Today we recorded the over voices for our film whilst still editing. At first me and Tiara went to record each others over voices in one of the music practice rooms, leaving Rachel and Yasmine to edit. At first we took a few takes and then went back to upload them but found that there was no sound, so then we went back again to re-record our voices, thought this time we didn't use the microphone and even pointed the camera to view our mouths as we talked so that we could make sure there was sound when there was supposed to. We also took this opportunity to improve our over voices, making sure each was quick enough to use in the short cut it would be used in. We then brought in Yasmine to also record her over voice of when she is hurt by the light. We uploaded the new cuts and we happy it worked, though it was found in the end we hadn't set up the boom mic properly. We then found good cuts and put them in.
Looking at the end which we had also watched with Ms Wong, we found we could really improved our ending with something simple. I managed to come up with the idea that maybe we could have a short scene of what happens when Yasmine's character Nightshadow wakes up, which could be a jail. So we thought of the idea of a jailer (Rachel) trying to wake Nightshadow up to interrrogate her, in which Nightshadow is still feeling weak and can't get a sense of her surroundings so she asks where she is, and the jailer replying the she's in jail. We then recorded this and uploaded and editted it as well. But at the end of that we realised something was wrong and that for some reason some of the clips were missing from the beggining and bits were repeated. Me and Tiara agreed on coming in after school one day and fixing this.
Today I was a communicator and a thinker, and I was being open-minded.
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Friday, 29 October 2010
29/10
Today me and Tiara stayed back after school to edit more of our film, but as we only had until 4 o'clock we couldn't do much more than upload the rest of our footage and edit a bit. When upload we watched the clips and worked out what clips we definatly did or didn't want. After the all the clips uploaded, we started to delete all the clips we knew we didn't want and had to re-watch some of the takes to decide which one would be best.
Today I think I was mainly a thinker.
Today I think I was mainly a thinker.
27/10
Reflection
Today we continued to upload and listen and watch our cuts and start to edit what parts of our film we had. Our whole group today learnt to use Final Cut Pro more and sometimes it was a close call between two cuts and we had to really think and be open-minded to each others opinions to ensure that no one feels left out and we come out with a film that our whole group likes. Also there were cuts that we definitely couldn't use but were having fun watching them as they uploaded. Also we were a lot more efficient today because we knew a lot more of how to edit the clips and cut them.
We also found some more cuts for some night scenes that came out too dark. So unfortunately we need to see if there is a way to lighten the footage and not have to find another way to film this again.
Today we were balanced, thinkers, open-minded, inquirers and knowledgeable.
Today we continued to upload and listen and watch our cuts and start to edit what parts of our film we had. Our whole group today learnt to use Final Cut Pro more and sometimes it was a close call between two cuts and we had to really think and be open-minded to each others opinions to ensure that no one feels left out and we come out with a film that our whole group likes. Also there were cuts that we definitely couldn't use but were having fun watching them as they uploaded. Also we were a lot more efficient today because we knew a lot more of how to edit the clips and cut them.
We also found some more cuts for some night scenes that came out too dark. So unfortunately we need to see if there is a way to lighten the footage and not have to find another way to film this again.
Today we were balanced, thinkers, open-minded, inquirers and knowledgeable.
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
25/10
Film Reflection
Today we learnt and managed to upload our film using final cut pro. We also learnt a few other things today such as what somethings meant on the camera (R:00:00 refers to the time left to the end of the tape) and i re-learnt where to plug in the cable into the camera to connect it to the computer. While we were uploading our takes we got a sense of which takes we liked and noted them down. It was hard to tell which takes were really the best as when we were uploading it we couldn't hear the sound and it was also hard to keep track of what take it was when we initially watched it, so we will have to watch our takes again to make sure our initially chosen scenes were really the best.
What we found out today what we needed to improve on when watching our film. Things we needed to improve on were things like camera steadiness and what looked better than others. Also when watching our film again we realised that one of our shots (all the takes) were too dark on on tape and needed to re-shoot it. Looking back to both when we were filming our shots and when we were uploading them we were having a good time while working on our film.
Today we were thinkers, open-minded and communicators when we shared our ideas and thoughts about our shots and we were balanced and reflective when watching them.
