Monday, 27 March 2017

Genre Conventions

L/O: To explore genre codes & conventions

War

Genre Conventions
Guns
Explosions
Tanks
Helicopters
Jets
Men
Gun Sound Effects
Something Goes Wrong
People Die

Directors
Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
Peter Berg - Lone Survivor
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan

Movie Stars
Tom Hardy
William Fichtner
Ewan McGregor

Movie Posters
Props: Gun, Helicopter.
Setting: Dark, Minimalistic
Setting: Shadow, Dark

Teen Appeals
I think teenagers would like Letters From Iwo Jima because it has a lot of story and action.

Five Ingredients
Guns
Explosions
Tanks
Men
Grenades

Social Issues
Black Hawk Down and Lone Survivor shows the truth of war and how it really is in modern day situation, covering areas like terrorism.



Recipe For War Trailer

Ingredients:
A Main Soldier Character
A Main Terrorist Villain Of Some Sort
Guns
Armoured Vehicles
Explosions
A Middle East Setting
A Problem
A Time Limit
Dramatic Music

Method:
Take some soldiers and the main soldier guy and send them on an operation to extract Osama Bin Laden from an apartment complex and then it turns out that Osama Bin Laden is hanging around in the sewers with the ninja turtles and attempts to nuke the apartment complex in the sahara desert.

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Film Genre

L/O: To explore the concept of film genre.


  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Action
  • Sci-Fi
  • Thriller
  • Romance
  • Crime
  • Musical
  • Fantasy
  • Adventure
  • Animation
  • Western
  • Mystery
  • Documentary
  • Teen
  • War
  • Noire

Hybrid = Combination Of Two Or More Genres e.g. Rom-Com.

Sub Genre = A way of classifying types of film within a genre.



Horror Films

Frankenstein - Monster
Poltergeist - Paranormal
Resident Evil - Virus
Alien - Monster
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Slasher
Insidious - Paranormal
Saw V - Gore
28 Days Later
The Thing
Night Of The Living Dead


War:

Platoon
The Green Berets
Born On The Fourth Of July
Full Metal Jacket
The Deer Hunter
Casualties Of War
Good Morning, Vietnam
We Were Soldiers
Hamburger Hill
Rescue Dawn
Apocalypse Now
Coming Home
The Boys In Company C
Black Hawk Down
Go Tell The Spartans
Saving Private Ryan
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Great Escape
Letters From Iwo Jima
American Sniper
Lone Survivor
Hacksaw Ridge
The Hurt Locker
Pearl Harbor
Kelly's Heroes
Empire Of The Sun
Zulu

Sub Genres:
Vietnam War
Afghanistan War
Somalia War
World War One
World War Two
The Cold War
Iraq War
The American Civil War
Middle East War
North African War
Arabian War
African Revolution War

BBC School Report 2017

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