Evaluation

Storyboard

Metz's Theory applied to Romantic Comedy

Expermimental

The Awful Truth (1937)
City Lights (1931)
Holiday (1938)

Classic/Classical

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
That Touch of Mink (1962)
The Apartment (1960)

Parody

Date Movie
Something About Mary
Not Another Teen Movie
American Pie

Deconstruction

Enchanted
Miss Congeniality

Christian Metz: Theory Of Genre Development

Metz believed that genre develops through four stages:

• Experimental - Bulding blocks for future horrors to go by. Early stages of horror setting up the general codes and conventions of the horror genre.
  
• Classic/Classical - Movies that have followed the general guidelines set out in the experimental stage.
  
• Parody - Movies that mock the genre, usually turned into comedy.
  
• Deconstruction - Movies that pick that take codes and conventions from the Horror and Thriller genre and combine them into one movie
  

These horror films:

• Se7en
• Frankenstein
• Dracula
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Sixth Sense
• Carry On Screaming
• Nosferatu
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Scary Movie
• Abbot + Costello Meet Frankenstein
• Scream

Are all classed to be of the Horror Genre. Metz classified these into the four different stages of Genre Development.

Experimental

• Nosferatu
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Classical

• Dracula
• Frankenstein

Parody

• Carry On Screaming
• Abbot + Costello Meet Frankenstein

Deconstruction

• Se7en
• Scream
• The Sixth Sense
• The Blair Witch Project

2007 Top 10 Horrors!!!

Top 10 Horror Movies of all time:

• The Exorcist - Directed: William Friedkin
  Budget: $12,000,000
  Grossed: $441,071,011
  
• Alien - Directed: Ridley Scott
  Budget: $11,000,000
  Grossed: $104,931,801
  
• Dawn Of The Dead - Directed: George A. Romero
  Budget: $650,000
  Grossed: $55,000,000
  
• Halloween - Directed: John Carpenter
  Budget: $325,000
  Grossed: $150,000,000
  
• Night of the Living Dead - Directed: Dean Lachiusa & George A. Romero
  Budget: $114,000
  Grossed: $30,000,000
  
• The Shining - Directed: Stanley Kubrick
  Budget: $22,000,000
  Grossed: $64,984,856
  
• A Nightmare on Elm Street - Directed: Wes Craven
  Budget: $1,800,000
  Grossed: $25,504,513
  
• Psycho - Directed: Alfred Hitchcock
  Budget: $806,947
  Grossed: $32,000,000
  
• Dead Alive - Directed: Peter Jackson
  Budget: $3,000,000
  Grossed: $242,623
  
• Friday the 13th - Directed: Sean S. Cunningham
  Budget: $550,000
  Grossed: $59,700,000
  

Location Location

On Location at Sandhills, Walsall Wood

UnNatural First Look

On December 6th 2008 Me (Sam Cooper), Sam Wilson and Danny Jones went on a trip to the Sandhills, Walsall Wood Near Aldridge. This was a very successful day as whilst we were there we completely scrapped our original idea and managed to get a new improved idea. We took some photographs of the locations we are hoping to use which gave us a general idea of the shots we are going to use.

We encountered problems while we were there which encouraged us and helped us to improve and change the storyboard and script.Both the old and new story boards are shown on the Blog.

By exploring our locations we are now happy as a group and starting to decide what the best Camera angles, shots and editing techniques will be the best fit our Horror opening sequence.

Preliminary Task

We were asked to film a two minute sequence as preliminary project for our foundation portfolio just to get us used to using the cameras and using different shots. We were asked to include:

Shot-Reverse-Shot
Match On Action
Exchanging of an Object
A Door Opening
A Handshake

Working in a group with Danny Jones and Josh Lloyd we managed to perform and film a good quality project. We started off with our Stunt Coordinator “Me” driving onto the car park using a pan to follow the car round. We then cut to Danny exiting the car and dropping a cigarette, there was then a slow tilt up to his face to blow out the smoke. There was then a close up of Danny’s hand punching in the code to the door and a match on action of him opening the door and walking through it.

We then included a hand held shot from the top of the stairs as Danny walked up them which looked very effective and was then pointed out to us it was in the style of Luc Besson (Leon)

A shot of the back of the josh and a slow zoom as he spun on the chair worked very well and then a slow pan of Danny walking across the room looked very effective. A very well timed shot reverse shot finished off the short film as the handover was made between Danny and Josh.

10 Things I Hate About You

Director - Gil Lunger

Starring - Heath Ledger, Larissa Oleynik, Julia Stiles, Andrew Keeghan

Genre: Romantic Comedy

• Credits - Look Scribbled
  
• Non-Diegetic Music (Bare Naked Ladies - One Week)
  
• High School Kids
  
• Rebellious Teens
  
• Hockey - American
  
• High School
  
• New Kid - Moves A lot - Geeky
  
• Counsellor Typing sexual story, Swearing - Unexpected - Comedy

• Rebellious Guy and Girl - Shows Match at beginning
  
• Slow Motion as main actress girl walks passed main lad - Couple that will have to work for relationship
  
• Vanity
  
• Protective Father.

• Close Ups - Introducing Characters
  
• Almost Narrated by character introducing new kid to the school.