Wednesday, 2 March 2016

voiceover script

ugh *choking

you dont care

*wheezing

well heres the point

she betrayed ronan

he's coming back for her

*wheezing in the background of..

and when he does

thats when you

Why would i put my finger on his throat

what?

this is a symbol, this is a symbol for you slicing his throat

i wouldnt slice his throat i would cut his head clean off

its a general expression for you killing somebody

youve heard of this youve seen this right, you know what that is

yah yah (cowardly)

everyone knows

no no

sound track through out is humming suggesting the vents.


Thursday, 11 February 2016

Assignment

The god father
sound effect
emotional realism which is a technique which uses sound to build up the thought process so that the audience would be able to understand what the character is thinking without the use of functional dialogue. An example of this begins within 3:38 where the sound effect of a train which symbolises him getting himself ready to kill the two people he's with to carry out his families decisions, the effect then gradually build up in volume until it surrounds the scene till it becomes a main priority of the technique within the audience's perspective. Which then link to Hyper-real which is using sound which exaggerates and provide a huge impact into the scene to make it seem realistic. A example within the related clip of 'The Godfather' would be within 4:27 second in the video clip which suggest that the scene would use hyper real sound effects such as the train effect increasing in volume within the background to represent how the character within the toilet scene is readying himself to kill the two men within the other room which help develop the tension and support the audience to know what happening and sympathise with the character and his future action which would link towards emotional realism techniques through telling the audience the build up of the next future scene without using dialogue and prop within the scene.

This would also link to the beach scene within the film 'Saving Private Ryan' where they consistently use is same music within the sound bed which blends in within multiple scenes throughout the scenario, which suggest the use of a sound bridge which is using music or sound effects to link scenes and clips together. This links in with 'The GodFather' by using sound to have a huge impact within the scene through using the music to represent the soldiers feelings and symbolising their lives flashing before eyes to present the scenario and the atmosphere of the battlefield. This is suggested throughout the clips where it uses impactful music to suggest both despair on the battlefield and show that the solider are loosing hope by the slow and tense music to support the audience to lead up to that idea.



Shawshank Redemption
The music which is suggested to contribute to a score which is a term to describe a films soundtrack which is composed by one person who's name for this particular score would be Thomas Newman. The use of music present on it's own a warm and influential mood and tone towards the related clip within the movie 'Shaw shank Redemption', through it's use of non-diegetic and establishing sound factor which is basically a use of sound which is edited in after to apply effects which the characters within the movie can't hear due to being only used for the purpose of supporting the audience to keep up-to-date with the situation within the scene without ruining the moment through using either hyper realistic. functional dialogue or synchronous techniques which is basically use of sound which can be seen produced by a object or character within the scene. Which then links to non-synchronous which is sound that is produced outside the clip to get a feel to the surrounding and allow the audience to predict the scene within the next clip of the film. A example of using established sound would be within 3:30 seconds in where the two main characters finding each other again after they both got out of prison and reaching the point of the scene where they meet within a beach and from a mid shot gradually becomes a establishing shot with the help of using the establishing sound which gradually uses a fading effect within the sound where it reduces the volume which harmonises with the use of zooming out of the scene, this would suggest to the audience relief that the two character finally found each other outside of the prison walls.



Guardians of the Galaxy uses non-diegectic and emotional realism wit their use of music so that it portrays the character of Peter Quill's mum from the beginning scene's which showed how she was very important to him and the key aspect of their relationship was through listening to her favourite music but then died but gave him a present, this suggest towards the audience that every time we hear the music within both diegetic from when in his ship show the music being played from his stereo. But mostly non- diegetic techniques which is more edited into the specified clips to make a effect within the atmosphere and present the emotion within the scene to amplify what the characters thinking which then links to the technique emotional realism. This is suggested the clip when Peter Quill and Gamora are alone within 1:49 to 2:26 where they use diegetic technique to create the mood to the scene to support the audience to know whats happening within the scene. The music symbolises how important his mother was to him but also the time when he was taken into the outside of earths atmosphere and then link the music throughout the film to suggest how they use the music. This links to Shawshank Redemption by how they used sound within the background of the scene however using non- diegetic sound to support the audience to know the film has a positive outcome to the two prison friends meet together on a beach to start a new life which link also to emotional realism.

