Research - Sound - Mr smith

Sound

What is sound and why is it important in micro- element?
sound are used in films to create a understanding for the audience and to create more meaning about the character and their emotions. Sound is also used to create a response for the audience. Sound is important in the micro-element because without sound the film wouldn't be understood by the audience and the concept of the film would be change.

Sound examples

Diegetic sound: Sound, which is part of the film world e.g. dialogue, music from a radio or jukebox. The sound can be on or off screen. (characters can hear)

Non diegetic: Sound which is not part of the film world. e.g. soundtrack, sound effects, voice overs. (characters cannot hear)

On screen sound: You can physically see where the sound is coming from. (radio and car)

  

Off screen sound: You can hear the sound but you cannot see  where it is coming from, but make sense to the film world. (Traffic and door knocking) 

Parallel sound: The sound you can hear in a film is what is expected e.g a scene with children playing on a beach. Parallel sounds would be laughter, taking and the sound of the water from the sea.

Contrapuntal: the sound does not match the expectations of what you are viewing an example of this is jaws. The scenes of the beach are accompanied by the contrapuntal sound of the theme tune 'dur dur' which does not fit in with the happy images.

Thriller scene analysis

In the opening of scream the phone rings which is a on screen sound because the audience can see where the sound is coming from therefore when the female victim is talking to the antagonist on the phone it is a contrapuntal sound because the audience does not expect a dog to bark and because the dog barks it creates tension and makes the audience jump because it is unexpected.

conclusion 
i have researched and understood how the sounding in films work. When I do my own thriller movie I now know what kind of sounds i should use and how different sounds create different feelings.Therefore, I will be using on and off sounds for examples when a character is running you can hear they're breathing which is an on screen sound. I will also include diegetic sound when the sound is coming from the radio

Research - Mise en scene: lighting and colour - Miss Begum

Mise en scene: lighting and colour

What is lighting? 

Lighting helps to convey mood and atmosphere. It can be used to guide the audiences attention to a particular object, person, emotion or gesture. lighting creates more meaning than we think. 

Key terms (angles of lighting) 

Under lighting: light comes from below the person. This tends to have a distorting effect on the character. 

Top lighting: light comes from above, highlighting the features of the character this gives a glamorous look. 

Back lighting: light source is behind the person. If little or no light is used.

Key terms of type of lighting

Low key: The lighting is dark with small areas of light which also creates shadow.

High key: lighting appears more natural and realistic to our eyes. The lighting effect is heightened. 

What is colour?

Colour in scenes have different connotations to them and can give different interpretations of the scenes. the colour makes the scene film more realistic and it gives the audience the idea of what the film is about such as if we see red blood straight comes into the audiences mind and this makes the audience think something that's got to do with blood is going to happen such as a attack or crime scene.

yellow/green lighting 

yellow/green lighting represents that something tense is going to happen or something with a great impact is going happen. The lighting in the picture is  back lighting because the light source is behind the female protagonist/

blue and red lighting



The lighting from this scene highlights that something tense has taken place and protagonist has solved the problem out.Therefore the colours also represent that there is more action and tension to come. The lighting is placed on top of the protagonist because you can see everything around it and this shows us that all the hard work has finished and it has became a happy ending. The connotation of the colours makes the audience feel loyal and it makes the audience trust the character in the film.

Lighting in this scene "moon in the gutter" create tension. In the beginning of the scene we see the colour red covering the colour white this shows us that either someone's going to get attacked or crime is going to take place. The main colours that have been used it white and red and the colour white represents someone as being innocent and clean hearted therefore red represents danger and death. In the scene low key has been used because  there are a lot of shadows in the scene and only small parts of the scene has light this shows tension. Low key lighting has a

conclusion
when i create my own thriller i would use as many lighting souses as i am able to do because lighting makes a film look more interesting and it makes the scene look professional.

Research - Editing - Miss begum

Editing

What is editing and why is it important in films?

Editing describes the relationship between shots and the process by which they are combined. Film editing remarks a film and makes it better and adds emotion such as fade to black creates a chilling response. Edit is important in film because without edit the films wouldn't be able to flow from one shot to the other and the film would be confusing for the audience to understand. Editing allows the audience to understand the whole film and also editing makes the film professional and high quality. Therefore, Editing includes emotion in the film such as tension, disturbing and fear.

