Cinematography

In this Camera exercise covered above is a preview of all shots what have been covered. We covered Long shot, Medium shot, Close up, Extreme close up, Point of view, Over the shoulder, Low angle, High angle, Pan, Tilt, Crane shot, Tracking shot, and rolling shot.

Long shot is used to show the audience the whole shot, not just one one person.
Medium shot is used throughout filming to show the audience a normal shot.
Close up is used to focus on someone or object.
Extreme close up is very similar as close up.
Point of view, to show the audience what the actor see's.
over the shoulder, to show conservation between two actors.
Low angle to show someones powerful.
High angle to show someones weak.


 This video clip shows that i understand and able to use the following camera techniques.

Genre

Genre 

Genre is a type, style or category of film.What i have learned is that there are many types of genres such as action, adventure, horror, romance, sci-fi thriller and more.

GUESS THE GENRE!




What is a narrative?
A narrative is the way a film is set out. You can get two narratives, one linear or non linear. Linear is when the story is in order and non-linear is when the story is not in order, it starts later in the story and starts at the begging again.

The Brief

The Brief 

 You have been asked to produce the titles and opening sequence of a new fiction film in the thriller genre

The sequence should last a maximum of two minutes.

You may work in a group of 2 - 4 students.

As acting is not assessed you are free to use actors that are not members of your group.

The film is worth 60% of your coursework grade.

The accompanying blog is worth 40% of your coursework grade

Together the Foundation Portfolio is worth 50% of the overall AS Level.  

My welcome page

About me My name is Jack Fraser, I am 16 years old. I study at Robert Clack School. I study ICT, Sport Btec, Business and Media. i like to watch films and have many favourites, I don't have a specific genre i like because i like a mixture of them. A few of my favourite films are, Avatar, Man on fire and The Fast And Furious collection. I have a few favourite actors like Adam Sandler, Jim Carey and Denzel Washington. I am going to write a blogg about genre of films but the main one will be thrillers.

ZODIAC

Zodiac blog

Brick

Brick




Mise en scene
At the start opening scene of brick, it starts with leaving the audience confused with a mysterious start. With a teenage boy wearing scruffy clothing, long hair and glasses, on his knees in a tunnel with water. you then see a body of a girl on the floor.

Editing 
The opening scene is very short, the pace of the editing is very slow, this is done because its a mysterious scene, what has happened?? Theirs an average of 9 shots.

Camera
At the start of the scene it starts with, a close up shot of the teenagers face, then there's a establish shot what shows you the tunnel, the body and the teenager himself. There's many close up shots of the girls body on the floor, there's a close up on her leg and the back of her head.

Sound 
During the whole scene theirs not much sound, theirs no digetic sound, however during the whole scene from start to finish there's a non-digetic sound of music.

Psycho

Physco is a thriller/horror film, what was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The main stars of the film were Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and Vera Miles.

This film is about a woman who has stole $40,000 and is on the run. She then stays in a motel for a few nights to stay discrete. in this motel there is a man and his unwell mother.  However during a night when shes in the shower, some one enters her room and murders her whilst shes in the shower. As the police are trying to find her, an inspector finds out that she has stayed in a motel. when the inspector gets close, the killer strikes again. As we know we (the audience) think that the killer is the "unwell mother" so for her crimes Norman locks her in the basement. As the inspector has gone missing, the sister of the woman and her partner go to the motel to check whats happened. The sister then look around and finds a skeleton of the mother what has been locked in the basement for years and then the killer who is Norman dressed as the mother goes to kill her but luckily the partner stops him and police are phoned.

Hitchcock's thoughts were that the audience initially think the whole film will be about the missing $40,000 however the murder shocks the audience because it was so unexpected, this then shows that during the rest of the film anything is then unexpected.

The threat in this film is that mad man who is dressed as his mother, However during the film theirs no hero throughout the film. But at the ending, the sisters partners stops the killer from killing again, showing that he saved her.

"Hitchcock has developed the film in such a way that it consistently flouts audience expectations.". During the film there are two major surprises, these are the shower scene and the final revelation about the mother.

Devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers are use throughout the film. During the start of the film, towards the build up to the shower scene, there is suspense but not a lot. This is because as we knew, we only know that the woman was on the run with stolen money. But there was no suspense build up towards the first murder. After this scene, theirs a high of suspense though the film as we don't know whats going to happen.  The red herring was that the stolen money distracted the audience from what the film is actually about and surprised us as what we though the main actor being killers at the start of the film. However there is not much of a cliff hanger to the end of the film as Norman Bates is now in prison.

Psycho was initially released in 1960, it was a huge box office hit (there are stories of 3 mile lone lines at drive in entrances.

The shower scene in Psycho is the most popular scene in the film and can be in the whole world. When ever anyone speaks about the film, the first images that appears is Janet Leigh being sliced to death in the shower.

This scene shows that "Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing frequent action".



Mise en scene
In the scene it set in the woman's room in the shower. During the murder, all we see is the knife, fake blood, water, the woman's naked body (with certain parts strategically concealed from the camera), and a brief showing of the blade penetrating the flesh.

Editing 
During the scene, the editing is slow and calm, even when some mysterious person walks into the room the editing is still slow. however when the knife is out and starts to stab the woman, the editing is very fast. This keeps the audience amused and eyes glued to the screen.

Camera angels
During the shower scene, there is steady cam and point of view shot, the point of view shot is what the killer can see and the steady cam shot is of the woman in the shower. However theirs a close up shot on the knife and the blood. This shows us whats happening, because in that time period, nude was not allowed so the scene is so famous for not showing this and to still see the murder he shower. It takes the power of the viewer's imagination to fill in the blanks.

Sound
At the start, we here degetic sound of the shower, that the water is coming. We then hear a non digetic sound of music where the mysterious person walks in. We then have a digetic sound of the shower curtains getting pulled across. Also we hear the digetic sound of the knife and the woman screaming for help, but non-digetic sound of the music during the killing.