Writing a film noir scene

spective to his back, showing her face. She remains in silence for some cold seconds.

WOMAN

I’m sure you’ve heard about… about this… person wondering around, right?

Camera fixed on her face, she looking down in what seems anguish.

10. Two shot from her back, showing detective’s expression, which is nearly of a laugh

DETECTIVE

What do you think we dedicate to at here darling?

The camera fixed on him. He starts a mid laugh and takes a sip of drink.

11.Close-up of her face. Slightly Dutch angled in horizontal level with her tilted face. She sounds stressed.

WOMAN

I know it seems absurd detective, but I am fearful about the situation…

12. Close-up of a man  surrounded by shadows, standing near a door.

DETECTIVE (Voice-Over)

Excuse me lady, you know I have not got the time for this nonsense of the woman in despair and the gentleman who offers to help.

13. Close-up of her face. Slightly Dutch angled in horizontal level with her tilted face. In an icy voice.

WOMAN

It’s… He’s my husband…

DETECTIVE

What about him?

WOMAN

He’s the one in charge of the murders around here, I’m afraid I’ll be the next, or… who knows…

14. Close-up of detective’s stone face, serious mood.

DETECTIVE

That’s… another story, tell me about him, where is he?!?!

15. Close-up of her face. Slightly Dutch angled in horizontal level with her tilted face. She is about to break in a cry, her voice fractures.

WOMAN

I’m afraid he… he is the one who brought me here. He’s outside, at the car… Help me! (whispers)

Representation of characters - Mills/Pitt

Brad Pitt shows us that he can be a type of new masculinity. The comercial that Pitt do of Levi's is a type of rebelation, a younger man that dont respect a type of "army", we can see this when he throw the camera to the military people. Also when he take photos to the girl that is dancing with him, showing fashion, and also we can see a new type of man, a metrosexual man, it can be called like this, is the new type and the Levi's comecial show this to the audience. The man that was thinking and searching good clothes and also preocupate by himself.

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/03/top_10_metrosexual_celebs

Here in the 6th place, Brad Pitt is in the ranking of the 10 metrosexual celebs.

The Marlboro man, show to the audience that he was the classic type of male, with a jean coat, like using his strenght, this usual image show and do propaganda of Marlboro:

http://files.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_773/7730655/file/marlboro-cigarettes-marlboro-man-small-43375.jpg


He show that is powerfull and do a work that is based on strenght and showing a lot of enthusiasm by doing it.

Se7en - Genre

Definition of "genre" and "Fin de Siecle" by the dictionary:

Definition of GENRE

Genre: "A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content"

 

Se7en contains horror and neo-noir things. The type of genre can be a horror, suspense, detective-police film, a lot of murders and a lot of evidence to prove this. Is a detective thriller, is very complete, and give different senses when we analyze the movie by characters, settings, sound, etc. Types of film-noir exist here. The movie moves along the seven deadly sins, gluttony, envy, lust, pride, sloth, greed and wrath. The horror and the suspense exist here in a great number of sadistic murders, investigate by two police detectives, one called  David Mills (Pitt) and the other William Somerset (Freeman), the noir elements we can see it along the movie, the lighting, setting that the movie use.

 

Definition of FIN DE SIÈCLE

Fin de Siecle: "Of, relating to, or characteristic of the close of the 19th century and especially its literary and artistic climate of sophistication, world-weariness, and fashionable despair"

 

 

The movie it takes part along an unidentified city, a lot of raining and urban decay. The different type of characters analyzing them, how different they are.

 

 

Bibliography: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fin+de+siecle?show=0&t=1318855391

 

 

 

Se7en

Noir elements of opening:

Setting:

• Always dark, cold, made through dark lighting and rain, always grey.
• Constant raining
• Cold day
• Grey and dark mood
• The buildings abandoned, the detective through the rain, probably cold with two coffies on his hand.
• Involving homicides.
• City police building, looks like a prison, type of lines like a laberint.
• Showing what day is in big.
• Showing a second murdered by a newspaper
• No morality, for example when they kill Victor, how they find it, FILM NOIR.
• Abandoned house of the victim, it looks really cold 
• Library show like a laberint 

Sound:

• The sound try to give us tension
• Diagetic sounds
• Sound depends on characters 

Characters:

