Opening Scene for single camera drama evaluation

For this task in the single camera drama we have to chose a genre (mine being noir/thriller) and show that is was that drama in an opening scene to a film and or television series and show the audience that is was the genre I chose I done this by using a number of different elements and filming techniques.

Firstly I concentrated on the lighting of filming so for a most noir films the settings are dark with not much light and have to create a dark mood towards what the audience is watching so they know it's not a comedy but also doing it so you don't let them think it's a horror, to make sure the audience didn't think it was a horror I gave light at the right parts of filming and also expressed it through the music. I find when filming the music is one of the most key things to really think hard about so for the music I used very tense music from the "Breaking Bad" soundtrack to line up with the thriller genre and to also try keep the audience on the edge of there seats by also keeping the mood at a darker one but leaving the audience following the music right to the end to find out what it is leading too.

Secondly I had to take into consideration the right actor, originally my script was a bit different and did have a bit of dialogue and three scenes altogether but due to not everybody being free I went back and re-wrote some of the script but I feel like with choosing the right actor being one of my friends who is a very talented actor (Robin). In this I felt like he got into the character of Frank and explored different ways in how to portray his hurt and angry without using any dialogue, i felt like with the great chose of actor this is something that really portrayed the idea and genre too the audience and i feel like it came down to the right actor.

Thirdly the different types of camera angles I used was a way for me to let the audience only see and let them know what I wanted them to know i feel like this is one of the key things I used to leave mystery so the audience would want to carry on watching too see things they didn't see for example; Who was the person behind the door?, Why did Frank want to kill him? Who was the other person turned up? and why was he trying to stop him? I feel like things like this would make people be interested too the genre and story and keep there attention.            

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Analysis

 In the critical approaches in the gangster genres we had to watch three films the first being Scarface and now the second is  Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 "Taratinoid spin of the British gangster movie"  directed by a very well known director of the gangster/crime cockney film "Guy Ricthie" (Snatch, RocknRolla and Revolver), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is about A botched card game in London triggers four friends (Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran and Jason Statham), thugs, weed-growers, load sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. 

From the outset of this film the director (Ricthie) lets you know where it's set what type of film it is and the main point which is an unconventional element in the gangster genre is that it is going to be a comedy film as well, this being a an unconventional element in the gangster genre as it's known to be a very serious genre for example "The Godfather" being one of the most famous gangster film ever made being a very serious film with a strong and serious script/storyline. While Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is nothing like "The Godfather" being classed under a gangster film, it is still classed as a gangster film but it is classed under a British Comedy Gangster. The film opens up with two of the four main characters selling knock off stolen jewellery to Londoners on a stall one of them (Statham) is selling the jewellery and the other (Moran) is pretending too be a customer to get others to buy more and also a look out for the police, then the police turn up chasing them both down the street while in slow motion the narrator (Alan Ford) brings you into who these characters are and what they do for a living and also sets up the film by saying "It's time to move on and he knows it" letting the audience know there moving on from that life into something bigger, set entirely in a fantasy East End where women almost don't exist and shot through a drunken haze it creatures a world related to reality and to old crime movies but also self-contained and original. 

A number of features give the opening an idea of the genre fro the rest of the film; The lighting at the very beginning shows that it's real life, no fancy camera work, straight to the point, no complexity. It's very normal. Bacon literally suffering the products into the bag shows that he has no customers respect, literally there for the money. This reflects on the genre of the crime, his witty,dry, yet rude sense of the humour reflects on the comedy side to the film, although there are no references to thriller, you know there will be violence in the remainder of the film because he's running from the police, and throws the suitcase in the air to make the policemen stumble. The location reflects their lives, in everyday streets to the dark alleyways, almost a premonition into the rest of the movie. As the certification of the film is an '18' it's target audience is aimed at adults over the age of '18', but considering the genre of the film, storyline and actors involved it has a specific adult audience. 

