Dictionary definition: A style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wlder
Usually includes hollywood crime dramas
Black and white
Crime fiction
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Monday, 9 October 2017
Steve Neale: Genre is instances of repetition and differences.
Conventions of the comedy genre is:
1. Genre & Convention of Comedy
2. Setting • a comedy sketch always occur in bright places. Location that are known for social events are often used.
3. Camerawork/shots • The camerawork used for most comedies, is naturalistic and the characters are filmed in a way that shows that no one is better.
4. Sound • Sound is important in the comedy genre. • Diegetic sound like the dialogue needs to be clear to make sure that it be can heard and laughed at • Non diegetic sound is also important, edited sound can be used to place emphasis on certain scenes
5. Lighting: • The lighting in is commonly bright or natural light, because this creates a realistic environment. Bright and happy colours are used to show that the scene is happy, The scenes are done in daylight.
6. Props • Props are very important in comedy; objects that may hurt a character is well know. Props are used in slapstick comedy because it is vital in slapstick comedy
7. Character Types • Idiotic people are usually used in contrast with a group of “normal” people, this shows the contrast of the personalities and emphasises the stupidity of the folly character. Also, above average intelligent people are used (such as Big Bang Theory), the comedy is emphasised because they are smart but very socially awkward and unaware of social boundaries with “normal” people. A common attribute within characters is sarcasm.
If i put Elliot from Mr Robot in another genre this is what would happen:
Teaser: Enters a stand up comedy competition to win a large cash sum and through out the competition steals peoples acts by hacking into there computer and now finds himself in the final, prior to the competition he hacks his main competitor and steals there ideas but when the show begins there is a mix up on the register and he goes on after his competitor, obviously he can't copy there act so ends up flopping and proving a laughing stock on national tv.
Day in the life: He goes out and tries to hide from people because he feels everyone is laughing at him. So When he goes out to go shops he put on a disguise as a clown but on his way he walks past a kids party and the parent says "he's here" before he can say no he finds himself in the middle of a children's party. Once again he doesn't know what he is doing so the kids all start to boo and run at him and start hitting him.
Premise: His life is then turned upside down when he feels he is useless and not appreciated in life. So he decides to make himself known by hacking into Isis before a ww3 starts.
Power: He is a hacker for a small time computing company. But believes he can be one of the best. This is when the American special service contact him about carrying out a job.
Fun: He flies out to Syria and it shows various clips of him trying to fit in to the lifestyle but as he is very clumsy it shows funny moments (e.g. falling off a camel).
Protagonist (leo Xander) is 18 and holds a super power to heal people, but when he heals them of a disease they come back as a hallucination. The main protagonist is himself as he has to decide wether the person is real or not.
Inciting moment: Hospital scene a child is pronounced dead in a hospital and when his parents are out of the room Leo goes in and saves the child who is suddenly alive again then Leo escapes without being notice.
Day in the life: He's at school and we see him getting bullied ( we see him staring at this girl he likes from a distance when he is barged out the way as his bully goes to talk to the girl). After school he walks home with the girl who he happens to like as he is telling her about getting bullied she tells him how life is not that and that she has a life threatening disease.
Premise: The protagonist's life is turned upside down when he finds out the girl he likes has a life threatening disease so he decides to further investigate what happened in the hospital.
Power: He's out late for a jog and a man gets run over in front of him the man that ran him over feels his pals when there is no heartbeat he drives off. Then Leo runs over and feels his pals then like in the hospital the man comes back alive and says "thanks Leo" Leo then replies " how do you know my name" so the man then quickly runs off.
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Thing link
Scenarios
1) Elliot is on his way to work, it is his birthday. When he does arrive at work they have all thrown him a party. This creates panic for Elliot as all the attention create him to create an excuse ( to go toilet) then he exits the party. His panic causes him to want drugs. Yet when he calls his dealers number there is no answer. This is when he runs to her house where he sees crowds of police and ambulances. All this panic causes Elliot to collapse.
2) He wakes in hospital with no knowledge of how. When he awakes his bed is surrounded by members of E corps. Who give him a decision between going with them or being taken away by the police, this is when he is presented of numerous photos of him taking drugs from the now dead drug dealer. This is when he goes with the E corps members who force him to hack into the mr robot association and tell them where they work.
3) He hacks into Angela's boyfriends phone and finds messages between him and the members of E-corps about how he's going to leak information about the compony he works for and how he's only with Angela for that purpose only. When Elliot confronts Angela and her boyfriend about this at there house he then calls Eliot delusional and says the only reason he's doing it is because he likes Angela, she doesn't believe Elliot, labels him as a bad friend and how she never wants to see him again.
