An analysis of Cinematography and Mise en Sence, in the train scene from
Quadrophenia ( Franc Roddam 1979 )
For this essay I have chosen to analyses Quadrophenia ( Franc Roddam 1979 ). Jimmy is a young mod living in the 60s in London. Along with his friends he enjoys driving his scooter, pill popping and drinking alcohol. Jimmy lives with his parents and doesn't get along with his drunken father. This movie is a drama mod movie. I chose to study the cinematography and the mise en sence, because I feel like they are very significant to the movie. The way the mods dressed made them stand out. Also the camera work is very unique.
The cinematographer has used the framing for the camera to create meaning for the viewers. At the beginning of the scene, Jimmy ( Phil Daniels ) is riding his scooter down the road. He is doing this because he has lost the girl of his dreams and he has been kicked out of his house for doing drugs. Th way the cinematographer has framed this, is Jimmy is in the center of the shot. The cinematographer has done this because it makes Jimmy the focus point of the shot. This makes the audience feel different emotions for Jimmy. The mise en sence in this film part of the sequence Jimmy is wearing grungy clothes, he is in a dark low cut V top and his green parker coat. The parker coat is very significant for the mods. This could make the audience feel that he hasn't washed for a few days and that he is living on the street/shed. His scooter in the shot is the most expensive thing and it is his pride and joy. The next shot is of when Jimmy has fallen of his scooter. The cinematography in these frames never shows the post officers face there is never a close up of them. This again puts Jimmy in the focus. There is a close up of Jimmy's face this give the impression to the audience that we are a post officer. There is also a number of shots where we are looking from over the post officers shoulder ( an over shoulder shot ) this put the viewers in the place of the post officer as well. The mise en sence in the shots of when the post officers are there, are that Jimmy looks really dirty and that he looks very low class and the post officers are in there uniform. Which makes the viewers feel like the post offices have a higher status, but this is challenged by the camera angles, because they are never focused on the post officers. So the camera angles make the audience feel Jimmy has high status but the mise en sence make them feel the post officers have the higher status.
One of the next significant shots is the establishing shot of the railway station. This lets the audience know where the next few shot are going to be and where Jimmy now is. The framing for the next shot of Jimmy works really well. It shows the viewers that he is trying to be extremely sly about what he is doing. The clothes he is wearing is still his parker coat he also has a bottle of vodka in his hand and he is taking "blues" ( the drugs which are mentioned though out the film ). This shows the viewers that he is addicted to them and he also doesn't care where he does them. His status in this shot seems very low because he is standing almost behind then weighing machine and he is not with any of his mates. After this there is a tracking shot of Jimmy walking towards the train this lets the viewers know he is getting on the train.
The next shot is a middle age women walking down the train hall. The camera shot is though a carriage door. This works well because you can see her from her waist up. The mise en sence work here because she is dressed in the fashion that the 60s women would were. Also her hair is a 60s hairdo. The pan shot when the camera follows the women in to the toilet. This is a very good example of when the audience feels like they are there in the action of the sence. When the women pushes the door open Jimmy just stands there looking at her. At this point he has changed his clothes. He is now in his suit. Along with his parker coat the mods also wore suits. This is another stereotype for a mod. Before this sequence in the film Jimmy travels up to Brighton with all his mates "mods" and they all wore there parker coats and suit. This gives the audience a hint that he is on his way back up to Brighton. The way the camera follows Jimmy out of the toilet make the audience feel that they are with him. Then we watch him walk up the carriage though the door again. This makes the audience feel like they are watching him on the train. Jimmy's suit is maroon this makes it stand out on the train because not a lot of other people are wearing bright colours. This make the audience know who he is and that they don't lose him in the crowd.
Jimmy is still walking down the train. We now get a match on action shot of Jimmy walking down the carriages. He is also holding his bag in the same hand. Now we have a tracking shot of Jimmy walking towards the camera. This makes us fee like he is the focus. Though out the film this is where he is positioned in the frame most of the time. His face feels very paranoid this could be cause of the drugs he is taking. We now have a shot of jimmy throwing this bag out of the train window and two girls appear behind him. They are dressed in school uniform this lets the viewer know that they are young. Jimmy is also in front of them there for they have a lower status.
Jimmy now finds a seat and there is a shot of him walking in to the room where he has found a seat. This is a match on action shot. The director Franc Roddam has chosen to have two older men sitting either side of Jimmy this makes him seem and look really young. Like a child. The clothes that then men are wearing are black suits with bowler hats on. They look a lot more high class then Jimmy. They are both reading news paper and Jimmy seems to be hugging his parker coat, this makes him seem more childish. The framing of this shot is a medium shot of the two men and Jimmy sitting down with Jimmy in the middle. Again he is the focus of the shot. He also stands out because of the maroon suit. It then cut into a close up on Jimmy's face. This framing lets the audience concentrate on Jimmy,and not on anything else around him. Jimmy's eyes are going franticly from side to side this reminds the audience that he has taken drugs and that he is 'tripping out'. They remind the audience though out the film because it is a big part of his life.
The next two shots. Round the sence up really well. There is a shot though the train window looking on the train tracks. This goes on for 3 seconds then it suddenly cuts to an image of the waves crashing against the shore. This lets the audience know that he is now off the train and arrived in Brighton. The sound suddenly cut to non-diegetic music to the strong sound of the waves crashing. The last shot of this sequence is Jimmy sitting in a cafe. There is the reflection in the window of the pier. This reminds the audience where he has gone to. They would of seen the pier earlier in the film.
