Company idents

Universal pictures ident:

I think this ident is very effective. I liked the rays of light coming out of the world and I think that the music is very powerful, especially with the visual. However I don't like the font of the text. I think that it seems a bit dated now and could do with being changed. I think that the text rolling round with the world is a very nice touch and I might do something similar in my own ident.

Disney ident:

I also think this is a very effective ident. I like how glamorous and powerful the fireworks make it. I also like how you feel like you are moving with the camera as it goes backwards. I don't think that the night background works very well though. For my ident I want it to seem more down to earth and less striking.

Mise en scene

Shots of house:

No people
Clean
No windows open

Bathroom:

Empty room
Towels on rack
Neat and Tidy
Everything in it's place

Bedroom:

Clothes on floor
Bed not made
Posters everywhere
Window open

Lounge:

looks like it's had an attempt to be tidied and clean but has just been made messy again


Overall I want it to seem like an average family home, nothing really out of the ordinary.

Things needed

What I will need (props, actors ect):

Actors:

• Main character-played by Ben
• News reporter-played by mum or dad
• Voice of mum-played by mum or my nan

Props:

• Music player (have at my house)
• Remote (have at my house)
• Ipod (have at my house)
• Cup with water in (have at my house)

Set:

• Basically the whole of my house-shots of all the rooms at the start of the film.
• Bathroom/lounge/bedroom will be used more than any other rooms-scenes going on in these rooms
• Bedroom/lounge will be used the most-main scenes going on in these rooms

Equipment needed:

• tripod-borrow from school
• gruella pod-got at home
• camera-borrow from school
• lighting equipment (possible needed not yet sure)

My character

Name: Esme Lucas
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Homelife: Middle class family, only child, rural village in
                 Norfolk
Education: High School
Dream Job: Doctor
Family Catagory: ABC1
Fashion: Mainstream
Religion: None
Current Job: None
Hobbies: Being with her friends and music

She is popular with good friends and doing well at school although if she worked harder she could be achieving more. She is happy and has few responsibilites and pressures. She is laid back, often walks around with her hands in her pockets. Despite being popular underneath she is quite shy, has only a few close friends.

Character and Characterisation

Character and Characterisation are important parts of a film. Without an intresting character the film won't be as intresting and if the character isn't correctly characterised then we may not get the wrong impression from the character or not feel we can fully relate to them.

• Characterisation is all observable parts of humans: age, sex, IQ, home, car, fashion sense, personality and attitudes. All these traits work together to make each person unique and one of a kind.
• Character is how the person will react to situations and pressure, if involved a very stressful or trying situation they may react differently to how we believed they will due to their characterisation. The persons character may be very different to what we first believed.
• Character Arc is the changes in a character, how they react to something at the start may be very different to how they react at the end. Robert McKee said that "if we are introduced to a loving husband and by the end of the tale he is still a loving husband, with no secret, no unfulfilled dreams, no hidden passions we will be very disappointed."
• Structure and Character are interlocked. If the structure changes the character must change accordingly and if the character changes the structure must also change with it.

Genre

What is it?
It is a way of classifying films into similar categories. It makes it easy for audiences to choose what film they want to watch, for example if they want to be scared they would choose a horror. It also means that the produces of the film will know who the film will appear to so can market is as such instead of having to watch the whole film. The audience have expectations of films because of it's genre.

Sub genres
When a film producer or writer wants to create something new of different then they may make a new genre or a spin off from the original genre. These are called sub genres. An example of this is the film Lord of the Rings, this is a sci-fi fantasy action. Sub genres can appeal to many people as they contain things that a lot of people like or they can have the opposite effect, they may only appeal to a small number of people that like that kind of thing.

How this influenced my genre choice:
After researching what genre is I decided that I should go for one of the main genres such as comedy or thriller as more sucsessful films have been made so I have more films to look at for inspiration .

Script Writing

We had a lesson when we wrote very very rough drafts to the opening of our film. We learnt the formatting that a movie script needs to be put into. Font must be Courier, must be size 12 and all the lines must be correctly indented. This is done so that everyone can understand what part of the script is what and each page should last roughly 1 minute. So if a company receives a script that is 45 pages long then they can guess its going to be about 45 mins long without even reading the whole thing.

example of a script correctly formatted.

 

We talked about how slug lines (scene headings) and the action description (mise en scene) help set up the scene and can connotate a lot. Reading it helped me realise that sometimes you don't need much dialogue for the audience to know whats going on and sometimes it's better to have as little as you can.

Pitch

This is my idea for my film. I think that my main character should be a teenager or 20-25 year old. The genre is sci-fi thriller/horror. I think that it will be mainly set in a normal house and I will have to make little videos to be news reports or something similar that the character will see. If you actually want to find out what the idea is watch the video.