E4 is a British television channel, the "E" stands for entertainment, and the channel is mainly aimed at a 15–35 age group. Television shows aired on E4 include The Cleveland Show, The O.C., Smallville, Veronica Mars, Everwood, What About Brian?, Desperate Housewives, How I Met Your Mother, 90210, One Tree Hill, Ugly Betty, Scrubs, Rules of Engagement, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, Revenge, Friends, Skins, My Mad Fat Diary, Misfits, The Inbetweeners, The Ricky Gervais Show, Shameless, Hollyoaks, and Made in Chelsea.

In our film opening we are going to include reflecting objects. Ghosts are going to appear through mirrors, windows, puddles, a knife and a shattered mirror. We also have a scene where the husband is going to be washing his face and looking into a mirror when a ghost suddenly appears behind him and then disappears when he quickly turns around. A letter is going to show the husband what his wife has sent into the hospital. When the husband enters the lift he will see a crow and a doll.

I am working with Chloe for my film opening. We have decided to base it on a story about an old man that takes women into the basement of his house (the mansion) and tortures them in a disturbing way. In class, we discussed our ideas and decided to begin the opening of the clip with a flashback scene. This flashback scene will include a woman that is attached to a table and is about to be tortured. This will show the background to the story. We will then skip to present day where a detective goes to find his missing wife who last told her husband she was going for a job interview before she mysteriously disappeared. The detective goes to the mansion to find his wife and here he witnesses a lot of supernatural ghosts of the girls the old man had tortured, seeking their revenge on men. The man then finds his wife's arm (plastic arm) on the floor, he then spots her wedding ring and the scene flashbacks to when he put the wedding ring on her finger so we know it's his wife.

Media homework-trailer questions

1.       The sub genres this Action Adventure trailers includes are fantasy, quest and disaster.

2.       The conventions in this trailer include suspense and jeopardy, these are shown through the music/sound effects. The first part of the trailer involves the mysterious letter written by Peter’s mother, during this you can hear the sound of a clock ticking which gives us a sense that in a short amount of time, something is going to happen. When the part of the letter is read out that says ‘I promise that you will see me again, in this world or another’. The music all of a sudden goes silent and Peter’s eyes then looks fearful as he repeats the words ‘or another’ suggesting something terrible was about to happen and he was going to leave the world he is living in. Suddenly, the music starts again but louder and more intense as mysterious creatures begin to steal Peter and his friends out of their beds and take them to a new world.

1.    3.   The child in this extract appears as the hero. He is not a typical hero as he is a child, stereotypically the hero is a strong grown man. However, the villain is very stereotypical. The villain in this extract is Captain Hook so is an evil pirate. When he is first shown in the extract he shouts in a very frightening way which helps us know before we have even heard this character speak, that he is someone to be frightened of.

 

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