Wednesday 24 February 2010
animatic storyboard
Wednesday 17 February 2010
Art of the title sequence
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The movie that i'll be analyzing is the legendary Fight Club with Brad Pitt. I chose to analyse this movie because it has an interesting opening sequence which if you haven't watched the film before would not understand what it's about because it doesn't give a lot of clues but yet i think its a subtle of way of giving out information about the movie. The style of the tittle is modern and edgy, the title says the names of the creative producers and director and also the cast. The images used in this opening sequence consist of brain movements
The opening title sequence was supposed to be starting inside the fear center of Edward Norton’s brain. The electricity is like photo electrical stimuli that is running through his brain. These are supposed to be impulses, fear-based impulsesDirector David Fincher. the type of shot that are used in the title sequence are extreme close up of the activities in the brain, the effect of this that it creates an intense movement, and keeps the audience entertained. I think this title sequence is appealing to me because it is so different, and it reveals nothing of the film, but as soon as the action starts with the man putting his gun inside another man's mouth while he introduce himself is absolutely intriguing because as an audience I want to know more about what's happening.
Match Cut Preliminary Film practice
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- Match Cut
- 180 Degree rule
- shot reverse shot
- two shot
- close up
I feel that we have successfully done these objectives in the space of time that were given to us. There were a lot of obstacles while filming this scene. For example getting the shot right and making sure that the action matches and making it flow was hard, but thankfully we have a great editor. I was in charge of filming and directing this scene, but everyone in the group contributed a lot in filming this. The way I wanted to film this scene is to capture the normality and flow of a normal day. The use of long shot, extreme close up on the feet while walking up, and another long shot creates a continuous flow.
Filming practice with sound and edit
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Thriller Sub Genres-What inspires me now
- Phsycological
- Sci Fi
- Crime
- Action
- Drama
The sub genre that inspires me at the moment is phsycological. Ilike this sub genres as I find them interesting towatch as they involve a lot of analysis of humans minds and behaviour. It isbecause of fims like Unbreakable (2000), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and Phone Booth (2000).
Phsycological thrillers often have a twist ending in them. This catches the audience off guard and it will have them shocked and surprised. It makesthe audience think about the events that happened earlier in the film and how that affcted the twist.
At the begining of Phone Booth the main character played by Collin Farrell enters a phone booth and strangely a pizza is delivered to the booth. Later on we find out that this was because a secret caller was going to keep him in there for a long period of time and sent him this pizza in case he got hungry. When the caller reveals why he sent the pizza the audience then think 'oh thats why a pizza was strangely delivered to a phone booth.
Sound Cut Pro
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Final Edit of livetype and sound filming practice
card game movie - my take
Photo word activity
Match cut Preliminary Film Excersise
- Match cut
- 180 degree rule
- Shot reverse shot
- two shot
- Extreme close ups
- Close ups
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Match Cut - practice exercise
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- Match Cut
- 180 Degree rule
- shot reverse shot
- two shot
- close up
- Long shot of character moving up the stair
- extreme close up of his trainers
- then long shot again to illustrate the meaning of match cut in such a simple sequence.
Livetype
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In class we used Apples live type to experiment with different titles including effects. The software will help us to do a title sequence for our final thriller sequence. It is important we know how to match the title to the genre of the clip itself. Here is a photo of a work in progress using livetype.
Monday 8 February 2010
Thriller sub genres - Which inspire you at the moment and why?
- Crime
- Action
- Drama
- Spy
- Psychological
- Conspiracy
The sub genre that inspires me the most is psychological thriller.
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The reason why I like this genre is because of films like Fight Club, Momento, Requiem for a Dream, The Sixth Sense and the ever famous, Psycho.
In each oth these films we are shown the main characters lives and then at the end, everything is pieced together. This may sound rather simple and average, but what's different about a psychological thriller to an ordinary film is that they often have a twist ending in them. The twist shocks and surpises the audience as they didn't see it coming, it makes the audience think back and say "oh so that's why they did this" or "that's why we never saw..." ect. The audience is then forced to change their judgement of chracter in hand as this new information changes everything.
There are elements in the movies that foreshadow the twist; such as in The Sixth Sense when Bruce Willis' character is that in the movie you never see him open a door; he is simply shot from either inside or outside the room without entering himself. Also, whenever he speaks to her it's as if she can't hear him. Bruce Willis' character mistakes this that him and his wife are simply having marital problems but not until the end is it reveled to the audience and his character that he is infact dead, and a ghost.
This twist ending doesn't exactly happen in Requiem for a Dream, but the tist element isn't esential in creating a psychological thriller. Requiem for a Dream the film 'depits different forms of addiction, leading to the characters’ imprisonment in a dream world of delusion and reckless desperation that is subsequently overtaken and devastated by reality.' (via)
The trailer for this film shows what the film is about and it gives an insight as to how the use of camera work and editing helps demonstraight that the characters are in a world of their own. There are many aspects of this film that I adore but mainly the editing and the camera work are the best part of the movie.
