The First Part Of Our Project

We have filmed the opening part of our movie and we have presented it to our class. We used a different range of shots and filmed at the 77 bus stop by Waterloo Bridge.

BFI: Part 5

The first film we watched was Catch Me If You Can which stars the infamous Tom Hanks. I noticed that the sound was fast paced and jazzy, it had a tempo that rose and fell quickly, and I had only discovered all of this within the first 10 seconds of the film. The music was very mysterious, tense, angry, sad, happy, scary, and so hard hitting that it was baffling. We can here the saxophone which is a smooth instrument but, I love how it has been changed into an almost violent creature that plays psychological mind tricks with its rapid change of tempo, notes, and chords.

The animated picture pictures are very fast past with a rich with an array of colourful, confusing, mysterious, tantalizing, and hopeful colours that the atmosphere throughout the audience was tense and in upheaval. This is very effective and took around 5-6 months to make.

BFI: Part 4

Because we have just started our courses and we have not got a lot of experience, the chief showed us a few opening sequences of a few films and explained the different strategy‘s that we can use when making a film opening and that we should try and look outside of the box and regardless of how silly or difficult an idea may seem at the time, we must still keep it and work on it, we should think of different ideas and add to them.

BFI: Part 3

The chief explained that we cannot just jump into what we are doing because if we do, our work will be terrible. He gave us the perfect site that has film openings, analysis of filming, editing, shooting, how to research and plan a film, comments on all areas of making films from directors and producers. YouTube is another good site to use but, he warned us to be careful on how deep we go with YouTube because a lot of the film openings stray away from our coursework. If you would like to view this site, I have put down their web addresses: www.artofthetitle.com then goes onto sequences or, you can go onto YouTube: www.YouTube.com or just YouTube and type in ‘opening sequences’

BFI: Part 2

We leant about Narrative-What is the film about i.e. is it about a teenager who has to look after his four young sibling’s while his parents have abounded them? Character-Which is being played, what are they like, what is their significance in the film, what part they are playing.  Atmosphere-What is the mood of the film? How does it make the audience feel and what effect does it have on the audience? What effect is it meant to have on the audience? Setting-Where is the film set? What is the time period? Why is an specific location being used as the foundation for a film?

BFI: Part 1

Firstly we leant about Reel Films and the key features or components that all films must have to be successful, regardless of the budget or of the film is a blockbuster or an AS Media Studies Course work. The chief of Media gave most of the presentation and I found it interesting and very benefiting because it showed the group and I where we had been going wrong, what we need to improve on, tips on how to improve, and things that we have not thought about and what we don’t know already. The key features anyone must be understand, be aware of, and be able to demonstrate and be able incorporate into what ever type of film that they are doing are: Genre- Type of film i.e. Thriller, Drama, Syfy, Horror etc.

BFI: Part 7

The graphis and explanations was confusing but, not to confusing were I could not make out what was happening, it was interesting because I have not seen many films that have managed to do such a complicated and tiring, both physically and emotionally, edit with so many components and features in the space of 3 minutes and pull it of so well. It looks so easy and effortless and captures the audience. What made it work so well is that the timeframe of an opening scene should only be about 3-5 minuets long and they graphical designer have managed to fade in so many different shots which are ram packed with lots of action and detail.

BFI: Part 6

It was confusing but, not to confusing were I could not make out what was happening, it was interesting because I have not seen many films that have managed to do such a complicated and tiring, both physically and emotionally, edit with so many components and features in the space of 3 minutes and pull it of so well. It looks so easy and effortless and captures the audience. What made it work so well is that the timeframe of an opening scene should only be about 3-5 minuets long and they graphical designer have managed to fade in so many different shots which are ram packed with lots of action and detail.

Medium-Close Up

Medium-Close ups are when you can still see some of the subject's physique. However, there emotions are clearly evident. In this picture, we can see that the solderer has a stern and suspicious look on his face and is in a army uniform.

Long Shot

Medium-Long shots are where the setting of the location  being film and the subject are in equal proportion. This is used to show the type of environment the subject is in. This still show what i have written above.

Close Up

A Close Up is when the subject fills the frame. It is used to show emotion. The subject looks determined.

The Matrix "Non-diegetic sound"

High angle shots are used to give a sense of weakness. If a boss is telling an employee of in a film, a high angle shot will be used to show the boss looking down on the subjects. The subject will be looking at the boss but, not head on. The subject will be looking at the boss from a low angle shot to give the boss an atmosphere of dominance and power.

In many high and low angle shots, a point-of-view shot is often used on, for example, the boss looking down at the employee or the employee looking up at the boss. This lets the audience see how the subject, boss or employee, is feeling and show how the other person dominates the subjects.

An eye line match is used so that eye contact through the subjects can be seen and the audience can see the emotions of both subjects. Medium-long shots, medium shots, and medium-close up shot are commonly used in high and low and low angle shots to represent the subjects that are being filmed. Representation consist of regional identity, age, ethnicity, and social status.

The things that i have mentioned above can be clearly seen in hit U.S cit com, Scrubs.

Use of high and low angle shots in "Scrubs"

High angle shots are used to give a sense of weakness. If a boss is telling an employee of in a film, a high angle shot will be used to show the boss looking down on the subjects. The subject will be looking at the boss but, not head on. The subject will be looking at the boss from a low angle shot to give the boss an atmosphere of dominance and power.

In many high and low angle shots, a point-of-view shot is often used on, for example, the boss looking down at the employee or the employee looking up at the boss. This lets the audience see how the subject, boss or employee, is feeling and show how the other person dominates the subjects.

An eye line match is used so that eye contact through the subjects can be seen and the audience can see the emotions of both subjects. Medium-long shots, medium shots, and medium-close up shot are commonly used in high and low and low angle shots to represent the subjects that are being filmed. Representation consist of regional identity, age, ethnicity, and social status.

The things that i have mentioned above can be clearly seen in hit U.S cit com, Scrubs.

Hellboy opening

In the opening sequence of Hellboy, 2002, i have noticed that the amazing range of graphics is astounding. The black and white colour of the scene mixed with the flashing and fast images gives a sense of a hard life. Also the flash, fast cutting images of aliens and different types of life forms give a sense of pandemonium because humans, aliens, and other life forms a thrown, almost viciously, in the opening scene.

The medium shot of Hellboy is used to emphasise what he is; a demon.The medium shot also shows the anger and fight in his face and eyes. The medium close up of Hellboy change into a focus pull. This is used to emphasise his physic, power, dominance, and the fear that radiates of him. The focus pull is used emphasise the carnage that Hellboy is at the centre of in the background; raging fires and a gun smoking.

Hitch

In Will SMith's film Hitch, i have seen many shot-reverse-shots between him and Eva Mendes. Because the film hS lot of romance in it sa well as being a comedy, the shot-reverse-shots are used to show the emotion on the chracters faces.The are many extreame close ups when Mendes talks to smith about her troubled pass and we can see from her eyes that she trust him and feels that she can talk to him.

Fonts

Fonts in the film may seem simple and small but the are massively important because the grip the audience and make them want to see more. Take  Blood Simple, Cohen Brothers, their fonts is lower case, blue, splattered, full of wholes and different parts. The effect that this has on audience is confusion, upheaval, and pandemonium be case of this simple font. I have been looking into fonts and i will post pictures of fonts that i think would be good for our film.

I was on the 77 bus today and while walking over Waterloo Bridge, i thought about doing a Montage on all the bridges in London. a Montage is a scene where picture of objects are merged together and can be seen in a quick moving flash of images. The atmouphere would be good for our film because it is a fast moving thriller'