Monday 30 November 2009
Monday 23 November 2009
Poster analasis
The gun is a symbol for danger fights and death plus more. In thrillers / action film guns and car chases are key parts of it with the good guy in danger but then does some think amazing to get out of the danger and then he would become a savoir and rescue a beautiful person and then have sex. The white background. Looking at the other transporter poster this poster is actually at French poster and he is in a standing pose where all English posters are all of him jumping though the air with a gun. It shows that the French do not follow conventions when it comes to the norm of the English action / thriller poster.
They have shown a different more placid view to him and as it is set in a French town and he is seen as a menace that is maybe why they have done this but in the English one they show him jumping with a gun in a full action pumping push which relate more to the film than the French poster.This poster is in black and white aspect the 3 which is colour in a fire like red to yellow way. By this colouring and the gun is show danger though out the film and fights. You will expect this if you have seen the last two Transporter films or you know of them because they are action packed thrillers. Also as his face is also in black and white it may show a dark side to him and also there must be a good side to him. He also seems powerful and as you can see the gun it show that he is not fazed about kill some one or more.
They have shown a different more placid view to him and as it is set in a French town and he is seen as a menace that is maybe why they have done this but in the English one they show him jumping with a gun in a full action pumping push which relate more to the film than the French poster.This poster is in black and white aspect the 3 which is colour in a fire like red to yellow way. By this colouring and the gun is show danger though out the film and fights. You will expect this if you have seen the last two Transporter films or you know of them because they are action packed thrillers. Also as his face is also in black and white it may show a dark side to him and also there must be a good side to him. He also seems powerful and as you can see the gun it show that he is not fazed about kill some one or more.
Monday 16 November 2009
Final cut
Directed by Mike Vardy
Produced by Ken Riddington
Written by Andrew Davies and Michael Dobbs
Starring Ian Richardson andDiane Fletcher
Music by Jim Parker
Distributed by BBC
Release date 5 November 1995
Running time 4 x 50 minutes
Cast
Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart, Prime Minister
Diane Fletcher as Elizabeth Urquhart
Isla Blair as Claire Carlsen MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary
Paul Freeman as Tom Makepeace, foreign secretary
Nickolas Grace as Geoffrey Booza Pitt, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and later foreign secretary
Nick Brimble as Corder, Urquhart's bodyguard
Yolanda Vazquez as Maria Passolides
Plot
The serial opens with Prime Minister Francis Urquhart burying his dog, followed by the state funeral of his predecessor, Margaret Thatcher. Urquhart publicly praises Thatcher as his mentor, but privately begrudges her longevity and her record as the longest-serving Prime Minister[1], a record that Urquhart himself is soon to surpass.
To emulate Thatcher's Falklands War, Urquhart champions a solution to the Cyprus dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots ("to inscribe my name in history", as he put it). While boundaries are fixed by five international judges, Urquhart – prompted by his wife Elizabeth – is secretly working to bring offshore oil deposits under the control of a Turkish-British consortium, which will in turn provide for his retirement fund.
Urquhart also has a personal connection to Cyprus, having, as a nineteen-year-old lieutenant, killed two young men of the EOKA terrorist group. Urquhart has frequent nightmares and flashbacks of this event, and also of the murders of Mattie Storin and others, shown in the previous serials.
On the motorway, Francis's car is attacked by three louts, who are killed in quick succession by security staff riding with him. Francis sustains head injuries in the accident, but his life is not seriously endangered. During the subsequent hospitalization, Francis has more of his recurring nightmares. When Elizabeth arrives at the hospital, he is delirious, and confuses the incident with the van with the death of the men in Cyprus, despite the uncertainty of whether the men who attacked his car were linked with the Cyprus affair. Tom Makepeace, the Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, assumes command, and it is revealed that the van incident was simply the result of road-rage.
