SHANGHAI NOON

Genre: Comedy/Action/Western

Mise en scene:

Sound: Birds tweeting (time of day, sense of place)
Sound of weapons- suspense, anticipation
Music- Western, fast paced

Props: Horses, guns, clothing, hats, knife- enhanced the comedy elements (clumsiness) also setting the scene

Setting: Country- landscape, paddock, lake, timber, shack- enhances the serenity and creates contrast

Lighting: Natural, sunny, warm

Acting: Stupid cowboys, not the usual cowboys (comedy)
Comedy dialogue, body language- playful, relaxed



Editing:

Cuts, rhythm slow to fast when playing with weapons
Shot types- over the shoulder, wide, long, low

Genre

Genre

- is from the Greek word genos

- is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other form of art or utterance (when people talk or utter)

Aliens

Genre- Science Fiction

It makes it Sci Fi with the mysterious lighting, dark and misty and scary and luminous, not knowing what's going to happen. Intense music and creaking of the ground. Props are different and alien like, sort of unknown and different to what humans are use too.

The silence of him walking around

The music sort of imitating his heart

Very scary and you don't know what's around the corner, because it's all black

Emotional/ audience response: stupid, empathize, frustrated

Main character: stupid, silly, naive, absent minded, weak, lost

Miss en scene:

Lightning: dark, gloomy, cold, dull, damp (contributes to being lost), shadows to create the unknown, mystery,

Acting: little dialogue, slow/short movement, unsure, shaky, tense of muscles ( sense of fear, sorry for his situation)

Props: machinery (mysterious, sense of unknown), long chains (evil lurking), hat that created shadows (he can't see what's going on, vulnerable), cat (very significant, can see at night, smarter than the human)

Sound: heartbeat, sharp, psycho music, creaking, running water, alien screeching, loud echoing, growl, chains rattling, dripping, breathing

Setting: old lab, strange, mechanical place, unknown location, don't really know where he is creepy, unclean

Notes on film 1/02/11

Wide shot- use to show the scene
Medium shot- to give you an idea of their personality
Close up- facial expression
Extreme close up-
Low angle- on the ground, power for the character
High angle- opposite of low angle, makes the character look inferior and the audience feel power













The shot type- This shot is a low angle, over the shoulder.
The angle of the shot- Low angle
The intention of the shot?- to show that the Queen has power over the frog and that she is superior to him
Describe in detail the visual clues or conventions used to convey meaning- The visual clues seen in this shot to convey the message ranges from the makeup to the shot angle and type. The make-up gives a visual clue by showing us her power with the strong blue and the red hair. It draws attention to her, rather that the frog in front of her. Also, the frog is smaller that her to also show the queens power. We feel empathy to the frog.


The shot type- low angle, wide shot
The angle of the shot- low angle
The intention of the shot?- to show what he is doing and why he is up there. To show the window above him. To show how he is almost boxed in and can't get out. To show the height of the files and how he is high up. To create suspense
Describe in detail the visual clues or conventions used to convey meaning- The dull colors suggest he is in a depressing or bad place, where he doesn't want to be and the lab coat says he is in a hospital or lab or mental institution.
Loose talk is noose talk suggests he is crazy.


The shot type- medium shot type
The angle of the shot- close up
Intention of the shot- to show his emotion and to show his face and eyes. To be excited with him and happy as he is.
Visual Clues- It shows he is a happy man because the background is dull and dark but he's face is shining and happy and his clothing and make-up is bright and makes you happy. To show he is a happy man. To show he is mad, because of the gapped tooth, wonky eye and the crazy hair etc
To show he is also a good guy because he is bright compared to the dark scene behind him.
The shot type- High angle, over the shoulder shot
Angle of the shot- High angle, over the shoulder
Intention of the shot- To show how Alice is small and doesn't have any power. How the Chesher cat has more power over her or more knowledge in this case
Visual Clues- Very dull background and Alice stands out, but not by much. She blends in and doesn't have that much power or knowledge right now.

