Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
The Book of Leviticus
We decided to do a triller movie for our AS media coursework. We had a variety of choices however some were lacking key features for production; therefore, we chose our fourth idea following the murders of sacrilegious people whom the vicar believed committed immoral sins and so he took the liberty of punishing them accordingly. We felt this would be the best idea to do as we believed the story-line was effective in several ways and we could get involved to perform to the best of our ability.
Title screen appears where we will have the image of the pages within the book magnified and focused in on a certain quotes before the book closes to show the title of the book.
The Book of Leviticus would begin with our production titles naming our company before fading out into an establishing master shot of a church whilst organ plays as the congregation exit after the evening service. A forward track is used to approach the doors as the organ abruptly stops and the door will open and a vicar and the female exit. Some dialogue will be exchanged before the female leaves. A dissolve of her walking would occur to show the transition of her outfit from day to night as she becomes a lady of the night. As this transition occurs the ambient sounds of her heels will change into the sound of crunching twigs and forest creature sounds.
A horizontal tracking, side viewed showing the vicar walking late at night. An over the shoulder shot is used to illustrate the vicar noticing and identifying his daughter dressed provocatively, in an unsafe environment, with money held in her hand. Father Goodman would begin to follow his daughter slowly as suspicious, incidental music plays. A high angle would show the proxemics between them as she walks into the forest with him following. A point of view will show him grabbing her arms as she turns to face him and realizes he is her father. A black out occurs before the scene changes.
Ambient sounds of nature are heard as we witness a jogger in the forest in the early hours. They notice a laying body down and a scream is heard before a cut to emergency services sirens and the flashing lights upon the screen.
Title screen appears where we will have the image of the pages within the book magnified and focused in on a certain quotes before the book closes to show the title of the book.
After the title screens we will cut to the police station where the officers will be discussing the incidents of further killings which have happened similarly to Addison Goodman's murder case. We cut to the knock of a door before the vicar opens where the police reveal his daughters murder. The vicar acts shocked before the police come in and describe the case to him. We cut to a service where the vicar is present looking at the congregation. One by one certain members would disappear from the shot, this is implying him killing them off, one by one. A funeral of one of his victims is shown as he comforts their family members - the officers are present and confront him silently about the last sighting of his most recent victim, whom was last seen in the church before their body was found. He becomes aggravated and aggressive towards the officers as they are beginning to suspect him and figure the case out. The officers are seen within the station with their evidence against him, and the proof of his crimes. They leave to arrest him. Upon arrival they see him fall and is pronounced dead. They take the vicars body to the morgue however when they return to do an autopsy his body is missing. We cut to him walking down a street at night as the titles come up.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Character profiles
Name: Father Goodman
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Occupation: Vicar and murderer.
Appearance/Costume: Service/Mass clothing, wears the symbolic cross necklace.
Characteristics: Very religious and devotes his life to serving Christ, even with extremities such as taking the life of his own daughter due to her sinning. He dislikes people whom fake their religious and continuously commit the same sins after attending confession and asking for his and God's forgiveness.
Name: Addison Goodman
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Occupation: Victim leading a double life of a vicar's daughter but a harlot at night (harlot image shown secondly)
Appearance/Costume: Casual clothing to help her blend into the background but changes at night to revealing, provocative clothing in red to symbolize her profession.
Characteristics: Deceitful, clever, beautiful with a facade of innocent, secretive, sacrilegious.
Name: Addison Goodman
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Occupation: Victim leading a double life of a vicar's daughter but a harlot at night (harlot image shown secondly)
Appearance/Costume: Casual clothing to help her blend into the background but changes at night to revealing, provocative clothing in red to symbolize her profession.
Characteristics: Deceitful, clever, beautiful with a facade of innocent, secretive, sacrilegious.
Movie ideas
We devised four different movie ideas to produce the opening of for our AS coursework. We selected which we thought would be the most appropriate and which we think will push us but also come out with a good product.
