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Levi Strauss Binary Opposition

This is a theory which promotes the idea of understanding words. And example of this would be understanding the word cowardly, this is mainly understood by recognizing the difference between its opposite which would be courageous. In media, Brinary creates interest through opposites and contrasts, therefore for a film trailerr the interest would be created by the contrast between fast scenes and slow scenes. When a film trailer is jumpy this creates tension to the audience.
Our group movie trailor will take advantage of this because there will be a opposition relation between the protagonist and her roommate because the protagonist will be insane and the friend will be sane.

Tsvetan Todorov

Tsvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian philosopher, specializing in literary theory, came up with the theory in which most movies are based around. I am speaking of the theory of Equilibrium, this is the idea that every story, be it novel or film, has a formula in which the story will start with a sense of equilibrium, where everything is calm and constant. This is then broken or brought to a "Disequilibrium" when a problem arises and things are no longer constant, this will bring about a chain of events untill it comes to a resolution which brings about a new equilibrium which is not necessarily the same or as calm and constant as the original. An example of Todorovs theory is "House on Haunted Hill" Dir. William Malone 1999. The original equilibrium begins with an interview at a theme park with a millionaire all is well untill the audience realise that the invitations for the mansion are being supernaturally changed, typing and sending themselves. The disequilibrium is completely disrupted when they realise that the house is haunted, a new equilibrium is met when they escape the house and find the cheques for $1000000. Modern horror and thriller films are using this method more often because it leaves room for a sequal, should the film be very successful.
Our movie will follow the latter of the two because it has become the norm and always has a surprise at the end, our film will follow this theory in a way aswell. Our starting equilibrium begins after a scene in a chemistry class and lasts for a while because our protagonist is happy in a relationship and ready for a promotion but needs a mental health check with a psychiatrist. the disequilibrium comes about when she realises that things are not right and she starts seeing and hearing unusual things, the new equilibrium is brought about when she faces her guilt and gets rid of whats bothering her, and she returns home to her husband. This is going to challenge this theory because the last scene of the movie is going to be a long embracing hug when the husband sees the same manifestation, the audience will then see a quick flash of the chemistry class and it shows that he is the man who tripped up the boy in the first place.

Changes and Reactions

There were a few problems we noticed and gaps with our story that we were unable to see. We took these into account and therefore changed a few things. The actual idea of our plot was good and our target audience who are 15+ were intreagued by the idea. One of our obvious problems was the protagonist lived alone and the problem with this is; people would just think she was going crazy or the ghost is just in her head. We changed this problem by making her move in with an old friend who lives in the area, this way there is more evidence she isn't going crazy. The friend is therefore able to tell the audience that he didn't see anything, this gives off a better effect and makes the film seem more scarier.

Another change we made was the reason to come back to her old town, the original idea was she would come back from a long trip to new york, but we changed this to her psychiatrist tells her to return for her mental health in order to get a job promotion. This is showing the audience there maybe a problem with her health showing something is not quite right and can predict something bad is going to happen. We also came to a conclusion that her husband and job is in London instead of New York this way its a lot easier to film, as New York is too far away. These changes and reactions have been vital to the project as it has helped us to notice the flaws which were hard to notice at first.

Small summary

Our film trailer is based on a thriller where a protagonist is haunted by the manifestations of a guilty conscience from her past. The story is relatively easy to understand but will take a lot of thinking about.

Movie plot

Movie Plotline

One Missed Call grid of 9

One Missed Call Grid of 9

The Decent grid of 9

Decent Grid of 9

The Orphan grid of 9

Empty Grid of 9

Introduction

For my media coursework our group have chosen to do a film trailor instead of a music video. Our film will be psychological horror. This way it is something different from the average horror film, it wont be pradictable. Along with our film trailor one of our other tasks will be to create a magazine cver which wont be too difficult as we did that in AS media coursework. Therefore i am very familure with using photoshop and the tools. There are a number of reasons why we chose to do a film trailor these are;

- The group can be a lot more imagative as it doesn't have to be realistic like a music video would have to be more. The group also came to a conclusion that it will be more of a challenge to a music video.

- Our group can also take more part in a film trailor as it involves using acting skills, it also provides the opportunity for each member of the group to have a fair role in the production of our final product, as there are alot more tasks to be carried out to give it the fall affect of a typical horror film.

From this task we hope to;

- Be able to work as a group to prevent a good film trailor

- Be able to be different, to make our film trailor not like a normal orginal horror film, be more imaganitive, and understand what makes a typical horror film.

- Be able to understand the media conventions in a way to make our film trailor effective to our target audience.

Storyboarding

For this task we were giving small drawings of people at different angles and settings for example someone walking up te stairs or a hand on a light switch. We then had to put these pictures in a certain order to make up a story scene, this was a relatively easy excersise the only problem was when we had to go round the school and take pictures to copy this story board it was hard to get the right setting to fit the image on the storyboard for example one was walking up the stairs with there hands on the rails. So we as a group had to find the right stairs where the width wasn't too wide, the person couldn't put both hands on the rails. One other problem our group had was the camera didn't have enough memory on the card to take all 9 photos, but we overcame this problem by taking a few at a time then putting them on the computer. when putting them in the storyboard i realized that it is a mistake to stretch images to fit, therefore i corrected this. i also realised it is much more helpful to take all images either landscape or all images portrait.