I think that my chosen micro elements have played a very important part for creating meaning for the audience. The cinematography is very important for the emotions of Jimmy and his status. The mise en sence also worked really well because the way they dress was about who they were. I chose this sequence because I think it is very significant to the film as it's when the mod era is ending but Jimmy still wants it to carry on. And everyone has let him down.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
An analysis of Cinematography and Mise en Sence, in the train scene from Quadrophenia ( Franc Roddam 1979 )
An analysis of Cinematography and Mise en Sence, in the train scene from
Quadrophenia ( Franc Roddam 1979 )
For this essay I have chosen to analyses Quadrophenia ( Franc Roddam 1979 ). Jimmy is a young mod living in the 60s in London. Along with his friends he enjoys driving his scooter, pill popping and drinking alcohol. Jimmy lives with his parents and doesn't get along with his drunken father. This movie is a drama mod movie. I chose to study the cinematography and the mise en sence, because I feel like they are very significant to the movie. The way the mods dressed made them stand out. Also the camera work is very unique.
The cinematographer has used the framing for the camera to create meaning for the viewers. At the beginning of the scene, Jimmy ( Phil Daniels ) is riding his scooter down the road. He is doing this because he has lost the girl of his dreams and he has been kicked out of his house for doing drugs. Th way the cinematographer has framed this, is Jimmy is in the center of the shot. The cinematographer has done this because it makes Jimmy the focus point of the shot. This makes the audience feel different emotions for Jimmy. The mise en sence in this film part of the sequence Jimmy is wearing grungy clothes, he is in a dark low cut V top and his green parker coat. The parker coat is very significant for the mods. This could make the audience feel that he hasn't washed for a few days and that he is living on the street/shed. His scooter in the shot is the most expensive thing and it is his pride and joy. The next shot is of when Jimmy has fallen of his scooter. The cinematography in these frames never shows the post officers face there is never a close up of them. This again puts Jimmy in the focus. There is a close up of Jimmy's face this give the impression to the audience that we are a post officer. There is also a number of shots where we are looking from over the post officers shoulder ( an over shoulder shot ) this put the viewers in the place of the post officer as well. The mise en sence in the shots of when the post officers are there, are that Jimmy looks really dirty and that he looks very low class and the post officers are in there uniform. Which makes the viewers feel like the post offices have a higher status, but this is challenged by the camera angles, because they are never focused on the post officers. So the camera angles make the audience feel Jimmy has high status but the mise en sence make them feel the post officers have the higher status.
One of the next significant shots is the establishing shot of the railway station. This lets the audience know where the next few shot are going to be and where Jimmy now is. The framing for the next shot of Jimmy works really well. It shows the viewers that he is trying to be extremely sly about what he is doing. The clothes he is wearing is still his parker coat he also has a bottle of vodka in his hand and he is taking "blues" ( the drugs which are mentioned though out the film ). This shows the viewers that he is addicted to them and he also doesn't care where he does them. His status in this shot seems very low because he is standing almost behind then weighing machine and he is not with any of his mates. After this there is a tracking shot of Jimmy walking towards the train this lets the viewers know he is getting on the train.
The next shot is a middle age women walking down the train hall. The camera shot is though a carriage door. This works well because you can see her from her waist up. The mise en sence work here because she is dressed in the fashion that the 60s women would were. Also her hair is a 60s hairdo. The pan shot when the camera follows the women in to the toilet. This is a very good example of when the audience feels like they are there in the action of the sence. When the women pushes the door open Jimmy just stands there looking at her. At this point he has changed his clothes. He is now in his suit. Along with his parker coat the mods also wore suits. This is another stereotype for a mod. Before this sequence in the film Jimmy travels up to Brighton with all his mates "mods" and they all wore there parker coats and suit. This gives the audience a hint that he is on his way back up to Brighton. The way the camera follows Jimmy out of the toilet make the audience feel that they are with him. Then we watch him walk up the carriage though the door again. This makes the audience feel like they are watching him on the train. Jimmy's suit is maroon this makes it stand out on the train because not a lot of other people are wearing bright colours. This make the audience know who he is and that they don't lose him in the crowd.
Jimmy is still walking down the train. We now get a match on action shot of Jimmy walking down the carriages. He is also holding his bag in the same hand. Now we have a tracking shot of Jimmy walking towards the camera. This makes us fee like he is the focus. Though out the film this is where he is positioned in the frame most of the time. His face feels very paranoid this could be cause of the drugs he is taking. We now have a shot of jimmy throwing this bag out of the train window and two girls appear behind him. They are dressed in school uniform this lets the viewer know that they are young. Jimmy is also in front of them there for they have a lower status.
Jimmy now finds a seat and there is a shot of him walking in to the room where he has found a seat. This is a match on action shot. The director Franc Roddam has chosen to have two older men sitting either side of Jimmy this makes him seem and look really young. Like a child. The clothes that then men are wearing are black suits with bowler hats on. They look a lot more high class then Jimmy. They are both reading news paper and Jimmy seems to be hugging his parker coat, this makes him seem more childish. The framing of this shot is a medium shot of the two men and Jimmy sitting down with Jimmy in the middle. Again he is the focus of the shot. He also stands out because of the maroon suit. It then cut into a close up on Jimmy's face. This framing lets the audience concentrate on Jimmy,and not on anything else around him. Jimmy's eyes are going franticly from side to side this reminds the audience that he has taken drugs and that he is 'tripping out'. They remind the audience though out the film because it is a big part of his life.
The next two shots. Round the sence up really well. There is a shot though the train window looking on the train tracks. This goes on for 3 seconds then it suddenly cuts to an image of the waves crashing against the shore. This lets the audience know that he is now off the train and arrived in Brighton. The sound suddenly cut to non-diegetic music to the strong sound of the waves crashing. The last shot of this sequence is Jimmy sitting in a cafe. There is the reflection in the window of the pier. This reminds the audience where he has gone to. They would of seen the pier earlier in the film.
