The Inbetweeners Movie- British low budget

Box Office
Budget: £3,500,000 (estimated)
Gross: £60,000,000 (Worldwide)

Release Date: 17th August 2011 (UK)

Country:

UK


This film had a small budget but it made a lot of profit, and was very popular for a low budget film, the reason why it might of been very popular was because before it was a movie, it was a very popular TV comedy series in the UK and everyone enjoyed watching the show, and when it was a movie it would have a lot of fans and this is what made it very popular.

The first weekend it was out it went over the budget by £10 million and already made a £10 million profit which is quick for a low budget film as well. But that was only in the UK and wasn't as popular in the US, only making £23,000. It also was shown in 470 different screenings in the UK and was only shown in 10 in the US. It has a wider UK audience than a US one, because it is a British film and more British people would understand it. Also, people tend to think that the UK have a different sense of humour so USA people might not understand the humour and not find it funny when British people will.

Fast and Furious 7- American box office

Box Office

Country:

  USA and Japan

Budget:

£125,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$95,123,026 (USA) (5 April 2015)

Gross:

$1,008,854,000 (Worldwide) (19 April 2015)


Release date: 3 April 2015 (USA) 

This film is the 7th film of the franchise, 'Fast and Furious' and is the first and quickest to reach $1 million, with fast and furious 6 reaching up to $800,000,000 which was the closest film out of the franchise no including the latest film to reach $1 million. It reached it in a short space of less than 15 days, this is outstanding for most films.

This filmed reached it because of a lot of reasons but one of the main reasons would be the actors in it, specifically one. Paul Walker died halfway through making this film and the audience and fans of Paul Walker would want to watch him in one of his last films he is in, and this meant more people went to see it as well. but other people might disagree to this as well, because another star died recently, Robin Williams, and one of his last films was 'Night of the Museum' which wasn't as popular and got a grossing of $300,000,000 worldwide which is a lot less than 'Furious 7'.

Skyfall- British franchise

Box Office

Budget: £130,000,000 (estimated)      

Opening Weekend: £85,364,714 (USA) (9 November 2012)    

Gross: £750,000,000 (Worldwide) (27 April 2013)

Release date:  26 October 2012 (UK)

Country: UK | USA

Skyfall is part of the James Bond franchise and there are 23 other movies, the first ever movie was shown in cinemas in 1962, Dr No. And the latest movie released in 2012 is skyfall. they are also making another movie which will come out in 2015 called SPECTRE starring Daniel Craig again. All James Bond films they have made are all successful so they know that if they make another movie it will defiantly make a profit because of its successful past. they have been making James Bond films for over 50 years.

They made around £60 million in the first weekend in the USA and made half that the next weekend, so they were almost halfway making a profit on the first weekend so they knew that they will defiantly make a profit, they made around £65 million profit from the film and that is successful for film makers.

'Skyfall' was released at a good time as well and not many big box office films was released around it and the next biggest film was released 20 days later where 'Skyfall' has already made £15 million profit.

troll hunter- foreign film

Box Office

Budget:

 £1,600,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

 £3,677 (USA) (10 June 2011)

Gross:

 £166,360(USA) (18 September 2011)

Country:

 Norway
Jun 10-12 : £3,677

Jun 17-19 : £8,758

Jun 24-26 : £13,251

July 1-3 : £26,888

July 8-10 : £12,656

Release date June 10th 2011- other films released around the same time were : X-men first class, Super 8 and green lantern. This will be hard for troll hunter to make any money around that time, these popular films will prevent them from making a big box office. More customers will go and see these films because they are more popular, and won't go to see troll hunter because they will see those other films.

