Reserach

I must find films and compare them and talk about how they are similar to the same motto as my short film. My motto is journey.

Lord of the rings trilogy

I have chosen this as one of my films that I feel is similar to my short film because it is the same motto as mine in many ways. People may think that lord of the rings is all about fighting and heroship. But in fact there is a journey to it. This journey is with Frodo and Sam who are hobbits that lived a peaceful life in the shire which they had never left the entire time they had been alive so far.

Their journey begins when they are told to take the ring to mount doom which involves them traveling into lands they never have stepped foot in or even knew existed. This is similar to my film because My charcter "Matt" doesnt go out, he just plays xbox. However one day he decides hel go out of his comfort zone and try something new. This is exactly what the hobits feel as they leave theire home town on the way to mount doom.

 The inbetweeners movie

This movie also has a very strong link wih my film because if you have followed the TV shows of the inbetweeners then you will know that Will, Simon, Neil and Jay have never been on holiday abroad just to go clubbing and boozing, which is a common thing people do at that age. But in the movie they all decide to give it ago, You can tell they are out of theire comfort zone about this when you watch the movie, but yet they still do it.

This links strongly to my short film as before because of the characters going out of their comfort zone and doing something new which is exactly what Matt does in my film.



Treatment for my short story and script for my short story

Blurb: A story of trust between two boys.

Character bigraphies:
Seb: Is the main character. He is 16 and is an average boy at that age who goes to college and is with frinds when not busy. He is a caring person which is the main aspect of him shown in this story when his friends take John's binoculars.

John: Is also a joint main charcter because he plays an important tole in the story. John is 16 too and also attends the same college as Seb. How ever he doesnt talk to Seb because they have different personalities and groups of friends. He has a shy personality and has confidence problems.

Jones & Garry: Jones and Garry play a very small role in the short story. They are Sebs friends, they can be nice most times, but sometimes they overstep boundries like they do in this short story.

Storyline: We start in the park where we see Seb, Jones and Garry having a kickabout on the grass. We then see John on his own playing with some paper binoculars. Seb walks over to John and makes conversation and has ago with using his binoculars after asking and saying that he wont do anything to them.

However Jones and Garry then come over and they put Seb in an awkward position when they snatch Johns binoculars from Seb and tell him to follow them as they they run off luaghing. Seb follows feeling embarrased and guilty about what happened leaving John on his own looking upset.

When Garry, Jones and Seb stop running Jones and Garry starting talking about destroying the binocuilars for a luagh. Seb steps in at this point and tells them both to grow up and he walks away from them while they shout insults after him.

Seb heads back to where John is standing and hands him the binoculars and apologises, John smiles and accepts. They both walk out of the park after this talking to eachother.

Script:

Camera starts with a two shot of Garry and Jones playing football, Seb then walks into the shot and joins in. Camera then pans sideways to the rigt where it shows John on his own looking around him through his paper binoculars.

The next shot shows John still using his binoculars but he then lowers them and smiles as Seb walks into the shot.

Seb: Heyy, dont I know you from college right?
John: Yeah were in the same lesson for A level art.
Seb: thats right! its been almost a year and I havent spoken to you properly in college or oustide college, how is that?
John: You always seem busy when i do try to make conversation with you but I dont mind.
Seb: (looking emabarrased) Oh, I didnt know you live near here?
John: yeah I live two blocks down from here.
Seb: Nice one, oh cool binoculars bro, can I have a try?
John: (facial expressions show that hes considering what to say) well...
Seb: I promise I wont do anything with them, trust me.
John: (Facial expression shows him smile) ok then
(John hands Seb the binoculars where he start using them to look around)
Seb: Hey guys (as Jones and Garry walk over  smiling)
Jones: nices binoculars man (snatching them and chucing them to Garry)
John: (facial expression shows him looking worries) come on now guys...
Garry: Quick Seb run.. (As him and Jones run off laughing about what they had done)
Seb look emabarrased and guilt in his face so he turns away from John and runs after Garry and Jones
Garry: Ha ha did you see the look on his face (after they had stopped running)
Seb: His names John...
Jones: Alright mate, calm down... anway shall we go throw it in the river and tell him, I bet hel cry.
Seb: ( snatches the binoculars) Dont be dicks guys, what you did you just then was harsh, Im going home see you later. (sounded fustarted and angry in his facial expression and the way he speaks)

My stories for the paper binoculars

My stories for the paper binoculars

Story 1:

An old man bought the binoculars from the 99p store.

He bought the binoculars a few years back roughly between 2000- 2004 because the binoculars look a lot different and fragile compared to the cheap binoculars that are made these days.

He then took them home with him where he used them to spy on what his neighbours were up to. I do not know where the old man lived but he probably lives reasonably close to where the shop that sold the binoculars was if that helps.

