Teacher Feedback Of Plot Development

‘Thor’ film concept analysis

The concept of Thor is about a Viking god who gets his powers taken away from his father, however he then goes back to real life and manages to save people’s lives and becomes a hero of the real world. The inspirations for ‘Thor’ come from the film ‘300’ as they are both similar in terms of costumes and colours as well as characters behaviours. The film ‘300’ also involves Viking characters and behaviours which influenced ‘Thor’. The Narratemes of this film is that a hero is tested for his power and he leaves home and a superhero is born. These narratemes help to establish the whole film as well as engage the interest of the audience as they may link to real life. The unique selling point of ‘Thor’ is the ancient setting and as the film is about Viking superpowers and a superhero who manages to save everyone it interests the audience into wanting to find out what happens to him and whether he does actually get his powers back or if they were permanently taken away from him. The film could really be of great interest to those who enjoy past life and Vikings as well as superheros and villains.  Also the film could engage those who have a love interest and like films which involve a relationship, 'Thor' has this as the hero falls in love with a woman.

'Shutter Island' film concept analysis

The film Shutter Island has a complex yet interesting concept, a prisoner is missing from a mental hospital/rehabilitation place and an investigator is trying to find her. The film also looks into actions and presents characters as they are confused and wanting answers. The inspirations of Shutter Island came from other films, especially one, Inception. Leonardo DiCaprio who plays a character who is confused and unsure on reality, similar to the character he plays in Inception and he also engages in similar behaviour for both. Narratemes used for this film are that a ‘villain’ tries to escape as she has special powers to make herself vanish. This reinforces real life situations of prisoners escaping from prison or people in mental hospitals escaping and when police have to search for them and find out the reasons behind all their actions. The unique selling point for this film is the use of psychological background and the area/location in which the film was filmed in. The location and set was very unique and also resembled the likes of a mental hospital and the other mental patients drew in attention to how bad this place really was. This really brings in the interest of the audience to want to know more and therefore want to watch the film.

This film concept is about a brain surgeon who kills a protagonist (hero) but fails to actually kill him. Once the protagonist is so called 'dead' the surgeon takes him and places him in a morgue to come back later and bury him. As the protagonist is not dead he becomes concious again and reads his own obituary in the newspaper. The protagonist can not remember a thing until the obituary brings back flash backs of the event and how it occured. The evil brain surgeon is still after the protagonist as he realises that he has escaped, the protagonist on the other hand tries to find the person who had done this to him and the reasons for it. 

Audience Feedback of Preliminary Task ('ROPE')

After we finished our preliminary task we presented our own individual pieces to the class and recieved feedback so that we could act on it and produce better quality media for our next main task. The feedback consisted of good points and bad which could be seen as improvements to be made for the main task. The good feedback was that there was a wide range of shots featured in the short clip, this consisted of close ups, medium shots, wide angled shots and master shots. Also there was a point made about good use of appropriate lighting, so there was a contrast from dark to light when one of the characters opens the blinds to reveal light into the room. Also the use of sound (male screaming) at the beginning was another good point made. However there were also some areas which needed improvements, there was no/faulty sound for the rest of the clip and the shots did not flow very smoothly, for this reason my improvements are to ensure that there is sound and produce continuity in editing my work so that it doesn't look like the shots are just fitted together but that they flow in a continuous sequence.
Below is my edited version of the film 'Rope':

Research and Planning of film (‘ROPE’)

During the research and planning of our film we had to create a block plan, storyboard and create a script for our filming. The block plan helped us in being organised and knowing exactly what point we were at in terms of filming. Our points consisted of 10 aims in which we intended to carry out step by step and the storyboard put these points into extra detail.

The storyboard consisted of drawn pictures and captions to explain what is happening in that frame. Both helped in showing us what we had to accomplish for each shot and how we had to position and move our characters. The script we used was made up and based in the original script which was used in the film.

The Film Industry and Production Process

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