Amanda Award
Best visual affects
public choice award

Newport beach film festival
Outstanding achievement in film making

Film Noir Clips

Clip 1- The Big Combo

At the beginning of the sequence, there is lots of different people going in to watch a boxing match, in a street that looks like it isn't looked after that much. Then there is a woman running through some dark corridors getting chased by two men. This is used in a lot of different film noir films, because it brings up the tension in the audience and there is only one way to go in a corridor and one way out, it is also helpful for the creators of the film as well because it makes it easier to make the corridor dark, using low-key lighting to keep the film dark, in lighting and in tone. When she runs out she is in an abandoned street that isn’t looked after very much, showing it is a rough community. Both the men re dressed in very smart suits and the woman in a very glamorous dress, even though they are there to see a boxing match, most people wouldn't dress that smart to watch a fight. The police office also was very un-formal to each other, and late at night working, all wearing suits instead of their uniform, could show they are detectives instead. Also they were smoking and drinking coffee which is very stereotypical for them to do this because people think this is what they do all day. Most police officers in film noir are normally seen doing this, because they are seen as corrupt from the citizen’s point of view and they are seem to not be doing their job properly. They used diegetic sound near to the end, when the man recorded his own voice that he is currently investigating, but earlier on in the clip near the beginning it had non diegetic music that was very jazzy, jazz music was very popular in the 1940-50s and was normally played in local inns and clubs.

Clip - The Last Seduction

In the last seduction they use femme fatale to show the power of the women and what she is like compared to the other men in the film. This includes her ex-lover when she took power over him by saying they never knew each other and the man she was having an interview with, agreeing with him but also at the same time taking the power by telling him what she is going to do. This sequence used a lot of high-key lighting instead of low-key, but only used low-key in one section when she was moving into her house in the night. This shows that this film will take place in the light more and isn't going to be as dark as the other noir films. All of the characters seen in the sequence were wearing very smart clothes, like in most noir films all the characters dress to impress someone throughout the film. They are all working class, because they all seem to be office workers or in an office environment, and most film noirs involve working staff as the main character, if it is a police detective or an office staff.

How does the use of mise-en-scene and editing to create suspense in the getaway sequence from Drive?

In this sequence from ‘Drive’, the driver is driving away from a bank heist and is trying to get away from the police without getting caught by the police, and successfully gets the money to the destination. He has two other people in the back that robbed the bank and he is the driver that has to drive them to safety. In the end the driver successfully drives them all to safety and he gets his share money in the end.

At the beginning of the sequence, there is a key mise en scene to tell a good description of what the character is going to be the driver (which is also the main character’s name isn’t mentioned throughout the film and is just called the driver) sitting waiting for the other two characters, he sees a shadow in the car side mirror but he doesn't react to it that much and just looks over his shoulder to see who it is. This shows that even though they are robbing a bank, he is still very calm and is very care free, but could also make the audience feel suspense as well, because they will want to know who this object is, and they only got a shadow in the reflection. This section of the scene has a lot of key conventions of noir films, because it is set in a dark area of the city, it is also uses low-key lighting as well to show it is going to be a dark, this is similar to ‘Batman Begins’, the main character lives in a very corrupt city/area and is always hard boiled and doesn’t like to get into anyone’s business, keeping himself quiet .This also shows that he has committed this a lot of other times and is used to it now. But this scene creates suspense, when he is driving down the road, the camera points at him turning round the corner of the road. Also its easy to commit crimes if it looks like he has done it before and doesn’t quite care he is committing a crime, showing that the area is very corrupt, a convention used in a lot of noir films today. This creates suspense, because only the character knows what is round that corner and the audience will have to wait for the camera to turn around and wait to show what it is. When the driver starts to drive because the other two characters that just robbed the building are in the car now, they start to drive slowly behind a police car. Even though they are trying to get away from the police, he decides to drive right behind the police without getting caught as well. This shows that he is very careful and knows what he is doing, and knows what the best way of escaping is, it also shows that he is a good driver to be able to know when the right time to sneak behind the police car and when to leave without looking too suspicious. This raises suspense and tension, because the audience wants the driver to escape without getting caught, but he is very close to the police and can easily get caught, so the audience don't know when the police might turn around and arrest the driver and the other two characters in the back seat. When they are on the bridge they are driving normally like all the other cars that would have normal citizens in, but there is a helicopter with a spotlight trying to find the criminals. It is shining its light at a lot of different cars but then finally stops it on their car, the driver then starts to drive a lot quicker now because the police might think it is them who stole the money. This shows that police have found them and under pressure, the driver still can drive very well and tries his hardest to try and escape from the helicopter without getting caught, and eventually is able to escape it. This also shows that he is a skilled driver and has been doing this a while because even though there was a helicopter right above him, he still managed to escape from the helicopter. This also create suspense with the audience because they don't know if he will escape now, a helicopter is a lot harder to escape than a police car and he might get caught now. Also when the driver was waiting at the road because there was a red light, there was a police car just opposite him, and they could hear on his radio that the police car was talking about them and could be a suspect. After this was mentioned both vehicles were still waiting for the light to go green. The traffic light was a key use of mise en scene because it shows that even though both the Driver and the police officer had a lot of power, the traffic light had the most power and kept them both waiting until it was green. This will cause suspense for the audience, because they will want to see what the characters will do, getting excited and can’t wait until the traffic light turns green. They are located in the night of a big city in America. They seem to be in a very rough area of the city and a place where there are a lot of crimes committed in and low-key lighting. This is a typical convention of noir films, set in dark cities with a lot of low-key lighting making it look mysterious. This could make the audience feel tensed up and will suspect something bad to happen to them because they are in a rough area, waiting for action and what will happen to the characters in the car.