I think that my chosen micro elements have played a very important part for creating meaning for the audience. The cinematography is very important for the emotions of Jimmy and his status. The mise en sence also worked really well because the way they dress was about who they were. I chose this sequence because I think it is very significant to the film as it's when the mod era is ending but Jimmy still wants it to carry on. And everyone has let him down.
Quadrophenia ( Franc Roddam 1979 )
For this essay I have chosen to analyses Quadrophenia ( Franc Roddam 1979 ). Jimmy is a young mod living in the 60s in London. Along with his friends he enjoys driving his scooter, pill popping and drinking alcohol. Jimmy lives with his parents and doesn't get along with his drunken father. This movie is a drama mod movie. I chose to study the cinematography and the mise en sence, because I feel like they are very significant to the movie. The way the mods dressed made them stand out. Also the camera work is very unique.
The cinematographer has used the framing for the camera to create meaning for the viewers. At the beginning of the scene, Jimmy ( Phil Daniels ) is riding his scooter down the road. He is doing this because he has lost the girl of his dreams and he has been kicked out of his house for doing drugs. Th way the cinematographer has framed this, is Jimmy is in the center of the shot. The cinematographer has done this because it makes Jimmy the focus point of the shot. This makes the audience feel different emotions for Jimmy. The mise en sence in this film part of the sequence Jimmy is wearing grungy clothes, he is in a dark low cut V top and his green parker coat. The parker coat is very significant for the mods. This could make the audience feel that he hasn't washed for a few days and that he is living on the street/shed. His scooter in the shot is the most expensive thing and it is his pride and joy. The next shot is of when Jimmy has fallen of his scooter. The cinematography in these frames never shows the post officers face there is never a close up of them. This again puts Jimmy in the focus. There is a close up of Jimmy's face this give the impression to the audience that we are a post officer. There is also a number of shots where we are looking from over the post officers shoulder ( an over shoulder shot ) this put the viewers in the place of the post officer as well. The mise en sence in the shots of when the post officers are there, are that Jimmy looks really dirty and that he looks very low class and the post officers are in there uniform. Which makes the viewers feel like the post offices have a higher status, but this is challenged by the camera angles, because they are never focused on the post officers. So the camera angles make the audience feel Jimmy has high status but the mise en sence make them feel the post officers have the higher status.
One of the next significant shots is the establishing shot of the railway station. This lets the audience know where the next few shot are going to be and where Jimmy now is. The framing for the next shot of Jimmy works really well. It shows the viewers that he is trying to be extremely sly about what he is doing. The clothes he is wearing is still his parker coat he also has a bottle of vodka in his hand and he is taking "blues" ( the drugs which are mentioned though out the film ). This shows the viewers that he is addicted to them and he also doesn't care where he does them. His status in this shot seems very low because he is standing almost behind then weighing machine and he is not with any of his mates. After this there is a tracking shot of Jimmy walking towards the train this lets the viewers know he is getting on the train.
The next shot is a middle age women walking down the train hall. The camera shot is though a carriage door. This works well because you can see her from her waist up. The mise en sence work here because she is dressed in the fashion that the 60s women would were. Also her hair is a 60s hairdo. The pan shot when the camera follows the women in to the toilet. This is a very good example of when the audience feels like they are there in the action of the sence. When the women pushes the door open Jimmy just stands there looking at her. At this point he has changed his clothes. He is now in his suit. Along with his parker coat the mods also wore suits. This is another stereotype for a mod. Before this sequence in the film Jimmy travels up to Brighton with all his mates "mods" and they all wore there parker coats and suit. This gives the audience a hint that he is on his way back up to Brighton. The way the camera follows Jimmy out of the toilet make the audience feel that they are with him. Then we watch him walk up the carriage though the door again. This makes the audience feel like they are watching him on the train. Jimmy's suit is maroon this makes it stand out on the train because not a lot of other people are wearing bright colours. This make the audience know who he is and that they don't lose him in the crowd.
Jimmy is still walking down the train. We now get a match on action shot of Jimmy walking down the carriages. He is also holding his bag in the same hand. Now we have a tracking shot of Jimmy walking towards the camera. This makes us fee like he is the focus. Though out the film this is where he is positioned in the frame most of the time. His face feels very paranoid this could be cause of the drugs he is taking. We now have a shot of jimmy throwing this bag out of the train window and two girls appear behind him. They are dressed in school uniform this lets the viewer know that they are young. Jimmy is also in front of them there for they have a lower status.
Jimmy now finds a seat and there is a shot of him walking in to the room where he has found a seat. This is a match on action shot. The director Franc Roddam has chosen to have two older men sitting either side of Jimmy this makes him seem and look really young. Like a child. The clothes that then men are wearing are black suits with bowler hats on. They look a lot more high class then Jimmy. They are both reading news paper and Jimmy seems to be hugging his parker coat, this makes him seem more childish. The framing of this shot is a medium shot of the two men and Jimmy sitting down with Jimmy in the middle. Again he is the focus of the shot. He also stands out because of the maroon suit. It then cut into a close up on Jimmy's face. This framing lets the audience concentrate on Jimmy,and not on anything else around him. Jimmy's eyes are going franticly from side to side this reminds the audience that he has taken drugs and that he is 'tripping out'. They remind the audience though out the film because it is a big part of his life.
The next two shots. Round the sence up really well. There is a shot though the train window looking on the train tracks. This goes on for 3 seconds then it suddenly cuts to an image of the waves crashing against the shore. This lets the audience know that he is now off the train and arrived in Brighton. The sound suddenly cut to non-diegetic music to the strong sound of the waves crashing. The last shot of this sequence is Jimmy sitting in a cafe. There is the reflection in the window of the pier. This reminds the audience where he has gone to. They would of seen the pier earlier in the film.
