Aviator scene paragraph practise

The Aviator speed record scene in the drama-biography film, The Aviator uses brilliant sound and editing to bring beat and interest in the scene. Set in September thirteen, nineteen-thirty-five, the scene follows Howard and his partner as they test a new plane. The sound introduces the viewer to the time-period and setting whilst the dialogue and sound effects show us what is important in the scene. The importance of the plane as well as the showing the viewer the speed and excitement of the scene is the use of editing and cuts.

Sound and editing were successfully used in the “aviator speed record” scene to draw attention, have a beat, and to highlight important aspects of the scene. In the opening shot, the “old style Chicago” music created an element to the scene and told the audience it was set in America in the nineteen-thirties. As the plane takes off into the air, the orchestral music increases in volume and changes tune, supporting the idea the Howard in in a different element when he is flying. From then on, the music keeps in time with the cuts as the faster or more exciting moments come the cuts increase in speed. This synchronization with the music is greatly shown when, Howard first flies down and the shot's cut when to the beat of the music. At this point in the film, the music also goes lower in tone, letting the audience “feel” the shift of movement in the plane. The dialogue very much pictate Howard and his Partner's characteristics. Howard's attitude “Why should I let someone else have all the fun” shows the audience that the character is not as much into the business side of the company, but rather does it for enjoyment. This contrasts his partners character who informs Howard “After that, you're flying on vapors, and then you crash, and then you die” showing the audience that he cares for Howard and works as a limit for Howard's attitude, however has little control over him. This allows the audience to care for, and laugh with the characters, creating a bond with them, making the film more enjoyable to watch.

The “Aviator Speed Record” scene was a success in the use of sound and editing due to three main points. The synchronization of cuts and the music gives the audience a beat to follow and ties the scene together neatly. The music accompanying the scene sub-conditionally allows the audience to have a greater feel for the environment and time-period of the film. Finally the brilliant use of dialogue enables the audience to connect and understand the characters and their personalities. This scene was a success to the film due to the brilliant use of sound and editing.

Mise-en-sence and Setting Evaluation: Moulin Rouge Body paragraph

The use of mise-en-sence in the opening scene of Moulin Rouge was used to enhance the emotions portrayed by the main character, Christian. The beginning of the scene was shown in a dark sepia, creating a gloomy tone to the film, however at Christian's flat as he begins writing, the scene turns to colour as if he was coming out of the darkness and a cold blue tone coming from the outside showing the audience that it is sad and cold. As the scene progresses to the Moulin Rouge, the colour red is dominantly used to show the audience that Christian believes that the Moulin Rouge is dangerous. Christian's emotions are further supported by the combined use of props and setting. For instance, in Christian's flat, coats and alcohol are scattered across the floor and desks implying that Christian has seemed to have “lost hope” in his day-to-day actions. Christians “five o'clock beard” and formal but dirty clothes also suggest this. In addition to these three aspects, Ewen McGreggor portration of Christian hevely effects the audience's view on the character. When Christian first arrives in Paris, his facial expressions and the way he hold himself show the audience that Christian is absorbing every detail of Paris. This contrasting the present where his style of acting and voice-over show the character's struggle to talk or even think about the Moulin Rouge. All the aspects of mise-en-sence in this scene show and enhance the emotions of Christian at both the start of his journey and the end, bringing a successful start to the film. 

Aspects of Cinematography

Framing
- Golden rules
-what is put into the frame

Speed/focus
- Blurred

Angle
-long shot - medium shot - close up
- extremes and mediums also

Perspective
-

Aspects of Mise-en-sence

• Lighting
• Colour
• Style of Acting
• Props
• Setting

Recipe For a horror/thriller......

Class ingredients

A Horror/Thriller Film

Characters:

Good (protagonist)	Evil	Both
Man wrong place in the wrong time Poplar oblivious girl (cheerleader) Blond Ditzy, Redheads TBG Hippy Dectetive	Psycho Woman (hot) Evil Genius Zombies Old fat man Creatures Vampire Wearwolf	Schizophrenic Mutated thing

