The BMI Statistical Yearbook 2014

Gross

The 3 genres that come out on top for the year of 2014 was animation, action and comedy. Animation is top most years as it is such a universal category of films. Any age or gender will enjoy a good animation film. Most children will see a animation at the cinema with a adult or a older guardian  This could be parents, grandparents or even teachers with their pupils. They also use synergy a lot as well involving advertisement products with the film like toys, happy meals and trailers on other child friendly films. Action is second on the list. This is because action is an escape for people. You cant do barrel rolls in a car or do backflips while shooting a pistel in slow motion 'in real life'. People go and see action films because they are unable to see what they see in action films anywhere else but on a film. Comedies are usually 15+ and involve adult themes and language making, obviously, more popular with older people. There more entertainment than most other as they provide a story as well as comedy However under 15s also are a target for comedies as they reprisent a sense of childhood and not obeying the rules.

Sci - fi has had 9 releases throughput 2014 and had a total gross of 87.4 million dollars while Horror had 37 releases throughout the year but only produced 57.5 million dollars at the total box office. This could show the sci - fi genre uses quality before quantity while the horror genre uses the opposite of quantity before quality. It may also be because the horror genre is more of an experience than a story driven life work of a director. People do not see horror films often as most are closely relatable to each other making them, after a while, boring however sci-fi films are different universes  different storys, different characters every time.

OUR FILM SCRIPT

Fade in:

News article appear onto screen explaining Hopwas woods witch problem. These crawl over the screen also showing opening credits; actors, director, editor etc.

Fade to Black:

Fade in:

INT. HOPWAS WOODS – DAY

Still of Hopwas woods. Line of trees parallel to the sky and ground. Its peaceful. There are blue skies and the soft hum of the forest.  The forest is deep green and the ground is yellow with the new crop.

Lab Scientist V.O. ‘We have reached a point in humanity where we can now revolutionise the idea of life, and more importantly, the lack of a scientific death’ 

Suddenly Brian runs out of the forest like something’s chasing him and sprints left of the screen of the screen.  As this happens dramatic music stabs in “Run Boy Run”

Lab Scientist V.O. ‘A recreation of the Russian sleep experiment occurred a week ago. There were 5. We were only able to contain 4. The fifth has yet to be found’

POV shot from the 5 as it chases Brian back into the forest. The scene will be short.

Cut to Black:

Lab Scientist V.O. ‘We called him, Five’

Cuts back to Brian in the forest. Close up of his face. Its quiet and still. Brian goes to check his phone to try and ring someone when suddenly he hears a branch snap. As he hears this he darts to attention and quickly moves out of scene.

Film noir

 Codes and conventions.

• Film noir normally included a non - digetic monologue 
• A bad representation of women, usually stripper ect.
• A villain; Normally rich or a politician of some kind
• Always a women in trouble normally British with a high status. This would relate to the spider and fly convention where the detective would be led and proceed to get trapped because of the woman. The more he gets involved the more the spider wraps him up. The protagonist normally uses who until he realises shes not what he thinks she is or until he falls in love. 
• The antagonist is normally a gangster who normally dies or gets put in prison. This is because of Hays law stating that in Hollywood all antagonists have to be put away in prison or killed off. 
• Low key lighting. A lot of shadows used for effect. As this is a dark society and corrupt.
• Ambient sounds of the city.
• Jazz music related to the underground urban city life.

These films started as an original idea of Hollywood. This was because there were 5 big film companies which no other film companies touched. They really came into popularity from the 1940's to 50's. These where very popular and usually were only created by the 5 big film companies.