The film includes drugs, gangs and violent issues for example one of the side stories is about drug dealers/growers is the drug and gang part of it and there are three main scenes in which the violence shows that it is for an '18' and above audience, firstly a scene in which one out of three of the only girls in the film wakes up grabs a gun and shoots up a place in a drug growing house and kills someone in which blood is splattered everywhere, secondly in which the main bad guy in the film "Harry" dies in a final showdown in which some of the other stories come together and again there is blood splatter in gun fight. Lastly a scene in which Big Chris (Vinnie Jones) crashing his car into another to hurt Dog (Frank Harper) then he drags him out of the car puts his head between the door and then the camera shows from the point of view of Dog looking up at Big Chris smacking his head in with the car door.  


   

City Of God

City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a brilliant piece of film making.  The reality with which brutality and violence is presented to the audience alongside the circumstances of their happening is of highest artistic merit.  Yet, in spite of all its cinematic accomplishments, the movie’s utility as an agent of social change is very limited indeed.  It is this assertion that would serve as the thesis for this paper.

The authenticity for the film and its narrative comes from the fact that it was based on a real shanty town in a corner of Rio de Janeiro.   It captures the lives of its inhabitants across three generations in one of the most dangerous places that the civilized world had seen.  Consistent with its gangster theme, the movie depicts “rise and fall of petty empires, the brief supernova of gangster superstardom, the overturning of an older order by a yet meaner, more ruthless younger one; these events are lit up, here and there, by little spurts of recognizable behaviour, even love”.  In other words, it is a movie targeted to a young male audience.  In doing so, the movie loses its appeal to a larger audience, thereby reducing a widespread social impact that is expected of all social documentaries (fictitious, re-enacted or conjured) .

That is not so say that the movie is an endorsement of nihilism.  Beneath the surface of violence and distress is the finer expression of tragedy, which anchors disparate parts of the narrative.  City of God is not just another run-of-mill gangster movie.  The gangsters of Rio de Janeiro are unique.  The director pays attention to detail in showing the idiosyncrasies of these gangsters.   The portrayal of these youngsters comes across as genuine.  For example they are shown to be “scruffy, dirty, scampering around on the dusty play-fields and squalid alleys, their body language expressing the weightlessness of their thin bones and scrawny chests, their clothes just any old rags, their feet bare or sporting flip-flops” .  This description will suit the young inhabitants of any urban slum, but what sets the youngsters of City of God apart is the fact that they carry guns.  In a society where force is the only way of life and where “might is right”, a gun acts as a symbol of social status.  The more sophisticated the machine, the more fear and awe that it elicits from the society. 

The central character in the movie is that of Alexandre Rodrigues, who plays the role of “Rocket”, someone who does not fit into the gangster setup as he explores possible options for livelihood.  The word “livelihood” may seem irrelevant to the lives of teenagers in civil societies but not quite in the City of God.  The narrative essentially revolves around how Rocket grows up in the hostile environment of his slum and how he finally manages to break away (if only superficially) from the volatile conditions to a more organized one in the form of a professional photographer.  Rocket might be the central character in the film, but to call him the protagonist would be inappropriate.  In fact, the different contexts of his life were the real focal points of the story.  Right from his early days with his brother (who was part of the notorious Tender Trio) to his acquaintance with the diabolical Li’l Dice, Rocket’s life is full of uncertainties and risks.  Once again, while the film invokes disgust and outrage as a result of the inhuman behaviour of its characters, it fails to propose an alternative way of life.  It is as if, violence and death are the “only” order of things in the impoverished and oppressed communities living in the City of God.

The evolution of Li’l Dice, from an aspiring gangster 10 years of age to the cold-blooded, ruthless and ambitious leader of the pack is shown with cinematic excellence.  But, the qualities mentioned above were not acquired by Li’l Dice as a result of his experiences.  Instead, a taste of what to come in the future was to be seen during his very first participation in a Tender Trio operation.  After the Tender Trio leave the looted motel with the money, the young Li’l Dice satiates his sinister longing to kill human beings by shooting the staff and clientele of the motel.  This merciless and unnecessary killing of innocent people sets the theme for his subsequent adventures.  But, as many critics have pointed out, it is difficult to fathom what the moral lessons from all these sequence of events.  In defence of the director of the film, it is not his obligation to preach to his audience about what is right and wrong.  On the other hand, making sense of the carnage induced by Li’l Dice and his accomplices remains a challenge to the audience.  In this regard, it is difficult to conceive the movie’s contribution to positive social change.

