Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Reflection/evaluation:

My biggest difficulty throughout the whole assignment was the storyboarding, this is because i found it hard to draw the scenes.
My planning and research helped me write my treatment as i didnt have to start from scratch, i could just use the notes i already had to write my character profiles and locations.
The activities and templates helped me create
• Discuss how the activities and templates helped you to create effective storyboards;
• Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered in this unit or during the writing/design process.
• Describe any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project;

Discuss your feelings about the pre-production task:
• Are you satisfied with the final result?
• Did you manage your time effectively?
• Are there things you would like to change?
• If you could start again what would you do differently?

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Locations

Scene One: Dinner at a restaurant.
Scene Two: Train Station.
Scene Three: Lily's Apartment.

Restaurant setting: The resturant that Jack and Lily go to is a 5 star restaurant and very modern. The two main colours used in this resturant is black and white. The kitchen is at the back and the bar is towards the front. Always served by fancy waiters.

Train setting: The train station has an information desk to buy tickets ect. It has 4 platforms for the all the trains that come. also the train station has a little shop where you can buy snacks and many benches to sit to wait for travellers.

Apartment setting: Lily's apartment has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. she has a small kitchen but a really big living room. she has many windows as her apartment is a high rise to over look the ocean. her furniture is very modern and spacious.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Character Profiles

Jack Daniels is a very kind person, he is very generous. He has a girlfriend, Lily Brown, who he really enjoys spending time with. He also is very outgoing and funny. Jack is tall and handsome with tanned skin. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Jack has a sister called Brie Daniels.

Brie Daniels looks nothing like Jack, her brother. she is quite short but still very skinny. She has blonde hair and brown eyes. Brie is also a very kind person and would do anything for her family.

Lily Brown is a petite and pretty girl. She is very skinny and tanned. She has a boyfriend, Jack Daniels. Lily has blonde hair and blue eyes. She loves fashion and art. Lily can get upset very easily and doesn't like speaking to people about her problems.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

basic plot

  • Jack and Lily go out for dinner.
  • Next day Lily see's Jack with Brie at train station
  • Lily thinks Jack is cheating and runs home
  • Jack realises what lily saw.
  • Jack runs after lily
  • Lily realises it was jack sister
  • they make up

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Film Genres Worksheet

Genre List some of the common elements used in these genres; consider Mise-en-scene, Cinematography, Sound (Effects and Music) and Narrative Conventions (typical scenarios or characters)

Action Films Action film is a film genre where in the story is largely told through physical action as opposed to dialogue. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero. While action has long been an element of films, the "Action film" as a genre of its own began to develop in the 1970s. The genre is closely linked with the thriller and adventure film genres.

Comedy Films Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies. Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse, others contain political or social commentary (such as Wag the Dog and Man of the Year).

Drama Films A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena.

Horror Films Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain.
Musical Dance Films The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative.

Science Fiction Films Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, esp, and time travel, often along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, or other technologies.

War (Anti-War) Films War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects.

Westerns The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Draft

Creative Media, Notting Hill and My Best friends Wedding
Intro:
The romantic comedy genre is popular as it attracts a lot of female audiences. Notting Hill and My Best friends Wedding are good examples of romantic comedy as they are both very humorous and also represent romance in a decent way. The topics that will be talked about are Mise-en-scene, Cinematography and Sound and Editing. These films make use of Mise-en-scene to make the audience feel as if they are there with the characters. The Genre romantic comedy is types of movies with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as a true love able to surmount most obstacles. Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films and often have elements of screwball comedies and stoner comedies. Romantic comedy can also be used to describe some television series. Both the films include a man and a woman with some sort of connection to each other and in the end become close friends or partners. Both movies include humor within the romance and also they both include an argument, which leads to the woman and the man to have a separation from each other.

Paragraph one:
The scene that I am doing from the movie Notting Hill, is when they are sitting at dinner and they are talking about who gets the last piece of the brownie. The scene I chose from My Best friends Wedding is when all the important people that are included in the wedding are at lunch, but with the main actresses friend. This scene includes singing and many other things. The differences between the lighting in both scenes is that the Notting Hill scene is shot at night so obviously the lights are on so its very bright and the scene from My Best friends Wedding is shot during the day, so the lighting is normal with no extra lighting. The differences between the sound in both scenes are very different. This is because the scene in Notting Hill is quiet and the scene in My Best friends Wedding is very loud. The scene in Notting Hill is quiet because the characters are at home and they are not having loud discussions. The only time the sound gets loud in this scene is when the characters laugh. The scene from My Best friends Wedding is different because they are at lunch with a lot of people. The scene is in a hall kind of place. The characters in the scene also sing a song very loud. Which makes the scene different from the scene from Notting Hill.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Protagonist:
Batman
Spiderman
Alice
Shrek
Cinderella

Antagonist:
Joker
Green Goblin
Red Queen
Lord Farquad
Evil Step Sisters