Lighting exercise

Sound exercise

Different types of sounds

What's Diegetic sound

Diegetic sounds is a visible sound that is in all films an example of diegetic sound is the sound of the characters, sounds made by different objects in the film and music and instruments in the film. Diegetic sound can also be  either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame. 

What's Non-Diegetic sound

Non diegetic sound is a sound that is not in the film and the characters cant hear but the audience can. We mostly find Non diegetic sound in horror films where y hear intense music that comes on the scary bit of the film.

Parallel sound

Parallel sounds are used to mostly match up to a scene for example in a horror film a scream will match the scene.

Contrapuntal sound 

Contrapuntal sound is the opposite of parallel sound it something that does not match a scene for example if they were playing rock music on a scary part of the film.

Mis-en-scene

Mis-en-scene

What is Mis-en-scene

Mis-en-scene has more than one element in it, this consists of costume and make up, facial expressions and body language, setting and props, lighting and color and positions of characters and objects within the frame. 

Setting and props- This is important because it tells you what the films  is going to be like for example in action films it could be set in the streets of Rio where it looks rough and life's hard, its also located in a hot location. On the other hand the props show that its an action film because you could see a guy holding a gun and helping a friend out.

costume and makeup- In costume and make up its important because it tells us if the character we are seeing is wealthy average or poor. In action films we see the characters in casual clothes which shows there ready to work. There hair is also clean and they have some facial hair most of the time. For make up they use it to make them look like they have been in a real fight.

Facial expressions and body language- This shows the characters actions and emotions for example in action films most of the characters will look like they just came out a battle.It makes them look like there in lots of pain.

Positioning-this is a great technique that gets attention from the audience for example in action films we see characters slouched, sometimes limping away from anymore danger.

Lighting- depending on the films the lighting can change from light to dark like in some horror films. In action films the lighting is always rather light because its usually set outside in a hot country. Its usually even more lighter after they have finished here battle and on there way home.

Source code

Source code Summary

Directed by Duncan Jones and written by Ben ripely, released 2011

In source code we see a man called Colter Stevens who is a US army pilot. his last memory was flying to Afghanistan, he then wakes up in a computer train. He finds out that that he has an identity as another man. After a while the train explodes out of know where and Colter finds himself in some sort of pod. He then has a conversation with someone called Goodwin who says to him he has to go back and find who was the one who set the bomb of. Colter is then sent back to find the bomber but it turned out to be unsuccessful. The bomb goes of f and he finds him self back in the pod. Colter is then sent back again but is still unsuccessful. Colter is then confused and says "whats going on", Goodwin and Rutledge who are the scientist in charge say to him that this is part of a project which can put another persons consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Colter says why he cant stop the bomb. He is then told that he is not going back in time but placed in the moment so he can adventurously discover who the bomber is. During this event Colter finds himself falling for a woman traveling with him whilst his in another mans consciousness.

                                         

No country for old men

No country for old men

In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to do. Moss ends up getting killed and the psychopathic killer escapes.

preliminary

Preliminary task Evaluation 

In our preliminary task it starts of with  a guy who knows a lot of information, he then gets set-up thinking that he has to take this chip of information which is worth millions, when he gets brutally murdered.

We have used all the techniques in our film which are:

Match on action

Eye line match

Shot, reverse shot

180 degree rule

We used the match on action when they see "Klaus" walk through the door.

We then used the eye line match when we were recording "klaus"

We used the shot reverse shot when "Klaus" and "Wesley" were having a conversation

We did not break the 180 degree rule by staying on the same side.

i think that we did all the shots accurately, the only mistake we did was we took long to do the shot reverse shot because we were getting distracted and we didn't speak loud enough to get heard. I think next time we will improve on how sound when recording and the amount of time we take to make our film.

I think that the positive things we did in our film was that we all did the acting pretty good and all the shots worked well. I also think that the editing was well and made the film work

I think we needed to make improvements on our volume of the film because you cant hear that well from it. I also think that we needed to improve on the time it took us to make this film.

