Progress Report

Progress Report

This is a progress report that I have done and has been checked by my teacher to help make sure I'm on track and ways that I can improve my work, I will make certain improvements to my work such as adding theories and  making sure that all my blog post are contextualised.

By Madeleine Brown

Camera Movement

By Madeleine Brown

Textual Analysis: SE7EN (1995)

Textual Analysis:

SE7EN

(1995)

https://youtu.be/OEq-4fua3lM

This is my third textual analysis that I have done and is much closer to the genre of film I want to create. Analyzing these film openings will help identify some of the conventions of the crime/thriller/mystery genre, that I may be able to implement into my own work.

During the opening credits, non-diegetic background music can be heard. The music is very

mechanical and choppy with high pitched ‘scream’ like sounds periodically this help connote to the audience, that there is a lack of emotion, or possibly quite a scary film.

The typography used throughout the film has a typewriter feel, this helps set the time this film will be set. This typography paired with the twitchy movement gives a frantic impression to the audience as if someone is trying to keep something undercover.

Switching between scenes of this dark basement like area and the black background and white text only in quick cuts draws attention to what the text, if the viewer recognises or like certain names that are related to the film and like their previous work they could trust this film more than if not. The unique selling point of this film could be its director or actors.

At around 1:08 you can see a close-up of who could be the main character crossing out certain words,

this gives clues to the narrative of the film to the audience. This could be an enigma code as scene as the viewer may have questions about why they are crossing out certain words like ‘transsexual’ and ‘intercourse’ as well as the eyes on the photo, these questions would hopefully keep an audience captivated. 

Industry Regulations



This is a poster of industry regulations that are used to control film, this will help me figure out who I would like my target audience to be and what I would be allowed to put into my film opening based on my genre and the BBFC guidelines.

Information took from the BBFCs website: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

By Madeleine Brown

My Finished Preliminary

Preliminary Film
This is my finished preliminary work that i used to practice using equipment and industry standard editing software.

By Madeleine Brown

Analysis of a Film Opening: Watchmen (2009)

Analysis of a Film Opening: Watchmen (2009)

This is an analysis of an existing film opening of 'Watchmen' to help me hopefully decide on a genre for my own film, analysing also helps me find out how the director has built up scenes to their genres. 
After analysing this film opening I realise that a 'superhero'/'action' film would be out of my budget as it needs many props and special effects. Although, I do like the mystery side of this film and the use of montage. I think that the montage is an effective way to get through a lot of backstory and would be useful for setting up characters. 

By Madeleine Brown

First Questionnaire

First Questionnaire

Survey Creator

I have done my first questionnaire to help narrow down what genre I want to do, I am leaning towards crime but what to see what genres are popular or part of niche audience before i start planning on genres and doing further work into them.

Bartheses 5 codes

Barthes 5 Codes

This is a powerpoint of Barthes five codes with examples for a video (Link in the powerpoint) from 'Hotel Babylon'. I made this powerpoint so that I can make sure that I completely understand this theory and can apply certain code to my own work, such as using an action code or an enigma code to help make my opening more effective at getting across the narrative of the film.

By Madeleine Brown

Analysis of a Film Opening: Jurassic World (2015)

Analysis of a Film Opening:

Jurassic World (2015)

I am going to be analyzing different film openings to try and figure out what I would prefer to do for my own film project, as well as the conventions for these genres. For my first one I am going to be analyzing the first minute of Jurassic World (2015).

https://youtu.be/jhkdwAWSfQchttps://youtu.be/jhkdwAWSfQc

In the first 7 seconds, the scene shows an extreme close up of an egg (possibly a dinosaur egg) cracking with the distributors Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and Legend Pictures. The extreme close up helps draw attention to it and makes sure that the understands that it is an important part of the narrative as well as this the egg cracking helps make the scene more tense and increases the audiences intrigue in what’s to come as the majority would understand the premise of the previous films of and the plot they tend to follow. The non-diegetic background music in the scene helps set the tone as the music has quite a dramatic feel with it being orchestra, which is conventional of the drama genre and unconventional for an action film. The typography of the distributors is the same that is used through out the film and is a known icon for the series of Jurassic Park/world films; this helps with branding and selling the film.

After this at 0:21 it shows the dinosaur now broken out of the egg and the tittle of ‘Jurassic World’ this shows the audience that dinosaurs ‘breaking’ free or new baby dinosaurs are going to be the main focus of the films narrative.

Then fading to white after showing two of the dinosaurs hatching, this shows to the audience is most likely to be the main plot point of the narrative. This shot also shows the mise-en-scene of the room shows it as being very clinical and white this gives the impression to the audience of it being a laboratory or hospital kind of setting. The use of special effects is also a convention of science fiction and action films; these are usually high budget film by major film companies like Warner bros. and Universal, which can afford these expensive productions.

This action/science fiction genre of film will be hard for me to conventionally follow as these genres usually have a lot of special effects and a large budget, I do not have this being a Media student I could attempt this but it may not turn out as well as I could want as it would take a lot of expertise. But for these reasons I don’t think I will be making my own film an action or science fiction genre.

By Madeleine Brown