Task 3 researching into television and Film

All information has been addapted from wikipedia.
I have been looking at some drama television shows that have a lot of sad parts in, this will help me so I can start researching about all the different type of drama television programmes and films, but mainly films.  The television programmes I have chosen to look at are:

·         Ashes to ashes

·         Hustle

The reason I have chosen these are because I used to watch ashes to ashes and hustle sometimes however bonekickers I have never watched so I will have to do some more research into that to get the idea into my head of what goes on in the programme. Because my short film is a drama genre based film I will have to look in to the different types of sad parts there are in the programmes.  Not only will I be looking into television programmes bit I will be looking into drama films as well.

The drama films I have chosen to look at are:

·         Saving Private Ryan

·         Red Riding hood

I chose these drama films to look into because I have watched Saving Private Ryan when I was at school for my GCSE’s so I still have a clear imagination of what goes on and red riding hood is a classic childhood film that I watched when I was younger, but honey 2 I have never watched I will have to research into that to get a clear understanding of what happens in that.

 

Television Programmes

Ashes to Ashes Plot

Ashes to ashes is a fictional police procedural drama television programme. The programme began airing on BBC 1 in February 2008 and then a second series began in April 2009 and finally the third series starting broadcasting in April-May 21^st 2010 which was also broadcasted on BBC HD as well as BBC radio 1 altogether there were 24 episodes of the programme. The programme tells a fictional story of Alex Drake who’s played by Keeley Hawes a police woman who was in service with the Metropolitan police in London, is shot in 2008 but curiously regains consciousness in 1981.

 

Hustle Plot

      Hustle is a British TV drama series which is made by kudos film and television, made for      BBC One. The Television programme was created by Tony Jordan from the makers of spooks. The first series was broadcasted in 2004. The series follows a group of con artists, who specialise in making someone believe in something that isn’t true, that requires a large responsibility.

Films

Saving Private Ryan Plot

Saving Private Ryan is an American 1998 war film that was set during the invasion of Normandy (WW2). The film was directed by Stephen Spielberg. It also had a screenplay made by Robert Rodat. The film is famous for the passion of it’s opening in 27 minutes which shows the Omaha beachhead assault June 6^th 1944. Throughout the film it follows Tom Hanks playing as U.S Army Captain, John H Miller and seven other men as they search desperately for a paratrooper Private First Class James Francis Ryan played by matt Damon he is the last surviving brother of 4 other servicemen.

Robert Rodat gathered the idea of saving Private Ryan through watching a memorial event which was dedicated to 8 siblings who was killed in the American civil war. Robert Rodat then imagined a similar sibling narrative that was set in World War II. There was a script that was created and submitted to the producer Mark Gordon who then handed it to Tom Hanks. It finally ended up with Stephen Spielberg who directed the film. The film idea is based on a real-life story of the Niland Brothers.

At the start of the film we see an elderly person with their family visiting the Normandy American Cemetery and memorial at France. It then cuts to the morning of June 6 1944 the beginning of Normandy invasion, as the American Soldiers prepare to land on the Omaha beach, they struggle due to German troops, machine gun nests and also artillery fire. The scene then cuts to the United States where General George Marshall is told that 3 of the 4 brothers in the Ryan family have died in a space of a couple of days apart and their mother will be told and the captain is told that James Francis Ryan is claimed as missing in action. The Captain orders that Ryan is to be found and sent home because of the sole survivor policy. 6men and 1 who speaks fluent French and German are sent to search for Ryan.

Ryan is found among 3 paratroopers ambushing a German half-track. Ryan is then told about his bothers deaths and their mission to bring Ryan home safely and also that 2 people have lost their lives in the search to find him.

Captain Miller dies after being shot and Ryan was with him as he dies and says his last words to James which were “James...Earn this. Earn It”.

At the ending of the film it goes back to the scene of the elderly veteran who is made known as Ryan at Captain Millers grave, the camera pans down showing the gravestones and then to a peaceful American flag.

Red riding Hood Plot

Red riding hood is an American/ Canadian fantasy film that is directed by Catherine Hardwicke and Amanda Seyfried staring as the title role, David Leslie Johnson made a screenplay for the film. It is very freely based on “The little red riding hood” which are collected by Charles Perrault who is known as "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" (little red riding hood) and many years later by the Brothers Grimm Rotkäppchen known as little redcap.

Valerie played by Amanda Seyfried lives in a village of Daggerhorn that is on the edge of a ghostly black forest. Valerie developed an attraction for haunting and sneaking out to see a boy who she admired when she was told not to do so. The boy she loved is known as peter played by Shiloh Fernandez. Her parents disapproved of peter and wanted her to marry another guy who was the son of a wealthy blacksmith. The small village was plagued by a werewolf who only comes out at night and only feeds on livestock. Things change around the small village once they find out that Valerie’s sister Lucie who is played by Alexandria Mailot is found dead killed by a werewolf. Valerie recieves a wedding gift early from her grandmother played by Julie Christie to help her emotions.

 

The gift was a red hooded cape. They take the wolf’s head back to Daggerhorn to celebrate their feelings but Valerie’s father Solomon played by Gary Oldman, who is a priest experienced in werewolves as he had to kill his own wife to protect their children. Normally once the werewolf kills someone it goes back to its human form but this didn’t happen so the villagers ignore this.  Valerie learns her mother was in love with Michael shanks that’s known as Adrian years before meeting her husband and she unexpectedly gave birth to Lucie as a result. Cesaire is unaware of this. Valerie confronts peter for rejecting her after she was forced by her mother to do that.

The werewolf appears again killing many of the villagers and injuring one of the guards. The wolf confronts Valerie and her friend Shauna Kain known as Roxanne they are both horrified but they learn that Valerie can understand what the wolf is saying and can talk to it as well.

Solomon kills the injured guard as anyone bitten by the werewolf will be cursed to become one. Harry tells Valarie he had seen her with Peter and they agreed to call of the engagement.

Peter disappears and Valarie suspects him, attacks him and rushes to her grandmother’s house but is unexpectedly greeted by her father using her grandmother’s voice. Cesaire tells that he is the werewolf but all his relations can speak to him because of this he realized that Lucie was not his daughter as she couldn’t understand him. He offers Valarie to become a werewolf, she refuses and he tries to force her into it. Peter is knocked out and Valarie kills her father, then peter sees he has been bitten and he would be cursed to become the werewolf, as an alternative of killing him, Valarie and he dumped Cesaire’s body in the lake as peter rows away, because he leaves Valarie behind he promises to return to see her. Valarie moves from Daggerhorn into her grandmother’s cottage waiting for the day peter returns. The film ends with Valarie smiling mischievously.

How has this influenced my idea for a short film?

This has influenced my idea for a short film because there are a lot drama films about relationships whether it is family or siblings as seen above. There are also a lot of deaths as well. The reason I came up with my idea for a short film was because as most people already know that drama films have deaths and family relationships.