Problems Problems Problems

 Even though we are going with Austins idea of Drama/Mystery it is just as hard to come up with an idea as the thriller/horror genre. This week has been an interesting week for me and my group members. On Monday we went through the whole class , yet we still had no idea for a film opening. We had an idea in place where the film opening starts at Markham park with a quick wide shot  of the tree line which we slowly tilt down to show a shoe sitting on the ground behind a dead body .The next scene will be a shot of our main character Brennan sitting in the car and gazing out the window while wearing dark and gloomy clothing while his two other friends Franklin and pablo are having a good time in the car while signing and dancing. Once the three boys get to pablos house Franklin says " Come on brennan get over it , it has been a week since leo died" and Brennan responses with"You don't understand how much he meant to our friendship." Brennan walks home and still depressed he takes out a picture from from under his bed and throws it against the wall while crying. Three of our group members wanted to use that idea and build off of but still one member in our group believes there is a better idea out there but we will have to wait and see because right now he doesn't have one.


On Wednesday we met in our groups and discussed our projects with our classmates , the classmates in my group really liked our idea over the thriller/horror idea. Even though Austin wasn't 100% into our gay  idea we are going with it. One of my classmates suggested that we should have someone running up to the shoe in the end of the film opening to show how someone discovers the dead body  and is going to try to find out what happened. They liked how the rest of our movie plot would just revolve around Brennan and how he is trying to hide the fact that he killed leo.
 

Beauty ad the beast!!! Suggestions for our film

   Hello I just got back from watching beauty and the beast and I absolutely loved it. The mis en scene was amazing the costumes were spectacular and the songs were pretty darn cool. Even though beauty and the beast isn't a drama , I still have some cool ideas we can use in our film,
       
        My first idea is that we should connect a name of something to another thing it means , in beauty in the beast Belle also means beauty so thats where the movie name comes from. In our movie we can have something in the car that describes how the kid died and it can be in another language so no-one understands what it means until you tell them. In our movie i also believe we should have the kids that are joyful and jubilant wear colorful clothes and the sad kid should wear black or gray to signify sadness. While the kids are in the car they should be listening to pop music , the sad kid can have head phones in while listening to songs played on the piano.

Some drama film openings

 In the fifty shades of grey opening the first minute and a half is dark and gloomy  i believe it is used to represent the problems and emotion that are felt later on in the story. In this story however it starts off with christian and how he starts his day compared to how Ana starts hers. Even though they aren't together the director helps us see that they are in the same city because of the similar weather and how they may connect later in the story.




In the opening of Gone girl the director uses dark  lighting and mysteriores music to help convey the message of a dramatic and spooky scene. The tone of the mans voice during the voice over is soothing yet creepy.                                                  

       In both these films the color and lighting is essential in helping share the mood of the film.The music and scores of the films also have huge impacts on the emotional state of a character through a story.

DRAMA

   

My group and I have changed our movie idea to a drama . After discussing our ideas into our selected groups in class.We thought a drama was better because it was easier to create a film opening for this rather than a thriller/horror because with thriller/horror we would need makeup and multiple costumes. With our budget its just much easier to do a drama where we don't need much costume or makeup. A drama film is a " serious presentation or story with real life situations that portray realistic characters." In the real world today teenagers like our selves make stupid decisions that can impact our lives and sometimes causing pain to other families in relation to these actions. My group has been discussing this project in english but this is what I've heard so far.The opening is going to start off with shot of trees at markham park  with a tilt in the camera for a couple seconds. In the next cut we are going to have a group of kids in a car being rowdy and singing along to music but one of the boys in the back seat will be silent with his hand on his head leaning on the door. While the kid is leaning on the door he will be scrolling through twitter looking at tweets that say RIP "Timmy" from three weeks ago. The next scene will be of all the kids eating somewhere and hanging out and they are like "come on eddy get over it , yea its sad but its been three weeks". Eddy then says "how can i get over it if i was so close to him?" 

http://www.filmsite.org/dramafilms.html

Different lighting techniques used in thriller/horror films

  

HARD LIGHTING

• Blends figure in with the background 
• It creates a shadow on one side of the actor/actress
• It creates a darker atmosphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cP4fFwzTZI

 UPLIGHTING 

• Distorts human face 
• It creates a shadow around the eyes 
• Usually used a weddings
• It is the light from below being shot upward 
• It looks unnatural 

Overall the lighting in horror/thriller films make us feel a bit off about something 

