Rough Cut 2 for School's Out

Our second rough cut, featuring speedier titles and idents.

ROugh Cut for School's Out

The second rough cut for our coursework film "School's Out"

Intertextualities Vodcast

A vodcast about how we plan to apply intertextuality in our film opening.

Rough Cut for Party Off!

The first rough cut for Party Off!

Mise-en-scene Vodcast

A vodcast on the ways in which we plan to use Mis-en-Scene in our film opening.

Codes and Conventions: Genre Rom-Com

Titles that fade in and out. In LA titles at point to not disturb any action/dialogue

the love triangle is the main foundatiuon of many rom coms,  main characters often have many flaws but more exaggerated.

There is often a main love intrest that we see before the second love intrest appears.. in bridget jones' diary the love between colin firth's character and the title character is presented by colin firths chararcter turning around well before bridget reaches him, and him looking at her.

An example of an atypical Rom-Com is About a Boy, this is what wrtiter tamar jeffer mcdonald, calls a homme-com, this is where the main character is a male as opposed to a female, the make uo of the film is styill the same, with the mans character flaws being exagerated.

in BJD Bridget Jones humiliates herself in front of the audience, this increases the relatability to the character and makes them seem more human.



original love intrest to start
second love intrest to create conflict, generally both are similar, but don't get along.
friend to give advise

non-diegetic audio to start often linking the final ident, as seen in our general codes and conventions

Codes and Conventions: General

We have looked at the following films:
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
Bridget Jones' Diary (Sharon Maguire, 2001)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979)
Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier, 2007)
Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (Shane Meadow, 2009)


we have seen that the order of the idents is often based upon the a budget

Often there is an audio bridge linking the idents to the opening scene, for examples we have looked at the audio bridge was only between the final ident and the opening scene. In three of our examples, Hot Fuzz, Bridget Jones' Diary, and The Warriors, there is an audio bridge between the shot in the opening sequence.

The titles would commonly start with "production company presents" and/or "a director's film".
The order of the next set of titles often starts with the main actor/actress, and then finishing with producer and director.

The titles will often be formatted to fit the genre. For example the titles for Le-Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee, who's titles are cartoon-ish and not serious and have been adapted to fit the genre.

We have noticed that there is often an audio bridge between the final ident and the opening scene with non-diegetic music often fitting the genre, in Bolt we hear music-box like music that continues. Whereas in Bride of Chucky the music adds tension with it's stops and starts [EG]

The mis-en-scene provide exposition on the characters, the type of film and the setting. These are shown throughout our examples, in Le-Donk and Scor-Zay-Ze the mis-en-scene show us that the characters are messy and slobs. In The Truman show the shot is very basic and is cluttered with bottles along the bottom, showing the 'fly on the wall' type style of the film. In the Warriors the mis-en-scene shows the type of area that the film is set in, the graffiti and the grimey floors show that the film is set in a stereotypical downtown area.

In Now you see me a narrative enigma is introduced, with a mysterious figure in a hoodie standing at the end of each character's introduction. In Bridget Jones' Diary, binary opposites are introduced, Bridget's mum lives in the countryside, whereas Bridget herself lives in london. Throughout the opening of Hot fuzz equilibrium is introduced with simon pegg's character being introduced as being the superior cop and excelling at his job.

PRELIM: My Prelim + Reflections

My Prelim can be watched here:



I completed the task for the prelim, and I think that it went well. By making this prelim I have learnt about continuity editing.

I have learnt how to film and edit match on action. Match on actions are good ways of transitioning from one setting and shot to another. When they are edited well they provide a seemless transition. I think that my match on action has been edited well but could still be edited better, there are a few frames that I could get rid of on either of the 2 clips, I will bear this in mind when I next edit a match on action shot.

I have discovered the 180-degree rule through this. I think that I will be using the 180-degree rule in my coursework, should it involve dialouge, as it is a better and less confusing way to film a convosation.

All in all I have learnt a lot from this task, and many of these things I will use in order to further increase the quality of my coursework.

Microdrama

The Task:
We were told to make a microdrama so that we could learn about final cut pro and the main narrative theories used in film making. The microdrama is the result of this.

About:
My microdrama, the red shoe, involves the main story narratives. It is about someone being kidnapped and their friend coming to find them.

It can be watched here:


Analysis:

My microdrama uses all eight of propp's recurring character archetypes. We used narrative enigma for the villan, they can be seen towards the end, being hit with the shoe.

I also used Todorov's model of narrative structure I started with equilibrium, the couple walking together and being generally happy, the disruption was the kidnapping of on of the couple. the recognition was when I walked back and found that amber was missing, the attempt to repair the disequilibrium was when I attacked the villan, this resulted in the equilibrium being reinstated with the couple being back together.


If I were to have enough resources and time in which to create my microdrama I would have done a lot of things differently.

I think that I would have redone a few of my shots, particularly the one in which poppy looked around the corner, I would also have taken the tie to reshoot the screen of the ipad or even superimposed the correct image upon the screen. I would also have taken the time to write a proper script and create a proper storyboard, this would mean that I would have a clearer understanding of the plan for my video and so I could create it in a more effcient manner.

I think that, while my microdrama was good, it could have been better and , if I had all the resources that I have listed and done all the things that I have also listed, my micrpdrama would be much better.

Last 5 movies that I have watched

Now you see me (2013, Leterrier) Budget:$75m USA:$117m



Sherlock Holmes (2009, Ritchie) Budget:$90m USA:$209m UK:£29m Worldwide:$524m



Rush Hour 2 (2001, Ratner) Budget:$90m USA:$226m UK:£11m Worldwide:$347m



Rush Hour (1998, Ratner) Budget:$33m Gross: USA:$141m UK:£7m Worldwide:$244m



Johnny English (2003, Howitt) Budget: $35m Gross: USA:$27m UK:£19m Worldwide:$129.3m