We started with a rom-com where we had a female protagonist working in the city of London, where we would go to film, and she would be independent with a good career and a promising future - her only flaw being her lack of a love life. We would contrast this with the antagonist male, who would be her love interest as the movie progresses, he would be in complete contrast to her with him not having a steady job and having relations with quite a few females, he would spend his nights partying and his days recovering. They would dress appropriate to their character with the protagonist wearing rich, designer clothing whereas the male would wear leathers and jeans, just average clothing making him look quite rebellious, complimenting his escapades. We would show their contrast through split scenes and cuts from each character to the other relating to the same subject. Eventually they would meet and hate each other due to their differences but they soon realize opposites attract and fall for one another.
We came up with a horror movie about a psychopath male who longs for his children. The scene would start by seeing him playing with his children, all happy, but then we would fade into him being institutionalized and held down whilst he screams and shouts in an attempt to escape. The door would start to open where we would cut to his wife opening the door to a babysitter. The mother will call her children who we will cut to and show them in their playroom asking somebody if they would like to play, before they run down and say goodnight to their mother before she leaves for the night. We would see the babysitter putting them to bed before she questions where the fathers presence is. She retreats downstairs and is caught by the father who believes she is trying to keep him from his children. We imply murder by seeing her limp body fall, the children would hear the bang and run downstairs screaming 'daddy!' as we see a final two shot of the figure and thee corpse before fading into our title screen.
Our third idea was where we followed a female antagonist into a masquerade ball where everybody dresses in their more eccentric dresses and suits with friendly masks to hide their identity. The female antagonist would however have a different, deformed, malicious looking one to show that she is different from the others and there for another reason than enjoyment. She would enter into the ball and a sub POV would show her searching for somebody, all the people we would focus pull into would have similarities with their looks. She approaches one from behind whilst tension is built by the incidental music playing in the background. We would fade to black as the lights go out where silence is heard. Sirens will begin to play before we cut into the title screens.
Our final, and chosen, idea was a thriller which would follow the life of a murdering priest whom kills people who he believes has committed an unjust deed decided by the book of Leviticus. He would believe that Jesus/God would want him to do this to remove the sinners against the church by the death punishments stated per deed. We would start this by seeing the reverend and a female walk out from the church on a Sunday morning. They would converse about the fun of his services and their relationship as father and daughter would be implied just before we would cut to seeing the daughter walking down the street in very little, and then counting her money at a corner. The priest acknowledges her profession and her life outside of the church and assumes she only comes to church to wash the sins away which she performs at night, even though she returns to her job after she has been forgiven. He approaches the teenage daughter and we cut to the morning without seeing her death. A subject would be walking past the area of death and would witness the corpse lying dead thus calling the police to report the murder; we cut after seeing and hearing the sirens of approaching police and ambulance vehicles. We would cut to the title screens where we would place a biblical reference from the Leviticus emphasizing the motive for her murder.
We chose this idea as everybody is committing themselves to horror movies, but we would like to follow the case of a serial killer, which turns out to be a priest who is deluded by the bible and his place as God's servant. We understand the difficulty and sensitivity of this task but we agree we could perform this well without harming religious audience members as I am a christian myself so would not allow anything too misguiding to be shown.
We started with a rom-com where we had a female protagonist working in the city of London, where we would go to film, and she would be independent with a good career and a promising future - her only flaw being her lack of a love life. We would contrast this with the antagonist male, who would be her love interest as the movie progresses, he would be in complete contrast to her with him not having a steady job and having relations with quite a few females, he would spend his nights partying and his days recovering. They would dress appropriate to their character with the protagonist wearing rich, designer clothing whereas the male would wear leathers and jeans, just average clothing making him look quite rebellious, complimenting his escapades. We would show their contrast through split scenes and cuts from each character to the other relating to the same subject. Eventually they would meet and hate each other due to their differences but they soon realize opposites attract and fall for one another.