As well as using different pieces of mise en scene which gave me an idea of what the rest of the film is going to be about, there was also a lot of editing in this sequence as well, this is because they wanted to use this to their benefit. Because it is a car chase, it is already exciting for the audience, so because they keep changing it to different angles, it gets the audience even more excited and enjoy the sequence even more. because it keeps switching, the audience expect something different every time, but most of the time it is the same and the audience get tensed up waiting for something different building up the suspense. Also they used cuts to the other characters, which had just robbed the bank, to show their faces and their emotions at that moment in the sequence. The audience might feel that they want to know what they are looking at to make the characters feel like that, and this might cause suspense within the audience. Near the beginning of the scene, it cuts to the front of the car perspective, showing what it looks like for the front of the car. The film did this to try and get the audience tensed because they know something might happen now, because it cut to that particular angle and it also shows how well the driver is at driving and calm even though he is being chased by the police at that moment. This is another convention of noir films because it shows that the driver is very calm all the way through it and doesn’t care, like most main characters in noir films. When the driver is driving at the normal speed over the bridge, and the police helicopter spots him, the camera cuts to him at a mid-shot of his waits upwards. This was done to try and show what his reaction to it and how quickly he will take action, driving a lot quicker now and showing that he is an expert at driving. This is done in a lot of action films today and is one of their main conventions. For example, in the expendables there is a lot of action, gun fire and fighting. But normally if one of the characters are going to shoot their weapon, the camera switches to them just before to show their reaction and expression to show the audience what they are doing. This will make the audience feel tension as they know that he is going to do something exciting and the audience will want to see how he will take action. Also, every now and again, they had diegetic sound of the radio to get louder, and then quieter. This might because they want to try and have the audience to listen to the more important bits of information on the radio. It was a baseball game, and the driver was using it to know when the game is over, so they can successfully get away without being caught. This could get the audience tense because of the radio, because they might be wondering throughout the whole scene, why is that radio important? I also wondered why it was important as well and understood until the scene was finished, trying to make us solve it before it happened and only telling us at the end.

Two Scene Film Analysis of ‘The Shining’

Scene 1- Storage room, talking to Delbert Grady

At the beginning of this scene, Jack is sleeping on some bags. These bags are labelled as Holly, holly is prickly leaves that are normally used around Christmas and are very uncomfortable to sit let alone sleep on. But Jack seemed to have slept on it well considering it took him a while to get up to the door, this shows that he didn’t have anything else more comfortable to sleep on because of the fact that he was locked in the food storage locker. But I could also mean that he wanted to look like he felt more pain, because if Wendy was to come back with a doctor then he could look more like the victim than her, this shows that he is thinking more about his strategies and wants to be the better person out of them. Plus instead of having the logo of the holly as green, the director decided to have it red, which doesn’t make much sense since holly leaves are green. This shows that something dangerous could be happening soon, then straight after there is a knock on the door.