Today we learnt and managed to upload our film using final cut pro. We also learnt a few other things today such as what somethings meant on the camera (R:00:00 refers to the time left to the end of the tape) and i re-learnt where to plug in the cable into the camera to connect it to the computer. While we were uploading our takes we got a sense of which takes we liked and noted them down. It was hard to tell which takes were really the best as when we were uploading it we couldn't hear the sound and it was also hard to keep track of what take it was when we initially watched it, so we will have to watch our takes again to make sure our initially chosen scenes were really the best.
What we found out today what we needed to improve on when watching our film. Things we needed to improve on were things like camera steadiness and what looked better than others. Also when watching our film again we realised that one of our shots (all the takes) were too dark on on tape and needed to re-shoot it. Looking back to both when we were filming our shots and when we were uploading them we were having a good time while working on our film.
Today we were thinkers, open-minded and communicators when we shared our ideas and thoughts about our shots and we were balanced and reflective when watching them.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
8/10
After-school Filming Session: Causeway Bay
Today after school we went to go film in Causeway Bay. We decided to film our scenes in alleys around Causeway Bay, where it would have a lot of shadows and hopefully less crowded. Though despite filming in alleys, we found it difficult to film as there were still quite a lot of people, who would stop and stare at us, ruining a scene or getting in the way while filming. We had to be careful to also not get in the way of what other people were doing. We also had problems with lighting, as each scene took a long time to film with all our problems, the sun was setting. we had to switch locations for one short scene as we had location difficulty as we wanted to film at the balcony on the 13th floor of Times Square but the view was blocked lately by a wooden safety fence. So we had to just make do with what we had. A lot of time in filming today we had to improvise and get around the problems and technicalities.
So today we had to be principled, communicators, thinkers and defiantly open-minded.
Today after school we went to go film in Causeway Bay. We decided to film our scenes in alleys around Causeway Bay, where it would have a lot of shadows and hopefully less crowded. Though despite filming in alleys, we found it difficult to film as there were still quite a lot of people, who would stop and stare at us, ruining a scene or getting in the way while filming. We had to be careful to also not get in the way of what other people were doing. We also had problems with lighting, as each scene took a long time to film with all our problems, the sun was setting. we had to switch locations for one short scene as we had location difficulty as we wanted to film at the balcony on the 13th floor of Times Square but the view was blocked lately by a wooden safety fence. So we had to just make do with what we had. A lot of time in filming today we had to improvise and get around the problems and technicalities.
So today we had to be principled, communicators, thinkers and defiantly open-minded.
5/10
Today in class, we finished our shot list and started to work on the type of music we wanted with our music director, Amelia. We were open-minded with our ideas and each other, even thinking about like what sort of sounds we wanted and how we could do it.
After school we filmed our school scenes. We were able to use a classroom and round up enough students for extras and managed to find a teacher to act as our teacher in the film (Ms. Roldan). After that we went around asking the science department if we could use a science classroom at some time to use as for a section of our HQ scenes. After much trying we were fortunate to be allowed to use a science lab that was full of displays for the open night later that day. Though to use the science lab we had to be careful, and in exchange, the science lab and even the use of a lab coat and the lab glasses and even a high tech looking microscope.
After doing the class room and science lab scenes we did the last school scene which takes place at the playground. Though unfortunately with the weather we had to film with the rain. Protecting the camera from the rain and we had to get some pretty tricky angles in this scene. Though despite this our camera man, Rachel, managed to pull this of.
We had to do quite a lot of improvisation with extras and locations, and today we were thinkers, communicators, open-minded, principled and risk-takers.
After school we filmed our school scenes. We were able to use a classroom and round up enough students for extras and managed to find a teacher to act as our teacher in the film (Ms. Roldan). After that we went around asking the science department if we could use a science classroom at some time to use as for a section of our HQ scenes. After much trying we were fortunate to be allowed to use a science lab that was full of displays for the open night later that day. Though to use the science lab we had to be careful, and in exchange, the science lab and even the use of a lab coat and the lab glasses and even a high tech looking microscope.
After doing the class room and science lab scenes we did the last school scene which takes place at the playground. Though unfortunately with the weather we had to film with the rain. Protecting the camera from the rain and we had to get some pretty tricky angles in this scene. Though despite this our camera man, Rachel, managed to pull this of.