We came up with a horror movie about a psychopath male who longs for his children. The scene would start by seeing him playing with his children, all happy, but then we would fade into him being institutionalized and held down whilst he screams and shouts in an attempt to escape. The door would start to open where we would cut to his wife opening the door to a babysitter. The mother will call her children who we will cut to and show them in their playroom asking somebody if they would like to play, before they run down and say goodnight to their mother before she leaves for the night. We would see the babysitter putting them to bed before she questions where the fathers presence is. She retreats downstairs and is caught by the father who believes she is trying to keep him from his children. We imply murder by seeing her limp body fall, the children would hear the bang and run downstairs screaming 'daddy!' as we see a final two shot of the figure and thee corpse before fading into our title screen.
Our third idea was where we followed a female antagonist into a masquerade ball where everybody dresses in their more eccentric dresses and suits with friendly masks to hide their identity. The female antagonist would however have a different, deformed, malicious looking one to show that she is different from the others and there for another reason than enjoyment. She would enter into the ball and a sub POV would show her searching for somebody, all the people we would focus pull into would have similarities with their looks. She approaches one from behind whilst tension is built by the incidental music playing in the background. We would fade to black as the lights go out where silence is heard. Sirens will begin to play before we cut into the title screens.
Our final, and chosen, idea was a thriller which would follow the life of a murdering priest whom kills people who he believes has committed an unjust deed decided by the book of Leviticus. He would believe that Jesus/God would want him to do this to remove the sinners against the church by the death punishments stated per deed. We would start this by seeing the reverend and a female walk out from the church on a Sunday morning. They would converse about the fun of his services and their relationship as father and daughter would be implied just before we would cut to seeing the daughter walking down the street in very little, and then counting her money at a corner. The priest acknowledges her profession and her life outside of the church and assumes she only comes to church to wash the sins away which she performs at night, even though she returns to her job after she has been forgiven. He approaches the teenage daughter and we cut to the morning without seeing her death. A subject would be walking past the area of death and would witness the corpse lying dead thus calling the police to report the murder; we cut after seeing and hearing the sirens of approaching police and ambulance vehicles. We would cut to the title screens where we would place a biblical reference from the Leviticus emphasizing the motive for her murder.
We chose this idea as everybody is committing themselves to horror movies, but we would like to follow the case of a serial killer, which turns out to be a priest who is deluded by the bible and his place as God's servant. We understand the difficulty and sensitivity of this task but we agree we could perform this well without harming religious audience members as I am a christian myself so would not allow anything too misguiding to be shown.
Researching genres through our questionnaire
Kiran, Daniel and I combined our thoughts to create a initial idea for our 2 minute opening sequence for a horror, thriller or rom-com movie. We devised a questionaire in the attempt to find out what audiences prefer these genre of movies to include. We brought our results together and created piecharts for each of our questions to view the audiences favourites and then compared them with the overall statistics from http://statisticalyearbook11.ry.com/?id=82790 to make our final decision for the genre we are going to use.
Our opening question was a multiple choice between which genre of movies they prefer and why they are attracted more to this genre. We also asked why they prefer this specific genre over the others, to understand what makes them biased towards enjoyment for their chosen genre.
After this we asked their favourite movies within these genres to see specifically which type of plot the audiences prefer within the vast genre choices. This question would help with us devising our own storyline which appeals to the majority.
Question three was their associations with their prefered genre. Answers to this were quite simple yet gave us a deeper insight into the simplicity of the escapism they desire from watching films like this.
Our fourth question was which colour schemes they expect on the title screen to help promote the genre of movie they are viewing.
We asked which music they assume will be heard at the beginning of their chosen favourite genre so that we can live up to these expectations whilst taking on our 2 minute opening sequence.
After this we interrogated them about what attracts them to watch movies so that we can include them to ensure our opening sequence is enjoyed by audience when they view it.
To help with which incidental music we will play at the beginning of our own production of the opening of a movie, we decided asking which music was expected was a crucial element to making our production blend in well with the style of chosen genre we choose to work within.
Question six was us asking what attracts you most to the specific genre you enjoy more than the others - this was so we could try and incorporate these elements, if possible, into our opening two minute production so that if it were a full movie we would have an engaged audience.