When Jack is talking to Delbert Grady, there are a couple of boxes with hidden messages on the side. One of the boxes say Golden Rey, this is important in this scene because there is only two times jack talks to Delbert in the film, first time was the bathroom of the Golden room and now the second time is the food storage with boxes saying Golden Rey surrounding him. Gold is normally used to show how valuable something is, maybe talking to Delbert could be almost precious to him and something that could be keeping him alive from and not vulnerable to his wife. He is also teaching Jack how to “properly” look after his family and these lessons might be valuable to Jack. There also another box next to Golden Rey saying peach slices and pimiento pieces. The story of the caretaker before Jack apparently chopped up his wife and daughters bodies into pieces and these boxes could be predicting the future. Or these boxes could be trying to warn the audience that it has already happened since he is talking to Delbert Grady who was the man who was supposed to do it. Plus they are both written in red which is the colour of blood which is the same as flesh and the blood of the human body what is visible if they were to be sliced into pieces. This is another great use of Mise-En-Scene.

The lighting in this scene was very light compared to most scenes in the movie and showed the whole room quite clearly, there wasn't any use of low-key lighting and used only high-key lighting throughout the scene. The reason they might have used high-key lighting in this horror film was because they wanted to show the audience the whole room and show hidden messages in that specific room. Or try and tell the audience that it isn't a scary scene and shouldn't shock you too much and try and calm down the audience before they get them all tensed up again.

The camera never decided to go in front of jack but always stayed to its back and side when he was awake. This might be because the camera is afraid that it might upset Jack and it doesn't want to do that because Jack is a bit insane and could kill easily without really thinking. The only time it is in front of him is when he is sleeping, where is vulnerable and can’t hurt anyone so it is safe, but when he is awake, the camera doesn't want to get in his way because it isn't as safe.

Scene 2- Come play with us scene, two twins and Danny

In this scene, there are two twin girls standing at Danny saying “come play with us”. As Danny goes round the corner, there is d loud clash sound when he stops and sees the two girls. This makes the audience shocked and they know that these two girls are not friendly and will cause something bad in the film or make the audience shocked/scared. The sound was used to either bring up the tension or to warn the audience about the two girls or something that might happen in the future. This is also used when the camera gets closer to the girls and starts switching to them after being murdered by an axe, this is used to try and scare the audience more than warn them because they use the music at that right point, to use all that tension that has been built up and use a little shock to scare them. After the girls have disappear, so does the loud music, until he start talking to Tony then there is a quiet noise building up tension as if something is going to happen round the corner.

The lighting in this scene is at the minute high-key lighting, but in some parts of the corridor is a bit darker than other parts. For example there are two lights hanging from the ceiling, between them both is the darkest, and between them there is a sign saying exit. The reason why they might have used this was to show that the exit is getting further and further away and there isn’t any point going after it because it is lost in the darkness. But also on the other side of the exit is an alarm, this is also in the darkest patch. This could also mean that if he was in trouble there is no point in causing an alarm because he won’t be able to get to it and no one will then find him, the alarm is also lost in the dark. The exit was used to try and show Danny how to get out and he might have a chance of escaping, but it was written in red so it could also be a trick and lead Danny to his death as well, or there might be danger up ahead if he tries to escape.

The camera using a lot of different techniques in this scene, at the beginning the camera using a tracking shot from far away on Danny go around the corner on his tricycle. This shows that we don’t know as much as Danny when he goes round the corner first, but most of the time we know much more than the audience and their surroundings. This gives us more of a shock because the tension has built up a lot more, we have seen Danny stop but we don’t know why he has stopped, but we will find out when the camera catches up with and goes round the corner as well. It also uses a close up on Danny’s face showing how frightened he is when he sees the girls’ bodies on the floor, this shows his emotion and is almost reflected onto us because some people might feel the same way as well. They also use a mid-shot on the twins to show the girls in more detail and what they are like as well. But before they get closer to the girls, instead of just actually getting closer, they use jump edits to get closer to them until they are close enough. They used this to make the audience jump and scared thinking there might be a jump scare in a minute about to shock them.