We had to do quite a lot of improvisation with extras and locations, and today we were thinkers, communicators, open-minded, principled and risk-takers.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
30/9
Today we did the touch ups for our storyboard and started on our Film shot list. Something that I learnt today was that for the film shot list you don't need to write down all of the audio, but just refer to the section to the script. We managed to do quite a bit of the shot list today and had enough to start a bit of filming.
After school we went to Tiara's place to film some scenes. We came across some problems on our way such as having to take tons of shots as we forgot our lines, or started to laugh and we had started filming before we were ready, also it started raining so we could only film the indoor scenes. But the biggest problem and mistake of all was when the battery ran out and we had forgotten to get a spare battery as we didn't know at the time we could take out or need a spare battery. So unfortunatly we were left with about one really good take and in trying to get more cuts done the battery ran so low we couldn't get the tape to come out.
After school we went to Tiara's place to film some scenes. We came across some problems on our way such as having to take tons of shots as we forgot our lines, or started to laugh and we had started filming before we were ready, also it started raining so we could only film the indoor scenes. But the biggest problem and mistake of all was when the battery ran out and we had forgotten to get a spare battery as we didn't know at the time we could take out or need a spare battery. So unfortunatly we were left with about one really good take and in trying to get more cuts done the battery ran so low we couldn't get the tape to come out.
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Film Analysis- Forrest Gump
When the movie first starts you see what seems to be a pure white feather gently start to float down from a dark grey sky which is raining. The feather gives you a very bittersweet feeling, some sort of innocent and sweet feeling mixed with a bit of sadness. The way that the feather does this is innocence is often related to pureness, which in turn is usually portrayed as pure white. And the light and gentleness of the feather makes you think of a gentle soul, which wouldn’t harm anyone, and has little darkness in the heart. The dark grey sky, which usually gives off a sad effect, and gives of a feeling like you, the audience should be mourning for something sad that has happened, adds to the bittersweet feeling of the feather. The rain too, gives off a sad feeling and piles on to all that.
When you first see the feather, you notice that it’s being pushed and tossed from side to side by the wind. The way the wind seems harsh sounding and how it seems to knock the feather this way and that way, sort of knocking the feather off course. The way that the wind does this to the pure white feather, make you think of an innocent being tossed and turned on life’s course, or a gentle person in the middle of a bustling street of inconsiderate people who don’t give a second thought before pushing and shoving someone. Going back to the grey sky, it makes you feel like the feather is an innocent life, which is filled by sadness.
Also the way that they start off with a pure white feather in the middle of nothing but grey sky makes you concentrate on the feather. And as the camera tracks the feather, you feel you are right there, watching the feather fall as it descends or floats up a bit, sometimes getting close to you and then floating away, increasing your curiosity in the feather. But as the feather floats down and the camera goes into a birds eye, your curiosity for the feather grows, but you start to notice what seems to be a little suburban town as well.
As the feather descends, the sky starts to turn to a light greyish blue, the wind dies down, and the raining stops making the feather float more gently down. The way it does this, makes you think of that innocent life you thought of before, not just filled with sadness, but hope and a little happiness too.
Through all this the background music helps to emphasize every little notion and action towards the feather. The music starts off bittersweet like the scene and gets more high pitched as the feather goes up and but slowly becomes more plainly sweet and happy. Though on the whole the music sounds slightly romantic, so the beginning maybe hinting at it being a part romantic film.
Slowly as the camera tracks the feather, you get this wide view of the town, and the feather heads towards a street, and you start to get the notion that the feather really does relate to the soul and life of some person. From this you get the feeling that the feather’s course down is probably similar to Forrest Gump’s life, which we may assume because that is the name of the movie.
On the feather’s descent, the feather comes to briefly resting on a busy man’s shoulder. What this may represent is hope touching down on this man, in which could be the way Forrest Gump leads his life, occasionally putting a bit of hope and happiness into the people that he meets.
