Time line of credits

CREDITS - boom!!!

We were set as a class to look through the opening credits of a film and plot them on a timeline of when the different names come up! - this was an interesting exercise as it showed us when was appropriate to drop our credits in and in what order! I looked at the shawshank redemption ( brilliant film!)

The credits: 

0.32 Castle Rock Entertainment 

0.39 Tim Robbins

0.45 Morgan Freeman 

0.51 The Shawshank Redemption 

1.15 Willam Sadler

1.28 Clancy Brown 

( other cast members till 3.42)

3.43 Casting by Deborah Aquilla c.s.a 

3.52 Music by Thomas Newman

4.05 Costume designer Elizabeth Mcbride 

4.19 Production designer Terence Marsh 

4.51 Edited by Richard Francis-Bruce 

5.13 Director of photography Regar Deakins b.s.c 

5.24 Executive Producer Liz Gloterzer and David Lester 

5.40 Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King 

6.04 Screenplay frank Daraont 

6.28 Produced by Niki Marvin

6.45 Directed by Frank Darabont 

From looking at these credits we know that we'll have to put our actors names first, putting the main characters at the start!i thought it was unusual ( from watching other films) that the title wasn't before all the credits that it came after the two main characters names - i think that we'll put the titles before or after all of the credits but defiantly not in the middle of the credits!

Questionnaire!!

Questionnaire

                                             https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BCDT6YD

We decided to use surveymonkey which is an  online survey maker!! we did this so that we could post our questionnaire onto Facebook and gather our results in a different sort of way to the norm! We knew we needed at least twenty people to answer it so it would be a fair representation so we left it up there for a few days so the results could tot up - and they did! we have 31 people answer our questionnaire in the end and our results were conclusive - DRAMA IS THE ONE TO GO WITH! 

Analysis of our questionnaire results!!

Another Pen Profile

Name: Tasha O'Connor

Age: 17

Gender: female

Hobbies: reading and baking

Interests: English literature, history, psychology

Favourite Films: Now you see me and Ferris Bullers day off

Favourite TV show: Vampire Dairies,Criminal Minds and Scandal

opinion on drama films: i do like them

A drama film that you like: American Hustle and Good Will Hunting

Pen Profile!

PEN PROFILE!!



Name: Marcus Bowyer

Age: 17

Gender: male

Hobbies: rugby, skiing and being a hero

Interests: reading and socialising


favourite films: lucky number 7 and fight club


Favourite tv shows: game of thrones and breaking bad

opinion on drama films: can be good can be bad

A drama film that you like: The prestige

Storyline? - what to chose!

STORYLINES?

When we were thinking up storylines we did it independently so we could have a wider range of ideas! above are the ideas that i came up with, some of them were inspired by as media projects i'd seen on youtube, films i'd seen,Facebook articles and some from the news! In the image bellow is Lara's mind map of ideas!

When looking at both mind maps we saw a few were similar and decided on doing our piece on domestic violence. we thought it would be an interesting one to film as it isn't a stereotypical storyline for this genre but we have thought up of many ways that we could easily make it work for us! - EXCITING!!!!! We know that this is a tabooed subject matter so we are going to try and be as sensitive as we can when filming.

Synopsis of storyline:

Woman in a domestically abusive marriage makes a disguised phone call to 999

LETS GET THE BALL ROLLING - Picking our genre!

GENRES!

In the process of planning our final piece we were uncertain of what genre we wanted to do so we decided to map out all our possibilities and look at them logically. We decided to go with the sub-genre of horror/drama we did this as looking at films within the other genres there were certain typical codes and conventions that we would of massively struggled to do. 

problems we would have: 

  1. Comedy - its proven to be very hard to actually make something funny, people have different senses of humour and if it didn't appeal to our demographic we would have to start from scratch! 

2. Science Fiction - there is a massive budget for science fiction  films as special effects is such a large part of it ( because monsters aren't real...) and we just don't have that sort of money to get it all together or the facilities or even the editing equipment.

3. Romance - as this is only an AS project our actors won't be professionals, they'd be amateur actors most likely just friends! and we didn't think that they would take their roles seriously enough to actually convince the audience that they were 'in love' with another character so we would of ended up having to waste a lot of time trying over and over to get their acting on point!

4. Social realism - this genre was a possibility as it would of been within our budget and as its based upon real lives and is filmed almost in a documentary kind of style we would of had the facilities BUT we didn't feel like it would be as exciting as a horror drama film opening.

Genre work- Other peoples presentations

OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK! 

In addition to my partner and i doing presentations the rest of the class had to as well this gave us a greater insight to the other genres besides romance and helped us decided on what genre we wanted to pick for our final piece. I am only going to show you one person's work as it is the one which is relevant to our final piece.

Mollie Green:

Mollie's presentation was on drama. This presentation inspired Lara and I it gave great detail into the sub genres and this gave us ideas of what we could do for our final project, we saw this genre as one that we could film and make effectively within our budget and guidelines. We especially liked the sub genre of horror drama. 

Dan Offer:

Dan's presentation was on Horror. we were inspired by this swell as we thought it would be interesting to combine with the genre of drama (horror drama being the sub genre.) Lara and i really liked how he went into such depth about the stereotypes and gave a detailed definition - this is what made us want to incorporate this into our final piece.

My presentation on the genre of Romance

Romance Genre:

We (Lara and I) were set the homework to look at a genre of our choice and make a presentation on it! We had to watch two films from this genre and analyse it! (what a shame ay) we chose to watch romance films and so we watched the fault of in starts and the last song, we chose these films as even though they're apart of the same genre they are two very different films as the last song is a typical teen romance whereas the fault in our starts is a teen romance but doesn't have the typical ending.