I think that my chosen micro elements have played a very important part for creating meaning for the audience. The cinematography is very important for the emotions of Jimmy and his status. The mise en sence also worked really well because the way they dress was about who they were. I chose this sequence because I think it is very significant to the film as it's when the mod era is ending but Jimmy still wants it to carry on. And everyone has let him down.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Daniel Mark Baker
Long Road Film Studies
The genre was a big influence for our film; we decided that we wanted to do something with in the college and of a teenage audience like (Porky’s 1982). My role in the group was the cinematographer this meant I was in charge/played a part in the; framing, shot composition, camera movement and the lighting. We shot many different camera angles, finding out which camera angles fitted in and which did not, we used the ones that showed off the school scenery off the characters aspects and personality. We then choose the best shots. On the sound aspect we did our filming in quiet areas which symbolises the characters low profiles round the school, this also helped because if we shot in a loud atmosphere the dialogue would have been hard to pick up. We later added non diegetic sound to exaggerate the sounds that where actually made during filming. I played a big part in the lighting, I suggested to open and close and curtains to give a lighter space.
I and my group worked very well together and quickly thought of ideas all on the same lines on how our film would turn out and how the characters would act, we all agreed on what the characters should look and sound should like. I wanted the characters to all have the typical appearance of a “nerd”, with big glasses and unique outfits to the characters personality and looks, the colours of the outfits portrays the way the characters behave in our short sequence movie. When we first started we took photos of the main areas our characters would feature in, however in our final piece we used one of the five areas, this is because we did not like the footage we had in these areas, and we found better areas in which to film in. I choose to use close up when dialogue in the hall, this is because I wanted the audience to feel the emotions and humour. I decided to have to boys walking down the corridor so the audience gets a feel of the surroundings. When our rough draft was made, we quickly realised that we were missing a crucial scene and without it, our film would be hard to understand and follow, we then had to go out and re film some short sequences, this is because we missed out some close ups on the faces which would show the characters emotions. We also did not shoot the characters walking into the main hall; if we missed this out, our film would be very h ard to follow. These are some of many camera angles, boasting good micro features.
We wanted our audience to react to the micro features; we wanted the audience to be amused by the Mise en scene, the typical “nerdy” outfits and the quiet hangouts where our characters loomed because they are not popular within the school. We got our opening sequence ideas from “American Pie” (Paul Weitz 1999), American pie uses actors name and characters name that fade in and out of the shot and we thought this would be a good idea, because it gives the audience some information about which the characters are before it begins, it also gives off a professional feel. The sound we have included in our film is a background tune; the music is very upbeat and unique. The music dies down when dialogue occurs. The camera angles need to be either mid shots or close up in the dialogue; this is so the audience feel like the characters or a friend of the characters.
The feedback we got was mixed between successes and problems, our successes where the mise en scene, the sound and the editing, both strong aspects, however we had good camera angles, but there was some crucial footage missing, and people not from the school would not understand where the characters are so we needed to re-shoot to make it clear to the audience where they are. My technical skills enabled us to get the vital footage, my confident attitude and my ability to encourage my other team members. I believe what we could have made better was the ending; we have our characters running down the hall, I like this ending, however it could have been made better, some communication with a female or some sort of starting point with our characters with a female.
Overall, I am very pleased with our film, I believe the camera angles are good and they really do show the characters feelings and how they feel about this situation, it. The sounds used really emphasises the surroundings. The sound is unique, it’s pleasant and a happy tune and the backing track sounds a lot like the opening music from “super bad”. We got our idea from the opening soundtrack.
Long Road Film Studies
The genre was a big influence for our film; we decided that we wanted to do something with in the college and of a teenage audience like (Porky’s 1982). My role in the group was the cinematographer this meant I was in charge/played a part in the; framing, shot composition, camera movement and the lighting. We shot many different camera angles, finding out which camera angles fitted in and which did not, we used the ones that showed off the school scenery off the characters aspects and personality. We then choose the best shots. On the sound aspect we did our filming in quiet areas which symbolises the characters low profiles round the school, this also helped because if we shot in a loud atmosphere the dialogue would have been hard to pick up. We later added non diegetic sound to exaggerate the sounds that where actually made during filming. I played a big part in the lighting, I suggested to open and close and curtains to give a lighter space.
I and my group worked very well together and quickly thought of ideas all on the same lines on how our film would turn out and how the characters would act, we all agreed on what the characters should look and sound should like. I wanted the characters to all have the typical appearance of a “nerd”, with big glasses and unique outfits to the characters personality and looks, the colours of the outfits portrays the way the characters behave in our short sequence movie. When we first started we took photos of the main areas our characters would feature in, however in our final piece we used one of the five areas, this is because we did not like the footage we had in these areas, and we found better areas in which to film in. I choose to use close up when dialogue in the hall, this is because I wanted the audience to feel the emotions and humour. I decided to have to boys walking down the corridor so the audience gets a feel of the surroundings. When our rough draft was made, we quickly realised that we were missing a crucial scene and without it, our film would be hard to understand and follow, we then had to go out and re film some short sequences, this is because we missed out some close ups on the faces which would show the characters emotions. We also did not shoot the characters walking into the main hall; if we missed this out, our film would be very h ard to follow. These are some of many camera angles, boasting good micro features.