The feather then finally comes to fully rest against the dirty shoe of a man sitting on a bench. The camera too finally rests its view on the feather and the shoe in a Dutch shot, after it had slowly been zooming in. The way that the camera had been tracking the feather and how the gaze rested on the man’s shoes makes you feel like you had been following the feather yourself, and had stopped when you noticed it on another person’s shoes. Your attention switches like it would have if you were really following the feather, and you now start to forget a bit more of the feather and concentrate on the man. Despite the contrast you get a pretty clear message that the feather is connected to the man and he’s probably Forrest Gump. In this case the feather seems to represent a pretty pure soul, and the shoes represent the physical hardship the man had to overcome.
When the picks up the feather you can now see that it isn’t pure white, but has grey lines on it like repeated arrows, as if to indicate to keep going forwards. It also symbolizes that the feather is not perfectly pure white, and neither is the soul in which it represents. The man then takes out a children’s book and places the feather inside. The book can give clue to the man. It hints that he is either waiting for a child, the book is very sentimental to him or he is very childlike which relates to the innocent feeling, as innocence is usually found in children.
As the bus arrives a nurse gets off the bus and sits down on the bench near the man. Despite her opening her magazine and show no signs of wanting to have a conversation, the man promptly introduces himself as Forrest Gump and offers her a chocolate, in which the nurse hardly looks up and says nothing, but Forrest just continues to talk as if he hadn’t noticed. This shows that Forrest Gump is very straight forward and friendly to even strangers. His accent and the way he speaks indicates that he may have a bit of trouble physically saying what he thinks and shows he may be a little mentally slow. But the way he talks also makes you think he speaks honestly and truthfully, but also hardly ever talks badly about anything. He then talks about how his mama told him “life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” From this you can relate back to the feather in the wind and how it often moved unpredictably. Also Forrest refers to another saying by his mother “there’s an awful lot you can tell ‘bout the person by their shoes; where they’re going, where they been.’ From this we can tell that the directors purposefully made Forrest’s shoes dirty to show that he has led a hard life and confirms what we thought about him having physical, and maybe mental hardship too.
So from analyzing the first five minutes of the film we can already tell who is Forrest Gump; the type of life he led, and the type of person he is now. Also we can tell the genre of the movie is most likely a romantic drama with a bit of comedy. After analyzing the first five minutes of the film you come to realize a lot of analyzing came from the feather, which most people would be intrigued by but ignore. Though many of the things we analyzed from the feather we confirmed by watching Forrest Gump for just a couple of minutes. As film makers and cinematographers in the making we need to stay aware that everything in a film’s mise en scene is on purpose.
When you first see the feather, you notice that it’s being pushed and tossed from side to side by the wind. The way the wind seems harsh sounding and how it seems to knock the feather this way and that way, sort of knocking the feather off course. The way that the wind does this to the pure white feather, make you think of an innocent being tossed and turned on life’s course, or a gentle person in the middle of a bustling street of inconsiderate people who don’t give a second thought before pushing and shoving someone. Going back to the grey sky, it makes you feel like the feather is an innocent life, which is filled by sadness.
Also the way that they start off with a pure white feather in the middle of nothing but grey sky makes you concentrate on the feather. And as the camera tracks the feather, you feel you are right there, watching the feather fall as it descends or floats up a bit, sometimes getting close to you and then floating away, increasing your curiosity in the feather. But as the feather floats down and the camera goes into a birds eye, your curiosity for the feather grows, but you start to notice what seems to be a little suburban town as well.
As the feather descends, the sky starts to turn to a light greyish blue, the wind dies down, and the raining stops making the feather float more gently down. The way it does this, makes you think of that innocent life you thought of before, not just filled with sadness, but hope and a little happiness too.
Through all this the background music helps to emphasize every little notion and action towards the feather. The music starts off bittersweet like the scene and gets more high pitched as the feather goes up and but slowly becomes more plainly sweet and happy. Though on the whole the music sounds slightly romantic, so the beginning maybe hinting at it being a part romantic film.
Slowly as the camera tracks the feather, you get this wide view of the town, and the feather heads towards a street, and you start to get the notion that the feather really does relate to the soul and life of some person. From this you get the feeling that the feather’s course down is probably similar to Forrest Gump’s life, which we may assume because that is the name of the movie.
