Mood Board.

A mood board is a type of poster design that may consist of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition of the choice of the mood Creator. (for example a graphic designer).






Romantic Comedy.

Romantic comedy's normally have pop music at the opening's to show it is going to be a funny romantic film. There are always pretty icons in romantic movies such as flowers to show love or they may link to weddings. The men in this genre of movies always seem to be good looking and flirtatious The women normally have attractive features such as big eyes and big lips, and the always try their best to impress. The men and women in these movies seem to be like this as some viewers of the movies look at them as role models because of how attractive they are, so these movies may get much more viewers as they like the characters. You always tend to see couples going on dates, such as going out for meals where they sit opposite each other and they always send to have red wine. The red wine represents love and passion as it is a deep red colour and also it's mainly the expensive wine, so the date is always impressive. In some romantic comedy's, there is sometimes weddings which shows love and happiness, and you may see some dates in movies where the man proposes to the woman, and you see a shot of the engagement ring.




Horror.

In horror movies, there always tends to be blood. This is because blood is a red colour, and red can resemble to horror and gory things which can frighten the viewers. There is also some spooky masks which normally killers wear to scare people as they are normally frightening masks. In horror movies, it always seems to be in darkness, as darkness is more spooky which makes people scared because you can't really see in the dark and in films, scary scenes always happen in the dark, so when the viewers go to sleep in the dark it will spook them out as their psychological mind will automatically think about the scary scenes which may give them nightmares! In some horrors, candle light or torch light is used in dark scenes such as being in a dark scary forest or a scary corridor or a house, to give a scary atmosphere making it more creepy. Weapons are sometimes used such as guns, knifes, or anything that kills living things. Paleness on the spooky characters is mainly used to show that they are deadly, making the viewer scared. Spooky dolls or clowns are used because normally dolls and clowns are normally happy and positive towards children, but when they are turned into horror icons, it makes the viewers of the movie become frightened of them.




Thriller.

in most thriller movies, you always tend to see crime. For example, there is mainly guns that are used, to show action in movies, which really grab peoples attention. They can also include terrorism which might bring fear and thrill, as terrorism happens sometimes around the world these days. In some thriller movies, you tend to see hazards such as explosions and poisonous items which brings a dangerous atmosphere within the movie, making it more exciting to watch. In some thrillers, you always see pretty women for example 'Angelina Jolie'. This is because people would look up to pretty women as role models which makes the thriller movie even more good for them. Sometimes in thriller movies, you tend to see terrorists or robbers wearing masks, so that the police or other people wouldn't recognise them making the thriller movie more attension grabbing and it would bring thrill to the viewer. You sometimes see gangsters in thriller movies, as they always have weapons and the tend to steal money and kill people. Gangsters tend to make the movie more interesting as they bring so much thrill to the movie. In other thriller movies, you tend to see that some of the characters such as spys and gangsters, tend to have really expensive cars. This shows that they are higher class people as they can afford to have really high standard cars. Also, you see most thriller movies in big citys such as New York, as they are places that are good for action.

Contrasting and comparing the openings of romantic comedys.

How to lose a guy in 10 days. (2003) - Directed by Donald Petrie.
Opening:
- This film opens up with a kind of pop song, overlapping a studio logo, which was Paramount. This makes the film to look more of a happy, funny genre, compared to the horror movies i have done in the previous. After, the pop song still continues but then lyrics appear within the beat of the song, and pictures of womens magazines appear like a kind of slide show. The main girl in the film named Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) seems to be a journalist, as images of pages in magazines appear with her name and picture. The subtitles also appear over the scene of the opening in bright bold colours, and they slide in; this resembles that it is a happy positive film and not a scary one as it doesn't look spooky or have dark negative features. The two main characters are played by Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughy. In the subtitles, Kate Hudson's and Matthew McConaughy's name appear on the screen at the same time, but Kate Hudson's name is slightly higher on the right than Matthew McConaughy's as Kate is more well known and more famous that Matthew. Kate Hudsons name is in pink bold writing; this refers to her as a female. And Matthew McConaughys name is in blue; this refers he is a male.
In this film, Andie Anderson (kate Hudson) seems to be a smart intelligent girl as she is a journalist and she works for a popular magazine company. She seems to write stories in the magazines about 'How' to do things, such as 'How to talk your way out of a parking ticket'. She writes this after she almost gets a parking ticket from a male police man- she's a journalist who has power over men as to where she obviously writes a story about 'How to lose a guy in 10 days' refering to the title of the film.
The magazine company is in NewYork; this is a glamorous place where most girls would love to work!
When you see the man (Matthew McConaughy) arriving on a motor bike, a type of rocky music appears, showing that he is cool. When he pulls up outside the magazine company, he take's his helmet off in a glamorous way; this shows that he knows he is cool, and loves himself.
In ROM-COMS, couples always seem to be attractive as you never really see unattractive couples. This is because the directors know that some people look up to movie characters, so it might make more people to watch the movie, as the actors/actressers can be specific rolemodels to people.
When the man comes off his bike, two smartly dressed women come out of the building and stand next to the man. The man is wearing a leather jacket with jeans, and the girls are in smart suites. This shows the women are power dressed as they look better and more intelligent than the man.

