the rating of the 15 because we are going to use crude language which would be inappropriate for the younger views of 12 and under so we feel that the rating of 15 is good for our choice of film.

Location for our film

For our film the locations for our film we would like to use is either forty foot park in Leatherhead but using the forest part  maybe to have a chase scene or action scene when a character could fall easily to add comedy to the film or same setting in Ashtead. Also a headquarters for the hero for the comedy value and the villians hideout will be in a forest to add a creepy effect.

Some good posts Sam, but you need to continue planning your film as we are fast approaching the production period. Include your script and analysis of it, storyboarding, interviews with actors, timeline for filming and photos of location.

Mask for the hero

in all superhero films there is a hero with a 'secret identity' and to keep this secret identity the hero will need a mask (conor has found this mask). This type of mask is amateurish and this is a bonus to our film but could be seen as bad because it could look to amateur but i think it will look good in our film and will play to the comedy side to the film.  

Clothing for film.

For the film we would like to use thermal tops/tight tops to add a comical feature to our film add pillows to make us looks fatter and this will make our superhero comedy more of a comedy. We are doing this because in normal superhero films you see the hero being very stereotypical male hero with the perfect body abdominals and pecs in our films we won't have anywhere near the perfect bodies.

Foot wear for the film.

In superhero films the foot wear is quite serious they always wear army type boots to protect them when fighting crime , so we thought that wearing wellies would be suitable for our superhero comedy so that the hero might not be able to run properly or climb wall well enough for the superhero quality so in our film the hero could fall and find normal things and challenge.

Film idea: superhero comedy

For our film idea me Alex and Conor have chosen to do a superhero comedy this kind of genre will consist of a lot of cliches and will set a hard challenge for us to achieve. In our film we have Conor and Alex as the 'batman and robin' combination because then we can use them as a stereotypical hero combo that we can take and fool about with the costumes e.g. The transport shoes trousers tips and masks and for the evil villain that's me and we are also gonna go for a kind of east European cliche villain and with this we can also play around with the character even have a cat on my lap being stroked as I say 'I've been expecting you' which is a classic villain cliched line. The setting we want to be a bit spooky when you don't know what's about to come out the corner and that anything could happen like in the woods in Leatherhead or ashtead.

kick ass trailer

This trailer has the kind of message that i would like to send to our target audience which would be teenagers. the genre we have chosen ( me alex and conor) is superhero comedy  we chose this because we think it would be fun to do and not too easy so it would cause a bit of a challenge which we would like instead of doing something easy. In the trailer for kick ass it shows that it is a superhero comedy by the guy jumping off the buliding which you think will fly but then it turns out he is a superhero wanna be like the rest of the city there are a lot of superhero wanna be's like in real life when you want to be just like spiderman or batman this comes across.

Media 180 shot

  In this short clips me alex and conor demonstrate the 180 rule that we learnt that day. the one 180 rule consists of maybe a few clips of the same conversation being videod and edited and put together to make it look like one smooth convosation  but infact it is actually lots of clips put together and to do this you can use one camera to edit it together you need to make sure that the area around the cip is always constant.

X-men first class

at the beginning of x-men first class there is a concentration camp with slow dark music this sets and bad feeling to the scene and the audience can pick up on that it is a very bad place. Then we see a boy getting split up with his mother but they get over powered as the mother gets put behind a gate then this young boy reaches out and starts screaming with anger , the angle shot is slightly a low angled shot to show he could be quite powerful then he bends the gate with his special power and then the boys gets knocked out by an older man. The boy speaks as he is very frightened because this cruel man. Mis-en-scene in this is very affective because it is dark which makes the audience feel the tension in the scene , the man that shoots his mum is behind a big desk wearing Nivea nice suit which shows his importance and shows he is in charge of this disgusting camp which indicates his dark nature.

Seven pounds opening two minutes

In the opening two minutes of seven pounds there is will smith playing the lead role of the film crying on the phone showing his venerability , he calls the police because he reports a suicide that he will kill himself. The films narration by will is quite powerful
Saying that he is a broken man he isn't like a stereotype of a male. When he calls the company selling him 'dog food' he is shown to the audience as aggressive and showing his dominance over this other male on the phone dealing with the situation, will is also in a suit which shows he has authority and is powerful by his smart appearance. He starts to insult the person representing the meat company , as he gives his name to the company a voice of a robot says no order for Ben Thompson which will picks up on and starts to insult him
As a blind meat sales man who doesn't eat meat and becomes outraged also will starts to question the company representative man hood by asking if he has had sex before this upsets the guy and the aggressive stereotypical male is shown which is the opposite of what the audience see at the begging of the film. The close ups of wills face is used a lot in the opening two minutes of the film which is used effectively to show the emotion of his face as it changes a lot an to get the audience to sympathise with his character as his is an emotional wreak filled with anger and spite.