On the feather’s descent, the feather comes to briefly resting on a busy man’s shoulder. What this may represent is hope touching down on this man, in which could be the way Forrest Gump leads his life, occasionally putting a bit of hope and happiness into the people that he meets.
The feather then finally comes to fully rest against the dirty shoe of a man sitting on a bench. The camera too finally rests its view on the feather and the shoe in a Dutch shot, after it had slowly been zooming in. The way that the camera had been tracking the feather and how the gaze rested on the man’s shoes makes you feel like you had been following the feather yourself, and had stopped when you noticed it on another person’s shoes. Your attention switches like it would have if you were really following the feather, and you now start to forget a bit more of the feather and concentrate on the man. Despite the contrast you get a pretty clear message that the feather is connected to the man and he’s probably Forrest Gump. In this case the feather seems to represent a pretty pure soul, and the shoes represent the physical hardship the man had to overcome.
When the picks up the feather you can now see that it isn’t pure white, but has grey lines on it like repeated arrows, as if to indicate to keep going forwards. It also symbolizes that the feather is not perfectly pure white, and neither is the soul in which it represents. The man then takes out a children’s book and places the feather inside. The book can give clue to the man. It hints that he is either waiting for a child, the book is very sentimental to him or he is very childlike which relates to the innocent feeling, as innocence is usually found in children.
As the bus arrives a nurse gets off the bus and sits down on the bench near the man. Despite her opening her magazine and show no signs of wanting to have a conversation, the man promptly introduces himself as Forrest Gump and offers her a chocolate, in which the nurse hardly looks up and says nothing, but Forrest just continues to talk as if he hadn’t noticed. This shows that Forrest Gump is very straight forward and friendly to even strangers. His accent and the way he speaks indicates that he may have a bit of trouble physically saying what he thinks and shows he may be a little mentally slow. But the way he talks also makes you think he speaks honestly and truthfully, but also hardly ever talks badly about anything. He then talks about how his mama told him “life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” From this you can relate back to the feather in the wind and how it often moved unpredictably. Also Forrest refers to another saying by his mother “there’s an awful lot you can tell ‘bout the person by their shoes; where they’re going, where they been.’ From this we can tell that the directors purposefully made Forrest’s shoes dirty to show that he has led a hard life and confirms what we thought about him having physical, and maybe mental hardship too.
So from analyzing the first five minutes of the film we can already tell who is Forrest Gump; the type of life he led, and the type of person he is now. Also we can tell the genre of the movie is most likely a romantic drama with a bit of comedy. After analyzing the first five minutes of the film you come to realize a lot of analyzing came from the feather, which most people would be intrigued by but ignore. Though many of the things we analyzed from the feather we confirmed by watching Forrest Gump for just a couple of minutes. As film makers and cinematographers in the making we need to stay aware that everything in a film’s mise en scene is on purpose.
Monday, 27 September 2010
24/9
Film reflection
Today we were starting our storyboard. I think that we were thinkers and communicators as we thought of how we could shoot the scenes and what it would look like and shared our ideas with one another. When doing our story board we started to think of locations, mise en scene and different ideas of how and when we would do these shots (as a lot of our scenes are in the evening and out of school). In doing so we had to be open-minded about each others ideas, though we did have disagreements.
I found storyboarding really helpful as it not only helped us with planning what angles and distances we were going to use, but it really helped with thinking about locations. Though i like how it helps you think of what mise en scene you'll need and how the actor has to position his or herself for the scene.
Also we started to be really open-minded and started thinking of establishing shots, and decided to add a few in to show it takes place in a city (Hong Kong) and it helps to emphisized the fact that me and Tiara's superheroes are on night patrol. We plan to go to places like IFC, Times Square and TST.
We didn't get much of the storyboard done today and we need to edit our "ending" of our movie, because we left it too open and need a more definitive and concluding ending. But i think that we are going to be able to get back on track and work well.
Today we were starting our storyboard. I think that we were thinkers and communicators as we thought of how we could shoot the scenes and what it would look like and shared our ideas with one another. When doing our story board we started to think of locations, mise en scene and different ideas of how and when we would do these shots (as a lot of our scenes are in the evening and out of school). In doing so we had to be open-minded about each others ideas, though we did have disagreements.
