Yr 10 Film unit summer term incomplete lesson 8-

(Lesson 8)

Learning objectives:
- to explore the use of mise-en-scene

Starter - work out the names of these blockbuster movies from their anagrams

1. Oh One Male
2. Roam Inn
3. Pa Reminds
4. In Attack - Titanic 
5. A Rabbit Priest of the Cane
6. Farmer Snorts
7. The Discernible
8. Think Legion
9. Fett Injured Hero 
10. End of Mining

What can you tell about the character who's room this is by their room and its contents?

• Most likely a male bedroom as it is messy which may suggest a busy person or careless person. The guitars on the wall suggest a musical talent as well as the music posters on the wall.

Mise-en-scene - A french term meaning what is put into a scene or frame. Visual information in front of the camera. Communicates essential information to the audience. Each aspect of mise-en-scene has hidden meanings within a film and send signals to the audience about how we are supposed to feel or about a character.

Mise-en-scene is made up of five areas:

1. Settings and props
2. Costume, hair and make up
3. facial expressions and body language 
4. Lighting and colour
5. Positionings of characters/ objects within the frame

Settings and Props -

• Setting and Locations play an important part in film-making and are not just 'backgrounds'.
• Sets are either built from scratch or a great deal of time is spent to find a setting which already exists.
• Settings can manipulate an audience by building certain expectations and then taking a different turn.

Costume, Hair and make up -

• Costume hair and make up act as an instant indicator to us of a character's personality, status and job.
• It tells us immediately whether the film is set in the present and what society/ or culture it will centre around.
• Certain costumes can signify certain individuals (i.e. black cloak of a vampire, spider's spider man suit).

Facial Expressions and Body language -

• Facial expressions provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling.
• If someone is smiling broadly, we assume they are happy but we may get a different feeling if this is accompanied by scary music.
• Body language may also indicate how a character feels towards another character or may reflect the state of their relationship.

Lightning and colour

Lightning and colour can be used to achieve a variety of effects:

• To highlight important characters or objects within the frame.
• To make characters look mysterious by shading sections of the fade and body.
• To reflect a characters mental state/ hidden emotions (i.e. bright = happy, dark = disturbed, strobe effect = confused).

There are two main types of lightning -

Low key lighting:

• Produces sharp contrasts of light and dark areas.
• Deep, distinct shadows/ silhouettes are formed.

High key lighting:

• Lighting is natural and realistic to our eyes.
• Produces brightly lit sets or a sunny day.

Positioning of people/ objectives -

• Positioning within a frame can draw our attention to an important character/ object.
• A film maker can use positioning to indicate relationships between people.

(Lesson 9)

learning objective:

- to experiment with Foley and sound effects.

I got 13/20 on the guess the sound YouTube clip.

Sounds i can hear in the Shawn of the Dead clip:

• Video game
• zip
• flush
• brush
• water
• draw opening
• cutlery rattling
• jam spreading 
• spoon taping against cup of tea 

The rest of this lesson i got confused a lot on - Sorry

(Lesson 10)
Learning objective:
- to explore the disaster movie genre
I got 40% on the quiz of disaster movies.

Disaster movies are popular sub-genre of action adventure films. Examples include - Independence day, 2012, The day after tomorrow, Armageddon, 28 Days later, The book of Eli and War of the worlds.

Disaster Movie conventions

The 3 movies i have chosen are Armageddon, The day after tomorrow and Independence day 

1. Main characters in disaster movies are normally male but some with a female as well.
2. I think that all 3 films i have chosen have to do with saving a family member in some way.
3. The 3 disaster movies i have chosen fit into - Alien attack, Natural, Climate change.
4. Armageddon, Independence day.
5. All 3 of my chosen films fit into travel to get away from the disaster or to fight it.
6. The films have in common - type of action

Genre conventions

Independence Day:

• Not character seen
• City on fire with possible alien ships over it
• city is on fire 
• none 
• The bright blue ship will light up the city as it attracts attention as it is different and stands out.
• Clear something major to do with aliens a attack on a city.
• Small title shows it is not as important as the main image.
• action 

Godzilla:

• just monsters
• Destroyed place on fire
• monster fighting
• none 
• Blue of the monster can easily be seen on the fire floor.
• a massive attack of monsters
• Godzilla in the same blue to stand out on the black ground.
• action

Contagion:

• a main six
• in action pictures
• fear on the phone
• phone
• yellow like the yellow danger sign
• something serious happens based on characters faces.
• basic text black stands out
• action

(Lesson 11)
learning objectives:
- to effectively develop an idea for a disaster movie.

