Production Activity Idea

Adventure/crime

The Character finds parts of a map in a few of the old school records and connects the pieces together to find out it is a "treasure map"
They go through the school searching for the "treasure" and find it and it turns out to be proof of a crime that had happened in the school. (news paper clippings/ images etc.)
a shadow gets cast over her to and a gun gets shown on the side the screen and the the screen cuts to a shot of a hand picking up the box and then to a figure walking away.

Cliche Elements of Action Films

• A good guy and bad guy
• Stunts
• Weapons
• Explosions
• High speed cars chases

Sony Bravia Advert

The Sony Bravie Advert that I watched was an ad for a television. The main type of editing used in the advert is cuts, and the editor mainly used slow edits to make the shots go in with the music, and the occasional fast edit as the music sped up.
The advert isn't that good as instead of making me want to buy a TV, it makes me want to make paint explosion in reeves.

Pop Quiz

1.What are the four elements of Mise-en-Scene?
Lighting, setting, style of acting, props and costume

2. Define the term shot.
It is a continuous piece of uninterrupted footage.

3. Define the term edit.
Editing it taking shots and putting them together. The pace of the editing causing different emotions. Editing involves fades to white or black, dissolves and cuts.

4. Describes three ways that lighting that can be used to establish mood in a scene.
Lighting can be used to create different moods in scenes. Soft lighting can cause a sense of calm, lighting from behind a character can cause them to seem angelic and lighting from above the character can make them seem important and powerful.


5. What does the term "back lighting" refer to?
back lighting is lighting that shines on the back of the character.


6. In cinematography, what does the term framing refer to?
Framing is the boarder of the screen. The framing allows the director to control what the viewers can see.

7. Why is the rule of thirds and important framing technique?
The rule of thirds is a grid that shows the four points of the screen that your eyes automatically go to and helps the person filming to chose where to place things.

8. Explain 2 reasons that a cinematographer may choose to overexpose a particular shot.
Cinematographers may choose to overexpose a shot to create a sense of distortion if the character has just come out of a dark place, or if the character is in a hot place like a desert, to show the heat of the area.


9.What is an effect that can be achieved by underexposing a shot.
Underexposure can cause a sense of mystery towards a character or an object 

10. Explain the difference created by shooting a lone character from a low angle or a high angle?
Shooting a character from a low angle gives them a seem powerful while shooting them from a high angle makes them seem weak.

11. What does the term canted refer to in cinematography? 
It refers to the lilt of the camera.

Movie list

Top 250:

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. Star Wars (Episodes I-VI)
5. Inception
6. The Matrix
7. Terminator 1-3
8. Batman Begins
9. The Dark Knight
10. The Dark Knight Rises
11. The Great Escape
12. Inglorious Basterds
13. Kill Bill: Vol 1 & 2
14. Warrior
15. How to Train Your Dragon
16. V for Vendetta
17. Howl's Moving Castle
18. District 9
19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
20. Pirates of the Caribbean (1-4)
21. Harry Potter (1-7)
22. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
23. Jurassic Park
24. Castle in the Sky
25. Big Fish
26. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Coming Soon:

1. Oz the Great and Powerful
2. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
3. The Host
4. Oblivion
5. Epic
6. After Earth
7. Man of Steel 
8. World War Z
9. Pacific Rim
10. Turbo
11. The Wolverine
12. Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters
13. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
14. The Worlds End
15. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Other:

1. Iron Man (1-3)
2. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
3. Alex Cross
4. Fast & Furious (1-6)
5. Totoro
6. Thor (1-2)

Editing Decision Activity

An innocent character is stalked by a werewolf
 I would use both slow and fast edits, first I would use fast edits to show the panic that the character is feeling. The edits would continue to be fast until a moment when the character believes they are safe, then a fast edit of the werewolf attacking the characters.

A character confesses their horrific crime to someone
 I would use slow edits of the character circling the other person who is bound. The shots would be switched between both the victim and the attacker and would have fast edits of flash backs to the murders with the screams sounding in each flash back.

Two teams compete in the finals of a street dance competiton
 It would be fast edits switching between the teams and their members to keep up with the fast pace of a competition.

A high speed car chase ends in tragedy
The edits for this scene would be fast paced to show the adrenalin rush that one would get from the situation. The tragedy would be a car crash and that would be a slow motion of the two cars colliding and the crushing of the metal.

Brazil

The short clip of the film Brazil that we viewed showed two different sides to the character. 