I found storyboarding really helpful as it not only helped us with planning what angles and distances we were going to use, but it really helped with thinking about locations. Though i like how it helps you think of what mise en scene you'll need and how the actor has to position his or herself for the scene.
Also we started to be really open-minded and started thinking of establishing shots, and decided to add a few in to show it takes place in a city (Hong Kong) and it helps to emphisized the fact that me and Tiara's superheroes are on night patrol. We plan to go to places like IFC, Times Square and TST.
We didn't get much of the storyboard done today and we need to edit our "ending" of our movie, because we left it too open and need a more definitive and concluding ending. But i think that we are going to be able to get back on track and work well.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
21/9
Film Reflection
Today we continued our script and we got nerly all of it done. I think we did a good job as we got all but the last scene typed up, though I think that we could have been more productive with out time and not argued over tedious things like how one character should say this particular line.
Also today we've continued to consider locations that we can use in our film as well as mise en scene.
Today we continued our script and we got nerly all of it done. I think we did a good job as we got all but the last scene typed up, though I think that we could have been more productive with out time and not argued over tedious things like how one character should say this particular line.
Also today we've continued to consider locations that we can use in our film as well as mise en scene.
Saturday, 18 September 2010
15/9
Film Reflection
Today our group had to re-think our plot for our film, as today we realised that our original plot was too complicated for a 3-5 minute film and that we had imbalanced good and bad sides. Ms Wong helped us see the imbalance by making us draw a good, bad and half-half diagram.
So realising this we re-thought out our plot (with the help of the diagram idea) and worked out a few more details. Our idea for our plot is to have Yasmine's character (Natalie/Nightshadow) and main bad guy of the film, trying to deliver a vile of mysterious liquid to her even more mysterious employer, who in the film is known as Mr. E (which is a play on the word mystery). Though when Tiara's character (Alex/Flick) trys to catch the suspicious looking Nightshadow, Nightshadow runs/shadow travels away and drops the vile in the process. The main idea of the rest of the movie is about how Nightshadow/Natalie tries to get the vile back from, Alex/Flick and her sidekick, Jayden/Jay.
After working out the main arc of the plot, we started to type up our script on celtex. Considering how we had to re-do our plot, I think we had done a good start on out script, as we had wrote the first two scenes. Though in starting to write out script we realise there are a few location and prop problems we will have to work out.
Another thing we did was learn about how we would aproach the problem of making Tiara look like her character has superspeed and to make it look natural. We found that we would have to have anyone else in the scene look like they are running but in reality are moving super slow, manwhile Tiara will just have to run normally.
Today our group had to re-think our plot for our film, as today we realised that our original plot was too complicated for a 3-5 minute film and that we had imbalanced good and bad sides. Ms Wong helped us see the imbalance by making us draw a good, bad and half-half diagram.
So realising this we re-thought out our plot (with the help of the diagram idea) and worked out a few more details. Our idea for our plot is to have Yasmine's character (Natalie/Nightshadow) and main bad guy of the film, trying to deliver a vile of mysterious liquid to her even more mysterious employer, who in the film is known as Mr. E (which is a play on the word mystery). Though when Tiara's character (Alex/Flick) trys to catch the suspicious looking Nightshadow, Nightshadow runs/shadow travels away and drops the vile in the process. The main idea of the rest of the movie is about how Nightshadow/Natalie tries to get the vile back from, Alex/Flick and her sidekick, Jayden/Jay.
After working out the main arc of the plot, we started to type up our script on celtex. Considering how we had to re-do our plot, I think we had done a good start on out script, as we had wrote the first two scenes. Though in starting to write out script we realise there are a few location and prop problems we will have to work out.
Another thing we did was learn about how we would aproach the problem of making Tiara look like her character has superspeed and to make it look natural. We found that we would have to have anyone else in the scene look like they are running but in reality are moving super slow, manwhile Tiara will just have to run normally.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
13/9 Film Synopsis
This is the general film synopsis for our group (Rachel, Yasmine, Tiara and Me)
Two good friends at a secondary school, about 13 years old, are also super heroes. The main super hero out of the two (Tiara) has super human speed and agility (including able to climb things people usually can't), meanwhile her "side kick" (portrayed by me) has telepathy, being able to read minds and communicate with the mind, through this the two heroes have an "empathy link". Also the sidekick is usually the brains of the operation.
