Capstone week three

Every week brings a new challenge to face and a solution that needs to be solved. The one problem I'm facing this week is a conflict of schedules among the members in the film. Some people are good on Thursday and some on Friday. So I'll have to find a happy medium with everybody helping out. I have finished the script and I have been revising it a lot in the last couple of days. I want to start filming this week if I feel its strong enough for it. I'll have to run it by my teacher and see if I need anything else done with the script. Some objectives I want to do this week; finalize script, actors/actresses, shot selections within scenes, and begin filming. My research has come along a lot faster this week.

Robin Hood

When people think of parodies, it’s sometimes viewed not as a serious film; when in fact it should be appreciated.  Most genres go through four stages in their life span; experimental, classic, refinement and finally baroque. The baroque stage is where the style of parody comes in. It’s almost a rebirth of whatever genre is being explored. Either the genre is; horror, science fiction, westerns, action-adventure, and etc. The genre I will explore is the detective movies with a splash of adventure.  This is what I’ll implicate in my film. One of the books I read, Film Parody by Dan Harris, described different techniques for parody films. The first one is called reiteration, where you establish the connection for a certain genre. Examples would be using horses for a western or a held hand camera for a documentary. The second is inversion, where the use of irony is used to flip situations on its head. The third is misdirection, where an example from "Scary Movie" the man talks about how his wife can't get pregnant and neither can he. The fourth is literalization, where they actually mean what they say. The example they use is from "Robin Hood Men in Tights" when Robin yells out to the crowd "lend me you ears" then they throw their ears to him. The fifth is extraneous inclusion, where adding doorbells on a teepee or pink slippers on a gangster. The last one is exaggeration, where a situation can be taken to the extreme. An extreme bomb from a toy box or a car that rolls and rolls still it stops and explodes. I plan to use a little of every technique in the film and make the film better.

As the weeks go by, I can't wait to see this come all together and see the end product. Another week of the film to be......................................