Film trailers 
Editing takes a huge part in film trailers. Film trailers are an excellent way in connecting a audience to a film. Film trailers mainly use a mixture of editing techniques such as straight cut, fade to black, wipe cut, dissolve, fast editing, 180 degrees ruler, shot reverse shot, jump cut and also montage.Film trailers advertise the film this means the good parts in the film will be put in small scenes in the trailer to catch the audiences attention.  

Straight cut
 straight cut is when one shot moves into another shot in an edit and it does not confuse the audience. A straight cut has been used in 0.19 seconds when the inspector finds out what's in the box then the shot immediately changes to the detective that is with the antagonist. This allows the audience to understand that detective Somerset isn't able to tell detective mills what was inside the box because he is far away from the antagonist and detective Mills therefore detective Somerset also doesn't tell detective Mills because if he does  the antagonists will achieve his plan.

Fade to black and reaction shot
fade to black is when one shot moves into another and a black filter is in between. In the clip fade in black  has been used in 1 minute 10 seconds. The audience reaction to this will be a chilling reaction because the audience will be worrying about the female victim and the other children watching the female victim. A reaction shot is when any shot (often used as a cut away) in which a subject reactions to a previous shot.  Therefore, a reaction shot has also taken place in the clip this happens when the female victim is coming down the stairs and when she pass by the mirror she sees the grudge( 7 minutes).This reaction shot messes with the audiences mind because this makes them feel uncomfortable because they do not know whats going to happen next to the women victim and the audiences will be waiting for a protagonist to help the female victim out.

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Dissolve
when one shot disintegrates into another shot. In this clip the antagonist is talking to them selves. The antagonist fades into a skeleton which gives a chilling response to the audience and the audience will be left with questions in they're mind because they do not know what happens to the antagonist after.

slow editing and montage 
Is when clips are put together at a normal pace and this is to create fluency. In the beginning of the clip the male victims reactions are very slow this highlights that something is going to pop up. Therefore, while the male victim is getting attacked the editing is slow to create tension in the film so the audience would see what the antagonist is doing to the male victim and this would make the audience feel sorry for the male victim. Montage is  been also used in this clip. A montage is the speed of editing where shots are quickly juxtaposed together to create excitement. The montage takes place when the pace becomes fast when the antagonist is still attacking the victim and the victim is trying to protect them selves.

180 degrees rule
 Imagine a hypothetical line is drawn between two or more actors. The camera must not shoot on the other side of the line and this is because it can confuse the audience and also the shooting will not be consistent.

Slow motion
Slow motion makes the audience feel relaxed but this also creates the audience feel disturbed because they will also feel as if something is going to happen. Even though slow motion is taking place it needs to flow with the film and makes it look realistic.

conclusion 
Now that i have researched about the editing techniques i have developed a clear understanding that different techniques have different impact on the way the audience feel. Therefore, the editing techniques are important because it makes the film more interesting. However, I will be using fade to black and slow editing because believe that they will cause tension and make the audience disturbing because they would be expecting something to either pop up or something disturbing to happen.

Research - cinematography - Miss Begum

cinematography

what is a cinematography?

cinematography is looking at the way a shot is frames, the angel is is taken in such as high angle or low angle and also the movement of the camera.

 

What are the terms that in learnt in today's lesson?

• camera sizes 
• XLS - Extreme long shot
• LS - Long shot
• MS - Medium shot
• MCU - medium close up 
• CU - close up
• XCU - extreme close up
• ES - establishing shot

• Camera angle
• High angle 
• Low angle 
• Camera shot
• Panning shot 
• tilt shot



zoom in 

• 
  crane shot
• zoom capture
• point of view
• hand held 
• over the shoulder 
• face to face
• two shot
• manual focus 



crane camera

                                                                 MCS - Medium long shot

Camera Angles

 

Medium long shot is a shot only taken from knee to the head. As you can see in this picture medium long shot show most part of the background. In this picture the main focus is not the background full of fire the main focus is the male character who make this explosion. Therefore, the audiences response to this shot will be quite shocking because a huge explosion has been caused by one character

CU - Close up

 

close up is a shot taken from the shoulder to head this allows the audience to see the emotion the character is going through. Therefore in this picture which is taken from the movie ' I spit on your grave' shows us the emotion the character is going through the response to the audience to this scene is feeling sorry for the character because the character is going through a stage of doing something that they do not want to do.

