HW Week 3

Part 1

Match on action:

Match on action is the technique that cuts from one shot to another view that is the same as the other.
the shot may have been taken at different times but it gives the impression that its that exact moment somewhere else. this technique creates the sense of continuity, "visual bridge" which distract the viewer away from the problem.


180 Degree rule :

180 degree rule is a guideline that actors in a scene should have the same left and right relationship
to each other. 180 degree is mostly used to convey a conversation between two people.


180 degree rule:

Match on action:






Part 3

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How the director engages with the audience in the narrative and characters of the film

Amelie :

The director in engages with the audience in the narrative by showing things which bring laughter e.g. The description of the exact time When the fly sat down on the street and got squished this is unnecessary and doesn't need to be known but grabs the audience's attention

Also engages with the audience by the visual (The picture) It was the middle/end of the sequence with the little girl Amelie 

Is doing the type of things a little girl her age would do to keep themselves entertained. This also shows isolation because she's playing alone. 

The soundtrack is another reason as it Sounds funny and very French and with the fast French narration it even funnier. But when the sequence shows her playing on her own it sounds sad and slow. 

The director Engages with the audience in the characters by showing this little girl playing on her own and through the expressions and actions E.g.  The part when the narration explains why the man is a a erasing a contact - It's very funny and Realistic because either we have or will Have to do a erase a contact because the person is dead or gone Also the narrator is another reason why we engage with the characters because he is explaining everything.

The godfather : 

The director engages With the audience in the narrative by having the voice of the character on before the picture is Shown This grabs the attention of the audience because we think we are being spoken directly to (non - diegtec/narration) But actually it is diegtec Because the characters are speaking to each other. 

The positioning of the godfather also engages The audience because it says he is the main or head person.  

Also in the action of the waving of the hand to get the man a drink show he has power and wealth. 

 The director engages with the audience by the characters with the lighting e.g. When the scene starts from back to on the Man's face when one light shining directly on him ( to make him the focus point but also to set the mood) that it is dark and sinister.

The soundtrack also engages the audience because it sounds lonely, dark and sinister which makes you relate it to the godfather. 

Children Of Men Analysis

Children Of Men is based on the future where people can no longer reproduce.
from the clip we saw, we only saw 3 cuts, the camera mostly followed the main character (Clive Owen)  instead of cutting constantly, the camera did a 180 degree on character while he was putting alcohol in his cup. in the clip we saw there were only a few type of shots, MLS, LS and MS. when we saw the town we saw that there were Tv's on the building and moving adverts on buses - this proves that this film based on the future because we do not have such thing yet. we also saw the town was very polluted and looked slightly dark, this symbolises that times have changed, also the sky was not blue but more yellow which could suggest that not ono is there a lot of pollution and pollution has become a big problem but nothing is being done about. in terms of design everyone seemed to be in work clothing and the streets were very busy, which could suggest the population of people that remain still have to work.

Diegtec sound:
there was diegtec sound such as the news report having sad music behind the story to mark the last young persons death. also the sound of cars and people crying at the report were there.
also the reported sounded slightly emotional when reading the report

Sound FX:
there were some sound fx used such as the bomb going off and the buses and cars driving past

Design:
the design of the street is set out to show that we are in 2027 because there is televisions on building and the streets are busy and the colour of the sky is different.

Three colour blue essay

Three colours blue's opening sequence begins with the sound of an accelerating car, going in and out of tunnels; At first we do not see the car or the car’s wheel but by the sound we understand that it is a car driving down a motorway of some sort, this makes the viewer tense as they don't know what to expect because the car is accelerating so there is a feeling thatsomething bad might happen. In terms of picture we only see the car wheel moving whilst in drive. We then hear a horn which makes the viewer alert (it grabs itsattention), this is because so far we have only heard the car in drive and when we hear the horn we expect something to happen even though nothing has changedin the picture. The movie then follows to ablue chocolate wrapper being waved around by what looks like a child's hand and we know it is a wrapper not only by the way it looks but by the scrunching sound of the wind hitting the wrapper. The colour of the wrapper could be related to the name of the movie .We know that waving a chocolate wrapper on the wind is the doing of a child as only a child would do such things if they were bored. When we go into the long tunnel we see a POV shot which shows us what the child is seeing, we know it is the child's POV because; we have not been introduce toany other characters yet and before the POV shot we see a brief shot of the girl inside the car, when we see the POV shot we understand the little girl is tired; as the sound is slightly distorted as if the person is falling asleep and also the view isbecomes blurry. The next thing we see is the car has stopped so that the little girl can have a break out of the car to urinate; it is here we assume we see the father as a man from behind the wheel gets out of the car and stretches. The next shot is the dripping of the breaks and hear the mother (but we don't see her) call for her daughter.  Whilst the dripping is stillhappening we see the daughter running back this could mean that there could be an accident and the little girl who has been the focus up till now might die. Then we hear from afar a car beeping; we as the viewer assume that it is the same car as before and because we have seen the breaks drip we start to guess what is going to happen next; also there is a fog and thiscan contribute to the car crash as they wouldn't be able to see anything properly. When the car passes and hits the tree we do by see as we already guessed what has happened,  all we know is that the car has crashed into something as we hear a big smash. Then when we are shown the car we see that the guesses of a crash came to happen.

Three Colour Blue Questions

Q:Which shot do you think is most powerful in the telling of the story?

A: I think the most powerful shot is the leaking of the brakes as it shows us what the future holds and what is going to happen (we know before they do) so this makes us as the tense.

Q: Which shots establish who the characters are?

A: The shots that established the characters are the medium close-up/close-up of the child at the back of the car. The medium shot of who we assume is the father stretching. We don't really see the mother but we hear her call her daughter when she goes to Urinate.

Q: What is the name of the little girl?

A: Dianna

Q: Do we see the mother?

A: No but we hear her voice when she calls out for her daughter

Q: Is sound more powerful than picture or the other way around?

A: I believe both are important but sound is what makes the picture powerful as Listening without the picture you wonder what has happened e.g when we heard a car horn we thought something had happened.

It gives the picture a whole new level 

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