Film Genre- Drama

GENRE: DRAMA

A drama is a film that deals a lot with human emotions. They are usually very serious or tense.
Conventions of Drama: They're all real life situations with realistic characters, settings, and stories.
The purpose of a dramatic story line is to move the audience emotionally
 Drama can be interlaced with other genres such as comedy, tragedy, etc. It does not have to be complete drama.
Drama Films That Break Conventions A comedy drama, It broke the convention of a typical ending where the audience knew what was going to happen to Larry. The film tried something new, that the audience would not predict. Titanic breaks the conventions as all does not end happily for the protagonists, but has a rather tragic ending.

A Walk To Remember

In Beaufort, North Carolina, a prank on a student goes terribly wrong and puts the student in the hospital. Landon Carter, a popular student with no defined plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to participate in after-school community service activities as punishment, which include starring as the lead in the school play. Also participating in these activities is Jamie Sullivan, the reverend's daughter who has great ambitions and nothing in common with Landon. When Landon decides he wants to take his activities seriously, he asks Jamie for help and begins to spend most of his time with her. But he starts to develop strong feelings for her, something he did not expect to do. The two start a relationship, much to the chagrin of Landon's old popular friends and Jamie's strict reverend father. But when a heart-breaking secret becomes known that puts their relationship to the test, it is then that Landon and Jamie realize the true meaning of love and fate.

I liked this film because it was very interesting and it brought out my emotions a lot.

Oscar Awards winners

Oscar Awards winners

2011-The Artist

Director: Michel Hazanavicius 
Storyline: This is a silent movie where the star meets a young dancer who then rises in the industry, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

2010-The King's Speech
Director: Tom Hooper 
Storyline: The story of  King George VI,George(Bertie) assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, he engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist. Through a set of unusual techniques,Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.

2009-The Hurt Locker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow 
Storyline: Portrayal of elite soldiers who have the most dangerous jobs in the world: which is disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team during violent conflict, he leaves his two subordinates in suprise, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly throwing them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos.

2008-Slumdog Millionaire
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan 
Storyline: The story of an 18 year-old orphan Jamal Malik, from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati? (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?)when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating as they think how could a street kid know so much? To prove his innocence Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes.

2007-No Country for Old Men
Directors: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen
Storyline:In Texas Llewelyn Moss who is a welder and hunter discovers bodies of several drug runners who have killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report what he has discovered to the police, Moss decides to take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts Anton Chigurh the psychopathic killer,on his trail as he murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in.

2006-The Departed

 Director: Martin ScorseseStoryline:In Boston, the state police force is waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan has been assigned the job to infiltrate the mob run by gangland chief Frank costello.Billy gains Costello's confidence.Colin Sullivan a young criminal who has got into the state police undercover as an informer for the syndicate he is rising to a position of power in the special investigation unit. Each man gathers information about plans of operations.but then it soon becomes clear to the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst.Billy and Colin are in danger of being exposed to the enemy so they have to race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. 

2005-Crash
Director:Paul haggis
Storyline:Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

2004-Million Dollar Baby
Director:Clint Eastwood
Storyline:A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer. 

2003-The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Director:Peter Jackson
Storyline:Aragorn leads the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw the dark lord's gaze from Frodo and Sam who are on the doorstep of Mount Doom with the One Ring. 

2002-Chicago
Director:Rob Marshall
Storyline:Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. 

2001-A Beautiful Mind
Director:Ron Howard
Storyline:After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.

The Vow (Popular)

Leo and Paige are a couple who just got married. After an accident, Paige is left unconscious, and when she awakes she doesn't remember Leo. Her parents, whom she hasn't seen since she and Leo got together, come and visit her. She can't believe that she hasn't seen them for such a long time. Leo wants to bring her home with him but her parents want her to go with them. She goes with Leo but when she doesn't recognize anything, she goes to her parents. And she wonders why did she cut off contact with her family. She also runs into her ex and wonders why they broke up. Leo tries to win her back by courting her again.

Released on the 10th febuary 2012

the audience for this could be women or teenagers. 16-30 years

Les miserables (critical acclaim)

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.

Released on the 11th January 2013.

The audience for this film are people who like mysterious dark film.

Films that come out in January tend to be cold and dark.

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Les Miserables(Critical Acclaim)

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.

Gross:

 $148,775,460 (USA) (29 March 2013)

The Vow(Popular)

A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again

Gross:

 $125,014,030 (USA) (13 May 2012)

The Artist

Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the silent film, George Valentin. The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: "Who's That Girl?" and Peppy is inspired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin's world upside-down.

Gross:
$44,667,095 (USA) (15 June 2012)

SCOTT PILGRIM

The synergies between the film poster trailer and the film to Scott Pilgrim are very similar because, firstly the institutions that are included in the poster trailer and the film, secondly the clothes that the person is wearing in the picture is the same clothes that are used in the trailer and the film, this goes to show how he is as a person it also shows that he is playing his guitar without looking up. this is what geeks look like really, it also seems like he is in a band because in the poster trailer and film he acts like one. the colours that are used in this poster are also used in the trailer and the film for the title. The target market for this film would be tribe wired people from D-E range or maybe even teenagers who like this.

indiana jones

The sounds at the start before the images are very mysterious,scary and the crow sounds give it a better effect. After some images come, it starts sounding more adventurous. 

The film seems really ancient after seeing people wearing dirty, old clothes running in a jungle.

There is more non- diagetic sounds in this which are sound effects and track, than diagetic which is usually just the actor speaking.

A lot of mid angle shots were used, probably to catch the audiences eyes

the music is also pitched high at random times which makes it sound like its important,or signs of danger. the drums sound like and unfriendly tribe.

audience in film- dramedy

The audience for Dramedy films is a genre that has a dramatic tone yet important elements of comedy. In Dramedy film, the amount of drama and comedy are almost equally balanced. This balance provides comedic relief for the audience, while still addressing serious issues.

West Is West- Comedy Drama

West Is West- Comedy Drama

West is west was filmed in Bradford in England and Punjab near Chandigarh, a city in the north of India.

this film has a lot of mid legnth shots.

An immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country because hes doesnt know himself anymore.
I like this film because it shows that racism should not be accepted in any part of the country, however i dislike it because it can get annoying.
Manchester, North of England, 1975. Khan family continues to struggle for survival.
Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard.
So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No. 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No. 2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
 

Newspaper Evaluation Project- The Daily Telegraph.

Newspaper Evaluation Project- The Daily Telegraph.

The newspaper was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 and since 2004 has been owned by David and Frederick Barclay.

the intended audience for this newspaper is older adults and old people because younger people wouldnt like reading it as it has complicated words and the topics are not interesting enough for youngsters.

The news values that are on this front page is negativity, bad news about a five year old girl who has been kidnapped.

 The Mid shots in the middle stand out a lot because they're at eye level and thats what would catch the readers attention first then they'd read whats there about the picture.