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Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To develop an effective film marketing strategy. These posters are for the same film but just different because both of them are used in different countries to each other. Differences -One has bold writing in the background -The other is just a face -The one on the left is very bold with the colours but the one on the right uses darker and less attracting colours

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To develop an effective film marketing strategy  List all the ways you can think of to promote a movie: -Youtube adverts -TV adverts -Trailers -Billboards  Find movies that disasters on the poster of the film: -Geostorm -Noah -Into the storm -Disaster movie -The day after tomorrow  -The swarm -2012 -Metal tornado -Weather wars -Godzilla

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the disaster movie genre I have never seen any of the top 15 disaster movie except Godzilla and titanic. 1. Are the main characters in disaster movies normally male or female? Mainly Male  2. Which of your chosen films involve a storyline in which the main character has to get a member of their family to safety? In Sand Andreas, the main character has to safe his daughter from drowning. 3.The 'disaster' in Disaster movies usually falls into the following categories: natural (earthquakes/volcanoes/climate change) alien attack or an epidemic. Which categories do each of your films fall into? San Andreas is an earthquake, Titanic is a boat crash and Godzilla is a massive dinosaur lizard thing attacking Tokyo 4. Which one of your chosen films ends with the disaster being overcome (or at least survived) by the central character In San Andreas the daughter and the dad survive. 5. Which of your chosen films involve t...

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the use of sounds in films Describe the sort of music you would expect to hear in the following types of films 1. Horror films   Usually no singing just creepy noises 2. An action film     Intense and loud music 3. A thriller     Eery but confusing in a weird way 4. A comedy film      Stupid music that doesn't sound right 5. A science-fiction film     Creepy and no singing just eery noises Diegetic noises: -Song in the restaurant  -People talking -People coming into the restaurant  Non-diegetic: -The music before they go into the restaurant which isn't actually playing Is there any moments of silence in the scene you chose? Yes. When the men eat the chillies they start screaming but then it goes completely silent.

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the use of setting and colour in films Setting Why might a director choose the following settings? 1. An isolated house in a rural setting for a horror setting To scare the viewers which is what the directors want from a horror film 2. A big city for an action film So there is loads of room for the hero and villain to fight  3. A small seaside town for a romantic comedy  So the characters have a beach all to themselves. 4. A range of different countries for an action adventure film So the characters could go explore the world and look for treasure  5. A large modern science laboratory for a science-fiction film So there could be a experiment gone wrong Colour Why might a director use the following colours? 1. Red and blue for a new superhero costume To look cool and those colours draw attention 2. A black suit for a villain  To blend in with the dark/night which is ...

15/04/20                    Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the narrative structure of a film  1. Tangled 2. The little mermaid 3. Beauty and the beast 4. Pocahontas 5. Snow White and the seven dwarfs  6. Cinderella 7. Aladdin 8. Tarzan 9. The hunchback of Notre dame  10. The lion king  Monsters university Director: Dan Scanlon Writer: Dan Gerson Producer: Kori Rae Producing company: Pixar and Disney Distribution company: Walt Disney pictures Date released: 2013 Genre: Animation Main voices: Bill crystal and Noah Johnston Beginning: tour of monsters factory and finds out he wants to be a scarer Middle: Mike forms a team called oozma kappa and goes on to win the scare games End: Goes to human world gets kicked out of monsters university and works at the factory with sully and then it leads to monsters inc  Monsters inc and university are not in...

23/03/20 News And Audience L/O: To investigate how news programmes are targeted towards different audiences What's in the News today? -Coronavirus. -Nandos and Mcdonalds to shut all UK restaurants. -Italy's coronavirus deaths doubled in one day. -