Just Like Heaven. (2005) Director-Mark Waters.
Opening:
- The opening opens up with a soft gentle tone overlapping the DreamWorks logo. This suggests that the movie is going to be a soft romantic comedy. After the production, there's a view of falling down in floating clouds, with the subtitles floating in and out. the subtitles were slightly bold in bright colours such as pink, purple, and yellow. This shows that the movie is going to be in a happy positive film as the colour show happiness as they are bright whereas in the horror movies, the colours are dark and full of fear with the evil reds and orange's and greens. As the clouds start to fade, you see the title appear ( Just Like Heaven) on the right hand side and you see a girl on the left hand side. This is called juxtaposition . After this, there is a shot of the girl sitting in a garden full of pretty pink and white flowers. All of this links to 'heaven' as you see the white fluffy clouds at the beginning, and then you see an image of a pretty garden full of bright flowers. All of a sudden, after this scene, you hear a doctor waking the girl up, she was actually dreaming that she was in heaven. The girl is a stereo typical woman as she has blond hair and blue eyes; this is because most men find these type of girl attractive. the girl seems to be a doctor; this shows that she is intelligent to be good enough for a doctor and also in the movie, it shows that she can multitask, so she is a very clever woman. She also seems to be kind too as she saves ill patients and she cheers poorly children up. In the next scene, you see all the woman doctors in the bathroom, and they are all complaining about their hard lives, about their husbands kids and work. One of the doctors says to the main girl that all she needs to worry about is work as she doesn't have a family, but her face looks all sad as if to say she would love to have a family. Next, she is on the phone to her sister (whilst  she is in the car 'driving'), and her sister has set her up on a date. Her sister has a mad house, as she has two naughty daughters of young ages who are causing trouble and has a loving husband. After, the girl puts the phone down and she sees a big truck coming her way, then all of a sudden she crashes and you see a screen full of white. This shows that the girl has died...

TASK 2: Research Into Existing Products.

Textual analysis of the opening of Halloween (1978) directed by john carpenter.

A COMPASS INTERNATIONAL PICTURES RELEASE. -logo- yellow Black Background. Yellow is a happy colour then it turns orange to red. Red is an evil colour, may refer to blood.
This image would give a spooky opening, making it look like something scary is about to happen after the opening has ended, as the same creepy music continues after the subtitles have finished. 

Camera angles.
 - zooms in to pumpkin ( close up) as subtitles at the begin are appearing on the right, then does an extreme close up of the pumpkins eye. Then it disappears.
This gives a spooky atmosphere to the viewer as the camera is gradually zooming in to an image of horror then boom it just disappears. This may make the viewer feel scared about whats going to happen next in the movie.

- subjective point of view: - in the beginning of the film, it's showing the characters point of view, there are no cuts. This gives the viewer a sight on what the character can see. When the camera is doing this, the viewer will automatically know that this character is the bad guy as the music sounds very creepy and the character seems to be spying on a girl and a boy in a house and as the boy and girl both walk up the stairs, the character walks into the house, and grabs the biggest knife of the kitchen draw, then begins to creep up the stairs after the boy leaves the house. This character then begins to walk up the stairs and goes into the room where the girl is. The viewer then see's this character walking towards the girl, then the girl shouts this characters name, and then all of a sudden, the girl gets stabbed to death by the big kitchen knife. After, the camera zooms out onto a little boys face with him holding the knife which is now covered in the girls blood, which appears to be the little boys big sister, that he has just killed.
mise en scene.
- an image of a pumpkin appears, shows horror.
sound.
- the sound of the opening, is a creepy serious tone, making it sound scary.
- dark night and there is cricket noises.
- when the the light goes out in the bedroom, the music jumps to high pitched and can make the watcher jump, making it more creepy
- In the first part of the scene you can hear children laughing.
At the opening of the movie (the subtitles) there is a creepy serious tone that is played by a piano and another kind of instrument, making the viewer feel scared. When it opens to the scene, the music from the subtitles continues but it is overlapped  by hearing children laughing, making the viewer think that there is going to be children involved in this horror movie, making them feel even more terrified. As the subjective point of view shot of the character walks on towards the house, the sound of the children laughing fades and then you just hear some creepy music which is overlapped by cricket noises, giving it a spooky atmosphere. As that character see's the girl and boy walk up stairs in the house, the character looks up to the window, and the lights go out, the the music makes a very high pitched creepy noise, making the viewer jump.
 editing.







