X-Men: First Class Research Questions

X-Men: First Class 

4) Who stars in it? What else have they been in?

·      James McAvoy

-       Wanted

-       The Chronicals of Narnia

-       Welcome to the punch

·      Michael Fassbender

-       300

-       Inglourious Basterds

-       Prometheus

-       Jane Eyre

·      Kevin Bacon

-       Apollo 13

-       Crazy, Stupid Love

-       Beauty Shop

-       Mystic River

·      Jennifer Lawrence

-       The Hunger Games

-       Silver Linings

-       Winters Bone

8) In its opening weekend, which chart position did it reach in the UK/US Box Office?

·      X-Men: First Class ranked 106 in the chart positions for the opening weekends raking in $56 million and another $64 million internationally.

·      03/06/2011

12) Which studio distributed it?

·      Fox studios (20^th Century Fox)

Preliminary

Testing the camera angles for the introduction scene

Iconography in film opening

List of iconographies which would be expected in the opening of the film:

1. mental asylum
2. deranged woman which is also a vampire
3. blood
4. doctors
5. vampire make up and accessories e.g. fangs, pale make-up, red contacts for the red eyes
6.  

Pitch

Do not get fooled by her beauty for which it is in contrast to her character.

Rescued a human from death. Worst mistake as her secret of who she is, is then revealed.

Synopsis Of Vampire Film

Vampire Synopsis:

Scene begins with a sharp back and forth editing from when a young woman in her past with her encounter of vampires and present; what she has turned in to.  This woman has no friends, family and does not speak to anyone as she pants like a dog to the woods. People stop and stare at her gracious beauty and know that there is something different about her but just cannot point out how contrasting she is to normal human beings.

Another scene begins with a young man celebrating his nephew’s birthday having fun with upbeat music and laughter of kids in the background.  After the party, the nephew asks if he can go outside to play. Few hours later, the nephew is nowhere to be seen and is then put amongst the other 75 children that are missing in the neighbourhood.

This woman has something very peculiar about her character as she likes to kidnap young children and use them for her own advantage of being a blood sucking vampire.  People in the neighbourhood begin to realise that a large number of children are starting to go missing. She is on her way to the woods, she comes across a human that is in danger and is on the urge of death, resentful to whom she is and who her character may be, she felt the need to help the young man and save him from the misery of death.  This young man later ends up in the hospital and has flashing images of the vampire that saved him. He goes out on a quest to meet this woman to thank her. Little does he know that he will find out that his missing nephew’s evidence of death is lurking in her house…

How Young Women Are Represented In Horror Films.

Write 500 words on the representation of young women in horror films. You must research this first and you must provide clear examples from horror texts.

Paranormal Activity 4 is a lead up from all of the other Paranormal Activity films. The story is developed further in the fourth movie five years after Katie killed her boyfriend Micah, Sister Kristi, her husband Daniel and kidnapping their baby, Hunter. Story focuses on Alex and her family experiencing supernatural activities since the new neighbours moved in the town.

Katheryn Newton plays the tragic role of Alex in this film.

Alex is stereotypical 15 year old girl that experiences supernatural activities in her own home when her neighbour comes to stay and live with them for a while. In the film, we see that Alex develops a relationship with her friend Ben and he encounters the idea of exposing the supernatural activities that are happening. Alex is seen as brave and daring when it comes to what is happening in her house. She conquers through the horror scenes and still manages to try and find out what is happening that is causing so much chaos in her house. However, Alex later on dies in the movie

The Roommate is a horror/thriller film that was released in February 2011. This film is based in college as two roommates become really good friends and one of the girls gets a bit obsessive with the other and things start to turn into a bit of a disaster.  Minka Kelly plays as Sara Matthews a victim and one of the young women in the film. Leighton Meester plays Rebecca Evans as the obsessive roommate. In this film, Sara Matthews is portrayed as a strong and brave character as she urges to find out more about the case of Rebecca Evans and get to the bottom of things.

Rebecca Evans is shown as the compulsive girl that tries to destroy everyone that gets in between her relationship with Sara Matthews.