'Haywire' Group Analysis

The sequence starts with an eye-line match, showing both the characters perspectives when they look at one another. There's no speech, just glances at on another; it could be implied that the two characters have had a dispute of some kind, we experience a little tension within the car. The shot is taken at eye level as though its through the car windows, thus the shot is slightly blurry, and the lighting is low key; this could be symbolic of the distance between the two characters, their relationship is blurry, not entirely in focus and the lack of distinguishable facial features due to the low key lighting reveals how the mood of the situation may be quite dark. This sequence makes me feel sympathetic to the two characters, I'm left guessing what could have happened and how the relationship could have became distant, as a result the mood of the whole situation is dark and a little daunting, if the characters feel distant, I start to feel distant.

Transitioning to the next shot, we are shown a pieces of a broken mirror, laying on the floor. This could imply how the characters we saw in the previous shot are themselves broken. The broken mirror is the main focus of the shot, in the background there is a body being dragged but it and its surroundings are blurry, the effect this has is that its establishing conflict, such as the dead body in the background shows a physical conflict, and the broken mirror revealing metaphorically the mental conflict. This makes me feel more sympathetic towards the characters, its almost as if the characters cannot see it themselves, instead we see it through their actions and surroundings; in turn this makes the characters more relatable, we all have our own conflicts.

In the next shot, we saw the same body that was dragged trough the room, lay in a bath tub with the tap water running, the non-diegetic sound of the guitar cords and the diegetic sound of the water running create a strangely soothing, it seems calm and relaxed, which juxtaposes what the sequence shows entirely: there is a dead body yet I feel relaxed. This shot could show how the female character may also feel relaxed, she can certainly take a shower and do her makeup in a relaxed fashion, which leads me to believe that the killing was almost a relief, before we saw the conflicts both characters had with one another, now the conflicts have somewhat been resolved; the atmosphere is calm and collected, and we are at a peace of mind.

The next sequence shows a low angle tilt showing the character looking in a coat on the floor, to which she finds a mobile phone, transitioning to her POV: a close up of the phones screen as she rings the last number called on the phone. Parallel editing reveals the character on the receiving end of the phone call is sat at a dinner party in a high key lighted area, he then determines who the caller is and moves onto a low key lighted area. This as a result looks rather secretive, he leaves the table to go and speak to the caller in a dark area where he cannot be seen; this makes gives a rather sinister atmosphere and in turn I fell a little intimidated.

The receivers actions in the next shot to me suggests he knows the caller and is probably fully aware of the situation she is in. The conversation reveals that the female character and the male character were in a relationship, the receiver asks "is the divorce final" *pause* " where are you?", to me this looks as though the receiver has concluded that the female character has murdered her partner; to which the female hangs up the call, and for the first time we see the female panic. Again we are introduced to yet more conflict: now the receiver knows about the murder, naturally he is opposed to it making him a threat to the female character which in turn creates physical conflict; and in hanging up the call in what seems to be a panic to me could suggest that she for a brief second contemplated whether it was a right move of a bad one, thus creating  mental conflict.

Eye-line match is used as the female character leaves the building she is in to reveal an man across the street, we are unsure of the identity of the man, but its possible that even the character wonders the same. We can see the conflict of her guilty conscience as she follows the man down the street, she even tilts her hat slightly to hide her own identity from the man. Further down the street as she comes to traffic lights, she ignores the red light telling her to stop by crossing the street; this highlights the conflict that the character faces and could also forecast later happenings. If indeed she is suspicious to the man its possible the truth get revealed and she is taken to prison, in which case the red light indicates caution.

Short Sequence Analysis

The intention of my group was to make a short sequence of a film that is around a minute long, we did 9 shots for the sequence using lots of different angles. Our film is designed mainly to be a thriller with a slight sense of horror, we didn't want it to become a horror completely, because we didn't want it to become too different in for the audience with the clip we have done. I hope to make the audience feel tense while watching this and question what will happen next after the clip.