• Vestiment, dark colours, not colorful clothes.
• David Mills: A lot of media, more people.
• William Somerset: Dark investigation, he is alone in the investigation, this show us the different worlds that the two detectives have. 
• Switching between the two detectives to compare them
•  How Mills investigate the case, seeing photos to solve something, and how the other read and fotocopy a book to solve the crime.
• Mills do a shortcut of Dante poetry because he don´t like to read, in the other hand the other detective read all the book in the library and also do fotocopies 

Pulp Fiction comments:

Textual analysis:

-Narrative: “Chilled”/relaxed/cool

Theme(s)/ concerns/mood

Characters: Vega-drug dependary, lots of close-ups, middle of mise-en-scene, camera follows him, strange/alternative/rebellious. Dialogue about piercings, sexual pleasure, relationships between husband wife (sense of normality), ditch angle shots

Camera/sound/mise-en-scene: Music, dream-like guitars-lighting-drugs are highlighted in close up. Colours: white and red. Slow movements. Injection in slow motion

"Tree house"

Strengths:

-Music, can be in the moment that is needed and is good.
-Editing the document.

Weaknesses:

-Bad dialogue.
-Is not a theme that cautivate audience.

The production journal of "Tree house" can be good. In some parts they don´t do reflections at all stages.
The sample materials that they used, they explain where they tak from, what they used, how they put the camera to determine some shots.
They do an evaluation of the project finished and they can improve their project with more organization.

Production Journals Thursday 1st September 2011

Now, we have the film material to edit and work on it. We have the material that we film and with what we have to work to do and interesting documental about 4-5 minutes long. First, we do a copy of the material and then we work on changing B-ROLL footage. We work along an hour through this, to have our documental in the best form possible.

"Super size me"

1. Jump cuts, a voice in the backround of the image giving statistics about Mc Donnalds and obesity. This give the impression that is more real, also when people speak they don´t see the camera is more real, they don´t care if someone is filming them, is the same for the people that is being interviewed.

2. Sometimes yes because we have to know about what their are speaking about and centralize in the theme but other time we know about what they are speaking about.

3. The camera is used a lot of times, middle shots, most time of the interviews and they change sometimes to demonstrate other things medium close up. This allow the space for objects.

4. The camera most of the times is still, in the middle of the interview can change and show other things, like compare something.

5. All the interviews show us the backround of the people that is interviewing, show us were the people work or take an idea of the people that is interview.

6. They only give to us the relevant information, is a short time of the interview and to us important information.

7. Spurlock tell us through the movie that he chose Mc Donnalds to do the documentary because Mc Donnalds don´t give the information of the calories that a hamburguer of Mc Donnalds have.

Production Journals. Monday 29th August.

Monday, a monday of hard work that we have to do, in Tuesday 23rd we get out to the streets to film our documentary movie. We have some problems here, because some people dont want to be film by us, or they want to be film but not the face, so we have to film some images of the place without the person that is being interviewed, also we use a sound-recorder to have a best record of what people said, so the sound, we can hear it. Also, we cant film a bus driver that was our idea, but was really difficult to do this. Finally another problem that we may have to affront was the sound, we have to carry a voice recorder to have a better sound and then introduce it after with the images of the camera, the battery of the camera dont was a problem because we carry two or more cameras.

Production Journals Thursday, August 18.

18 August, we work in the documentary planning. Our documentary ovbiously is made up with a lot of interviews. The interviews have to be seem profesional. To help us with the interviews we see interviews of the documental "Super Size me". We saw the techniques of the camera, to introduce the audience to the interview subjects, we analyze if the question is really needed to show for the audience, the research that Spurlock have to do to create the documental and finally the movement of the camera. Taking all this, Tuesday 23rd we can go out to the streets and film the main part of our documental!

Production Journals. Thursday, 11 August

Today, we, Toto Productions have to hand in the location list, we have it nearly finished to hand it in. In our group we complete all B-roll footage, and include a shot list to do a complete work. We have to solve some problems in the location list to define places, but we can solve it and is all right. The deadlines we can submit all in time.

Production Journals. Thursday August 4.

