The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins. Christian Bale reprises the lead role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, with a returning cast of Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The film introduces the character of Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Gotham's newly elected District Attorney and the cohort of Bruce Wayne's childhood friend Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who joins Batman and the police in combating the new rising threat of a criminal calling himself the "Joker" (Heath Ledger).

Nolan's inspiration for the film was the Joker's comic book debut in 1940, and the 1996 series The Long Halloween, which retold Two-Face's origin. In addition elements of Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers' Dark Detective miniseries as well as the unpublished follow-up were reportedly cannibalised along with other elements of Batman mythology for the story.[4][5] The Dark Knight was filmed primarily in Chicago, as well as in several other locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. Nolan used an IMAX camera to film some sequences, including the Joker's first appearance in the film.

I have analysed this film because it may not be a comedy but ticks the conventional superhero movie there is always a good guy trying to get the bad guy before he commits the worst offence he ever would . After analysing the opening two minutes of this film i have noticed that there is very little detail this is because they are trying to inform the audience of what is going to happen throughout the film i think we will also go down this road and apply these.

In this film we are using this as our title sequence we are using the words red tornado as our main character superheroes name is red tornado we are also using the superhero name hawk who will be me and the name plague who will be sams alter ego villain name we will also use this title sequence to get the bal, rolling with the film as we will cut into the red tornado to start the film.

We have now decided to use an actual film production in paramount as we feel that it will contribute well to our overall production in the sense that paramount is a well known united states of america prodcution which will give our opening two minutes more of a real feel as with paramount the audience can relate to that film production they have produced films like Thor and Captain America and Iron Man 2.

This is the trailer for the a fantastic comedy the hangover the reason this film did so well is because of the way there trailer was laid out it gave the viewers a look at the way the whole film was laid out it gave them a glimpse at good highlights form the beggining,middle and the end they involve good jokes such as paging dr faggot this obviously makes the audience laugh and attracts the audience to go and watch the rest of the film. Within the first two minutes they make sure that they try to gat a good amount of comedy in without showing the audience too much.

The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha and Jeffrey Tambor. The Hangover tells the story of Phil Wenneck, Stu Price and Alan Garner, who travel to Las Vegas, Nevada for a bachelor party to celebrate Doug Billings' impending marriage to Tracy Garner. However, after being drugged with roofies, Phil, Stu and Alan have no memory of the previous night's events and must find Doug before the wedding can occur.

Lucas and Moore wrote the script after executive producer Chris Bender's friend disappeared and had a large bill after being sent to a strip club. Lucas and Moore sold it to the studio for $2 million, Philips and Jeremy Garelick rewrote the script to include a tiger as well as a subplot involving a baby and a police cruiser, and also including boxer Mike Tyson. Filming took place in Nevada for 15 days, and during filming, the three main actors established a friendship between them.

Further Soundtrack Research 

Sam, Alex and I will have to produce our own music for the film otherwise we may be deducted marks for copyright. I have look at some music making software we could probably use. The first software I looked into was Garage Band on the IPad,iPod and Macs. On the garage band app you can make all sorts of music from using various different instruments such as guitars, keyboards, drums, and voice there is different types and styles to each of the instruments mentioned. The next software I looked at was an free Internet application called audiotool. Audiotool contains several different samples and loops for the user to edit and play around with. You can insert you personal sounds as well, you can edit them by using several different pedals such as a phaser and echo to edit the sounds. I have used both of these softwares and I have enjoyed using them and I found them fairly simple to use and would help greatly towards making the soundtrack to our movie and trailer. We could also make our own music with real instruments such as guitars as Sam and myself have experiance in playing the guitar so we could maybe take advantage of these skills and produce our own music that way.

 

 

We then asked the question what is your favourite comedy film the results where interesting with the majority decided hot fuzz was their favourite comedy so we are going to look more into that then the inbetweeners movie was menton bruce almighty and run fatboy run also hangover 1 and 2 was mentionand step brothers. as a group we are all going to look at the films and decide what makes them so engaging and funny.

Film Questionnaire

What do you want to get out of a comedy film?

o   Laughter

o   A clever twist

o   A bit of romance with a complicated relationship

o   What types of comedy would you like to get?

o   Slapstick comedy

o   Parody

o   Screwball

o   What do you find funny?

o   Falling

o   Pie in the face

o   Awkward moments

o   Prejudice

o   Stereotypes

o   What would you like the hero to reach?

o   Beat villain/kill

o   Win a hot girl

o   Both

What is your favourite comedy film?

