examples of different film genres

These are a few examples of comedy films. Most colours used for comedy films are bright,this helps give the theme of comedy, because the colours represent happy and humour.

Here are some examples of Action movies. Most of these films use dark colours to represent the theme of Action as they are mainly fighting and danger films.

These are a few examples om Romantic Comedies, colours that usually represent love are colours such as red's, pink's and purple's.

Film Genres

For our next task, we have been asked to make an opening sequence of a film. As research for this task I am going to be researching different genres of films. Here are some examples of some film genres. After researching different genre's, our group have decided to base our opening sequence on a Thriller.

	Action films usually include high energy, big-budget physical stunts and chases, possibly with rescues, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises (floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires, etc.), non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing, and adventurous, often two-dimensional 'good-guy' heroes (or recently, heroines) battling 'bad guys' - all designed for pure audience escapism. Includes the James Bond 'fantasy' spy/espionage series, martial arts films, and so-called 'blaxploitation' films. A major sub-genre is the disaster film. See also Greatest Disaster and Crowd Film Scenes and Greatest Classic Chase Scenes in Films.
	Adventure films are usually exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales, very similar to or often paired with the action film genre. They can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, "jungle" and "desert" epics, treasure hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown.
	Comedies are light-hearted plots consistently and deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter (with one-liners, jokes, etc.) by exaggerating the situation, the language, action, relationships and characters. This section describes various forms of comedy through cinematic history, including slapstick, screwball, spoofs and parodies, romantic comedies, black comedy (dark satirical comedy), and more. See this site's Funniest Film Moments and Scenes collection - illustrated, and also Premiere Magazine's 50 Greatest Comedies of All Time.

Our Preliminary Task

This is our Preliminary Task. It is about an Italian who is trying to get into this country. In this video, Giacomo Perazzi is the Italian, Luke James is the Interigator and both myself and Becca Turley took turns to direct. We have included the three main shots needed for this task which inlude 'Match on Action', 'The 180 Degree Rule' and 'Shot Reverse Shot'. Our preliminary task went well although we did have a few continarity errors in there. I randomly appear in one shot where I wasn't supposed too. Giacomo's hand position changed dramatically from one shot to another and also, we couldn't include the music as it would of made the video extremely slow. Also, the title was spelt wrong.

Our storyboard for the Preliminary Task

This is our storyboard for the Preliminary Task. It shows each different shot that we have to include with the different images to show the plot. We have also written about what will happen in each shot and how we will show each shot.

Working on the Primlinary Task

                   On our last few lessons, Me, Luke, Becca and Giacomo have been busy filming our Primlinary Task. It took a few takes to try and get the three main shots right but in the end we got them all right. The trickiest to try and capture was the shot reverse shot. Luke and Giacomo were the actors in the short video while me and Becca took turns to film. We are all now editing the video clips to bring the Primlinary Task together.

Reverse Shot example

An example of a Reverse Shot. This will be helpful when it comes to using the shot for the Preliminary Task as it can help us how to achieve the shot.

180 Degree shot example

This is an example of 180 Degree shot. This will be helpful when it comes to using the shot for the Preliminary Task as it can help us how to achieve the shot.

Match on action shot example

This is an example of a match on action shot. This will be helpful when it comes to using the shot for the Preliminary Task as it can help us how to achieve the shot.

Preliminary Task Plan

In my group - Charlotte Liepins (Me), Giacomo Perazzi, Becca Turley & Luke James

Situation Ideas: - Job Interview
                          - Detention
                          - Arguement
                          - Interrogating an Italian

Dialogue for interrogating an Italian

Giacomo - The Italian
Luke - Man in a suit (interrigator)

Script

Luke - What is your business in this country?
Giacomo - Sono qui per cucinare la pizza!
Luke - Speak in English please
Giacomo - Non capisco
Luke - I KNOW YOU CAN SPEAK ENGLISH!