Today in Toto Productions, we have to search the locations of where we were going to shoot our video. We need this information:

-Deciding where you plan to shoot video
-Visiting sites ahead of time to get a sense of the space
-Planning the order in which you will shoot in different
-Locations
-Identify what the best shots are in each location

With this information we do a document filling this information in and give this in before a deadline that we have. The document show to us where we are shooting in, the order we will shoot in them (including dates you will film/have filmed), and still shots with the name of location.

Quentin Tarantino

1)      Name two distinctive features of Tarantino’s films.

2)      How was Tarantino’s education in film different to the normal method of film-school?

3)      Despite the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino’s first film in 1992, it was criticized by many. Why?

4)      What genre do Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction belong to?

5)      Identify three recurring CAMERA ANGLES/SHOTS used by Tarantino. Include a screen shot example of each, with a brief caption about the possible effects created by each (eg. to give a sense of power to audience/character, to disorient the viewer, etc)

6)      Explain USING YOUR OWN WORDS what Tarantino’s Mirror shot is, and possible effects of using it. Include a screen shot.

7)      A recurring trope in Tarantino’s films is the Mexican standoff.

a) Briefly explain what it is.

b) Explain where the term comes from.

c) Examples of two non-Tarantino films that use it (with screen shots of possible).

d) Provide screen shots from two Tarantino films that use it.

8)      A “MacGuffin” is used in Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction.

a)      What is a MacGuffin? Explain in fifty words.

b)     What is the MacGuffin in Pulp Fiction?

c)      Provide examples fo MacGuffins from two non-Tarantino films, with screen shots if possible.

1. The films of Tarantinos where thrillers that were different because of their clever, twisting dialogue, and also because of their extreme violence.

2. Quentin Tarantiro really was a clerk moviemaker, he dont acquired his knowledge by a conventional high school method.

3. Tarantino was critized because of the level of unnecesary violence in their movies.

4. Drama, mystery, crime interviews, he mix humor and ultra-violence in the popular, critically-acclaimed film.


5.                      CSI: Doctors:

POV low angle shot (extreme) , give the sense to the audience, showing how a person is examinated.

In Four Rooms : Chester listens to Ted's monologue.

Medium face-shot.



In Reservoir Dogs : Mr Brown, Mr Pink and Mr White looking at Marvin Nash.

Low angle shot.



6.

 

Mirror shot. (Kill Bill 1) looking herself.

A mirror shot is when a shot of a character is showed when it is seeing himself or herself in a mirror.




7. A) Its refer to a particular type of stand off, maybe the aparition of an incident, a subset of a general standoff. A situation that dont have a original winner.

B) The origin is not really well known but the term comes from Sergio Leone's movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," a classic from 1966.

C) D)

The good, the bad and the ugly.

Reservoir Dogs:  

8.

A) The Mac Guffin element drives the movie´s plot forward without having a specific relevance on its own.

B)  In Pulp Fiction, activates the action but don´t have any further purpose.

C) Eleven: All the movie is based in stole a bank, and they do a plan to have the gold egg.

Production Journals: 4th July

In Toto Productions we start to prepare the our production journal. To prepare this we have to spend 25 minutes preparing or starting to write our production journal. Also discuss our textual analysis of Eden Lake and seeing this with our feedback. The production journal is the work that evaluates us individually, are the individual records of our documentary work. The production journals evaluate our work so far, the successes that you have, what problems do you have and how you solved them, what changes do you have to do? , what are you going to do next?

Production Journals: Friday June 10

In Toto Productions, for our documentary we choose a problematic that is frequent in Argentina. The driving in Argentina, our country that is in the top five of the world ranking in the car accidents. We think that this problematic is not so hard to search information about, for example interviewing people that drives out in the street all day, the man that drive taxis out in Capital Federal, is easy and safer to us, searching the information about this problematic. My role in this project is the camarographer.

Starting this projects in Toto Productions first we choose to film public schools in Argentina but really was a problem to find information about it, entering the public schools was a problem.. so we change the problematic for our document.

Production Journals: Friday 1st July

Today, Friday 1st July we have to finish our story outline with our images, keystone, equipment, and ideas completed on storyboard templates. We upload and submit all our research information and our work done. Demonstrate evidence of e-mail, phone calls, etc. of Toto Productions if its contact with someone or something.

Capturing the Friedmans

Questions:

1. If you were making this film, what pre-production activities (ie. before filming) would you need to complete to make this documentary. Make a list.

