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!

Line of Action (180 degree rule)

The image shows how the Line of Action is achieved and where the camera have to be placed in order to achieve this shot. This will be helpful when it comes to using this shot in the Preliminary Task.

Example

An example of a Preliminary Task done in the past. This can help us a group have some knowledge of wha twe have to do for ours.

Shots needed for the Preliminary task

Match on Action shot = This is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.

The 180 Degrees rule = This is a filming guideline the participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other, with filming only takign place within the 180 degreeangle in which this is maintaining in a conversation.

Shot Reverse shot = This is an continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects.

Preliminary and Main task

Preliminary Exercise = continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate an Match on Action shot, Reverse shot and an 180 degrees shot.

Main Brief = The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of 2 minutes. (All videos/audio must be originally produced by the candidates witht he exception of music or radio affects from a copyfright-free source)

 Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group - maximum number in a group is 4.