Shark bite Film

One narrative theory used in films is the shark bite. At the start of the film you have the BITE. The aim of the bite is to shock the audience, grab there attention giving them a taste of whats to come and leave them wanting more. We then move to the BODY. This is the main content, the bulk of the story. Then we finish with the tail, the ending of the film

An example of this is WRONG TURN.

non-linear

Police alerted about the situation (murders) by the driver in the farmhouse. They find the car and start to come up with theories about what happened to the teenagers. Go back to check on the driver and find a camera. On the camera is the real murders and the police find out what really happen. (this film begins where the other film ended).

Designing an idea with a clear narrative structure

DEATH TRIP

How will the story start?

The teenagers are driving along a dusty motorway in the middle of the day, on there way to a music festival. In the car the teenagers are having a good time except for the driver who seems annoyed as she cannot join in as she is driving. She decides to pull over on the hard shoulder for a toilet break.

THREAT- The girl driver seems to be taking a long time so they send out another female character out to see whats taking her so long. As she gets to the edge of the forest the driver has gone into she hears a scream. She quickly runs back to the car and shouts at the other teenagers to get out. They run into the forest and find a clearing where the drivers handheld camera is which she used as a light. They start searching for the driver and one of the girls trips over and falls down a hole. The others start to laugh at her but soon realise there is no response. They look down the hole and realise that it was a trap and that there friend has fallen into a pit of spikes. They run back to the car but realise the missing driver has the keys. The remaining three characters have an argument about leaving the other girl and hitching a ride. One of the stubborn male characters decide to stay and hitch a ride while the others go in search of the missing driver. It starts to get dark so they decide to go back to the car for the night. When they arrive at the car the male character is gone. They decide to sleep through the rest of the night. They are awoken by something crashing down on to the car. As they get out they see the dead body of there friend lying on the bonnet of the car.

Ending: They see a light down the road and run towards it. They come to an old farmhouse and knock frantically on the door. The door creaks open suggesting that it has been opened and not shut correctly. The teenagers enter the house and enter the kitchen where the missing driver is sat. They see blood drip down from the ceiling and then the driver reveals a knife. The camera is dropped to the floor and screaming can be heard ...

Film poster 1: Shutter Island

The image of Leonardo DiCaprio is the biggest image on the poster, suggesting that his character will be the main one (his name above the title of the film also suggests this as well).The title of the film "shutter island" combined with the image of an island being hit by a storm suggests that this could be the setting of the film.The poster doesn't give much away about when the film is set except that there is a lighthouse on the island which could mean that the film could be set anytime in the last 150 years. From the poster you could guess that the genre of the film could be thriller or even horror judging by the darkness of the poster and the isolation of the island.

Film Poster 2: Zombieland

There are four characters stood in the middle of the poster suggesting that these are the main characters. The female characters though are stood with there backs to the male characters, suggesting some kind of conflict between the characters.

3. Film: The expendables Genre: Action

Audio/visual features: explosions, fire, loud dramatic music

Iconography: weapons,guns,knives,vehicles,fighting

Sets/settings: Small foreign country

Character Roles: Hero, Helpers, Villain/s

Narrative: Sent on job, job becomes difficult, they pull through

Stars: stallone, statham, Jet Li, bruce willis...

2. Give one example of a film genre and list the typical codes and conventions for that genre.

Genre: Horror

Horror films often involve a complex set of codes and conventions that will give the audience the idea that they are watching a horror film.

audio/visual fatures:close ups, chase sequences, low key lighting, screams, storms, darkness, mysterious/dramatic music

Iconography: Blood, Weapons, violence, ghost, monsters, murderers, Darkness

Sets/setting: Typical haunted house or isolated setting e.g. forest

Character Roles: Villain/monster, Victim/s

Narrative (plot and story):normal, Disruption of normality, everything seems okay, or is it?

1. What is meant by Genre?

Genre is the term for any category of literature, as well as other forms of art or culture e.g. music,film,poetry... based on a criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions (hybrid genre).