Stuart Wallace- Institutions that may be involved with the film

I have decided that there are two main film institutions that would be involved with the film, this is due to the film being a PG Thriller as well as these being recognized brands.

The first is Warner Brother's, due to their involvement with children, this could be from their cartoons to their other children films, and I believe that their experience would be useful in advertising and distributing the film. But there have also been involved with television, such as Smallville, Buffy the vampire slayer which in some way are thrillers. They also produced the Harry Potter films which have been known as a British phenomenon, based on its reputation, Warner Brother's would be a great institution to work with.

I have also decided that Spyglass Entertainment would be the perfect distributors, since they have 12 years experience with co-producing films as well as being able to work with Paramount Pictures as well as Disney. This would mean that a large part of the market could be targeted when advertising the film through their connections and links.  

Stuart Wallace- Key Elements Checklist

• That the story starts with enigma codes, making the audience question the film and the ideologies shown
• The use of length of takes, long takes to grab the attention and shot takes to cause tension
• Will need an introduction to main character, this could be through a non-diegetic narrative or left for the audience to discover

• This piece of text should not contain scenes that are acceptable to younger viewers, this could be realistic gore as well as sexual content.
• The non-diegetic sound matches the mise en scene, and is relevant to the feeling of the introduction
• Will have to use a dolly shot, this is the generic camera movement within certain scenes in thriller
• Lighting will have to be used effectively, this could be having a lack of light to cause enigma codes and to create tension
• May use the theory where a scene is acted but the actually offence is not seen, such as the famous shower scene where the killer stabs the woman, this leaves the action to be imagined by the audience which can be worse than recreating it

pietro papadimitriou: research on genre and things to be included in the film

Film genre research and traits

Me and Stuart decided to create a PG rated thriller opening.

Pg rated movies have some common characteristics, even if each one is different.

Some common characteristics are:

• Ghosts, both good and bad.
• Creepy places , such as haunted mansions or graveyards
• General creepy objects such as spider webs, dark places with flickering candles, graves and particular weather conditions for example deep fog or heavy storms
• The protagonists are generally funny and smart but also really scared of ghosts or monsters
• There is always a happy ending where the protagonists are well and survived the bad adventure.

A great example is Scooby-doo the movie:

In this movie all of this characteristics previously explained appear, in fact ghosts or monsters always appear. Creepy places such as “ the creepy theme park” where the movie is located, the protagonists are smart ( Vlma) funny ( shaggy and Scooby-doo) and brave ( Daphne and fred)

At the end of the movie , they find out who the villain is and everything goes back to equilibrium.

Pietro Papadimitriou: Graphic break down the haunted mansion

Graphic break down

THE HAUNTED MANSION

Order of appearing:

1. Walt Disney logo ( PG rated film)
2. Walt Disney picture presents
3. Eddie Murphy
4. THE HAUNTED MANSION
5. a ROB MINKOFF  film
6. Terrence stamp
7. Nathaniel parker
8. Marsha Thomanson
9. Jennifer Tilly
10. Wallace Shawn
11. Dina waters
12.  Marc John ferries
13. Casting by Marsha Ross, Donna Morong, Gail Goldberg c.s.a
14. music by Mark Mancina
15.  special make up effect by Rick Baker
16. visual effect supervisor Jay Redd
17.  costume designer Mona May
18. editor Priscilla Nedd Friendly, A.C..R.
19. production designer John Myhre
20. director of photography Remi Adefarasin, B&C
21. based on Walt Disney’s   haunted mansion
22. executive producers Rob Minkoff & Barry bernard
23. produced by Don Hahn and Andrew

 

Stuart Wallace- Narrative Theory

Propp’s Theory
The hero, usually male, is the agent who restores the narrative equilibrium often by embarking upon a quest, for our piece the hero may be the ghost, who may help the person have a better quality of life, and teaches him how to let loose.

The villain who creates the narrative disruption. This may either be a different “bad” ghost who wants to cause trouble.  

The donor gives the hero something, it may be an object, information or advice, which helps in resolution of the narrative. This may be an item to fight the bad ghost, and to finally destroy it.

The helper aids the hero in the task of restoring equilibrium. This may be the person which the good ghost has taken control of, having him give the ghost advice on how to go around normal life without looking awkward.

The princess (the victim) is usually the character most threatened by the villain and has to be saved, at the climax, by the hero. This may be a girl which the boy has had a crush on for years, a childhood fantasy romance, which he worships the ground she walks on

The dispatcher sends the hero on her or his task, I don’t think that this would be used, since the characters goals are their own.

The false hero appears to be good but is revealed, this may be one of the friends that the boy finds when he becomes popular, this may be due to jealousy and so he uses this to backstab the main character.

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Stuart Wallace- Audience Research

Defining the perfect audience- using UK Tribes

I believe that the perfect audience would be mainstream, due to a number of reasons. They tend to be in their teens, and exploring new experiences such as alcohol, women and many more. It is also the largest market segment, meaning that the film will be targeted at the mass market, which is why the film has to appeal to a wide range of people. This segment interacts the media through internet, TV as well as magazines, it is more likely that they are affected by opinion leader from their peers to reviews on TV or a magazine.

                                                                          

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