We wanted our audience to react to the micro features; we wanted the audience to be amused by the Mise en scene, the typical “nerdy” outfits and the quiet hangouts where our characters loomed because they are not popular within the school. We got our opening sequence ideas from “American Pie” (Paul Weitz 1999), American pie uses actors name and characters name that fade in and out of the shot and we thought this would be a good idea, because it gives the audience some information about which the characters are before it begins, it also gives off a professional feel. The sound we have included in our film is a background tune; the music is very upbeat and unique. The music dies down when dialogue occurs. The camera angles need to be either mid shots or close up in the dialogue; this is so the audience feel like the characters or a friend of the characters.
The feedback we got was mixed between successes and problems, our successes where the mise en scene, the sound and the editing, both strong aspects, however we had good camera angles, but there was some crucial footage missing, and people not from the school would not understand where the characters are so we needed to re-shoot to make it clear to the audience where they are. My technical skills enabled us to get the vital footage, my confident attitude and my ability to encourage my other team members. I believe what we could have made better was the ending; we have our characters running down the hall, I like this ending, however it could have been made better, some communication with a female or some sort of starting point with our characters with a female.
Overall, I am very pleased with our film, I believe the camera angles are good and they really do show the characters feelings and how they feel about this situation, it. The sounds used really emphasises the surroundings. The sound is unique, it’s pleasant and a happy tune and the backing track sounds a lot like the opening music from “super bad”. We got our idea from the opening soundtrack.
A Long Shot evaluation
Evaluation
Jack Reader
For our film project we chose to do an extract that is based on a American High school comedy. Our extract is based around the film ‘American Pie’ (1999) which sees a group of friends who aren’t really very good around girls try and loose their virginity before they leave High School. It is also a similar film to ‘Porky’s’, ‘American Grafitti’ and ‘Grease’. All these films are about young boys trying to reach man-hood before they leave high school. We filmed the opening sequence for the film, which gradually introduces the characters one by one.
My chosen microelement for our extract was Sound.
To create the feel of an American high school we spoke throughout the extract in American accents. We decided to introduce the three different characters Theodore, Melvin and Brandon in ways, which represented them. We also based our plot to be around the same as the films, which are similar to ours. We didn’t use any voice-overs in the sequence, as we wanted to create the feel that we were actually in an American high school. I feel that what we produced showed the narrative of our film in the way that we wanted to. We used a lot of diegetic sound throughout the extract to give the audience the atmosphere of a school. There are points in the extract where we used non-diegetic sound; this was done to cancel out the loud camera sounds from what we were filming. I could have built up more sound around some areas of the extract, as it would be easier to construct sound effects and then layer them up rather than adding one or two.
I think our group worked well to create our film extract and I fulfilled my responsibility in the group to create and work the sound into our extract. There were a few problems that we had to face whilst we were creating our extract. The first was a lack of continuity in one of our scenes. We had to go back and re-film a scene as the feedback we got from people who watched it made us realise there was some confusion. There was one point in the sequence, which has a good use of continuity with the sound. The scene where we are walking into the hall uses a lot of background sound and it then moves into the sound of people laughing which makes the audience think there are more people in the hall with us. There is also another scene of us walking down the corridor, which uses a lot of background sound, which then follows us walking up the stairs.
We also encountered some problems with adding in the titles for the film. We had to adapt to these problems and slowly work our way around them. We changed the idea of what sort of sound we were going to have whilst we progressed in the project. Our first thought was to base our soundtrack around that of some other films that inspired us such as ‘Superbad’ (2007). I started to research on different films soundtracks to gain inspiration. The soundtrack I created fits in very well with our film extract and also helps tell the story of our film as well. I developed the narrative well through my specific micro responsibility because the sound I produced helped create the right atmosphere and surroundings that we wanted to achieve. The use of not having voice-overs in our extract helped us explain our film in a better way through acting it out. There are some areas of the sound, which still need a little bit more work done on them before the final deadline just so everything sounds perfect. We tried not to use to much non-diegetic sound into our sequence as the audience would lose the feel of a school but we used it where we needed to use it appropriately. We used background laughter in the scene where we are talking. As a group this would be a good idea as it make the three boys seem secluded and outcasted by others. The area on which we filmed the scene makes the audience relate towards the characters as they don’t have any other friends and stay only with each other. We also tried to drown out any other background sound from the camera in this scene so we could add the sound affect of laughter. The main soundtrack had to be altered slightly earlier on throughout the project as one of the sounds didn’t really fit into what we were trying to create so it seemed out of place. We managed to deal with this problem quickly and efficiently so we didn’t get tied up in doing so later on. A lot of our shots we decided to shot would include mostly diegetic sound otherwise it would seem strange to the audience that the film was based in a school with no background sound. From looking back at the whole project my group worked well together and we all contributed to our areas, which we needed to. I think there were a couple of problems we had at the beginning about choosing what to do but I feel we managed to work around them and sort them out.
This is a grid of screenshots from our film. They are different parts from the extract. As you can see the pictures show each of the different characters throughout the opening title. From this you can see that Theodore who is the one in the middle is seen as the main guy and Brandon and Melvin are his two friends who are not as important as him.
To conclude I feel that the sound within the extract of our film was a success as we managed to full fill our idea. I am very pleased with the result of our film extract. I am also very pleased with the feedback that we received was good as people liked what we done with the sound and the soundtrack that had been created. However there are also still a couple of things that could be done to the sound to make it the best it can be and we could of also used some more non-diegetic sound where needed.
A Long Shot Evaluation
Long Road Film Studies (A Long Shot)
Grace Mooney
The genre was comedy.We decided on for our film was, teen age comedy a big influence for our film was American Pie directed by Paul Weitz and was released in 1999, and porkies. We decided that we wanted to film it at long road because this would make to location more realistic for our teen age comedy. We would of also had a lot of other teenage kids around for background extras.
