Collage

This collage illustrates the themes, colours and other aspects of mise-en-scene which I am going to use in my film.

Five Films In Ten Years

The Fantasy Film Genre

Fantasy films classify as films that include fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds - which falls under the speculative fiction category. 

Speculative fiction is a broad category that includes elements, settings and characters created out of imagination and speculation rather than based on reality and everyday life.

The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are High Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery. Both categories typically employ quasi-medieval settings, wizards, magical creatures and other elements commonly associated with fantasy stories. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. It typically strays from reality, featuring fictional types of beings like mythical creatures and supernatural entities, technologies that do not exist in real life like time machines and interstellar spaceships.

High Fantasy films tend to feature a more richly developed fantasy world, and may also be more character-oriented or thematically complex. Often, they feature a hero of humble origins and a clear distinction between good and evil battling. Whilst Sword and Sorcery movies tend to be more plot-driven than high fantasy and focus heavily on action sequences, often pitting a physically powerful via the use of the unsophisticated warrior against a supernaturally endowed enemy. Although Sword and Sorcery films sometimes describe an epic battle between good and evil - similar to those found in many High Fantasy movies - they may alternately present the hero as having more immediate motivations, such as the need to protect a vulnerable girl or village, or even being driven by the desire for vengeance.

Audience Theory

A2 Media Studies Audience theory from Rebecca Abrahamson

Short Films And Music Videos

For inspiration for my A2 coursework I have recently been looking at both music videos and short films. A website that has caught my attentions is shortoftheweek.com.

It contains a collection of music videos and short films made by people worldwide. Founded by Andrew Allen, it has been running since 2007 and promote the greatest and most innovative stories from around the world. There are a variety of channels and genres on the website and is proving very useful for my inspiration.

House Stark || Castle

For those who are new to my blog, I make film and television programme edits on my YouTube channel. This is one of my most recent edits (having only been finished today). I'll admit that this isn't my best piece of work but I'm still pretty pleased with it. I'm still getting used to using Final Cut Pro and to be honest, I'm surprised it turned out as good as it did - especially after I lost the storyline to it.

I enjoy experimenting with different effects both visually and audibly during these sort of edits. I tend  to use different filters on my computer to try and add different effects or to place the clips in a new light to see if it fits better. This is very useful for my media coursework as I am planning on putting my short film through a filter. This means that I must find a filter that I believe is suitable for my film and that will require a lot of searching because I think the filter I used last time would be too dim for the theme and style of my coursework this year.

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I WILL BE CREATING

"A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options: a poster for the film, a radio trailer for the film, a film magazine review page featuring the film."

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