Examples of Film Classifications.

U - UP (2009)

A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. they both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years on and Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go into a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However, he has a stowaway aboard. An eight year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Toegther they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin.

Up is suitable as A "U" as it have a positive moral framework and an upbeat storyline, with no threat/violence/horror that isn't counterbalanced.

Film noir.. :0

What the heck is "Film Noir"?
I'll be honest, i had not the slightest idea what it was, let alone that it was a Genre.
And i was genuinly frightened when a lot of people in my class knew straight away what it was and examples of Film Noir, naturally they had the advantage of GCSE Media or BTEC Media.. lucky them.

We were told that a lot of our work would be based around Film Noir and so we were told to write a 500 word essay about it! Difficult if your knowledge of Film Noir is limited.
And so we watched the opening sequence of "James Bond: Casino Royale" which we were told had many charcteristics of Film Noir. Together as a class we named many of those which made writing the essay a great deal easier.

Some of the characteristics we chose were:
- contrast of black and white used
- shadows cast across faces (obscuring)
- urban setting
- low key lighting
- low and high camera angles

Sorry for going into too much detail, as i've realised i have just done. oops..

Click here for the clip we analysed..


And click here for the wikipedia section for Casino Royale, which was also very useful in analysing how the opening sequence related to the film as a whole and the storyline of all the bond films complete..



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