Though unknown to the heroes, their classmate from their school is their enemy (played by Yasmine) who is attempting to steal something from them. Their enemy in the film is employed by a secret evil organization, and has the ability to teleport using shadows. Also the character that Yasmine plays doesn't know that the heroes are hr classmates.
In the movie, the heroes will also have to work out if their enemy is good, bad or simply misunderstood. All of them need to find where they stand and find out how clear the line between good and evil really is.
Friday, 10 September 2010
Film Reflection 7/9
In class we learnt about cinematography techniques and had a go at using a camera and tripod ourselves.
We learnt simpler things like tone sets. Like when there is a lot of blues and greens and other cool colors, it give a more calm and in control feeling, and can also feel melancholy. Same goes for warm colors, such as red, orange and yellow. Warm colors give you the feeling of passion, energy, anger and/or love.
Then we learnt about the different types of film cinematographers used to film their movies. Since I took film in year 7, this was a surprise as i hadn't thought before that there were different types of films as I only thought there the types were digital and film.
One category is fast and slow films. Slow films are for movie that need a LOT of detail, such as action movies. But fast films are used for things like documentaries and war films, which have a slightly grainy look and make it look more realistic.
The other category is the film gauge. The common film gauges are 16, 35 and 70 mm, 35 mm being the most commonly used presently, but there are other film gauge sizes. 35mm would look slightly more defined than you'd see in real life and gets more and more defined the larger the film gauge, but 16 mm and the lower the film gauge, the more grainy and gritty the film looks. The film gauge is important in a film as it can effect the feel of a movie. Also a reason cinematographers use 16mm film and enlarge it is because it is cheaper and can suit their filming budget better.
Monday, 6 September 2010
Film Genre Analysis - Rush Hour
From these clips taken from the movie Rush Hour, we can identify the genre of the movie, which is action (comedy). For starters, on a more basic level, you have the actions and tone of voice in the movie. In the scenes you can see a lot of fighting (action) scenes and and tense tones, making it quite obvious that it an action movie. Plus the comedic moment now and then turn it into an action comedy.
Next, looking at the background music in these clips, you can see they are fast-paced and are suspenseful. The fact that the suspense music is fast paced, makes it different from the type of suspense music you get in horror films, and the liveliness of the music make you think of movement, in other words action.
Finally we can look at the setting and mise en scene of most of the scenes. Most of the scenes here are dark settings with dim, yellowish lighting. Also in most of these scenes, there's a lot of fog. These things also give of a suspenseful and dangerous feeling, as well as also mysterious. It almost has a film noir effect, though the it is not black and white, but just dark.
Also if you look at the clothes that they wear in the scenes, you can see that they always wear dark colored clothing. The dark colors of the clothing, like the rest of the mise en scene, give of a mysterious and dangerous feeling.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Film Reflection 26/8
IB Learner Profiles- How can I/we be them in Film?
Inquirers - We can be inquirers in film by developing a natural curiosity to learn more about films, or even just a particular film or genre that we are interested in, and to then go off and do independent research.
Knowledgeable - We can watch and research about a broad range of films, from watching documentaries to researching how directors like Steven Spielberg made some of his films, we can be more knowledgeable.
Thinkers - We should be thinkers all the time, but one good way to be a thinker is by facing problems and thinking things through before asking for help.
Communicators - We can be communicators by conveying messages to our audience through our film, and also by simply talking to our peers in film class.
Principled - We should be principled, in and outside of Film, by taking responsibility for our mistakes and follow all the rules.
Open-minded - We can be open-minded by listening to the ideas of our peers and different possibilities in Film, even though they may clash with your own thoughts.
Caring - We can be caring to one another in Film class by thinking of their feelings. For example, we shouldn't be harsh and criticize someones idea, but think about how they would feel if you did.
Risk-takers - We can be risk-takers in Film class by taking risks and trying out new ideas that we could potentially use in our films.
Balanced - While working on our Films, we shouldn't goof off, or just work. We should be balanced during this course and have fun while working hard.
Reflective - We should be reflective all the time. We can do this by writing a reflection after every lesson and also maybe personally reflect on your work.
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