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Forms and conventions of related media products
Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix
Release date: 12 July 2007
Box office: 939.9 million USD
Budget: 150 million USD
Poster
Magazine
Release date: 12 July 2007
Box office: 939.9 million USD
Budget: 150 million USD
Poster
Magazine
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZW7KXaXYk
Camera shots - At the beginning of the trailer there are lots of close ups of main protagonists. This is so the audience can properly look at the facial expressions in detail of the main protagonists, the facial expressions at the start of the trailer are full fear. There are not many establishing shots in the trailer, which does not show the change of locations in the film. This gives a sense of mystery on where the main protagonists are going in the movie. As special effects and CGI are used in the production of Harry Potter, camera shots needed and have been thought thoroughly so they look realistic. For example the tracking crane shot of the two Weasley brothers on broomsticks flying through the main hall causing trouble. This camera for this camera shot is placed in front of the two actors so the audience can look at the destruction left behind.
Sound - Throughout the trailer the diegetic and non-diegetic sound matches the shots. For example at the start of the film, the dialogue from one of the main characters says "theres a storm coming Harry" then goes on to say "just like last time." When the dialogue of "theres a storm coming Harry" the black screen cuts to two establishing shots of the storm. Then when the non diegetic dialogue says "just like last time" the shots become flash backs of what happened in the past. Also when the shots of flash backs the sound changes to diegetic sounds out screaming, which suggests that Harry Potter who is the main character can remembers the event very well.
Editing - For the first 15 seconds of when the trailer begins there is a very fast soundtrack which is matched with the fast paced continuity editing.
Ride Along 2
Release date: 22 January 2016 Box office: 124.6 million USD Budget: 40 million USD
Poster
Magazine
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWfmmwdCHTg
Camera shots - The first shot of the trailer is an establishing shot of a city with high rise buildings. To Ride Along film fans who have watched the Ride Along 1 trailer this is a noticeable difference that supports the selling line of the official trailer of "training day is over." The Ride Along 1 film trailer began with a video game that suggests inexperience in real life and the film could be a joke like the first scene of the trailer. However in the Ride Along 2 film it starts with an establishing shot of a major city which suggests more experience and hopefully more action. About half-way through the film trailer, camera angles have been used to show dominance between characters. This can be seen when the smaller of the two characters, who is played by Kevin Hart, has high angle shots when he is speaking to the character, James Payton as he has less power. Towards the end of the trailer, fats continently editing is used when the sound starts to have a faster beat and more action is in the shots, so that the audiences attention stays with the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWfmmwdCHTg
Camera shots - The first shot of the trailer is an establishing shot of a city with high rise buildings. To Ride Along film fans who have watched the Ride Along 1 trailer this is a noticeable difference that supports the selling line of the official trailer of "training day is over." The Ride Along 1 film trailer began with a video game that suggests inexperience in real life and the film could be a joke like the first scene of the trailer. However in the Ride Along 2 film it starts with an establishing shot of a major city which suggests more experience and hopefully more action. About half-way through the film trailer, camera angles have been used to show dominance between characters. This can be seen when the smaller of the two characters, who is played by Kevin Hart, has high angle shots when he is speaking to the character, James Payton as he has less power. Towards the end of the trailer, fats continently editing is used when the sound starts to have a faster beat and more action is in the shots, so that the audiences attention stays with the trailer.
Sound - The first minute and a half is just diegetic sound, which is predominantly dialogue that tells parts of the story line of the film. However the last part of the trailer, non-diegtic sound and sound bridges have been used used to give a more upbeat mood to the trailer as this is the part which the most amount of action is.
Editing - The first part of the trailer has lots of dialogue as it tells parts of the film, so fewer amounts of editing have been used because the scenes are long compared to the shots at the end. The start of the trailer is different to the end as the sound is more faster which means the editing becomes fast as there is more action, that entices the audience to go and watch the film.
Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Final narrative
Name of film - TBD
Synopsis - A group of teens are in their last year of sixth from. They decide to rob some shops to finance university. But Luke ends up getting arrested for a year. At the end of his sentence they all meet up for a card game to welcome Luke back from prison, eventually they decide to rob a bank. The aftermath of the heist they all turn on each other after realising that there is a undercover police officer. It leads to a chase and a gun fight. Ultimately the officer survives and the gang leader gets sent to a mental institution.
Characters
Luke - He went to prison so that the others get away with the crime. His codename is the Jack of diamonds. He is friends with Tom and is why he is involved in the gang.
Rachel - She is the girlfriend of Tom and has been involved in the gang since they got together. She is the Queen of hearts.
Tom - He is the gang leader and arranged all these crimes. He believes he is ahead of the Police and will never be caught. He is the King of Hearts
Mike - he is Toms younger brother who is good with computers and is able to hack computers to ensure they don't get caught. his code name is the Ace of Spades
Zack - He was a friend of the group for a long time and was one of the first to get involved. His code name is the Jack of Spades
Will - he is an undercover cop who gained Luke's trust whilst they were in prison. Will isn't accepted by the group until Luke vouches for him. He is nicknamed the Red Jack
Detective smith - he is the officer who sent Will undercover as he thinks he can get them arrested. He is authoritative and doesn't like the group as they are all young criminals.
Equilibrium
It starts with the majority of the gang sat around a table playing poker, laughing as they have not met up in a year properly when they hear a car pull up. Then Luke arrives and everyone greets him and are happy to see him. Then he is followed by Will who is met with hostility as they don't know him or trust him. Luke vouches for him and they decide to trust Will and they continue with their game of Poker. This then leads to a convocation about how they are all struggling with debts and student loans as they haven't done any robberies since Luke was arrested.
This would then lead to a montage of them robbing shops and stores as they reminisce about the robberies. They then start to say they should do it again and whilst they are away from their universities they should do a few robberies to help them out. Then Tom decides that they should rob a bank. It then cuts to them finishing off their plan and running through it one last time.
Disequilibrium
Then it cuts to the aftermath of the heist and they are walking out of the bank when they suddenly hear Police sirens and the group all split up and agree to meet back at the safe house. It then shows most of them back at the safe house, with all the money they have stolen on the table. However, they realise that Rachel, Jack and Will are missing. They then realise that they have been arrested when Will arrives and tells them. Then Tom is very angry as his girlfriend and Brother have been arrested. Zach then gets very nervous and grabs some off them money and sprints to the door to leave when Tom shoots him. He then says that he knows that Zach was the mole as he believes that he had told the police everything. They then agree to meet up back there in a few days when they are sure its safe that they wont be arrested, they all agree to leave at different times and go in different directions. Will is the first to leave but he decides to hide to wait for Tom. This is when it is revealed that he was in fact the mole. He then decides to phone up Detective Smith and he let them know of his location and that he is going to lead them to Tom so they can arrest him.
Next to leave is Luke who is in a car with Zach's body so he can hide it. As he drives away Will reads the number plate to Detective Smith. A short while later Tom finally leaves and starts walking through town with will following him. After a while Tom notices that he is being followed by Will. This then leads to them having a wild chase. The chase ends in a car park where Will has Tom cornered as Police sirens are getting louder whilst they are speaking.
New Equilibrium
After a long argument between the two, Tom pulls out a gun and is about to shoot Will when you hear a door swing open and you see that Detective Smith comes around the corner and is able to shoot Tom before he shoots Will. It then shows Detective Smith and Will speaking together as the other police officers leave and detective Smith lets Will know that they arrested everyone other than Tom and that Will had done well whilst undercover.
Propp's 7 character types
Hero - At first the audience may think that Tom is the hero of this film but when they realise that Will is a officer they may see him as the hero, but ultimately it doesn't have a specific hero and is subjective.
Villain - At first they may think that it is Zach as they are led to believe he was the mole or they may see it as Tom as he killed his friend or due to the fact that he tried to kill Will when he knows that he was in fact the Mole.
