1. Film Genre What happens in the opening? How easy would this Why?
genre be?
The Day After Natural Disaster - Starts with showing the production Very difficult CGI is required to
Tomorrow Film company (20th Century Fox) 10/10 create a location and
- The screen then goes dark and lots of special effects
dramatic music starts playing as the are used.
credits show up
- Establishing pan shots set the
scene showing the audience the
large ice caps, in Antarctica
- 3 male characters, one of them
being the protagonist, we can tell this
as he is always shown closer to the
camera so the audience relate to
him more.
- Protagonist; male, strong, white this
shows a traditional representation
- Lots of establishing shots used
Indiana Jones Action Film - Starts with very low level lighting Difficult An exotic location is
and eerie music. 7/10 usually used for action
- Shows credits and then of men films and this would be
walking around an exotic rainforest, hard to find
diegetic animal sounds are also
added in.
- As there is low level lighting the
men come cross as silhouettes
creating suspense, then Indiana
Jones’ hat emerges and so the
audience know he is there.
- Protagonist; male, strong, white this
shows a traditional representation

2. Film Genre What happens in the opening? How easy would Why?
this genre be?
Halloween Horror - Begins with a dark background and very eerie music Easy Easy to find a location,
playing 4/10 very low budget and the
- A picture of a pumpkin appears in the background winter time weather will
and the credits are shown in the colour orange, this help to create pathetic
makes them match the picture of the pumpkin. fallacy
- A house is show by an establishing shot and the
camera travels as a point of view of a character
nearer to the house, it then zooms into the window
where a couple are sat. The audience then realise
that the point of view is from the villain himself.
- The girls boyfriend leaves and the camera then
travels upstairs to where the girls is sat, we know the
girl knows the villain as she says ‘Michael?’, the villain
then kills hers
- The audience have already met the villain before the
protagonist, the antagonist then kills the girl with a
knife
- A messy weapon is usually used to kill characters in
the film such as a knife in Halloween.
The Departed Gangster - Starts with a dark background and shows the Considerably easy A location would need
credits. Shots of fighting pictures appear and there is 6/10 to be thought about
a voiceover on top. properly
-After that music is played to set the scene and the
villain is shown as a silhouette in the low level
lighting. We find out the voiceover is done by the
villain as he has a husky voice.
- Bad language is used in the voice over, we also
learn that the villain is racist. He walks into a shop
and is handed money by the shopkeeper.
- Another important character is also established in
this scene, as the villain talks to a girl. As the camera
shot shows the girl she is out of focus and another
character, a little boy, is in focus, even though he is
not who the villain is speaking too.

3. Film Genre What happens in the opening? How easy would this Why?
genre be?
Arlington Road Political -The audience can see a boy walking Difficult A lot of makeup and
Thriller alone down a road, but his image is 7/10 fake blood would be
slightly out of focus. To create suspense needed to make a film
a non-diegetic whispering voice is added like this
over
-From where he is walking it suggests
that he is situated in the suburbs of
America, as the background images are
of houses.
- A man in a car drives down the road
and sees the boy, he gets out to see
what has happened to him and sees that
the boys hand is covered in blood. From
here we can tell that the protagonist is
the man who gets out of his car to help
the boy.
- The whispering sounds before also
suggest that it had something to do with
the boy’s injury.
The Skeleton Key Psychological -The scene starts with an establishing Considerably Easy It would be easy to
Thriller shot, which then leads to a woman 6/10 make a mysterious
reading a book to a patient in a bed. The opening without using
woman appears to be his nurse. lots of props
- The audience then realise that the man
sat in the hospital bed has died, through
a few lines of dialogue between 2
nurses.
-The main character (the first nurse)
seems to care a lot about the patient
whereas the other nurses didn’t seem to
bothered as it was just part of their job
-We can tell that the location maybe in
Southern America as the background
music has a slight banjo sound in it