Component 3

Which screenplay and DSB did you enjoy the most and why?

i liked the first one (compos mentis) as it built tension and enigma and used montages to show chaos reflecting jonahs mind vs how he wanted to be I thought it made it really interesting, I also liked the first ones storyboard it had a range of shots from low angles and stuff

id you see anything that has inspired ideas for your own coursework?

To use enigma and montage

What genre would be best to replicate in coursework and which will ones will you use?

Horror/thriller is a good genre to use as it easy to build tension and keep audience gripped, plus it would be easy to recreate shots for a storyboard using lighting.

A coming of age genre is also good as you can show character delevopment and have a target audience to relate to.

What are typical conventions of this genre ?

– suspense – definitely used in thrillers for building tension leading up to a scary climax/moment/ realisation

– creating fear for the audience

– enigma and leaving things out to leave the viewers with questions or to use their imaginations

– mystery

– violence and dark imagery

Settings – usually isolated or abandoned places – places which might have a scary history. Dark places like forests that are typically scary at night

Characters – a protagonist/ protagonists often a group of people. an antagonist who creates issues

Narrative – often starts simple but the tension rises and often ends in a cliffhanger – often have sequels as a never ending story

Props – weapons or blood are often symbols of horror movies and often show up on the covers

Aesthetics – weird camera angles, more expressive. Close up shots and POV shots to align with characters experiencing what they do. Close sonic perspective. Dim, lowkey lit settings. Cold eerie blue and dark colour palette

FILMS WITH :

A narrative tiwst – shutter island – begins with the character with a motivation to find a criminal in an insane institution, and the twist comes up when we are shown that the main character is actually a patient in the institution and his accomplice is his doctor.

an enigma – Donnie darko – the enigma is established when Donnie meets Frank and it is not explained who or why he is there and is left for the audiece to figure out. The countdown that is coming towards Donnie is also an enigma as we do not know what will happen and it is confusing

establishes and develops a single charater – into the wild – follows the main character (a true story) on his embark to Alaska and we see his struggles and the emotions that he faces. He begins unhappy and angry towards hisfamily and wants to find the meaning of his life, and at the end when he ends up not surviving, he says he is happy suggesting his character development lead to this.

Donnie Darko opening sequence

Characters – we are first introduced to Donnie laying on the ground after fallen off his bike – this could foreshadow his death or implicate that this is the moment things began to change for him mentally. There is no dialogue just ethereal music as he stares at the sky again suggesting his death/going to heaven. We see other characters being is family at home, all shiwn in slow motion doing odd things – blowing a leaf blower at a woman and juming on a trampoline whilst Donnie does a mundane thing – riding his bike suggesting there isnt a connection between them.

What key themes/ Genre codes are introduced? Enigma, we are unsure of why Donnie is on the ground or how the music fits. Coming of age theme, riding bike through a neighbourhood seems like a common coming of age scene. Dark lighting, slow pace – horror / thriller

Film forms – lowkey lighting despite it being daytime suggests it may be a dark film, the flash of light in the sky being linked to heaven as heavenly/ethereal music plays – foreshadowing donnies death. The song that plays, The killing moon, turns from non diegetic into diegetic, as Donnie goes into his house suggestig its playing on the radio and therefore stablishing the year the film is set by what song is popular at the time – 80s?