The characterization of Li’l Dice must have been the most challenging to director Meirelles.  From his first victim in the form of Rocket’s brother to the later drug-dealing, megalomaniacal gang leader to his ruthless control of the place’s cartel a consistent and coherent picture of Li’l Dice emerges.  Meirelles must be credited for his stellar role in bringing this challenging narrative to screen.  All through Li’l Dice’s different adventures, the narrative alternates between the innocuous to the diabolical.  For example, for every horrifying scene of Li’l dice’s atrocities, there’s a “touristic splendour” usually involving Rocket.  Yet, if feature films have anything to do with inclusiveness, this “sweat and adrenaline infested machismo cocktail” has nothing to offer women audiences.  Excluding nearly one half of potential audience makes City of God a niche movie, targeted to the young adult male age group.  To this extent, the film does nothing to bridge existing inequalities between the genders in what is a male-dominated Brazilian society. With the horrifying scene from Lil' Dice in the motel this is one of the made reasons why this film would be targeted at '18' and above but even me being nineteen years old i had myself turning away a lot of the time not even just at that scene but also a scene in which a woman is raped and a scene in which another kid is told to kill another kid these three key scenes are the reason why this film is for an 18 and above audience but also grabs people more too the story of this film and even at the point of the end when they mention it being a true story makes the film live with you forever. 

Alongside the co-director Kátia Lund, Meirelles goes to great lengths to keep the audience engrossed in the story.  The narrator of the story, Rocket, appears in periodic interludes to inform the audience about the sequence to come later.  The directors also employ the technique of repeating some important scenes that were left incomplete earlier.  Hence, the sequences are not chronologically arranged but interwoven based on the context.  By employing this device, the filmmakers take away the strain of watching a two hour long movie that has generous displays of violence.  Also, by using this technique, the directors are able to show how “a perceived hero becomes a villain, and characters we assume are going to be around at the end suddenly exit the City of God”. If one of the moral responsibilities of the movies is to put you in places where you’d never go and live lives you’d never live, then “City of God” is great moviemaking. This one admits no other moral responsibilities. It merely gazes pitilessly at the real, and maybe that reality is too hard to take. It offers scant optimism to policymakers of any stripe. It advises liberals that social programs are pointless when applied to the violent vitality of the streets, and it advises conservatives that stern bromides about responsibility are as ineffective against the will to violence as a fistful of feathers. It says man is dark and doomed and stupid. But it also says he’s alive and kicking and magnificent.

Lock, Stock and Two Smocking Barrels Review

Of the rare chance of release a good british gangster film that isn't about football fighting, well Guy Richie has done it going for a Taratinoid spin of the British gangster movie, this fresh spin on the genre has work by bringing comedy as well as gangsters. Guy Richie being known for his british gangster films, he really knows how to write a funny film but also bring the feel of London gangster with it, with his wacky characters and side stories   

Scarface

Scarface Analysis

For this task we had too watch Scarface (1983) directed by Brian De Palma and starring Al Pacino as Scarface, this film is set in 1980 Miami and Al Pacino plays a determined Cuban immigrant for gets a taste of drug cartel and the high life while succumbing to greed.

In this film it starts off with showing actually footage of back when Cuban’s got sent off too America with classic type of an eighties style around it, then after the introduction of the film they introduce the main character Tony Montana who is straight away betrayed as someone who has some wit too him and is a strong character from this you know he is the main character. You get too know him a bit from the police interviewing him so where is has come from and what type of lifestyle he is looking for and then he mentioned he dreamed to come too America he known one day he would this is an element the writer (Oliver Stone) uses called the American Dream which he uses in most of his films as he is a very big American Patriot towards his script writing for his country.   