Notes on 28/01/11

What does reading a film mean:
- analyzing how images and sound are used to tell a story.
- understanding how codes, conventions and stylistic devices create viewer responses.
- consciously identifying our unconscious responses.

Cinema is a visual art form. Cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.

















Edit:
- An edit is a break in the film where one shot ends and the next shot begins.
- The four common types of edit are:

• Cuts
• Dissolves
• Fades
• Wipes (occasionally)

Way of film for my film: Introduce the characters (close up) Introduce the context (pan out) To empathize with the character (looking down)



A scene:
- A scene is a collection of shots, arranged through editing, into a specific order. (usually 2 or 3 minutes)

• When reading film it is common to analyze individual scenes rather than specific shots
• A scene with two characters having a conversation would likely consist of fewer shots than a fast paced car chase
  

Go on blackboard and find The Shot Type.


FILM LANGUAGE:
elements used to elicit an emotional response in the audience

















Cinematography- The way the film is used eg a Dolley
Sound- Very important, helps the viewer see what is happening in a scene


MISE EN SCENE: put in scene
This is the combination of all the visual elements within the frame (frame: the physical boundary that contains what the audience sees)
PROPS- visual symbols that makes us see what is going on with the film and scene

Today, we learnt a lot about the actual shooting of a film and the way that the movie is edited it a specific way to what the director wants the viewer to feel. Filming has a lot to do with the emotions that the director wants to portray.

CREATIVE MEDIA YEAR 10

Here is some information that's going to go onto my website:

The making of You Belong With Me….

In this dramatic love story, a girl sets out to be with the love of her life. The making of this great movie was a long but quite fun journey. There were a few hundred bloopers, which were extremely funny at the time. For example, the main protagonist in the story was about to walk towards her love in a dramatic scene and it was the last day of shooting. We were all very tired and excited to get home, then her leg gets stuck to the ground and comes off! It was a very funny time and woke most of us up. An hour later, we were ready to shoot again.
This movie is for all those teenage girls and guys out there that have trouble with love. The movies out there based on love right now end with a happy ending,, and although that is so sweet and cute, its not always accurate. What about those times when you don’t get the boy or girl in the end? Because that does happen, and quite a lot. This is what the video is based on, real life.



Trailer:

A girl sets out to be with the love of her life. Getting into a few bumps along the path of true love, does she end up finding him? Will he love her back? In this epic love story, with “a truth in it no other director could capture, with a shocking twist at the end, who could miss this blockbuster?” said by Rolling Stones Magazine, you better get your tickets fast. Out in cinemas on the 17th of July 2011.

Blue Man: He has starred in films such as, ‘Is that the big blob?’ and ‘Bluey: A documentary of the man behind the clay”. He has recently become famous how his great looks, so the director believed he was perfect for the part. The New York Times call him “an inspiration to all those actors out there doing second class, you can make it.”

Red Girl: Red girl has been a famour actor among crowds for a while now. Starring in the famous, “Dirty Playdohing” when she was only 10 and “The Boy in the Striped Play doh”, she was automatically a hit by the time this movie came out. The director wanted her in the movie because of the ‘vibe she gives off, as she just gets into any character asked of her, as if she’d played it for her whole life’.

White Girl: She was the enemy of the play, and with the actress Nicole Dohman playing the evil girlfriend; everyone knew that the movie was going to be big. “She played her perfectly, giving her famous stuck-up looks and her stances” said by Steven Spielberg.

Information

This term, we are creating a website for our movie we made in terms 2 and 3.
I would like my theme to be about love, and happiness, because thats the basis of this story.
I want to base it on this movie's website, Letters to Juilet. This is there website: http://www.letterstojuliet-movie.com/
I want to base it on this website because this movie is alike to my movie, 'You Belong With Me'.
I will do the theme cloud 9.
So far, i have done half of the website, but i need to add in the home navigation etc. I believe i will finish this before the due date.