Princess - This doesn't apply to this film
Princess' Father - This doesn't apply to this film
The Magical Helper - This doesn't apply to this film
The Donor - This could be seen as Luke as he gets arrested to prevent the other members of the group from getting arrested.
The Dispatcher - This doesn't apply to this film
Levi-Strauss and Binary Opposites
Good vs Evil - This can be seen from the conflict between the police and the gang as the gang are criminals as they rob a bank and the police officers are trying to prevent that. However, this narrative isn't that straight forward as the audience may want to sympathise with the gangs motives for robbing this bank.
Young vs Old - This is evident as the gang is comprised of students who are at university where as the police are older people. As the gang are against the police it shows that its young vs old.
Enigma codes
Characters
Luke - He went to prison so that the others get away with the crime. His codename is the Jack of diamonds. He is friends with Tom and is why he is involved in the gang.
Rachel - She is the girlfriend of Tom and has been involved in the gang since they got together. She is the Queen of hearts.
Tom - He is the gang leader and arranged all these crimes. He believes he is ahead of the Police and will never be caught. He is the King of Hearts
Mike - he is Toms younger brother who is good with computers and is able to hack computers to ensure they don't get caught. his code name is the Ace of Spades
Zack - He was a friend of the group for a long time and was one of the first to get involved. His code name is the Jack of Spades
Will - he is an undercover cop who gained Luke's trust whilst they were in prison. Will isn't accepted by the group until Luke vouches for him. He is nicknamed the Red Jack
Detective smith - he is the officer who sent Will undercover as he thinks he can get them arrested. He is authoritative and doesn't like the group as they are all young criminals.
Equilibrium
It starts with the majority of the gang sat around a table playing poker, laughing as they have not met up in a year properly when they hear a car pull up. Then Luke arrives and everyone greets him and are happy to see him. Then he is followed by Will who is met with hostility as they don't know him or trust him. Luke vouches for him and they decide to trust Will and they continue with their game of Poker. This then leads to a convocation about how they are all struggling with debts and student loans as they haven't done any robberies since Luke was arrested.
This would then lead to a montage of them robbing shops and stores as they reminisce about the robberies. They then start to say they should do it again and whilst they are away from their universities they should do a few robberies to help them out. Then Tom decides that they should rob a bank. It then cuts to them finishing off their plan and running through it one last time.
Disequilibrium
Then it cuts to the aftermath of the heist and they are walking out of the bank when they suddenly hear Police sirens and the group all split up and agree to meet back at the safe house. It then shows most of them back at the safe house, with all the money they have stolen on the table. However, they realise that Rachel, Jack and Will are missing. They then realise that they have been arrested when Will arrives and tells them. Then Tom is very angry as his girlfriend and Brother have been arrested. Zach then gets very nervous and grabs some off them money and sprints to the door to leave when Tom shoots him. He then says that he knows that Zach was the mole as he believes that he had told the police everything. They then agree to meet up back there in a few days when they are sure its safe that they wont be arrested, they all agree to leave at different times and go in different directions. Will is the first to leave but he decides to hide to wait for Tom. This is when it is revealed that he was in fact the mole. He then decides to phone up Detective Smith and he let them know of his location and that he is going to lead them to Tom so they can arrest him.
Next to leave is Luke who is in a car with Zach's body so he can hide it. As he drives away Will reads the number plate to Detective Smith. A short while later Tom finally leaves and starts walking through town with will following him. After a while Tom notices that he is being followed by Will. This then leads to them having a wild chase. The chase ends in a car park where Will has Tom cornered as Police sirens are getting louder whilst they are speaking.
New Equilibrium
After a long argument between the two, Tom pulls out a gun and is about to shoot Will when you hear a door swing open and you see that Detective Smith comes around the corner and is able to shoot Tom before he shoots Will. It then shows Detective Smith and Will speaking together as the other police officers leave and detective Smith lets Will know that they arrested everyone other than Tom and that Will had done well whilst undercover.
