Opening sequence analysis

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Information

·         Columbia pictures and metro-goldwyn-mayer pictures

·         A scott Rudin – yellow bird production

·         A david Fincher film

Actors

·         Daniel Craig

·         Chrstopher Plumer

·         Stellan

·         Skarsgard

·         Steven Berkotlf

·         GeraldDine James

Production Designer Donald Graham burt

Production by Scott Rudin, Ote Sonderg, Soren Starmose and Cean Charffin

Action

-There is close up on textures at the beginning, which soon becomes clear that the close up of is of dragon scales.

- The screen flashes which creates tension and the scene is fast moving,  atmospheric and leaves you wanting  more and intrigued

- The audience is given the idea that the liquid is black ink, this idea is brought to us by the fact that the word ‘tattoo’ is in the title of the film.

- The word tattoo in the title creates rhetorical questions for the audience.

-The main colour which consists throughout this opening scene is black and this suggests death. Some examples are; Ripples of black ink, black leather and black armour.

-The excessive use of ink portrays the idea that is it out of control.

-The information is written on a black background makes it stand out

- At the end there is a section of fire, dragons and wings, which again connect with the title ‘The Girl with the Dragon tattoo.’

Inception

Information

·         Warner Bros pictures

·         A Time Warner company

·         Legendary pictures

·         Syncopy

·         A Christopher Nolan film and directed

·         Production design guy Hundrix Dyas

Actors

·         Leonardo Dicaprio

·         Joseph Gordon-Levitt

·         Ellen page

·         Cillian Murry

·         Marion Cotillard

Action

-The font of the writing is displayed in a maze/puzzle form. This connects with the movies message of different levels of dreams there also zoomed in sections of the letter which allow the audience to see the letters are in a maze font.

-There is blurred and smudged imagery of the letters which suggests moving into the other worlds.

-There is white writing on black which makes it interesting and stands and this draws you eyes to the actors names.

-In the background there are faded and hazy scenes from the film which sets the scene and this also   reminds the audience of faded dreams and partially remembered dreams.

Mission Impossible - Ghoast Protocal

Information

Paramount pictures are skydance productions

• Tome cruise
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• Bad Robot
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• A Brad Bird film
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• Simon peg
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• Paula patton
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• Michael nyquist
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• Vladimir mastikov

Action

The opening scene consists of a traveling spark on a wire which  ends with an explosion. The dynamite ignition chord moves through a large selection of scenes from the movie and gives the captive audience a taste of the fast moving, dynamic action which will be found within the film.

 There is the uses of computer generated images, which creates an action feel; for example when the missile turns into the bullet inside tom cruises gun; this creates a very graphic shot.

Throughout the scene the audience follows the spark, this conveys the feeling of moving through time and this is created by all the scenes rushing towards the audience.

Sound Analysis Kill Bill vol 1, Scene- Beatrix Buried

The clip starts with solemn music which suggests revenge, also the background music portrays the ideas of cowboys and sets the scene as a western style as the characters are presented in a western style with cowboy hats and cowboy boots.

The sound of the nails being hammered into the wooden coffin is loud and exaggerates the fact that she cant get out and how she is locked in. The sound of the wood being punchered into the coffin suggests the idea that it is impossible to get and also creates the ideas that she is going to suffer and die in the wooden coffin

The repetition of the nails being hammered into the boxes portrays the thoughts of her being trapped, it also heightens the fact that she is trapped because it exaggerates the eco of the hammering which gives the effect that the audience is also trapped.

There is a muffled sound of debree being focused on. The muffled effect allows the audience to experience what the same as the character in the scene, this allows the audience to feel and connect with the characters emotions. Furthermore, the close up shot shown on the left allows the character to be aware of the emotions the character is experiencing  

The sound of the trapped character struggling is then followed with a silence and then followed by a louder final blow of mud and debree; the fact that the screen is pitched black while this is happening allows the audience to focus on the sounds and this portrays how terrified the woman. The scream for help is heightened with the fact that this screen is pitch black because the audience isn’t expecting it. Also by using a black out shot it presents what the character is seeing and the audience can connect emotionally with the character

The ending part of this scene involves the sound of laughter from outside of the coffin. This allows the audience to feel sympathy for the woman trapped. There is also creaking of wood which suggests pain and suffering.

                                  

                                  

Semiotics

Semiotics- The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation

The cultural circuit

Semiotics examines how symbolic, written and technical signs construct meaning.

The Signifier – The sign/symbol: word, colour or image (ie colour blue)

The Signified – The concept/ meaning, associations that the sign refers to blue is often associated with sadness or the sea.

Another example would be a kitchen knife- a kitchen knife represents cooking, however in the society we live in people think of death, stabbing and slasher movies when a kitchen knife is mentioned.

What is a Thriller?

Definition of a Thriller
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and  excitement as the main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods giving them a high level of  anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and/or terror. Thriller films tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced.

