Wednesday 9 December 2009

marking criteria and film openings

This week we discussed the marking criteria for our coursework. In our groups we looked at the grades and noticed which features will be key to making a good and effective film opening, we all agreed that continuity is a big deal and have to get it right throughout the opening.

We watched many different genre of films these were: ‘Pleasantville’, ‘Twilight’, ‘Interview with a vampire’, ‘Bugsy Malone’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Once upon a time in the west’, ‘City of God’ and ‘Click’ we all discussed how the opening of the film suited the genre of the film and how it catches the attention of the audience watching and how it will make them want to watch more by setting up an enigma for them.

To get some ideas and help with producing our production we analysed some of the film openings these included Pleasantville, Halloween and Click. The expected conventions for these films are very different as they are all different genres.

Pleasantville is a drama for example where the man in the film wants to have a perfect life like the one on the TV. Halloween is a horror about a little boy who kills his family and continues to kill later on in the film. The expected conventions for Halloween include it being a dark mise-en-scene with Halloween setting eg, pumpkins, scary sounds/sights and violence.

Click is a romantic comedy and is about a man who has a chance with this remote to fast forward time its self but he uses it too much and realises his mistakes. The expected conventions for this romantic comedy would be for the main couple to have a break up of some sort but then resolve their differences somehow and the scene is expected to be bright and have a happy atmosphere.

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