The brother of the men killed by Urquhart has not forgotten their disappearance, and sends his daughter Maria to investigate their fate. She finds a report written by the soldier who killed her uncles, but the author is kept secret from her. She approaches Urquhart, who appears to be welcoming and eager to help. Unknown to her, he arranges that documents revealing his involvement be excluded from a coincidental declassification of documents. He also confides the truth to his wife Elizabeth.
As in the previous serials, Urquhart chooses a female protégé (although this time without the mediation of his wife). He appoints the ambitious backbencher Claire Carlsen as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. Claire also happens to be Makepeace's lover.
Urquhart considers Makepeace – the actual broker of the Cyprus dispute – as a potential challenger, although he doesn't take the threat very seriously, considering him "not a fighter" but "a sentimental dreamer". Encouraged by Claire, Urquhart snubs Makepeace by making undiplomatic suggestions regarding Europe, and by offering him the Department of Education in a Cabinet reshuffle. The angered Makepeace resigns from the government, crosses the floor, and emerges as the prime minister's main adversary in parliament. He also challenges Urquhart for the leadership of the Conservative Party and forces him into a second ballot.
Although Makepeace breaks up with Claire, she nonetheless continues to encourage both men to fight each other. She also advises Maria to take her case to Makepeace, who repeatedly raises the cover-up in parliament. Although initially reluctant, Claire purloins the incriminating document from the secret archive, but Urquhart's bodyguard, Corder – informed by the archive clerk – seizes the document from her.
Meanwhile, Urquhart has information leaked regarding the Cypriot oil deposits, in order to create an international incident that he can use as "our Falklands" to unite Britain under his leadership. In reaction, Greek nationalists kidnap a British diplomat, and later also the Greek Cypriot President, prompting a British military intervention. Though initially successful, a roadblock results in the death of civilians, including young schoolgirls, largely because of the prime minister's drastic orders. Urquhart's support plummets, and when he proves unwilling to accept responsibility for the deaths, or even to express sympathy for the victims, many MPs openly call on him to resign.
While Urquhart appears defiant, his wife is worried, and she consults Corder for advice on how to save him. Corder advises "drastic measures", and informs her that he has sent a copy of Mattie Storin's tape, revealing Urquhart's role in her death, to Makepeace.
Makepeace confronts the prime minister and announces that he will publish the tape, but not before Urquhart has achieved his aim of surpassing Margaret Thatcher's record. After this, Urquhart again meets Maria on the parliament roof. Maria has come into the possession of the incriminating document, and vows to publish it. After this, Urquhart despairs, but Elizabeth consoles him: "We can be safe still!" and hints at a ploy by Corder.
At the unveiling of the Margaret Thatcher memorial, on the day when Urquhart surpasses her record, a sniper in Corder's services appears on a rooftop and shoots the prime minister (and Maria's father, who had approached Urquhart with a pistol). Elizabeth had arranged for his assassination as the only way to preserve his reputation (and the retirement fund). Urquhart dies in her arms, while Corder offers his services to Makepeace, the apparent successor.
Produced by Ken Riddington
Written by Andrew Davies and Michael Dobbs
Starring Ian Richardson andDiane Fletcher
Music by Jim Parker
Distributed by BBC
Release date 5 November 1995
Running time 4 x 50 minutes
Cast
Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart, Prime Minister
Diane Fletcher as Elizabeth Urquhart
Isla Blair as Claire Carlsen MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary
Paul Freeman as Tom Makepeace, foreign secretary
Nickolas Grace as Geoffrey Booza Pitt, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and later foreign secretary
Nick Brimble as Corder, Urquhart's bodyguard
Yolanda Vazquez as Maria Passolides
Plot
The serial opens with Prime Minister Francis Urquhart burying his dog, followed by the state funeral of his predecessor, Margaret Thatcher. Urquhart publicly praises Thatcher as his mentor, but privately begrudges her longevity and her record as the longest-serving Prime Minister[1], a record that Urquhart himself is soon to surpass.