Propp's 7 character types
Hero - At first the audience may think that Tom is the hero of this film but when they realise that Will is a officer they may see him as the hero, but ultimately it doesn't have a specific hero and is subjective.
Villain - At first they may think that it is Zach as they are led to believe he was the mole or they may see it as Tom as he killed his friend or due to the fact that he tried to kill Will when he knows that he was in fact the Mole.
Princess - This doesn't apply to this film
Princess' Father - This doesn't apply to this film
The Magical Helper - This doesn't apply to this film
The Donor - This could be seen as Luke as he gets arrested to prevent the other members of the group from getting arrested.
The Dispatcher - This doesn't apply to this film
Levi-Strauss and Binary Opposites
Good vs Evil - This can be seen from the conflict between the police and the gang as the gang are criminals as they rob a bank and the police officers are trying to prevent that. However, this narrative isn't that straight forward as the audience may want to sympathise with the gangs motives for robbing this bank.
Young vs Old - This is evident as the gang is comprised of students who are at university where as the police are older people. As the gang are against the police it shows that its young vs old.
Enigma codes
This will be the mystery of who is the mole in the group. Later on after Tom kills Zach the audience will think why was Zach the mole and why did he turn on the group. Finally when it is revealed that Will is actually the mole then the codes will be who is going to survive as there is a long suspenseful chase.
Notes for the art of the modern movie trailer
Ways to transfix the audience apart from using quick edits?
- The turn line - When the music drops out for dialogue. This makes a hard turn for action, comedy or big music.
- The rise - Often follows the turn line and is the build up to the finale in the trailer.
- Hits - Its the fast beat and "boom" sounds that pumps the audience up.
- The button - This is the scare or joke that comes straight after the man title and is also used to end the trailer.
Soundtrack?
By using a soundtrack which the audience recognises, "it works every time" says John Long, a co-founder of an LA trailer production company.
An example of this was when the 2015 movie, Spectre had a well-known artist called Sam Smith make a song which was used for the films' official song as-well as been used in the official trailer.
By having a soundtrack that pushes the right emotional buttons, it can play with emotions of the audience. These emotions can begin with a feeling inspired at the start of the film to feeling heartbroken at the end. Many trailer production companies look at the film called "The David Gale" film on how they accomplished playing with the audiences mind.
Length of the trailer?
From the easier examples of trailers to the present day have changed a lot in terms of how long the trailer is. The "average length of a shot in a film have been shrinking every single year" which is down to "audiences absorb information faster" so by making a shorter trailer which gives about the same amount of information about the film but also keeps the audiences attention.
It is easier to make longer trailer than it is to make a shorter one.
By using a soundtrack which the audience recognises, "it works every time" says John Long, a co-founder of an LA trailer production company.
An example of this was when the 2015 movie, Spectre had a well-known artist called Sam Smith make a song which was used for the films' official song as-well as been used in the official trailer.
By having a soundtrack that pushes the right emotional buttons, it can play with emotions of the audience. These emotions can begin with a feeling inspired at the start of the film to feeling heartbroken at the end. Many trailer production companies look at the film called "The David Gale" film on how they accomplished playing with the audiences mind.
Length of the trailer?
From the easier examples of trailers to the present day have changed a lot in terms of how long the trailer is. The "average length of a shot in a film have been shrinking every single year" which is down to "audiences absorb information faster" so by making a shorter trailer which gives about the same amount of information about the film but also keeps the audiences attention.
It is easier to make longer trailer than it is to make a shorter one.
Saturday, 9 September 2017
Narrative outlines
Home by nine
Propps theory
Characters
Hero - Matt - A rich school boy who is the one one catches the killer.
Villian - Killer - This is the masked person who try and succeed to kill the school boys.
Joe - Is also attends a private school but is the
Rory - Is the Dad of Matt and is very worried when he don't come home at nine.
Killer - This is the masked person who try and succeed to kill the school boys.
