Friday, 26 February 2010

Dialogue which may be used for Main Task

Dialogue (which may be used):
Scene 1:
-Radio Presenter:
We have just received some Breaking News that over 125 people in the United Kingdom alone are said to have died in less than one hours and this is increasing rapidly, it is said to be caused by the Deadly Disease which has said to come from the Far East, which has already taken over 19million lives from the eastern regions in less than a day. And over 21million in the space of 42hours in the United States. People are beginning to say it is a plague on humanity,it could become a new age epidemic.
Our expert Doctor has told us of some of the symptoms what are easy to spot, they are coughing and sneezing costly, Vision impairement, breathing difficulty, dizziness and also a disfiguration of the skins which is mainly seen on the neck or wrist area. If anyone has these symptoms or knows anyone with them please lock them indoors and do not leave !There's also an emergency phone line available.

Scene 2:
-Character 2
Hey
-Character 1
Hey, you alright?
-Character2
No my mum is really ill, I told her to go hospital but she won't go.
-Character 1
Oh god, is it that virus what’s going round? Because just herd on the radio over 100 people died here today, you know ?
-Character 2
Please don’t say that (both walk of Camera)

-Extra 1
Oh my god, are you ok?
-Extra 2
Help, I can barely breathe
-Extra 3
I’ll call an ambulance

-Character 1 (back on Camera)
Why do you keep coughing? Are you ok?
-Character 2
Yea yea am fine, let’s just hurry up they will be complaining if we late again
-Character 1
Wait. Wait a second my eyes, my eyes I can’t see ….

Scene 3:
-Character 1
Oh my head, what just happened?
‘…’ (charcter2) are you ok? Are you ok? OH MY GOD, WAKE UP!
Jesus what’s happened.

Friday, 5 February 2010

Film Analaysis

Analysis of opening sequence: Final Destination 2.

The beginning of Final Destination 2 is News footage of the previous movies events.”180 crash and series of mysterious events thereafter."It then shows close ups of the main characters room .You see a toy clown spinning from the ceiling which plays on the fact that this is a psychological movie. That the characters fear of the prediction. Bring them to their death faster because they fight it. The Audio is the news, but the visual is a panning of the bedroom .You see the characters hand spasm which tells the audience she's asleep. This gives a fly on the wall affect like she’s being watched by someone or a force. This is effective because it’s a psychological thriller which relies on idea that death is a person (Reaper) or thing.
In every shot the composition is done for a specific reason for example when the 'T' on Road Trip is obstructed by keys to spell Road rip .These subliminal Messages occur throughout the film are called ‘signs’ by the characters. Another’s example is when the Stanley knife is in a magnified picture of the main character, you know by the sharp, high pitched creepy music and visuals that something bad is going to happen to "Kimberly".
The opening sequence is a series of 'warnings ‘which is the flash forward premonition. These include Kimberly’s dad phoning about a leek of fluid and to get the car checked out .The others include a series of signs like highway to hell on the radio and the kid smashing the truck and red van together ECT.
It’s effective because it shows you what the film is like through the entire length. Its also intriguing as it’s particularly good at building suspense .Which I think is due to the deictic sound and lighting of shots .The mis-en-scene is constantly moving through the objects in her room from different angles and distances. Which is the same for the accidents throughout the feature because there are so many different things going on leading up to them the camera shots are rarely static and if they are they are to a dramatic effect which fits the films psychological thriller genre.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7sjF_AAbc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NGktCJoxvM http://www.youtube.com/watchv=Q9hX0Prwm1k&feature=related


Prliminary Task Video


By...


Kathryn Shaw (Tracey)


Fiona Daley (Chris)


Rebecca Keary (Camerawoman)


Shot list:



  • Low Angle Shot

  • Mid shot

  • Close Up

  • Mid Shot (Reused)

  • Tracking

  • Panning Shot

  • Close Up (Reused)

  • Low Angle Shot (Reused)

  • Long Shot

  • Shot Reverse Shot Pattern

  • Two Shot

  • Close Up (Reused)

  • Two Shot (Reused)

  • Handheld Tracking Shot

  • Close Up (Reused)


Preliminary

As Chris walkes down hall medium shot, and a close up of phone holding a message. Then we use a Hand Held Tracking shot of Chris walking down the corridor, then goes into a panning shot from behind the canteen glass windows. Then we see a close up of Tracy looking round the room, and we use another panning shot of chris shoes walking through the door, long shot where we can see both Tracy and Chris. A over the shoulder shot is used when Chris & Tracy exchange words, and this is a shot reverse shot pattern. Then there is a two shot/long shot of Chris & Tracy, which goes into of a close up of Chris hand slapping Tracy, and then the camera pans again as Chris leaves the room, and we finsh with a close up of Tracy reaction. In this task we used the 180 degree rule and the rule of thirds to make it more of a higher level.




180° Rule


The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states the two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera crosses the imaginary line it is called crossing the axes. An example of this looking at the diagram below would be if character 1 (orange shirt in the diagram) is on the left and Character 2 (blue shirt) is on the right, then Character 1 should be facing right at all times, even when character 2 is off the edge of the frame, and character2 should always be facing left. Shifting to the other side of the characters on a cut, so that character 2 is now on the left side and character 1 is on the right, will disorient the viewer, and break the flow of the scene.



Editing preliminary task

This is a Apple Mac computer which we used to edit our clips for our preliminary task.
We edited our video on Final Cut pro.
Firstly we uploaded our recorded clips, we connected the cam corder to the USB port with a USB cable, we then captured the parts of the clips that we needed to use. We started to cut the clips and then we organised them in the sequence we wanted. The way we did this is that we marked the clip In and Out for the duration that we wanted the clip. We then added sound effects and background music by using the program garage band we saved the sound and opened it with ITunes then we converted it to ACC then imported it into our sequence, we changed the volume of the clip to match. We then added a fade in and fade out dissolve transition to the beggining and end of the sequence. Also when the phone is shown we added a short fade in fade out dissolve transition to make the cut alot smoother.
Lastly we exported the video and saved it onto a USB stick.