Grace Mooney
The genre was comedy.We decided on for our film was, teen age comedy a big influence for our film was American Pie directed by Paul Weitz and was released in 1999, and porkies. We decided that we wanted to film it at long road because this would make to location more realistic for our teen age comedy. We would of also had a lot of other teenage kids around for background extras.
Our group want all of the characters to all appear as “nerd”, with big black glasses and unique outfits such as shirts and tie, waistcoats. In our 1st session I thought it would be a good idea to take still images and place them on our blogger. When I started to put the film together and edit it i found a few bits hard so I decided that we should go back and film more. So then it was easier for me to edit. We also did not shoot the characters walking into the main hall; if we missed this out, our film would be very hard to follow.
My role in the group was the Editor/Filmer. I was in charge of making sure all the filming was in continuity and that I had the shots to editing them together. We shot a lot different camera angles, it was almost a trial and error, we only used the shots that we thought would betray the charters.We then choose the best shots. Jack worked on the sound we based our sound on the Super-bad soundtrack. We filmed a lot of the work around long road outside, in the cafe,and in our class room, most of the places we filmed were quite quiet this helped us because if we shot where it was really busy you would not be able to here what theodore, brandon, melvin were saying.
The feedback we got a mixed reaction between things people like and things people didn't understand and the problems, I feel like the sound and editing were out strong points.Our group still thought that there was still quite alot of footage missing. We were told if people watched this and they didn't go to long road they wouldn't understand where the characters would be. The shot of them walking in to the hall was one of the last minute shots we added in. I wanted this shot in because i want to show the audience where they were going and not just jumping to Dan sitting down.
I thought the micro features were very important for our film to make the comedy effect. We added in glasses. I filmed them in places in college that would not be classed as "Cool" places to hang out.
We also gave them High voices and had them talking out there xbox games and how they weren't invited to a party. out story is about 3 young guys at 6th form trying to get a girlfriend. In my group i found it quite stressful because I had such a huge job on my shoulders. American pie was the main film we took alot of our ideas from the way that they play with there hair to make sure it looks "cool". But me and Dan the cinema-photographer looked at the way the titles at the beguine fade in and out. We also thought it would be a good idea to have a production and and a pictures name we came up with Pinwheel Pictures and we made up two names for our produces.
My role in the group was the Editor/Filmer. I was in charge of making sure all the filming was in continuity and that I had the shots to editing them together. We shot a lot different camera angles, it was almost a trial and error, we only used the shots that we thought would betray the charters.We then choose the best shots. Jack worked on the sound we based our sound on the Super-bad soundtrack. We filmed a lot of the work around long road outside, in the cafe,and in our class room, most of the places we filmed were quite quiet this helped us because if we shot where it was really busy you would not be able to here what theodore, brandon, melvin were saying.
The feedback we got a mixed reaction between things people like and things people didn't understand and the problems, I feel like the sound and editing were out strong points.Our group still thought that there was still quite alot of footage missing. We were told if people watched this and they didn't go to long road they wouldn't understand where the characters would be. The shot of them walking in to the hall was one of the last minute shots we added in. I wanted this shot in because i want to show the audience where they were going and not just jumping to Dan sitting down.
I thought the micro features were very important for our film to make the comedy effect. We added in glasses. I filmed them in places in college that would not be classed as "Cool" places to hang out.
We also gave them High voices and had them talking out there xbox games and how they weren't invited to a party. out story is about 3 young guys at 6th form trying to get a girlfriend. In my group i found it quite stressful because I had such a huge job on my shoulders. American pie was the main film we took alot of our ideas from the way that they play with there hair to make sure it looks "cool". But me and Dan the cinema-photographer looked at the way the titles at the beguine fade in and out. We also thought it would be a good idea to have a production and and a pictures name we came up with Pinwheel Pictures and we made up two names for our produces.
We thought we should do that so the viewers knew who the charter were straight away. 
In my own eyes I don't that we worked well as a group therefore I felt that I was doing most of the work.I got stressed out over some stuff. I think that most of the film works however, the rest of my group thought that the ending should have a girl in it. I do not think that because it is only supposed to be an extract for our full feature film so I feel this would be rushing thought the movie when it is just our opening. I would liked to of do another part of the film because I really got into it.
I am very happy with our end result. I still think that we didn't have enough shots but i think it worked well with the footage we had. The sound I feel that alot more could of been added to the sound. I also felt that there was no direction from the director. If i have a chance to film this again I would film alot more but from different angles.
In my own eyes I don't that we worked well as a group therefore I felt that I was doing most of the work.I got stressed out over some stuff. I think that most of the film works however, the rest of my group thought that the ending should have a girl in it. I do not think that because it is only supposed to be an extract for our full feature film so I feel this would be rushing thought the movie when it is just our opening. I would liked to of do another part of the film because I really got into it.I am very happy with our end result. I still think that we didn't have enough shots but i think it worked well with the footage we had. The sound I feel that alot more could of been added to the sound. I also felt that there was no direction from the director. If i have a chance to film this again I would film alot more but from different angles.
A Long Shot Opening Sequence Evaluation.
A Long Shot Film Evaluation
After viewing our two minute film sequence for the final time, I’m very pleased with the overall outcome. We decided upon making an American teen comedy film such as the well loved “Breakfast club” ironically directed by John Hughes in 1985, ironic in the fact that I took up the role of director within our group. Our sequence is largely based on letting the audience get a firm grasp of the characters so they can get a good understanding for the film. Which is based upon three stereo typical ‘nerds’ who set themselves the challenge of getting themselves girlfriends, hence the name “A Long Shot”.
