Trailers and Genres

 LO: To explore different features of iMovie and experiment with different genre features.           12/01/23

I chose to do the Jurassic Park trailer which is a action adventure film and i have changed it to horror.

WWW:  Changing the genre and actually making it a bit like a horror trailer. i thought where i added some text went well to maybe it seem like there was some talking even thought i cut it all out.

EBI: If i was to do this again i would find a better soundtrack to put over it. there wasn't many great option for a dinosaur horror.

Film genres

As many film genres i can think of:                                                                                               06/12/22

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  Horror
• Sci Fi 
• Action 
• Adventure                                                                
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Drama 
• Mystery
• Comedy 
• Thriller
• Crime 
• Historical
• Sports 
• Western 
• Documentary
• Musical 

Meaning of smaller types of genres:

A style, especially in the arts, that involves particular set of characteristics.

Hybrid- mixture of two or more genres

Sub Genres-

Comedy:

1. The main genre convention for comedy is jokes and things along the lines of that.

2. Adam Mckay [step brother], Paul Feig [ghostbusters], Harold Ramis [groundhog day].

3. Jack Black and Kevin Hart.

4. Grown Ups, Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore.

5. In grown ups they are being over exaggerated to make it look funny and like something is happening.

6.  Comedy because they are always funny 

Genre Conventions                                                                                                                         13/12/22

LO: To implement genre codes and conventions. 

Genre conventions for comedy in trailers:

1.Fast upbeat music and long cut so they can include a funny action or phrase.

2.Cuts are quick and sharp.

3.Funny lines and characters to actually make it comedic.

4.Always on the move, around a lot of places maybe in different countries or cities quite often.

5.The music is all quite similar with a fast tempo and loud for a certain amount of time until somebody starts to talk and then it fades down and then back up again.

6.The costumes are casual / normal, everyday clothes.

7.Most of them include some sort of use of alcohol.

Film Method:

1. Make a funny character who makes many jokes to make it comedic. 2. Bring a funny story but make it part action-adventure. 3. Meet a character who they eventually fall in love with. 4. They go on the whole mission together throughout the movie. 5. Bring along fast cuts with many funny jokes.

Trailer Method:

1. Make a funny character who makes many jokes to make it comedic. 2.Use funny scenes that are included in the movie and a few jokes. 3.Show a part of the important clip so the person watching would wanna see what happens so they go and watch the movie. 

 

Photoshop Tutorials

15/11/22

The first tutorial i am watching is Double Exposure

WWW: The mouth part of my face and the bit next to it look quite good i think.

EBI: I do more bloody parts on the white pieces and finish off the other side.

WWW: I thought the eyes went quite well same with the mouth.

EBI: i need to finish it more.

Photoshop skills task:

 03/11/22

LO: To use and develop creative techniques in photoshop.

All of these photos include some sort of red to show a form of blood and animal/human insides.
All of the title are in big bold and sometimes red letters to give/show scariness. In all the images there is a scary looking human or creature with blood to try and create fear just by looking at the poster.Red, white and black are used the most often.

MY HORROR POSTER:

scary Winnie the pooh

call it Winnie the boo

It will have the title in bold red letter and i will use the filter gallery on the photo and maybe others.

So i decided to change my idea to this.

WWW: I finished this quite fast and it only took me one lesson and i thought the photo that i had chosen was the perfect one to fit the title. the slogan at the top of my poster fits with the title too.

EBI: I think maybe next time i should use a better title font and maybe look at the opacity and colours on it.

Skills development: photoshop intro

 13/10/22

LO: To explore basic techniques in photoshop.

01/11/22

03/11/22

Media Language Analysis

 04/10/22

LO: To analyse media text using media language

This shot is a medium long shot to show his gun and if they were to choose any other they would either be to clear and would leave things out or not very clear and would miss out clear details.

The gun connotes gun, violence and death so because of this the movie is an action film.

Background is gold so it's a colour that suggests wealth so maybe he's rich. Even though his clothes look quite casual but they are actually very expensive.

He looks serious so this suggests that he's not playing about. 

3 diegetic sounds in the trailer were the screeching of the tires when bond was driving. Another was the engine of bonds car and the last one gunshots. It adds more entertainment towards the watcher and more action some people will go and watch.

