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(Research and Planning) Underworld

Underworld is a Action film about the ever going battle between Vampires and Lycans (Werewolves).
Within the first two minutes we start off with the opening logo's with an overcast of clouds and darkness, this has already let the watcher know that the film they are about to watch has a dark essense about it, you can hear thunder and rain in the background. As the logo's fade to the film the rain and thunder continue, to show the camera panning down from the ceiling to show a woman in a long leather coat crouching on the railing of a balcony. At the point the audience will be thinking 'What is she doing there and why isn't she afrade of falling?' this is ten reviled when you hear the narative come on over the sound of the thunder and rain, she begins to tell you about the war that has been going on between the Vampires and Lycans, how the Vampires have basically won the war and have killed nearly all on the Lycans left, but how it is getting harder due to the fact that there are now Lycans who have evloved to resist the moon and who are able to change at will.
This is building suspence for the audience due to the fact that they now know that the war that is going on has become even harder then ever before.

Once all has been told about the war and the evolving Lycan's the myserious woman ontop of the balcony look's to a companion who is also purched on a balcony. He signals to her that he has spotted two Lycan's and they both jump to the street below to pursue these shapeshifting creatures and kill them.

An audience will be sucked into this kind of film because in the first two mins we already know the past story and we have a sence of danger, this is what action film fans love to see when they watch. We have the helpless looking woman to suck in the male audence but at the same time this woman can kick ass, this will draw in the female audience because it will make them think 'see woman can be the main fighter too.'
Action audence are always looking for that film that will give them a sence of thrill and suspence, this is why I feel that a film based on a war between shapeshifting people and the undead would be a sure fire attraction for the action audience.

(Reshearch and Planning) The Ring - 2002

The Ring (2002), a remake of Hideo nakata's 1998 Ring, is a horror movie that introduced the west to all the cliches that are so popular in the east, and that are not popular everywhere. It is the only American horror movie that is scarier than the film it is based on.

To start off the opaning two minutes we see the DreamWorks opening with what looks like interferance, giving the audience the idea that this may be a key point of what goes on in the film they are gping too watch.
In the opaning 2 minutes of what you see in the film it shows two teenage girl home alone watching TV, teenage girls being home alone is one of the cliches that nearly all horror movies use. It gives the idea that these girls are helpless and an easy target for what ever killer/deamon is learking in the darkness.
The TV is turned off because there is nothing on that the two girls find remotely interesting, Becka then begins to try and scare her friend Katie by telling her of a demonic tape that once you have watched you will recieve a phone call telling you that you are going to die in seven days, this is another cliches, in a horror film awnsering a phone is a tatle tale sign that they will most probably die, Katie reacts in a way that Becka was not expecting telling her that she has watched the tape and recieved the phone call but thought that it was all a sick joke made to scare her. Becka tries to calm her down by telling her that it was just a story and that there is nothing to be worried about, but Katie won't have it, she insists that she watched it with a boy named Josh.

Within the first two minutes you already get the feeling that someone in this scene is going to die, Katie, this is gripping for the audience and making them want to continue watching. You are given two characters wich you already get to know a bit about, this may make people begin to relate that character to themselves or with someone they know, giving the film a more personal feel to this film.