My target audience for the whole film is aged 15 and upwards but that clip has't got a lot of violence or anything else to make that bad so the clip would be rated at a PG. If we were to make the film more violent and rate it to an 18, then it will shorten our customers to watching the film because everyone under 18 will not be able to watch the film. The reason why we chose to do a 15 though was because it is a lot more flexible to actually have different ideas, if we had to do anything lower we are limited to doing less violent shots that would be too uncomfortable for a 12 year old. So with a 15 we can expand on that and show more violent shots to scare the audience and entertain them a lot more.


The aspects of the clip that are thriller, however we did not show anything in this shot that would show the themes of a thriller or violent movie. But we thought that this shot is building up the tension in the film thinking that other people won't know what will come next. This is key in thrillers and are needed because it is needed to engage the audience and sometimes shock them when we chose to shock them afterwards. We wanted this sequence to be unrevealing because we felt it will keep the audience guessing more and will definitely want to stay and see what will happen after the sequence. A lot of modern thrillers use today so we used this to help us do our sequence.

Why is "The Fault in Our Stars" so Successful?

“The Fault in Our Stars” was very successful when it first came out, in a weeks’ time millions of people were still trying to get tickets at their local cinema trying to watch it. One of the reasons that this film was so successful was because the whole film was based around ill teens. This tear-jerking film touched the hearts of many because it was about young teens who won’t live for a long time because they have life threatening illnesses, this made the watchers feel upset for the characters and won’t them to live a happy life and do more things in their life. Because of this they wanted to see what they did in the rest of the film. What makes it even better is that the ill teenagers start to fall in love to make it even better for the audience to feel for them, but of course something goes wrong with the couple which literally breaks the audiences’ hearts. This film is really for young to middle aged women who are perfect for the writer, the writer can bring all their hopes up then at the last minute make it all fall so everyone is upset again.

Because it is aimed at women, most women tend to talk about good films they have just watched to their friends or family. Because of this it makes the ripple effect, where once one has seen it the ripple starts to expand making more and more people watch it every day. Till eventually so many people have seen it then you have to watch it to talk to your friends about it and not feel left out the conversation. If the women went to see it because their friend has told them to see it, then they might go as a group with their friends or go as a couple to watch it together which will double or more than double the price of the tickets making the film a bit more successful than it was.

With more than one customer buying their tickets, it makes that film look a lot better than it started out, if you going to the cinema and everyone was watching this one film you will normally feel like you need to watch this film to see why everyone is watching it for. And because you have brought a ticket it adds one more person watching it so other people look at you and do the exact same thing, and keeps on doing this until the actual movie has stopped becoming so popular. The reason most people think this is because they feel like they are get left out on the next best thing and want to see the new trend that are in movies today. First it was wizards in the “Harry Potter” saga, then it was vampires in the “Twilight” saga and now it is upsetting love stories of young adults who know it will never work for them. Probably after this craze there will be another set of films that will get many fans over it.

Horror Genre

Horror movies affect the audience in many different ways, some are terrified of them and others absolutely love them, depending on the person. But there are still many different ways to actually scare the audience without using the actual image; they can use their music to make the audience scared before the jump scare actually comes. Like in “Friday the 13^th” they have a very sharp tune before Jason actually shows up and you then know that it is going to happen because everyone know that tune very well. As well as music they use noise to scare the audience more at the time, even if they were already frightened. For example they use screeching sounds we unconsciously associate with animals in distress. A 2010 study by the University of California found that human sensitivity to non-linear alarm sounds, such as ones made by ground hogs to warn about predators, is being employed by film composers to unsettle and unnerve. In films like Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho, straining strings and over-blowing brass are mimicking the noise of panic in nature. For audiences who enjoy a lush romantic score, a 2011 experiment at Canada's McGill University studied the neural mechanics of why humans get goosebumps from great tunes. Far from being a purely aural experience, scans suggested that the regions of the brain that light up with music are those linked to euphoric stimuli such as food, sex and drugs. Blood flow in the brain is responding to areas associated with reward, emotion and arousal.