To emulate Thatcher's Falklands War, Urquhart champions a solution to the Cyprus dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots ("to inscribe my name in history", as he put it). While boundaries are fixed by five international judges, Urquhart – prompted by his wife Elizabeth – is secretly working to bring offshore oil deposits under the control of a Turkish-British consortium, which will in turn provide for his retirement fund.
Urquhart also has a personal connection to Cyprus, having, as a nineteen-year-old lieutenant, killed two young men of the EOKA terrorist group. Urquhart has frequent nightmares and flashbacks of this event, and also of the murders of Mattie Storin and others, shown in the previous serials.
On the motorway, Francis's car is attacked by three louts, who are killed in quick succession by security staff riding with him. Francis sustains head injuries in the accident, but his life is not seriously endangered. During the subsequent hospitalization, Francis has more of his recurring nightmares. When Elizabeth arrives at the hospital, he is delirious, and confuses the incident with the van with the death of the men in Cyprus, despite the uncertainty of whether the men who attacked his car were linked with the Cyprus affair. Tom Makepeace, the Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, assumes command, and it is revealed that the van incident was simply the result of road-rage.
The brother of the men killed by Urquhart has not forgotten their disappearance, and sends his daughter Maria to investigate their fate. She finds a report written by the soldier who killed her uncles, but the author is kept secret from her. She approaches Urquhart, who appears to be welcoming and eager to help. Unknown to her, he arranges that documents revealing his involvement be excluded from a coincidental declassification of documents. He also confides the truth to his wife Elizabeth.
As in the previous serials, Urquhart chooses a female protégé (although this time without the mediation of his wife). He appoints the ambitious backbencher Claire Carlsen as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. Claire also happens to be Makepeace's lover.
Urquhart considers Makepeace – the actual broker of the Cyprus dispute – as a potential challenger, although he doesn't take the threat very seriously, considering him "not a fighter" but "a sentimental dreamer". Encouraged by Claire, Urquhart snubs Makepeace by making undiplomatic suggestions regarding Europe, and by offering him the Department of Education in a Cabinet reshuffle. The angered Makepeace resigns from the government, crosses the floor, and emerges as the prime minister's main adversary in parliament. He also challenges Urquhart for the leadership of the Conservative Party and forces him into a second ballot.
Although Makepeace breaks up with Claire, she nonetheless continues to encourage both men to fight each other. She also advises Maria to take her case to Makepeace, who repeatedly raises the cover-up in parliament. Although initially reluctant, Claire purloins the incriminating document from the secret archive, but Urquhart's bodyguard, Corder – informed by the archive clerk – seizes the document from her.
Meanwhile, Urquhart has information leaked regarding the Cypriot oil deposits, in order to create an international incident that he can use as "our Falklands" to unite Britain under his leadership. In reaction, Greek nationalists kidnap a British diplomat, and later also the Greek Cypriot President, prompting a British military intervention. Though initially successful, a roadblock results in the death of civilians, including young schoolgirls, largely because of the prime minister's drastic orders. Urquhart's support plummets, and when he proves unwilling to accept responsibility for the deaths, or even to express sympathy for the victims, many MPs openly call on him to resign.
While Urquhart appears defiant, his wife is worried, and she consults Corder for advice on how to save him. Corder advises "drastic measures", and informs her that he has sent a copy of Mattie Storin's tape, revealing Urquhart's role in her death, to Makepeace.
Makepeace confronts the prime minister and announces that he will publish the tape, but not before Urquhart has achieved his aim of surpassing Margaret Thatcher's record. After this, Urquhart again meets Maria on the parliament roof. Maria has come into the possession of the incriminating document, and vows to publish it. After this, Urquhart despairs, but Elizabeth consoles him: "We can be safe still!" and hints at a ploy by Corder.
