Pliminary; Evidence Of Filming.

Getting ready to take first shot.

Director Fatou Panzout giving the two characters instructions and advice.

Jhané Ormsby and Michaela Ives Kingshott as police officer and defendent.

Run through of activity, Ingrid De Souza directing the set.

Preliminary Setting.

Establishing shot of the room in which our preliminary activity was shot.

 

Set up of the location and props we are using.



Close up shot of props and location.



Assignment 13; Preliminary Planning.

Here is the planning which me and my group did together in regard to completing our Preliminary sequence.

Assignment 12; Individual Planning.

Below is my assignment 12 task completed on ideas I feel would be good to use for my groups opening sequence.

Assignment 11; Getting In A Group.

Cinema Post; The Impossible.

At the weekend I attended the cinema to watch the impossible directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, which is based on a true story surrounding the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Main Actors

• Naomi Watts
• Ewan McGregor
• Tom Holland

The impossible is based on one families fight for survival after the Tsunami hit Thailand whilst they was on holiday there. The family become split during the disaster and later become reunited after a chain of events cause them to become reunited at a makeshift hospital. I found this movie moving and gripping throughout.

Film Enrichment; Momento.

Momento is a 2000 American psychological thriller

directed by Christopher Nolan.

. The main actors include

• Guy Pearce
• Carrie-Anne Moss
• Joe Pantoliano

• Momento is about a man who suffers from short term memory lose using polaroid pictures and tattoo's to help him rememeber important factors such as car number plates and names in his bid to track down the person who killed his beloved wife. The movie is set in a non-linear format with frequent flashbacks occuring throughout the movie. The movie is also set in a backwards format with the end being shown at the start of the movie and the story working its way backwards in an attempt to create an enigma. The movie ends with the man finding his wife's killer and killing him in a warehouse, this answers the audeinces curiosity about who the dead man we see in the polaroid picture at the start of the movie is.

• Some of the main themes present in the movie are action, violence and romance.
• I really liked the character 'Leonard Shelby' because he was a very mysterious and interesting character.
• My favorite scene in the film was the scene where you eventually found out who killed the mans wife. 
• I enjoyed this film because it was very gripping and interesting, I enjoyed that non-linear narrative as it made the movie stand out from other drama/action movies.

Conventions	Scene example from film Crash	Scene example from other films that are similar
Love/Romance	The man is determined to find the person who killed his beloved wife and will stop at nothing to gain justice for her.	PS I love you, the man is determined to find the woman after he meets her whilst she is going for a walk.
Violence	When the man attacks and kills the man who killed his wife in the empty warehouse..	Romeo and Juliet, violence is used throughout thr movie, gun crime, physical fights etc.
Determination	The main character looking for justice for his wife stops at nothing to gain justice.	Freedom Writers, the teacher is determined to teach the troubled teenagers in abid to give them hope.
Action	Stealing of cars, use of weapons etc.	Matrix, a host of action conventions present including smashing windows.
Family	When the man is being held at gunpoint over the womans death.	2012, the man is determined to save his family from the disaster.

Assignment 10; Billing Analysis.

Below is my assignment 10 completed on film billing in a movie, I completed my assignment on the American drama movie Forrest Gump.

Assignment 9; Opening Sequence Analysis.

Below is my assignment 9; completed in a group of three including Rianne and Pamela on analysing an opening sequence. As a group we was given to kill a mockingbird as an opening sequence to analyse.

Cinema Post; Flight.

At the weekend I attended the cinema to watch the American drama movie Flight directed by Robert Zemeckis.

 

Main Actors

• Denzel Washington
• Don Cheadle
• Melissa Leo
• Kelly Reilly
• John Goodman
• Bruce Greenwood
 

 

Flight is based on a pliots struggle to avoid being impriosned after his passenger jet chrashed killing 6 people, he believes himself to be a hero, however claims that he was using illegal drugs and under the influence of alcohol whilst flying the jet cause him to have to face a court case as to if it was him that caused the crash resulting in lose of life. Throughout the movie we can see the main characters battle with alcohol and drug use. This movie was very inspiring, moving and action packed. 

Psycho Opening Sequence.

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1. Good use of background music.
2. Good use of basic credits and titles.

Napoleon Dynamite Opening Sequence.

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1. Montage opening sequence.
2. Good use of close up shots.

Bunny Lake Is Missing Opening Sequence.

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• Title Sequence.

Alien Opening Sequence.

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1. Good use of background music.
2. Good build up of tension.

Donnie Brasco Opening Sequence.

Donnie Brasco Opening Sequence.

1. Ghost trail used.
2. Good use of split screen. 

Mission Impossible Opening Sequence.

Mission Impossible Opening Sequence.

1. Good use of background music.
2. Fast pace cuts used.

Falling Down Opening Sequence.

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1. Extreme close up shots used.
2. Close up shots used.

Ginger Snaps Opening Sequence.

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1. Overlapping pictures used.
2. Good use of enigma.

Lord Of War Opening Sequence.

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• Good use of enigma.
• Good use of point of view shot.

Blue Valentine Opening Sequence.

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• Good use of font for credits.
• Good use of background music.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Opening Sequence.

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1. Good use of special effects. 
2. Good use of enigma. 

The Mothman Prophecies Opening Sequence.

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1. Good use of camera shots.
2. Good introduction of characters, 

To Kill A Mockingbird Opening Sequence.

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1. Good use of a teaser.
2. Good use of extreme close up and close up shots. 

Seven Opening Sequence.

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1. Good conventions.
2. Gripping, creates an enigma. 

Scream 4 Opening Sequence.

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1. Good conventions.
2. Creates an enigma. 

Sound Anaysis; The Hunger Games Clip.

in class we learnt all about sound and how it is applied in movies, here is an analysis of a clip from the hunger games in whcih I have ponited out all the main elements of sound there are within the clip.