At the very start of ‘Carrie’ you can clearly see who the
definite main character of this movie is. She kind of looks a bit younger than
most of the girls that play the sport. The reason I see this girl to be one of
the main characters is because obviously she is named after the film but also
because of how she gets picked on because she isn’t very good at the sport. In
this film you have the typical teenage blonde girl and she is socially
withdrawn from everyone else within the school.
Age seems a massive factor within this opening scene because
most of the girls definitely look older than her by a couple years. You get
that dominate feel with how the older ones treat the younger ones poorly when
they should really be setting an example. The teacher comes running out to see
a riot of girls picking on Carrie. This shows age because you can see the
potential older girls picking on her but with the teacher being older than them
all and instantly going to help Carrie out.
Camera Angles: You get a lot of different camera angles
within this opening sequence at the very start you get the birds eye view
camera shot which really sets the whole scene of the opening sequence. It then
forms into a moving shot through the girls changing rooms. After what you see
on the volley ball pitch where the girl is singled out and bullied, it shows
all the friendship groups and how much they are ‘loving’ life; plus you see how
comfortable they are with showing each other their bodies. Then you get to see Cassie how she is all
alone trying to mind her own business. You get different shots with her body
which again shows her to be the main character of the whole film. Then some
disaster happens and the whole scene just breaks into her getting unfortunately
getting bullied again. You get a dramatic instant camera shot at the light
which the bulb seems to pop, this can give an indication of worse to come when
she gets scared and this camera shot also would hook the viewer within my
opinion.
Editing: When Carrie is under a lot of stress because of the
disaster (finding out she’s on her period) the girls start to bully her because
she wasn’t prepared for the circumstance. This also gives an indicator that the
girls are older than her showing more dominance. The teacher runs out to help
her and to tell the girls to stop what they are doing. At this point they are
quite and you get a dramatic high pitched noise (which many movies have used
before) and the light bulb just pops. This is creates a dramatic feeling and
good easily hook the viewer to find out what happens next as it seems that she
has some sort of power.
Mise en scene: With the first Camera view it instantly sets
the scene and you can see that they are outside in a volley ball court at some
sort of high school. They are all wearing the same kit as they obviously go to
the same school. With the way they dress you can tell that this film is a very
old film and the way their hair is you get that instinct feeling that it is a olden
times film, but also how the teacher treats all the girls. This is because the
teacher slaps carrie to get her out of her uncontrollable state to allow her to
calm her down while towels and other items are being thrown at her.
Sound: The music played within the opening scene is quite
uplifting for some reason even though you can see that the main character is
under stress and possibly depression the way she is treated on her volley ball
team. With the music you get kind of feel some kind of symphony for this girl
how she gets singled out and left all by herself. When the camera is moving
around you don’t hear anything over the sound of the music, but you get the
sound in your head of joy, this includes them shouting and screaming plus
laughing with joy. This is quite creative how they haven’t implemented those
sounds but you still actually hear them in your head.
In the
film ‘Se7en’ it has the typical detective/thriller genre on board. The opening
credits can describe a lot about how the movie is portrayed. This is because
the camera angle use is used exactly how, when the killer would be seen in the
movie. The sound is the typical city sound (dogs barking, car alarms and people
arguing). You can clearly see dominate characters and different kind of generations.
With the camera angles they all seem
to be very close up shots of maybe the razor cutting rubbing against the man’s
hand. This could suggest that as it is a detective film the killer has to be
unknown and silent. If you were to see the killer within the film no doubt
there would just be an extreme close up of maybe his mouth or his eye, this is
because they want him to be unknown until the very end of the film when usually
they get caught or killed. Both the close up and the image instantly shows that
it is some kind of detective move.
The
movie at the very start of the movie David Fincher decided to copy the ‘Film
noir’ style and go with a starting scene then bring in the credits which is now
used in pretty much day to day crime/detective programmes/films. Although
throughout the credits it is all extreme close ups which I’ve said suggests the
unknown about who ever the killer may be, it starts with the medium/long range
shot of Morgan freeman which could be shown as the good guy/detective.