Sound Cut pro
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/soundtrackpro/
Sound cut pro is a great tool for editing and making sounds for videos. It helps you mix and fix audios in a media file. In movies it is used for creating the soundtrack or sound effects. It has over 5000 royalty free instrumental and sound effects which is incredibly useful for amateur film makers such as students. It has two main modes, the multitrack mode which allows sound effects and instrumental be synchronised into a video. Here we can track the tempo and key the effects. the other mode is the audio editing mode which allows invidual clips to be edited, such as reversing, reverting, or normalising audio files. Sound track pro goes hand in hand with final cut pro, and in my case I had the chance to make a sound track for my practise movie. I found the software quite easy to use as it was straight forward, but I think I need a little bit more practise to be able to create an appropriate sound track for my final piece.
In our practise run we were able to shorten or extend the audio in our video, also add special effects which can contribute to the mood of the movie. As we were creating a thriller movie it is important for us to create the right music to suit the mood.
Here is a screen cap of what I did in the lesson
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Livetype
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Friday 5 February 2010
Detailed analysis of thriller clip analysed in class
There are different technical features that create suspense in this film, such as camerawork, sound, lighting etc. When Claire is walking down the stairs we see a close up of her feet, this is very effective because the audience know something is going to happen and it creates tension. (6.32-6.37)
The sound effects made when she steps on the blodd is something that scares the audience as it comes as a shock after a slow build up of tension.
Camerawork also helps create suspense. (7.30-8.30) There is close ups of just claires feet so that the audience see Norman on the floor. This leaves the audience questioning wether or not he is about to do something. The close up of his hand moving and the sound effect that goes with it is particularly effective as it certainly makes the audience jump.
News and current affairs
POLICE investigating the murder of two women found at a house today say they have found the body of a man nearby.
Officers were called to an address in Oswestry, Shropshire, shortly after 5am this morning.
Detective Superintendent Sheila Thornes from West Mercia Police, said the house remained cordoned off as more than 40 officers worked on the investigation.
She added: "At this stage, we are unable to go into further detail.
"As soon as we are able, we will issue a further statement."
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "After about an hour at the scene we were stood down by police." Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2840459/Womens-bodies-found-in-home.html#ixzz0eetZ8qEa
'Man Held Daughter Captive In Cellar'
11:00pm UK, Sunday April 27, 2008
Police in Austria have entered a cellar where a man allegedly held his daughter captive for 24 years, during which time he may have fathered seven children by her.
Two of Elisabeth's daughters
The basement area consists of a very narrow hallway and several rooms, said Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs, on Austrian TV.
Authorities accessed the area after the fathertold them how to unlock a hidden door using a code only he had known.
Detectives say Elisabeth Fritzl had been missing since August 29, 1984.
Now aged 42, the woman was found after a tip-off to police. Her 73-year-old father Josef Fritzl has been arrested and is being held in custody.
Speaking from outside the house, Sky's Greg Milam said: "The fact that police have been able to get inside that cellar is significant.
"It means they have a better idea of what Elisabeth Fritzl was going through.
"But it also means the father is talking to police."
The case came to light after one of the children was taken to hospital in the town of Amstetten.
The youngster, 19-year-old Kerstin, was said by police to be "gravely ill".
Elisabeth told police her father began sexually abusing her when she was 11 and he locked her up in a room in the cellar on August 28, 1984.
During the 24 years that followed, she said she had six children by him.
The seventh child was a twin who died shortly after birth. Josef Fritzl removed the body and burned it.
The two oldest children, aged 18 and 19, and the youngest aged 5, had been locked up with their mother since birth and had never seen sunlight or received any education, police said.
Josef's wife Rosemarie had been unaware of what happened to her daughter and it was assumed she had disappeared voluntarily when her parents received a letter from her saying they should not search for her.
Three of Elisabeth's younger children were each left on her parents' doorstep, the first accompanied by a letter saying she could not look after the baby herself.
All were taken in by Josef and his wife as foster or adopted children and went to school as normal.
Police said Elisabeth only agreed to talk after the authorities promised she would not have to have see her father again and the children would be taken care of.
The mother and children are now being treated in hospital by a team of psychologists.
DNA tests are being carried out to determine whether Fritzl is the father.
The case follows that of Natascha Kampusch, the girl who was held in the basement of a house on the outskirts of Vienna for more than eight years.
She was snatched on her way to school by technician Wolfgang Priklopil, who threw himself in front of a train after she escaped.
In another case that rocked Austria, three young girls were locked up for seven years by their mentally ill mother near the city of Linz.
Thursday 4 February 2010
Detailed Analysis of Thriller Clip
Throughout the film there are many aspects such as, camera work, editing and sound; these all add to the tension and suspence of the movie.
