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Title:  Reckoning

Genre: Fantasy (sci-fi) and special effects

Certificate: (12)

Synopsis

The winter of 2007, the Greek Gods have been gone for 1000’s of years and finally return to the outer realms of the earth. The earth itself begins to experience a sequence of extraordinary events that make way for the entrance of the gods to the earth. No-one in the 21st century believes in the gods but that doesn’t that mean they don’t exist? This film follows the character of Mike who is 14. He comes across an old stone that has ancient inscriptions on it. He traces his finger round the shape engraved on the stone.

This gives the Greek Gods the opportunity to make their way back on to earth. The gods try their best to make their presence once again felt on the earth and try to regain the power they once had. Will the earth survive? This film explores the issues to do with faith and belief in a contempory setting.

Cinematic Techniques

The main character is Mike a 14 year old boy who finds his life hard he is beaten on by bullies and never taken seriously by his family he is basically someone who is insignificant to other characters this would be part of the reason why throughout a lot of the film he is filmed on his own to show the fact he is an outsider and when he is shown with someone else the camera looks down on him to show that he is inferior.

Other characters are Mike’s mum Gina, a single mother and his older sister Jane who goes to college and isn’t around a lot. Throughout the film I want to use a lot of long tracking shots when filming the character of Mike to show his loneliness so that when his role becomes very significant in the film I could show a contrast in the shots as people start to join with Mike and put their confidence in him I would use a lot more close up shots and mid-shots of him with others around him. I think this would be good because it would give the film the overall contrast between the start, middle and ending scenes as Mike becomes a hero.

 

In this film a number of scenes will have little or no dialogue. I would use a lot of close up shots to show character feelings through their facial expressions. This would be good as the audience have to begin to feel how the character is feeling.

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Lighting will be important in the film as it gives the film a sense of mystery and also gives the contrasts between the point of view of the gods and the point of view of Mike. When filming from the point of view of the gods I plan on making the camera rise to high heights to put across a sense of superiority.

Because this film is based around the theme of the Greek Gods the mis - en scene is very important. I will have a lot of the setting for scenes in natural surroundings for example ...

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