At the unveiling of the Margaret Thatcher memorial, on the day when Urquhart surpasses her record, a sniper in Corder's services appears on a rooftop and shoots the prime minister (and Maria's father, who had approached Urquhart with a pistol). Elizabeth had arranged for his assassination as the only way to preserve his reputation (and the retirement fund). Urquhart dies in her arms, while Corder offers his services to Makepeace, the apparent successor.
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Notes on films
No Vacancy
Theme/genre - Thriller
Sub genre - Horror
opening sence story line
Man and a women are in a car driving in the pitch black. the women is asleep untill the man swurves because a racoon is in the middle of the road. they spin and stop but do not crash. Women asks why they are on this road and not the interstate. man answers big tall back. the spin which happened earlier has caused some damaged to the cars engine. They have to stop at a pefectly placed gas station but it seem desolate. A man jumps up next to the car and skaock the man and women but he is a good charater aswell. That is where we stoped the viewing.
Music and sounds
Very tense music, rapid spped chances to biuld fake and real suspence due to the action which is unfolding and it is a abit frantic in places.
Sounds of animal creates isolation and entrapment as there seems to be no one around.
Slow music as the car is sweeping thouigh the bends which makes you just ready for the change in music which will lead to the action.
Setting
It is in california as it said that on the number plate but they could be driving some where else.
Night time with no other cars on a Road which is meant to be a short cut.
Mountain road in the middle of no where asept from the perfectly placed gas station.
Charaters
Firts male which is driving
He is a funny charater who trys to connect with the audeince earlier by say mini jokes like "No I just went this way to see how pissed off you would be". By this you can also see a break down in his relationship with the female charater.
The female charater is asleep untill they have a spin and then he also uses sarcasim like "Take our life because you dont want some road kill on your car". this relationship break down is visiable all they way though the clip.
The last charater is hard to understand because he jumps up when is right next to the car with a hat on and then say dont worry. by this he has just made the people in the car jump for there life.
Naritives
Ladie cuts herself with a knife as she is cutting segments from a apple and this weird but it repisents blood and you expect that to be in all thrillers and all horrors.
The Departed
Story line / Narrative
At the start is hit you bery fast as you see people fighting in the street and then it goes to a black guy talking and then it cuts to a white male in a car work shop or that is what it looks like and he is saying about he has only one thing agaist the blacks and that is that no gives you any thing you have to take it. it then cuts to the man walking into a shop and then asks the man in the shop for some money and then he says a thinkabout the girl in the shop in a pervy way. He then talk to a boy and then gives him some free food and drink and then he says to the boy you ever want some work come and see me. You then see the boy in a church a his perants funeral as it then cuts to him in the man gagrage. The next cut went to a beach scene as the man is shooting a man and a women. he then say the women fell funny like he does it day in day out. it then cuts to the boy in the car works shop as it faced to him now as a older man in a police student learning center.
Charaters
The Ganster like man
He is a very strong and powerful man and you can see this in the first few line when he has entered the shop and he get the money and he says he does not wont to come down here for it again. He also has not challanges when he say to the workers daughter that she looks nice and he is like 40 years older and then later he say you can keep the money to buy some make up as she needs it. He also seems to be a repected figure as the boy does what he is asked as it was like he was told.
The Small boy
He looks very small and weak and then he seems scraied by the large male man but he seems happier when the man gives him some food and drink. He looks interested and also seems that he want ot do what the man say even though the man did ask him and not tell him. You can see this as the boy dont real seem like he wants to go to the garage but he goes and by this the man seems like he is a fatherly figure in the boys life espcially when you hear that the boys mum and dad are dead earlier in the clip. As it then cut to the final part of the clip the charater changes to a older man and he is in a police accadime and i find this very weird because the big boss like figure of the boys nieghbour hood seemed like he was not a nice man and he done very bad things but he was nice to the boy and he even gave the boy free food for him and his nan. Butif he still though he wanted to change the way his nieghbour hood to a nice place with not higher level ganster running the town in stead he may want a nice even town where no one is feared as he may have seen death and also shoot out and he mind find that wrong and he might not want that.
