STORY BOARD + PLACE - CLASSWORK

In our groups we try to find places where we it can be use for filming.


                   Here we have our story board ------>

PLACE

We walk around the school to find places that would fit with out film opening.

• Dinning hall stairs to go up to the Sixth Form

Took pictures from different angels to see how it would look like in the camera and plan how we should position the camera to get the angel we wanted.

STORY BOARD - CHILDHOOD MEMORY

Create a story board - CHILDHOOD MEMORY

Practice creating a story board and how things work here with arrows and each type of shots and drawing. 

Credit - example

PANIC ROOM CREDIT

CONVENTIONAL CREDIT STRUCTURE..

Panic Room Opening sequences 

Columbia Pictures ( Production Company) -->  A HOFFLUND/POLONE (Production Company) --> 

An Incredible Picture (Production Company) --> Jodie Foster (Actor) --> Forest Whitaker (actor) --> 

Dwight Yoakam (Actor) ---> Jared Leto (Actor) ---> PANIC ROOM (title) --> Kristen Stewart (actor) ---> Ann Magnuson/Ian Buchanni (support actor) ---> Patrick Bauchau/Paul Schlze (support actor)    ---> Laray Vayfield (Casting) --> Michael Kaplan (Custom Designer) --> Haward Shore (Music) --> James haygood ACE/Angus Wall ( Film editor) -->  Arthur Max (Production Designer) ---> Conpad W.HAll/Darivs Khondij (Director of photography) --> Produce by... ---> written by... ---> Direct by...

PANIC ROOM CREDIT OPENING

SUMMARY

Production Companies --> Actor/Actress ---> Title ---> Support Actor/Actress ---> Production team (music, design, editor, photographer) ---> Produce ---> written ---> Direct

Audience segmentation

AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION

Breading up ______ into groups             MASS AUDIENCE LITTLE GROUPS

AUDIENCE - UK, US & ASIAN

Separation in society:

• Gender
• Lifestyle
• Age
• Income
• Age
• Ethnicity/Race
• Interests
• Social class
• Personality

CODE- CHILDREN OF MEN

ENIGMA CODES

QUESTION:

Created by the film opening...

1. Why are no more Babies?
2. Who blew up the cafe? why?
3. Why does London had Asian influence?
4. Why is he drinking
5. Why is death or baby die (so IMPORTANT)
6. Why doesn't this man care?

SHAPES

SHAPES CREATE DIFFERENT MEANING

⃝ CIRCLE
Meaning:

• Sleep
• Relaxed
• Calm
• Balance
• Happy
• Kind
• Nice
• Infinite
• Fascism

"POSITIVE & FRIENDLY"  

△ TRIANGLE
Meaning:

• Danger
• Angry
•  Star
• Pyramid
• Chaos
• Illumined
• Fire
• Disequilibrium
• Unsafe

"Anger, Danger & Sharp"

⃞ SQUARE
Meaning:

• TV
• Stoic
• Boring
• Named
• Comforting
• Name
• Bass
• Audience
• Normal

"Stoic & Order"

Zodiac Con...

HIGH ANGLE SHOTS - often establishing

Reminded - that they the BIG PICTURE
OMNIPOTENT (Godcikk) --> Cold, Clinical, floating ]- PERFECT

INSIDE OF CARS = TRAPPED
Point Of View (P.O.V) - the case "evidence"
~Not being able to see the big picture ]- CLOSE UP


GRAY SMITH

• Obsessed
• unique 
• Disorganized 
• Boy-scout
• Nice guy
•  Frantic

TOSCHI
RULES - PROCEEDING
POLICE - DEFINES BY INSTITUTION

• No nonsense
• Stylish
• Experience
• Balance
• Solid Evidence

ZODIAC

ZODIAC

2007 

Direct:  DAVID FINDER [Make Ruffola/Jake Gyllenhall/Robert Dowing Junier]

For example: Fight club/The game/Panic Room/Gone girl/Alien3/Girl with dragon tattoo etc

CRIME - THRILLER

SERIAL KILLER --> calm ---> victim --> investigation --- > victim ---> Tracing ---> closing on him --> PATTERN...

HOW DOES ZODIAC PLAY WITH SERIAL KILLER CONVENTION:

1. There's no closure - in real life they never cought the ZODIAC
2. There's no calm, - NO EQUILIBRIUM >>start with killing<<
3. The investigators are never in CONTROL

NARRATIVE RANGE

UNRESTRICTED (Big Picture)

The audience knows more and sees more than the characters

• killings
• killers never gets caught
• 1968 - 1996

RESTRICTED (Detail)

The characters and the audience learn the story at the same time

• Detail of care
• Arthur Leign Allen becomes a suspect
• Has complicated the investigation 

Scared OF?

CW

What am I scared of?

I am scared of .... Death & Zombies.

What worries do your parent have?

My parent fears ... their work sales need to be increase [Goal], relationship in the house, family and me.

What fear do we have as a society?

Society have fear of ... Terrorism, Natural disaster, Death(losing) and virus

MOVIE THAT LINK TO FEAR

• World war z - Zombie
• Prisoner - losing children
• Finding Nemo - family safety 
• Light out - darkness
• Harry Potter - spider
• Arachnophobia - insect
• Duel - bad drivers
• Buried - claustrophobic
• Bet Sementary - death
• It - clown

"Film all come from fear that already exists" 

WHY DO WE WATCH SCARY FILMS

PURGE CARTHARTHIS

We wrath negative thought so we can PURGE -> CLEANSE or negative thoughts

ARISTOTLE CATHARSIS

322 BC - 384 BC

"We are drawn to violent, secy ,negative imagery or experience to release pent up feelings of aggression"

DOLF 2ILLMAN
~Excitation - Transfer theory~
 By experiencing negative and scary imagery we intensely the positive feelings when the negative s removed.
We enjoy seeing evil vanquished - Relief/Pleasure.

