Characters:
This is chris the main character, starting off getting a result from a recent test. He is portrayed as a student obviously from the bag and from the clothes. Similar characters would have to be intelligent yet clumsy, perhaps have lived a sheltered life from the outside world.
Title of the Film: Beyond The Line
We chose this title because the opening is based around an exceptional student who manages to get an A in his test, from here it goes downhill. His family is poor and he cannot afford higher education, in order to become a higher class citizen he must resort to crime. But something goes terribly wrong. This opening works more like a prologue, setting up the audience for the genre straight away, with a short ’shock’ scene to finish it off.
Setting & Locations:
Most of the opening scene was located in College itself, some near the grounds. The First clip is of the front entrance, it was firstly used as an establisher then moving onto Chris walking past entering the college from the front door. The locations were chosen because it is trying to set the scene for a “star” student, travelling into college on a day off to get his results. He gets his results but returns to his house to find his parents arguing about him and how then can’t afford to send him to a better school.
Costumes & Props:
The costumes used added to the setting of the college, however no uniforms were used. There was only 1 prop used which was a test paper with a fairly large A based at the top of the paper, clearly showing the result.
Camera Work & Editing:
The camera work was pretty shabby we didn’t really focus on taking multiple shot of the same scene, however it is mainly formed of Two-shots and med/wide shots. The editing was incomplete unfortunatly. We managed to insert some text and transitions.
Title font & Style:
The Title font was a standard keeping it constant the text font was Times New Roman font 14. If it isn’t constant the opening would have to vary, there are few cases where it actually works however these are mainly abstract scenes such as in Bored to Death. Movies that incorporate constant and standard texts are movies such as Forrest Gump or Dirty Harry which both use same same text font throughout the opening.
Story:
The story is about a boy who is highly successful in school however one day after school he finds his parents fighting, the arguement is around fundings for his schooling. Determined to raise enough funding he must resort to crime, but it goes terribly wrong.
Genre:
Drama/Crime
The Target audience for my CourseWork is:Teenagers, in general
There was no specific teenager type that was targeted, other than ages 16+. However this opening is based around the genre Teen Drama. The Targets likes and dislikes can vary, but they will most probably watch drama series such as Skins, Hollyoaks or the Misfits.
Zombieland is a fairly recent movie set in America when a virus gets spread turning people into zombies, Directed by Ruben Fleisher. Released in 2009.
The start of the opening scene is an american flag flapping around in the wind, narrated by the main character “Columbus” who is followed throughtout the duration of the movie. The camera pans up as he says “I’ve come to realise you can’t have a country without people, there are no people here” it pans out with the whitehouse in the background. The camera is held by an expendable character with a video camera, who gets chased by a zombie and comes to a sticky ending.
He then goes onto saying there are rules to follow if you want to survive. “Rule No1#: Cardio When the virus struck the obvious ones to go first, were the fatties” showing a big bloke being chased by a zombie across an american football field, he gets caught up to and eaten. While Columbus sympathetically says “Poor fat bastard”
He mentions three other rules before the scene turns into a slowmotion montage, containing clips sometimes of everyday life. Or a wedding when the bride tries to eat the groom. Or a subtle referance to Scarface [Guy in the whitesuit spraying with an AK assault rifle]
Braindead is a 1992 zombie based movies directed by Peter Jackson on a very small budget.
The Opening scene starts in a very mountainous area, with two men hastily sliding down a rocky slope. One of which keeps giving hints on the main story, “This thing is evil, man!” “Let it go”. Giving subtle hints on the plot from the very start builds the atmosphere that it isn’t going to follow the criteria of most zombie movies. [Some kind of virus infects mankind and turns people into zombies] The contents of the crate are only revealed when the higher class one (The Employer) of the two says “Its only a bloody monkey”
This movie contains cheesy and mainly black comedy. You can tell this by a small clip further in the scene. A large group of tribals appear trying to stop them from taking the ‘Monkey’ a quick reaction was to pull out a piece of paper, then shoves it in the chieftains face with a sharp tone to try and deter the tribals by yelling ”Permit, PERMIT”.
