Mainstream/cut/alternative

We learnt about mainstream, cult and alternative films today.
Mainstream films are fimls like Avatar, that have a big grose and are films that will have room for a secound sequend e.g (part 2 or books toys ant etc).
A cult is a small group, it something that appeals to a small market. for example someone like Giggs, he will come under cult because before he was quite known us young people knew him but adults didnt, but now alot of people know hom but he still not mainstream. Most british films come across as cult apart from 'love actually' this film is classed as mainstream because of the well known britsh actors and it had american actors aswell and mostly the money. most cult fims do not get shown in every cinema depending on the film depends on the area the film will get shown in like 'Kidulthood' didnt get shown in all cinemas around london, it only gonna get shown in 'Urban areas' like tottenham, holloway , brixton.
An Alternative film is a film that spends alot of money but not as much money as mainstream.

We looked at few films and analysed what group they come under, the first film was Star wars battle of the heroes.
Its a Mainstream film, that attracts a mainstream audience, its made for americans as they have the money. Alot of money was spent making this film, it had a very big budget. its based on fantasy.
One of the highest selling films .

The next film was Cass.
Cass is about a black man who grew up in a white area, its british so its will come across as cult, so this film will only get released in urban areas it also comes across as a subversive film because its doing something againts the law.

Evil Dead was the last film we watched, which was a horror genre , we classed it bas half cult and half alternative and subversive, becuase it has a few comedic elements.
its notn a typical hollywood film where everyones happy colours are jolly and etc.

Filming our movie/Genre

Filming our movie has been very tough.We had a lot of times where we couldn't film properly because of unreliable people, but after a while we tried to do our best, but then it became more tiring and fustrating when the main charcters wouldn't turn so being reliable was something that was lacking in our group. We then ound out that our tape that we have been filming everything on got lost, this really made me and my team members angry, dimotivated and a sense of not being bothered, but because we needed to pass so we had to start from scratch. When it was time to start from scratch the main character was being very unreliable and making no intrested of being around so we had to kick her out and get new people. I asked a few of my friends if they could replace the main charcters and they said yes, doing this made us having to kind of change the way the story went, for example we had to make the boy heard but not seen.
The genre of our a film is drama/romance, ur group chose this because we thought itwould be a easier issue to deal with, and the storyline's we kept comming up with were mostly this genre.

But even though we went through that stress filming from start with everything being new made things better and gave us a clearer mind and made us enjoy filming even more, as before personally i felt quite depressed filming in my group because of how people will behave and the impression they would give.
we are now filming our last scene then will begin editing. we are being inspired by Larry McConey in some of our scene's, when he does the straight smooth pans with out having to have cuts.

Recky

A recky is a scene that you shoot somewhere else not where its actually ment to be, this saves money because you can use any venue that you may not need to pay for and do the scene plenty of times, so when you do the actually scene its perfect. In my group we did the scene where the girl 'porcia' tells her boyfriend 'Thomas' that she is pregnant over the phone, we did it in like a corridor white based background, it looked like a hospital. when we filmed the real scene we filned it in the toilet which was ment to represent the 'clinic toilet'. it didnt save us any money because we didnt need to pay for anything, butwe benifited from it as we knew how the real idea would turn out.

We first saw what a recky was when we watched 'Reservoir Dogs' directored and written by Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino is known to be a very famous director and this film showed a recky. they filmed the recky in a deasent toilet and tarantino was even in the scene, but when they shot the actual scene there were a few changes like Tarantino weren't in the scene and the toilet was much more different.