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You are still missing key components of your planning and research evidence including the following, most recent tasks. This is becoming a cause for concern.

Mission: Is seems that significant components of textual analysis are missing in the form of the following; What we now need to see is your evidence for designing and creating studio logo's and your understanding of the correct conventional title orders as studied in class. Some images are also required to enhance the look and design your blog. 'Se7en' textual analysis/Blue Velvet textual analysis etc.

Diamant Opening Sequence Plan

       Diamant Synopsis

• Director- Jordan Cunningham 
• Femme Fatale-
• Detective- Thomas Hendry  
• Victim- Jordan Twiggs

Plot

A woman wants revenge on her former husband, and so she claims that he stole her jewellery from her apartment, which is worth millions of pounds. The femme fatale then goes to the detective explaining her story blaming it on her former husband. The detective claims that he will try and put a case together for her. The plot then is left on a cliff hanger  to whether the woman gets found out for blaming it on the man or whether the man gets punished and arrested for his actions and the woman wins.

Location

Birmingham - with establishing shots at the start to set the scene and let the audience know where the film is taking place. We can do this by showing some iconic buildings in the city centre of Birmingham for example the Bull Ring. We have chosen this location for the film as there are many unique features for the film to take place.

Characters

In the film we have three main characters that are in it, like any other normal film noir we will have three main characters and they are: Femme Fatale, Detective, Victim. We are using these sorts of characters to create a hook for the people watching the film. When using these characters it shows the audience that it is a traditional film noir as most of the film noirs that were made used these types of characters.

 

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7. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE OPENING OF SE7EN WITH IMAGES AND VIDEO EMBED FOR SE7EN

9. FILM NOIR & HISTORY OF GENRE (HSR) + IMAGES/VIDEO EMBEDS

10. STEREORTYPICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THRILLER/HORROR GENRES/CHARACTERS

11. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF OPENING OF A HORROR FILM – WOMEN IN BLACK/SCREAM etc.

this shall be all done between the end of this week and next mondays lesson

MR JUDGE FEEDBACK

Good work on Christian Metz, but where is the rest of the work?

7. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE OPENING OF SE7EN WITH IMAGES AND VIDEO EMBED FOR SE7EN

9. FILM NOIR & HISTORY OF GENRE (HSR) + IMAGES/VIDEO EMBEDS

10. STEREORTYPICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THRILLER/HORROR GENRES/CHARACTERS

11. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF OPENING OF A HORROR FILM – WOMEN IN BLACK/SCREAM etc.

Christian Metz model of genre development

The experimental – means the phase of early films that explored and experimented with horror films in its narratives and these were shown in films such as:

• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
• Nosferatu (1922)

These early horrors were good because they helped formalise the narrative conventions of the horror films in its earliest phase and this was during the aftermath of the war when soldiers came back with gruesome stories.

The classic – means the phase of films which established the narrative conventions of the horror genre in its most successful & defining period and these were presented in Hollywood films such as:

• ·       Dracula (1931)
• ·       Frankenstein (1931) made by universal

In the late 70’s and early 80’s the experimental stage began to employ psychological origins to the thriller genre.

The parody – films that have mimicked the horror genre in some comical way. Parodies have been made such as:

• ·       Carry on screaming (1968)
• ·       Scary movie (1998)

In the 90's the development stage reached a phrase where thriller scenes and movies incorporated comedic effects watering down expectations of the film.

The deconstruction – films that have taken the generic elements of the horror genre and amalgamated them into varying sub genres. Films include:

• ·       Se7en (1995)
• ·       The sixth sense (1999)

The thriller genre has now evolved into a stage where hybrids are evident. The thriller has now fused with several other genre creating sub-categories the most established being sci-fi/thriller or horror/thriller hybrids.

MR JUDGE FEEDBACK

Complete the following tasks ASAP 6. NO SE7EN TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IN EVIDENCE 7. NO SCREEN GRABS FROM SE7EN TO ILLUSTRATE POINTS 8. NO work on GENRE from Mr Rutherford

Preliminary task evaluation

The 180° rule is a cinematography guideline that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another. When the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and the shot becomes what is called a reverse angle. Match on action 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 and this creates the impression of a sense of continuity. A shot reverse shot is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects and this means that when a shot is showing supposedly what they are looking at it is then followed by a reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at it or another character looking back at them. An eye line match is based on the premise that the audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing. The eye line match begins with a character looking at something off-screen, followed by a cut to the object or person at which he is looking. For example, a shot showing a man looking off-screen to the left is followed by a shot of the television that he is watching.

We incorporated the 180° rule into our final film when we was filming in the canteen because we made sure that the camera didn’t cross over the line because if the camera swaps over to the other side for one of the shots, the pictures won’t work together and by doing this it made the characters looking directly at each other. This scene links in with the eye line match because we had to make sure that the one shot has to line up with the person or thing they’re looking at in the next shot and this was in the canteen when the two characters was talking to each other. We used the match on action during the locker scene. We edited this scene to make it look like that the camera cuts from outside of the locker and just as he is going to open up the locker the camera cuts to the inside making the movement of the camera one fluid shot. Lastly we used a shot reverse shot in the canteen. We did this by cutting the shots in the scene and by doing this we could focus on the one person during the shot and this assumes that the characters are looking at each other.

The filming process went well as we had a clear plan of how we wanted to film the shots and also where we wanted to film around the school. When filming around the school we had to take a few shots until we got it correct. Also on the plan that we made we made it clear what shots we was filming and when we was filming it. The storyboard was clear as we could understand what we had to do during the film making process. On our story board we found some issues because we had to change how many camera shots we were going to use whilst filming it and this meant that as s group we had to decide on the shots that we were going to use instead of using the same camera shots over and over again. As a group we found it quite easy to film around the sixth form because none of our shots was near a classroom so we didn’t get distracted but a disadvantage was background noise such as the hand dryer in the toilets, and this was because people was using it when we were filming scenes such as the locker shot. We also got to use the tripod and this contributed towards our final film because it meant that we could get still shots and it was easier to pan for shots, such as when we was walking into the canteen. We all had to input in the task so no one would be left out and we could all share ideas and if I was to do it again I would edit the storyboard so we could put more ideas on it which meant we will be able to plan in detail.

On adobe premiere I learnt how to edit the clips and how to make them shorter. At first the software seemed to be confusing but when we started to get a hand of it we knew how to work it easier. By importing the music from then internet it meant that we could choose the music based on the genre, such as thriller. We also learnt how to put in a title screen which meant we could use many fonts and this also helped as then we could choose the correct fonts in the film and this meant we could edit how long the title was on the screen for.

We did this task to the best possible standard and we used all of the tools that was available to us and we even asked the teacher to help us with the final scene so it linked in with our film, and that scene was just improvised so this also recognised our strengths.