AJA Feedback

1.     Evaluate your prelim task, discussing strengths and weaknesses. What you have learnt that will make you do things differently in the main task?

2.     Post the conventions task

3.     Post the mindmap task

4.     Analysis work is too brief and descriptive. Try to analyse in more depth, discussing why different techniques have been used to appeal to the audience (see me for help if required). Also, make sure you embed all the video clips you have analysed.

5.     Make sure all posts have a clear title: Analysis of Transformers opening sequence, for example

6.     Use more images and make your blog really visual/interactive. Avoid only text – your post about 180 degree rule etc, for example. You should have used images/video here.

1.     Post regular progress reports on your blog – treat it like a diary 

2.     Try to come up with more of your own planning/research tasks to show your own creative journey

Preliminary task final product

Preliminary task:
 Overall I found our preliminary task to be a good use of all the shots we have learnt to use, however looking at the final production I was able to see the editing had small errors within it such as pauses and cuts at the wrong times, all of which I will improve and familiarise myself with more before the final production and I have done research on different a level preliminary tasks as well, seeing how I can improve or where I can change all details.

The audio was not clear and in our final product we will use more professional mics and saturate the background noise as well as have more professional actors.

Our preliminary task was only 40 seconds which is very short so we need to have better time management while working on pour final product.

Prelim task

Story board for prelim task

dark knight rises

Dark knight rises

Film opening textual analysis

Genre/hybrid genre; the opening of the film is very unique and it starts off with a brick being thrown through the window and at first the audience is unaware what is about to happen,as we get more into the film we become more interested, it's iconic in the way they mentioned a very iconic character "the joker" within the bank robbery,and the first few minutes of the film.

Narrative:the story is told through the characters and their conversation

Location: the location of the opening scene constantly changed, started off  with 2 guys in a building and others in a car,we then see them 3 guys from the car enter the bank meanwhile the other two are on the roof, then reverts back to the inside of the bank and cameras switch between different parts in the bank

Characters: the actors are shown to be criminals which all turn on one another very quickly,which fits in perfect with the setting of the film and surrounding

Pacing: the pace of the film opening is at a medium action speed, audience is slowly brought into the action and intensity, as we get closer to the escape with the money the pace starts to speed up making the audience more interested

On-screen graphics/captions: there are no graphics other than the opening credits

Transformers

Transformers -Film opening analysis


Genre-the opening scene is unique due to the voice over being the same as the original 1987. It starts on a different planet to Earth,this makes the audience more interested

Location- this scene takes place on a planet in outter space, the planet of origin of Optimus prime this tells the audience something has happened for example a war which the auience becomes more clear about more into the scene

Voice over -this is very special and says true to the movie by having "Optimus prime" to explain what's happened since the last movie and continue on. The voice of Optimus prime is also very unique in the scene of having the same person which narrated the original film

Pace-the pace of this scene is very fast due to the war and this gives the audience more interest and intensesity in the atmosphere

Editing and post production- the space and solar system is editing and the voice over was over laid onto the scene.

Music- there is music at the beginning which is peaceful and then leads into more intense music as the action beggings

Camera movement- there is a panoramic movement which gives us a sense of the surrounding and the zooming in and out makes the audience a part of the action

Types of shots

Types of shots;



Match on action;
 Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.



Shot/reverse shot;

1. Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

   
   

   
   180 degree rule;   

   A rule  stating that a camera should be placed somewhere inside 180 degrees on a particular side of the invisible line of shot 

Introduction

I have chosen to work on a film project, my group members are Taylor, abdul and shubbi

We have decided to make a film opening to an action movie, opening will last about 4 minutes

Ideas; drug bust