Janet - Is the police detective for unsolved crimes
Todorov's 5 stages
Equilibrium
Six rich school friends play football in a park that is directly next to a cemetery. Everyone is happy as they have all just broke up for the half-term and are talking about where they are going on holiday. Just five minutes after playing there football gam, Rory has a shot on goal which completely misses there make shift goal of two school blazers and flys across the cemetery fence into the cemetery. As the time was ten to nine and they had to be back at nine o'clock, three out of the five decided not to get the ball. Therefore leaving Rory and Matt to as the thought to quickly collect the ball.
Recognition
As they got closer to the big iron gates a scream came from near a big oak tree that was directly in the middle of the cemetery. This made Rory and Matt even more determined to get through the small gap at the bottom of the wooden fence ether side of the gate that surrounded the whole of the cemetery. Just twenty metres from the fence where they got in, a dark shadow could be seen to more to the other entrance on the right hand side of the cemetery.
Disequilibrium
As the ball was near the tree the two school boys went even closer to the wear the dark figure ran away from a men, aged around thirty left on the floor with blood pouring out of her chest and lower face.
Repair
She screamed "help" and by following her orders the boys ran without there ball, towards the gate of which the attacker left. Then as they was getting closer they could see a tall white male with a knife covered in blood stranded under a street light, under the entrance sign to the cemetery saying, "welcome." Immediately after seeing this Rory picked up a short thick metal pole off the floor, that could have been left there years ago. As Matt was a lot quicker and stronger, Rory gave the blunt metal object to Matt. Matt then sprinted at the 6ft man but being as quiet as he could because the attackers back was turned to him. Then with two metres between the Matt and the attacker, Matt jumped and with one swing of the pole, he hit the man on the back of the head. Which then made the attacker to drop to the floor and releasing the knife of which lands about a metre of where he fell.
New equilibrium
As the police station was twenty seconds away from their entrance, Matt told Rory to go to the station and tell them what happened. A minute went by of just Matt on his own with a 6ft potential murder, then four police cars came racing down the main road. Then the police arrested the man and then a small police detective said "we've been trying to catch this man for months, thank you."
Barthes theory
This narrative is a closed narrative. This is down to that Matt and Rory nowhere the killer went so the audience know where how Matt was going to catch him.
Wrong place at the wrong time
Good vs. bad
Time
Time is linear as everything is in order and there are no montages or flashbacks to manipulate time.
Propps theory
Characters
Hero - Matt - A rich school boy who is the one one catches the killer.
Villian - Killer - This is the masked person who try and succeed to kill the school boys.
Joe - Is also attends a private school but is the
Rory - Is the Dad of Matt and is very worried when he don't come home at nine.
Killer - This is the masked person who try and succeed to kill the school boys.
Janet - Is the police detective for unsolved crimes
Todorov's 5 stages
Equilibrium
Six rich school friends play football in a park that is directly next to a cemetery. Everyone is happy as they have all just broke up for the half-term and are talking about where they are going on holiday. Just five minutes after playing there football gam, Rory has a shot on goal which completely misses there make shift goal of two school blazers and flys across the cemetery fence into the cemetery. As the time was ten to nine and they had to be back at nine o'clock, three out of the five decided not to get the ball. Therefore leaving Rory and Matt to as the thought to quickly collect the ball.
Recognition
As they got closer to the big iron gates a scream came from near a big oak tree that was directly in the middle of the cemetery. This made Rory and Matt even more determined to get through the small gap at the bottom of the wooden fence ether side of the gate that surrounded the whole of the cemetery. Just twenty metres from the fence where they got in, a dark shadow could be seen to more to the other entrance on the right hand side of the cemetery.
Disequilibrium
As the ball was near the tree the two school boys went even closer to the wear the dark figure ran away from a men, aged around thirty left on the floor with blood pouring out of her chest and lower face.