Prelim task

Video: prelim

Video

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

Prelim editing write up

When editing the prelim task we followed the story board given to us, which showed different angles of a conversation.

During the editing we had to follow a sequence which made the conversation make sense because we took many different shots in different angles we had to chose the right sections by using the buttons 'i' and 'o' to crop the section we needed, we did this in final cut programe. When we shot the different shots we shot some extra shots such as a close up of the girl picking up the rubix cube.

Prelim task: storyboard

At the beginning of our thriller shoot we were given the rubix cube to incorporate and use during the filming for our prelim and we were also given a story board to use which labelled the main shots we were to include, but we were also allowed to do extra shots which we felt would improve our prelim.

Analysis Presentation

Camera Lesson 2 - learning how to flim

During this lesson, we implied our knowledge of setting up the Sony nx5 camera and incorporated our knowledge on the different shots we learned during our 3 classroom session, this included doing a wide shot which captivated and allowed the scene to be set, big close up which is usually used to show emotion and a point of view shot which provides the audience with the perspective from a particular characters point of view.

Before taking the shots the media technician explained the proceedures which took place before starting the shots and we implied this too our work. Everyone on the set said 'standby' which tells the producer that they are ready, then the deputy director says turning the camera over and rolling, which tells everyone the shot is about to start and then the dirctor sayd 'action' starting the filming has started.

While practicng filming our sequence of shots we leanred that between tolling the camera over and action the camera person had to leave a gap of just the wiode shot with no character, this is so that the shots can be cut together ans smoothly without the differnt shots stopping and starting again. We also practiced angling the camera to give a differnt effect; this includes lower the camera.

Camera Lesson with Adam- Different shots

Camera Lesson with Adam- Differnt shots

During this lesson we were introduced to the different types of camera shots used during a scene.

There are 12 shot sizes which we learnt:

• Big close-up (BCU)
• Mid shot
• Wide shot
• Point of view
• Close up shot
• Medium shot
• Over the shoulder shot
• High angle
• Medium close-up
• Long shot
• Two shot, three shot
• Low angle

We focused on some of the main shots in detail:

Wide shot

This can also be called the establishing shot. This can be used to establish the location, set the scene and atmosphere. The wide shot is often used at the beginning and the end of the scene.

Big close up shot

This shot mainly focuses on the head or part of the head and used to show emotion and detail.

Over the shoulder shot

The shot allows the audience to see what the character is seeing. This shot is often used to suggest someone is being flowed or watched by an unseen person.

Long shot

This contains a shot of the full figure in their location. This shot can often be used to distance the audience from events or suggest loneliness or isolation.

During the lesson we were given the example to examine called ‘Pleasantville’. Throughout this scene there are many different examples of different shots. At the beginning there is a wide shot which shows the location and allows the audience to see that Pleasantville is set in an American high school environment. Then there are two mid shots edited together with the boys head slightly on the right and the first head slightly on the left. This creates a conversation taking place. The choice of cleaver camera shots creates a conversation, which isn’t really taking place. At the end of the scene we watched there is a wide shot used to show the boys isolation.

Camera Lesson 1 - Learning the basics

During our first camera lesson we learnt how to set up low grade proffesional sony nx5 camera.

Fristly we learnt how to set out the tripod; by spreading its legs, locking the differnt parts of the tripod together, atatching the handle and holding a black button down and sliding the camera on. To make sure the camera is straight we bubbled the camera, which is by making the bubble  centrual in the middle of a lime green circle. Then we were given the battery and were told how to incert the battery insuring that a 'click' sound was made.

Then we were instructed to turn the sony nx5 camera on, by pressing the red button and turning it left.
Matt the media technician then explained and showed me how to white balance; this made sure that the picture being filmed was the correct colour and stopped the skin colour appearing orangey. By showing the camera the colour white, the camera is then able to gadge other colors.

We were also taught how to increase and decrease the zoom and how to focus the shot.We zoomed in and then focused and then zoomed out, which allowed a clearer picture and shot.

We were also told some information about the camera and about the numbers which come up on the scream when you start filming. The time code shows the camera perosn how long long you have been filming for, that the original amount of pixials should be 50 if any higher would make the camera a
have a smudgy effect.

Introduction

My name is Francesca Summers and I am 16 years old and I LOVE sport !
 
I am a Pentathlete and do Modern Pentathlon for Great Britain. Pentathlon is a 3000m run, 200m swim, 10m air pistol shooting, epee fencing and show jumping all these are completed in one days competition.

Britain has a great history of success in this event, he women have medalled in every Olympics since 2000 and it is currently my goal to represent Great Britain in Rio de Janerio in 2016. I have been U13, U16 and U19 National champion, in the last 2 years I have represented GBR in European Championships and World Championships.

 I chose Media Studies for A level because I am really interested in sports commentary and TV Presenting.