In more recent horror movies they are finding new ways to try and scare people, instead of graphic images or very load music, they started to use other features like vibrations! Some film makers are now using infra sound to induce fear in audiences. These extreme bass waves or vibrations have a frequency below the range of the human ear. Low frequency sounds are thought to have created fear in Paranormal Activity While we may not be able to hear infra sound, it has been demonstrated to induce, extreme sorrow, heart palpitations and shivering. Naturally-occurring infra sound has been associated with areas of 'supernatural activity', as well as being produced prior to natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes. Audience members reported feeling disorientated and physically ill after just half an hour of infra sound, leaving before the most shocking visual sequence on screen. In the horror Paranormal Activity, audiences also reported toweringly high fear levels even though there was nothing going on the screen. It is believed this was caused by the use of low frequency sound waves. Also in paranormal activity, the way the camera angles and it’s as if they are being filmed of a very poor quality camera, makes it feel like the family filmed it them self and the whole story is true, even though we know it’s not we can’t help but think it is. More and more films like found footage are being filmed now because of its success in scarring people. Also because they are propped up cameras in the corner you can’t actually see anything around it and it won’t move, so anything could move round the corner without you noticing until it scares you in front of the screen.An article from film maker states three primary factors of the horror film allure. The first is tension, which is created through mystery, suspense, gore, terror or shock. The second is relevance, which includes universal relevance, subgroup relevance, and personal relevance. The last is unrealism. The writer states that, despite the graphic nature of recent horror films, we all know at some level that what we are watching is not real. Haidt, McCauley and Rozin conducted research on disgust, showing students in 1994 a series of gruesome documentary videos and yet these same students would pay to see even worse acts conducted on a movie screen. Why? Perhaps it’s because when we walk into a theatre we know what we’re seeing on screen is fabricated reality. Along with these factors, the writer introduces theories on what attract people to horror. Freud posited that horror is from the emergence of images and thoughts. I found this similar to Huma’s theory from the reading. Huma’s idea states that once a tragic, unsettling event is housed in an aesthetic context, with a momentum of its own, the predominant feeling response, in terms of pleasure and interest, attaches to the presentation as a function of the overall, narrative structure. Like in Saw, most people hate gore and gruesome bits, but many love these films and will watch them over and over again. Maybe this is why people get scarred or love horror films all the time?

My favourite film this summer 2014

My favourite film this summer of 2014 was Godzilla. The reason why I enjoyed this film is because I do personally enjoy old films that are way before my time. Plus I like to enjoy watching the modernised movies they have remade, I also enjoyed the old Godzilla and thought it was exciting, and then they made another film this summer which has a similar story line but different actors, different filming effects and different special effects so it felt like a complete new film to me. I also like the actors in the new film, because I watch a lot of their TV series that they are also in and other films they are included in, like Brian Cranston, he was in “Malcolm in the Middle” as the dad and was a very enjoyable character. He was also in the big TV series Breaking Bad for a couple of years as a big time drug producer, a mysterious character that was very dark at some times. Completely different to being a comedy dad and he was a very good actor in everything he has done including in Godzilla. It also had a good story to the film instead of Godzilla going towards the nearest city and destroying it, instead there was a logical good reason why the thought to be extinct lizard was destroying the city, it was trying to defeat another big monster.

I think why it became so popular in my view was because there was so much action in that one film it got most men/boys very excited to watch it, also there was two massive monster that were going to fight at the end of the film which got us even more excited. Because there were two giant monsters, the power between them would be a lot stronger than ordinary human, so they cause much more destruction and are able to pick up very tall buildings to use as big weapons. This is what would make me excited in a film, so I think that is why it made other people around or above my age group excited as well. Although there were many plot holes in the film near the end, not many people noticed it unless you really thought about this film enough. People didn't pay much attention to that because once it got a bit boring they would put something big like a massive explosion, or Godzilla firing blue flames at the other monster, almost distracting the audience. They had some funny bits in this film as well, because at the beginning they set the film in Japan, the first Godzilla was set in Japan, they didn't have to actually put it in Japan but they did to connect to the old film. But instead of destroying Tokyo, they decided for Godzilla to go to America and fight in the city of San Francisco, which is completely different to Tokyo and a lot smaller as well, so not as much destruction was created in this film you would think, but more destruction was created because the fight went across the whole of America and the final fight was in San Francisco.