Task 4: Film Story board

1.    A character is outside in an uninhabited area.
Tracking her feet, as she is walking down towards the woods.

2.    She cannot decide which way to go. Something makes him/her head towards a settlement.

Over the shoulder shot, showing the settlement in front of her, split screen of the two paths and the contrast between them. This is followed by an extreme close up of her eyes looking left and right, showing her indecisiveness on which way to go.

3.    She walks towards the settlement and then comes to a folk in the path- one path is safer but will take a long period of time, yet the other path is much more dangerous but is quicker. She chooses the dangerous path.

She hears the sound of a squawking crow and the whistling of the wind (diegetic sound).

4.       She heads towards the woods, as she walks through; it becomes darker and more secluded, she then hears noises and becomes frightened.

High angle shot showing her vulnerability, point of view shot watching the girl to show she is not alone in the woods.

5.    She decides to turn back but the trees have blocked her path. She quickens her pace to get out of the woods but the trees are attacking her, trying to avoid her from escaping, the noises are getting louder, she struggles to get out. She then trips over a branch and hits her head.

Point of view shot turning to see what is behind her, followed by a reaction shot of the girl, sound of the branches cracking, the wind and the crows get louder, which emphasise her panic and level of danger. She hears the sound of a gunshot and it is a panning shot showing her turning around, the camera moves as a point of view shot of her running through the woods, the camera then turns to show her feet and the sound of her falling over a branch.

6.    She then awakens to see the change in setting, it is sunny and the woods have disappeared, she looks up to the sky to see a silhouette of a man riding towards her on a stallion, he helps her up from the ground.

High angle of her opening her eyes and reaction shot to the change in setting, romantic music- violin (non- diegetic sound) as the man moves towards her. Point of view shot from her as he helps her up.

7.    He expresses his eternal love for her, and his mission to save her from the woods; he bends down on one knee. She automatically expects a proposal and begins to express her mutual excitement and love for him. However as he reaches in his pocket, he pulls out a gun and aims at her head.

The music continues and then ends abruptly as the gun is pulled from his pocket, tracking of his hand as he reaches for the gun, as he takes off the safety lock.

8.    She screams and he fires the gun, the screen goes black. The scene then commences with her stood in the same position and a figure behind her then falls to the ground (slow motion). 

Sound of the gunshot coincides with the screen turning black, followed by the sound of buzzing (ringing in ears), fade back into the image of side view of the man falling to the ground; she is in the foreground of the shot.

9.    She questions her lover, yet he tells her that he has no time to explain, he grabs her hand and they run away. At this point, men are jumping from trees, out of the grass and beside them on horses and firing at the couple. After battling a few of the men, he then is shot in the heart.

Fast paced music to match the action taking place, jump cuts to the different men targeting the couple, extreme close up of bullet leaving the gun of one of the attackers to reaching the heart of the man (slow motion.

10.  He falls to the ground, she tries to help him but his wounds are too severe to save him. The men surround her, the scene turns black. A green beam then appears from the sky, and a space ship appears.

The sound of the men moving towards them increases in volume representing them closing in on them, extreme close up of her crying, reaction shot, the screen fades to black but the sound of the men moving towards her continue. Low angle shot looking up at the space ship, she is still captured in the shot looking up at the beam (still her point of view).  Standard sound of space ship.

11.  The other men leave the scene in fear, the girl tries to hurry away but gets zapped up by the space ship, the space ship then flies away, the man is left alone to slowly die a painful death, his dying, last words- “ this isn’t how it was supposed to happen”.

Space ship sound gets louder as well as the sound of the men hurrying away, sound of the girl struggling to escape, her running towards the camera as it tracks backwards, and she is taken by the spaceship. Close up of the man saying his final words, sound of slow violin to emphasise sorrow.

Task 3: Genre

Task 2: Film Posters & Genres

George Lucas is love is a short film which is based around star wars as this is shown on the poster. Just by looking at the poster makes you think that it is going to be a sci-fi movie as the images and the way it has been placed makes you think this and also it has a tag line which mentions a nearby Galaxy which kind of tells you that it is. Since the colours are all very plain and the characters are also, it doesn’t give too much away about the film as otherwise there would be no enigmas. You can see that this poster has gotten inspiration from the Star Wars film A New Hope as it is presented quite similarly and also the star wars includes ‘in a galaxy far far away’ which also suggests this.

There are specific conventions for all film poster genres as this is shown through a range of different sci-fi posters which include futuristic characters and backgrounds. I have also noticed that they tend to follow the a similar colour theme in most as these tend to be blue, purple, orange, brown, black and white as these colours can represent space and either past or present depending on the colours. You can see there is a major difference between George Lucas In Love and Star Trek as this is conveying a sense of past and present between them both.

 

From the poster it seems like I’m Here is a romantic comedy as you can see that the characters look like there are kind of wearing costumes to cover there face as the male is wearing a box. The movie poster also reminds me of the dear john poster which is also a  romance film. You can clearly see that ‘I’m Here’ has taken inspiration from the ‘Dear John’ poster as they are set very similarly.

For romantic film posters the conventions tend to be a male and female who look like they either don’t get on or who are very close to each other. Film posters also look slightly more brighter and include sometimes very plain backgrounds like Date Night. Most of the time the posters of romance films that include the pair looking like they don't get along can be a convention of a rom-com as this shows the funnier side of the couples problems.

 

You can tell that Across The Hall is a thriller film just by looking at the poster as this gives a hint that the film is going to include suspense. The poster on the left is the original one for the short film whereas on the right is for the same film that eventually got recognised and  made into a full length film. There is an obvious difference between the two as  the feature film seems to have used Photoshop to connect all the different images together whereas the short film has used a still image from the film and added text. Also the feature film has slight hints and images to allow the audience to imagine what will happen whereas the  short film gives a small hint to the blurred out male but very slightly, this is because the short film will want to keep their audience engaged as it gets straight to the point and has no plot twists whereas the feature film will include added information about what exactly happens and how it has gotten that way.

The conventions for thrillers can me multiple things like as you can see The Adjustment Bureau is a Romance Film, Science Fiction, Romantic fantasy, Thriller and Drama combined into one yet just by looking at the  film poster it seems like it is just a romantic thriller as you have conventions of a romance yet altered to fit the conventions of a thriller. Typical conventions for a short thriller include dramatic music, chiaroscuro, shark bite and enigmas. 

Task 1: Short Films

Introduction

This blog is to show my work of what I am currently studying throughout the A2 course. the reason for this is to help show the development of a short film. These are 3 of the short films I have recently viewed.


From the 3 short films that we viewed this one was probably the best one as I think it is very unique and its shows you how the mind works when you have a loss in life. another reason is that it is something quite unexpected and you don't realise this until the end what has actually happened. Another reason is that it grips you from start to finish as you want to know what it is about.
 

 This film we watched I found it quite boring as it seems to be quite repetitive with the turntables and it is also very predictable once you have seen the first few minutes of it.


This one I also enjoyed as it is about being inside a mentally ill mans mind which is quite interesting. It shows many characters in the short time but it is very exciting to see what is going to happen next and it also has a very good ending.