In the trailer they used fade to black when they change the time in the trailer. The cuts at the end kept getting quicker because it got more intense.

 

11/10/22

LO: To analyse a media text using media language.

 

The tenet trailer includes tense music to create tension from the person watching it and makes them wanna watch it more to find out. It creates suspense and gets louder and louder then quicker and every time something gets worse until it comes to a complete stop.

Camerawork

mid shot, close up, medium close up wide shot, medium, long shot

Editing

quick cuts during tense scenes and fades in certain areas.

Soundtrack 

Moderate tempo and gets louder on cuts. Quite tense music. 

In the Dune trailer editing is used effectively to make the reader wanna watch it more. It does quick cuts during tense scenes and fades certain times. For example, in the scene where he meets Zendaya the director makes the cuts quicker and music more intense. This creates the impression that the boy and Zendaya stay with each other for the rest of the film and makes the audience think that they will become friends or enemies. In the dune trailer different shot types are used to different effect. For example in one scene they used wide shot to show how small they are in such a big surrounding. This close up emphasises everything around. it shows us what they are seeing aswell. 

13/10/23

Camerawork

In the top gun maverick trailer they use a wide range of shot but the most common was the long shot. They use this to show there surrounding when either flying the plane or driving his motorbike like it shows in the photo. They used this photo to show how cool it looks when he's driving the same speed as a plane.

They used many photos like this during the trailer which is the close up. They use this to show there facial expressions and showing how hard it is to fly it.

                                                                                                       Mise-en-scene

The mise-en-scene in this photo is there use of uniform. The uniform improvises that they are ready to get in the planes and battle which creates excitement for the watchers because they just wanna see them get in the plane, and action because that is when it starts to get really good.

Editing

In the editing they used fades to fade into each other with a black screen but when it gets more intense [when there in the plane] it goes into quick cuts and louder sounds. They used a lot of CGI when in the planes but it looked very good.

Soundtrack

For the soundtrack they used quite low sounded music but fast and the voices over the top of the music. Every time that someone speaks the music fades a lot so its almost un-hearable.

Theoretical Framework

LO: To apply the theoretical framework to media texts.                                                        27/09/22

Media Language

All the different elements used to construct any media product. 

Camerawork- shot type, angle & movement

Establish-shot is when u often see at the start of a scene.

Wide shots-shows a the subject and the location &  shows the wideness around them.

Mid shot- where the shot is just above the waist to show the upper half of someone. While showing emotions from the face & body language.

MCU-is head to chest & close up to the body and reduces distraction & focusing on character.

Close up-effective & brings empathy to show there emotions & expressions.

 ECU-very close up to ears, lips & noses but eyes are the main focus.

Soundtrack- what is included?

Natural life.

Diegetic and non-diegetic sound 

Diegetic sounds are when sounds that originate from within the video or sound.

Non-diegetic sounds is when a sound cannot be heard by the actor but whomever is reading it can.

29/09/22

Mise-en-scene means the arrangement of the scenery, props, setting, lighting, hair and make up, actor positioning, costume and body language and facial expression.

The mise-en-scene for stranger things season 1 bring a scary vibe because it is all at night time. Another one is that there is a character in big who looks like she's using a special ability so it may infer that she has superpowers or something along the lines of that. There is a man in a a toxicated suit so maybe a disease broke out. There clothes and bikes connotes that the time is set in a different time. 

The mise-en-scene about the photo on the board is that it looks like its been set around the time of halloween so this connotes that it may be scary, mostly because of the darkness and orangeness around where he is. The ferris wheel in the background shows that he's in an amusement park/theme park. He has a cigarette in his mouth so this connotes that he doesn't have very good life choices. The bag connotes that he's going or gone to a place already, and he looks a bit tired so it connotes he's come back.

Editing- transition, pace & special effects.

Includes transitions, pace & speed of cuts, CGI, green screening and graphics. Straight cut, jump cut is when u just jump, cross cutting is used to build suspense, cutaway is when a cut to inform a viewer where u are, montage is when loads of photos or clips are put together to show something over a course of time that u have been working on, match cut is when it follows in to the next frames on the film. 

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