Genre narrative and film

This one is revealing two opposite characters. Adam being the joker style character and myself playing a moody girl.

This low angle image is showing my moody girl character clearly as I am showing no facial expressions and the costume choice reveals the moody style.

Adam's character being the joker we decided the fancy dress approach would really work. It has a funny side to it with the cowboy hat. Also, his facial expression is showing he is happy and having fun.

 

 

 

1. devising an idea with a clear narrative structure

1. Horror, 5 teenagers on a road trip. Four of the teens disappear/die. One, a girl, survives.
This is what we created:

We changed the order so that the narrative was more complicated and non-linear:

Bibliographies

Bibliographies from izzyfoster

This is a quick presentation stating the websites I used in order to help me understand tasks given.

Introducing narrative ideas

Introducing narrative ideas from izzyfoster

Short films

I liked this short film, it is really interesting. It's about a DJ that goes back in time. I especially liked the use of the fast forwarding and rewinding, it made it unique and attract a wide audience. The cinematography and choice of filming really made it look professional and they made full use of all technical sides to it. It used a lot of props and you can tell the amount of time and effort the actors spent perfecting. The fact it is 8 minutes made it strong, short and exciting, being a perfect amount of time. Overall I feel the short film has a dynamic style to it and is eye catching to an audience. A bonus to it being different is the fact it doesnt have speech involved.



I find this short film rather flat and repetitive. It has a gripping story line however I feel it was quite typical and didnt hit a climax at all.
The use of the table creates a magical style to it which I liked. As it is 7 minutes 44 seconds I feel that was slightly too long and that they stretched it out a little. The camera shots created tension at times and I liked the use of the repetition of him in bed. It created a routine within the short film, and made it realistic yet magical at the same time.

Communicating narrative and genre information using film language

We were set a task to create a set for a birthday party. In order to create a poster we took photos of our set and used myself and Adam as actors. I worked with myself, Joss, Adam and Evie. Everyone was given a title "Birthday Party" and you could choose from the following:
Romance
Horror
Comedy
gangster

We chose to do romance as we felt we could create a strong set for it. We had to bring our own props in which was good because we could put our own twist on it.

This is the birthday card we used for one of the photographs

This is our sketch of the props and the set

 

 

Final image

 

 

 

We were struggling to decided whether we wanted a light pink light or a darker pink light. The darker light created quite a dark, intimate atomosphere which I felt worked but as a group we decided on using the lighter one as we figured we could tweek it slightly on photoshop.

 

Deciding who was going to feature in the pictures was a quick decision. As I do performing arts I gladly said I would do it, also Adam said he was happy to do it.

 



 

 

 

 

 

Blog task 5

Reviews

This review website is rotten tomatoes, it is basically a website where the general public express their views on films. 

I have chosen to look at this film's reviews. It is a recent film in the cinema and I was interested in looking at the the general publics views recently. 

This is the main page of the review for "now you see me"

As you can see it has a 74% liked rate

This review website is clear and shows everyones personal opinion and allows people to voice their opinion.

You can also rate it by stars








There is a review that is positive about the film
"FANTASTIC!!! If I could give 5 thumbs up or 11 star for this movie, I would really gave it.. With the help of amazing directing from Louis Leterrier and great cast with great story, this movie turns out into an amazing entertainment.. I must say I'm truly impressed.."

This is a negative review on the film 
"A fairly unmagical couple of hours at the cinema."

The reviews seem to be more about the film overall, rather than going into a lot of detail about the director and stars in the film.

July 7, 2013