Today was interesting because I hadn't done my Post-Production Evaluation and he didn't even release it! But anyways, we have another assignment to do on our film. A couple of lessons back Mr Andrews had talk to us about making a web page for our film, like promoting our film by creating a web page. This was going to be designed to show what our film is about. We had to do a research task, where we had to go on Google and search Web Pages of movies that would suite our genre. We (as a group) had a few problems deciding on what genre our film was, so we had to google what the movie The Lovely Bones was and again we got different answers. I had recieved the genre as a Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mysterious and I think there was one more but I forgot. In the end the rest of the group had search the same genre so our genre of our film was Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery.
After we found what our genre was going to be, we had to go and find similar movies are have the genre and look if they have a Web Page. At school most of the Web Pages that I've been on are blocked or wouldn't open because there's something wrong with the school internet. This problems here has been a big problem because I can't find any Web Pages that are good and do the rest of the task, even though I found some other things to do. The other thing that I did was find actual movies who have the same genre before I start searching for Web Pages. This took a while last lesson because Olivia, Shelby and I didn't really do much work last lesson because we were just talking about Horror movies, which wasn't the best idea I don't believe... :S
So we didn't do much last lesson. This lesson why caught up with what we had to do because we heard that this whole research about finding the Web Pages is due by the end of next week so we had to be getting cracking.
Shelby was a great help today because she had found a website that had movies that were in fact similar to the genre of The Lovely Bones. When I went on the website I found great movies that I have never heard of because most of them are coming out this year or the next. So it was a really good website to search the genre films.
Near the end of the lesson Mr Andrews showed us 2 trailers of the very old Indian Jones: Raider of the Lost Ark film. This was to show us how the genre can affect the way we view the film by watch the trailers. It was old, but it had the same genre; action and it had the same style of what the retold version of Indian Jones had become.
The second trailer that Mr Andrews showed us was off a very scary version of Mary Poppins. When he said that I was like yeah I can actually see this happening because when I was younger I thought that it was a little bit scary. The trailer that he showed was actually really clever and funny in the same time because everyone knows the story of Mary Poppins and how it's a great musical and how fantasy is combined with a wonderful Nanny. But when Mr Andrews showed us this, WOW! This was a funny shock! It was actually really scary, because of the sound that it had produced, the lighting was darker and the took out the darker shots from the film and placed it into this scary version of Mary Poppins. I have to say, the person who came up with this idea is a genius and I don't believe that anyone could come up with something like this. I bet they were really bored and they had enough time on their hands!!
So you might be saying, what's the point of Mr Andrews showing us about this two different trailers? Well with the first one, Indian Jones, Mr Andrews wanted us to see that with a very old film the genre and the style how we know the Indian Jones version today, are still the same from showing the audience that they kind the genre much a same and that they kept the character much the same (as I look upon it). For the Mary Poppins one, we know the story of the musical, happy lively version one, but what if we twisted the story around and only showed the scary parts of the film in; what happens now? Ta, Da! You come up with a horror version of Mary Poppins!
So the point of this is to show is that trailers have the power of telling us what genre it is, what it is about and how the actual film could react to the audience by just watching the trailers.
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