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I am currently in the process of editing, altering and adding to my film reel. So far, i have around 2 and a half minutes of editing footage and around thirty seconds of my cinematography role. Next, i will edit in some of my cinematography footage to reach around 5/6 minutes for the show reel

A female corpse is walking through the forest , she stops and looks around her and she smiles. The voices of people can be heard not that far away , she walks up to the people and she says “hello , my name is Rose ” and all of the people scream.

My favourite movie score is fron The Man from U.N.C.LE (2015 , directed by Guy Ritchie) because it uses unconventional instruments , such as guitars – the score was composed by Daniel Pemberton . There are obvoius paralells between this score and the score for James Bond( it is a spy movie set in the 60s after all) but I like this score because it is completly distinct from it and it higtens the impact of the action scenes and makes them seem thrilling and I really liked how the score embodied the time period that the film was set in (the 1960’s) and how it seemed to be authentic to the time period as there is no music included in the film that wouldn’t have been played in the 60’s.

 

The score is unique and althogh it was ment to reference movies in the 1960’s that had similar scores , it is very distinct nowadays , as that type of music is not as common in films anymore , so the expectations of the younger audience members would be challanged ,that is what this score did for me. Additionally , as the score is so unusual  it allowed me to actually listen to it and appriciate it because I was so used to hearing orchestral music in film , I didn’t really pay that much attention to it and this score is so different that it made me pay attention to the music.

Directing  

Melodrama  

• A young man bumps into a girl who is running through a forest, she is knocked over and the man asks if she is okay, she says that she is being perused and she continues to run into the forest. 
• A few seconds after the Girl runs away a man appears and he says that the girl is a Princess and that she ran away in order to escape an arranged marriage, the man asks if he has seen her and the man lies, he says that she went in the opposite direction and the man runs of after her.  a few hours later, the man, who is the Princesses’ betrothed is seen dragging her through the forest and the young man comes up behind him and smothers him. 
• The young man walks up to the Princess and apologizes for scaring her and he tells her that he hates it when people’s free will is forcibly taken from them and he tells the princess that he will take her to safety. 

• An epilogue shows that a few years later, the Princess and the young man get married and live happily ever after.  

Influences  

• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari  
• Victorian melodrama e.g. Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red barn 
• Silent films. 

Extra information 

• I intend to make the film silent and replace dialogue with cards, like the Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari and it will be filmed in black and white. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slapstick comedy  

• Two women are sitting at a coffee table gossiping when a third woman turns up and shows them a gold ring that she found. The other women fawn over it and ask questions about it. 
• A fourth woman turns up and claims that the third woman stole the ring and the second woman denies this and this makes the fourth woman angry so she slaps the second woman and the second woman slaps her in return, the second woman proceeds to pick up a cup of cold tea and throw it in the newcomers face and the fourth woman does the same to her and they continue to throw objects at each other until a man who is a jewel thief turns up and reveals that he was the jewel thief. 

Influences  

• Old comedy films e.g. the work of Charle Chaplin  
• Monty Python  

Extra information 

• It will be filmed in oversaturated color  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editor 

romance  

• A young boy and girl meet in a diner and they start to flirt with each other, their parents hate each other so they are forced to keep their relationship a secret.  
• The boy asks the girl to meet him at the beach and he is devastated to discover that the girl’s parents have arranged for her to marry another man, he asks her to meet him again, later that night  and when she gets home , the girl writes a note and she goes to the beach and the lovers   it is implied that they ran away together.  
• The girl’s mother discovers the letter and she screams.  

Influences 

• Rome + Juliet (1996 Baz Lhurman)  

• Breathless (1960, Jean Luc Godard)  – the film had a sad ending  
• French New Wave  

 

 

 

 

Horror comedy 

• In the 19th century, Rose Blythe was always kind to everyone, and she was one of the wealthiest women in the town, but she died in an accident when she fell down the stairs and hit her neck. 
• Rose is buried but the people of the town don’t forget her – they continue to pass down memories of her and, even in death, she encourages people to be good. 
• About a century after Rose’s death, her corpse is brought back to life by a mysterious force   that tells her that she is still needed and she continues to walk the earth, helping people everywhere.  

Influences  

• Warm Bodies (2013) 
• Shaun of the dead (2004)  
• Zombie comedy  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing  

• Catharine Johnson is the granddaughter of a wealthy man called Lenard Johnson and she is going to visit him, but when she arrives, she finds that he has died under suspicious circumstances. 
• The police are called, and Catharine is named as a suspect, even though she had arrived after the death of her grandfather, since she was left a lot of money in her grandfather’s will. Catharine loved her grandfather and recalls fond memories from her childhood when he took her in after her parents died. He has left her a plain wooden box in his will, and he left her a letter which says that the contents are “very important” and that she must only open it in the most “dire of circumstances” 
• The police suspect Catherine of murdering her grandfather and Henry Hornby, the police chief is particularly quick to accuse her, and this seems suspicious to Catherine, so she looks in the box that her grandfather gave her, and she discovers that Hornby used to be Lenard Johnson’s business partner but he tried to swindle her grandfather out of his earnings and her grandfather cut him out of the business. This revelation causes Catharine to realize that it was Hornby that murdered her grandfather. Hornby enters and tells her that her assumptions are correct and that he killed her parents as well, he attempts to kill her to cover up his crimes, but she escapes, and Hornby is arrested. 