Fill in here ………………………………………………..

We asked 20 people the question what do you most like to see in a comedy? and here are the results.

Blue = Parody or a spoof

Green = Slapstick

Orange = Comedy Movie

Red = Romantic Comedys

We have taken into account and with more people liking comedy movies and slapstick that we know that people like it when someone embarrasses  themselves with tripping or falling over they also like comedy that puts someone itno an awkward situation to which no one understands.

Soundtrack Research

So the whole group has done some soundtrack research and we have not come to the actual music that we will use yet but we have decided that we will use three different kinds of music and they will be evil music a superhero music and then we will have a strong peice of music to start our trailer such as the transformer trailer music. I think this will work well as it is quite hard hitting.

After this music goes on for aproximately we will stop it with a sort of screech as it will show me and alex as superheros and as we will look totally ridiculous it will show to the audience that this is a comedy and after this music we will lead into a couple of jokes just to push through to the audience what this is going to be like . We will show scenes such as me and alex riding on the bike.

Ideas for trailer

In our trailer we are going to have to use little glimpses of good parts of our film to get the reader enticed so i have decided that we will use some of the film including parts at the start where me and alex are not superheros at the start and i think that throughout it we will have background music throughout as i have mentioned before i will have voice overs such as 'Superheroes have never looked so good' and villains have never been so evil'i also think that we will use different sorts of music such as evil music for the part in the trailer where sam is involved. I think that then we will start with an upbeat music where me and alex are being really good superheroes and fighting crime and helping to the world then to the evil villain sam and then finally we will go to a comedy line so that the audience are left with the comedy so that they remeber the film on one joke or one scene so that they fully remeber the scene. The scenes that i have decided to use are the scenes such as when me and alex are on our bikes cycling and in the woods when me and alex are beating people up such as billy yates ollie clark who are our only confirmed hench men at the moment with four more to be confirmed i think that we will use adam dickinson and william huck to be our other henchmen . We will start our trailer with writing at the start so that there will be a bit of writing on the screen saying 'the time has come' and then flicker to part of me and alex then ' 2011 december 23rd' then will show me and alex the music will then cut to some comedy scenes.

This is me with Alex and Alex Valente on his own he is another one of my media parteners. Alex is going to be the main superhero character i think that alex will be good for this role as he is quite funny and possesses a good personality to go with that . If I had to compare Alex to a famous characetr i would compare him to toby maguire of spiderman as they both will and ahve played main superhero roles and i think tehy both look a like the only difference is that our film will be a comedy and alex will be with a sidekick who will be me i think that i could be compared to the actual boy wonder robin as i think taht we both ahve the same facial features and both will play the same character once again though our film will be a comedy and theres isnt.

This is sam de almedia who is in my media group and is going to play the villain of the group compared to character i would comare his look to bradey cooper from the hangover 1 and 2  i have used this comparison as i think that sam compares to bradley coopers look and he also has the comedy value that Bradley Cooper brings to his films we also think that sam will suit the bad guy because of his facial features resmeble a bad guy.

This is the location for our two minute opening and trailer well this is not our whole scene but for our villain who will be sam's hideout we are using this location as it is quite scary location we ahve also decided that our friends joe cullen,billy yates and ollie clark are going to be sams henchemen as they will possess a sinister look to them and they will be conventional and cliches bad guys . Me and alex have also started to draw up some fo the script but firstly we are talking about the trailer and we think that we will use voice overs throughout that trailer so we would have our trailer starting with our voice overs then we will have a comedy line after fierce voice overs such as 'superheroes have never looked so good' we will then have a comedic line to bring it back to the audience that this is a comedy.

Me and alex have decided that we are going for a 15 film rating as we feel that there will be a crude comedy points within the trailer and opening two minutes when filmed this is subject to change though as we are not sure of the full content that will be in the opening two minutes and the trailer. We feel that 15 is a perfect age and that this will probaly be the age group that we will stick too this age as within the film as we have crude language.

With our costumes in our trailer and near to the end of our two minute film we will use the wellies as our superhero shoes we are using these shoes as it is a comic version of the cliche superhero shoes. This will be a focus of our starting camera shot in our first two minute scene and it will show the superheros first bit of there attire it will also add the comedy effect to the costume as it is not your conventional peice of costuming. We have also decided to wear these as we feel it will obviously be hard to run in these so it will add the comedy effect while still keeping the way we are running look really naturally to the audience me and alex as the superheros have come to the decision that we will make .

