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Big blind rough test

Realist movies

Style

•Realism is a style of film. It tries to show things in a logical, realistic manner. Realists try to preserve the illusion that their film world is unmanipulated, an objective mirror of the actual world.”  •Lighting in realism is used depending on the setting of the scene. •It is usually of regular brightness. Outdoors: it is warm during the daytime and cold at night. •Indoors: it can be either one unless there is one more suitable to the scene. •Realist film makers will always try to make the set as believable as possible. •It should reflect reality, so they try to film in actual places instead of sets. •Colour is used moderately (E.g.: like 9 Lives, not The Wizard of Oz.) Realism tries to keep camera angles at around the height of the actors eyes to simulate that you are actually there. Regular angles, not to high nor low, as someone would ordinarily witness it. •Great use of deep focus, to keep cuts as minimum as possible and to simulate the way the human eye works. •Slow pace of action. Because it has less cuts, the viewer has to wait for the action to actually happen. Good for creating suspense.

•Steady chronology. Few jump cuts forwards of backwards in time. •This makes up the majority of sound in realist films. •Diagetic sound in conventional realistic films is composed by dialogue, and (if needed) sound effects and background noise. •Realistic films have very little non-diagetic sound.

•This is because there is no non-diagetic sound in real life. •If non-diagetic sound is present, it is usually subtle and for dramatic purposes (E.g creating an atmosphere, increasing the tension).

Amelie, a psycological thriller

Amelie is one of the greatest mastermind in france. Her power is so great that just with her emotions she is able to control the weather, when she is angry its windy, when she is sad its rainy. Her father keeps her isolated for the good of everyone else. Wherever she goes the contrast of the scenery becomes so high that that Zack Snider inspired his movies from it. She even has her own narrator for christ sake!

The Cheap Way

Film Masterclass

Barney Elliot (AKA the most interesting man in the world), came up to our school. He was also film director. He told us how he got inspired by his frustraitions from his own life experience. It was very interesting to listen how he came up with his ideas (Shopping, meeting a friend) and how he was able to convert them into a movie. Also I found it quite intriguing how, out of the blue, one day decided he was going to be a film directo. However, it was quite hard to listen to him since his screensaver was hypnotizing. We watched two films, True colors and Ultimo Recurso, I personally liked most True colors.

True colors

I liked this one so much I feel bad for the poor judgment that everyone gives to the man, and it shows us how people tend to judge others just from first impresions without knowing any context of the situation and making their own conclusions, I had an epiphany. I also liked alot the mise-en-scene, i mean, the car, the shop, the atmosphere had its own sad tone.

I give it 9.27 out 10


Ultimo Recurso

What I liked on this one is that it shows us to what extent someone can be evil. And it also raises the question: is the man really evil or if he really needs the money?. The name of the film, "last resort" has a double meaning too, Armed robery is the man`s last resort to get money, but he is also the last resort the woman has for her to be saved since he accidentally took her cellphone (from my understanding). I know its an open ending and its up to us and etc, but I think that the ending could have been more interesting, instead of him realising he was going the wrong way.

I give it 3.68 out of 5

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