Action Movie Music- Examples

This piece of music, whilst not particularly suited to the ideas behind our film idea, this does display how grand the music for a battle scene can be. The music is essentially the battle taking place, with the brass and woodwind section really letting the audience know when the empire is winning and that there is a lot at stake. This is however, more suited to larger battles rather than what will be in our movie, which involves mainly small skirmishes.

This music, while it does sound quite grand, makes it seem more like a smaller affair than that of the hoth battle theme, with many areas in the music displaying quieter sounds before erupting into a more dramatic piece. This could work with our super hero gone wrong movie with some of the quieter pieces in this track, they may however, ruin the idea of suspense when the brass section kicks off. This may simply be the style of music in the action genre in the 1980's.

 

Horror Movie Music- Examples

Horror Films generally tend to be slow paced and eerie, with a sudden loud noise to break the tention sometimes, some horror film's music may be faster paced and creepy instruments like violin, but slow and eerie is usually the case.
This sound clip is from the film "The Ring" it is a perfect example of creepy and slow music:

this clip appears to be a little girl singing to music which adds to creepy atmosphere.

 

Here is an example of a louder and faster theme for a Horror film which edges onto Thriller type music. This is the theme music of "Saw":

                                     

As you can hear, these two themes are very different to one another, mainly reflecting on the threat in the film, while "The Ring" is very mysterious, "Saw" is very extreme and gets straight to action.

Questionnaire

FILM QUESTIONNAIRE

What is your favourite genre of film?
Horror 2 Action 3 Sci-Fi/Fantasy 3 Romance 3 Comedy 4 Documentary 0

What sort of film would you like to see being made?
Horror 2 Action 3 Sci-Fi/fantasy 4 Romance 0 Comedy 5 Documentary 1

What age rating films do you watch?
U, 2 PG, 3 12, 3 15, 5 18, 2

Do you like super hero films?
Yes 6 No 3 Don't mind 6

Costumes

Costumes are very important in film because they are there to do lots of things, superheroes will often wer a really tight costume with there symbol on their chest but thats not what costumes are all about. Most of the time a costume in a film will refer to the clothing that a person wears which has to be thoroughly thought out to get the message across:

Casual clothing will give the viewer a sense that the character wearing this clothing is very normal and just laid back most of the time

Scruffy and Dirty clothing gives an impression to the viewer that they may be quite dumb and not well looked after, mostly associated with comedy films and disgusting personalities.

Neat clothing can often give a very uptight feel to a character, most of these characters are not well liked because they are often very rude, but it could also present an idea of cleanliness.

Tucked in wollen sweaters, big glasses, trousers pulled up and long socks is a geeky look, film makers usually use this costume when conveying a character that is quite needy and shy ad to make people fell sorry for them. That is considering they are not rude of course.

Villain Themes

 

.This is a scene from Batman Begins introducing the villain into the story. The Christopher Nolan Batman film's are a heavy influence on my idea for the story of my film so I think it is perfect to analyse the scenes, this is one of my favourite scenes from the film. From the viewing we can start to tell that the character Jonathan Crane is clearly unsettled by what the mobster is saying so they use the connotation of the "taking off glasses" to prepare us for the fact that he will do something bad. We then get an insight of how he picks off his victims, he makes them seem insane by using his gas to trigger screams

Skyfall trailer analysis

The trailer for the new James Bond film, Skyfall, shows many conventions of the action film genre, such as an excessive amount of guns and gunfire. There are multiple shots of the titular character being harmed, and is seen worse for wear, and is however managing to survive an extraordinary amount of wounds without being in serious danger.
The main villain is only seen at a glance, for example in shadows or through a glared window. This adds to the suspense as to whether this villain is one seen in other Bond films, or whether he is just a new character here to cripple Bond before he decides to take the fight back to him.
Multiple shots of women talking to him are seen several times, keeping with the almost self contained conventions of the genre of the franchise. This shows that the primary hero is considred a ladies man, and yet people still feel as if he one to be protected at all costs, even if it harms those that they love or themselves.

Age Ratings for Films

Age ratings can be an important implication as to whether a film is suitable for any audience.
This means that the film is suitable for all ages. This is usually used for children's films, or some less crude family comedies. Examples of films with U ratings include many Disney films such as The Jungle Book and The Lady and the Tramp.

A PG rating usually refers to a film that is not suitable for the ages below 7. This may be due to some mild violence or very mild swearing. Films which have this rating include Star Wars Episode 2: The Attack of the Clones.


A twelve rating is given to films that include some action scenes involving blood, or some swearing, occasionally dropping the F bomb in a few films. Other reasons for this rating also include minor sexual innuendo.


15 rated film certificates are given out to a wide variety of films, for many reasons such as some horrors, action and comedies. These may contain gore, a lot of swearing or minor sexual encounters- e.g. partial nudity. Films with these rating include- Role models, or any number of horror movies. This is also the intended rating for our own project.