Die hard with a vengeance

Die hard with a vengeance review

In die hard with a vengeance it starts of in the police station where a phone call is ringing in the station. A lady says to the head of police " i think you should take this". A German man says i want to play a game of Simon says, he wants John McClain to do tasks all over new York or he will let another bomb go off. We then get introduced to one of the main character John McClain who is on his hangover, whilst his ex boss tells him that he has to go do some tasks to stop another bomb from going off. In one of the ask he goes down a high street where there are a lot black males and where a sign that says "I hate niggers". We get introduced to another main character Zeus Carver who approaches his John McClain and tries to save him from getting killed from a gang for being racist. John McClain explains his situation, till the gang spots out McClain and starts to be violent. Zeus then helps McClain get away. Minutes later they arrive at the police station, Simon hen rings the phone and tells them both to stay together to complete there next task or more bombs will go of. After successfully completing several of there tasks John McClain decides to go and check if the gold safe is all alright. He goes in the building. everything looks like its running well Simon says to his worker kill John McClain, the guard makes  plot and says do u care to join me i'm doing my run to check if its safe. More of his people join in the lift, McClain realizes that they are the enemies and kills them all. John figures out that they were using dump truck to still most of all the bars of gold. McClain then kills more of there people and catch on what there plan was. John McClain then tracks down Simon and how he managed to take the gold from north America, the film ends with John McClain and Zeus being hero's.

Mcguffin

Mcguffin

Mcguffin is in a story hat is used to drive a plot. Mcguffins have no purpose in the films, it mainly is used to distract you from trying to figure out the ending of the film. Mcguffins usually don't come up again later and wont explain the ending. It mostly a mysterious package that everyone is looking for

The rules and conventions of thrillers

The rules and conventions of thrillers

In the thriller genre there’s lots of different sub genres, which do certain rules to create a specific effect on the audience.  Thrillers are mostly fast paced with regular action this includes a hero who has to stop this strong intelligent villain.

One of the characteristic’s in a thriller is the location is often in exotic places such as foreign cities for example in James bond films he is in mostly foreign places. On the other hand some of the thrillers are presented as people in an ordinary situation and then extraordinary things happen to them for example in the film “The Birds” we see birds attack these ordinary people which is extraordinary for birds to do. Finally some other thrillers have a hero as an ordinary person then extraordinary things happen to them for example the in “the hulk” there’s an ordinary man but when he gets angry he turns in to this giant big green guy also known as the hulk.

In some of the thrillers the story’s is mostly centred around a crime or often a murder or someone captured their family which sets the theme on revenge and the person who murdered or captured their family also known as the antagonist is powerful and mostly has an army of people where as the protagonist is mostly one person who is after revenge and is fighting an army of people by himself.

Secondly some thriller genres are more complicated and is not the same as some of original thriller convention for example in the film “law abiding citizen” we see a man’s wife and kid murders we think that the man is the protagonist (hero) but later on in the film we see that he actually is the antagonist (villain) and then a new protagonist comes, therefore few of the thrillers don’t stick to their thriller conventions.

Finally in the thriller genre there is also an enigma set in the opening of the film and then the film gets complicated and then at the end it becomes clear. This is done to engage the audience because they don’t know the aspect of the film which makes them eager to find out what’s going on in the film till the information’s revealed. An example of an enigma is done in the film fight club where brad Pitt has a gun pointed at another character, this is later resolved in the end.

In the Thriller genre there are lots of different sub genres such as action thriller, crime thriller, horror thriller and etc.

Psycho

In psycho  we see a young lady called Marion Crane who decides to leave phoenix with $40,000 which her boss trusted her to deposit in the bank. Marion was on her way to her boyfriend "Sam" in California, the money will let them start a life together. She spend a night in her car and then followed up spending her second night in the Bates motel. Marion than meets Norman bates which is a shy young man who is dominated by his mother. They have a conversation for a little bit and then she decides to return the money back at phoenix. She still decides to spend the night at the bates motel, she then has a shower and then she's brutally murdered. A week later  Marion's sister arrives at Sam stores in fair vale and demands answers for where Marion is.     All together with a private investigator Milton Arbogast decide to go searching for her and come across the bates motel. Arbogast finds something suspicious about the bates motel and decides to go speak to Normans mother, which causes him to get murdered. Sam and Marion sister then find arbogast missing. They then decide to check out the bates motel and then Marion sister goes to speak to Normans bates mother where she finds that his mothers dead, she then sees Norman bates dressed as his mother with a knife ready to kill her when Sam comes to the rescue and save her. 

