Differences between British and Hollywood film production

British films:

• Set in the UK
• Smaller budgets 
• Less popular actors
• Smaller audiences
• Narratives based on local issues e.g. poverty, violence and drugs
• Different cultures

Hollywood films:

• Animations
• Higher budgets
• Famous settings
• Big stunts
• CGI
• Famous actors

Exploration of theorisits

Today we looked at the 3 different theorists Propp,Todorov and Straus

Propps theory was to do with different charachters anmd their roles in films or books.
in outr film we have the antagonaist who im playing, hes a stereo typical stalker as he has a black hoodie and hes a male. We then have 3 victims and a target these are all girls which is again stereotypical as they are all teen females and they are all vunerable, in out film the target is the protagonist as later on in the rest of the film she finds out about him and tries to stop him.




Todorovs theory was to do with narrative and that everything follows a 3 part structure, at the start everything is balanced this is called equilibrium, this is when the stalker is pinning the hair on the board and is in his element. Next is a disequalibrium when the stalker gets found out and is then put under pressure and out of his comfort zone. Equalibrium is next again and is retored for the stalker as he achieves his goals of collecting his samples and leaves the audience an enigma code.

Struass believed in binary opposition throughout a films narrative this is where a film would display evident contrasts betweeen people or groups. For example:

• Good vs bad
• Boy vs girl
• Light vs dark 
• Cat vs dog
• Peace vs war
• Strong vs weak

In my film the main binary opposition is boys vs girls as the boy is targeting the girls for the hair. There is another binary opposition on strong vs weak as the stalker is potrayed as strong and the girls come across as vunerable and weak

A series of unfortunate events opening

After researching different openings we came across the opening sequence of a series of unfortunate events, we took inspiration from this opening and from the shots of the murder board which we tried to include in our opening as we needed more close ups of the murder board to make it more like a thriller.

Continuity evaluation

In our continuity exercise we lost an important scene we filmed which left a gap which didn't work very well. overall i am pleased with the way our small filming exercise worked out, In the scene when Ethan was on the phone we tried our best to stick to the 180 degree rule. we included a couple of close ups. When we are did our editing we used jump cuts to show Alex walking down the sheltered walkway in the quickest way possible. we used shot reverse shot when Alex and Ethan were talking to each other.

This is when we were trying to get a close up of Alex dialling the number to ring Ethan.

This is us when were editing out continuity exercise and putting all the clips together in order.

Casting

For our film we thought it would be a good idea top ask girls with different colour hair, we thought it would be a good idea to start with the girls in our media class. They all agreed to be in our film then we had to decide on whos was going to be the haircuting hooded charachter, in my group we decided that i was the mostr sinister looking boy to play him.

Editing 2

We went down the college again for the second time and edited the majority of our film and we have more specific shots we know we need to shoot in time to finish our opening.

Editing

Today we went down the college and started to edit our thriller opening, we found out what we need to refilm and what was missing to make it better, we realised we needed more close up's of the murder board so it looked more of thriller