Idea Deconstruction

                        

Heat Analysis

Heat: Shootout Scene

Analysis:

Film Opening Analysis

What do you think makes an effective "film opening"?

Crisis - 'something 'going wary' '

Suspense - an element of curious, mystery, enigma

Location (time, rural vs urban, post apocalyptic, etc.) - where is the World set

Title 

Genre - mood, the atmosphere

Character (representations)

Equilibrium - balance

Disequilibrium - something happen to disrupt

Analyse Opening Film

Children of Men

 

Genre - how is it established

The main genre of 'Children of Men' includes sci-fi due to its sense of futuristic and thriller, which combined to create the hybrid genre. The sub-genre of this film is action and crime, suggested by the explosion at the end of the opening scene. 

Narrative - what do we find out

 The narrative exposed the audience to basic information of the film including the period of time, a grasps of the situation and a crisis. The time setting is shown on the screen in letter forms, 'London, 16th November 2072, emphasised by the types of transportation, tones of colour and the situation. Situation presented as the voice of the television mentioning the youngest person in the World, at the age of sixteen Baby Diego, got murdered by one of his fans. The opening scene ends with an explosion giving the audience curiosity and thrills. 

"Enigma"- what questions does it raise?

The importance of an opening scene is to get the audience curious about the movie. In this opening scene the news report on the youngest person gets the audience thinking, as of why is the youngest person on Earth is 18? And possibilities which have not been concluded such as human stopped reproducing, that human race will soon come to an end, etc. The explosion at the end, not only gives the audience the thrills and excitement but questions regarding why there was an explosion at the coffee shop.

Representation - characters, location

Characters in the scene wore dull colours and were all old age people, which represents the director's interpretation of the future, and supports the story line regarding that the youngest person in the World is only 18. 

The main character is a man in his 40's, he seems to be careless and cynical, suggested by the scene where all the characters were engaged in watching the television in synch but the main character just walked in carelessly in need of his coffee. Before the explosion, the main character puts alcohol in his coffee which connotes that he have faced many problems in his past life time.  

The location represents the time setting which is in 2072, in the future the dull colour of the scene suggests that it is polluted. Moreover the 

Location

polluted

grey

dirty

faded

dangerous 

juxtaposition (car - Asian, suggests globalisation)

 Mood and tone

Dexter Opening Scene

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MICRO ELEMENTS

Camera Work

Close Up









Extreme Close Up

Editing

Jump Cuts

Slow Motion 

Sound

• diegetic sound

exaggerated to make viewer on the edge, uncomfortable
-razor
-coffee beans
-food preparation

• non-diegetic sound

music
-repetitive
-regular beat
-fitting in with melody for getting ready
-tonally "creepy"
instrumentation
-harpcicord eg. similar to pink panther

discordance of music
-give it an edge
-occasional "audio stings" on blood drops and wink

Shapes and Imagery

• Lots of energy                                                                                                  -Infinity
• Rapid actions                                                                                                   -Life
• Sharp                                                                                                               -Health
• Edgey                                                                                                              -Positive                                                                                                                                           -Friendly

One Minute Film Challenge

One Minute Film Challenge

       

One minute film - Evaluation

1)How did your group work as a team?

Our group has a very good teamwork, from the start of the project we collaborate our ideas and listen to each other’s idea to help create a plot in which everyone agrees on. Therefore there are no conflicts between the team members and the time the group spent working was very pleasant. Moreover the workload was divided equally throughout the team members.
4) What difficulties did you face when editing? How did you overcome them?
We used both after affects and premier, to add effects and edit the video, the transferring of the file caused some problems with premier since the programme does not support ‘avi.’ File, however we resolved this by converting the ‘avi.’ file to a ‘mov.’ file. The editing became smoother and easier to work with after we converted the file.
5) If you were to repeat the project again what would you do differently? If I were to repeat the project again I would divide the time for each section to be able to spend time more and equally to ensure that the quality of the footage is equal. Moreover I would take more consideration between the costume and the action, to avoid hardships when doing the action.
6) What aspects of the final production are you happy with? What could be improved? I am happy with the footages that fits well with the story and the editing that conveys the storyline making it understandable. Moreover I am happy about the continuity in the editing which flows, however there are some glitches in the editing and the sound does not match some actions. The quality and focus of each shots can be improved by adjusting the camera and take more consideration in the composition.

2) Explain how you organised and prepare for the project. What went well, what could have been improved? We used story boards to prepare for the plot and to enable the editing to go smoother to match with the storyboard, moreover we wrote transition scenes and the props needed for filming, we also created a group chat where we reminded each of the team member to bring the props and costumes. We aimed to finish filming in one lesson so that we can have extra time editing, we did finish filming and started editing the lesson after, which pursued our aim due to the good organisational skill established by the group work.

3) What difficulties did you face when filming? How did you overcome them? The difficulties we faced when filming is that Arisa’s costume does not enable her to do the actions that we have planned, the heels nearly broke from the running scene and causes her to run painfully in those. Moreover, the programmer scene took a lot of time away from the rest of the scene trying to convey and consider the composition of the frames, which took away most of our filming time. Moreover there were many people walking around in the long shot, which slows the process of filming since we have to wait for the passer by to move away from the camera.