Location

Dark Alleys

School Hallways

A house on a Hill

Graveyard

Abandoned wardrobe

Slaughterhouse

Prom night

Items

Torch

Knives

Gun

Chainsaw

Socery/Spells

Smoke

Legends

Sorceries

Urban myths

Ingredients

• A detective who is haunted by an unsolved case that caused the death in his only son. He also strongly disbelieves in vampires (or anything supernatural) and refuses to bring them to context 
• A graveyard
• An evil genius vampire
• A murdered Cheerleader drained of blood and wide open shocked eyes
• A murdered family man also drained of blood and eyes wide and a weird but scary expression on his face
• A murdered child with a carved in smile on his face also drained of blood. 
• A small town “in the middle of no where” with supposed curse of vampires 
• A big built, burger eating, sherif
• Local Cafe
• A grey dingy mortuary
• Flashbacks
• A deserted park with coloured playgrounds and trees
• A howling grandmother who talks about "They are back!" 
• Dingy local hotel
• Cold breeze
• Long chat with the evil mastermind when he could of just shot him
• Unknow officer

Method:

1. Add the detective to the small town which is brought up on tales of vampires that used to roam the town and add a sheriff to aid the detective. Place them both in a café (the sheriff with a burger and the detective without any seasoning)
2. Mix in the already dead cheerleader and family man in the mortuary. Have the detective find leads but too many to be clear on which is right.
3. Add a handful of flashbacks about the Detectives son to throw the detective off his game and this will heat things up. But to stop the detective’s brain from exploding add the sheriff in with the mix and this will cool things down.
4. Add a chilly breeze and take both the Detective and the sheriff to the deserted park where there is already the murdered boy and to add effect, have him hanging off a climbing frame.
5. Add the howling grandmother to increase effect. This will allow her to push around the Detective and at this stage you will need to add in some more flashbacks, this time starting with the son playing in the playground then him in a grave basket
6. Take the boy, sheriff and detective out of the park and place them into the mortuary.
7. Add two handfulls of flashbacks whenever the detective looks at the boy but then take the detective out and place him in his dingy hotel
8. Add the specific flashbacks of his son in the mortuary whilst the detective is trying to get to sleep, thus keeping him awake and then let him “playback” through so the audience will now see that his son was drained of blood and smiling when he was dead. Have the detective relise a link to an abdonded house on the edge of town. 
9. Let him now put the pieces together and prove to the sheriff that they are linked. Allow these links to lead them to a old dingy house on the edge of the town. Add smoke to increase effect. 
10. Split them up into sections placing the unknown officer with the detective. Have shreaks coming from the wall which will make the unknown officer trigger happy and lots of gun shot follow.
11. Keep the detective on a cool level even when the unknown officer gets dragged away.
12. Lead the detective to the vampire and then the audience will relies that the vampire is a small boy with bloodshot eyes in the basement of the house and have the detective circle him and then have the vampire tell him "don't you remember me? can't you even reconsise your own son!"
    1. Now have the detective lower his gun as the boy goes and tells his turning into a vampire and his life story. Get the vampire to circle his father pausing at his neck and telling him how great it is to be a vampire. 
13. When the detective is on the bridge of allowing his vampire son to turn him. Then cut to the sheriff in the corridor and then have him find the room where the detective is in and kick the door down and shoot the vampire with a stake. 
14. Let the vampire/son look confused and then fall and have the detective catch him. Get the son's eyes to go normal and say "daddy?" 
15. To finish off have the detective talk to the sheriff at the back of the house where the sheriff is thanking him for helping. Then let the sheriff see a bite on the detective's neck, have the detective look up and his eyes are red (sign of vampire). Have the sheriff stumble backwards, arms out "no, no" and then have the final shot being the detective lunging towards him

Jeep Commercial Analysis

What comments can you make about the rhythm of this commercial

The music and cuts are mostly in time with each other creating a rhythm in the commercial. This creates a feeling of everything flowing into everything as well as everything being crisp and clear. The rhythm is also fast paced saying that if you buy a jeep then you will lead a fast exciting lifestyle

How does the editing manipulate the passage of time

The editing takes sections of (for instance) the party and puts them together into the space of about five seconds. This editing and cutting from place-to-place and time-to-time allows time for the viewer to understand what is going on and also for the scene to pass quick enough before boredom and/or to keep with the aim the director wants to show.

Are there any graphic matches and how are they used to enhance the commercial

Yes when the person is sitting in the car is driving there are about 5 graphic matches when the colour of the car, the background and the person in the car changes. This is used to make the viewer think that this car is for all people and all places. It also enhances the commercial by also implying that everyone is driving this now.

Alice in Wonderland Storyboard

Alice in Wonderland Storyboard
P.S. I write it in parts, 1stly what the character is doing, 2nd the camera and 3rd the sound

1) Alice calls to her friend who is away that day and is talking and laughing, her eyes then wander to the clock and revises she now has to run to get to class. “sorry bye” and she clicks her phone off, and she frantically runs down the corridor. Trying to put her phone in her pocket at the same time, she is looking like she is about to drop everything.
The camera is at a low angle looking up at Alice when she is on the phone, but when she notices the time it goes to a high angle shot of her as she is running unsteady. It flicks to a medium shot of her legs racing past as the camera doesn't follow her, but she moves in and out of the frame.
When she is on her phone, the is “school” chatter as well as her talking. Still the chatter when she is running but a mildly paced music is added.

