Saturday 15 December 2012

Analysis of the opening sequence "Blade"

The opening titles of Blade are written in red which represents danger. At the beginning of the opening sequence a woman is rushed into hospital with blood excessively coming out her neck, vampires typically attack the neck because it is an easy target. The scene is set at night time which is a convention of vampire films and the two characters go to a club. Blood comes out of the water sprinklers and then the vampires are surrounding the human male, they begin to show him their fangs and their is a close up of a vampire with piercing blue eyes which allows the audience to identify the vampire. In the opening sequence there is a lot of blood, this represents what vampires are and what they eat, just as if it were a human party, water would come out, the vampires see blood as normal.
The human in this scene is male and he is lead by a vampire female, usually males are seen as the dominant figure but because she is a vampire it suggests that vampires are dominant over humans.

I don't really know what else to type right now because I don't want to repeat myself but yeah.


Favourite pitches + my ideal role

I really liked Ells' pitch - from the way she presented it although she didn't want to, she was very confident and had a clear idea of what she would want her opening scene to include. I thought the idea of using teen girls, like our group of friends was a good idea because we'd want to complete a bucket list together so that made me like it even more - because the storyline was simple there could be adaptations to the opening scene if there were ideas to make it better. The only difficulty that would occur would be to establish Paris, but in last lesson me and Ells decided that the location could be changed to London.

I liked Charley's idea too, my bbz, because I thought she had a really good idea of how the opening sequence would be and I liked the idea of them meeting the the woods but you'd see the daily lives of each character to begin with.

The roles I'd prefer to do would be things behind the camera so being the producer - I'm pretty organised.

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Vampire Horror Film Synopsis

Having to move away from London because her mother had a job upgrade Imogen was settling in, in her new home in the South of France. Her mother being a fashion designer was never home so Imogen had the freedom to do whatever she wanted as long as she kept her school grades up. One night walking down her drive she saw the boy who lived next door, she started small talk with him and there conversation began to flow. They started to hang out together every day for three months and then Tom just blew her off with no explanation just that he wasn't interested. One night Imogen had enough and was bored having no homework and wasn't really close with anyone else from school, she went over to Tom’s house and climbed through his bedroom window that he had previously told her to climb through if he wasn't in; on Tom’s desk was a book that he told her she could never look inside, it was open so Imogen being a typical girl looked through it, unfortunately for Imogen she found out something she’d be better off not knowing… Tom lived off blood…human blood. He was a vampire.

Monday 19 November 2012

Director Research

Steven Spielberg

- American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer and studio entrepreneur.
- He is considered one of the most popular in influential in the history of cinema.
- He covers many themes and genres.
- Focuses on history.
- Films directed :
- Jaws
- E.T
- Schindlers List
-Low height camera tracking shot




Quentin Tarantino 

- American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
- Received Golden Globe, BAFTA, Emmy and Grammy Awards.
- Films directed :
-Kill Bill
-Sin City (special guest)
-My Best Friend's Birthday
- Film style - bursting with energy
Different sense of humour in each film.







Charlie Chaplin


- English comic actor, director and composer.
- Use of mime, slapstick.
- His mother was his first influence.
- Use of improvisation.
- Sympathetic light to portray poor and outcasts.
- Received Academy Awards and has a Hollywood walk of fame.
Films directed:
-The Great Dictator
- The Gold Rush
                                                               - A woman of Paris.