Monday, 19 January 2009

American Psycho Storyboard









The Dark Knight Storyboard By Rebecca









The reason I chose The Dark Knight opening sequence is because i like how it had been editing. I also like the shots used. There were some really interesting closeups and i would like to use these in our film.

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Clerks opening narrative

Narrative

In media terms, narrative is the coherence/organisation given to a series of facts. The human mind needs narrative to make sense of things. We connect events and make interpretations based on those connections. In everything we seek a beginning, a middle and an end. We understand and construct meaning using our experience of reality and of previous texts. Each text becomes part of the previous and the next through its relationship with the audience.

The difference between Story & Narrative:

"Story is the irreducible substance of a story (A meets B, something happens, order returns), while narrative is the way the story is related (Once upon a time there was a princess...)" (Key Concepts in Communication - Fiske et al (1983))


Clerks; phone ringing causes the disturbance in the first few shots

Todoror- Equilibrium- Dante's day off
Disturbance- Phone rings
New Equilibrium- End of film

Dante -> Phone -> Goes to work

There can be expectations of the new equilibrium from looking at the genre.


http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/concept/film-narr/docs/narr.3.html

Monday, 12 January 2009

Video Clip



We anaylsed this video clip, looking at the camera angles and the pace of filming and length of shots.

Research- Production Meeting

We watched a short documentary on film production. We decided our film company would be called LIMP Industries.
Our roles in this company are,

Director: Zoe
Producer: Elly
Camera Operator: Becky
Editor: Jolie

Before this lesson we analysed "Wild At Heart", "Fast Times At Richmond High", "This is England", "Natural Born Killers" and "Clerks".

We also practised animatics, made a storyboard out of photos we had taken and then Blutoothed to the Mac's and learnt how to use LiveType.