Task 2.1: SE7EN Intro Analysis

Pre-Title Sequence

Camera Angles: The camera focuses its movement on Morgan Freeman, this implies that he is going to be the main and most important character in the story. Low and high angle shots focus on his neatness throughout his apartment. There is also an over the shoulder shot that depicts him picking off a single hair off his coat, this shows his organization and professional level of work.

Editing: Slow motion is used in the scene to focus on the inability of the main character to perform certain actions due to age.

Sound: Ambient sounds cover the scene to show it's a very busy city. This may be to show that crime is an underground norm in the place they live.

Mise en Scene: The main character is dressed as a formal detective while the other detective is dressed slightly more casual. This is to show who takes their job more seriously while the other one may be slightly more laid back. The age difference between the two is very noticeable. This implies that the younger detective is learning from the "wiser" one's experiences.

Opening Sequence

Camera Angles: A sequence of extreme close-ups interrupted by editing are displayed. They focus on extreme details of what's going on foreshadowing future events. The camera never reveals the person in the opening sequence to leave a mysterious figure behind the actions the man is doing.

Editing: Constant jumps in scene follow the whole "mysterious" theme. The intro credits are also included within these clips with a lot of flashes in the names.

Sound: Music aligns well with the mysterious murderer theme. Has constant jumps that follow the jumps in the scenes. Follows a pattern that intensifies as a key detail in the scene is focused upon.

Mise en Scene: Person in the opening sequence's face is never shown to portray a mysterious figure. This also implies he is attempting to maintain his identity a secret. He is shown doing several acts that a murderer would commit such as erasing his fingerprints and crossing off people's faces from pictures.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

The Evaluation

What is the 180 degree rule?

The 180 degree rule consists on trying to keep both the characters in an eye line match on the same side of the scene from the viewer’s perspective.

What is a match on action?

A match on action is when an action

is portrayed from a certain shot then cut to replay the action shown in the first scene from a different camera angle.

What is an eye line match?

An eye line match is when a certain scenes portrayed to the viewers from the angle at which the character is looking.

What is a shot- reverse- shot?

A shot-reverse-shot is when the recording shows both shots of when person A looks at person B, then when person B loos at person A.

Describe how you incorporated (the shots above) into your final film.

180 degree shot- We made sure that during the opening scene of the film when our character was opening their book to reveal a note, we flipped to an over the shoulder shot to show the audience the note, when we flipped to an over the shoulder shot we made sure we used the same angle and side to avoid breaking the 180 degree.

Match on Action- We used this shot when we swapped the angle of the shot and replayed the action of taking the note out of the book. This was just after our character discovered the note.

Eye line shot- This shot is used when the two character meet upon the passing of the note, this is toward the end of the film.

Shot-reverse shot- We failed to make a shot-reverse shot. However we fully understood what this shot involved.

How did film making process go, in terms of filming shots from the storyboard and filming around the college?

The film process was overall easier than expected as we had all the resources needed for our film e.g an appropriate setting. However, the problem we did encounter was having people (unplanned) walking in/ out of our shots causing us to have to re-do some shots.

What did you learn about the video editing on Adobe Premier?

I have learnt that Adobe Premier is a video editing resource that allows multiple adjustments to be made to a film, it offers many options e.g. lots of font choices and has the resources to make a more complex edit of a film. This means that Adobe Premier has the potential to create an complex and professional shot.

Assignment List for Mr Judge

-Se7en opening will be added before New Year along with the evaluation and image/video embedding
--Film Noir summary was added to day but will add some more detail before coming back
-Stereotypical representations have still to be added before New Years
-Differences between Hollywood studio logos has been done but not yet uploaded, will get that up soon.
-Any planning towards the film we are producing will be added shortly

Origins of Genre

Origin Of Genre
Genres in films began by using typical stories and stereotypes and putting them together to appeal to the target audience.  These stories at the time were usually European folktales or conflicts about Western America. Most movies at the time were based off a single idea as it was what the audience wanted. Hollywood would then make different versions of what the audience wanted to maximize profits from it and then change onto a different idea.
                     

Task 3: BFI Statistical Yearbook 2014 Analysis

As taken from the BFI Statistical Yearbook of 2014, there were more thrillers than horrors released in the year of 2013. Although, Horrors made up for a bigger % of total box office than Thrillers. This meant that even though less were released, they were more profitable and appealed more to audiences. However, since horrors don't apply to all audiences, genres that did brought in more profit. These genres are: Animation, Action, and Comedy. These three made up for about 44% of the total box office. This is because most Horrors are often rated to audiences over the age of 15, while the 3 dominating genres generally apply to all audiences.