Repair
She screamed "help" and by following her orders the boys ran without there ball, towards the gate of which the attacker left. Then as they was getting closer they could see a tall white male with a knife covered in blood stranded under a street light, under the entrance sign to the cemetery saying, "welcome." Immediately after seeing this Rory picked up a short thick metal pole off the floor, that could have been left there years ago. As Matt was a lot quicker and stronger, Rory gave the blunt metal object to Matt. Matt then sprinted at the 6ft man but being as quiet as he could because the attackers back was turned to him. Then with two metres between the Matt and the attacker, Matt jumped and with one swing of the pole, he hit the man on the back of the head. Which then made the attacker to drop to the floor and releasing the knife of which lands about a metre of where he fell.
New equilibrium
As the police station was twenty seconds away from their entrance, Matt told Rory to go to the station and tell them what happened. A minute went by of just Matt on his own with a 6ft potential murder, then four police cars came racing down the main road. Then the police arrested the man and then a small police detective said "we've been trying to catch this man for months, thank you."
Barthes theory
This narrative is a closed narrative. This is down to that Matt and Rory nowhere the killer went so the audience know where how Matt was going to catch him.
Wrong place at the wrong time
Propp's theory
Hero - Liam
Villian - The unknown psychopath murderer
Helper - Ellis
Princess - Amy / Ellie
Dispatcher - Ellies mom but it was too late
Donor - Ellis as his tripod is used Liam to stop the killer
False hero - n/a
Todorov's theory
Equilibrium
Four school friends in Sutton park, who are trying to trying to capture land scape photos for there school project. Is was about 5 o'clock when the bright orange sun was starting to set very slowly with the reflection across the lake. It was a lovely clear and warm early evening, seemingly. ideal for the type of pictures they needed to capture.
Recognition
The group were busy taking photos when all of a sudden Ellis was aware of the sound of
a sharp snap of a branch as if someone was behind him. Ellis turned around, to see no one was there. Then Amy says "what's wrong with you" in reply Ellis told Amy "I heard a noise, thinking someone was there". Amy laughed and said "you wimp".
Everyone started talking and began taking further photos, Ellis was lining up his position for his next picture when again heard the crack of someone snapping something under foot he turned his head trying to focus on his camera but with his eyes darting about looking for anyone that might be there, but not seeing anyone. Ellis turned his attention to his camera to capture the sun disappearing before he lost the chance of good photos. He felt a cold chill that made him shiver but the air was still but he realised the leaves were blowing up swirling around and around making strange rustling noises the branches of the trees were swaying making thrashing noises no one else seen to notice but the noise was getting louder. Ellis was standing transfixed expecting someone to appear, the others of the group were still taking photos oblivious to Ellis.
Ellie's phone began to bleep with text messages but she was busy taking the shots of the sun sinking further down. Ellie only noticed her phone when it started to ring. On the phone Ellie's mom on the phone saying to come home straight away as there was a mad psychopath murderer on the loose heading towards the park.
Disequilibrium
At that moment something came out behind the bushes heading toward the group of youngsters lashing out at them. They did not realise they were being attacked or what they were being attacked by as it was so quick. The attacker was brandishing a knife he was reigning knife wounds on the four youngsters, he was waving his arms in all directions inflicting cuts on all of them, blood was pouring from wounds from all of them, they were all panicking, screaming, shouting, the girls were crying. Liam and Ellis who both were knocked to the floor half conscious loosing so much blood.
Repair
Liam tried to concentrate on seeing where the crazy man was. When he thought the man was going to attack the girls he managed to spot ellis's tripod he without thinking of the consequences or even the pain he was in grabbed it and swung it at the legs of the man who went flying as he lost his balance falling banging his head on a rock landing with a thud on the ground.
New equilibrium
Ellis found his phone that had fallen to the ground and then called 999.
Levi-strauss
Male vs. female
The two male characters are the ones to try and stop the killer when the female character are left on the floor and are helpless.
Good vs. bad
The teenagers are the "good" characters as they are minding there own business and not causing trouble. Then the attacker is the "bad" character as he attacked the students.
Time
Time is linear as everything is in order and there are no montages or flashbacks to manipulate time.
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