Theme/genre - Thriller
Sub genre - Horror
opening sence story line
Man and a women are in a car driving in the pitch black. the women is asleep untill the man swurves because a racoon is in the middle of the road. they spin and stop but do not crash. Women asks why they are on this road and not the interstate. man answers big tall back. the spin which happened earlier has caused some damaged to the cars engine. They have to stop at a pefectly placed gas station but it seem desolate. A man jumps up next to the car and skaock the man and women but he is a good charater aswell. That is where we stoped the viewing.
Music and sounds
Very tense music, rapid spped chances to biuld fake and real suspence due to the action which is unfolding and it is a abit frantic in places.
Sounds of animal creates isolation and entrapment as there seems to be no one around.
Slow music as the car is sweeping thouigh the bends which makes you just ready for the change in music which will lead to the action.
Setting
It is in california as it said that on the number plate but they could be driving some where else.
Night time with no other cars on a Road which is meant to be a short cut.
Mountain road in the middle of no where asept from the perfectly placed gas station.
Charaters
Firts male which is driving
He is a funny charater who trys to connect with the audeince earlier by say mini jokes like "No I just went this way to see how pissed off you would be". By this you can also see a break down in his relationship with the female charater.
The female charater is asleep untill they have a spin and then he also uses sarcasim like "Take our life because you dont want some road kill on your car". this relationship break down is visiable all they way though the clip.
The last charater is hard to understand because he jumps up when is right next to the car with a hat on and then say dont worry. by this he has just made the people in the car jump for there life.
Naritives
Ladie cuts herself with a knife as she is cutting segments from a apple and this weird but it repisents blood and you expect that to be in all thrillers and all horrors.
The Departed
Story line / Narrative
At the start is hit you bery fast as you see people fighting in the street and then it goes to a black guy talking and then it cuts to a white male in a car work shop or that is what it looks like and he is saying about he has only one thing agaist the blacks and that is that no gives you any thing you have to take it. it then cuts to the man walking into a shop and then asks the man in the shop for some money and then he says a thinkabout the girl in the shop in a pervy way. He then talk to a boy and then gives him some free food and drink and then he says to the boy you ever want some work come and see me. You then see the boy in a church a his perants funeral as it then cuts to him in the man gagrage. The next cut went to a beach scene as the man is shooting a man and a women. he then say the women fell funny like he does it day in day out. it then cuts to the boy in the car works shop as it faced to him now as a older man in a police student learning center.
Charaters
The Ganster like man
He is a very strong and powerful man and you can see this in the first few line when he has entered the shop and he get the money and he says he does not wont to come down here for it again. He also has not challanges when he say to the workers daughter that she looks nice and he is like 40 years older and then later he say you can keep the money to buy some make up as she needs it. He also seems to be a repected figure as the boy does what he is asked as it was like he was told.
The Small boy
He looks very small and weak and then he seems scraied by the large male man but he seems happier when the man gives him some food and drink. He looks interested and also seems that he want ot do what the man say even though the man did ask him and not tell him. You can see this as the boy dont real seem like he wants to go to the garage but he goes and by this the man seems like he is a fatherly figure in the boys life espcially when you hear that the boys mum and dad are dead earlier in the clip. As it then cut to the final part of the clip the charater changes to a older man and he is in a police accadime and i find this very weird because the big boss like figure of the boys nieghbour hood seemed like he was not a nice man and he done very bad things but he was nice to the boy and he even gave the boy free food for him and his nan. Butif he still though he wanted to change the way his nieghbour hood to a nice place with not higher level ganster running the town in stead he may want a nice even town where no one is feared as he may have seen death and also shoot out and he mind find that wrong and he might not want that.
Thursday 5 November 2009
Book Questions
1) What are the typical charaters in:
A) a western
The typical charaters in a western are Sheriffs, Cowboys, Outlaws, Settlers, American Indian tribes.