From then on it sets up the theme of the American Dream for this film and this is something that grabs and keeps the audiences attention throughout this three hour film, is wanting to find out firstly what his dream is and will he get it by adding in crime/gangsters into it this is something that grabs the audience even further. How they add in that this is a gangster genre is through Tony they idolise him as most directors do in gangster films shows what type of lifestyle they have, the obvious is the violence they do use isn’t a huge amount until right at the end where they build up little bits of strong violence and then save the huge use of violence and action in ending. The whole film is set around one drug thou and that is cocaine, drugs being another convention for a gangster film but the main thing throughout this film that is a key convention of a gangster film which is used very strongly is money, too a point in the film he has so much money the bank don’t know how they are going to take it and help rinses it for Tony this is something that is shown I think to get the audience (people who want to inspire to be something and get money). This is shown through also the documentary we watched on disc two of Scarface the film inspired a lot of rap and RnB musicians that Tony came up from nothing from a slum for Cubans and then ends up with his American Dream but with a very strong cost. They were talking about him as a sort of idol, someone they look too when they were trying to make there dream in music come true and to be honest he is very easily idolised in the film because he does see a goal and he stops at nothing too get it and it’s a message a lot of people would look at and make them think they should go for the dream, even thou Tony’s dream involves death and drugs both the director and writer both find it easy to try and relate the audience and Tony together.

In Scarface just like any other gangster film they have a leading male aka Tony Montana aka Scarface (Al Pacino) and they have a leading lady aka Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer) and both betrayed in very different ways. Firstly Tony is shown as a typical male back in Miami in the eighties and gangster films in a general, if you had money and power you get the lady but also is shown as a strong character while Elvira is shown as a settler who ever can provide her with money, power and safety she will go too and has no power over who she with even after Tony murdered her boyfriend/partner Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) she doesn’t question him Tony or even cry over Franks death not a single emotion was given Tony just turns too her and says “Get you clothes your coming with me now” like he has taken over the property of her she doesn’t hit him and say no she grabs her clothes and goes with him and even goes off too marry him, only when she see’s what Tony is becoming and treating her she stands up for herself but it takes so much for her to leave Tony, while it took so little for her to marry him.

I once heard this film being described of being on cocaine itself and yes it’s a very over the top film but the three hour climax leaves you with the final showdown in which Tony has lost everything which made him have power and respect (he loses his wife, his best friend/partner/sister/and his business/business partner) and it leads too his downfall as in every gangster film they all have there downfall and his was greed and the greed was built up throughout the film more and more by adding more and more power and money towards Tony and that was his downfall. In Tony downfall you get left with the very famous final showdown with the famous one liner words “Say Hello To My Little Friend” which anyone they had even heard of Scarface will know that one famous line which is the begging of the final showdown, unlimited action and the end of Tony Montana’s legacy.

After the final showdown is over and Tony is dead lying in his fountain of his own blood the camera shows above the fountain too where he has a model of the world and around it in red glowing lights says “The World Is Yours” this is also shown as the begging of him becoming killing Frank and is shown after he goes to collect one of his prizes (Elvira) this shows that the world is now his and showing it on a blimp is showing he has reached the top now, while when it is shown in red after his death is showing he has the world but now his dream is dead and is contrasted with the blood in the fountains water.

Scarface is known to be a very iconic film in the gangster genre not just because of its famous one liners and famous scenes and not even because of Al Pacino’s amazing performance as the famous “Tony Montana” aka “Scarface” but because of how iconic the message/meaning of the film is too people showing someone with nothing sets out too change that and get his dream while also showing people not too be take by the greed.  

By Bradley Westall

Scarface Poster and Trailer

Scarface Poster and Trailer 

The film Scarface (1983) has both a trailer and poster for it both with different styles but still getting the message across that it is a gangster film and mentions the American dream (power and money) I feel is one of the key things the advertiser for this film is trying to get across, I also feel the key thing also would be it's going to be violent by showing a lot of shooting at people in the film and even blood round "Tony's" shirt (three minutes and five seconds in) and then the poster would be this by showing "Tony" with a gun (that he is someone serious) and then in the trailer you it shows people trying to kill him and him acting back with no fear. 

Both the trailer and poster both make it very clear that "Tony" is the main character and the trailer does it in a way to idolises him too be someone that saw what he wanted and let no one get in his way and as the trailer shows "The Worlds Is Yours" is a perfect way to sum up the trailer in one and "Tony" as what type of character he is going to be. I feel the way the represent the character and idolises him in both the trailer and poster is something that would target the audience, showing a man with nothing going out there and getting something he wanted the message of that is very strong and i feel would appeal too a lot of people that have a dream/believe in the American dream. 

