Group Idea - The First One

My group consists of:
Keenan Myers
Kieran Cudbertson 
Harry Garwood

Plot #1

Thriller, in the area of a police drama taking inspiration from Luther.

The opening will follow a similar art-house-esque bleakness. It will open with a seemingly villainous bomb maker with cuts to a detective looking man walking down a street with a monologue running through. 

It will reveal the personality of the main character who is the detective. The cuts to the bomb maker will be surreal and take elements from the Se7en opening (the frantic hand movements and sinister sounds). There will be a use of non-digetic sound in these cuts to the bomb-maker. The music that follows the detective will be digetic city sounds such as car horns and sirens. 

The scene will end with a cut to the detective when he gets a phone call telling him that there has been another attack and it will follow with a final line from the monologue before the main movie titles begin.

Throughout the scene at the bottom of the shots, credits will fade in and out in a way that is noticeable but not distracting from the action on screen.

Sounds Effects - Digetic and Non Digetic

Sound effects consist of sound that objects make, sounds that people make other than spoken words, and ambient sound.

Some of the many possible uses of sound effects are to help create a sense of location, intensifying a mood, enhance a humorous situation, or conceal a action.

Digetic Sounds

Digetic sound can be either on screen or off screen which depend on what the source of the sound is on screen and off screen.

Non - Digetic

Non-Digetic sound is sounds from off screen that does not come from a source, this can include music.

The Spoken Word In Film And TV

In films, spoken words may take the form of dialogues, monologues, or narration.

Overlapping dialogue can create or reinforce a sense of nervousness, stress, and isolation.

Dialogue is invaluable for revealing a characters ideas, goals, and dreams, though often it does so more concisely, obliquely and revealingly than conversation in life does.

Different Angles In Films And TV

Canted tilt/Dutch tilt - an unusual angled tilt

Low - low looking upwards

High - high looking downloads

Framing - What does the director want to focus on?

Depth of field - Deep and shallow focus. A camera can only focus its lens on a single point but there will be an area that stretches in front of and behind this focus point still appears sharp.

Focus pulls - The action of adjusting the focus of a camera's lens between 2 predetermined points.

Rule of thirds - Screen is split into a squares and director focuses on centre square.

Digetic Sounds - Sounds that belong naturally with what can be seen in the picture e.g. there is a dog on screen and the sound of barking.

Non-digetic sounds - Sounds which appear to come from elsewhere/outside the visual images.

Movement In Film And TV

Pan - mounted on a tripod, pan from left to right or a pan zoom



Arc



Tilt



Zoom - zoom in to draw attention to person/scene




Reverse Zoom - zoom out to show scene ended



Track/Dolly



Rolling - camera moves diagonally making the image askew



Crane - extreme height



Hand-held - realism, fly on the wall

Mood Board - Horror Genre

Mood Board - Crime/Drama Genre

Mood Board - Action Genre

Mood Board - Comedy Genre

Audience Research In Genre

Audience Research in Genre

This shows that comedy is widely liked and is the most popular genre. Usually action and adventure go hand in hand so its showing that the best films are films that follow a storyline and have a few laughs in it also.

The worst selling is reality which proves my point that people do not enjoy realistic films but prefer films that are completely different to their lives.

Audience Research In Film

Audience Research

This shows that films appeal to an audience which are not realistic. For example the first film Avatar is set on a distant planet with aliens and the majority of the top 10 is superhero films. This chart proves that the general public prefer films that are unrealistic and different from normal life.

This also shows that films with a large amount of special effects and action scenes are also more popular. Whether it is animation or animatronic dinosaurs it seems that special effects and 3-D appeal to the general public.

Humour is also extremely popular as most of the films have aspects of humour and do not take themselves very seriously.