In the first scene, the main character is flying through the clouds with man made wings connected to a suit of armour. In this part of the clip, the lighting is soft, and warm, giving the feeling of freedom. Also the light seems to come from behind the character, giving off the impression that this character is powerful. 

The camera is always on a low angle,  when the character is in view and also gives off the impression of power. 

The music in the scene is calm and dreamy, that and the clouds give of the impression that the character isn't in the real world. As does his make up, as it is in a strange pattern down his face.

In the second scene of the clip, the character gets woken up by the ringing of his phone, and as the 'electrics' are playing up, he believes that he it is night until he taps the clock a few times. This gives off the impression that the main character is still out of it, as he doesn't realise the light streaming through the cracks in the blinds. 

The the characters bedroom is quite bland and small, and there are chords hanging out of the phone left, right and centre. This makes the character seem stressed and lonely as there is only room for one and everything is cluttered. 

The household appliances seem to be made so that you can't do things yourself, like someone is trying to make the human race lazy. Unfortunately said appliances don't seem to work properly as when the coffee machine messes up and pours coffee on the characters toast, he seems tired, as if this happens all the time, giving a hint as to how this new world is.

HOMEWORK

Image 1
This image is an extreme close up. It uses the rule of thirds and the golden triangle which directs your eye to the surname 'Buttle'. The photographer has blurred out parts of the image to make 'Buttle' a focal point. Also, They have put the stamp 'Dept. of RECORDS' in the bottom left corner to bring your attention what the document is. Also the object is mainly to the left and the photographer has left some negative space on the right.

Image 2
This image draws your attention to the people in the top left corner. The lines created by the hallway form leading lines that lead you to these people.The leading line is important as is causes you to look at other parts of the image other than the people.

Image 3
This image uses the rule of thirds and draws your attention to both the mans face in the top right corner and also the name 'M. KURTZMANN' on the door in the bottom left corner. The angle of the camera shows that this character has power as does the light coming from both behind and above the character. 

What do you think has happened in the film and why???
I think that the man from the beginning of the film has received a notice of some form and has been called up to and office to deal with it.

The Mad Hatter- Alice in Wonderland

The Mad Hatter is an intriguing character of this clip. His script alone shows that the hatter is quite crazy and that he is keen to see the red queen overthrown by the white queen. But there are many other aspects of this clip that show more to the hatter than what he says.

Lets begin with his costume. Every inch of the hatters clothing has something to so with making hats, from the pins poking out of his hat to his pin cushion ring, all the tools of a hatter are on display.

Then there is how the hatter himself looks. He has very pale skin and different colours surrounding each eye, but that could be considered normal. What is strange are his eyes. They are both a bright, almost neon green that turn a dark orange when he is mad, but there is a subtle hint to his madness in the strange colour. His right eyes contact has been created so that it looks slightly off centre, so that he never appears to be looking directly at something/someone and makes him seem to have a crazed look about him.
But although the hatter seems to have control over his anger, there seems to be a few times when he can't and he is consumed by rage until someone manages to snap him out of it, as seen by when the Cheshire cat says something and the Hatter gets mad and stalks up to him like he is about to attack until the mouse snaps him out of it.

To add to how 'mad' the hatter looks, are his hair and eyebrows. His hair is a bright orange and looks as if the hatter had just been electrocuted, and his eyebrows are long and bushy, poking out everywhere.

These show the mad hatters character himself, but there is something about the setting that shows a part of the character as well.

The Hatter has set up his tea party in front of a broken windmill that is in the middle of a field surrounded by a dark forest.

It's as if he has been waiting for someone to come for a while. The Windmill could be a representation of his past, broken, yet the light is on, like those from his past are beckoning him to come back, but he is too afraid to go back, so he sets up outside, so he can assure himself that its still there, yet he feels its too damaged to invite anyone in.

Then theres the field, this is so that he can see if someone is coming, as he has been in the middle of a surprise attack before and he doesn’t want to have to do it again. He can see when enemies and friends are coming, giving him more time to prepare for anything that may happen.

And last of all, there is the dark forest. It shows that he knows that there is danger lurking in the shadows yet he stays in the light, not yet prepared to face what is going on in the outside world until Alice comes back.

The hatter is stuck between the past and the present, the tea party just being a distraction until Alice comes back so that he can be taken out of this time warp and get over what happened to him, move on and help defeat the red queen.