Being as though we were aiming to fit into the American teen comedy genre we thought it only right to film our production on our college campus, as many other films of the same genre such as “American Pie” released in 1999 by Paul Wietz and “Porkies” directed by Bob Clark in 1982 which is set in Angel Beach High school therefore we followed suit and carried on this convention. We also picked up on the fact that there are key locations included in each film so we decided to go along with this and made sure we included these popular venues such as the college refectory and computer rooms-this was also fittings seeing as though the characters are playing into a nerdy stereotype and there time would be well spent in on the computers. In order for the audience to understand the characters and the plot we had to introduce each character individually so the audience can connect with them and create a bond with them, so as director I took the executive decision for each character to have roughly a twenty second sequence all to themselves with the main character having slightly longer screen time to stamp his authority on the film, such as in “American Pie” where although there are a few key characters its based solely around one main character. The characters are all male and although we noticed this we thought in order to really get the characters personalities out and the fact they are socially incapable of speaking to most males let alone girls, a series of close ups and shot freezes also helped establish the characters on screen, in my directing I also tried to make sure that the main character was in the middle of each shot depicting that he is the leader of the gang.
Here are a few screen grabs of various shots within our film. You can see that Theodore is in the middle of the group as planned to show he is the main character and that the story revolves around him. The various shots such as the long shot situated in the bottom right corner implies that they are always far away from everything and never come close, as though they are kept in the distance and are unknown to most in college. The first three pictures show the characters each individually as you manage to put a face to a name.
In terms of adaption, a few keys bits of the film had to be cut and sequences reduced in order for the sequence to be on time- this is partly due to me as director trying to fit to much into a short space of time, so in a way the fact that we had to cut and re-chop helped make the sequence flow better and the two minutes worth of footage didn’t look crammed and too busy. The feedback was relatively mixed but one thing that I picked up on was and is now is a decision which I now frown upon is a sequence after the plot is revealed where the group stand up and run, we had shot an alternative to this and I think the wrong shots were picked and this let the overall sequence down and made it look slightly amateur and out of place. I know think what we should have stuck with was an attempted shot to bring the college life more into the film as when the group who were sitting down would jump up and the shot would have been frozen, and they would jump up in the manner as though they had just graduated such as in “American Pie” and the “Porky’s” in order to keep within the college, teen genre we had created. I don’t think that our technical skills haunted the overall two minute production, as some cuts and fades are a bit sketchy and look as though its been poorly edited, although I’m happy we didn’t include any zooms as I was strongly against this as it is very rarely seen in any films and although breaking conventions can be good if the fact that no directors opt for this kind of shot I decided to steer clear from it.
To conclude, I’m very pleased with the way are production has turned out, boasting a variety shots and generating a strong feel for an American teen film, which is the genre in which this film would be looking to be classed as. Feedback in the form of laughter is very up building as after all it was a comedy and being able to bring the audience to laughter, means to a certain extent that this has been achieved. However I still feel as thought that one shot towards the end of the sequence of the trio running, ruins the simplistic look and seems out of place and out of character. But in terms of changing the sequence if possible I would make sure the continuity flowed better as towards the end Theodore’s glasses seem to vanish and then re-appear again in the next shot. This lowers the quality and professionalism in the sequence and is a mistake that could have been easily avoided so I’m worked up about that particular flaw.
By Joshua Ryan Hughes
After viewing our two minute film sequence for the final time, I’m very pleased with the overall outcome. We decided upon making an American teen comedy film such as the well loved “Breakfast club” ironically directed by John Hughes in 1985, ironic in the fact that I took up the role of director within our group. Our sequence is largely based on letting the audience get a firm grasp of the characters so they can get a good understanding for the film. Which is based upon three stereo typical ‘nerds’ who set themselves the challenge of getting themselves girlfriends, hence the name “A Long Shot”.
Being as though we were aiming to fit into the American teen comedy genre we thought it only right to film our production on our college campus, as many other films of the same genre such as “American Pie” released in 1999 by Paul Wietz and “Porkies” directed by Bob Clark in 1982 which is set in Angel Beach High school therefore we followed suit and carried on this convention. We also picked up on the fact that there are key locations included in each film so we decided to go along with this and made sure we included these popular venues such as the college refectory and computer rooms-this was also fittings seeing as though the characters are playing into a nerdy stereotype and there time would be well spent in on the computers. In order for the audience to understand the characters and the plot we had to introduce each character individually so the audience can connect with them and create a bond with them, so as director I took the executive decision for each character to have roughly a twenty second sequence all to themselves with the main character having slightly longer screen time to stamp his authority on the film, such as in “American Pie” where although there are a few key characters its based solely around one main character. The characters are all male and although we noticed this we thought in order to really get the characters personalities out and the fact they are socially incapable of speaking to most males let alone girls, a series of close ups and shot freezes also helped establish the characters on screen, in my directing I also tried to make sure that the main character was in the middle of each shot depicting that he is the leader of the gang.
Here are a few screen grabs of various shots within our film. You can see that Theodore is in the middle of the group as planned to show he is the main character and that the story revolves around him. The various shots such as the long shot situated in the bottom right corner implies that they are always far away from everything and never come close, as though they are kept in the distance and are unknown to most in college. The first three pictures show the characters each individually as you manage to put a face to a name.
