Shoot #2

Tonight we went out to film the murder scene of bully number two. this involved close ups of the victim and medium shots of the victim and murderer. we chose a location that was very dark as to fit in with the stereotypical night time murder scene in which the protagonist cant be identified. this will help out trailer to flow better when it is finally edited because the audience wont know who the murderer is and this will make them want to go and view the film to find out. The only problem we had with the filming was the time because it was -1 outside and we all got very cold after an hour and a half of filming.

Group embers present; Dan, Lauren and Nathan.
Actors present; Nathan, Niamah
Equipment used; Hand held camera, Torch and a prop of a blooded up cricket bat

Paranormal activity 3 film analysis

The film genre is supernatural thriller. The audience can tell this because the villain of the film is a ghost or poltergeist, and there are links made back to the previous two films in the trilogy which also attracts the previous audience to see the next instalment. The trailer lasts one minute and forty four seconds and has a total of eighty shots that are pieced together using fades to black and static and inter titles.The diegetic sound of screaming is used throughout the trailer to create the thriller and scary effect. The poor quality of the dialogue matched with the handy cam adds to the realistic feel of the film. Non diegetic sound is used throughout the trailer to scare the audience such as a “wooooosh” sound effect. The trailer establishes that the film is based around a family in their own home, and also establishes that the daughter of the family has some connection to the ghost.The inter titles are used to help establish the narrative, such as “discover how the activity began” to tell the audience what the film is all about and the end title “Paranormal Activity 3” is one of the last thing you see. This is because the company want to leave you with something that you will remember so that you would go and watch the film. There is also a web address on the screen in red, this could be to draw the audience’s attention to it, or be the representation of blood.Being a trailer for a follow on film, it builds on the foundations of the previous two films to create and air of expectation for things to go wrong and a sense that something like this could happen to you. The trailer leaves you with the expectation that the film will be even better than the previous film because it says “this October discover how the activity began”. The mood of the film is very dark and eerie which fits in with a supernatural thriller.In the first half of the trailer nearly all the shots are eye level point of view shots because they are shot using a hand held camera, but there is one interesting shot where the camera pans back and forth like a security camera but we are shown its not a security camera but a standard camera mounted on the swivel base of an electric fan, I feel that this effects the way the audience perceive the trailer and its message. Rather than the shots seeming too professional and clean, but rough as if it really was just one of the family setting up the camera to “maybe capture something”.The mise-en-scene is constructed to look like an ordinary hose that any normal person would live in, which then adds to the shock of the super natural goings on and captures the audience.

Using this trailer is a good marketing scheme because it leaves enough of the story out so that it would make people want to go and spend money to see it. I think the trailer is quite successful in targeting the audience that has seen the previous two films but at the same time it doesn’t really do much to attract a new audience I feel.

List of ten codes and conventions

1.  Age rating information

2.  Use of inter titles

3.  Screams

4.  Darkness

5.  Fast editing

6.  Exaggerated sounds i.e. when the lights go out

7.  Special effects

8.  Voice bridging two shots

9.  Web address

10.          The studio name and logo

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The films code of enigma in this film is, “will the family survive?” and “who is doing all of this?”

Film trailers are a very useful tool in promoting a film as it gives the audience a taste of what is to come but leaves them with a question at the end, which will only be answered if they watch the film.

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Some of the photos we took for the anamatic

Film Synopsis

The film starts with a family group (Father, Mother, Son, and Daughter) sat around the living room table having dinner. In the background the TV is on, and a breaking news report can be seen.  The father tells everyone to go to the car because there has been a biological weapon malfunction and they are in grave danger and must leave immediately. They start to leave the city and start to see that the weapon has already started to affect people. The weapon is designed to attack the nervous system and eat away at flesh. They are just about to reach the edge of the city, and just then the reality hits them.

The government has shut off all the exits from the city in an effort to contain to spread of the infection, but by doing this they sentence thousands of innocent healthy people to death including the family who now seem to have no way out.

This is the point in the film that the audience find out that the father in no ordinary citizen but in fact is a high ranking officer in the military. He tells his family that he has a way out for them and that they should all head to the port and he would use his rank to get them aboard a ship that would take them safely away from the city and out of the reach of the infection.

From this point in chaos ensues as there is a frantic battle for survival whilst the family are chased and picked off one by one by the infected but only the father survives. The father is left alone to make his battle through the city to get to safety. He is pursued through the city by hoards of the infected he must use whatever he can find to defend himself. Along the way he has a breakdown and is crying at the loss of his family, he says “it’s all my fault”. This is the point where the audience find out that it was the father’s fault that the weapon malfunctioned in the first place and consequently his fault for the loss of his family and the thousands of innocent people that are now infected. He manages to barricade himself inside an old church but this is a fatal mistake, he is soon surrounded by the infected. The infected manage to get in and he is now cornered. They start to move towards him. They rip him to pieces and his clothes and body parts can be seen flying through the air. The audience then find out that the whole film had in fact been the dream of the father. He wakes up in a cold sweat and fear on his face, he realises it was a dream and is relieved. But his problems aren’t over, as he finds out when he reports for his duties that morning. He had been assigned to do tests on a biological weapon, and then he realises his dream was about to became reality!

  

                                                                                                                                          Dan Ashton

Saving Private Ryan Trailer

I found this trailer for Saving Private Ryan interesting because it’s a film from my favourite genre (War) but also there is very little actual film used to produce it. Many still images from throughout the film are used alongside voice overs and inter-titles to create a very meaning full and high impact trailer.