This hastily leads to a quick escape in a jeep a little further down the slope, adding two extra members to the crew. At this part you may think that the scene will end however the employer screams “Ahh the little bugger bit me” which eventually leads to one of his crew saying ‘Sangaia’ with a very concerned and worried look on his face. It is clearly not English but the true meaning is never told. This leads to a very gory ending for the employer, he got bitten on his hand so the crew pulled out a very large and sharp blade and cut his hand off [No Censorship, but an obviously fake plastic hand] They then noticed a cut on his other arm closer to his shoulder, so they took that off. While screaming flat on the floor another cut revealed itself but on his forehead. This ended the opening scene, as he swung it gave the hint he took the employers head off but instead of showing it they put the movie title on.
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Here are some of the most commonly used tools when working with adobe premiere. Most of there have keyboard shortcut which enable the user to edit faster than individually clicking on each button everytime a new tool is needed.
Selection Tool – This tool is auto-activated from startup, it can be used to drag and drop segments along the timetable. It has the same functions as most other mouse pointers, such as selecting multiple clips.
Track Select Tool – This tool is used when importing a media file onto the timeline, when this pointer is shown the location that you click on is the starting point of this media file.
Ripple Edit – This tool is used when editing clips on the timeline, when a clip is moved on the timeline the rest of them move with it to compensate, instead of overrighting the next clip.
Rolling Edit Tool – This is the opposite of Ripple Edit, when you edit clips on the timeline the rest of the clips stay where they are, and may get overrighted.
Rate Stretch - This tool is used to edit the length of the selected clip, this changes the speed. If an audio clip is too long it can be shortened to fit the video clip.
Razor Tool – This turns the selected clip [on the timeline] into segments on click. This is used to edit where the scene is on a timeline.
Slide Edit – this tool is used to move clips along the timeline, without changing the lengths.
Slip Tool – This changes the start and ending of a timeline clip.
Hand Tool – Change the viewpoint on the timetable
Zoom Tool – Zooms into an area on the timeline, giving more precise times.
Adobe premiere is a video editing software, it is easy to use and can give videos a proffesional look.
With it you can make videos using the following tools.
Extreme Wide shot [EWS] - This is mostly used as an establishing shot, its shows the viewer where the scene is taking place.
Wide Shot [WS] – This is to show one of the people in this scene, usually shows the whole person without cutting off any other parts for balance.
Mid Shot [MS] – Shows the person usually from the waist up, showing facial expressions.
Med Close Up [MCU] – Shows the person from the chest up.
Close Up [CU] – The persons face usually takes up the whole screen, used to show visual expressions.
Extreme Close Up [ECU] - Shows the person in high detail.
Cut Away [CA] – Breaks up longer scenes, the scene diverts into something else. For Example in an action scene instead of just staying on the main characters, it cuts away to an explosion.
Cut In – Shows a specific thing on the target, such as if somebody pulls out an conceals a knife the camera will show the target sliding his hand into his jacket and pulling out the knife.
Two Shot – Similar to the mid shot, but contains two people instead of one.
Over The Shoulder Shot [OSS] – The camera shows a person over the shoulder of the person he is talking to, this is to show the reaction of the person.
Noddy Shot – Shows the interviewer reacting to the answer given from the person who he/she is questioning.
Point Of View [POV] – Shows the scene through the targets eyes, to show what he/she is looking at and what they are doing.
Weather Shot – This is to show the current weather, usually the sky. If its a horror movie the camera could point up to the sky to show big black clouds rolling in.
Video Cameras contain several functions most of which are automated [Focus, anti-shake]
Focus – Every camera needs to focus, sometimes it isn’t visable because it is automated. A video camera can be manually focused by a ring on the lens cover.
White Balance – Means the colour balance, most video cameras automatically use this function however every video camera has the white balance button, this is mainly used when moving from Outdoors to Indoors. [or Indoors to Outdoors]
Planning is the most important stage to developing a media product, this includes location, cast and script. The script will have to have been created before the location or cast can be decided, mainly because it is the media product. It contains the Locations and the characters.
The locations are visually important, they can be real places or CGI and shown by using a Green Screen.
Storyboarding is laying out a scene in segments. The scene may be from a movie, short film or from a media product in production. A storyboard will have shot titles, a shot description [This will include the camera techniques] and what the shot is trying to show [A story perhaps].
Login to wordpress an account can be made on the homepage. When you logon you will see a dashboard with the Blog Title, write, manage, design and comments. Once you click on write there are three selections, post, page and link. This is a post due to its small size these may be one or two paragraphs long. Pages are usually longer than posts for longer essays etc.
