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

INTERMISSION TO THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

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Mise - en - Shot

Mise en shot

• Camera movement
• Short scale, depth of field, deep focus
• Length of take
• Pace editing

Long take

• Anything significally longer than the norm
• In 1940’s, anything over 9 seconds long is considered a long take.
• Examples: Rope, Nine lives

Deep focus – keep several planes of shot in focus at the same time.

• You can see the background, foreground and the middle ground.
• It is used in scenes that have a big space, it allows several actions to be filmed at the same time, used in combination with long take, so decreasing the need of editing.
• What are the positives and negative of using this in mise en shot

Positive

Negative

Positives: Its not as confusing as using so many cuts to focus on two different things. Establishing shot and action shot, all in one No need of editing and very little and camera movement. You focus attention. Verisimilitude, looks as it is real. Actors are allowed to act and develop their characters and display their virtuosity. Audience feels not manipulated, cuts can feel opposite of verisimilitude. Increases tention.

Sense of no escape, audience can’t get out of the scene, almost suffocating. Lack of action, too slow, could be tedious and boring It is a bit monotonous Can make the audience not feel involved It can feel as it one long establishing shot.

Movie showdown: Little Caesar vs Wizard of oz

Little Caesar – 1932

Directed by  Mervyn Leroy.

Studio: Warner brothers

Film noir: Black and white, mafia, gangsters, crime, murder

Start of a quote @ fall all they take the sword shall perish”, there is a car arriving at a gas stations, I hear gunshots, the lights go down, the car leaves. The scenes fade always.

Establishing shot outside a casino with a neon light billboard, Caesar goes in and talks to the boss, he seems like to be asking something to the boss, and is represented like a little boy by the he stands since he has his hat infront of him. The boss looks high class since he has a handkerchief and whine.

The lightning in this scene is done in a way so that you can see lots of shadows and verticals. The shadowing kind of cover a little bit Caesars face, also, the fact that there is a shadow at one corner makes it easier to see a flickering light outside, so it tells you that you are in the same building.

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Wizard of oz, 1939

Directed – Victor Fleming

Studio: MGM

Scene where they follow the yellow big road, it’s in bright colour, quite spectacular in those times. Loads of midgets (children) used.

Mise en scene

 Lots of sets used, very expensive. The big difference from both of these scenes is the mise-en-scene, part of film aesthetics. It means putting on stage. Comes from the theatre world, it is basically everything that is there before the camera starts rolling, just to make it look like reality. That means images, character movement, and lightning, set designs, motifs. It tells us a lot about te socio historical and institutional content of the scene.

Mise en shot

Means, the way the filmed events are filmed, it literary means “putting into shot”

Little Caesar	Wizard of oz
Lightning, the lightning is very very dark, and it focuses partially on the gangsters so that you have a closer look. Set design – Naturalistic, simplistic, just a typical old fusion office. Just	It is super bright and brilliant colours, just to illustrate how happy the world is.

Little Caesar

Wizard of oz

Lightning, the lightning is very very dark, and it focuses partially on the gangsters so that you have a closer look. Set design – Naturalistic, simplistic, just a typical old fusion office. Just Costume – Very classy and elegant costumes used in those days, notice that the bosses costume (specially the handkerchief in his pocket) symbolizes that he has money. Also, little Caesars has a long robe, like the one of a detective. Images, motifs – hats, desk, gas station, cars

It is super bright and brilliant colours, just to illustrate how happy the world is. Set design, a huge set with large paintings to give an illusion of depth, like hills. Costume – Fantasy costumes (used by the munchking), they are colourful and exaggerated. The girl’s costume is quite ordinary however, making a big contrast between her and the munchkins. Images – ruby slippers, munchkins, yellow brick road.

Movie showdown: 9 lives Vs Jurassic park

	9 lives (Rodrigo Garcia) 2005	Jurassic park (steven Spielberg) 1993
Camera position	Starts with an establishing shot of the corridor, just one camera for the whole thing. It is sort of shoulder height.	The Mise en scene is pretty rich so they position the camera from quite far apart so that you can see everything.
Camera movement	No cuts, the camera follow Rosanna using a dolly.	Almost static in every shot because they cut every time they want to change a position.
Shot scale	Low scale, you can’t see much really.	Regular at times when they want to show the whole place and how chaotic it is since there are lots of people, or extremely short at another times to show the facial expressions of the actors.
Length of shot	Very little since it is indoors, you don’t see much apart of the character.	Not very deep since they want you to focus un almost everything that is going on.
The place of editing	Almost no space, no cuts.  Just a constant shot.	Very constant, 43 different shots to be exact, this is mainly to give an adrenaline spike.

9 lives

The mise-en- shot

The camera almost doesn’t change at all, just of one point of view the entire time, from Rosanna’s point of view. The whole place looks very depressing by amount of contrast there is, it may be very bright but it’s still depressing. The camera focuses in the facial expression of the girl a lot, and highlights the stress she is having. We also get a feeling that the place is very confined and claustrophobic.

Mise – en – shot

• Camera position
• Camera movement
• Shot scale
• Length of shot
• The pace of editing