 

 

Extreme close up is a shot taken closer into the face like the picture shown. Extreme close up highlights the emotions in more details such as in this picture we can see the loneliness and frightened feeling in his eyes. This makes the  audience understand the feeling the character is going through and it makes the audience feel the same way the character is.

High and Low angles

High angle makes the character look small
because its higher than the character and its aim is to make the



Low angle

character look less powerful. 


Low angles make the character bigger than they
actually are because the camera is been placed on the
floor the character to look bigger and more powerful.
 


 

 
camera movements

 In the clip 'orphan' a tilt  shot is used as the characters and their location is shown along with their actions the camera moves side to side because there is a face to face conversation going on.

 

In the clip 'fast and furious' crane movement is being
used from 0:15 to 0:20 the panning shot is being used.
 Crane movement is when the camera is following the object.

 

Conclusion: By researching cinematography it helped me develop ideas about thriller because it taught me a lot of skills that i can use in my future for my own video.

Research: what is a thriller - Miss Begum

 what is a thriller?



                                                                   

What are Genres? and what is it important to know what genre is?
genres are categories films are put into according to their narratives.It is important to have genres because it helps people to access movies quicker. Therefore knowing the genre of a film can get your mind ready of what is going to happen in the film or it will give you a knowledge about the film.

 what does thriller mean?

Thriller is a genre of a novel or either a movie.  Thriller generally creates a chilling response from the audience. Thriller often fear characters, situations or setting. Thriller mainly has dull colors that also highlights to the audience that tension and suspense will be created from the audience while watching the thriller, but a desire to stay within the narrative.

what movies are thriller?

There are many films that are thriller such as; salt, seven

I spit on your grave and smiley.

why is the movie "I spit on your grave" a thriller genre?

The film "I spit on your grave" is thriller because there are many dull colors used such as black background and there are many blacked out scenes . Therefore, there is also crime and rape scenes in the movie which also shows us thriller.The story line is also unexpected which shows us another sign of thriller. The main situation in the movie "i spit on your grave" is a innocent young writer going to another village for peace and ideas for her next book while shes living in the peaceful village she comes across with 5 men that rape her after that horrible moment the young girl disappears and gets revenge of the 5 men by horribly hurting them such as bathing one of the men with acidic water. 

Why is the movie "salt" a thriller genre?

Angelina Jolie has took part in the movie salt which caught the audiences attention. Therefore, in salt there is a huge twist which shocks the whole audience.The main character is accused of being a secret agent meanwhile because of this misunderstanding she has told to be found and killed because of this alert she trained to become powerful and strong. meanwhile witin the time she kills people and sets traps up there are also jumping scenes that when the cars crash it makes the audience feel scared and makes them feel sorry for the innocent people that got killed within the car crash.The huge twist was when Angelina Jolie actually becomes a secret agent knowing that she become a secret agent shocked many people and upset them because they wasn't expecting a twist like that to take place.

What are the common themes in a thriller movie?  

 

• killing - 
• death 
• crime - fast and furious 6, needed for speed and now you see me
• psychological thriller - seven, the game and the black swan.
• Mystery thriller - gone girl, the maze runner and memento
• Action thriller
• Sci-fi thriller
• Political thriller
• Horror thriller - I spit on your grave, psycho and the hills have eyes
• Adventure thriller

What the audience will react to thrillers?
Audiences will react differently in different sub genres because different sub genres create different feelings to the audience. Horror thriller will have loads of tension in the film and make the audience feel uncomfortable. However a action thriller would be calm but have disturbing scenes within the film. Crime thriller would also make the audience uncomfortable because it will have many killing scenes involved and it will have loads of blood.

   what is the definition of a sub genre and what are the examples?
sub genres are how a thriller should be set out therefore it is also extra addition to the movie for example crime thriller, disaster thriller and psychology thriller.

Conclusion
i have found out and learnt many interesting facts about thriller movies by doing this post I also have a better knowledge about thriller movies.Therefore, one of the main facts that i have learnt by researching is that thriller can be divided into many little sub genres such as crime thriller knowing that got me very into thriller.By doing this post i have watched many other thriller movies that i wouldn't of watched before if i didn't research.