Final Project Idea!

 Bloggers, after a long time of brainstorming and speculating, it's finally here: my FINAL project idea for my AICE Media Studies project!! Out of the brainstorming ideas I discussed a couple posts ago, my group has decided on doing... "Super"-Hero!

    After reviewing the ideas we brainstormed earlier, my group decided that "Super"-Hero was BY FAR our strongest idea in terms of structure. The final plot for our film opening is as follows: A group of criminals break into a house and begin robbing it. They incapacitate the homeowner, and move onto the various rooms of the house to steal from. Right as one of the robbers enters the homeowners' bedroom, a loud smash is heard from the outside. Panicked, the robbers rush outside to see what's going on, and they discover an entire superhero standing right outside! The name for this superhero for the time-being is Power-Man, which although it is a little generic it does have a little ring to it considering where we want this film to go. Power-Man walks in, acting all tough and heroic, and demands that the robbers surrender before he has to beat them up. The robbers, seeing that Power-Man doesn't look all that intimidating in actuality, refuse and challenge Power-Man to a fight. Heroic music ensues, and Power-Man prepares to engage the robbers in combat.

    However, Power-Man is not the best at combat himself, proving the robbers' suspicions right. He is soundly and comically defeated, with goofy sound effects and visual effects right out of a comic book. The robbers grab what they have and bolt out before any further attention is drawn to themselves. The homeowner will wake up, seeing Power-Man defeated, and he will become livid. Power-Man sulks right out, with a defeatist song playing (something like the sad trombone sound.) The genre of this project will be a comedy, with some action but with a general unserious feeling. This opening will fit the comedy genre because of our intentions to make Power-Man look straight out of a kids' show and generally unthreatening. We also intend to use sound effects and editing that makes the film look like something you'd see on Cartoon Network, but we don't want to overdo this since it'll mess with how the plot is meant to progress. As far as how our project detracts from the comedy genre, I can't answer that with full confidence until we start filming, but I'm thinking it'll seem like a high-stakes thriller for the very beginning when the robbers initially break into the house to rob the homeowner.