B) a romantic comedy
The typical charaters in a romatic comedy are Young couples- fashionable, Attractive, Wacky, Stressed out
C) a Crime thriller
the typical charaters in a crime thriller are cops and gansters
2) What are the typical sttings in a:
A) Science fiction film are Search for Other planets, Small town America
B) Horror film film are Small town America, Quite neighbourhoods, Woods
C) Romantic comedy are Modern cities
3) List three typical features of a Noir film and a Cinema Verite.
Noir film naritives and visual features:
Crime thrillers
Urban settings
Filmed in black and white
Sharp contrasts in lighting
USA 1940’s – 1950’s
Femme’s fatales, tough men
Cinema Verite naritives and visual features
Means ‘cinema truths’
Naturalistic
France 1950’s – 1960’s
Lightweight, mobile cameras
Documentary style
Uses ‘non actors’
A) a western
The typical charaters in a western are Sheriffs, Cowboys, Outlaws, Settlers, American Indian tribes.
B) a romantic comedy
The typical charaters in a romatic comedy are Young couples- fashionable, Attractive, Wacky, Stressed out
C) a Crime thriller
the typical charaters in a crime thriller are cops and gansters
2) What are the typical sttings in a:
A) Science fiction film are Search for Other planets, Small town America
B) Horror film film are Small town America, Quite neighbourhoods, Woods
C) Romantic comedy are Modern cities
3) List three typical features of a Noir film and a Cinema Verite.
Noir film naritives and visual features:
Crime thrillers
Urban settings
Filmed in black and white
Sharp contrasts in lighting
USA 1940’s – 1950’s
Femme’s fatales, tough men
Cinema Verite naritives and visual features
Means ‘cinema truths’
Naturalistic
France 1950’s – 1960’s
Lightweight, mobile cameras
Documentary style
Uses ‘non actors’
Monday 2 November 2009
Book notes from page 36 - 40
Diegesis
Diegetic Material is sound that can be heard by the charater like dialoge between charaters or sounds is the backround like thunder or rain drops or even music from a radio or a TV.
Non Diegetic material can not be heard by the charater like Voice over, Theme tune or Atmophereic music.
There are a few things that are both like a charaters toughts which narrator by the charater is thinking them so they also know what they are, also other charaters can not hear them but in a few films this is not true because a person may have a speacil power like the in the film What Women Want
Some films have some diegetics sound which the narrator wish they are not there but some of the lines from these films have become a main part of the film.
Micro and Macro Origination
there are two sections to this Strategy.
Most film descide about the convetions of a fiction film gerne or style of film. this will change the micro elements of the film. Such as the types of camara work like angles and shots, they way music is used to set a scnec or make the audience predict trouble, style of titles. it would be funny in a horror if you had bright yellow and pink writing with a cartoony atomphere to the film. it would make you think the film is rubbish and this could make you leave the viewing of the film or even fall asleeo during the film. also you have to think carfully about the setting because it would also be funny in the horror is it was set at a wonder garden where the animals sing together. this would normally would be asoiated with a fantasy / adventure like film. these smaller deatil but key ones are called the Macro Originations.
this makes it a long process before you even start filming. if you where to do a horror yu would first have to watch some classic horrors and some new ones to see what is the publics favorite type of horror. after this you can start working out the plot and plan of the film following all or most of the narritives all the way. looking for scary sences like a mine or a old house or a woodland. work on a theme tune or a uqine piece of music which would imedently tell people what film it is if they heard it on some ones phone an also be tension biulding and maybe misleading is some ways to make people more shacked and surrprised. Finally you would start to Touch up on the plans like the cast and names and then shot the film and then edit it so it is ready for the cinemara and its big premiere.
