Genre

14/09/10

Learning objective

To be able to identify a film genre.

Horror

Sounds:

Screams (diegetic) – To emphasise  the horror

Soundtrack (non-diegetic) – To crate suspense thought out the movie

Location:

Haunted house – Mostly the character are stuck inside with no exits or help.

Characters:

Killer – Not seen a lot but when we do see him he makes the audience jump

Hot girl – Blonde hot teenage who always get chased by the killer for a few minutes

Black guy – The first to die.

Camera movement:

Tracking – For fast past action scenes

Handheld – To have that amateur effect to make in more scary

Narrative:

Killer kills teens one by one

Lighting:

Low key – to make the suspense of the film bigger

Action

Sounds:

Explosions (diegetic ) – To show what happening to that sound and to involve the audience

Voice over (non-diegetic) – Use for some narration

Location:

City – For more thing to blow up

Characters:

CIA – In the police force and have a lot of back up. Mafia – Top dog of the organized crimes.

Camera movement:

Tracking – For fast past action scenes

High angle – for a better look of the action

Panning – to show the location and the rest of the action taking place.

Narrative:

CIA trying to take down the mafia

Lighting:

High key – for all the explosions and gun shots

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The Proposal

Sounds:

Cars (diegetic) – to relate to the location and time

Soundtrack (non-diegetic) to add emotion to the scene 

Location:

Domestic and workplace – to show us the full life of the main character

Characters:

Man and woman – to full in love

Camera movement:

High angle – to show the location and what’s happening

Panning – to show a street of where the character lives

Narrative:

Both the man and women are getting ready for a day at work

Lighting:

High key – because on the time of day


From the clip I watched of this film I guess that it is a Romantic Comedy because it show a man and women getting ready for work in the city, but the man and woman are completely opposite the man being very un-organize and dirty by waking up late and his room being untidy also forgetting things on the other hand  the women being clean and organize having a clean room and waking up on time. I thought that both character will fall in love and making it a Romance for a few reason like the saying opposite attract and both of then being in the opening scene being main character of the film. The comedy part come is for my own knowledge of Rom-Coms being set in the city and having two people you would never think of falling in love with making the film funny for watching them try a fail till the end.       

Rock N Rolla

Sounds:

Soundtrack (non-diegetic ) – the type of music reflects on the type of film

Water bubbling in a pipe(diegetic ) – hearing exactly  what he’s doing 

Location:

London, workplace – showing the country tell us what kind of film this maybe as coz its set in a dirty room concludes that its might be a classic London crime film 

Characters:

Man smoking –fits in to the whole dirty room in London and crime genre 

Camera movement:

Panning –to show the room

Zoom – to show the man close up

Narrative:

Drugs, sex and rock & roll

Lighting:

Low key – not a lot of light in the room and all the light in the room are focused on the man

From the first 4 minutes of rock'N'rolla i thought that the genre will be a Acton/Crime. I thought this because from the opening credit it has it show a lot of things like location, characters and what they are like, from what i saw the movie is about sex, drugs and crime/gangsters this to me sound like a typical film in London and relate to a British action/crime.

Comedy

Sounds

Vehicle(diegetic) – to show that the set is in the real world by having real sounds

Canned laughter (non-diegetic) – to show us where to laugh also to laugh with

Location

Domestic – mostly in or around their home

Characters

Dumb blonde – to fit the stereotype

Dopey hot guy – again to fit the stereotype

Camera movements

Shot reserve shots – to show fast pace conversations

Eye level – to make us feel like we are talking to them

Panning – good way to show all the characters without editing

Straight cuts – to switch to another location

Narrative

Main character gets stuck doing simple tasks but then completes it in a funny way

Lighting

High key – to show how jolly and fun the environment can be

Romance

Sounds

Radio (diegetic) – to show that the set is in the real world by having real sounds

Soundtrack (non-diegetic) – plays an instrumental over the scene

Location

Domestic – mostly set in or around their home

Characters

Man and a woman – who fall in love

Camera movement

Close ups – to show the kissing

Zoom – to show the characters movement and body language

Low angle – to have the feeling we are looking at them secretly

Cross fade – for change scene but slowly to hold the emotions

Narrative

Man full’s deeply in love with a woman and lives happy with her

Lighting
Low key – to give the environment a candle lit feel to it 

Twilight

Sounds

Voice over (non-diegetic) – to introduce the beginning of the film

Birds (diegetic) – adds to the feel of the location

Location

Forest – could be a beautiful forest or a scary one

Characters

A deer and some birds – the only animal we see other than the birds

Camera movement

Tracking – to keep on the action

Handheld – to add the feel of us chasing the deer

Narrative

A deer getting chased though a forest

Lighting

Low key – to make it more of a mysterious forest

From the clip I watched of this film I guess that it is a Action. I thought this because we as the audience are watching this deer get chased with a tracking movement through a forest, we don't see what chasing it which make it have more suspense till the end when a man catches it we then think about how he could run so fast and keep up with the deer.