The opening of Red Dragon. Directed by Brett Ratner (2003).

The opening of this film start with a creepy mysterious tone, overlapping the studio logo which is universal studios. The titles are in red and white. The red represents danger,evilness,blood, or violence. The white shows purity, innocents, and goodness. It's a bit like the angel Vs devil kind of thing; good against evil. The titles are on a black background, making it spooky and also makes the titles stand out a lot clearer.After the black background it goes to a long shot view of a stage with loads of people playing instruments, and then does medium close ups and close ups of individuals on the stage that are playing the instruments. The camera then pulls out and goes into the audience and does a juxtaposition shot of Hannible Lector, sitting in the middle of the audience. The camera the zooms into his face to a close up and he focusing on a flute player who it playing on the stage, as the camera cuts back and forth to Hannible, and then to the flute player. This shows that something is going to happen to the flute player as you can tell by the way Hannible is looking and focusing at him, and the way the camera moves, and also the music that is playing, you can hear the flute loader than the rest of the instruments. The setting then goes into a house full of people, and does a horizontal tracking of all the guests sitting around a table in a dinning area with plates of food that hannible has served. All of the guests including hannible are in smart wear, for example, the men are in suits and the girls are in very smart dresses. This show that they are in a high class as they are in very smart wear and the setting around them looks posh, and also only rich people tend to go and watch musical shows. As one of the women suggests that one of the flute players are still missing, the camera then focuses on Hannibles face and he has a suspiscious look, maening that he may have something to do with it as he was focusing on a flute player in the audience. After this the women then asks what meat is it that she is eating, and he replies if i tell you that you wouldn't want to go near it. The camera then focuses on the women trying the meat with hannible next to her, and the does a focus pull where the woman becomes out of focus, but hannibles face becomes more into focus as he is watching her eat the meat. This could suggest that the women is eating something which is bad, it could be the flute player that she is eating. After this, the camera then cuts to hannible clearing everyones mess up, and then you hear a knock at the door. As Hannible answers the door it was an inspector. They then go and sit down on a desk and the camera the does a shot-revearse-shot of them both having a conversation about who could be the killer of all these missing people and where these scars and injuries have come from on people. After this the camera focuses on hannible as he is leaving the room. The inspector then gets up and looks around the room. The camera does a vertical tracking from down upwards of some shelves in Hannibles house. It then does a close up shot on a book and then goes to the inspectors face. The inspector then opens the book and then finds that hannible is the one who is killing these poeple as he has wrote notes on how to, and does an extreme close up on the inspectors eyes looking concerned. This shows that Hannible is in a lot of trouble as the inspector has found out what he is doing. All of a sudden the camera the pulls out and Hannible stabs the inspector as he doesn't want to get into trouble and be in jail for the rest of his life. The camera then does a vertical tracking again but from up to down as the inspector falls to the ground, but it then focuses on Hannible who is walking backwards, and then does a vertical tracking again from his face to his stomach as the inspector manages to stab him with arrows. Hannible then tries to walk forward and then the inspector all of a sudden shoots him.
This is good for the beggining as it would makes viewers want to see more and what actually happens in the rest of the movie. It leaves you on a cliff hanger as you don't know what happens to the inspector and what actually happens to Hannible Lector.

Preliminary Task

In the preliminary task, we used the 180° rule. This is where you have to keep the camera on the 180° line on one side of the scene, for exampe, the characters are on the same side/position (left or right)  through the whole clip.
 Me and my group did the preliminary task on a scene called 'one last mission'. I was recording the scene as the other two pupils were acting.
In the scene, Tori is always on the left hand side and josh is always stays on the right hand side on the 180° angle.
In between the scene, we did a camera shot of a match-of-action. This is a shot-cut-shot-cut-shot, for example in the video above, Tori passes over the memory stick over to Josh and the camera shows Tori passing the memory stick over to Josh, then the camera does a shot called the match on action, where it's doing an extreme close up of of tori handing over the memory stick to josh, the the camera pulls out and you see josh recieving the memory stick.

In this video, we did a shot-revearse-shot where the two characters are talking, but the camera is cuts to one character to another, when they are having a conversation.

We did another shot called the over-the-shoulder shot, where the camera is behind one of the characters shoulder, but you can still see that characters shoulder which will be out of focus with the other character in the background over that characters shoulder talking or doing any other kind of activity as it will be a area of focus. In the above video, we did two over-the-shoulder shots; one where the camera is behind josh and is focusing on tori, and the other one is where it is behind tori and is focusing on josh. When the camera is behind josh, it shows that tori looks high up, which shows that she is in a higher class than josh, as she is ment to be the top boss in 'one last mission', and josh looks lower down than her which shows that he is in middle class as he is ment to be the best spy.


This shows a diagram of the 180° rule.