We filmed a scene for our media, in which myself and Heather had an improvised conversation. In this sequence, we used a Shot Reverse Shot technique that captures both reactions to the conversation, from each characters point of view, using over the shoulder shots.A shot reverse shot is a film technique wherein one character is shown looking (often off-screen) at another character, and then the other character is looking "back" at the first character. Since the character are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer unconsciously assumes that they are looking at each other.
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Analysing 3 Saul Bass Title Sequences
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
The title sequence starts off with a grey screen. The director's name 'OTTO PREMINGER' flashes on at the beat of the dramatic instrumental music.
White writing contrasts the grey background. Then, parts of the body begin to appear and cover up the director's name. Possibly indicating that the director is the centre of the creation, he is the main body of the film.
Music, again, introduces the change of shot of the scene, there is a 'dum dum dum' of the music beat, which changes the shot of the entire body, to just a close up of the heade in 3 very quick stages. First, the whole body disappears, leaving just the head. Secondly, the head flashes from its original placing, to a centre screen close up. The beat strikes the third time, and now ther head contains the name of the 'head' actor of the film.
This format for title sequence, presents that, although the director is the main body of the film, it is made up of the whole crew, and in putting the main characters nane in the head, it is ironically representing his lead in the film.
Saul Bass' opening for 'It's a mad mad world' is a very lengthy opening, lasting approximately 4 minutes. Saul uses hands of the same design a lot in his opening titles. The circular object is used to represent many different things in the opening, such as an egg, a tin being opened etc, this could represent the many different things that come out of this world.
In many points of this opening, something is trying to break free of the object, but is repeatedly being pushed and shoved back in, this may represent an oppression of society not allowing people to part themselves from the mass of everyone around them and the conformities.
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Upon analysing Saul Bass' opening of the 1960 Ocean's Eleven, it is clear to see the use of the basis of the plot in the title sequence. Throughout the title sequence, Saul has used parts that relate to a casino and gambling, as the film's plot is a heist of a casino. He uses the dots that make up each picture, which represent the big city lights of cities such as Las Vegas, the gambling city lights.
White writing contrasts the grey background. Then, parts of the body begin to appear and cover up the director's name. Possibly indicating that the director is the centre of the creation, he is the main body of the film.
Music, again, introduces the change of shot of the scene, there is a 'dum dum dum' of the music beat, which changes the shot of the entire body, to just a close up of the heade in 3 very quick stages. First, the whole body disappears, leaving just the head. Secondly, the head flashes from its original placing, to a centre screen close up. The beat strikes the third time, and now ther head contains the name of the 'head' actor of the film.
This format for title sequence, presents that, although the director is the main body of the film, it is made up of the whole crew, and in putting the main characters nane in the head, it is ironically representing his lead in the film.
It's a Mad Mad World
Saul Bass' opening for 'It's a mad mad world' is a very lengthy opening, lasting approximately 4 minutes. Saul uses hands of the same design a lot in his opening titles. The circular object is used to represent many different things in the opening, such as an egg, a tin being opened etc, this could represent the many different things that come out of this world.
In many points of this opening, something is trying to break free of the object, but is repeatedly being pushed and shoved back in, this may represent an oppression of society not allowing people to part themselves from the mass of everyone around them and the conformities.
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Upon analysing Saul Bass' opening of the 1960 Ocean's Eleven, it is clear to see the use of the basis of the plot in the title sequence. Throughout the title sequence, Saul has used parts that relate to a casino and gambling, as the film's plot is a heist of a casino. He uses the dots that make up each picture, which represent the big city lights of cities such as Las Vegas, the gambling city lights.
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Studying Foley
In lesson we did a workshop on foley sound work. Foley is the sounds in films that are added in the editing process to make the sounding clearer than the recording. For example, a dog running down the road and his nails are hitting the concrete. Almost every film, television program or animation contains foley sound that are added in the editing room. It is the Foley Artists job to make these sounds for editing.
The Foley Artist: Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
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