The binoculars which were being used to spy on the old man’s neighbours was short lived because the old man threw the binoculars out of his window when he realised how difficult it was to see out of the binoculars. This would explain why the binoculars looked so ragged and misshaped when I saw them in the lesson.

Story 2:

I am in the park with two friends playing football, when I notice a younger aged boy playing with some binoculars; I know the boy but don’t talk with him much because I don’t know him well enough.

I go up to the boy and make conversation for a while. After a while I ask if I can borrow the boy’s binoculars. He looks unsure at first but then I tell him that he can trust me to look after them. He then hands them over to me with a satisfied smile on his face thinking ill look after them as I promised.

I played with the binoculars for a while and then my other two friends came over and asked to have a quick go with them. As soon as I did this they grinned and ran off with the little boys binoculars laughing at him. I looked back at the little boy’s face which showed the emotions of being upset and betrayed. I was too embarrassed to say anything to him so I ran after my mates.

Once my two mates were a distance away from the little kid they sat down and started laughing about what they had done. I sat down too but said nothing feeling bad inside because I had betrayed that boys trust. My two mates then talked about throwing it in the lake so at this point I snatched it off them and told them to grow up, I then started walking away towards where the younger boy had been playing with his binoculars. My mates shouted abuse at me as I walked away but I just ignored them.

When I got closer I could see the younger boy I walked towards him, he had an empty look in his face. When I got within in speaking distance, I said to him that I was sorry about what my friends had done and I handed him back his binoculars. He smiled and accepted my apology. I then asked the boy if I could join in. He grinned and said yes. We’ve been good friends since that day.

I like this story the most because the object (binoculars) is the moral of the story which is “never betray someone’s trust”.

Story 3

Starts with a dark building where a kid is making a paper binocular which he then has to put inside a Christmas cracker that he also makes. By this point the audience will realise that the kid is working in a factory somewhere paid underage most likely because the kid is dressed in clothes that are torn and dirty. It is Christmas Eve and the kid has to meet a quota before he can go home.

Then we follow the Christmas cracker which is packaged with 11 other Christmas crackers in a box as it is transported from the factory to a supermarket in High Wycombe. I pick the box of Christmas crackers up in the morning on Christmas day and bring them home where I lay them out on the table with the turkey and Christmas pudding and other festive food.

We have a lot of our family and relatives around for Christmas lunch this year. When we have eaten we then pull the crackers. I pull mine with my 6 year old cousin. He wins and pulls out the binoculars where his smile widens and he spends a long twenty minutes playing with them.

We all then open our main Christmas presents. My little cousin gets a Lego set and immediately drops the binoculars and starts playing with his Lego. The binoculars were never used again.

This story shows stories inside it using the binoculars like how the kid was suffering and making these toys to live and on the receiving end we were sitting at home eating roast turkey and playing with toys from inside of the crackers

The other story is that the kid put so much effort into making the toy and when my cousin got it  he was thrilled but then he ditched it as soon as he got his main presents.

Our Short story (falling down the stairs) analysed

Our Short story (falling down the stairs) analysed

Shot 1: Long shot of person walking along to corridor until they reach a flight of stairs.

Shot 2: medium shot of person about to fall down the flight of stairs but then the camera jump cut's to the next camera shot.

Shot 3: Medium shot of person lying on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.

Shot 4: Medium panning shot going from left to right to left to right ect going down the stairs. When the camera has panned down to the bottom of the stairs where the person is laying the camera continues panning past the body and pans up the wall.

Shot5: Extreme close up shot of persons face as he is lying on the floor.

Shot List

Long shot

Medium shot

Panning shot

Extreme close up

jump cut shot

This whole video did not go as well as I hoped it would, for a start the camera angles were not the ones we were supposed to do and secondly the idea for our video was a terrible plan. Then when the editing came we edited over part of our video by accident and secondly someone decided we should have a Katy Perry song in our video background.

Review of short script “Tom Tom and Goose”

Review of short script “Tom Tom and Goose”

First shot: Two shot medium shot of two people sitting on a log. The camera is directed at us from behind our backs.

Second shot: Two shot medium shot but this time the camera is in front of us pointing towards us from a sideway angle.

Third shot: Two shot long shot with the camera a distance in front of us showing our whole bodies sitting on the log talking.

Fourth shot: Two shot medium shot with the camera in front of us angled sideways at our faces. The shot is also a low angle shot.

Fifth shot: Medium shot high angle shot of us with the camera looking down at us but also rotating around us at the same time (pam shot?).

Sixth shot: Medium shot with a high camera angle with the camera pointed at our backs.

Seventh shot: Two Long shot with high camera angle looking down on us from the side.

Eighth shot: Extreme long shot two shot of us sitting on log. Camera then zooms in closer on the two people sitting on the tree.

