Sunday 9 January 2011

Tecniques for main task

I have chosen to film and base the plot on the movie flightplan.

Here is some tecniques I will try to incorporate in my filming use din the movie flightplan:

Jodie Foster as Kyle and Erika Christensen as Fiona in Touchstone Pictures' acti... Here the main character (pictured in black) is worrying that she has lost her daughter, when the air hostess is insisting that she was on board alone, the main character looks distant, this is the type of shot I would like to have.

Main Media Task

In the opening title sequence of my film I will show a pan shot of the park in which I am filming , I chose this because I feel that it would create suspense and confusion which is an element of the thriller genre.

Representation of :
Genre: I will use conventionsof a thriller by using quick camera angles/shots and use of chilling music.
Gender: In the piece of filming I will have the child which is a young boy and the female is the mum. This is very stereotypical because the children are generally always with their mum.

Audience

The target audience I feel that my thriller would appeal to is people in their early 20's or older. I think this because the whole plot is about a child going mising and it is generally a parent's worst nightmare and so I feel in this age catagory, that the audience would empathise with the plot and for the characters.

Camera angles and shots:
The camera angles that I would use are : close up to capture the emotion of the main character,
point of view so that the audience would see the same thing as the character at the same time.
I would also use zoom and long shots and also I would pan.

Costume:
for the boy : normal casual, outdoor winter clothes.
for the mum: normal casual,outdoor winter clothes.
for the passer by : normal casual , outdoor winter clothes.
I have chosen to keep all of the costumes casual because they would all blend in to seem as if everything is normal so it would be more of an impact when we learn that clearly it is not, it is far from normal.

Location: The location that I will be filming in is a park.

Wednesday 5 January 2011

My ideas for media task :Thriller

My main ideas for my media piece is a short film in the style of the movie "Flightplan". It will feature a Boy in a park with his mum,the boy would be on a swing and then when the mum would look round she sees that her boy is not there ; just an empty swing. However when the mum is frantically searching for her son passers by tell her she was in the park all alone. She starts to question herself until she spots her sons scooter in the middle of the path and knows it wasn't in her head. Why were the people telling her that she was wrong and is there more that meets the eye?

Location :park / woodland area
props : scooter
costume: normal outdoor clothes coats etc.

However this idea may change because of time restrictions for participants and I may not be able to carry out this idea in this setting but I have a back up idea which I will post.