- Speak with lawyers/introduce in the case
- Permission of the police/victims
- Interviewing police.
- Interviewing victims.
- How the family was.
- How to film them.
- Where they film them.
- When they film them.

2. How was the film footage (the raw, unedited material as it had been originally filmed) for this documentary produced? A) Who was filmed? Where were they filmed? B) What different types of footage were used? Be specific. (Was it all filmed live by the documentary-makers? Or did they use footage from elsewhere?)

The film footage show us the home life of them or for example the court room where they have to declare.

A. In this documentary film; was filmed the family (Friedmans) in their personal life and through out the case. They were filmed at home, in their own life.

B. A part of this documentary film was made by the documentary-makers but another part that is made by the Friedmans film of them.

3. What post-production activities have been used in this documentary? And how? A) The editing - sequence of shots, transition between shots. B) What music or sounds have been added (non-diagetic sound)? What effects have been created by this? C) Why do you think the film-makers have decided NOT to use a narrator/talent or voice-over? What effects are created by not adding this?

A) How the shot pass through others, where is the people when they are filming. Where are the interviews. Close up of a door in a court room, so we can see what they speak about filming. Jump-cuts. Film night by the car moving.

B) The screamings, that creates like tension through this.

Production Journals: 27th June 2011

To improve and help us to do our first documentary film work, we have to see "Capturing the Friedmans", is a documentary that is around a family about their problems of one brother in the family. Using this documentary film, we have to get ideas and techniques to use in our first documentary work, take out some notes and upload it to our own blog, this documentary film help us to have and idea and use techniques when you ask something to someone.

Logo

Toto Productions:

Toto Productions Pitch:

What We are Doing?

      

     Toto Productions are presenting a film pitch for filming how serious the driving situation has came to in Argentina. Showing the crashes, Confirmed facts, and interviews form both the law and the people of Argentina.

Why We Are Doing IT?

     We are doing this documentary, because the driving in this country had gotten to a great extreme and its time for people to know and realize the intensity of the situation.

How will we do it?

     We will film this in many different locations helping to give and all around show of what happens when it comes to driving and their conduct. We will show the opinions of the people through interviews and show through our own filming what the truth is.

Production Journals: Story pitch. 16 June. 2011

Today we had to seriously start to work faster to arrive well for deadlines. Also we change the problematic discussing because we dont were sure of what we are going to do. We have to revise our story pitch and re do it in a better way for us. Also today we have to produce a story outline, to do this we have to:

Map out the flow of the story using drawings and/or text

refer back to the pitch

write a brief 100 word piece on the narrative you will tell

brainstorm what ideas will be communicated where in the story's timeline (using storyboard template)

identify major images/ideas to be shown using  (using storyboard template)

Eden Lake. Textual analysis.

“Eden Lake” is a horror film made in 2008 by James Watkins. It is about a couple that has gone out for a weekend to have a romantic break. They confront a local youth band; Steve and Jenny (main characters) suffer terrifying consequences. The narrative or the plot that is built in the movie is good, because of the different angles of camera, also showing us how the day is passing through, we can see it because of this narrative built up here. In the movie, we can see that they went out for a weekend to a city, far away, an unknown place. The jump cuts (a cut in the film passing to another shot, to see the time or other place that the film is going) demonstrate us how the day is passing, through the motorway; how the night is arriving when they are entering the city. Before they go to the trip we see a close up of the ring when Steve have it on his hand and smile to it, also we see a shot outside the school were Jenny works, with this shot we see that the man in that romantic trip is going to propose to the woman. To went out for this trip the use a GPS, we can see the GPS through a shot in the backwards seats of the car, the GPS is in the middle, is really important this. This proves us that was an unknown place for them, was really far away and no so much recognizable.

