Genre Importance

Genre Importance

Genre is very essential especially for the audience as well as the film writers. This is because genre gives an idea of what needs to be in the script and give meaning to the film. For example, in romance films there is always love in the film, in an action film there’s always violence. Without genre the film has no type, the audience wouldn’t be able to identify what type of film it is and then may not even watch the film since everyone has their own taste in films. It’s important to follow the conventions especially in the opening otherwise it would look very odd and unprofessional, it will also lead to confusion for the audience.  

Directors

Target Audience Profile

This example of our target audience is shown through her facebook page where you can see details about her, as well as things she may like. For example, below you can see Jessica's date of birth is 12th May 1996. As she is 20, she fits in with our target audience. This is important as she will be able to relate to the emotional pull of our film.

From the screenshot below, you can see that Jessica likes films from multiple genres. Fight Club is a famous sports film whereas The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has been described multiple times as a "tear-jearker". This is key to our film's success because our film provides both the emotional journey of a drama as well as the action of a sports film, neatly combined into one film.

Initial Ideas

Springboard

Boy needs scholarship. only available sport is gymnastics. only boy. advises team’s problems while dealing with his own problems.

The Broken Side

Famous athlete irreparably breaks a body part. journey to acceptance while dealing with the vices of fame.

Preliminary task script

(Person 1 walks through the corridor to the common room.

She sits down)

Person 1: Hey

Person 1: So what university are you going to?

Person 2: I have soo many offers to choose from, I don't know which one to pick.

Person 2: So, what are you doing to do?

Person 1: University of Salford

Person 2: At Least you know which uni you'd like to go to

Person 1: I know but it's so far away, I mean think about family. Everyone’s going to live here and nobody is going to move to Manchester for me.

Person 2: Fair enough.

(Person 1's phone goes off)

Person 1: Oh, Nasima I am so sorry i have to go, it's my stupid little sisters birthday today

(Person 1's phone goes off again)

Person 1: There she goes again

Person 2:It's your sister's birthday?

Person 1: Yeah

Person 2: How old is she?

Person 1: 15 now.

Person 2: wish her happy birthday for me.

Person 1: tss, No!

(Person 1 gets up)

Person 2: Jainisha!

Person 1: She’s not that great. See ya.

Person 2: Bye.

Preliminary Task Analysis

In my preliminary task, I was in charge of the camera work and script.

The script was more difficult than I had expected as generating an idea or theme to use through the clip was hard. The final script wasn't long enough either, it only came up to 51 seconds. A possible (and most likely) reason for this is because I hadn't set out enough time for me to create a brand new script from scratch and so it was rushed.

The camera work was difficult in that I didn't have much experience with it. One of the places it's most obvious is that one of the actors is closer to the camera than the other and could possibly be jarring for the audience. There are some other mistakes throughout the video such as at the beginning when the shot is not in focus and you can hear my voice. In the future, I'll make sure to review the clips I've shot before using them.

Our preliminary task was mostly well done. For our final film opening, we'll need to review the clips before using them and make a routine to make sure we completely fine-tune our skills.

Potential Logos

This was my first idea for a logo. I thought it would be a good idea to focus on the name rather than have a logo as such so that our production company would be seen as professional and serious.

This is my second potential logo. In this one, I combined both aspects - the design aswell as the name of the company. I thought that it would be more professional than the previous one because it isn't as simple.

Production name and Logo

Preliminary Task Script

Jayendra: Hey

Esom: Hey, have you seen the new hunger games movie yet?

Jayendra: No, did you go watch it?

Esom: Yeah, it was so good.

Jayendra: I’ve read the book and I didn’t actually like it.

Esom: What are you talking about? It’s the best one in the series.

Jayendra: No, the first one was the best. After that, it just went downhill.

Esom: Are you being serious?

Jayendra: Yeah, I don’t understand why everyone likes it so much. I think everybody just likes Jennifer and Josh and so they “like” the movie; just because they’re in there.

Esom: No, it’s got nothing to do with her specifically. It’s the story itself, it’s so exciting and inspiring.

Jayendra: It’s boring.

Esom: And each time there’s a new one, it just gets better. Plus the characters are so well-written and their backstories are so sad.

Jayendra: It’s mentioned once, then they never mention it again. The books are pretty bad, the movies are even worse.

Esom: That’s not true, do you know how many people went to the premiere? Would they go watch a movie that’s boring?

Jayendra: I think the movie people just bribe them, just to pretend that people are excited because in reality, everybody else apart from you is just waiting for the series to be over you know.