A character arc is the transformation or inner journey of a character over the course of a story. If a story has a character arc, the character begins as one sort of person and gradually transforms into a different sort of person in response to changing developments in the story.
Arc for my character:
My character begins as a small time robber, with a difficult personal life. Due to these experiences such as him going in to prison and also seeing the struggle of his younger brother it adapts him and transforms him into a different character. At the start he values money and himself.
This creates him to have an inner conflict with himself to have a stronger mentality and be stronger for his younger brother.
Therefore his end goal is to get him and his brother away and therefore turns him into a violent and persistent person where he will not stop at anything to reach his goal. At the end we see him value his family over money and himself.
Appearance: Medium hight, usually wears tracksuits and has his hood up.
Strengths: Street wise.
Acts very grown up.
Makes his own money.
Quick at running.
Stealing.
weakness: His younger brother.
Abusive parents.
People after him because he steals.
Hates school.
shy, only socialises with his friends.
Doesn't show his emotion.
What do they want: For him and his younger brother to leave there town and look for a new life elsewhere also he wants to make loads of money before he leaves to live off with his bother.
Different scenarios:
1) The start of the story will begin with with an extreme long shot and land scape views of London. Then it would show various short clips accumpnied with fast music of groups of hooded males exchanging money and backpacks to represent what our main characters all about making money illegally on the streets. Then will begin with the main character wakeing his 8 year old brother up and a pov shot of his mum asleep (to represent he has to be a father figure to his brother) then he walks his brother to school they talk together about a dream to run away then he promises he will run away to his brother ( this is where we get our first goal and what our character wants). After it will show him walking down the road and seeing an unchained bike a couple of meters away from a gang of men, then he casually walks over then steals the bike and rides off. He is then persuid by the gang. After the main character ditches the bike and takes a bag which was on the bike and runs off, he is continued to be chased by the group. As an audience u witness a pov shot of him running through woodlend when he trips an then is pinched by one of the males in pursuit which is followed by a blackout.
2) Another scenario is he awakes in a grubby flat tied to a chair surrounded by men who look 20 to 25 the camera will show extreme close ups of the characters faces to represent there expressions. This is where we meet our main protagonist. Who is very similar to the main character as they both come from the same block of flats and have the same goal to make money. To his amazement (as he knows the man well and has the knowledge that he's the main drug dealer and most dangerous men in the area) he panics and apologies also realising the man knows his family, which is responded by laughter from the men. This is where he get our fist decision for the character, to carry out a dangerous job for them or as the protagonist knows his family he says his brother will get hurt which is the main weakness of the main character as a result he is left with no choice but to undergo this dangerous job.
I want to include a number of birds eye view shots of London to get across to the audience how small this character is in such a huge city, its also to show the enormity of the challenge for him to get out of his area.
3) Following this dangerous mission someone is stabbed and our main character is framed for the stabbing by this gang he is working for I want to show close ups of lips saying his name by the men he worked for. I want to follow his journey in prison with quick and short clips along with fast flowing rap music to show his whole time behind bars including scenes of him doing exercise and meeting new people. Eventually he meets two men and they produce a plan so when they leave prison, he will once again rob the men that framed him but for huge sums of money that he knows the protagonist has locked in a safe in his apartment. We then see him coming out of prison and we get a pov shot of him staring at his brother from a distance being shouted at by his mum outside the school gates and his brothers face being marked with bruises. Following the earlier knowledge that his mum is not capable to wake up her son we now get a picture after this scene that she is not fit to be a mother. Then we get faced with a flashback of him saying to his brother at the start how he promised they were going to run away. This is then met by a black screen then motivational music of him and these three men applying masks to there faces and putting guns in there pockets stood around a car on a high top building in London. This indicates that the mission is about to take place.
4) For the last scene after he's completed the stealing of the money I want him to take his mask off and show his face to the protagonist in slow motion and there to be a close up of his face with the same music that played when he was in prison to show how far he has come. This will represent they both wanted the same thing money but the non sterio typical hero comes out on top. For the last moments of the story I want to show him kicking down his front door and taking his brother, this final part of the series will then be him and his brother together on a coach heading to a new future then the final zoom out shot and the final birds eye view of London with once again the same music.
Today we explored making a non diegetic sounds that could be introduced into a movie and still pictures to create an effect. As well as that I have created a story board including a backing piece of music that fits the scene:
The clips make up a scene of a man running from a group of people, I have created sounds to build up the suspense as he runs representing a pov shot of him running through the woods. The character falls and is then caught and punched by the people pursuing him. Then the music slows down as he has a black out which builds suspense for what is to come next after he has been punched. The watcher is nervous as to where the character will wake up.
