Media Coursework - What Makes A Good Film?

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Hayley Woodall

Media Coursework

What Makes A Good Film?

        In my opinion what makes a good film is the overall look and design of the film. It has to include comedy, romance, horror and sci-fi. The Matrix includes all of these titles, but it manly includes sci-fi, there’s not much comedy but it tries to include some small jokes, for example when Neo was bugged it was a small and simple joke that is there to make people laugh. It is a visual pun, a kind of play on words for the meaning of being bugged, what does it really mean?

        The film has two settings the one is reality and the other one is programmed by a computer. The setting of reality is set in a space ship and in an unreal land, which would be like a nightmare to someone who is used to living on earth with every thing you could want and need at hand. The setting of the programmed world is set in America but filmed in Sydney and it looks like every day life, there are many different programmes in the computer and you are able to change location in the computer at any time.

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        A good film also needs good characters with the way that they look and the way that they act to lift the progress of the film. The characters have to be realistic and have to be believable. They have to come across to the audience’s what there character is, either the hero or the bad guy for instance. The

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Matrix has all the usual characters as it includes Neo who is the hero, and then Morphius who is the leader; the film also has some romance in it between Trinity and Neo. There is a normal, ...

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