The screen prints below show the scene where Claire is walking down the stairs backwards. While walking down the stairs there are close ups of just her feet, this creates tension because as an audience we know that something is going to happen, the silence and the creaky staircase adds to the suspence. When she steps on the blood, there is a loud noise created by the keys of a piano being violently slammed down. This is then visually followed by a high angle shot from the top of the stairs, the camera then swings round down the stairs to Claire's point of view to then show Norman on the floor in a pool of blood around his head.
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At the very beginning of the clip Claire is in the bath, she is paralyzed. This part of the clip the audience are worried for the saftey of Claire. The camera shows close ups of Claire and her face and we can see struggle on her face. The camera then moves to her feet to then show her toes struggling to pull a chain the camera then tilts down to show the plug and then the audience then understand what is going on; she is trying to pull the plug out so she won't drown. The use of the silence apart from the running water makes the bath tub scene very eerie.
In this clip there are many times in which sounds are played to add to the mood. These are the point in which they occur:
3:27 - 4:29 When Claire is getting/falling out the bath to getting the phone; There is an ominous drone
6:46 - 7:11 Claire walking down the stairs; keys of a piano violently being slammed down upon.
8:22 - 8:27 Norman's fingers moving; sharp loud noises.
8:33 - end of clip Norman's eye opening and Claire running out of the house;
theme music.
The use of having the sounds/music in intivals allows the audience to get comfortable and then it makes the audience jump out of their seats because all the while there is no music playing so it makes them very edgy and uncertian of what's going to happen next.
The clip on which this blog is based on can be found below. The screen prints provided are also from this clip.
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Photo word activity
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Thriller sub genres-Which inspire you at the moment and why?
- Monster
- Psychological
- Horror
- Spy
- Gangs/Gangster
SPY
Spy is my chose sub genre due to not only creating allot of tension within its film but I have enjoyed a huge amount watching this genre and these films, I regarded them as action however I learnt that these are also regarded as thrillers, and I have noticed why because they create huge tension to the audience and also allot of blood is used within the film to establish panic among the audience and the film which have done that is the James Bond films, my favourite being Casino Royale due to the way the tension i built and the method in which the audience are left guessing what is going to occur next, also you could probably say it comes under the gangster genre due to the amount of gangs the film has involved in it so this is why this specific sub- genre fascinates me.
Title Cut Pro
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Title Cut pro allows my group to add titles to our short film, this programme would be used for our credits either if we decide to present them in 3 ways these are:
- Narrative opening
- discrete title sequence
- or both
If you view my picture you will notice 3 different coloured bars these have different functions:
- The yellow- It is the text in this case DELUXE how long it appears on the screen for in this case it is for the whole sequence
- The Purple- These are the emotions such as 'mysterious' so the word DELUXE would appear in that method
- The Blue- is the background that is being used and once again how long you want it to last in the sequence.
If you realised I have used two blue & purple this is because can have to animations working at the same time however it is sensible to keep these to a minimum and not get carried away it is best two be efficient and sweet instead of having many animations occurring all at once, apart from this I learnt how to make the text bigger how to change the colour and most importantly the type of FONT is used, so this is really important because the font would give away what our short film is about either we use SERIF or SAN SERIF, this programme allows all these methods to be taken to consideration and this programme would have a huge impact on our audience which is either they are entertained or not.
Sound Cut Pro
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The programme above is called Sound Cut Pro it is a great tool to add many sounds & the name of the programme clearly states its feature's. Today we learnt how to use this programme I learnt that sound track pro allows many feature and they are the following:
- It lets you see samples such as a beat of an existing song
- it also allows the choice of genre such as Urban, jazz etc.
- apart from this we learnt how o move these into the timeline and also that one sound plays louder than another by lowering the volume of that specific sound.
If you view mt picture you realise I have 3 blocks one longer one shorter and so on, this programme allows me to increase the length of the sound so it can be repetitive etc. and also another feature is it allows the user to play one sound louder than another a good example is:
When my group were editing the sound of our first clip we realise we wanted the sound of the shuffling of our cards to be louder than our actual background music so this short moment the action is louder than the background music and this is great for our short film because it add to the sense of thrill we are trying to discover.
Also sound cut pro has sounds of people screaming adding extra help to our thriller film sounds & the squeaky doors also is beneficial to our group therefore I believe I've learnt allot from this programme because it enables our short film to be a great success.
Sherlock Holmes title sequence (Font, camera angles etc.)
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Tuesday 2 February 2010
hello group 19
Hannah and Katherine -you must keep up to date with your blogging! Your coursework marks are at stake here!! come and talk if you need to
PS - there are one or two blogs below with no name! Don't forget to add your label because I don't know who wrote it otherwise!
Monday 1 February 2010
Memento-Opening sequence
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