     In a short time of the movie we can know a lot of the life of the characters. Jenny is a teacher in a school of children; this character is represented by a good person, the treat that she have with the children’s show us this. In the second shot we see the man with the ring in the car, he want to propose to the woman. Also we see the woman coming running, really happy, this produce to the audience an impression that she is a happy woman. They were a happy couple, for example when he have the ring and smile to it, but when he see that the woman is coming he hide it. This was a secret of the man to the woman. Their happiness was real. After this, when they arrive the city we see that they are a not violent people. For example when they were to park, one car comes faster and took their place. A medium close up of the kissing demonstrate to us their happiness. In the relationship was a balance, shown by the two shot from the back of the car, Steve meet in middle in symmetry, also is a smiling close up. They were the typical middle class, they have a jeep, and the man uses sun glasses, ray bans, the ring, and gadget in the car, middle of back seat medium shot. In the scenes are a lot of light, clear, bright colors used, lighting a natural sunlight their happiness is conveyed by this. The clothes that the girl use was a summer dress, purple and white, colorful. The man use a blue shirt, working man, and tidy, organized, professional, clean shaven. The kids that were on the city they ride bikes-reckless, ignorant, the things that they do, blurred, indistinct.

     “Eden Lake” has different conventions that help it to be a horror film. The bright colors, clear colors that are used for the start of their trip, show us their happiness, but when the time passed we can see in the motorway that the night is coming by jump cuts. They arrive to that city in the night and start to see rude younger people. Increasing tension through the use of a high pitched violin. As the settings becomes darker, more minor chords are used, a more melancholy sound.

     The movie creates the theme of the youth attacks, the violence of teenagers in England. Difference in classes, working classes with middle classes (problems in classes). Middle class-city, education-school, showing us the daylight-summer, technology that aids life, correct attitude, respect, happy. The working class-country, village, small town, children on street at night (this implies parents not looking after kids), adults out in a pub drinking, darkness, camera shows separation between character from one world to the other-car scene. Radio plays news showing the dealing with bad behavior of children; parents are blaming education system; schools are blaming the parents, is a chaos. Implicit criticism of education through the journey taken by the girl. She represents the world of education in the start of the movie and she ends up killing kids.

     This movie was influenced by some socio-cultural factors. The problems in classes, the hate that some people of some classes have to people of another class. In the movie we see this through the hate that the younger people (working class) have to Steve and Jenny (middle class). The hate that the youth people have to them, how Steve finishes, and also Jenny, the hate really exists. Another socio-cultural factor was the youth crime in England. This was increasing in England and this movie demonstrates us the violence through youth people, the youth crime exists. Finally, in the movie we can see that Jenny puts the “t-shirt of hero” because she fight to save Steve, she fight with the nature and with the younger people, the roles in the movie change, the strength was Jenny and the weakest was Steve.

"Eden Lake" (2008) JUMP CUTS (First five minutes).

In Eden Lake we can see four jump cuts in the intro to the movie, the jump cuts are in the motorway when the car is moving a long. The four jump cuts demonstrate the time that is passing along, the car is never arriving the place that wants to go. The time is passing and they continue riding, finally they arrive to the place that they want to go, this intro starts in the city and it finish out of the city, apparently with rude people, this is the start of a great movie.

A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1960) JUMP CUTS.

The jump cuts in this movie are really rare. They have a strange way to do it, because a character is speaking to another character and the shot passes to another, that the character is doing another thing. Is a spatial jump cut with the camera that is slightly moved, the relationship to one shot with another is really rare.

Opening horror film:

Homevideo Camera:

1. Shot, Charlie face close-up shot.

In the bottom left of the screen REC (in real)
                                           October 24, 2000.

                      It is nightime in the woods, Charlie is filming himself, it is cold full moon, cricket sounds, nature sounds, sound of water, small river, Charlie is hiddin behind the bushes.

                     Charlie: "Coff coff, this is my third day out here, it is odd and I beatly feel my fingers, there is a full moon tonigh and they are still here..."

Turns camera around (we see everything from camera) and POV shot.



2. Long shot- A tribe in the woods naked uncleared "people" or "its" in cocodrile skin (shimmy skin reflected by moon) hiddin behind the bushes. Dancing round fire.


                     Charlie: Look at them! They repeat something over and over! look at the brightness in their skin (zoom in to a "person")

                     Charlie: It is just fantastic.

Turns camera around and Charlie close up face again. (Sound of Charlies steps moving around) and zooming out, the dates of the camera changes.

                    Charlie: So that is it, weird how my battery inmediately went from 100% loaded to 5% bad left, I wonder what ha...

                   Unknown: Unknow language screems.

Picture crackes up.

Black screen

END.

Scream Opening

                                                                  SCREAM


2. Black screen. Superimpose with special effects and then the word "SCREAM" first is white and then turns red color :


                                                         SCREAM.

