Typical location
males room, females room then restaurant/bar.
Typical characters
man and women played by teenagers.
Typical mise en scene
props; wine glass, dressing table, mirror, chairs, whiskey glass, cigar, cigarette holder, ashtray, feather bower.
Costume; suit, lingerie, feather bower, heels, shiny shoes, mustache, makeup.
setting; from the separate bedrooms to the restaurant.
lighting; naturalistic in the bedrooms, dark lighting with red hints reflecting love and danger.
shot types; medium close ups, close ups, shot reverse shot, match on action, panning, zoom in.
Typical narratives
Two people are set up on a date, not knowing they are both in for killing each other. The audience will know the two characters aim as the props will be shown; gun and poison.
Typical media language
naturalistic lighting, match on action shot, shot reverse shot, 180 degree shot, We want it black and white in the bedrooms. music will be played through out the sequence with no dialogue.
Typical ideologies
hidden personalities. secrets.
Daniella Worth and Natalie Goode
Friday, 28 January 2011
Feedback 28.1.11
Girls, I need to check your prelim task before you post it. Whilst I said you could be creative with this brief as long as you demonstrated the key techniques, I do hope you have not been offensive! The clips you intend to analyse must be embeddedinto the blog, not just lnks so please see Mike to sort them out. Also, you need a post outlining the expected conventions of opening sequences and another giving detail on rom com. You must discuss the expected codes of the genre in terms of locations and settings, characters, plot or storylines, iconogrpahy etc. Please see me if you need further help with this - look back to your induction book at the tasks we completed on genre conventions.
Please also bok some workshop time for next wek with Mike or Nikki if you haven't yet done so.
Mrs A
Please also bok some workshop time for next wek with Mike or Nikki if you haven't yet done so.
Mrs A
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Evaluation of Preliminary Task
For our preliminary task we have decided to call it 'BROMANCE' which was about three gay friends and two of them became lovers. And these characters were played by Charlie, Reece and Joe. We came up with it whilst going along with the filming and decided to use it to make it different, fun and individual. We made sure it was in black and white to add a more professional affect to the piece. Firstly, for our shots we used the 180 degree rule for the part where Charlie and Reece are walking into the building whilst having a conversation. With this shot, we swapped to each side so we got a clear shot of each of them when either one or the other was talking. The second shot we used was the match on action shot and this was for when Charlie was walking into the room and opening the door. We zoomed in on his hand opening the handle to add tension to the scene, therefore the audience would have apprehension on what was going to happen. Lastly, we made sure a number of shot reverse shot was involved whilst Reece and Joe were having a conversation about their relationship. We did this so the audience would get a deep feel into their conversation by this effect of seeing one character talking to another but by seeing the person who is listening, the back of their head. It was set in a normal college classroom and dressed casually. In the background was tables and chairs, things you would normally find in a classroom.
What we learnt?
We learnt that when using handheld, we needed to take our time so the the shot wasn't out of control, along with the zooming in. We had to edit one of our clips to make the match on actions shot look more accurate as the original wasn't on line with the handle of the door. We learnt that using different levels of the tripod gives more effect on the 'bigger' person when we did the shot reverse shot.
Natalie and Daniella.
What we learnt?
We learnt that when using handheld, we needed to take our time so the the shot wasn't out of control, along with the zooming in. We had to edit one of our clips to make the match on actions shot look more accurate as the original wasn't on line with the handle of the door. We learnt that using different levels of the tripod gives more effect on the 'bigger' person when we did the shot reverse shot.
Natalie and Daniella.
Monday, 24 January 2011
Ideas
- The genre is a 'hybrid' as we have two genres which we have chosen to be action and romance.
- The target audience is going to be 18 and over.
- Our setting for the sequence is going to be '1920's'
- To show off our idea of it being in 1920's, we are going to have it in the colour of black and white to show that it is not nowadays but old.
- By this we are hopefully going to make the movie look very professional and not cheap!
- Our costume will reflect on our setting to explain how it is in the 1920's, with things that they would wear such as for women, elegant dresses with sexy lingerie and for men, a basic suit and tie.
Natalie Goode.
- The target audience is going to be 18 and over.
- Our setting for the sequence is going to be '1920's'
- To show off our idea of it being in 1920's, we are going to have it in the colour of black and white to show that it is not nowadays but old.
- By this we are hopefully going to make the movie look very professional and not cheap!
- Our costume will reflect on our setting to explain how it is in the 1920's, with things that they would wear such as for women, elegant dresses with sexy lingerie and for men, a basic suit and tie.
Natalie Goode.
The Conventions of Action/Romance
With our opening sequence, we want the audience to feel excited as we want our piece to be totally different from things nowadays. But mainly from the very beginning we want them to have apprehension of what is going to happen. We have used the idea of it being quite silent throughout to make them feel this, as this is what most 1920 films were like and this will also add the tension to our opening sequence. Adding tension to the beginning of a film will help the audience to want to carry on watching.
Natalie Goode.
Natalie Goode.
The conventions of Action/Romance
We want the audience to feel the impact of the film, apprehensive about the girl with the gun, man with the poison. The actors will be on a date in the opening sequence, the audience will be shocked and then want to see what will happen because of the contrast between the two protagonists. The characters will have a split personality which will make the audience intrigued. The sequence will be sinister yet look interesting because the genre is modern. We want the film to have suspense and tension. As the film will show the two lives the characters have it will NOT set the location but give the audience an idea of what will happen in the film. The audio/ music will set the mood and reveal the genre, limited. The slow paced editing will establish the genre also.
Daniella Worth
Daniella Worth
My Ideas
We have looked at scenes from 1920's action films.
We decided the genre will be action/romance.
The target audience will be 18+.
The opening sequence will be sepia tone or black and white.
We want people to be drawn to the sequence and spend money to go and see it.
We want the film to look like a hollywood high budget film.
Costume will be typical 1920's outfits,women- sexy lingerie. men-suit and tie.
Daniella Worth
We decided the genre will be action/romance.
The target audience will be 18+.
The opening sequence will be sepia tone or black and white.
We want people to be drawn to the sequence and spend money to go and see it.
We want the film to look like a hollywood high budget film.
Costume will be typical 1920's outfits,women- sexy lingerie. men-suit and tie.
Daniella Worth
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)