Filming ideas

On the 19th of February Matty, Patrick and I met up in town to discuss possible ideas for our media studies project. The first thing we discussed was possible genres. So we started off naming all the genres we know and then seeing which ones were realistic enough for us to do. The genres which we were left with that we could possibly do were Action, Romance, Horror, Drama, Comedy and crime and gangster. Thoses are the genres that we were looking at possibly doing for our Film.

The reason why we are not considering the other genres are:

- Can't do thriller as it will take too long to build up suspence.
- Can't do sci-fi as it is too complicated to do effectivrly. Our knowledge of Sci-fi is limited.
- Can't do Westerns as it envolves being in rural areas which we don't have. EG:desert
- Can't do musicals as it involves having good singers and dancers and the songs could take more than 2 minutes which is more than our maximum allowed time.
- Can't do war films simply because we just dont have the finance to do that.

Our first idea for our is to do a con-man type film. We feel that the con-man idea was our prefered option but we also discussed the option of using the other dramas such as action crime and comedy.

Our target audience for this will be 15-28 years old. This is the audience range that we would understand the most and it fits in with the genres we would like to do.

Shot reverse shot

Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is film technology wherein one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

A Shot Reverse Shot starts off with an Establishing shot and then a tight shot is also used help engage the viewers emotion. To shot the shot you need to have a basic two shot and then a medium shot of each character, a medium shot over the shoulder of each character and a close up of eacg character. All shots should be done from the same angle and a lot of lead space to see to make sure they are looking at the other character and also do not go over the 180 degree rule otherwise the audience will be confused in what you are doing.