FOR SCARY FILMS TO BE SCARY- THEY MUST:

GEN D. WALTERS

1. Tension & suspense - Narrative, use of micro - elements manipulation of information
2. Relevance (audience can relate) - They fear explored by the audience have to be relevant to the audience >>THEY HAVE TO BELIEVE<<
3. Unrealistic - We have to know it is not real - we have to feel safe

Children of men Opening part

CHILDREN OF MEN...We watch the opening of the films and come up with ideas for things below...
CHARACTERS

•  Youngest person  in the planet died
• Man with coffee [MAIN]

SETTING

• LOCATION - middle of London
• TIME - Morning/nearly mid day
• 16 Nov 2027

TONE

• Blue dominant
• Many fogs/gas around
• Dull/shabby/Grey

EQUILIBRIUM

• Buying coffee ---> BOMB = distribution ----> Girl/someone walk out from the explode building

OTHERS 

• When the man walks out of the cafe - bus pass by and on the side it said the word "ATTACK"
• use of high pitch [voices/sound]

NEWS - round up by the ARMY
FORESHADOWING - bus with words

LONDON - says about London...

1. Police presence
2. Military helicopter
3. Dangerous place
4. Street are dirty and unsafe/Disorganized/lack of control

For example: old care (Tuk tuk) => Asian influences/culture crisis/Globalization
NEW WORLD AFFAIRS - THINGS HAS GOT WORST ~ future extended
MAN - Doesn't care about the world/Alcoholic/add alcohol into the cut scene
>>Only one morning around in the opening/Following shot<<

THRILLER

SUB-GENRES

In here we try to create a short film opening on THRILLERS to let us get some ideas about how each type of SUB-GENRES that THRILLER has would effect the audience.

IN GROUPS OF 3-4 PEOPLE

SUB-GENRE: 

1. Action Thriller
2. Psychological Thriller
3. Supernatural Thriller
4. Spy/Espionage/Politics 
5. Crime Thrillers
6. Film Noir

THINGS NEED TO BE DONE:

1. RESEARCH 

 On the sub-genres were going to work with + EXAMPLE & CONVENTION => Technical Codes/Symbolic Code

2. PLAN

Video project - need to be able to demonstrate your understanding towards the genre.

• Create a STORY BOARD  
• Place of filming
• Editing
• Time

2 min opening film Opening

THEME: Thriller

CONVENTION-:

• *Plot/point => start of narrative  
• Brief => Little about NARRATIVE [context]
• **What world this film exists in
• *Characters => Gender/Name/Apperance/Personality} REPRRESENTATIVE
• *TONE=> know what type of film it will be
• **Indicate something going to happen next
• *TIME PERIOD (setting)
• Establish mood ~ something going to happen
• ***CREDITS

GENER >> EQUILIBRIUM >> DISTRUPTION >> PROACRRCTIC CODE >> HEMENETIC/ENIGMA CODE

3) a. Coming up with ideas for the film was really fun and interesting because everyone has their own point of view so there are many discussion when we were coming up with ideas. Also we took time before we finalize our last choice because each one of us want to do differnt things so we didn't come up with a last choice but then we all agreed on something fairly easy then everyone finally agreed on what we were going to do for our 1 min film.

b. I find working with people in my group with some people I'm not fimilar with is hard to express your feeling because you don't really know them and I wouldn't know if anything I said would effect the person or not so I find that it is very hard in trying to point out things that could be better and sometime find things frustred when filming doesn't goes my way but rather than disempowering the group by just complaining I just give advice in moving the camera angle or how close the camera should be or the actors pose. This is how I over come the problem I face when working with my group.

4) a. I find working with camera really fun and exciting because I get to direct what I want and tell the actor to act what I wanted (being in control) but I also encountered some problem such as the walking shot where all the shots were blurry because we didn't know how to focus the camera when an object is near and when the object is far so the result that came out from the camera is that shots were too blurry and become a problem when it comes to editing so I noticed that I have some knowledge gap about camera that I need to learn.

b. Editing software is really difficult for me because I was struggling to do the cutting because I just don't know where things go not because I don't know how to use the program or not knowing the story line it's just that I was so confused in what I need to do with all the shots that I have and some shots has been deleted so some things that need to be use disappeared so I need to do things in a harder way by dealing with blurry takes which makes the film become more weird at that moment I wish that we should have took the shots clearly without any blur.

c. Audio equipment is what I have interested and passion for because working with sound/music is what I always wanted and I help the team by selecting the music and timing with the video but then we need to add sound effect in while the music is playing and we face the problem of one sound is louder than another so we need to balance then sound out which is a bit challenging because we are not fimilar with the program so we took time to find where things are.

5) a. 1- Music/ sound effects

2- Editing

3- Use of effect (slow motion)

b. 1- Voice when one character was speaking

2- Camera work because some shot were to blurry

3- Make it more smooth

6) If I were to this project again I would want to be able to change people in my group to people I am fimilar with because I would be able to express myself fully and be able to do things that I like without feeling that I should wait for them to come to see it first to make sure that they like it but if I'm fimilar with the people I'm working with I could guess what kinds of things they would like or prefer so I can co-operate with the team member better and wouldn't feel frustreated or angry when things don't go the way I wanted it to go.