After noticing actors and actress' attracted some of the audiences we wanted to know which typical characters they expected the actors and actress' to play.
After knowing all of this we needed to know which location these performers would be acting the movie so we used the locations the audiences expect to find this out. The results here were fairly consistent as the majority picked a specific place with one or two fluctuations and differing opinions.
We decided we needed to know which type of opening the audiences preferred to see, regardless of the genre they prefer. This will help our group decide which opening we would like to incorporate into our piece so that it has the most effective opening possible.
One final thing we thought we needed to include was which props we would use within our piece for each style of genre. We asked the people who were most likely to watch the style of movie to tell us what they expect within the movie which will be quite prominent so we could try and include it.
We gathered our results up and made pie charts to show our results better and within specific groups per genre.
Our opening question was a multiple choice between which genre of movies they prefer and why they are attracted more to this genre. We also asked why they prefer this specific genre over the others, to understand what makes them biased towards enjoyment for their chosen genre.
After this we asked their favourite movies within these genres to see specifically which type of plot the audiences prefer within the vast genre choices. This question would help with us devising our own storyline which appeals to the majority.
Question three was their associations with their prefered genre. Answers to this were quite simple yet gave us a deeper insight into the simplicity of the escapism they desire from watching films like this.
Our fourth question was which colour schemes they expect on the title screen to help promote the genre of movie they are viewing.
We asked which music they assume will be heard at the beginning of their chosen favourite genre so that we can live up to these expectations whilst taking on our 2 minute opening sequence.
After this we interrogated them about what attracts them to watch movies so that we can include them to ensure our opening sequence is enjoyed by audience when they view it.
To help with which incidental music we will play at the beginning of our own production of the opening of a movie, we decided asking which music was expected was a crucial element to making our production blend in well with the style of chosen genre we choose to work within.
Question six was us asking what attracts you most to the specific genre you enjoy more than the others - this was so we could try and incorporate these elements, if possible, into our opening two minute production so that if it were a full movie we would have an engaged audience.
After noticing actors and actress' attracted some of the audiences we wanted to know which typical characters they expected the actors and actress' to play.
After knowing all of this we needed to know which location these performers would be acting the movie so we used the locations the audiences expect to find this out. The results here were fairly consistent as the majority picked a specific place with one or two fluctuations and differing opinions.
We decided we needed to know which type of opening the audiences preferred to see, regardless of the genre they prefer. This will help our group decide which opening we would like to incorporate into our piece so that it has the most effective opening possible.
One final thing we thought we needed to include was which props we would use within our piece for each style of genre. We asked the people who were most likely to watch the style of movie to tell us what they expect within the movie which will be quite prominent so we could try and include it.
We gathered our results up and made pie charts to show our results better and within specific groups per genre.
Our questionnaire
What genre do you prefer and why?
Rom comedy Horror Thriller
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What are your top favourite films of this genre?
___________________________________________________
What do you associate with this genre and why?
__________________________________________
What colour schemes do you expect to see in the opening text of the genre chosen?
___________________________________________________________
What music do you expect to hear at the start, before the scene starts (in the genre you have chosen)?
___________________________________________________________
What attracts you to a film?
____________________________________________________
What are the typical characters associated with this genre?
___________________________________________________
What is the best location you would expect from the genre chosen?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What type of opening do you prefer?
Titles then scene starts scene starts then titles come in master shot and titles
What props are linked with the genre you have chosen?
_____________________________________________________________
Monday, 23 January 2012
Sunday, 22 January 2012
British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)
In 1912 the British Board of Film Classification was founded and thereafter it classified cinema films, DVDs, Blu-rays etc. The Video Recording Act was introduced to the UK in 1984 in which Parliament passed requiring all video footage including video games, television programmes, films etc, which are stored on an electronic device and distributed to audiences, to be classified into one of the six classification sections:
This is the Universal sign meaning films are suitable for any age group as young as toddlers. It does not ensure that children will not be affected by the footage as each child is different; however, there is nothing which is unsuitable including no bad language, no violence, nothing of a sexualised nature etc. UC is when the content is particularly suitable for children.
