Monday, 30 April 2012
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Friday, 20 April 2012
Locations
Locations
Thornton Heath Cemetery
We used Thornton Heath cemetery as a location for the ninja to grieve his brother. This crates realism for the viewers and also makes them feel sympathy for the character as he is remembering the memories of his brother.
This scene consists of the ninja dropping a red rose onto the grave and therefore we needed to find a grave that created contrast to the rose, in this case it was black.
THE LIGHTING ROOM
We used to the lighting room in our college to film the ninja training getting ready for his battle. This room had lighting which we could artificially manipulate in ways to focus the light on the character, in our footage; we focused the light on the ninja from the top so that the outline of him could be shown which perceives to the viewers of the character being a ninja.
MY HOUSE
We had filmed some scenes that took place around my street and in my house. These were going to be the scenes of the ninja approaching the villain’s headquarters but we felt that this was too much information and action to be inputted into an opening sequence so we left these scenes out.
SOUND PERSPECTIVE
SOUND PERSPECTIVE
The
term sound perspective can be used to transform sound into either distant or
close. Distant sound will perceive to the viewer as sound coming from a
distance with the technique of reverberation. An example of this may be a tap
dripping from a distance, which will have an echo effect, the microphone will
be placed at a distance to record the sound at the viewer’s perspective.
Sound perspective can also transform sound to make it sound very close
to the reader; this would mean that the microphone would have to be placed
quite close to the object or person making the sound.
Sound perspective creates realism for the viewers from the effects,
which makes them feel like they are actually there.
Sound Motif- Sound
motif is the term used for the viewer to associate a piece of music or specific
sound to a person, place or object. An example of this is the association of
the Jaws theme with a big dangerous shark.
Digetic Sound- Digetic
sound is the term used to describe sound emitted from a scene in which all the
characters can hear such as dialogue or knocking on a door. The example of the
EastEnders scene showing Max scuffing his shoes on the floor is Digetic sound
as all the characters can hear it and there is no need for editing.
Non-Digetic Sound-
Non-digetic sound is sound or music that has been edited in scenes in which the
characters cannot hear such as music soundtracks. The example of the Doctor Who
scene uses non-digetic sound such as the music being played or the explosive
effects as they have been edited.
Synchronised Sound-
Synchronised sound is the term to describe sound or a piece of music matching a
characters or objects movements or gestures such as music videos as artists
normally dance or move in sync with the music.
The
example of ‘500 days of summer’ uses synchronised sound as the when the brass
instruments are introduced into the piece of music in sync with orchestral
musicians enter the scene
Contrapuntal Sound- Contrapuntal sound is the term used to
describe sounds or music that is inappropriate and odd to the actual scene it
is edited with. This confuses the viewer and changes their mood, an example of
this is ‘Dr Strangelove’s final scene in which multiple shots of explosions and
mushroom clouds are being shown which represents sorrow and mass
destruction.
However, the music that is being played is retro, cheerful and can be
perceived as victorious. This does not match the visual scenes and makes the
viewer feel that the explosions are somewhat of a celebration or victory just
because of the contrapuntal music.
Voice-Over- Voice-Over
is the term used to describe narration that is heard over a scene that is being
played. This can be the character’s thoughts or just a narrator explaining a
situation or story to the viewer. Either way, it can be emotional or
understanding to the viewers. An example of this is JD’s narration from Scrubs
in which the viewer seems to be hearing his thoughts and to bring out this
effect more prominent, reverberation is used.
An example of this is Chuck’s narration in Supernatural; he is speaking
emotionally of the main characters to the viewers by typing his narration onto
a computer even though he is not talking. It is perceived to be his thoughts.
Dialogue- Dialogue is
the term used to simply describe conversation between two or more characters.
Soundtrack- Soundtracks
are music that is being played over a scene such as a commercial song or even a
theme. The main objective of a theme is to associate it with the film, which is
known as sound motif.
Ambient Sound- Ambient
sounds are sounds that are perceived in the background such as a dripping tap.
