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Short film & planning
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News broadcast & planning
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Genre
Analysis of two genres.
Mise-en-scene
Location recces
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Dressing the scene
We were tasked with framing and taking pictures which we thought fit a list of captions we were given.
Intro to Audio
We listened to an audio clip from War of the Worlds and were given questions to answer on it.
Foley sounds
We were tasked with going out and recording "Foley" sound effects.
I then edited the recorded sounds in Adobe Audition.
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Sound task
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I cut the film 'Donnie Darko' into a trailer in the vein of terrible American sex-comedies (e.g. American Pie) through the use of contrapuntal music. On the left is the original trailer and on the right is my recut: 'Dickless Darko'. At the end of the trailer I took another scene from the film and completely replaced the audio including sound effects.
Editing Workshop
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We had a lesson on how to use Premiere Pro and I took the opportunity to create the most awful 5 minutes you will ever witness by editing two scenes from Troll 2. david lynch eat yr heart out
Montage
An example I made of a 'Hitchcock montage'. The aim of which is to show something that would be impossible without special effects or causing harm to the actor. A classic example is the scene in Hitchcock's Psycho in which a woman is murdered in the shower without showing the contact between her and the knife.
This scene from the film Team America: World Police is an example of a 'modern montage' which instead uses an assembly of clips to show the passage of time.
Cutting
An example of the effect of using a cutaway shot to hide a jump cut. A jump cut can be very jarring to the viewer so B-roll or 'wallpaper' is often used to hide a cut. I used French music because Godard.
Continuity editing
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An example of a 'shot/reverse-shot' conversation using the 180-degree rule. The second includes deliberate continuity errors.
The '180-degree rule' is a guideline in film making by which, when filming a conversation, the camera must stay on one side of the conversation and never cross the 'line of action'; an imaginary line between the two actors.
'Continuity editing' is where a film is edited to be consistent to give the viewer the impression it is real by keeping elements of the film consistent (e.g. the placement of props in the background of shots). |
Multiple Points of View and Parallel Editing
- What two different stories are we being shown at the same time?
- Why did the director, Francis Ford Coppola, choose these two, very different, sequences?
It also juxtaposes the character's two separate lives as a family man and a criminal.
- What effect does the parallel edit have on the viewer
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- Describe how the film 500 Days of Summer used splitscreen to tell a story from multiple perspectives.
It shows the difference between the expectations of the character and the reality which will be familiar to most viewers.
- How is this different to the method used in The Thomas Crown Affair? Which is better?
It is instead used to shown three events happening simultaneously from different people's perspectives.
- Find one example of Parallel editing and one example of split screen.
The Silence of the Lambs uses parallel editing in the scene where Jodie Foster's character Clarice Starling arrives at the serial killer's house. We see the police force arrive at the door of a house and hear the doorbell ring in the killer's basement. When he answers the door we instead see Clarice as it turns out the police have gone to the wrong house, defying the viewer's expectations.
The TV drama 24 uses splitscreen often to show multiple events happening simultaneously to create tension and emphasise the show's 'real-time' element.
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Green screen (keying)
Three basic uses of a green screen edited with Adobe Premiere.
Narrative theory
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The characters of The Grand Budapest Hotel arranged according to Propp's character types.
Developing a character.
Short Film: The Man With Several Names
Planning
Film planning.
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Script.
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The final film
Evaluation
What went well
- The film is definitely recognisable as a Western, I focused on camera angles to recreate the mode of adress of the genre.
- The use of costumes and props was consistent with the genre especially considering I had no budget (thanks, Poundland).
- I'm quite proud of my use of VFX (i.e. the muzzle flashes) because I learnt how to create them whilst making the film.
- My choice of setting in the first scene (Wittenham Clumps) fit the genre.
What didn't
- I missed the deadline for submitting the work because I hadn't finished it.
- The duration of the film was supposed to be between 5 and 7 minutes.
- I had planned on using more actors and a more cohesive plot with dialog but I failed to get anyone else to agree to act in it.
- There was some kind problem whilst exporting the film that meant half of the audio tracks weren't exported so a lot of sound effects and music were lost making the film awkwardly silent in places.
- The lighting was all natural.