My movie -

• Set in a possible future 2080
• Dark and gloomy. Everything they own will be broken or ripped as they are under control
• The camera will follow the main characters and show their point of view, to make the audience feel like they are their.

My disaster movie narrative

• Many people have died due to slave labour by the aliens and not a lot of food and water to give them energy to carry on.
• Many people died due to lack of food and sleep, making the weak people die and the strong to survive.
• Most of the human population has been killed and there is a lot of depression and fear everywhere.
• A positive change when the people start to create a change with a rebellion with gun and violence to fight off the aliens.
• At the end people began to win the rebellion and start to rebuild humanity once again. But is still not fully safe due to the aliens having more man force and almost the whole world under there control.

Characters

• The one who view point you follow's family has all been killed by the aliens and is fighting to survive. (Male)
• The guys best friend who sticks with him in the same situation but he has his sister left.
• Then a alien who decides to help the humans escape control.
• The love interest 
• The old man who has wisdom and that has been under control of the aliens the longest.
• The love interests brother who is fighting along side everyone else to stop the alien control.

(Lesson 12)

learning objective:

- to effectively develop an idea for a disaster movie.

Synopsis:

• The man who survived, who has to fight to break free. Many people have tried but failed. Will he be able to save his friends. And the ones he made on the way. This can determine the life or death of the human race.

The mind board wouldn't let me upload it. Sorry Miss D

(Lesson 13)

Learning objective:

- to develop an effective film marketing strategy

Starter -

 1) poster, trailer, teaser, film festival, social networking, blog it

 2) Geostorm - trailer, poster, social networking.

Selling a movie

- UK film distributors alone spent around £300 million a year on bringing new releases to market, and building awareness and interest among audiences. It's a fast-moving, highly competitive, high-stakes business.

The Marketing plan - produce to complement the overall distribution plan - is designed to navigate a route to market allows the interest to peak as the film opens in cinemas. This will take into account the competitive environment, to ensure that the opportunities to raise interest and awareness are not lost under the weight of other films or entertainment on release.

Film posters - A film poster and the artwork is very important and one of the main marketing tools. With probably a dozen or more different posters on display in cinema at any one time, distributors and their designers must work hard to make each one stand out.

 Where do you normally see film posters?

• Inside/ outside the cinema
• On billboards
• on social media 

What do you think a distributor is trying to achieve when deciding where to put their film posters?

• To put it somewhere where a lot of people would see it and remember it.

List all the different elements/ information that can be included on a film poster?

• Main actor name, main image, release date, name of film, tag line.

Narrative clue - a major disaster happens

Genre conventions - action disaster

Font style - Basic clear, capitals, bold

Colour palette - blue, grey, black, red

Image/ Tagline - no tagline, image shows something major happened

Award - ???

Movie actor -  Dwayne Johnson

Font style - All in Capitals 

Colour palette - Blues, red, Orange, Dark orange, black, silver

Images - main image of main event that happens in the films

Actors/ directors - Main actors name on poster

Tag line - not on all of them but 2.

(Lesson 14)

learning objective:

- to develop an effective film making strategy

Starter:

1)Find the UK official film poster of your choice from the last 5 years -

2) Are there different versions of the poster for different countries on www.imdb.com?

  Why do you think a film poster might be different in different countries?

     - because they different audiences attract different ideas

• Released date written at the bottom
• Main image shows character
• Small tagline in both
• Quote from review with rating in middle
• Dunkirk -  darker serious, darker colours, serious intense.
• Mandela - positive colours, happy, bright