Camera work and Framing page 38
Filming is a hard thing to do. You should avoid Zooming at all costs unless you want to show the aperence of amateure footage but it can be done well show by me and my group in the last project. if possible seclect a widescreen framing and remember to use less close ups as Tv because the viewing screen is much bigger. Mainly use long shots and mid shots with few and far between close up shots.
the rule of thirds. imagine that the screen is split into 9 squares. the centre square is the piece you should be focused on and the other squares fram the centre piece with other deatils like sence and more.
using mainy diffrent types of shot is key because with a long shot you can set the sence of the area and then as you cut to a mid shot it then show more detail about the area and then finally to a close up shot which shows more detail like facial expressions.
camera angles are a key part in films and tv programes. High angles Show less power and weakness as lower angle show power and dominates. framing lets the charater have room and shows spaces in the front of them if they are moving in that direction. they could show space behide them if there s some about to com into shot from behide them.
Tips pradies every shot a few times so no mistakes are made in the main film.
test every think is working like microphone
turn of the times and date on the camrera
and leave a bit of gap at the start of the tape to let the pc capture the whole of you film or you might lose a few shots of a sence.
Mise en Scene Page 39
This part of the book says how you have less time and money unlike big film producters have and which they enjoy having but the people which makes the best of this will reape the benifits. small deatials in our films might make the difference like props, costumes, music, locations and lighting are all key parts of all films. small things like a hair cut or a costume change mid way though the film would be a very bad thing unless it can be justerfide. or even poor light chooses or major contrased between shots can also have the same afect on the film. all of this would make the film seem cheap and not well thought out.
Lighting page 39
Tip about lighting
use natural light but make it a bit clever like use it though tree top in the mist and add other tings like rain apending to the affects you want.
use very possible bit of light you can use as long as it is safe like signs bring in torches and be inventive.
create other colours by shining light though plastics and other materials.
dont just place light where it is easies place to put it place them in funny and diiferent places like maybe under somthink to maybe create a fake mist or smake like affect
combining sound, image and titles page 40
It is very hard to make the right the correct desision about make a good lokking and apropate.Iit mainly depends on the softwear you have avalible to you. you can use may different colours and styles which may have a silular affect to the film if a charater had a poor costume on. also you need to make he correct desion about where the tiltes are placed aspecially as now most films introduce the film with the tiles fading in and out on the screen and key details maybe missed if the tiltes are covering them and this may spoil the film.also picking good music which matches with the pace of the drama unfolding and it does not confusse the audience, because the start of a film is so key to a film, many films priduction show the start to a few seclected people to evuade the film and say what the film or drama is like and what affect it may have on the big or small screen, also if the film is giving of the right sort if message.
The grammer and non linear editing page 40
This type of editing is a bit hard it seems to me but with a good music like mind and free flowwing mental beat keeping so you can make the pace of the film the same and also use correct transistions and good time keeping could create a smother more hard cutted film. hard cuts are a key part of a film and you should use them 9/10 of the time. the only time you dont is when you put transistions in between cuts and tiltes. the hard but most important part of editing is to make the film seen like it has be shot in one big shot and the drama is un reaveling in front of them like they are there watching them live.
Diegetic Material is sound that can be heard by the charater like dialoge between charaters or sounds is the backround like thunder or rain drops or even music from a radio or a TV.
Non Diegetic material can not be heard by the charater like Voice over, Theme tune or Atmophereic music.
There are a few things that are both like a charaters toughts which narrator by the charater is thinking them so they also know what they are, also other charaters can not hear them but in a few films this is not true because a person may have a speacil power like the in the film What Women Want
Some films have some diegetics sound which the narrator wish they are not there but some of the lines from these films have become a main part of the film.
Micro and Macro Origination
there are two sections to this Strategy.