Both the trailer and the poster have a sort of set narrative but as the poster doesnt have the same amount of information that 

the trailer offers, you wouldn't be able to get the same that the trailer does as the trailer shows you the main character is a person named "Tony Mantania" who has come from Cuba and now is in American and he has a dream and thats the American Dream and he is going to reach it by any means. This is showed in the trailer through the violence/guns/money you know from this its going to be something that is aimed at eighteen plus and how they show Tony in both the poster and trailer you know this is aimed at males as it shows a guy getting on with work and getting somewhere which a lot of men would see as something they do as well. 

This is the chase scene we had too film in which I was in a group of my own I choose two people from group B too help me film and act in the film, in which we used a technique in which a trade of money from a previous bank robbery and then the police appear but throughout the scene you don't see the police you can just hear them. For this I used a number of different camera angles that I have seen other directors whom I enjoy there work do for example Tarantinos very famous car boot camera angle but instead of using that angle in a car boot, I used it from inside a bag so when my character opened it up you can see me through the bag at me looking at whats inside the bag I feel like this is one of the best angles I chose too use in this chase scene, I also used other shots such as over shoulder shot and others, I feel like with the music, sound FX, angles and no dialogue really worked with the mode I was trying to set for this chase scene.

This is the scene in which i filmed with Hari, Zunie and Anthony

Watchmen Dubbed Over (Sound Effects)

For this task in the sound workshop we had to chose a scene and mute all sound and only put in the sound effect nothing else was needed. For this scene i chose the opening scene too "Watchmen" which I thought would be a good chose of a scene as it has a number of different sound effects for a fight scene and smashing of stuff so this is one of the reasons I chose this scene.

This is the scene I chose to add my own sound effects into but I only chose up too the part where the door was kicked open to the part of the scene where a meat clever is dropped on the floor. For the meat clever I couldn't get a good enough sound to match it but overall the other sounds from the door being kicked open and the fighting I felt really belonged in the scene and went well with the scene and I felt like nothing was out of sync.  

Here is the Original video and full length one. 

  

Task 2: Moving Image Soundtrack report

Task 2: Moving Image Soundtrack report

 For this task we had to chose two of our favourite scenes and analysing them for my two scenes I chose firstly a scene from a film called "Leon" starting "Jean Reno" as an assassin who lives in a flat next door to a family whom father sells drugs and has just ripped off a dirty cops run by one dirty cop in particular who is played by "Gary Oldman" who gives the best performance of his carrer, on finding out of being ripped off Stan (Oldman) goes on a rampage and kills the whole family expect for his youngest daughter played by the young "Nataile Portman" who then finds comfort in the next door neighbour (Reno). They become close and she asks him to either kill the people who killed her family or too teach her to clean (Kill) this leads on a beautiful relationship of young love and a role model that she never has had in her life until now. 

The Scene I have chosen is in which Stan (Oldman) has found them and has sent every single police office/swat team after them in one building and shows Leon (Reno) trying to help Mathhilda (Portman) escape before they both get killed and this is one of the most intense beautiful scenes I have ever seen I feel like they do this really well in a number of different ways.

Firstly the music throughout the scene is very dramatic in a orcnestcal way and it gets louder and more intense as he tries to find a way out as fast as possible while showing out of the room full of a swat team with a bomb and why he has to hurry, you as an audience start feel what he is feeling and then that moment of Leon (Reno) and Mathhilda (Portman) have that moment of never seeing each other again is very beautiful but the tense music is still in the background, I feel this is there to make the audience feel sad and see the beauty of there love but also not too feel tense still and it builds it up so well until the final scream from Leon (two minutes and fifty seconds in) and then get to black is such a good way of showing the mode of this scene. 

Secondly the director/writer (Luc Besson) chose not too use much dialogue throughout the scene except on the scene of when Mathhilda leaves down a hole in the wall and the share there love for each other, I feel him leaving the most of the dialogue for that part really does give the audience the mode/feeling of true love in this scene (From one minute thirty two seconds) this is the start of the how the director wants to you connect with these two characters (then two minutes and twenty six seconds in is where the dialogue) and again on how they are feeling, with his facially expressions he knows he will never see her again i feel this is another way the director (Besson) brings beauty not too just this scene but the film.        

