Max Canning AS Media Studies: October 2012

Sunday, 7 October 2012

Forrest Gump Movie Opening Analysis, Timeline and 9 Frames

Se7en Movie opening Analysis and Timeline

Movie opening's Information Table

Film	Genre of film	Conventions	Style of Openings	Information and Credits
Pretty Woman	Romantic/ Love/ Action	Set: an adults Garden party. Shots types Including Panning, over the shoulder, long shots and arial shot. Costumes very smart wealthy people expensive cars. Crosscutting. Happy joyful music.	Relaxed/ Joyful/ happy	Movie Company firstly presented, important people and main characters later on.
The Dark Knight	Action/ Thriller	Arial shot over buildings to show set whilst constant drone/pedal playing over on repeat adding tension. Low Shots, high shots, over the shoulder and extreme close ups are used.	Fast moving, Violent, scary,	Film Company Logo has been changed to fit genre/style of film (darkened)
Final Destination 3	Horror	Set in a fair ground, dark loud clashing chords create tension, black writing, words on various fair rides foreshadowing what will happen in the film. Wind and screaming creates suspense and scary.	Fast/ quick shots, tense.	Film company Logo part has been changed to fit the Horror Genre of film. Scary music, Red color and spiky bold font creates tension.

Pulp Fiction	Action/ Thriller/ Romance	Violent, abusive and racist language and humor. Match on action shots, This causes Tension to build up making the audience feel anxious and scared.	Calm/ relaxed/ scary, violent	Film producers, Important actors.
The shining	Horror	Arial/ bird eye view panning Low key, clashing, music creates tension, contrasts with nice countryside. set is very isolated makes characters seem vulnerable and isolated.	Scary, intimidating	The film company (Warner Bros) firstly presented. important actors are then presented.
Se7en	Horror	The ragged, worn and scary looking font suits the typical horror genre of the film. Creates tension Quick extreme close up shots creates a feel of disorientation. The shots are very low lighting with many shadows which add to the tension.	scary, interresting and unusual	The film company is firstly presented. Important actors are later presented (brad pitt)

The Number 23	Horror	Black writing stands out from white paper background. Font looks old and creepy. Color of some writing goes red giving the look of blood creating tension foreshadowing that blood might be spilt later on in the film. Music gradually gets louder, quick shots create tension.	unusual, scary	Movie film company presented along with important actors and other members of crew for the production of the film.
This is England	Action, thriller, Gang fighting and crime.	Music contrasts with images as it is upbeat music (relatively happy) but there is a lot of people getting hurt in the images. Poor setting (rough and dangerous place in england). Graffiti shows it is rough and The font looks worn down and rough assosiating with the place.	Violence, racism, sympathy and upset	Film producers are firstly presented, followed by actors and important members of the production cast.
Hot Fuzz	Action,Thriller, Horror, Comedy	The film company Logo (universal pictures) has been modified to have police sirens playing in the background to relate to the film genre. Long shot, slow zoom, extreme close up. Voice over of main character, helps audience understand.	Funny, Serious, violence	Film Company mentioned first followed by actors and important crew members.

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Alfred Hitchcock's life as a movie director

From this video of an interview with Hitchcock on youtube, I have learnt that he planned his films in lots of detail. He created his scenario very carefully and meaningful to suit the Horror genre. He would create unusual feelings felt in the audience, by including fairly un noticeable weird props and unusual things in his scenes. But it was all there for a reason. This has given me idea's for my final horror movie opening, as I will include not so obvious objects in the shots which link with the horror movie.