FEARS

MOVIES CREATED THAT ARE BASED ON DIFFERENT FEARS

PERSONAL FEARS

- Drowning  (Titanic) 

- Darkness   (Lights Out) 

- People leaving   (Armageddon)

- Death   (Warm bodies) 

- Snakes  (Snakes on a plane)

- Ghosts   (Evil Dead)

- Getting bad grades   (Animal house) 

- Failing   (The wolf of wall street) 

- Embarrassment    (12 years a slave) 

- Disappointing my parents  (Wild Child)
- Losing people   (A walk to remember)
- Being alone   (Wall-E) 

MY PARENTS' FEAR

- Health   (The fault in our stars)

- Grades   (Animal house) 

- Safety   (Home alone) 

- Drugs    (We are your friends)

- Scared of us making bad decisions    (coyote ugly)

- Our happiness    (We bought a zoo) 

- Our future success   (The blind side) 

- Losing us    (Taken) 

- Money      (The pursuit of happiness)

SOCIETY'S FEAR 

- Political   (The candidate) 

- Change   (Tomorrow land) 

- War    (Unbroken) 

- Virus   (World war Z)

- Environment   (2012)

- Dictatorship    (The dictator)

- Genocide    (War of the worlds)

CONVENTIONAL CREDIT STRUCTURE 

THE ORDER

- Studio name (eg. Columbia Pictures)
- Production companies (eg. Ho'fflund/Polone production)
- Main actors (eg. Jared Leto)
- Movie title (eg. Panic Room)
- Supporting actors (eg. Kristen Stewart - 12 years old)
- Casting manager (eg. Laray Mayfield)
- Costume designer  (eg. Michael Kaplan)
- Music (eg. Howard Shore)
- Film Editors (eg. Angus Wall)
- Production Designer (eg. Arthur Max)
- Director of Photography (eg. Conrad W. Hall)
- Producers (eg. Gavin Polone)
- Writer (eg. David Koepp)
- Director (eg. David Fincher)

AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION

Audience segmentation is a process of dividing people into homogeneous subgroups based upon defined criterion such as product usage, demographics, psychographics, communication behaviour and media use.

Breaking up into groups

 

These include :

-  Gender 

- Age

- Lifestyle 

- Ethnicity/Race 

- Income

- Interests

- Social Class

- Personality

In class we separated people into different groups according to their social grading

Zodiac

2007

DIRECTOR:     David fincher

He directed films such as “ Fight club, Seven, The game, Panic room, gone girl, girl with the dragon tattoo"

Genre

• Thriller                                                                        

Sub-genre

• Crime
• Serial Killer
• Biographical

Main characters in zodiac

• Mark Ruffalo
• Jake Gyllenhaal                                                                
• Robert Downey Jr

(But this does not happen in Zodiac)

  How does Zodiac play with serial killer convention?  

1. There is no closure - in real life because they never caught the Zodiac.
2. In the beginning it should be calm - Equilibrium - however Zodiac starts with a killing.
3. The investigators are never in control.

Narrative Range

Unrestricted

The audience knows more and sees more than the character.                     BIG PICTURE

• Killings, the killer never gets caught, 1968-1990.

                                                                                                

Restricted                                                                                                             CONFLICT           

The characters and the audience learn the story at the same time.

• Details of case
• Arthur leigh Allen becomes a suspect                                             DETAIL
• How complicated the investigation was

BIG PICTURE - HIGH ANGLE SHOTS

(often establishing)

• Reminds us of the plots bigger picture
• Omnipotent (godlike)
• Cold, unemotional, clinical, floating.

DETAIL - CLOSE UP SHOTS

Inside of cars - trapped

Point of view - the case “evidence” - not being able to see the big picture

GRAYSMITH

• Obsessed
• Boy scout
• Unique
• Nice guy
• Disorganised
• Method; Madness

 

TOSCHI

• No nonsense
• Stylish
• Experience
• Balance
• Rules
• Procedure

Our recreation of a few shots from the film "Zodiac"

WHY DO WE WATCH SCARY FILMS?

CATHARSIS - we watch negative things so we can purge; cleanse our negative thoughts

ARISTOTLE

• We are drawn to violent, negative imagery or experiences to release pent up feelings of aggression.

DOLF ZILLMAN

• Excitation transfer theory
• By experiencing negative and scary imagery we intensity the positive feelings when the negative is removed.

GLEN D. WALTERS

For films to be scary they must

• 1) Tension and suspense  - Narrative, use of micro-elements - manipulation of information.
• 2) Release  - The fears explored by the audience have to be relevant to the audience - they have to believe.
• 3) Unrealism  - We have to know it is not real.