Looking at each film intro separately i felt they all are great ways to start a film.
For example Se7en how the camera has been shot everything is close ups in this montage style sequence which gives you the impression that something is going on and it is focused on to the subject but we haven't got a clear view on exactly what is happening and who is doing this, this gives me a thrill type feeling as i am not clear to what is going on and want to find out.
In A Clockwork Orange i like the whole feeling of the slow zoom on the camera, i feel this gives an interesting view of what is happening and is almost revealing a picture to the audience, who are not aware of what is either side of the subject.
In Nightmare on Elm Street again i find thrilling how the film is shot yet again zoomed up so that the audience can't see what is happening, this gives a very intense view on the film yet again thrilling and would be good to use in my film intro.
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Thriller
After looking at some horror films i felt that many of them had the genre 'Thriller' with it which gives you that feeling when watching the film like what is going to happen next? what is going on? why is there spooky music playing?
I felt this effect in watching a film is very amusing and makes you very interested in the film and want to watch on and expect something to jump out or something happen suddenly.
As i like this feeling when watching a film so much i am going to now use the genre 'Thriller' in my final start of a movie.
I looked at several thriller films with interesting intros, the film that caught my interest the most was the film 'Se7en'. This gave me the same type of effect that you would find in a thriller\crime type film where you want to see what happens next and what's going on. I think how the montage clips have been put together at the start are excellent as they are close ups of a criminal preparing himself to do what he does.
I then thought of the film 'A Clockwork Orange' this is quite thrilling at times and looking at the intro gave me a good idea on what to do in the final film intro i will put together myself.
I felt this effect in watching a film is very amusing and makes you very interested in the film and want to watch on and expect something to jump out or something happen suddenly.
As i like this feeling when watching a film so much i am going to now use the genre 'Thriller' in my final start of a movie.
I looked at several thriller films with interesting intros, the film that caught my interest the most was the film 'Se7en'. This gave me the same type of effect that you would find in a thriller\crime type film where you want to see what happens next and what's going on. I think how the montage clips have been put together at the start are excellent as they are close ups of a criminal preparing himself to do what he does.
I then thought of the film 'A Clockwork Orange' this is quite thrilling at times and looking at the intro gave me a good idea on what to do in the final film intro i will put together myself.
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Monday, 8 December 2008
Preliminary Task
Filming and preparing my preliminary task taught me many different things. For example how organization in filming is very important before filming. Before setting up the camera i had to work out exactly where i needed to put it in every shot to make sure i didnt break the 180 degree rule.
Below is the plan of where i decided to set the camera in each shot.
As you can see i choosed to shoot each shot so that the camera did not cross the other side to break the 180 degree rule. i put the height of the camera at head height when the person was entering the building, walking across the room and moved the camera with the actor as she walked across the room to sit on the seat.
Whilst filming the task at times i noticed it was very hard for the actors to concentrate and not laugh for example. This made me realise just how many takes they must do in movies. With the issue of re doing shots because of lack of concentration from the actors this made me think of using a clapper board which i did, and gave me a lot of help whilst editing the task as i could straight away find which take i needed of each shot.
Here is a typical example of a clapper board-
EDITING MY PRELIMINARY TASK
As i said about using a clapper board in my filming this became very useful as i could find exactly which take i needed of each shot. For the text at the beggining 'Where is he?' i used a plain and simple text in white so it standed out from the background and so it was easily read. I used a fade in, fade out on the text to make it fade in at the beggining and after about a 2 second pause fade out again all during the actor was walking into the building. For each shot i used a straight cut rather than a fade or dissolve between each clip during editing so it gives someone whos watching it the impression that everything is happening straight away with no pause, for example when the actor walks in to the building and then the camera is recording inside, this looks as if it is all happening fluently by using match on action and not using a dissolve or fade in my editing.
Below is the plan of where i decided to set the camera in each shot.
As you can see i choosed to shoot each shot so that the camera did not cross the other side to break the 180 degree rule. i put the height of the camera at head height when the person was entering the building, walking across the room and moved the camera with the actor as she walked across the room to sit on the seat.
Whilst filming the task at times i noticed it was very hard for the actors to concentrate and not laugh for example. This made me realise just how many takes they must do in movies. With the issue of re doing shots because of lack of concentration from the actors this made me think of using a clapper board which i did, and gave me a lot of help whilst editing the task as i could straight away find which take i needed of each shot.
Here is a typical example of a clapper board-
EDITING MY PRELIMINARY TASK
As i said about using a clapper board in my filming this became very useful as i could find exactly which take i needed of each shot. For the text at the beggining 'Where is he?' i used a plain and simple text in white so it standed out from the background and so it was easily read. I used a fade in, fade out on the text to make it fade in at the beggining and after about a 2 second pause fade out again all during the actor was walking into the building. For each shot i used a straight cut rather than a fade or dissolve between each clip during editing so it gives someone whos watching it the impression that everything is happening straight away with no pause, for example when the actor walks in to the building and then the camera is recording inside, this looks as if it is all happening fluently by using match on action and not using a dissolve or fade in my editing.
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