The Lift - What I Have Seen So Far

As much as we love to talk about rumors swirling around upcoming summer blockbusters or moan about potential prequels to our favorite science ficiton movies, sometimes we've just got to make time for cinema that's not big and flashy, but rather emotionally resonant and deeply moving.

Do you have 24 minutes to spare? Okay, go ahead and close those other browser tabs and give this short documentary, titled 'Lift', a watch. You won't regret it.

Shot almost entirely from a single angle in the corner of an elevator in a London apartment building, the film chronicles what seems to be several weeks in the lives of the people who regularly come and go. As they get used to the filmmaker's continuous presence, the subjects begin to open up on camera, engage in conversation and talk about their lives

Although all of the people in the doc make for wonderful subjects, you've just got to love the guy who keeps offering the filmmaker food every time he gets in the elevator. Each of these average people -- from the seemingly grumpy man who reveals an amazing childhood memory to the woman who's "never been in love" -- seem to have a story that's not only worth telling, but worth listening to. We're all the heroes of our own life. As one uncommonly on-point YouTube comment points out: "People are just wonderful, aren't they?"

Voice Over Workshop 1

Voice Over Workshop 1 

For this task we had to chose a scene from either selected scenes from film/Tv or we could find our own and put a narrations in the clip, for our clip we decide on a clip from the series breaking bad in which one of the main characters is about to kill two drug dealers and the whole scene builds tension so I tried to get how tenses the scene is through my narration here is the original clip.

In this scene they use the lighting and colour to make it dark as well as just having music to build and build on the tension, with no dialogue i feel this really creates a dark gloomy scene in which you know its building up too something violent and which has conflict in it, this is one of the reasons i used this clip as i feel the no dialogue and the darkness too the scene could bring a lot of good narration.

I feel like i done too much voice over and i didn't follow the script at all i feel following the video while doing a voice over can be really hard and in my opinion recording it over iMovie was not the best idea and if i could redo it i would have used reaper to record it following a script and then tried to put it in place. I feel positive things towards this voiceover is the way i added in breathing i feel after looking at it completed i feel the breathing really brought a good way of showing how tenses the scene is.  

Evaluation - Mes En Scene

Confrontation Evaluation - Mes En Scene  

For this task we had to come up with an idea for a scene using Mes En Scene involving conflict, we had to do this in a group in my group was myself, Zunie, Hari and Anthony.

We all had different jobs mine was to direct and edit the short thirty second scene for it we all agreed on an idea of a serial killer killing a victim, our resources were limited as we were only allowed to film on college grounds. This set us back a bit as we had planned to film in Coulsdon or Redhill but we managed to change things around and found a quiet area in college to film our scene, on the first time of shooting we managed to get some fake blood together to use on the scene to add more effect too how violent our conflict is but on the second shoot we were not allowed to use the blood which made things difficult so we got as much as we could get and done the best edit we could do with what we had. 

For the camera angles we used a close up on the victims face, and through his persecutive (what he is seeing) and a shot which was me following the killer. We chose not to show his face as we thought it gave more effect and mystery to who the killer was and what did he look like, they do a lot of this in films for example in Seven. For the killer we used a hoodie to show he was the killer and he was committing a crime, i feel like this gave the effect that while the camera was on him he was going off to do something violent/criminal. I feel even thou our scene was agressive i feel putting in the calming music really contrasted with it this made a great effect towards the victim dying used with the clear blue sky as he looks up to it which in a way symbolises heaven i feel like this all came together and with the time and what we were given we really pulled together a really good thirty second clip showing Mes En Scene.         

Task 1: Moving Image Soundtrack Quiz

Task 1: Moving Image Soundtrack Quiz

 1a  Name the three  main elements of moving image soundtracks .

The three main elements of moving image soundtracks are Dialogue (Spoken convocation in the film two or more people), Sound Effects (an artificially created to enhance sounds/sound to be used in films/tv/video games or other media) and Music (Is something written for the film in other words the Film Score).

1b) Summarise the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic music and give an example of each.

Diegetic is a sound that comes from the person or object and seen within the field of vision for example

This is a perfect example of diegectic music in which the music he is playing over the car radio. This scene is from Taratinos "Jackie Brow".

