Assessment Criteria

This Is England

 Director: Shane Meadows
 Budget: £1.5m

This Is England Film Poster

 Release Date: 27 April 2007 (UK) 

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. 

 Credits:

• 'A Shane Meadows Film' (director)
• Actors/Actresses
• Costume/make up/hair
• Script supervisor
• Music
• Director of photography
• Roland Rat
• Editor
• Co producer
• Line producer
• Executive producers
• Producer
• Writer/director

Shaun Of The Dead Swede

Sweding Explained

Sweding is remaking a film on a practically non-existent budget, with amateur equipment and actors. The idea comes from the film Be Kind Rewind (Michael Gondry, 2008). The point of a swede is to re-create a well known, popular film and make it funny.

The term “sweded” was coined in the 2008 Michel Gondry comedy film Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def. The film takes place in Passaic, New Jersey, where the declining VHS rental store “Be Kind Rewind” loses its entire video collection after being inadvertently magnetized. Mike (played by Mos Def) and Jerry (played by Jack Black) attempt to replace the store’s video collection by recreating films using a camcorder and claiming they are special editions from Sweden.

Be Kind Rewind premiered on February 22nd, 2008 and earned $4 million in the United States and Canada in its opening weekend. The domain for the site SwededFilms.com, which serves as a database for sweded movies, was registered the next day. On February 24th, the sweded film blog Sweded Cinema was launched and included rules for creating sweded videos:

1. Must be based on an already produced film
2. Range 2-8 minutes in length
3. Must not contain computer generated graphics
4. Based on films less than 35 years old
5. Special effects must be limited to camera tricks and arts ’n crafts
6. Sound effects created by human means
7. Hilarious.

My Favourite Film

Bridesmaids

Director: Paul Feig

Budget: $32.5m

Release date: 28 April 2011 (US) 24 June 2011 (UK)

Total Gross (Worldwide): $288.8m

Bridesmaids Film Poster

My favourite film is Bridesmaids, mainly because i can watch it over and over again without getting sick of it. I think that the cast is perfect for the film and the style of comedy works really well.

Assessing a Past Coursework Opening

'The Cellar'

The strongest feature of this opening
I think the strongest feature of this opening is the way that it cuts from the girl being tied up in a cellar, to how she got to that position.

The weakest feature of this opening
I think that the weakest feature of this opening is at the start after the idents there is a low angle shot of a cellar door, the and this lasts quite a long time before cutting to another shot.

The Brief

The Brief

Video:
    (i) Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting downin a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
    (ii) Main task: The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.