Relating film analysis to film project

Relating film analysis to project

The film analysis will help us greatly as it helps us show several techniques that help distinguish a film in terms of its genre, so the fact of the different techniques that can be used in the thriller genre such as camera angles/ shots, muse-en-scene, editing and sound. All these techniques help create the effect of the film so for example the film that I analysed ‘I am number four’ uses all of these effects at the appropriate times so sound to build that excitement and tense nature when watching the film this would be very important to our film as well as the music that we need, will have to be able to create the right atmosphere in order to capture the full emotion of the scene. In the film of ‘I am number four’ in terms of editing techniques are used several times throughout e.g. jump shots, slow motion, fade-in, fade out etc these all play a part in creating the narrative so creating the tension as well as raising the atmosphere and speed to match the action going on in the film, also other uses like slow motion to emphasis certain thing e.g. in ‘I am number four’ it shows the in one of the action scenes, the jump cuts in order for the audience to feel the intensity and the quickness and tension of the thriller. This would be very helpful and have a strong relation to our film as these will be needed without a doubt when editing our film footage in order to make the most effective as possible and also continue and construct the narrative that is being produced. With the correct editing the footage can look much more effective through the emotion and the pace created through the scenes.

The muse-en-scene of the film of ‘I am number four’ the settings are vital to any film and in one of the scenes it is placed in the school football pitch and this helps the narrative to be created as well as show the fact that the characters are still at school, so this helps make the narrative have a structure and also make sense to the targeted audience. For our film this will be one of the most important as it helps the story to make sense and also be more effective and looking more appealing to the audience if it is a good setting. The muse-en-scene would also include the costumes used as well as production design etc which our film would need to consider strongly in order to be a good opening, much like the ‘I am number four’ as the characters are introduced into the film appropriately to what their position is in the film e.g. school clothes to shows character as the student. This has to be done in our film to also not allow it to become more like a trailer rather than an opening.

The sound used could be one of the most important aspects to our film as it is so low budget, the settings make not create the full narrative or emotion so the music would help make up for that and give the audience the impression of how to feel e.g. quick paced music to raise suspicion and tension. So in ‘I am number four’ all types of music tracks are used some to create a lighter atmosphere and a love theme to it as there is a love situation throughout the film but there is also others that contrast like the tense quick paced music which are very conventional to the genre and would stereotype to the dominant ideology that is viewed upon the genre. These conventions of music will have to be used well in our footage to make the film effective and also connect with the audience who would be expecting the thrill though the use of these conventions, so for one of our scenes of who the officer who is corrupt and he receives his payment, the sad and sympathetic music will be used in order to create the narrative and help the actor lead the narrative into creating the right emotional effect on the audience.

In conclusion the film analysis of ‘I am number four’ will help give us direction of how we should use the several techniques of the thriller film in order to make ours as effective as possible.