3.   INT. GIRLS HOUSE - NIGHT

    First is a close up and then the camera moves backwards.

Cinema in 1950s

The dawning of the 1950s:

•         1950s was recognizing for many new things. The rise of fast food (Mc Donald’s) and the use of drive-ins, post-war affluence, and middle class values, etc.

•         Youth reaction to middle-aged cinema. Older viewers were prone to stay at home and watch television (about 10.5 million US homes had a TV set in 1950).

Influential movies:

•         The influence of rock 'n' roll in younger people makes Hollywood to produce movies about it, Blackboard Jungle (1955).

•          It was the first major Hollywood film to use R&R on its soundtrack

Influential movies:

•         To appeal to the new juvenile market, actors were miscast, such as clean-cut crooner Pat Boone in April Love (1957), playing a juvenile delinquent who was sent to his uncle's Kentucky farm for rehabilitation.

Influential actors:

•         Marlon Brando, Do “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) and receive an Oscar nomination. He also contributed a memorable role as a self-absorbed teen character. Marlon Brando was an example of young people, and was really a star.

•         Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, a singer and an actor in many money-making films of the 1950s that young people really love it.

 Elvis Presley:

•         Was a symbol of sex and rebellion, the type of dance that he use were really great.

•         His screen debut was in Paramount's Civil War drama Love Me Tender (1956) (originally titled The Reno Brothers), with a #1 single hit song ballad.

          

•          Jailhouse Rock (1957) is generally acknowledged as his most famous and popular film, but he also appeared in Loving You (1957) (noted for his first screen kiss).


Cheap teen movies: 

•Not of This Earth (1957)

• Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

•The Blob (1958)

•A Bucket of Blood (1959)

•The Wasp Woman (1959)

Threat of television: 

•Film attendance declined precipitously as free TV viewing.

•The increase in popularity of foreign-language films made inroads into the entertainment business.

•In just a few years, 50% of US homes had at least one TV set.

•Studios were forced to find creative ways to make money from television, converted Hollywood studios were beginning to produce more hours of film for TV than for feature films.

•Because of the emergence of television as a major entertainment medium, many studios converted their sound stages for use in television production.

•Labor was cheaper abroad, many producers were taking their film production overseas

 

 

 

Sketching an image.

The essence of St. Georges that we want to convey was the standarization of the school, the authority that St. Georges can demostrate to us and try to give an example to the surroundings and to others. The uniformity that students have, the conformity  with the school that student show to us through the image. The picture is a long shot, straight-angle-shot, direct lighting and grey-white colors.

Making notes about the mise-en-scene of the movie the “Rear Window” (Hitchcock, 1954)

    The movie “Rear Window” (Hitchcock, 1954) when it´s starting and in the opening credits it’s presenting to us the surround of the movie. For example, where is it and how the starting shots demonstrate to us where is the theme of the history passing and occurring nearly there. The film when it´s starting have a great time of different type of angles that is showing to us, the setting and express a normal life in a city. Also it demonstrate to us that in the climate of the city is hot.

    The camera in the movie show us the life in the city and like how cut off is the city, like you are enclosed in one place, in one city. The camera do an entrance of the life in the city and the movements that the camera do or show us the life we can feel different feelings. People in the city unhappy because of the climate that is too hot. Finally the feeling of the enclosed that you are in the city, like you can go out and the type of angles of the cameras give you those feelings.

Analyzing a image from the movie “The Last Emperor”.

 

This is a shot from the movie “The Last Emperor”. This image we can locate it in Asia, people respecting the emperor,  we can see that is entering and all the people on knees doing reverences when the emperor is entering the temple. Characters are on knees really ordered and respecting the columns. The costumes of the characters are large clothes. The relationship between people we can see that is full of respect to the emperor and the objects also were respect, for example the object that carry the emperor is really mark a tendence of weakness for the other people. Also we can see that is like a “special” passage for the emperor. The people open and do reverences for the emperor. The shot type is a long shot and the color of the image is really light fully because the time is at day and we can see  normal color of the image.

Review of the short film.

Film chosen:  The 3rd one is the short that I like.