Monday, 8 February 2016

Glossary

Emotional Realism- music which buildup the scene in the characters thoughts and mind process.

synchronous- sound effects which could be seen produced in the scene
non-synchronous- sound which is produced outside and can't be seen within the clip

hyper real- sound which exaggerate and provides a impact to the audience to make it seem realistic

foley- sound which has been produced hand made sound effect

sound bridge- sound that connects two scene's together

anti-naturalistic

naturalistic

funtional dialogue- spoken sound which describe whats happening in the scene by the characters communicating with each other

diegetic- music which is produced by a object within the scene.

non-digetic- music within the editing soundtrack

score- a composer who has produced all the soundtracks in the film

establishing sound- sound that describes the setting of the scene

Monday, 25 January 2016

Evaluation

Within the production the individual roles everyone had to take to participate in the process of producing the short film which mainly were Chris Backway as the director due to having his short film being chosen between the various synopsis's and planning, Tom Clarke as prop and location manager who allocated and got approval for any land that we scheduled to shot the clips. Daisy DaSilva who was one of the co-prop manager and extra which helped out with props with tom but also make sure have either another actor or background characters within specific scenes and finally my role was the camera man plus camera schedule such as storyboards and decide what camera angles. The production stages of the short film were structured as pre-production using treatments, draft storyboards, proposing to the producer the film idea and location and risk assessment. The shooting period where we had production schedule and production diary throughout my shooting production. Finally, after collecting all the clips which we shot I converted towards the editing phase of the production where I did various editing techniques which were mainly influence by Edgar Wright. Some of my creative decisions were inspired by scenes such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and The amazing spider man 2 graveyard scenes where the shot revolve around the actors to show sympathy towards the characters from the audiences view. However, it was mostly Edgar Wright who influenced most of the fast pans and clips which present either a long journey or long scene to keep the audiences thought on the movie with the storyline. An example of this would be 1:44 to 2:03 where main character is searching for information and location of his brother, which suggest a long journey with various camera shots such as mid, long and close up shots to present different surroundings, but also the use of short clips to shorten the clips and view the audience would need to see for the journey to keep relevant to the time and overall story line and keep the audience still interested.

The genre convention is a mixture of drama which is presented in the film through a family based storyline which natural present a dramatic background to the film, with mystery which is presented through the use of sound journey the character went through in the film. This aspect was inspired by the movie 'the usual suspects' due to the complex thinking through who is the person the main character in our short film is trying to find and what happened to him in the end. 

The narrative structures of the film is that it's a single strand due to only having one main story so that the audience don't get confused on where their focus should be due to this film is based as a fast pace and strong imagery so they don't miss out on any crucial information.  

Within the technical methods I was trying to recreate Edgar Wright's techniques of using small camera clips within journey's to suggest the length however only reveal to the audience the most relevant aspect of the scene to still keep them interest. A example of this would be 1:40 to 2:06 where he's running around the area to find and discover where his brother has been and where he can find him which then gradually leave him to where he start at the very beginning. The camera angles I used to portray different scenes and aspect of the storyline were long and established shots on where the Sanderstead church is first shown so the audience isn;t just placed in some random location, I wanted them to start naturally by presenting the area before we get into the meeting the main character and his objective. I also used mid shots as my main use of presenting the story so that it keep the focus less on the scenery and a object but more on the journey such as the scene where he sit down in his house and finds the crease on the photo which then present another character in the movie who become the characters objective, this allowed the audience to focus and try to figure out what he has discovered which is so important to him which allows them to embrace the mysterious factor of the stories genre. This then allows me to link to the use of close ups and extreme close up's on key object of the story such as the group of clip which show the process of the main character trying to discover who the person in the photo of him and his mum could be which through the use of mis-en-scene of him writing suggestion of who it could be on the paper to suggestion what is happening in his mind and presenting the information to the audience in written form. The variety of movement I presented within the stories running and searching clips were the use of panning and tracking shots, this is clearly present when the main character is searching the area for any information on the figure in the photo which was revealed to be the brother, the tracker shots were a mixture of individual tracking shots edited into one scenario to suggest different environments to present a longer journey. The use of lighting was suppose to be grey and gloomy which would suggest mystery and present a sympathetic atmosphere from the audience's point of view. The use of sound was the main feature and impact of the movie which gave it the name 'The Way' which was produced by Mark Hemsey, I used the music to suggest both some cuts to the beat so that both imagery and use of sound would harmonise with each other. A example of cut to the beat would be 7-9 seconds in the beginning of the film from switching between a acknowledging the location of the scene and starting scenario to identifying who the main character is for the audience but also who the main focus the audience will have to familiarise themselves with. The use of mis-en scene within the film are mainly based on the scenes where he's researching and discovering things about his suppose to be brother. A example of this would be 1:24 to 1:42 within the thinking out loud scene where he rights whatever he's thinking to provide information to the audience to keep them up to date on what going on without the use of dialogue, there also some scene which use mis-en-scene to present who gravestone they represent within the start and the end through flashing a image of a photo of the person.