When
it comes to sounds David Fincher has been quite original, what I mean by this
is when he is lying in bed trying to relax and clear his head with the metronome
you can hear the typical and known city noises which include Dog barks, sirens
from police cars or fire trucks etc, car horns and even people
arguing/shouting. When the two main characters get together right after they
see the body you can hear the extremely loud rain over the lightly sounded city
sounds and their voices. David Fincher hasn’t been creative with sound other
than the music he inputs in the opening titles.
The editing is quite unique in the intro scene obviously you have the
cut to cut from different places implemented, you couldn’t really do anything
else other than maybe add a couple of special effects or filter like there was
in spooks then you have to edit it the sound which was very original. In the
opening sequence the use of the camera angles and the different images which
were edited in with the perfectly timed music for the transactions to appear
and disappear, was great. The music its self is quite tense especially with the
images that appear. It gives the viewer the feeling of the genre of the film,
it hooks them to continue to watch especially after the introduction.
When
Detective Somerset and Detective Mills meet up for the first time you can
clearly see who is more experienced and who is more dominate. You can see that
Mills is wearing a shirt and tie but with a leather jacket which would possibly
be the style of his generation, but Somerset is in a full coat with a full suit
on. This could suggest a change within the different generations and how things
will progress when his generation is not around. When they finally meet outside
you can again see the difference between the clothing. You can see that David
Fincher has created the stereotypical detective with his long coat, hat and
full suit when it comes to Somerset but it’s not when it comes to Mills which
again suggests the change of generations.
With
Detective Somerset you can see that he has some sort of suffering with OCD. You
can clearly see this when you get the close up of him in the mirror doing his
tie up to perfection. But also when he starts to pick up his personal items off
of his desk. When the movie continues he picks them up in a purposely order,
this could suggest some sort of routine but overall I think it’s some sort of
OCD. Couple seconds further he inspects his suits jacket. You can then again
tell he is the detective due to the fact that he picks up one hair off the
jacket. This means he looks for minor details like hair samples which is a
massive gift to detectives.
In the start of the opening sequence of blue velvet you get
the start of the very peaceful and relaxing music within the whole of the
opening 2 minutes. You get a worms eye view of some kind of roses that are red
with the blue sky plus the white fence. You get the serotype feeling of the old
times America. With the colour scheme
you get the idea of the American flag and these colours are used through out
the whole of the open sequence. The editing over the top of these scenes feel
like they’ve made the speed minimal, creating a safe and peaceful environment for
people to live in. The cuts and transitions are quite unique to the way that
not many films cut so many times into different parts of the film but the
director of this film makes it work to perfection.
In the next cut you get another feeling of safety due to the
fact a stereotype American fire truck passes though the same neighbourhood, but
if you look closely the fire truck alone gives you the sense of the Red, Blue
and white. The slow peaceful music still continues. The neighbourhood you can
see throughout the opening sequence seems to be a rich retirement
neighbourhood, this is proven when all the neighbours are outside waving and
smiling possibly at each other or the camera. You again get the sense of safety
and that it’s a friendly and secure place to be in.
You also get the hint of safety and security when the kids
are walking across the road with a lollypop lady with no parents means that
there is trust around the neighbourhood and nothing could do any harm. Even
when it cuts from that scene to the house, when you get a look inside you can
see the same colour scheme. Blue, White and Red. Where at the start it
indicates either safety or could even mean danger.
When it shows the image of the gun on the TV it’s when the
film starts to get intense and interesting. This is because it jumps from scene
to scene with the music changing making you sure that something bad will occur.
The sound goes over the top of the music giving you even more of a bigger
indicator. Then of course he falls over because he seems to be having some kind
of stroke. This is very good editing. It hooks the viewer onto the film to
continue to watch. It is important to hook the reader within the first couple
of minutes and the editing during this part of the film really does hook the
viewer.
