Friday, 30 September 2016
Monday, 26 September 2016
Film language editing
Last lesson we looked at editing in films and how they play a crucial part in the making of a film and what the purpose of editing is.
We looked at this scene from the Bourne Supremacy to help further our understanding of why editing plays such a crucial role in film making.
Editing is a crucial part of film language. It helps structure the film properly and makes the narrative easy to understand. It also helps links scenes and events together which makes it easy for the audience to follow and keep up with and understand what is going on in the film. Editing also makes it easy for the film to be put in chronological order making sure the film makes sense and is not just all jumbled up.
There are also many different types of edit cuts: change scene, compress time, vary points of time, montage which helps build up an image or idea for the audience. Cutting an action which shows a subject moving, cut away, cross cutting which will occur when switching locations, jump cut which shows the passing of time, matched cut which match action or composition, verbal matched cut, cutting rate which is how many cuts are in a scene, cutting rhythm and buffer/insert.
There is always a research for a cut, this makes sure that the scenes are always ordered together correctly and the film makes sense. The more research done means the film and the cuts will be better this also means that the transitions are less abrupt which are achieved with a fad, a dissolve or a wipe.
Editing transitions
Fade in and out
Dissolve
Iris
Wipe
Smash cut
Invisible cut
Combinations
Whip pan
Object entering
L-cut
J-cut
Editing is a crucial part of film language. It helps structure the film properly and makes the narrative easy to understand. It also helps links scenes and events together which makes it easy for the audience to follow and keep up with and understand what is going on in the film. Editing also makes it easy for the film to be put in chronological order making sure the film makes sense and is not just all jumbled up.
There are also many different types of edit cuts: change scene, compress time, vary points of time, montage which helps build up an image or idea for the audience. Cutting an action which shows a subject moving, cut away, cross cutting which will occur when switching locations, jump cut which shows the passing of time, matched cut which match action or composition, verbal matched cut, cutting rate which is how many cuts are in a scene, cutting rhythm and buffer/insert.
There is always a research for a cut, this makes sure that the scenes are always ordered together correctly and the film makes sense. The more research done means the film and the cuts will be better this also means that the transitions are less abrupt which are achieved with a fad, a dissolve or a wipe.
Editing transitions
Fade in and out
Dissolve
Iris
Wipe
Smash cut
Invisible cut
Combinations
Whip pan
Object entering
L-cut
J-cut
Friday, 16 September 2016
superman returns reviewing camera shots
Analysing superman returns
We used our knowledge of camera shots to study how the different types of positions of the camera changes the way we think about what's happening. In this clip we see Lois Lane's fiancé asks her how she feels about Superman, and she has trouble answering. We can tell the conversation is intense because of the way the camera goes from one angle to another in a short space of time. the camera goes from us seeing superman looking into the house straight to the woman's face, this lets us know that the conversation is serious.
We used our knowledge of camera shots to study how the different types of positions of the camera changes the way we think about what's happening. In this clip we see Lois Lane's fiancé asks her how she feels about Superman, and she has trouble answering. We can tell the conversation is intense because of the way the camera goes from one angle to another in a short space of time. the camera goes from us seeing superman looking into the house straight to the woman's face, this lets us know that the conversation is serious.
prime evil
https://vimeo.com/14838962
In this blog I will be reviewing a short clip from Primeval we watched in class. I will be looking at the characters, the relationships between them, the roles of them and how they are portrayed throughout the clip. I will be Mise-en-scene to help me identify these factors. Above is a link to the clip we watched.
Characters/costumes
There are a total of seven characters in the clip. There are five men and two females.
Men
The men are all in smart casual wear apart from 1, one of the men is wearing a suit, another a shirt and another is in just everyday clothes that he is prepared to get dirty, this may suggest that the men are predominantly the ones doing the dirty work in this scene. Four out of the five men are all portrayed as masculine men and people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty and do the dirty work, but there is also one man who comes across a more feminine male who is happy to just watch over the others work and doesn't like doing the dirty work. We can see this as he is wearing a hat and fingerless clothes, this portrays he cares more about his looks rather than doing any dirty work. It also follows the stereotypes of a gay man. He is also seen looking on to the other men doing the work. The 'gay' man is also seen picking up a shovel where as the other men are seen picking up a gun which is seen as a more manly weapon. The other men also come across as superior and more physically strong this is portrayed later in the scene as we see the men holding a gun which come across as strong, manly weapons.