Parental Guidance slightly differs to Universal as some scenes may mildly touch upon elements within products with a higher rating. Nevertheless, with a parent/guardian present, the film should not upset young audiences and is perfectly okay for youngsters to view.
The number 12 represents the age you should be, or above, to view things of this rating. Younger audiences may be affected by the aspects within and therefore are advised against watching/playing things with this rating. 12A slightly differs as the A represents adults being present meaning children under the age of 12 can view/play, but only with an adults presence and consent.
The age gap of three years brings us to a 15 rated product which makes a lot of difference within content. Adult themes such as sexual references, v are present and therefore are not suitable for slightly younger audiences due to their lack of knowledge as to whether what it happening is right, accepted and content may even confuse and disturb them. It is illegal for anybody under the age of 15 to buy/view video products with this rating as the rating has been devised knowing that audiences of this age group are informed about content such as drugs and violence without it frightening them - they also are trusted to not perform in activities such as ones shown as they are mature enough not to let it influence their decisions.
An 18 classification means that nobody under the age of 18 can legally purchase or view the content of whichever medium the classification is on. Sexual references, extreme violence, drug abuse etc occur quite vividly and frequently making the content unacceptable for younger audiences whom are not adults. Although at 18 you are only a young adult, you are legally allowed to drive, drink, smoke etc and therefore you are given the choice to do whatever you wish: this certificate allows entertainment for adult audiences and the irresponsible acts within the product seldom contribute to how adults act whereas it would with younger audiences. Gore and realism within this age group are more believable as boundaries can be pushed due to the mature mindset of the audience.
R18 is very uncommon and very rarely used, yet it symbolises the explicit material within the medium, prominently films. Shops must be licensed to sell products with this rating, such as sex shops, due to the strong fetish material involving adults and their sexual endeavours.
Products are usually viewed by multiple examiners who decide which certificate the product should be given in regards to the content. Multiple examiners of all different ranks have to verify the rating so that it is reliable and not just biased by one examiners opinions. If the other examiners disagree with the first certificate opinion, then the majority wins the classification.
The Book of Leviticus would be required to have a certificate of 15 due to the murder and violence present. As Charlotte, the first victim, is an implied harlot, the sexualisation would require a rating higher than U, PG and 12, yet as no sexual endeavours are viewed, the rating is not required to be an 18. The violence and death would continue as the narrative progresses but since the murders are not brutal and gory, the film does not necessarily have to be an 18 certificate, but it cannot be any lower than a 15 due to younger demographics being unable to understand the physiological aspects of the Thriller - confusion would occur when trying to understand events and piece the story together.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Revision of genres via the UK Film Council
For our project we needed to find out statistics for three genres: horror, thriller and rom-com. To do this we used the the statistics which the Statistical Year Book devised for every genre in 2010, in regards to their Box Office gross, to see which of our interested three rank most successful. The table we used from the UK Film Council (http://statisticalyearbook11.ry.com/?id=82790) helped determine which genre we would incorporate.
As witnessed above, the horror genre produced a large amount of movies compared to the other two genres; however rom-com proved to gross an overall more even though their releases were the smallest amount. Thrillers appear to be the overall least appealing to audiences, due to their small amount of gross compared to the other two, making our group be more sceptical about the production a thriller, rather than one of the others, even though it produced an extra movie in regards to its place alongside rom-com's. We decided we would gather our own research and make up plots for four movies, of varying genres, before deciding which genre we would focus on and complete an opening for, at the moment we don't want to produce a horror as much as the others due to the amount of interest with the other students meaning more frequent clashes would occur within the plot etc, yet rom-com has a higher standard to live up to due to its interest from its demographic. Thriller looks the most appealing to us right now, even though we are not sure due to its lack of gross and lack of movies when compared to the gross of the others, and the amount of movies horror produced.