When the man has fallen you get a fear because of the way
the music changes, it becomes more dramatic and normal sounds are heard over
the music. You get a worm’s eye view through the grass straight to a nest which
seems to be beetles. This could relate to some sort of danger that no one in
the neighbourhood could control or do anything about. So even though the first
few minutes you get a lot of hints of safety, nothing is ever safe.
The rule states
that the camera(s) should remain the same side of an imaginary line. The line
is drawn perpendicular to the camera’s viewpoint in the establishing shot of
the scene. The rule also enforces continuity of the film, an example is that in
a car chase scene, if the car is travelling from right to left, the next shot
must also be shot from the same side meaning the car has to end the frame right
to left again. The same applies for football matches and other sport.
A match on action:
Match on action
(or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which
one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first
shot. This creates the impression of a sense of continuity – the action
carrying through creates a visual bridge which draws the viewers’ attention
away from the slight cutting or continuity issues. This is not a graphic match
or match cut, it portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than
matching two separate things.
Eye line match:
Aneyeline matchis a film editing technique associated
with thecontinuity editing system. It is based on the premise that the audience will
want to see what the character on-screen is seeing. The eyeline match begins
with a character looking at something off-screen, followed by a cut to the
object or person at which he is looking. For example, a shot showing a man
looking off-screen to the left is followed by a shot of the television that he
is watching
Reverse Shot
Shot reverse shot
is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters
looking at each other or objects. A shot showing what the character is
supposedly looking at (either a point of view or over the shoulder shot) is
followed by a reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at it, or
of the other character looking back at them, for example. Shot reverse shot
often ties in with the 180 degrees rule to retain continuity by not distorting
the audience’s sense of location of the characters in the shots
Throughout the
whole of our production we managed to stick to the 180 degree rule without
hopefully breaking the rule. We did take caution when filming our production
and deleting scenes that broke that rule. We used the match on action when we
passed over the folder from George to Sam, it was quite successful with the 180
degree rule still in mind not to break. When we did the close up of George with
the speech ‘Who are you’ the audience might not of known who he was speaking
too, then the camera turns to Sam to make the Eyeline shot. The reverse shot is
in the same scene as the eyeline shot.
The film process
went really well. This was due to the fact that we all came up with great ideas
and managed to develop all our ideas into one. We converted our ideas onto a
storyboard making a lot easier to record as we knew what to say and what to do.
We did make a couple of errors when we were recording, but obviously we could
simply delete them and re take them. Overall the filming went perfect.
The editing was
just the same, we knew what we were doing to some extend and the music layout
was in perfect time with our production meaning it wasn’t hard to cut out music
parts. We made a few parts with music over it, with it loud or quite but also
intense and not. We didn’t use transitions in our actual video, but for the
titles that were quite easy we did fade them out and in which was in perfect
time with music and the video its self.
MAJOR ISSUES IDENTIFIED WITH ALL/SOME BLOGS
Complete the following tasks ASAP
2. NO PRELIM TASK VIDEO EMBEDDED FROM YOUTUBE
3. NO PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION EVIDENT
4. NO BLUE VELVET TEXTUAL ANALYSIS (COULD USE BOND: SPECTRE INSTEAD)
5. NO BLUE VELVET SCREEN GRABS IN PLACE
6. NO SE7EN TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IN EVIDENCE
7. NO SCREEN GRABS FROM SE7EN TO ILLUSTRATE POINTS
8. NO work on GENRE from Mr Rutherford
Camera Angles: You get a lot of different camera angles
within this opening sequence at the very start you get the birds eye view
camera shot which really sets the whole scene of the opening sequence. It then
forms into a moving shot through the girls changing rooms. After what you see
on the volley ball pitch where the girl is singled out and bullied, it shows
all the friendship groups and how much they are ‘loving’ life; plus you see how
comfortable they are with showing each other their bodies. Then you get to see Cassie how she is all
alone trying to mind her own business. You get different shots with her body
which again shows her to be the main character of the whole film. Then some
disaster happens and the whole scene just breaks into her getting unfortunately
getting bullied again. You get a dramatic instant camera shot at the light
which the bulb seems to pop, this can give an indication of worse to come when
she gets scared and this camera shot also would hook the viewer within my
opinion. 