Our next peice of cotuming is going to be the thermal shirt once again give the illusion that this may be another part of our high tech superheroes but unfrotunately we need to add the comedy effect to the costuming so we have decided that we will go for a thermal shirt we have made our full decision to wear these as we feel that it will add the comedy effect needed to make . We also feel that by us wearing these tops me and alex who are the superheroes will add an authentic look to to the costumes and make the audience feel the comedy and make them connect with the chaarcters.

This will be another part of our costuming me and alex and sam have all agreed that we will use these msaks as our superhero masks we think that we need to have conventions and cliches and this mask abides by them and will give a comedic effect as it will not look like a proper superhero mask on me and alex so it will add that comedic effect. 

Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final novel in the The Twilight Saga by American author Stephenie Meyer. Divided into three parts, the first and third sections are written from Bella Swan's perspective and the second is written from the perspective of Jacob Black. The novel directly follows the events of the previous novel, Eclipse, as Bella and Edward Cullen get married, leaving behind a heartbroken Jacob. When Bella faces an unexpected situation, she does what it takes to undergo the ultimate transformation and fight the final battle to save her love.


Meyer finished an outline of the book in 2003, but developed and changed it as she wrote New Moon and Eclipse, though the main and most significant storylines remained unchanged. Little, Brown and Company took certain measures to prevent the book's contents from leaking, such as closing forums and message boards on several fansites and providing a special e-mail address for fans to send in links to leaks and spoilers online.


Breaking Dawn was released on August 2, 2008 at midnight release parties in over 4,000 bookstores throughout the US. From its initial print run of 3.7 million copies, over 1.3 million were sold in the US and 20,000 in the UK in the first 24 hours of the book's release, setting a record in first-day sales performance for the Hachette Book Group USA. The book was highly successful, selling over 6 million copies in 2008, and was the third best-selling novel of 2008 behind Twilight and New Moon.
Breaking Dawn received mixed reviews from critics and is the most controversial book in the series, as it explored more mature themes and concepts. However, the novel was awarded the British Book Award for "Children's Book of the Year". The book was translated in 38 languages with rights sold to over 50 countries. An upcoming two-part film adaptation of the novel is scheduled for release on November 18, 2011 and November 16, 2012.

Me,Sam and Alex have had various ideas for our trailer such as having sam has our bad guy who looks nothing like a bad guy  for comedy purposes we then will have me and alex valente as our cliche good guys. Alex Valente will be like batman as i will be like robin and our on screen chemistry will be the same as theres. This cliche will be different as it will all be  with a comedy twist . We have decided to create our own film production called poppers production  . We think that we will use bicycles as our so called bat mobiles.

                                       We have also decided that me as robin will be the more comic version of robin while alex will be the clich strict version of batman we will also use various extras to be sams henchmen but we are yet to decide them.

Today we learnt about the 180 degree rule, this is where you decide what side of the action you want to film from and you stay to this, this helps boost continuity as it keeps things the same within the shot . In this film me and alex and sam abided by the instructions by mr thornton and we used five different shots but after every shot we only move the camera 30 metres so the audience arent confused. The first shot we used was the over the shoulder shot which was used effectivley because the audience feel like they are seeing what the character is seeing and also you can really see the expression they show in there faces. We then used the two shot so that we could see both sides of the conversation unfortunately it took us a couple of takes to make the shot look great as you really have to get continuing shot going we also had a problem filming the end as we couldnt get the hand shake to look proper as we didnt film it perfectly in seconds and our editing wasnt good enough.

Me Sam and Alex have decided that we are going to make our film about a superhero comedy. We are going to use the way Kick Ass / Batman to make our film . We are going to make the comedy of the superheros based on the film kick ass but then in our combat scenes it is going to look more like batman with the words bang and splat . We will also be using the conventions and cliches such as the evil villain and his endless amount of henchmen attacking the duo. We will then base our becoming of superheros on films like spiderman as we will only realise we are superheros when something happens.

Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman. The film's general release was on 25 March 2010 in the UK and on 16 April 2010 in the US.


The film tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski, who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy, a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the drug lord Frank D'Amico, has trained his eleven-year-old daughter to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.


Despite having generated some controversy for its profanity and violence performed by a child, Kick-Ass was well received by both critics and audiences.