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/10/8-spooky-lighting-techniques-you-can-use-your-horror-film

Target Auidence

My group and I have decided to choose teens and young adults  as our target auidence.  we believe teens/ young adults would be a perfect choice for our horror/thriller genre because according to James Wan, the director of " the conjuring", "they’re movies that young women and men can both enjoy — presuming they both enjoy getting scared senseless." With that being said if you're a kid in high school and going on a date to the movies why don't you just get the crap scared out of you to break the ice a little.I also believe horror films are a better choice for teens than adults because adults can have heart attacks 














http://www.thewrap.com/box-office-how-horror-films-conjuring-win-scaring-young-women-104901/

Thriller/horror

Our group has decided to go with the thriller/horror genre. We decided this after watching videos such as scream and nightmare on elm street.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgKukhIw5eY.In this opening of scream we really liked how the camera follows her around the house from the living room to the kitchen showing whats happening in the house. Once the blonde female gets to the kitchen the camera starts to film her starting to make pop corn as a man continue to calls her. As the temper between the voice on the phone and the female start to heat up the popcorn also begins to get heated to its full volume and begins to whistle uncontrollably. In this horror film the directer uses symbolism to show emotion and help connect the human emotions to actions around us. During the opening of nightmare on elm street the movie stars off with a person  in a factory doing something with a bunch of tools. The next cut shoes a girl confused and scared wondering around the factory as the scene progresses the girl is being chased by something with metal fingers. All of the sudden the creepy background noise turns into a baby crying and the girl wakes up from her dream with 4 rips in her sleep shirt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn_DjzN8410.In both these horror/thriller film openings the directer starts off the film by setting off the story with suspense right away. They want the viewer to get intrigued and hooked from the beginning.

“The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.” -Wes Craven

NEW IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello guys sorry to interrupt your Sunday night but I forgot to tell you guys this yesterday. After Harrison and I took the long and stressful SAT we hung out out we were talking about possible movie ideas. In the middle of our brainstorming we came up with a pretty interesting idea, we were thinking what if the rules for the SAT state that if someone dies during the test everyone in the room gets a perfect score. They 2 minute film opening would start off with a black screen with the viewer focusing on the words that are being said which are " I Found him, he is wearing a blue shirt." The next scene will cut to a walkie talky in a kids hand and we will slowly zoom out to show the whole walkie talky. We haven't finished the thought but what we want is two kids who really want to get into college and they know they can't with there normal scores so they plan to kill one of the other students in the testing room. I know we haven't finished this idea but I wanted to keep you guys interested.

Both Film Ideas

YO YO YO  if you're reading this I appreciate it , it must mean that you were intrigued by the first post so thank you! As i explained in my last blog post my group and I were deciding on a genre to do and our ideas were Comedy or Thriller . If we did a Thriller/Suspense film Harrison's idea was that the film opens with 4 teenage girl in a dark room wearing dresses , one of them which was jenny would get up and go into the kitchen to get a drink of water. When Jenny gets into the kitchen there is a loud bang and the 3 other girls ask if she is okay, Jenny would say " Yes everything is fine" and the other 3 girls would continue to look at their phones in complete silence. The next seen would be of Jenny walking into the room and sitting back down with her back towards the girls . One of the other girls sheila would start giggling and say , "OMG Jenny look what Brian posted" but there was no answer. Shelia would then say " Jenny" but still no answer , another girl Daisy pulls on Jenny arm to turn her around and a grown man would turn around with a mask on over his face. I really like this idea because this scene would represent a theme in the world right now with teens and their smart phones.Andres our other group member had another thriller idea it was about a guy who recently broke up with his girlfriend while out to getting coffee  and when he gets home two men come to his door and put a bag over his head because hi Ex-Girlfriend was a drug dealer. I didn't like this idea because I though it wasn't as intense as Harrison's. For the comedy film we didn't really have an idea in place some group members were just arguing on what genre makes the most money and comedy came up as a film idea.

The Beginning . Thriller vs. Comedy

HELLO THIS IS JONATHAN LINDER!!! During these next few weeks I will be talking about how my movie project is progressing. On Wednesday my group and I were discussing what genre we should make our movie on.Two members said comedy and the other two said thriller. What we found was that Comedys highest grossing film ever was $138.4 Million while Thriller/ Action was 227.5 Million.http://www.filmsite.org/highestgrossingbygenre.html. With that being said I believe we should do a Thriller film but by the end of class no-one was really sure.