Documentary: Group

Today we start planning our documentary, our group is going to be composed by Ramiro and me. Today, monday we discuss about the problematic that we are going to choose, we think that a good idea can be the different problems or activities that you can have in a private neighborhood. We choose two different private neighborhoods, one in the North of Buenos Aires called Martindale, and the other particularly in the South of Buenos Aires is called "Abril".

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.