Thriller: a broad genre of literature, film and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as main elements. (Wikipedia: Thriller (genre))
Thrillers have a tendency to keep you on the edge of your seat by giving cliffhangers, twists in the plot line, they are uncertain, surprising and thought provoke the audience into the outcomes from the adrenaline it evokes due to its fast pace.
Thrillers usually contain a protagonist and an antagonist, however the protagonist is usually unaware of the antagonists true colours and true ideas. The protagonist is usually set a task: a mystery to solve, an escape, a mission. This task is followed as the protagonist tries to overcome and solve what is at hand and the tension builds throughout the narrative of the plot making fight scenes and chase scenes anticipated by the audience. The tension builds and a stressful climax for the protagonist is needed, thus these scenes are vital within a thriller genre.
Thriller genres, such as many others, have their own sub-genre section. Some of the thriller genres are mystery thrillers, crime thrillers, spy thrillers such as James Bond, psychological thrillers etc. These have their own methods to convey the differences between the diverse range of sub-genres to make the sub-genre easier to define.
There are elements within a thriller genre which define it into this genre specifically, similar to that of a sub-genre. Within a thriller genre, near-death experiences are welcomed with open arms as it keeps the audience alert if/when the protagonist faces a life or death situation, even though the audience already knows the protagonist will survive to continue the movie. Secondly, the antagonist has to be more vindictive and seemingly smarter than the protagonist to ensure the protagonist is always on the chase after the antagonist. Within a thriller, all the actors need to portray the characters very naturalistic to emphasize the naturalism of the narrative as it is not meant to be comedic but rather serious. Themes within thriller movies question desires of power, the desire for justice and morality of the protagonist and antagonist - the protagonist usually is morally correct whereas the antagonist usually is immoral and unjust. To counterbalance these characters, you also need another hint of innocence within the plot, albeit it being a child or a religious figure, etc.
Rom-com: a rom-com is a light-hearted romantic movie where the protagonist always finds true love at the end with the antagonist, yet has to succumb to this through laughs from the audience along-the-way.
Romantic comedies have a tendency to have young love interests who are meant for one another but yet are kept apart either by their own accord or by circumstances made by another such as family indifference's such as in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The screen-play usually leaves hints and small reminders of the attraction between the two characters if they do not quite early on get involved with one another because they need to let the audience be aware that the attraction is there even if they are not yet fully happy with their relationship status without their other half.
Romantic comedies do not tend to have many sub-genres within them, the story-line just fluctuates: the protagonist and antagonist may not become partners, they may become partners with a less major character; the two may be physically separated through death or even the breaking up of the relationship; however, with this genre the narrative needs to fall one way or the other.
Rom-com's have recently developed a new genre which appeals not only to the female demographic anymore, but also the male. These rom-com's are combined with comedies which appeal to males such as ''stoner comedies'' such as Knocked Up being an example. Although these style of movies were once frowned upon, it is now becoming bigger as it appeals to a wider audience, causing more Box Office Gross from the more viewings.
Horror: movies within this genre play upon the audiences fears to create tension and fright. This genre of movie is meant to keep the audience in utmost terror yet ensuring they are unable to take their eyes from the screen.
Horror movies usually include a villain of some time and multiple victims, whether this be through supernatural creatures or an ordinary person whom commits the crimes, either way there is an awful lot of death, gore and violence. Horrors need to play to the audiences phobias and have changed drastically as the audiences have developed into having new fears.
Starting once with gothic genre films such as Dracula and Frankenstein, the genres have developed rapidly. Horror movies have the most amount of sub-genres compared to the other two genres in question starting with 'body horror' where bodies are destroyed and decayed through either somebody making them malformed or something happens to turn their skin against them, such as Cabin Fever. Comedy horror, Gothic horror which include older movies such as Dracula, Natural horror where natural beings are the horror such as in Jaws. Psychological horror relies upon supernatural beings such as Gothika. Science-fiction horrors such as Alien, slashers such as Halloween, Zombie horrors and Splatter horrors which include movies along the lines of Saw.