I think that in this short was really a good representation of the person that was like down the effects of the alcohol or maybe drugs, we really don´t know. The presentation of the other people was really an effective way to represent it and I really like it. The man that was like shocked in the end because of the things that he do and he don’t have notion about it. The ambient sound in the movie was amazing, produce that the effects on the movie were better and you have interest in the movie. Suspense also was a good characteristic. The genre of this movie we can classify in suspense and in some parts in fear, but I think that suspense can be good. The movie gives different impressions. First I was amazed because of the effects of the movie and how were represent the other persons, after this  you can or may start suspecting that something rare is passing to the person and can be cause of alcohol, drugs, tired, etc.  Finally in a conclusion, when you see that he enters to his house and see al like that and kill his family (we suppose) he don’t know what to do when police enter to his house to fetch he, because this men may  go to jail. The different camera angle, were also really good when they represent like the murdered people and in different parts of the movie. The form of the movie was really good, the history that it have, it really have a good skeleton, the place were the history is told, is a really good election.

In conclusion, was really a good movie, with good effects, good representation of the people that appear in the movie and how the men see it. Is like a mix with a real movie but with that actions. The ambient sound was amazing, do really that the movie was interesting. The cinematographer of this movie was really good, that we can see it on the illumination of the movie and of the different angles of cameras. Personally I like this movie because of that points, I thinks is a good short because all the different causes that I mention.

Film roles.

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Director:

-Direct actors and crew

-Control the artistic and dramatics aspects of the film

-Decide camera angles, lighting and lens effect with the cinematographer. Works closely to the cast and crew for give a best image of the film

-The coordinate of actors when they move and then block.  Sometimes also they are involved in the writing and the editing of the film

Cinematographer:

-Illuminating and camera choices when they take photographs pictures for the cinema

-Lighting, composition, lens choices, exposure, filtration and film selection

-Work cooperatively with other persons

-Personal management and logistical organization

Sound Designer:

-Manipulate or generate audio elements

-Responsible of dialogue and sound track

-Principal member of the production staff, the cinema sound systems help them to arrive up there

-Expected to be creative and they have to do a generalization of the other creative departmens head

Script writer or screenwriter:

-Work with the film producer and sometimes with the director for do a great script

-Translate the writing to the screen

-Try to make adaptations of some books

-Mostly of the times the story teller bring a complete feature film to life

 

Film producer: 

-Plan and delivers a film project

-Control, supervise and coordinate the major aspects and points of the movie

-Is involve on the major phases of the film making process, from when its starting, then when its developing and finally when its ending and complete

-May have financial risk, because they have to use their own money, in a pre-production, waiting until the movie is finally financed.  

Power Point: Jealousy

Normal shot to demonstrate the feeling about other people.

Extreme close up-to demonstrate the anger of the person.

FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST CINEMA (1918-1929)

FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST CINEMA (1918-1929)


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1. These are two pictures that describe the French Cinema. The first is a painting made by Benoit Philippe, a Parisian artist that works with oils, pastels and watercolors. Great picture which represents the time and the Franchise cinema.
The second picture was made by Camille Pissarro a great painter of the French Cinema

2. The rise of Fascism influenced on the rise of the French Cinema. It gives new ideas to do different movies or different ideas that people interested and like in new films.
The Great Depression also was a great theme that influenced and give different ideas to directors, also the lighting of the movies were better, and people interested more in movies. The French Cinema was a big revolution and a lot of people start to see it.
Finally the third factor was that modern devices appear in cinema, and directors, start to use it, was a big and important advance in World Cinema, that was really useful for the French Cinema, that learnt to use it properly.


3. The French Cinema have different techniques, for example:
- Quick editing and a great camera work to demonstrate the message of the film.
- Angles were really vary and some tipes of shots give to the audience some characteristics that you can see about the characters (ex: angry, sad, etc.)
- Camera movement (independent of subject, for graphic effects, point-of-view)
4. Name: Abel Gance

• Major Films: 1923: La Roue , 1927: Napoléon , 1918: Mater Dolorosa
• Abel Gance, was fueled by literary ambitions from childhood, also after he maybe was killed he do a film demonstrating the War and he liked that. Also an important thing that he likes, doing films that have love, or an parallel history of romance.

Name: Germaine Dulac

• Major films: La cigarette (1919) , La belle dame sans merci (1921) , Âme d'artiste (1925)
• In films he like also the love history, the romance and maybe complicated the movie, but some movies are not in that interest. The main interest of Germaine Dulac was the love history.