Women
There are two women in the clip. one of the women is dressed in a revealing dress, this portrays the women are there to look good and watch the men do the work. Although to counter this one of the females is in not so revealing clothes but rather in everyday clothes she is not afraid to get dirty. this suggests the women are not only there to look good for the men but are instead actually there to help the men and do their own thing and do the dirty work. The woman in the more revealing and classy clothes is straight away portrayed as a weak character where as the woman in the more scruffy clothes is portrayed as being stronger and more hands on, this is because she is shown as helping one of the men catch the sabre-toothed tiger.
In this blog I will be reviewing a short clip from Primeval we watched in class. I will be looking at the characters, the relationships between them, the roles of them and how they are portrayed throughout the clip. I will be Mise-en-scene to help me identify these factors. Above is a link to the clip we watched.
Characters/costumes
There are a total of seven characters in the clip. There are five men and two females.
Men
The men are all in smart casual wear apart from 1, one of the men is wearing a suit, another a shirt and another is in just everyday clothes that he is prepared to get dirty, this may suggest that the men are predominantly the ones doing the dirty work in this scene. Four out of the five men are all portrayed as masculine men and people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty and do the dirty work, but there is also one man who comes across a more feminine male who is happy to just watch over the others work and doesn't like doing the dirty work. We can see this as he is wearing a hat and fingerless clothes, this portrays he cares more about his looks rather than doing any dirty work. It also follows the stereotypes of a gay man. He is also seen looking on to the other men doing the work. The 'gay' man is also seen picking up a shovel where as the other men are seen picking up a gun which is seen as a more manly weapon. The other men also come across as superior and more physically strong this is portrayed later in the scene as we see the men holding a gun which come across as strong, manly weapons.
Women
There are two women in the clip. one of the women is dressed in a revealing dress, this portrays the women are there to look good and watch the men do the work. Although to counter this one of the females is in not so revealing clothes but rather in everyday clothes she is not afraid to get dirty. this suggests the women are not only there to look good for the men but are instead actually there to help the men and do their own thing and do the dirty work. The woman in the more revealing and classy clothes is straight away portrayed as a weak character where as the woman in the more scruffy clothes is portrayed as being stronger and more hands on, this is because she is shown as helping one of the men catch the sabre-toothed tiger.
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
American Gangsta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UHhpF86S8
Above is the link to the opening scene of American gangsta. In this blog I will be reviewing the relationships of the characters, the location and the characters themselves. I will be summarizing what I have learnt from the opening couple of minutes of the clip.
In the clip there are 2 African American males who look to be in charge of the torturing the man, there is also another unknown man who is watching over the men torturing and pouring petrol over the whiter foreign man.
Costumes
The man standing in the back, watching on is in a hat and very dark, mysterious clothes. this is to represent his power and the fact that he does not need to carry out any of dirty work. The wearing of the hat also symbolises his importance early on in the film.
The man being tortured is wearing very basic clothes, nothing that stands out. this portrays the irrelevance of this man and how the men killing him don't care who he is.
The two men who carry out the torturing and murder of the man are not in very smart clothes that stand out but at the same time are not in scruffy clothes, this represents that they are the middle men who carry out the dirty work for the man in the mysterious clothes.
Location
At the start of the video there are many suggestions that the film is set in America, for example, the sounds of the American police sirens and the steam coming up from the vents which is a very American thing to happen, particularly in New York. The streets are very deserted but there are plenty of well developed buildings in the surrounding areas, this helps us understand that the film is set in a well developed location.
Relationships
This opening scene clearly shows us the relationships from early in the film. we see the 'boss' stood at the back doing nothing and just watching over the two people who are lower down the ranking than him. there is a clear 2nd in command as well. this is the person who lights a cigar and then throws the flames over the man on the chair and eventually shoots him dead.
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