Genres and Narratives

What are genres?
Genres are different categories of films for example we have
action
Horror
Comedy
thriller
In these genres there make them to be specific so you can pick what film you specifically want to watch for example if i wanted to see a film with lots of action i would look for the films under action and if i wanted to look or something thats scary i would look for a film under the horror genre.

There also is sub genres for example
Action thrillers
Animated action films
Sub genres are there to have a bit of both for example if i wanted a film with action thriller i would have some of the action and some of the thriller.

What are Narratives?
Narrative is the what tells you the story is about for example like in life of pie its about a boy who gets stranded on the sea and then escapes.

North by North west

In the film North by north west we see a character called “Roger thorn hill” who ends up finding himself mixed up in a world of spies, for being mistaken for a guy called “George Kaplan”. A spy Philip Vandamm and his men try and kill him but when “Roger” tries to resolve the case he is framed

for murder. He then escaped from the police and managed to board the 20^th century limited bound for Chicago, he meets a beautiful blond lady “Eve Kendall” who helps him escape. Yet again bad luck hits him and “Eve” wasn't who she says she is, it then leads to “Rogers” rescue/ escape at the top of MT.Rushmore.

The birds

The Birds

In the film “The birds” we see a rich lady Melanie Daniels who is jet set and gets what she wants. The lawyer “Mitch Brenner” finds her in a pet shop and decides to play a practical joke on her so she decides to return the favour. “Melanie Daniels” then drives down an hour north of Francisco to bodega bay where Mitch stays over to see his mother “Lydia” and his sister “Cathy”. When she arrives in bodega bay we start to see the birds start acting strange. “Melanie Daniels” then pranks “Mitch Brenner” and starts crossing the bay, a seagull out of no where attacks her. Lydia then finds her neighbour dead with his eyes pecked out which shows us his one of the victims. Not long after hundreds of birds started to brutally attack anyone that is outside. There is no imp articular reason why the birds are doing this, survival becomes the most important priority.

Thriller

Thriller

A thriller is a film which is made to keep the viewer on edge of there seat with suspenseful action.   Many people find thrillers very enjoyable, and they appreciate the fast pacing and complex plots associated with this genre.

Thrillers typically have lots of plots, twists and lots of red herrings, for example, keeping people unsure about what is going to happen. Thrillers also have a lot of action in them. The plots of thrillers can vary widely. Some are supernatural, for example, centring around mystical antagonists.

Some thrillers are  more for educated people to enjoy them. Many such thrillers incorporate a psychological aspect, forcing people to examine the motivations and back stories of the characters to figure out the plot. 

Media studies written assignment

As media studies - written assignment       By Klaus Rudschuck

Meeting George

The storyboard behind meeting George is theirs two friends who are meeting each other and going over to meet George to go to class. There wasn't really much of a storyboard because we were trying to practice some shots. These shots include:

• Long shot
• Medium shot 
• Close up
• Extreme close up
• Point of view 
• Over the shoulder
• High angle 
• Pan 
• Tilt
• Tracking shot

Firstly we decide to use a long shot of Klaus walking to show me coming into school. Secondly we used a medium shot of Wesley walking up to Klaus to show that they were meeting up. Thirdly we used an extreme close up of Klaus and Wesley shaking hands. Fourthly we used a close up of Klaus and Wesley talking and an over the shoulder shot of them talking. Fifthly we did a point of view shot of George meeting Klaus and Wesley and then walking through the door. Sixthly we took a high angle shot of Klaus, Wesley and George walking to the science block. Seventhly we took a tilt shot of Klaus, Wesley and George talking about were there class is. Finally we took a tracking shot of Klaus, Wesley and George going through a door and going to there class room. All of these shots worked perfectly because it showed all the characters actions properly and it made all the shot cooperate to make it look more professional. 

I think that we held steady all our shots and we framed each shots appropriately

Overall the positive elements in our film were that everyone participated well and made the film successful 

I think we will need to make improvements on the camera quality and put more shots like the crane shot, low angle shot and a pan shot.