Esom: No, that’s too far. I don’t want to talk to you.

Representation - Class

The genre my group decided on was a sport drama. Sport dramas are mainly popular with teens and young adults as that's who is usually the main character. Class in these films class can be easily identified as working to middle class. Examples are where a white American girl in her teens who finds a horse in the wild and she goes from zero to hero or a black African American who lives in the 'hood' and makes his way into the NFL or NBA.

These films usually follow Todorov's theory which is the three step narrative structure of the equilibrium then disequilibrium and resolution. 

These type of films have stereotypical representations as I stated before such as the movies Blindside which follows the fame of an athlete who was once in poverty or a rich girl going to become equestrian. In the film Coach Carter it begins with what seems to be a run down place which suggests that the film is set in a lower class area which is conventional in these type of films, they usually represent class by using ethnic minorities struggling with life.

The film Moneyball starring Jonah Hill and Brad Pitt shows the middles class and how they look at sport, the working class usually see sports as diversion to their normal life and to get away from stress whilst the middle class are usually apart of the sport being managers which Moneyball shows.

Film Analysis

Preliminary Task

Story&Narrative- Todorov

Conventional Storylines

• The character discovers their skill or love for the sport.
• The characters parent/carer retired from after a career ending injury and tries to tell the protagonist not to do the sport.
• The protagonist is from the slums and because the world’s best

Theorist: Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov (1960s) Narrative structure follows three steps of everything being normal or the Equilibrium then a problem occurs that needs to be solved which is the Disequilibrium and then the problem is solved which is the Resolution.

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task Analysis

I took up the role of the camera man in my group and by being the cameraman I learnt that it is not easy to take a shot and that the lens has to be properly focused before you start filming or it will not look good, the camera-work could have been much better if it was focused and the lighting was better. I also was in charge of writing the script which I did not find very difficult because it was a short clip but I can see that i would be difficult if it were a two hour film, in our video we changed a few words to make it sound more realistic

Our group did did some pre-production work, we did both script and a storyboard before filming our scene for the preliminary task. We used the necessary areas well including match-on-action, the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot however the use of the shot reverse shot could have been used better as during the dialogue we did not keep up the shot reverse shot however everything else was normal, it may not have been professional but it is to a good enough standard to tell what it was we also gave enough lead room so the audience can tell who the characters are talking too. The natural lighting gave the preliminary task some verisimilitude or realism.

There was a part during the filming which ruined the continuity, there was a jump cut which was not meant to be there but there was a mistake which had to cut out. For our preliminary task had to film twice because the first time we did it, it didn't turn out too well because we did not do the shot reverse shot very well neither so we re-filmed it however even with our second version it would have been better if it was continuous and smooth also the lens to be focused.

For the film opening I will have to learn how to edit properly and uses more advanced camera and editing techniques so the end product looks professional.

Preliminary task Analysis

The role I had taken in the preliminary task was script writing, this meant that I had to take into consideration the courses of action which included: idea generation, research, planning, characters and then writing. I would say that it was a challenge to follow through with such courses of action as I had difficulty in coming up with an idea to follow through. Not only that based on the script I had to direct the actors (Jainisha and I) to sit in specific places and act certain ways. From this role I learn’t that I needed to take a lot more time to come up with a script that would last around a minute and a half. This is because in the first video we took the video only lasted for around fifty-seven seconds meaning the script wasn't long enough.

Also, the pre-production of the script and storyboard wasn't the best. In our first video that we made, the main reason why the preliminary task lasted fifty-seven seconds is because the script wasn't long enough so some of the lines had to be improvised, but because the words were not always the same we found that it was harder to edit.

After watching the video we discovered that the camera work wasn't as effective. This is because when filming match-on-action the actors arm didn't reach out for the door before the close-up so when viewing the final video we noticed this. However, the 180 degree rule was done well and when watching we didn't get confused when an actor was suddenly on the wrong side but when filming shot reverse shot actor A would be seen talking and instead of seeing the response of actor B we could only hear her talking through most of it despite fully completing the shot reverse shot later on. This made the video seem uninteresting and feel like the video was taking longer to end.

Overall the continuity editing could have been improved and as a second attempt we had learn’t mistakes we did through class feedback and in my opinion I believe that the things we need to mostly improve on is, camera work, editing and script writing. The skills we would need to acquire before the actual production of our own film opening would be to build up on mistakes and notice them quicker so that we can improve them just as quick before any set deadline. We would also need a better understanding of the different types of rules in editing that will help us execute the editing part of our film opening.

Preliminary storyboard