Genre Research: Dracula: Dead and Loving It “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” (1995) is a comedy that spoofs vampire or Dracula movies. The opening of the movie sets up the danger of Dracula in the movie as it starts with a skit of an elder village woman telling protagonist Thomas Reinfield to take a cross as protection from the monstrous vampire. During the course of the skit, the women uses her throat to make funny noises as she speaks and tells Reinfield to “take the damn cross” on the third attempt to decline the gesture. The shot reverse shot is used throughout the conversation to go back and forth between the characters. The actual opening credits is of Reinfield traveling as the sun sets and the opening credits have major actors, directors, producers, writers, and of course, Mel Brooks. This flick had a budget had a $30 million and made a putrid $10.7 million in the box office. It was also panned critically. However, this movie was useful for learning how th...
Genre Research: Let The Right One In This movie begins with the production company listed then “Let the Right One In” scrolled vertically in blood red font white sticks out form the snow-white fonts of the director, most of the production crew, and subsequently the actors last. This is all over a black screen that has the incidental music of a far off snow storm playing eerily or maybe just it was nothing really at all. Already an unsettling tone is set for this Swedish adaption of a novel. The black screen then cuts to snow falling on a black night which eventually comes out of focus to reveal the main character, Oskar with a noticeable scar over his face staring out over the play ground in the center of his apartment complex. He simply says “squeal like a pig, so squeal”. The two minutes is now over. The film at its core is already full of mystery yet has a sense of dread thanks to its use of sound. The entire story is that Oskar is a bullied boy that discov...
After my film was viewed by my peers to give us feedback, it became very apparent there was a massive oversight by our group. We had an outside party use a camera and get our footage. This is a problem that has to be number on our list of things to do in order to better our film as this could be grounds for it being ungraded. Thankfully the only part that was filmed by an outsider was the segment where my partner and I were on screen together. I foresee this being an easy fix. I am very thankful for the peer review as this could have been disastrous. Secondly, The editing has to be smoother or the acting requiring better performances. We had lots of mistakes in forgetting lines or not liking how something was said so we had a lot of clips to cut to together I feel as this lead to an overwhelming sense of of being thrown in a washing machine and our peers agreed. My hope is that since the anxieties of editing a project as big as thing one or acting are out an...
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