RED

The opening two minutes of red consists of an old retired agent living a normal live and being normal around the community also he talks about getting his life backs which shows how caught up in his work he was. He has phone call with a sexy women operating a phone at her work but this couple had not met before and he is determined to get after her and be with her and lie a normal life no matter what. The ex-agent's house gets broken into randomly and then he defeats the enemy with ease to show a stereotypical male being strong and powerful.

i had to make a short film to try to use different angles and different camera shots.i had to try to make it believeable to the audience i tried to do this with the effects i tried to use with william huck.Firstly we tried to find different places to film and shared ideas about what kind of message we wanted to send across to the audience. The scene is set in the corridor in a school where 2 kids are running to get a boy as they are bullies for this beggining bit of the clip we used a long shot as the characters ran past the camera this sends a message to the audience that it is a chase scene but i dont like in this scene that the audience might think that the character further back player by conor looking like he is chasing the other character where as we didnt put it across in that way which was bad of us.The next part of the scene was an over the shoulder shot of whats meant to be the victim of the bullying but we had the character playing the victim on the stairs which portrays him as the biggest person as he gets confroted by the bullys the bully who is lower down doesnt look threatening which the audience will pick up on.

Comedy cliches and conventions

All comedy films have their own conventions to abide by and their own fomula, for example in adam sandler films they have a very familier formula which works, which is sandler will have to do a sport or adventure to get through and on the way meet a girl and win her and her heart and will live happily ever after, like in the films waterboy , happy gilmore and billy madison. other cliches in comedy are people always falling over and getting hurt which the audience finds as a guilty pleasure to laugh at someone being hurt, also someones hair in the comedy films mostly catches on fire which is hard to put out.There is also always a distraction from a girl and how the guy will go out of his way no matter what to save her or win her heart back normally its someone being hurt that brings them closer together.

Romance conventions and cliches

In romance films there are a lot of predictable cliches in them for example the boy and the girl falling in love and being teh perfect couple also the guy that the audience doesnt want the girl to be with is a common cliches.Some thing always gets in the way of the good (seen as weaker guy) beating the bigger stronger and more attractive guy which the audience gets to hate.Always in the end they end up together after an argument or someone having to go someone maybe a new job in france which would ruin the romance but in the end somehow they will end up together and there will be a happy ending, the weaker guy tries to show his affection but doesnt get noticed and is invisable to the girls that are out of his league.

Horror convention and cliches and different types of horror.

There are different types of horror like mainstream horror and an example of this is jeepers creepers also there is vampire like dracular ,zombie like 28 days later , asian horror the ring goreography like saw and slasher halloween. there are a lot of cliches in horror films like someone always dying mostly the females who is portrayed as weak. Another cliches is glimpses of fear like the audience knows that the villian is about or seeing a ghost in the mirror behind then turning around around and it has gone, and jumpy moments e.g. creepy music which to the audience indicates what is going on in the film as something big will happen.

The is always a bathroom scene where either someone washes their faces in the sink and then pops their face up to someone behind them in a mirror. The places that people are killed are also cliches like the basement scences which is a creepy lonly area or even in the woods and places when they are alone.

jeepers creepers review.
jeepers creepers is a horror film about a monster which comes around every 23 years for 23 day and the intro of the film is the 2 main characters a brother a sister driving home the long way and encountering a strange monster. In the opening they come across a road raged driver who scared the siblings as his wreak-less driving scares them , then as they get over taken by an old truck then see a man come out of it in a old house seeming like he was dumping a body and then a classic car chase scene as the monster starts to chase and ram the brother and sister.

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Research and Planning 11/20: A good start to your blog Sam with some interesting ideas about genre and the opening of a film. We have studied many more genres other than horror and you need to include these in your blog - and explain the pros and cons for making your own film within these genres. Analyse the openings of more films and explain how they hook the audience into them. A promising start - posting much more often with get you into the higher bands Sam.

opening 2 minutes of shawshank redemtion.

in the opening two mintues of the shawshank redemtion there is diegetic sound at the beggining where the three jail mates at the are talking and the other jail mates around the are talking about being up for rejection then the character played by morgan freeman is a scammer in the jail and starts to narrate about how he is the guy to get things for you if you needs it by this he is shown to the audience to be a main character , at this point in the opening the audience feel that the jail mates talking now are experienced and know what to do and what not to do in jail and knows the ins and outs about the jail. and then explains about andy (the main character) why he is in jail and a breif background for the auidence.  also the birds cheeping in the background. There is also non-diegetic sound played over the top as the new caoch of jail mates comes in.There is a long shot of the bus as it goes into the jail. a high angle shot of the bus also. in the opening there isnt much going on just  a breif introduction on the background of everything and where the movie is going to be set.The audience see how vulnerable the new jail mates just coming in on the bus are this shows the fear factor of how people would feel going into a jail and tries to reflect on you wondering whether you would feel the same or brake down first and how you would tackle the situation that you have gotten into.Andy shows no emotion to show his vulnerability and keeps a straight face showing no fear which to the audience shows a heroic feel to him.