 

 

Influences  

 

• Film noir  
• Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) 

• Femme fatale  
• Trope subversion – the femme fatal is not evil , she is a victim of circumstances  

Extra information 

 

• Black and white  

Directing  

Melodrama  

• A young man bumps into a girl who is running through a forest, she is knocked over and the man asks if she is okay, she says that she is being perused and she continues to run into the forest. 
• A few seconds after the Girl runs away a man appears and he says that the girl is a Princess and that she ran away in order to escape an arranged marriage, the man asks if he has seen her and the man lies, he says that she went in the opposite direction and the man runs of after her.  a few hours later, the man, who is the Princesses’ betrothed is seen dragging her through the forest and the young man comes up behind him and smothers him. 
• The young man walks up to the Princess and apologizes for scaring her and he tells her that he hates it when people’s free will is forcibly taken from them and he tells the princess that he will take her to safety. 

• An epilogue shows that a few years later, the Princess and the young man get married and live happily ever after.  

Influences  

• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari  
• Victorian melodrama e.g. Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red barn 
• Silent films. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slapstick comedy  

• Two women are sitting at a coffee table gossiping when a third woman turns up and shows them a gold ring that she found. The other women fawn over it and ask questions about it. 

• A fourth woman turns up and claims that the third woman stole the ring and the second woman denies this and this makes the fourth woman angry so she slaps the second woman and the second woman slaps her in return, the second woman proceeds to pick up a cup of cold tea and throw it in the newcomers face and the fourth woman does the same to her and they continue to throw objects at each other until a man who is a jewel thief turns up and reveals that he was the jewel thief. 

Influences  

• Old comedy films e.g. the work of Charle Chaplin  
• Monty Python  

 

Editor 

Tragic romance  

• A young boy and girl meet in a diner and they start to flirt with each other, their parents hate each other so they are forced to keep their relationship a secret.  
• The boy asks the girl to meet him at the beach and he is devastated to discover that the girl’s parents have arranged for her to marry another man, he asks her to meet him again, later that night  and when she gets home , the girl writes a note and she goes to the beach and the lovers walk into the sea together and it is implied that they have drowned themselves.  
• The girl’s mother discovers the letter and she screams.  

Influences 

• Rome + Juliet (1996 Baz Lhurman)  
• Breathless (1960, Jean Luc Godard 0  

 

 

 

 

Horror comedy 

• In the 19th century, Rose Blythe was always kind to everyone, and she was one of the wealthiest women in the town, but she died in an accident when she fell down the stairs and hit her neck. 
• Rose is buried but the people of the town don’t forget her – they continue to pass down memories of her and, even in death, she encourages people to be good. 
• About a century after Rose’s death, her corpse is brought back to life by a mysterious force   that tells her that she is still needed and she continues to walk the earth, helping people 

Influences  

• Warm Bodies (2013) 
• Shaun of the dead (2004)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing  

• Catharine Johnson is the granddaughter of a wealthy man called Lenard Johnson and she is going to visit him, but when she arrives, she finds that he has died under suspicious circumstances. 
• The police are called, and Catharine is named as a suspect, even though she had arrived after the death of her grandfather, since she was left a lot of money in her grandfather’s will. Catharine loved her grandfather and recalls fond memories from her childhood when he took her in after her parents died. 
• A police detective by the name of Robert Notworthy arrives to interrogate Catharine and he suggests that she hired an assassin to poison her grandfather – Catherine takes offence to this and she reveals that her grandfather gave her an annual stipend of £ 1 million and that she was perfectly content with what she had. 
• Notworthy goes away and discovers that everything that Catharine was saying is true and that none of what she was saying is a lie, but when he presents this information to his superiors, they do not believe him, and they say that Catharine has seduced him. 
• Catharine is arrested for the death of her grandfather and she is told to confess to the murder, and they attempt to coerce her, but Catharine insults them by calling them incompetent fools and they take her away. 

• The police chief, Henry Hornby says that Catharine has been arrested on suspicion of murder and he seems gleeful, and Notworthy discovers that Hornby was involved in a business deal with Lenard Johnson and once Johnson discovered Hornby’s tendency to lie and cheat, he ended his business ties with him, and once Johnson became rich, Hornby swore revenge. 
• Notworthy attends the court and, to his surprise, he is called on to give evidence and he reveals all that he knew. Hornby is arrested and Catharine is immediately released. The pair meet later in the park and it is implied that they start a romantic relationship. 

 

 

Influences  

 

• Film noir  
• Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) 
• Femme fatale  
• Trope subversion