In terms of adaption, a few keys bits of the film had to be cut and sequences reduced in order for the sequence to be on time- this is partly due to me as director trying to fit to much into a short space of time, so in a way the fact that we had to cut and re-chop helped make the sequence flow better and the two minutes worth of footage didn’t look crammed and too busy. The feedback was relatively mixed but one thing that I picked up on was and is now is a decision which I now frown upon is a sequence after the plot is revealed where the group stand up and run, we had shot an alternative to this and I think the wrong shots were picked and this let the overall sequence down and made it look slightly amateur and out of place. I know think what we should have stuck with was an attempted shot to bring the college life more into the film as when the group who were sitting down would jump up and the shot would have been frozen, and they would jump up in the manner as though they had just graduated such as in “American Pie” and the “Porky’s” in order to keep within the college, teen genre we had created. I don’t think that our technical skills haunted the overall two minute production, as some cuts and fades are a bit sketchy and look as though its been poorly edited, although I’m happy we didn’t include any zooms as I was strongly against this as it is very rarely seen in any films and although breaking conventions can be good if the fact that no directors opt for this kind of shot I decided to steer clear from it.
To conclude, I’m very pleased with the way are production has turned out, boasting a variety shots and generating a strong feel for an American teen film, which is the genre in which this film would be looking to be classed as. Feedback in the form of laughter is very up building as after all it was a comedy and being able to bring the audience to laughter, means to a certain extent that this has been achieved. However I still feel as thought that one shot towards the end of the sequence of the trio running, ruins the simplistic look and seems out of place and out of character. But in terms of changing the sequence if possible I would make sure the continuity flowed better as towards the end Theodore’s glasses seem to vanish and then re-appear again in the next shot. This lowers the quality and professionalism in the sequence and is a mistake that could have been easily avoided so I’m worked up about that particular flaw.
By Joshua Ryan Hughes
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Filming Process AGAIN
There are a couple of minor problems with our sequence. We lost a couple of vital shots from the camera so we have to re film - this is somewhat of an inconvenience but we cant help it and our film would be nothing with out these inspirational shots. We have decided to schedule our next filming session for the next week of thursday, once again a few rifts were caused by having to wear the same clothes again, but for the good of the group we have put this past us. We hope to get as close to the shots as we had early but the dialogue could differ slightly but this could make the film better in some respects and more genuine. We also hope our footage is not lost this time and that we overcome our initial setback.
Filming Process
We managed to collect all the footage we needed within 3 hours of camera time. We shot on the tuesday and the thursday, in order for u to keep the continuity in the film we had to wear the same clothes twice in a week-this did result to a petit argument but all troubles were quickly put behind us. To ensure the shots are of a stable quality we made the best use of the tripod available to us. We made sure to film extra shots so when we got back to the editing suite we would have more options available to us as the acting in one scene could have flowed better to the dialogue was well sounded out,therefore filming numerous takes of a shot can enhance the editing aspect of the film and leaves you with a much better base to start off with.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
A Long Shot
Here we have our title name," A Long Shot" this is in a scribbled font as it relates to the high school film in which the whole film is shot in basically. This title will fade in slowly after the opening sequence and once again fade out gradually after a few seconds, allowing the audience to get a good view of the title.
The way in which the titles fade in and out are similar to the "Superbad" opening sequence.Shown here;
Location Location Location
in order for our shots to look professional we went out and scouted possible areas for us to shoot in. we looked back at our storyboard and looked for relevant locations within the college campus to shoot in, in order to save us a lot of hassle having to meet up out of college. Here are some snap shots of possible areas;
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Characters!
Theodor; Theodor is the un-coolest one of the gang, and suffers the most abuse even from his two friends, who have been with him since kindergarten. He is very uncomfortable around boys let alone girls but somehow he manages to score a girlfriend. He constantly blabbers on in the hope to impress females, however they don't care about the new war hammer he has recently purchased.
Melvin; Melvin is Theodor's best friend and has been since they were young. He often suffers a lot of abuse from bullys as well. The two of them are often inseparable but there friendship is tested when Theodor to get himself a girlfriend. He seems to think he is more capable of pulling a girl then Theodor.
Brandon; Brandon is supposedly the cool one of the gang, although such a thing doesn't exsist as they are all nerds. Him and Melvin think they are better then Theodor but they are in for a nasty shock. His over confidence lands him in a great deal of trouble with a girls martial arts champion of a boyfriend.
Much Love.x
Melvin; Melvin is Theodor's best friend and has been since they were young. He often suffers a lot of abuse from bullys as well. The two of them are often inseparable but there friendship is tested when Theodor to get himself a girlfriend. He seems to think he is more capable of pulling a girl then Theodor.
Brandon; Brandon is supposedly the cool one of the gang, although such a thing doesn't exsist as they are all nerds. Him and Melvin think they are better then Theodor but they are in for a nasty shock. His over confidence lands him in a great deal of trouble with a girls martial arts champion of a boyfriend.
Much Love.x
Film Names?
We have reached the stage where we have to choose a film name, we have brainstormed a lot and here are our final three names we have to choose from;
In-sociables
GirlStruck
A Long Shot
After careful consideration we have had a mutual decision and are going with the name " A Long Shot". This relates to the film as the task of getting a girl is seemingly a long shot. We think this is a good name and gives a good idea of what the film is all about and its content.
Much Love.x
In-sociables
GirlStruck
A Long Shot
After careful consideration we have had a mutual decision and are going with the name " A Long Shot". This relates to the film as the task of getting a girl is seemingly a long shot. We think this is a good name and gives a good idea of what the film is all about and its content.
Much Love.x
The Film!
The initial idea for our film is based on a group of three boys, who are not very popular at college but believe that they are, one Friday night, after getting seemingly drunk on a single beer, the three decide to try and get themselves a girlfriend. The task seems to be a lot harder then they first anticipated.
We then follow them through there college day as they try and impress the ladies, and hopefully score that sexy chick they are so desperate for. Things however don't go to plan...
Much Love.x
We then follow them through there college day as they try and impress the ladies, and hopefully score that sexy chick they are so desperate for. Things however don't go to plan...
Much Love.x
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