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 In addition elements of Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers' Dark Detective miniseries as well as the unpublished follow-up were reportedly cannibalised along with other elements of Batman mythology for the story.[4][5] The Dark Knight was filmed primarily in Chicago, as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?

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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.