Idea for my film/treatment

-Emotional war drama following a soldier who has left the war but still has memories of his unfortunate life-featuring emotional music,flashbacks into army life and how bad it was and how bad he is being treated now. There will also be a voice over commentating on the life of the former soldier mentioning what he has done and how he is treated. . There will be shots where he looks isolated and rejected and insignificant and there will also be flashbacks of him suffering in the army as he reloads his rifle and as he cowers behind cover to show how hard his life is. The flash backs would consist of shots shown through a scope and a pull focus of a gun barrel and reloading a magazine as well as running with the camera acting as his eyes and finally a shot of sneaking up on somebody and empty casings dropping on the floors steaming. Whereas the present day shots would be filmed as the character walks on his own carrying all his possesions to make the audince feeel sorry for him whilst looking at pictures of his fellow dead friends in utter solice

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BACK GROUND ON THE GENRE OF WAR

sub genres could include WW1 FILMS-- films set in world war 1, WW2 FILMS-- films set in world war 2, COLD WAR--films set in the cold war , VIETNAM--films set in vietnam, IRAQ-films from the gulf wars-- AFGHANISTAN, FLASHBACKS COPING MEMORIES-- films like rambo when they have reminders or are dragged back into war, EMOTIONAL-- films when they are sruggling to cope with getting back into real life. , WAR DRAMA-- drama set in a period of war.

Genres to consider

Genres to consider =

Action: with examples such as saving private ryan/Rambo/ We were soldiers/involving such conventions as Guns,Vehicles fast paced, with generic actors like arnold schwarzzenegger, silvester stallone etc.

Drama:examples include saving private ryan again/Atonement/including conventions as Deep and Meaningfull, Emotion,love interest ,and disturbances in the equilibrium with generic actors such as will smith and colin firth.

Romance:films like bridget jones diary/titanic/notting hill /with conventions such as Emotion , Soft Paced editing ,Soft soppy music, romantic scenes and a love interest with generic actors such as hugh grant.

Horror: example films would be scream films/ saw films/halloween films with generic conventions Fast Paced editing , Bad guy, Knifes, Blood,sharp screaming sounds however there are not many generic actors for this genre

Comedy: with films like hot fuzz/ tropic thunder/ and has generic conventions such as funny lines,unserious acting,slapstick, with actors such as ben stiller, adam sandler, jack black

The genre i have decided to emulate is a war genre this is because i have enjoyed watching other war genre films i also like the content and action within the films. Furthermore i am able to recreate a war genre with the props and locations i have found and it will be different to everyone eles film. It would be original.

Russell and Harriets video

I think our film worked well and the plot was put across to the audince in a clear manor.However there may have been one too many transitions which may have overloaded the film.There was also a good dark atmosphere however the sound didnt come out very well so that ment that we had to record a voice over.the voiceover ruined the sinister atmosphere and instead replaced it with a comic effect.We did demonstrate the use of the 180 degree rule however there was still one or two shots which may have been on the wrong side and could have been filmed better. I think we aslo met the breif with good examples of dialogue,shot types and shot reverse shot. Funny stuff.