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PULPED premiere poster

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RECIPES FOR DISASTER: SPLICED CRASHES

In this video I have continued to analyse the different steps of a common action events in film; in this case, the car crash. I have divided the different stages up, and will follow up with a key explaining what these stages are.

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“PERFECT” MOVIE: VERSION 2 (CROSS-FILM NARRATIVE)

Here I have tried to apply some of the criteria from my “perfect” movie list when sourcing clips for this video; these criteria are: gradual suspense of belief (the film becomes steadily more absurd); adapted from a book or play (all clips included are from films which were); as well as the protagonist demonstrating that they are required to overcome both physical and emotional problems.

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“PERFECT” MOVIE: VERSION 1 (”HEATHERS”)

In this video I applied the narrative structure implemented in Michael Hauge’s work, in only a five minute video. This was mainly to test how his theory worked; but I feel this would work better with the use of a Cross-Film Narrative. The film in question does not necessarily possess all (or even many) of the attributes I listed previously in order to make a “perfect” movie.

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THE “PERFECT” MOVIE

I compiled a list of characteristics of financially successful movies from data on the internet; these are the guidelines I used to create short 'perfect movies'; movies which possess all of these formulaic characteristics.

THE 'PERFECT MOVIE'

- heroes have two problems to solve: one is more obvious and physical, the other inner and emotional.

- the plot becomes increasingly fantastical (builds up suspension of belief)

- likely to be r-rated

- likely to be adapted from a play/ book, or based on a true story

- unlikely to be a comedy/ musical/ sequel/ remake

- not a summer release

- not a first-weekend box office success

I focussed on only a few of these criteria at a time for each movie, in order to see which ones worked together.

I also worked on a list of characteristics which would be possessed by the 'worst movie'.

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BLUE & ORANGE SPLICING

Following on from my research, I sourced clips in which orange and blue are the predominant colours. This was a predecessor to my beginning to look into how I could try and make a “perfect” movie, and what criteria would fit into this. As colour and not narrative is the focus of this video, it perhaps does not fit with many of the other explorations I have made.

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MOVIE FROM OUTTAKES: “PRETTY WOMAN”

This was an experiment in which I attempted to recreate the narrative of “Pretty Woman” using only deleted scenes from the film itself, in a sort of filmic use of negative space. Having used only what was not shown in the film itself, this was also a consideration of ways of getting around copyright laws; would my use of footage be persecuted in the same way were it not from the official cut of the film?

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SPLICED SMOKING: VERSION 2

While I previously structured my smoking splice to move through the process of smoking a cigarette, this one manages it more comprehensively, and, I feel, is edited more successfully.