Editing: When Carrie is under a lot of stress because of the
disaster (finding out she’s on her period) the girls start to bully her because
she wasn’t prepared for the circumstance. This also gives an indicator that the
girls are older than her showing more dominance. The teacher runs out to help
her and to tell the girls to stop what they are doing. At this point they are
quite and you get a dramatic high pitched noise (which many movies have used
before) and the light bulb just pops. This is creates a dramatic feeling and
good easily hook the viewer to find out what happens next as it seems that she
has some sort of power. 
Mise en scene: With the first Camera view it instantly sets
the scene and you can see that they are outside in a volley ball court at some
sort of high school. They are all wearing the same kit as they obviously go to
the same school. With the way they dress you can tell that this film is a very
old film and the way their hair is you get that instinct feeling that it is a olden
times film, but also how the teacher treats all the girls. This is because the
teacher slaps carrie to get her out of her uncontrollable state to allow her to
calm her down while towels and other items are being thrown at her. 
With the camera angles they all seem
to be very close up shots of maybe the razor cutting rubbing against the man’s
hand. This could suggest that as it is a detective film the killer has to be
unknown and silent. If you were to see the killer within the film no doubt
there would just be an extreme close up of maybe his mouth or his eye, this is
because they want him to be unknown until the very end of the film when usually
they get caught or killed. Both the close up and the image instantly shows that
it is some kind of detective move. 
When
it comes to sounds David Fincher has been quite original, what I mean by this
is when he is lying in bed trying to relax and clear his head with the metronome
you can hear the typical and known city noises which include Dog barks, sirens
from police cars or fire trucks etc, car horns and even people
arguing/shouting. When the two main characters get together right after they
see the body you can hear the extremely loud rain over the lightly sounded city
sounds and their voices. David Fincher hasn’t been creative with sound other
than the music he inputs in the opening titles. 
The editing is quite unique in the intro scene obviously you have the
cut to cut from different places implemented, you couldn’t really do anything
else other than maybe add a couple of special effects or filter like there was
in spooks then you have to edit it the sound which was very original. In the
opening sequence the use of the camera angles and the different images which
were edited in with the perfectly timed music for the transactions to appear
and disappear, was great. The music its self is quite tense especially with the
images that appear. It gives the viewer the feeling of the genre of the film,
it hooks them to continue to watch especially after the introduction. 
When
Detective Somerset and Detective Mills meet up for the first time you can
clearly see who is more experienced and who is more dominate. You can see that
Mills is wearing a shirt and tie but with a leather jacket which would possibly
be the style of his generation, but Somerset is in a full coat with a full suit
on. This could suggest a change within the different generations and how things
will progress when his generation is not around. When they finally meet outside
you can again see the difference between the clothing. You can see that David
Fincher has created the stereotypical detective with his long coat, hat and
full suit when it comes to Somerset but it’s not when it comes to Mills which
again suggests the change of generations. 
With
Detective Somerset you can see that he has some sort of suffering with OCD. You
can clearly see this when you get the close up of him in the mirror doing his
tie up to perfection. But also when he starts to pick up his personal items off
of his desk. When the movie continues he picks them up in a purposely order,
this could suggest some sort of routine but overall I think it’s some sort of
OCD. Couple seconds further he inspects his suits jacket. You can then again
tell he is the detective due to the fact that he picks up one hair off the
jacket. This means he looks for minor details like hair samples which is a
massive gift to detectives. 
