our porject 2

we have filmed the first scene at Alice's house and it looks pretty good. next we have to do the villains lair which may be in smokey joe, an abandoned grain silo in water eaton

as you can see its a very creepy place and would be perfect for an evil lair. our murder (chris waters) will be sat in a corner with a news paper with the main story being about the murder of the couple. he will then draw on it and stick it to the wall. the camra pans back to reval hundrus more of news papers on the wall.

our project

so far we have written a script and story board for the film title sequence. the film is a horror based on the opening of "scream" where there is almost a mini film for the opening credits. our film is called cupid, it is about a couple on Valentine's day having a romantic morning together when the preggers girl (Sarah, played by Chloe Osterjak) asks the man (Alex, played by me) to go on a walk together. little do they know that the villian (cupid, played by chris waters) would make it the last thing they ever do!!!!!!!!! (evil laugh). the location for shooting the first scean is Alices house and we will shoot it next friday.

music tracks in films

music has a very key roll in film. it sets the scene and the mood of the scene. without it film would be boring.
afew examples:
jaws. jaws uses music to build suspence in a scene for when the shark is about to attack "jaws theme" (by john willams) with out this legnedary track playing in the back round the scene would have no fear fact at all. in this film its the song that makes it good
inseption. this has 2 amazing tracks to make it such an epic film one is "Dream Is Collapsing" this sound track starts sinister but then progresses (as the scene dose in the film) into something very dark and chaotic as everything starts going wrong around them inception scene . the second track is"time" this one has much happyer conertations. its used at the end of the film when the main charater completes his mission and gets to see his kids again but the end is soft and sad to remeber the loss of his wife and to leave the film on a major cliff hanger. its very moving track that show the audince the emotions that the main charater is feeling. end scene (both songs by hanz zimmer)
these 3 songs are original scores made for the film but you can also use borrowed music that is already around before the film is made. eg plup fitction ( cant find a link sorry. more on that soon :)

casino royal title sequnce

the casino royal title sequnce is desinded to tell you about one major thing. and thats the character 'james bond' but it also gives you alot of forsite about what the film is about. the film is about gambling and james bond has to play texus holdem poker to bankrupt the bad guy. in the opening titles they use things associated with gambleing to illustrate everything. eg the spades (as in the card) are being used as bulletes and the flash made out of clubs. it also shows the people being made out of cards or card symbols. this shows that the cards are everything (litteraly in the title but metoforicly in the film). but as i said the main point of the opening is to show how much of bad ass james bond is. it tells the story of how he got his doubble 0 status basicly by killing loads of goons. it shows how he uses guns and hand to had combat and all thre fights he can get himself into but in the end he always wins. there is a bit where a womans face apears. this is introducing a love intrest which is a key compounate to a good film. but it don't tell you alot about her which is key to the ending of the film.casino royal

Holby city editing

Holby city <--------link) The scene starts with a close up on the leg of a boy in surgery. This shows what is going on in the scene. It then cuts to an establishing shot of the O.R. This is like a cut away but the other way round. It shows the detail then the room it is happening in. It then go’s to a long cut of one of the doctors telling the other what to do. It go’s to an eyeline match of what the doctor is looking at (the leg he's operating on) it then cuts to a close up of the other doctor being smug before panning to the operating doctor. I go’s to a shot/reverse shot of the to doctors talking. There is then a parallel edit of another patient. It a close up on her face as she’s being wheeled to the O.R. It then go’s to a long take edit of the person being wheeled from the back of the corridor to the O.R while dialog is going on. There is then an action match of the patient going through a set of door and coming out the other side. There is another action match of the boy back in surgery. There is a quick establishing shot then more shot/reverse shots of the two doctors talking to each other using over shoulder shots. There is then a cut away of a door that has opened in the back round. There is then a montage for doctors going into surgery and loved ones waiting out side, this has non-diergetic music edited on top of it. During this montage there is a cut away of a man tapping his fingers to a close up of his fingers and another one of a person in a room then opening a card.

editing

editing is hidden art form. but without it a film wouldn't make sence the make of a good editer is the fact that you cant see there work at all, the more hidden the edits are meens the better the film is. an editers job can be really hard. continuity is key. continuity is where the time streem is right in the film. eg a continuity error would be if two people were talking to each othe then suddenly in the next shot they had changed places or a more extreem example, the person in one shot is tall and skiny but in the next hes short and fat. when did that happen? continuity errors rip the audence out of a film. and its an editers job to make sure that that dosn't happen. another unseen part of an editers job is to make action parts actiony and slow parts slow. if you have a seen where two people are having a convosation then it brakes out into a big fight. at the first part the edits would be slow focusing on each person hows talking and maybe holding on peoples faces to show emotion but in the fight the edits would be points of a second apart and rushed around the room to show the chaos going on. if the editor didn't do this you would not be drawn into the film and get really board. a good example of this is a scene in rome where a man and a woman are talking then it gos to a synagogue where a fight brakes out. i will find a link soon.

the departed

The departed is a great film. The main theme is the concept of identity. There is a cop working for the bad guys and a bad guy working for the cops. It’s a very fast flowing plot which can be confusing at times but the confusingness works because you’re as confused as the characters he film so you feel more a part of it but it always makes sure the audience is one step ahead so that you can still enjoy the film. It’s set in a dark gloomy city which adds to the bad vibe of the characters. The camera use is very good in the film. When the cops rat meat with his team it’s a very wide angle shot, as if someone is watching from a distance. But there is one bit where the cop chiefs are having a meeting and the camera semi spins round them both which doesn’t work at all for the film and just drags you out of the viewing experience. Aside from this the director has done a very good job. The cop rat is on the verge of a brake down and to show this the director uses a lot of Dutch angles shots to show that the world is being flipped for him.