Most film descide about the convetions of a fiction film gerne or style of film. this will change the micro elements of the film. Such as the types of camara work like angles and shots, they way music is used to set a scnec or make the audience predict trouble, style of titles. it would be funny in a horror if you had bright yellow and pink writing with a cartoony atomphere to the film. it would make you think the film is rubbish and this could make you leave the viewing of the film or even fall asleeo during the film. also you have to think carfully about the setting because it would also be funny in the horror is it was set at a wonder garden where the animals sing together. this would normally would be asoiated with a fantasy / adventure like film. these smaller deatil but key ones are called the Macro Originations.
this makes it a long process before you even start filming. if you where to do a horror yu would first have to watch some classic horrors and some new ones to see what is the publics favorite type of horror. after this you can start working out the plot and plan of the film following all or most of the narritives all the way. looking for scary sences like a mine or a old house or a woodland. work on a theme tune or a uqine piece of music which would imedently tell people what film it is if they heard it on some ones phone an also be tension biulding and maybe misleading is some ways to make people more shacked and surrprised. Finally you would start to Touch up on the plans like the cast and names and then shot the film and then edit it so it is ready for the cinemara and its big premiere.
Camera work and Framing page 38
Filming is a hard thing to do. You should avoid Zooming at all costs unless you want to show the aperence of amateure footage but it can be done well show by me and my group in the last project. if possible seclect a widescreen framing and remember to use less close ups as Tv because the viewing screen is much bigger. Mainly use long shots and mid shots with few and far between close up shots.
the rule of thirds. imagine that the screen is split into 9 squares. the centre square is the piece you should be focused on and the other squares fram the centre piece with other deatils like sence and more.
using mainy diffrent types of shot is key because with a long shot you can set the sence of the area and then as you cut to a mid shot it then show more detail about the area and then finally to a close up shot which shows more detail like facial expressions.
camera angles are a key part in films and tv programes. High angles Show less power and weakness as lower angle show power and dominates. framing lets the charater have room and shows spaces in the front of them if they are moving in that direction. they could show space behide them if there s some about to com into shot from behide them.
Tips pradies every shot a few times so no mistakes are made in the main film.
test every think is working like microphone
turn of the times and date on the camrera
and leave a bit of gap at the start of the tape to let the pc capture the whole of you film or you might lose a few shots of a sence.
Mise en Scene Page 39
This part of the book says how you have less time and money unlike big film producters have and which they enjoy having but the people which makes the best of this will reape the benifits. small deatials in our films might make the difference like props, costumes, music, locations and lighting are all key parts of all films. small things like a hair cut or a costume change mid way though the film would be a very bad thing unless it can be justerfide. or even poor light chooses or major contrased between shots can also have the same afect on the film. all of this would make the film seem cheap and not well thought out.
Lighting page 39
Tip about lighting
use natural light but make it a bit clever like use it though tree top in the mist and add other tings like rain apending to the affects you want.
use very possible bit of light you can use as long as it is safe like signs bring in torches and be inventive.
create other colours by shining light though plastics and other materials.
dont just place light where it is easies place to put it place them in funny and diiferent places like maybe under somthink to maybe create a fake mist or smake like affect
combining sound, image and titles page 40
It is very hard to make the right the correct desision about make a good lokking and apropate.Iit mainly depends on the softwear you have avalible to you. you can use may different colours and styles which may have a silular affect to the film if a charater had a poor costume on. also you need to make he correct desion about where the tiltes are placed aspecially as now most films introduce the film with the tiles fading in and out on the screen and key details maybe missed if the tiltes are covering them and this may spoil the film.also picking good music which matches with the pace of the drama unfolding and it does not confusse the audience, because the start of a film is so key to a film, many films priduction show the start to a few seclected people to evuade the film and say what the film or drama is like and what affect it may have on the big or small screen, also if the film is giving of the right sort if message.
The grammer and non linear editing page 40
This type of editing is a bit hard it seems to me but with a good music like mind and free flowwing mental beat keeping so you can make the pace of the film the same and also use correct transistions and good time keeping could create a smother more hard cutted film. hard cuts are a key part of a film and you should use them 9/10 of the time. the only time you dont is when you put transistions in between cuts and tiltes. the hard but most important part of editing is to make the film seen like it has be shot in one big shot and the drama is un reaveling in front of them like they are there watching them live.
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