Non-Diegectic is something that doesnt come from the field of vision and is added in at the editing part for example

   

This scene from James Bond has music that was added in after they had filmed the scene this music sets the scene well to make you feel tence and how James feels himself.



1d  List at least three different types of spoken word in film audio with an example of each. Post youtube links of these examples onto your blog.

The three different types of spoken word are 

.Spoken Word (Dialogue, voiceover  etc. )

.Diegetic/non-diegetic Music

.Diegetic/non-diegetic Sound Effects

Bowling For Columbia

Bowling For Columbia

Bowling For Columbia is a documentary in which the director "Michael Moore" expores the violence and gun control around America and is made after the school mascare in school in at Columbia school, and it explores Americas violent history round over mascares in America and mascares Americans have set upon the world. 

I feel that this documatry really rases some unanswered questions and how dangrous America is as a country and how much of a layed back appraoch a lot of them have towards owning a gun and how easy it is to buy one, examples of this are there local supermarkers (K Mark and Walmart) you can go into them are just buy bullets as easyly as buy a DVD and the two teenagers that comited the mascare in the school did that and which lead in lots of deaths and familys that will never been seen, i feel the documentary really gets you too try and feel how the parents and town felt after this shooting by showing real CCTV footage of the two teenagers throwing bombs and shooting and news footage of interviews of students and parents talking about it with real emoution, it is one of many bits of eviendance which leads questions to why is it so easy for people to buy dangrous weapons to harm people and what does it come down too? Film? TV? Music? violent history of America? or the upbringing? in a way all of them.

I would say in a way yes film, tv and games do give a impression on how cool it is too have a gun and be an action hero but i wouldnt say its the reason why there is gun and violant crime in America but some people are easyly lead on by things and get into there head they can be just like people who are on the tv, films and games. While its not just those elements that make people use guns or kill i feel like it all comes down too upbringing and the violent hisotry America have had and how war is glorified in every part of the Americans day to day life, its also the whole "American Dream" a happy family a good job coming home with dinner on the table but also a gun in one hand it kill anyone who will get in the way of the "American Dream".

The first part of the film (20 mins) is all about pro guns and interviews people who love guns and belive in the "American Dream" and every American should have a gun and what keeps them safe are guns, while the rest of the film goes on to show the masscaures involing schools and the youngest killing with a gun in a school being six year old girl who was shot by another six year old in her class this made me feel discasted, in the fact the six year old was able to get a gun in the first place and i think a mirror needs to be held up too America and show them everything that is really wrong with it and i feel this documentary is just that but too some people i feel this documentary will be one of those fun fair mirrors which are fake and they will not see there probluem and this film is just showing how much worse America is getting with violence and gun crime.

My pre notes on the film before i watched it were about what i throught would be in the film and what would it show and be about and i feel like I got it right with what i predictated by saying that i would have things such as;

• People against war
• People with an open mind
• Pros and Cons about guns
• People who dont like either America or how America has turned out like
• Americans who want there country to change for the better or that guns is the future of safty
• News/Archive Footage
• Elements of humor
• Interviews

I feel like the documentary had this all and more it also had examples of how much the news has a strong empression on people, it can make them scaried in one news report and if its something serious gun sells start to rise and scaired nervous people with a gun dont seem to end up well and leads into more violence which is another bad empression on childern maybe this is one of the reasons children and teenagers are doing these guns crimes and masacures.

My overall reaction too the documantry is shock in already knowing that gun crime over there is bad but to just see how bad it really is and how easy it is get buy a gun is shocking and the surrport guns have as well is so ridiclous something that can damage someones life with just one pull of a trigger should not be so easy to get and it all comes down to America wanting to be the most powerfully country but for them too do that it comes with a cost but how long and how many dead children and people will it take for America to realise that the cost is too high and i feel like Micheal Moore really does a good way of showing this and has made me really look at America in a different way.  

The Two Clips I Will Be Analysing

This scene is from Breaking Bad, in this scene the main character Walter White aka Heinsberg (Bryan Cranston) is looking for money to pay someone to help him and his family escape too a new life because him and his family are in danger of being killed by his boss who is a meth kingpin and Walt is a meth cook and chemistry teacher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuE9ooPN_aE

This is a link too the second click the less i say about this the better enjoy

Good Example Of Some Lip Reading