Working Title – The Salesman

Genre – Horror

Duration – 5 minutes

Target Audience – 16-30 year old, prominently male audience. People who like horrors and ghost stories. Continue reading →

Idea 1 –

Synopsis: A man wakes up in the middle of nowhere, dirty and cold. He walks about, confused and stumbles upon a body lying on the floor. He inspects the body to find out that the person had been murdered. The man proceeds to walk around in close proximity to find out more, and finds some objects used to kill the body. Whilst the man is walking around, he stops for a moment, then turns round to see the killer behind him.

Style: The film will be non-linear, because there will be some scenes which happened in the past throughout the movie. It will be a single-stranded film, due to the fact there is only one story, and although there are different scenes, they are not different stories. This film will be open structured, as there will be no clonclusive ending.

Genre: Crime/Horror. The film will be a crime genre because it involves murder and criminal objects. It will also contain some of the horror genre because it will contain some greusome and scary scenes, with a jumpscare. Continue reading →

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What is a Screenplay?

A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or televisions program. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated.

Screenwriting Process

1. A company will hire a writer to write a script
2. Someone can write a screenplay and their agent can take it to the company
3. Someone can make a story, and someone else writes the screenplay
4. For Indie films, someone can send in a script they’ve made, but for bigger Hollywood films, you need to be asked or have an agent.

Language

How is the language of the description and dialogue in the screenplay used and what is the purpose? What does the description/dialogue suggest about… Continue reading →

Western Genre

Horror Genre

In this lesson, I created a movie poster on Photoshop for a movie called “The King Of The Desert”.I created this by taking images from the internet, cropping them and putting them together. I also got fonts online so that I could use suitable fonts for the film.

This task will require you to write a 1200 word report on a film text of your choosing. You must discuss these media concepts in relation to the film text in this report:

Micro-features:

• Mise-en-scene (150 words)
• Camerawork (150 words)
• Editing (150 words)
• Sound (150 words)

Macro-features:

• Genre (200 words)
• Narrative (100 words)

Media theory

• Employ the use of two different representation theories (choose from Tunstall, Connell and Alvarado’s theories) in relation to the film text (300 words)

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Theory 1: Semiotics (Roland Barthes)

• The idea that texts communicate their meanings through a process of signification
• The idea that signs can function at the level of denotation, which invloves the ‘literal’ or common sense meaning of the sign, and at the level of connotation, which invloves the meanings associated with or suggested by the sign.

Denotation – Literal meaning of the image.                                                                      Connotation – The emotion/representation of the image.                                                 Polysemic – Multiple meanings behind something.

Media Language: Textual Analysis Toolkit

Producers of Media Texts use technical and audio codes to create meaning and communicate ideas and messaged to the audience. This is called encoding.                       The audience then decodes these messages and respond to them in different ways. Continue reading →