Genre (Media Language)

Genre:

For my A2 Media short film, the genre of it is a Pshycolgical Thriller with elements of Sci-Fi. I took a direct inspiration from The Twilight Zone, and expanded on it's traditional Sci-Fi aspects and converged it with Pshycolgical Thriller. As Pshycological Thriller was the per-dominate genre out of the three, I decided to catagorise it as a Pshycogical Thriller.

Hegemony

Hegemony 

Hegemony is the predominate influence over other groups of people. An example of this is richer, higher classed people's actions have an influence over the poorer, lower class people. There is a dominance, however no one is forced to do something. If you don't like Football, you're are not forced to watch or associated yourself to Football.

The majority decides what fits in with society and cultural views, whilst the minority keeps their opinions and objections quiet. Hegemony is about consent, and one the things it consents to is inequality - us and them. Hegemony captures the struggle between powerful and subordinate groups in society.

Stuart Hall states that the media hegemonic represents of reality that serve powerful interest.  

Behind the Scenes - Filming location: House

Intro theme

Seeing as most music and film prior to the 60's are public domain, there is no copyright in regards to the theme song. Therefore I'll be using the original score as the music for my film.

Storyboard

Film Narrative

Narrative for short films is essentially a fancy word for how the story is told. The structure for short films is that the ending either has a specific meaning or that there is a twist in the end. The enigma of a short film is often set out in the opening minute, and it entices the audience to pay attention throughout. The best type of short films have an 'unexpected' twist in the end, where the audience is caught completely off guard, although some of the best short films around often have a message or value that they try to put across. Both ways can be very effective and keep the audience interested.

The making of Short films.

The actual production of short films is essentially the same as feature lengths. The way that they differ, is the short film are half the time funded by the people making the film, and the other half made by aspiring directors, hoping to break into the mainstream film industry. People can still go to companies and pitch their ideas in order to gain donations for their short films. However this way will almost guarantee a lost for the companies, as short films don't make a lot of money.

The post-production is different as well as the way they are distributed. Short films are either posted online or sent off to film festivals in order to gain feedback and an audience, whereas for feature length films, the rights of the films are bought out and played at designated cinemas or specially bought for locations. A lot more work in distribution has to be done for short films, in comparison with feature length films.