Institution

Today during our lesson we learnt about the film institution and the "Big 6" in production. These are : 21st century fox, Paramount, Warner bros, Walt Disney, NBC and Columbia Tristar (Sony). We learnt about the different company's as a part of the film majors and also about the mini majors in the industry. Following this we designed a logo for our own film production company as shown below. We were shown that many successful productions were normally found to have very basic logos and so I made sure not to put too much depth towards the production logo to not lose the audience within the opening of any production

Film Poster

The film based off of the title poster, is an action film seemingly based around the central character. The use of props also show's the genre through the weapons and explosions. We can also see all of the proponent characters due to their contrast to the colors shown in the background

Genre Posters Task

In class we were shown a number of different film poster relating to genre.following on from this we went out and shot some of our own poster in order to address each of the four genres we were given which were: Documentary, thriller, horror and action.

Documentary:we made sure to make sure that the interview included a intwerview style image as it shows the documenting within the film

Horror: we decided to try and use a low light background alongside a light upon my face to highlight the darkness and evil within the film

Thriller: we chose that the thriller would involve a chase as it would cause the audience to ask questions such as why the protagonist is chased

Action: For the action poster we chose a charlies angel style poster in order to display the action genre

Genre Analysis

In order to analyse genre we learned an anagram called DISTINCT.This helps us analyse and evaluate the opening credits to films and their genre. DISTINCT stands for:
Describe
In detail
Setting
Themes
Icons
Narrative
Characters
Textual analysis




The film opening to Harry Brown is set in urban London in both a council estate and what appears to be a car park. the key themes seem to be gun crime and drug abuse. It features a number of important icons throughout the scene including: A Gun, A Motorbike and A form of Drugs. It doesn't give any particular details towards characters names but does open with a number of people one of which may be the 'protagonist'.



The opening scene to the film Clueless is set in a seemingly wealthy housing area shown through the icons on set, for example the cars for the high school girl and the large array of clothes available. The key theme of this film from the opening appears to be comedy as the script appears to have many jokes placed within. The entire scene is a narrative allowing the viewer more information upon the premise of the film whilst giving an in depth background to the main characters life. We also see the secondary characters being the protagonists father and best friend so we know most of the main characters from the start of the film



The theme from this opening appears to be a mix between horror and thriller due to the eeriness and supernatural aspects of the clip. The setting is the bedroom/bathroom of a women living on her own showing the helplessness of the character who may be the protagonist of this film as it is the only person we are properly introduced to. An important icon in this scene is the mirror as it gives the dark sign 'YOU KNOW' showing the impact that this scene has throughout the film and describing the dark nature of the film.

film opening research

Above is the opening credits scene of the 2006 film Casino Royale. This is the film opening I shall be analyzing today.
The beginning of this opening features the films protagonist walk on screen from the view from the barrel of a weapon at which the protagonist turns to kill the antagonist, which appears to be the audience the audience
I believe the setting is a mix of dreams and hallucinations centered around a pack of cards.
The themes seem to be killing, action and card games due to the symbols of all card suits and the roulette wheels seen throughout.
The scene features numerous props including roulette wheels, computers and firearms
The scene features animated verions of the main and other charecters and displays them brawling together throughout the sequence