We had to improvise with the location of our script allot because in the script we were meant to be driving through London and then we had to rob a bank and die from gun wounds from the police. So in the end we decided to have our location in the woods and just sit on a log and read out the script using cool camera techniques in the video shots we took. Me and Jack both played roles on the script and Charlie came into our group for the day because we were missing our other group member. Charlie was the camera man.

Because there were no gaps in the script where only one person was talking for a majority of time we decided that all our shots should be two shots so that the audience could see what was going on with both the characters at all time while they were making conversation with each other.

Because we changed the script to the two characters just sitting on a log talking the whole time we had to make up for that with the camera shot techniques, so we used some shots such as high and low angle shots, zoom in and out shots and panning shots which all worked really well with our script.

We had done an original film before this one but it was unfortunately filmed over by someone. I was not o bothered by this because the film we shot after looked a lot better. Things that I would have done to improve the video would be possibly more action or movement coming from the characters who were just sitting on the log because it did look rather dull and we could have used a lot more camera techniques if we had.

Shot List

Two shot

Medium shot

Long shot

Low angle shot

High angle shot

Extreme long shot

Zoom in shots

Zoom out shots

Panning shots

Red Rock West camera techniques analysed

I will now list to you what is going on in each scene from my storey boards going in sequence from scene 1-12.

1.      This scene is a close up shot of the main character driving his car along a road.

2.      This is a panning shot of the road stretching into the horizon, the road is surrounded by nothing but sand (dessert). The camera pans to the right.

3.      This shot starts with a panning long shot panning to the right showing the man drive of the road into a petrol station. When the car stops inside the petrol station the camera stops panning and turns into a still long shot directed at the main character in the car.

4.      This shot is a medium close up shot of the man when he steps out of the car.

5.      The shot is a medium close up tracking shot following the man walking from his car into the petrol station only showing his waist and above.

6.      The next shot is a high angle close up shot of a box in cabinet full of items. I get the feeling that the camera angle is giving the impression to the audience that we are looking from the main characters point of view (eyes).

7.      This shot is an extreme close shot up of the main characters face looking surprised. The shot then changes to a high angle extreme close up shot of a wallet will dollar notes sticking out of it lying on a worktop (table maybe). I get the feeling that the mans shocked expression was him seeing the money on the table. Meaning the shot of the money was probably us looking through the main characters line of sight again.

8.      The next shot is an over the shoulder medium shot with the camera looking over Nick’s (main character) shoulder as he talks to another man who is standing in front of him facing towards him/ camera.

9.      The next shot  is an extreme close up zoom shot of Nick’s car’s licence plate, the camera then zooms back out on the license plate panning to the left giving a medium close up shot of a man filling Nick’s car up with fuel.

10.  The next shot shows a medium shot of Nick facing away from the camera towards the man filling up his car with fuel. The man filling up the car with fuel has an over the shoulder log shot on him.

11.  This shot is a shot reverse shot of nick and another man making conversation (camera keeps flicking between the two characters as they make conversation).

12.  This shot is a two shot of Nick and the man who filled his car up with gas having another conversation (both people are talking to each other but this time they are both in the same shot).

Unit 22 single camera techniques

Single camera techniques: unit 22

have chosen too analyse the camera techniques for a two minute scene from scrubs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsrnT7Tv1o
only use link if video below fails to show.

 

•The clip starts with a long shot of the main character walking through the hospital. The camera then pans to the left following him as he runs into a hospital ward. You then get an OVS shot (over the shoulder shot) of him looking at someone lying in a bed.

•The camera then faces him showing his look of shock, the camera slowly zooms in on his face turning into close-up shot.

•About 3 or 4 seconds later you get an establishing shot of the man lying in the bed with all the nurses doing surgery on him, this to me looks like a POV shot( point of view shot)

 

•After this you get a fade down shot of the man lying in the bed and slowly a fade in shot comes back showing a women dressed in a red dress next the bed where the man is no longer lying, this gives me an impression that the man is having some kind of dream.

•The rest of the clip is very easy to explain as it becomes very repetitive. The camera is a medium shot of the woman, who has now started singing. The camera goes back to the man panning in on his face give a close up shot. The  woman starts walking out of the sight of the camera and as she does this the camera fades out. The next shot is an establishing shot of the man looking in the direction of something off camera, the woman then walks in to shot , this is a two shot/ medium long shot. She continues walking past the camera and as she is about walk out of the camera shot the camera does a fade out shot. I found these first 30-45 seconds of the video clip very interesting and full of camera techniques, the fade out shots in particular helped to give the viewer the impression that the man was dreaming.

•One last thing I must mention is use of light, when the woman with red dress first appeared the lights were all dimmed giving the effect that the man was dreaming or having a fantasy.