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

final group planning diary

Within this project at  the moment I've been mainly producing the production story board which include the camera techniques used in each scene however not yet processed the audio to make it a choice what the others want within editing the scene and producing the sound file. Within the group discussion we decided to organise a day off college within the 15th or 14th December. 17th December -Due to issues we will be doing shooting within the holidays and edit after holiday. We did a few clips of the boy trying to find his brothers location through a variety of camera shot within the Coulsdon area. 6th January- we'll be collecting all the shot we have at the moment however, within the process of editing we'll be getting more clip as backup shots. 22nd January I'm within the process of finalising and editing so it will meet the deadline of Thursday 28th January. 25th January I'm only tweaking some of the clip to improve visual support towards the audience to make it more symbolic.

Monday, 9 November 2015

Initial idea for film production

Genre would be a combination of action but also comedy to have a balance to fun mixed in with the fast pace benefits within the action side of the genre. I would also apply some drama into the mix so that the audience can see some of the characters lives within the background scenes of the main factor of the film.

The draft title Diego- The Skittles of Gods. This title represent the main character being outside the normal world living in the world in terms of hunt or be hunted by the government but also from his story before he became this obstacle the government are setting their dog to after. This also present mysterious effect with just the few word to apply tension into the audiences hearts.

The brief summary of the film would be a man named Diego Noches who is being hunted by the government to stealing top secret skittles which have special properties which if it is in the wrong has stop the whole world from tasting the rainbow forever. Diego must stash the skittles into a special organisation called STD(skittle's tank of dominance) to secure the special skittle from the government but also the world. He will also gain the knowledge of his past life where he had a wife and gradually gets his memories back the time before he was forgotten from the memories of the outside world.

The opening of the film would be a close up of the skittles in Diego's hand then pan to his face and start starring back like he's being chased which would then which to a side camera view of him running tree's around the forest and within the background would be sound effects of gun shot a shouting which present to the audience that he's being chased. Which this whole scene would be he future which then flash back into the presents diego in a government facility trying to steal information from the government which his clients payed for about their big organisation which then leads up to a man running from men with guns then get shot in the butt which then gives the information to the audience from a rogue government associate who tells him everything will run into chaos if you don't take these skittles to the STD.

The ending would present a open ending to apply imagination into the audiences within the end it gets to the scene of Diego running in the forest from the government and suddenly gets pushed into a rock by a mysterious character who reveals themselves as Diego's life from his past life. This presents suspense and causes Diego to react and present a flash back of how he hated his wife Benita and remembers what he wanted to to tell her before he left her within his past life which then led to her ranting about what has he been doing all this time and how she loves him. But then the conclusion was Diego responding to her love by saying awkwardly 'I want a Divorce'. Which then weaken her which lead him to grab the skittles and run to the organisation which the film then ends in him waiting at the checkpoint that they place to add suspense.

This will be a single strand narrative however could also be a multi strand since it gains the story of both the present story but also the story of diego's past to learn about our main character who the audience were randomly pushed onto focus and clear there heads.