This creates realism for the viewer and the effect of reverberation increases
this. An example of this is background noise such as a ticking clock or
drumming fingers on a table.
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
Our thriller opening sequence will be revolving around the storyline of
a ninja, Zhi Kuan, who had lost his brother as an evil boss, General Xiao, had
killed him. This will be explained the viewer by a scrolling literature rising
from the top, this will also be white writing on black background to make it
stand out to the viewers. Our logo, ‘Specialist Pictures’ will also be
presented to the viewers.
Throughout our movie, we are going to continuously use the sound motif
technique therefore the different production companies will appear in sync with
the heavy drums within the soundtrack. This will happen four times and will
suddenly jump cut to footage.
The footage that will be initiated first to the viewers will show the
camera panning up the ninja’s legs, which creates suspicion and curiosity to
the viewers, as they want to find out whom the ninja actually is. The next
scene shows Daniel’s back in his ninja outfit with lighting focused on him from
the top and then the camera will view Daniel putting on his mask. This shows
the viewers that he is prepared for his mission and his training.
The next scenes show Daniel training and his first exercise is him
using nun chucks, push ups and shadow boxing. This variety of different
training exercises at different angles shows that the ninja is a professional.
After the scenes of Daniel training in his ninja costume, he is found
in a different location, which is the graveyard and wearing his suit, which
represents his alter ego. This symbolizes his love and grief of his brother in
which he goes to visit him. The camera shows Daniel walking up to the grave
with a single red rose; multiple angles are used to intrigue the viewer.
The camera then shows Daniel from his neck to feet throwing the rose in
respect on the grave, this scene will also is shows the rose in the colour in
contrast to the whole opening sequence being in black and white.
The scene is then faded to a black screen showing the actors and also
the final title, ‘The shadow’. These will be animated to express the
significance it has on the video.
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Treatment
Our task was to make a
thriller opening sequencing consisting of a maximum of 2 minutes. The main plot
of our film will be an action thriller and therefore will be concentrating on
one main character rather than a group. We decided a few plotlines from
criminals to underground rappers but had finally decided on a ninja based
opening sequence.
Our opening sequence
will introduce a ninja who is on a mission to defeat the boss of a ninja
organisation or someone of high authority as the villain had killed his
brother. This information will be presented to the viewers by literature at the
beginning of the opening to inform the viewers what has happened and to make
them aware of what is about to happen. The sequence is going to revolve around
the main ninja training in order to defeat the boss as well as a graveyard
scene consisting of the ‘brother’s’ grave. This will represent sorrow and resentfulness, which connects
to contrast.
Our group decided on this
storyline from watching a retro Chinese film, which contained ninjas and karate
classes training. We decided to use this element in our storyline, as it was
different and unique from other action thriller movies. We also printed of
multiple questionnaires about general knowledge of films and specifically
thriller films; this gave use more knowledge about what viewers wanted and what
made them intrigued to watch more.
The main locations
that we need are a graveyard and a dark setting, preferably a dark room with
multiple dim lighting such as the lighting room within our school. We also may
need a street to show the ninja walking in the sunshine to create contrast from
the dark setting, which is going to be the main concept of the film.
We may need to also
create an effect on our footage such as tinting or low saturation to make the
footage unique and interesting. The graveyard that we are using will create a
sorrowful mood for the viewers as it is representing the loss of the ninja’s
brother and shows the love between the characters.
Our film will conform
for being classed as an action thriller opening sequence as it has intense,
adrenaline music in sync with the ninja’s training. This is creating a sound
motif as well as making the viewers more intrigued to see what happens in the
next scene. It also has a black and white effect to represent a retro time
period and also makes the footage gloomier.
To conclude, our
footage will hopefully start off with a literature rising up from the bottom
like Star Wars or Blade Runner and consisting of powerful language informing
the viewers the main storyline. This will shortly cut to the production
companies, which lead to the ninja training in sync with the music. A graveyard
scene will also be shown to represent sorrow and loss and will finally lead to
the ninja walking in the sunshine to end. This creates sunshine from the dark
settings and shows happiness.
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