In this short film we use loads of different effective camera shots e.g the long shot of me and sam running this is effective as the camera follows the run as if the audience were front row watchers of a race we then use the over the shoulder shot with the two shot firstly the over the shoulder shot is effective as it gives the audience a prospective of what alex is seeing we then had the two shot of me and sam staring at alex this is effective as it make the audience wonder why me and sam are so suprised to see alex and what was making me run after sam the close up shot of sams face is to show his despair.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is a 2011 epic fantasy film directed by David Yates and the second of two films based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling It is the eighth and final instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman David Barron and Rowling. The story continues to follow Harry Potter's quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

Budget	$250 million
Box office	$1,328,055,619

In the first two minutes they use evil sounds to get the meesgae across to the audience this is the last film and there is going to be an epic encounter. From the start if you had not watched the other films you get a feel for the main charcters and you excpect what is to happen throughout they use a long shot coming into a close up shot which makes the audience feel like they are coming straight into the film.

In the third video me and alex made we decided that we wanted to get as many camera shots within the scene we used. So firstly we decided that we wanted to make loads of different scenes then edit and cut then finally make our official scene. So firstly we started with an birds eye view shot of me and our extra richard walking through the door this filled the audience with suspense as to what is going to happen. We then procceded to use an over the shoulder shot this makes the audience feel like they are part of the scene and they are experiencing what the character is going through. We then used the close up shot to show the expression on my face. Finally we use the long shot to build the suspense of what is about to happen.

Today we were split up into groups of two I partnered off with Alex Valente and our task was to find three different locations and in those scene use the same words which are ‘What are you doing here’. In the first film which is shown here we use a long shot at the start to get a view of the situation and to show to the audience the whole situation we then did the close up shot we used this to show the reaction on my face when seeing someone i didnt excpect to see at a gig.We used a tripod within the short scene at the start because we felt it would give the audience a feel that they were there instead of them feeeling like it was a rough filming we made the audience feel like they were involved. This first scene shows a suprised face of when i say what are you doing here this is even more effective as we have used the close up shot. As you can see we have used two extras Sam and Will we have used extras to make the audience feel like they are even more involved within the scene. The close up shot of my face also helps to introduce my character to the audience and let them make there opinion up about my character . We have also only used one main character to fill the audience with suspense to who i am talking to and why i am so suprised

Ive analysed the opening two minutes of bad teacher and they use a variation of techniques such as the close up shot to show the expressions of all the teachers when they hear about elizabeth leaving they also use the long shot which shows elizabeth scurrying off behind all the tecahers when they are celebrating a birthday and when the little girl is crying this sets up the audience to show what they are to excpect from elizabeth they excpect that she will be what is in the title. They also use didgetic sound of the ringing bell to signify the end of elizabeth's career or so we think ! They use a upbeat tone at the start to show elizabeths personailty

Bad Teacher is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan based on a screenplay by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Segel. The film was released in the United Kingdom on June 17 and in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2011. It is about a woman (Cameron Diaz) who at the start looks like a gold digging woman with no care for her job as a teacher as we find out that her husband dumps her we dont start to sympathise with her as she is still on the prowl for a rich man as the film goes on like all romances there is a love intreset and that comes in the form of justin timberlake who acts as a cover teacher unfortunately another woman has her eyes on her mind and that mrs squirrel this leads to them two competing. Throughout the film Jason segel who has expressed his interest in elizabeth who is cameron diaz but always being rejeted and the audience really connect to that. In the end unlike most conventional romances elizabeth doesnt end up with theman we all excpect but with the unlikely funny man .

What we did today

Today we were split up into groups of two I partnered off with Alex Valente and our task was to find three different locations and in those scene use the same words which are ‘What are you doing here’. In the first film which is shown here we use a long shot at the start to get a view of the situation and to show to the audience the whole situation we then did the close up shot we used this to show the reaction on my face when seeing someone i didnt excpect to see at a gig.We used a tripod within the short scene at the start because we felt it would give the audience a feel that they were there instead of them feeeling like it was a rough filming we made the audience feel like they were involved.

Step Brothers is a classic example of a cliche comedy as it follows all the steps to make a succesfull comedy firstly you have the fallout then the two men who i suppose are stuck in younger brains become friends and as they are having so much fun it all goes wrong when the dad and mum think that they need to be responsible after going through the film trying to get them to get jobs it is them who re-unite them and as they peform a powerfull ballad they all live happily ever after.

