Production Journal Example

Hey folks,

Here's an example of what we're expecting from your production journals, in case you need it! Your blogs should have the following subheadings (in bold) and AT LEAST a paragraph under each one.

Production Journal Example

Learning

This week I learned about different types of genres. A genre is a category of film, and in each genre there are common ‘rules’ or ‘cliches’ that appear. For example, in horror, there usually is a villain with supernatural powers threatening and killing a group of people. The group of people are usually young teenagers! And in action, the villains are sometimes criminals, bank robbers or terrorists, like in Die Hard, and the hero a cop.


Application

In our project, we are going to make a preview for an action film. We’re going to create a hero and villain based on the genre of action, so our hero is going to be a cop and our villain a bank robber. They are going to face off in a gun battle! But the cop’s best friend, his partner, is going to be killed off, like in so many action films from the 80’s!



Difficulties

I struggled with some of the genres because some appeared to have more than one attribute, like in Transformers. In Transformers it is an action film but also a sci-fi, and it also feels like a teen movie at the start, so what do I call it?

Also, I don’t know how we are going to film a gun battle when we haven’t got any replica guns to use! How are we going to make them look real?

Ideas/Reflections

Maybe some genres mix elements of others, like Transformers does! Perhaps we can mix a little sci-fi into our action preview, make the guns into weird looking laser pistols and that might solve our problem!

Year 10 Media.

You are going to create a preview for your blockbuster genre movie.

This site will contain all of the information you will need to do this, meaning that you can do some work at home :P