2) Alice turns to run down a corridor but unusually, there are stars there so she trips and drops all her books down the stairs. Tumbling after the books she rolls over and regrettably looks back up to the stairs.
Camera is following Alice at a medium close up of her head as she turns around the corner. When she falls down the stairs she is at a long shot and when she looks back at the stairs it is a long shot including her shoulder in the shot.
Sounds, the bell goes off when she sits up from the fall and then she looks at the stairs. Closing of doors and sound of a male teacher talking.1

3) Brushing her knees, Alice scoops down and shuffles her books into a neat pile and she picks them all up. Noticing that everything has suddenly gone quiet, Alice looks around..*continued in next shot*
Camera has a medium long shot of Alice, however her whole body in in the shot because she is crouching (so could tenacity be a long shot) (this is because we are hiding the change of setting around her). When she notices everything has gone quiet, and turns around, the camera backs out into a long shot making her look small and so the audience notices …. *continued*
Small murmurs of chatter when she brushed her knees but has stopped when she is scooping up her books. Quiet music playing.

4) standing up she first only turns her head, then body follows to a complete turn around and she sees that the stairs have grown in size. Not knowing really what to do she attempts to jump to the first level, but is unsuccessful. To tired to jump any more she shouts out “hey.....Hello?......Help!”
As she turns there is a close up of her face and she turns with the camera staying where it is, then once her back is almost fully turned to the camera the camera zooms out reveling the change in her size. As she jumps the camera is still to her back, but eventually pans around to her face of disbelief and “giving up”
Once again, music is playing, but is so that the audience does not notice the music. Sounds are of only Alice.

5) After giving up on the stairs, Alice turns to find a small narrow dark corridor. Taking a “last chance” glimpse of the stairs and light, Alice slowly makes her way through the corridor. Alice flicks her head quickly at noises seemly to be coming from the walls and her feet bump on clutter on the floor, however, keen to get out of the dark corridor, Alice quickens her pace and continues through the tunnel.
As Alice enters the tunnel, the camera is at a high angle shot of her. When she enters the tunnel, the camera stays at extreme close ups at noises in the walls as Alice passes them or her feet when she stumbles on odd objects also Alice's face to see the expressions.
Sounds of things coming from the wall louden when camera rotates around them, cackling laughter and shreaks, also soficated conversation as well as arguments, music is fast paced, in time with the speed of the camera and Alice's movement.

6) after cautiously walking down the dark and narrow corridor, Alice appears into what looks like a normal classroom, she then looks at the clock and sees that it is 3 hours different than before, making her way towards the bright light from the window, she gasps in disbelief and shock as the outside world is not like her own.
As walking through the classroom, the camera follows Alice at a straight angled shot, focuses on the clock and then from the clock  (looking at Alice from a high angle shot) the camera pans around her and zooms towards the outside world.
Small number of sound when in the classroom however when the camera can see the outside world, talking noise increases, picking up words from conversations but not able to follow.

Character Analyzis

Alice in Wonderland

Scene: Tea party
Character: Mad Hatter
What type of person is this character: Scared, knowledgeable, weak (believes so at least), tense
What lead you to feel this way about the character:
Scared: In the tea party scene it shows him as a scared character who hides his fear is a façade of being mad. This 'madness' is also show through his tattered, bizzare clothing and also the visual makeup. As well as having deep colours around the eyes, it also looks (to the audience) that his cheeks are thin and hollow showing that he hasn't eaten much (presuming from the queens oppression it is hard to get food). Like most of the film so far, his house is tattered and the light is dark. This shows the depression of the kingdom (?) and the fear that the queen is placing on the people. -cant remember music-
Knowledgeable: You can tell he is knowledgeable because he would blubber on about politics and how things used to be. He is also shown to be a large person (camera angle) this is usually used to strong or wise characters and this is shown here.
Weak: It shows that he believes he is too weak (to stand up to the queen of hearts). The makeup to make him look thin and frail also shows this (explained more above). He wears tattered clothing suggesting not just the effects of the queens ruling but also that he does not believe himself “noble” enough to fight against the queen (if so he would have had more pride in his clothing). He also has been waiting out for Alice because he believes that it is her that will save everyone and do everything.