All comedies have there own conventions and cliches to follow by for example adam sandler in happy gilmore,water boy and just go with it where he has a long adventure meets a girl has to try and win her heart in the end he does and obviously they live happily ever after. See in will ferrels films he starts them with him not liking someone or a distraction ends up liking this person but just like the romance films you have an argument or something that distarcts the character from there aim but in the end they are reunited an excellent example of this is step brothers.

 

Monte Carlo is a bit different from most romances of course it follows the easy cliches such as the early romances and then the fall out and then of course happily ever after but unsually to romance they involve even more than one character this is becoming more regular but still not a usual habit for the conventional romances they do this so that the audience can focus on one or more storylines unfortunately film makers have found it hard to get great ratings as the audience feel that they do not have the same emotional connection to the character unlike those films that have the basic two romantic characters.

Monte Carlo is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Thomas Bezucha. Nicole Kidman, Denise Di Novi, Arnon Milchan and Alison Greenspan produced the film for Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprises. It began production in Budapest, Hungary on May 5, 2010. Monte Carlo stars Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy as three friends posing as rich people in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The film was released on July 1, 2011

 In this film a young woman, her uptight stepsister, and her best friend use their savings for a long-anticipated dream trip to Paris, which turns out to be a big disappointment. When the tour bus leaves them behind they duck into the lobby of a luxury hotel and one of them is mistaken for a spoiled British heiress. Before they get the chance to reveal their true identities, they are wrapped up in misadventures during a vacation to Monte Carlo instead

Romance has a lot of conventions and cliches and any romance film wanting to do well has to abide by these conventions or it will not do well . For example you always find the film starting with the girl or boy falling in love with each other just by looking at each other the audience feels the instant connection between them . Unfortuantely there is always someone with the man they want and someone the audience knows is all wrong and is horrible. As the film goes on the charcters seem to see a lot more of each other as they start to fall for each other the distraction then trys to wiggle her way back into the picture but of course love prevails. No good romance film would then  be finished if it was happily ever after a major argument threatens the relationship but as it is all about to end and the girl will leave the boy comes to his senses and catches her before he leaves. He then gives her the kiss the audience wanted and finally it is happily ever after

Die Hard has a lot of cliches and conventions within it such as the villains with unlimited ammo an example of that is when he is on the roof and bruce willis is being shot at for around five minutes straight but yet they just keep shooting that brings me on to my next cliche on the rooftop the villains seem to have the worst aim spraying there machine guns but yet not hitting anyone they must have the worst aim.

 Die Hard is a 1988 American action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 film starring Frank Sinatra. The film was produced by Lawrence and Charles Gordon, along with Joel Silver.

It stars Bruce Willis as NYPD officer John McClane, Bonnie Bedelia as his wife, Holly, and Alan Rickman in his feature film debut as thief Hans Gruber. The film was followed by three sequels; Die Hard 2 in 1990, Die Hard With A Vengeance in 1995, and Live Free or Die Hard in 2007

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Research and Planning 13/20: A good start to your blog Connor. You have shown some good analysis of genre and the opening of a film. To improve your grade try to post comments about horror, and the other genres we have studied, and explain whether or not you would lean towards working within them in your production task - and analyse some more film openings you have seen or found yourself. A promising start - but you need to be posting more frequently Connor!

Jeepers Creepers is about a monster who comes out every 23 years and stalks his victims until he kills them and eats them ! Justin Long and Gina Phillips are the two main teenage charcters who get attacked by this horrific monster .You are egging the monster on at points because of the teens arrogance and stuck up attitude which really makes you dislike them. As the teens drive past after a close encounter with the monster they make their way back to the monsters lair and try to save the day for those who have been caught by the monster. In the end they get caught by the monster and are put into his gruesome basement ,original ! In the end the kids save the day but the cliffhanger end makes everyone know there is more to come from this horror sequel.   

In the first two minutes of AShawshank Redemption you notice there are interlink tiltles which means you get a feel for the what will happen in the rest of the film. They also have Digetic sound and this is used to show that the characters and the audience can hear the music. You notice from the first scene that they are on trial for murder and the court shows that someone has done something wrong. The non-digetic sound for when they are on the coach gives a feel for how they are all feeling. You also see various camera shots such as the close up shot to show anguish in the face of the person who ihas been sentences down for his crimes. Also within the first two minutes you straigyht away feel sorry for the person as you get a feeling that he has not commited this crime and you feel that throughout the film you will get more of an in depth inlook into what has happned and why he has been put up for this crime. You also learn that andy who is the man being put up for trial wiill be the main character throughout tyhe film