Thriller: a broad genre of literature, film and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as main elements. (Wikipedia: Thriller (genre))
Thrillers have a tendency to keep you on the edge of your seat by giving cliffhangers, twists in the plot line, they are uncertain, surprising and thought provoke the audience into the outcomes from the adrenaline it evokes due to its fast pace.
Thrillers usually contain a protagonist and an antagonist, however the protagonist is usually unaware of the antagonists true colours and true ideas. The protagonist is usually set a task: a mystery to solve, an escape, a mission. This task is followed as the protagonist tries to overcome and solve what is at hand and the tension builds throughout the narrative of the plot making fight scenes and chase scenes anticipated by the audience. The tension builds and a stressful climax for the protagonist is needed, thus these scenes are vital within a thriller genre.
Thriller genres, such as many others, have their own sub-genre section. Some of the thriller genres are mystery thrillers, crime thrillers, spy thrillers such as James Bond, psychological thrillers etc. These have their own methods to convey the differences between the diverse range of sub-genres to make the sub-genre easier to define.
There are elements within a thriller genre which define it into this genre specifically, similar to that of a sub-genre. Within a thriller genre, near-death experiences are welcomed with open arms as it keeps the audience alert if/when the protagonist faces a life or death situation, even though the audience already knows the protagonist will survive to continue the movie. Secondly, the antagonist has to be more vindictive and seemingly smarter than the protagonist to ensure the protagonist is always on the chase after the antagonist. Within a thriller, all the actors need to portray the characters very naturalistic to emphasize the naturalism of the narrative as it is not meant to be comedic but rather serious. Themes within thriller movies question desires of power, the desire for justice and morality of the protagonist and antagonist - the protagonist usually is morally correct whereas the antagonist usually is immoral and unjust. To counterbalance these characters, you also need another hint of innocence within the plot, albeit it being a child or a religious figure, etc.
Rom-com: a rom-com is a light-hearted romantic movie where the protagonist always finds true love at the end with the antagonist, yet has to succumb to this through laughs from the audience along-the-way.
Romantic comedies have a tendency to have young love interests who are meant for one another but yet are kept apart either by their own accord or by circumstances made by another such as family indifference's such as in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The screen-play usually leaves hints and small reminders of the attraction between the two characters if they do not quite early on get involved with one another because they need to let the audience be aware that the attraction is there even if they are not yet fully happy with their relationship status without their other half.
Romantic comedies do not tend to have many sub-genres within them, the story-line just fluctuates: the protagonist and antagonist may not become partners, they may become partners with a less major character; the two may be physically separated through death or even the breaking up of the relationship; however, with this genre the narrative needs to fall one way or the other.
Rom-com's have recently developed a new genre which appeals not only to the female demographic anymore, but also the male. These rom-com's are combined with comedies which appeal to males such as ''stoner comedies'' such as Knocked Up being an example. Although these style of movies were once frowned upon, it is now becoming bigger as it appeals to a wider audience, causing more Box Office Gross from the more viewings.
Horror: movies within this genre play upon the audiences fears to create tension and fright. This genre of movie is meant to keep the audience in utmost terror yet ensuring they are unable to take their eyes from the screen.
Horror movies usually include a villain of some time and multiple victims, whether this be through supernatural creatures or an ordinary person whom commits the crimes, either way there is an awful lot of death, gore and violence. Horrors need to play to the audiences phobias and have changed drastically as the audiences have developed into having new fears.
Starting once with gothic genre films such as Dracula and Frankenstein, the genres have developed rapidly. Horror movies have the most amount of sub-genres compared to the other two genres in question starting with 'body horror' where bodies are destroyed and decayed through either somebody making them malformed or something happens to turn their skin against them, such as Cabin Fever. Comedy horror, Gothic horror which include older movies such as Dracula, Natural horror where natural beings are the horror such as in Jaws. Psychological horror relies upon supernatural beings such as Gothika. Science-fiction horrors such as Alien, slashers such as Halloween, Zombie horrors and Splatter horrors which include movies along the lines of Saw.
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