brain storms

here are some images on our opening ideas, we narrowed it down to 2 different types of genres. 

genres

Research..

For our research we watched the opening to different films. We decided to go with ever thriller or Rom-Com for our genre. We started off watching a range of thrillers and made notes whilst me watched. The first film we watched was The butterfly effect.

The butterfly effect...

In the butterfly effect we noticed at the beginning the outline of the main male actor was blurred at his was on the other side of the window. You could see this figure moving down the corridor slowly, this added tension as you want to know where he is going and who he is, also there is a sound of high pitch noises being played in the background. Then he comes crashing though the door fairly fast and the music has change to drum noises which are low pitched. The actor is franticly running around then office sense and pushing tables in front of the door, he then goes and gets under the desk and starts to write a letter. When he is writing the words “Save Her” it creates an extreme close up on those two words, this makes us think what does he mean by save her and who is she? The title of the film come up after then then it breaks to an establishing shot.

The dark knight...

In the dark knight the first sense is an establishing shot of the city. It then does to a bank. We could hear that there was a noise of helicopters flying over, it then turns into a loud low/medium pitch sound. Then you see a man standing on the corner of the street holding a clown mask you, this makes us wonder why he has that and what he plans to do with it. We never see his face only the back of his head, he then puts the mask on and walks into the bank with others wearing the same masks. There are a lot of gun shots and shouting. There are other clowns all over the city doing things with this same bank job, they all end up killing each other because its part of a plan. One of the sense that is exciting is when the bus comes though the wall and then just drives off like nothings happened. There are a lot of closes ups and mid shots as there are conversations being made. At the end of the sense you just see and hear police turning up to the crime sense. We liked this film because it has a lot of action and we wanted to know what was going to happen next.

Rom-Com

Rom-com are romantic comedies, these mainly have a light hearted feel to them and don’t really have any major bad things happen. They have dilemmas that are soon sorted out. They mainly have only two main characters that end up falling in love or breaking up. They are funny with some sad or serious elements.

target audience

Me and my partner have decided that for our opening the genre would be a Thriller. So there for we thought that the most suitable target audience would be between 15 and 24 year olds. we felt that the types of things that they would want us to include in our opening would be dramatic music, voice overs,  sharp cutting scenes, loud sounds, sharp movements, title of film. casrting listing.

Does The Media Influence Or Reflect Us?

I am here to discuss whether the Media influences or reflects us. I feel as if the Media both influences us and reflect us I feel this because the reason why we have the Media is because it informs us about our country and our world we listen and watch the Media because it keeps us in the know.  The Media also influences the way we look at things in the world. It also tells us the way we should dress so people end up wearing clothes that they feel uncomfortable in just because it is the fashion in the Media and the way we should have our hair. The Media also chooses what we see on TV and what we read in the news papers. People who work in the Media work very hard to do their job just so they can makes our lives upbeat and more interesting by making articles more dramatic and interesting to read or watch.

Companies spend millions of pounds a year so that they can advertise their product in the Media so the world see it and buys the product and that way the companies get their money back that they spent on advertising. The Media also gives a bad influence on us and how we act sometimes. This gives the wrong idea to children and teenagers by watching and playing games that are not suitable for their age. Something like this happened in 1993 When two boys aged 10 abducted, tortured and murdered 2 year old Jamie Bulger this happened after the two 10 year old boys had finished watching a film called ‘ Child’s Play 2’ which is currently rated a 15. I feel that this is extremely unacceptable because children that age should not be watching films like that when they are highly rated.

I feel that the Media does reflect us in a way because some of the time stories in the Media change our opinions and the way we see things in our own country I feel that it also tries to change our views on things and tries telling us that we should think the same as they do because of the way they word things in articles as if they are trying to get in to your head. Over all the Media plays a massive part in our lives because everywhere we go in everyday life we see or hear media and every day we use different types of media even when we don’t realise we are using it. Everyone enjoys the Media because it is a way of discovering new things, learn new things, discover new fashion items, listen to new music and watch new films. Without the media I feel that our lives would be boring and everyone would be the same and like all the same thing s but because we have the Media everyone likes different things e.g. Bands, politic parties and many more having the media is also important because everyone has different views to others and that is why having the Media is such a good thing to have.

Why I Chose Media

The reason why I chose to do AS Media is because I studied it in GCSE and I really enjoyed making my coursework and I learned lots of of different termonology and I also look at media a lot differently than I did before I took it.