Current trends in the Cinema

Philomena -> Multiplex Cinema's.

• Elements of Comedy and seriousness would attract a wider range of an audience
• Big Actor/actress names such as Judy Dench and Steve Coogan
• Award winner, advertises that fact.
• Fair amount of showing times, not as many as blockbusters.
• Based on a true story and book, would attract people that have read the book.
• Would be screened in main screen cinemas
• Made profits of near $15 million. Not as much as a typical blockbuster

Aims and objectives

Sarah, Charlene, Alex

• The genre of the film my group is making is a war tragedy
• The target audience is similar to the audience of films such as "Dear John"
• The sequence will start with a girl crying at a grave, possibly in the snow to give the scene a 'chilly' feel
• Most of the middle section of the short film will be flashbacks to emotional subject such as how her and her dead boyfriend met until she gets the letter from the army about his death
• The flashbacks will be similar to flashbacks in "Forest Gump"
• Include a shot where the camera circles around the head of the girl whilst she's in a trance throughout many different scenes.

250 Word Reflective Analysis

In groups, we created a film sequence from a "Horror" genre film. We hoped to create the beginning of a chase scene which built tension with silence whilst involving typical horror conventions such as Religious iconography, low key lighting and also centering the hauntings around a lonely, innocent young girl, this is shown in the shot with the high angle and tilt down- as you can see crosses in the structural beams.

In our storyboard we planned to use shots such as handheld cameras at eye level, and then using other angles such as oblique angles, High angles and then low angles. 

However when shooting we encountered problems such as having to redo a lot of shots due to working in a noisy environment, so a lot of our clips we're slightly different to how we hoped to avoid the noise.

Whist editing, we encountered problems with sounds being repeated one cut to the next, so we had to edit it out and we also edited the sounds from the noisy environment out, as we wanted silence to build up tension with the audience. In Editing we also added non-diegetic sound for music and also added a jumpy sharp sound to add to the jump scare.

We also added a camera movement of zooming into the paranormal creature, which shows the importance of it as it is the antagonist.