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