My Disaster Movie

Lo: To effectively develop an idea for a disaster movie.

When & where is the film set?

Barking London 1987 then moved to Canada.

What is the overall mood of the film?

Happy but stressfull.

How will this show through the clothes they wear?

Mum will wear very smart but bright things positive children as well.

Going to be shot in a lot of different places, long shots,Ariel shot( from above)

Medium Close up, long shots,extreme long/side shot and a slanted angle shot.

It's in color, some shots will be from helicopters and a on hand crew on the floor.

What is the message behind the film?

Well I'm going to base it around an event from the past, The Edmonton Tornado, and the disaster of it that hit Alberta Canada.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSvbzZ6Z93o

 IT'S CALLED EDMONTON DISASTER

Character are going to be the mum, Is Ms Wilson,  Lou Wilson, G (14 year old), Kendall Wilson,B (6 year old), Boss 1, Mr Garsely, Boss 2 Mr Peter's, Neighbor in London, Mary Bakers( older women, sweet and lives on her own) neighbors in Canada(The family live in a trailer park as a temporary basis)And not everyone is very friendly,( A few shop people), School friends including Annie Parker, Josie Willis and Luke Sullivan (Lou's friends, Ms Wilson working Buddies: Karen, Mellisa, Mel and Gary.

Genre: Adventure,Disaster.

Todovs theory:

Start they are in London and mum works in an office, gets offered a promotion but it's all the way in Edmonton Canada,She goes and talks to her children about it and they agree, they have a long road trip including Ariel shots of the car and a close up of them all in it they stop at a few places too.

They stay at a few hotels on the way there (takes 31 hours to get there on driving basis)

Then they arrive at the trailer park where they will be temporarily living, the neighbors aren't friendly at all and spit on them.The two children settle into their new schools and make friends , it starts to become very gloomy weather and cold.

Rumors going around that there may be a storm, mum has just settled into her new workplace with the new office job with all her co-workers who can be difficult but hard-working and Considerate.

Children get sent home early because the weather forecast has Taken a turn for the worst and they'll be a humongous storm coming and no one really knows what it is, mum's job is half an hour away from the trailer park so she has to leave asap considering the children schools are only a matter of minutes away. Mum get stuck right in the middle of a tornado and unfortunately she can't get out of her car fast enough.

The children are left in their trailer not knowing if the mum will be coming home, they go out to look for her so they walk a bit scared, they see a tornado Approaching and quickly hide under a tree log.

After it's all over they emerge from the spot they were in too see disaster everywhere they go back to the trailer park and it's destroyed, people lying on the ground Injured and in awful condition, there house is destroyed, all the houses are destroyed,they come and get picked up by their mum's old co-worker Mel who is lovely and will look after them,But the mother of the children her body was discovered in a car only 10 mins away from there old trailer house they attend her funeral a week later, the ending scene is of the children looking out of the back of Mel's car then seeing flash backs of the tornado and the sky is still grey, 

The last thing of the movie is a line which saids'1987 July 31st, Edmonton Canada'

The hero: Mel

The villain: The tornado?

The donor: The mum

The helper: Lou

The princess:?

The dispatcher: Mel herself feels the need to look after the children because Their mum was a good freind.

The princess father:?

The false hero:?

Mise-En-Scene

Lo: To explore the use of mise - en- scenes in films.

It is a French term meaning what is being put into a screen or frame.

Visual information infront of the camera.

Mes communicates essential information to the audience,each aspect of mise-en-scene

Has hidden meanings within a film,and sends signals to the audience about how we are supposed to feel or about a character.

Made up of 5 bases:

Setting and props,

Costume, hair and makeup,

Facial expressions and body language,

Lighting and color,

Positioning of characters or objects within the frame.

1.setting and props

Setting and location are an important part in any film and are not just backgrounds.

Sets are either built from scratch or a great deal of time is spent to find a setting which already exists.

Settings can manipulate an audience by building certain expectations and then taking a different turn.

2.costume, hair and makeup

costume hair and makeup act as an instant indicator to us of a characters personality status and job.

It tells us immediately whether the film is set in the present or the past.

3.facial and body expressions,

Facial expressions provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling.

If someone is smiling broadly we instantly assume they are happy but we may get a new impression if it's assisted with dark music.

Body expressions may show how that character feels toward the other characters like the state of their relationship.

4.lighting and colour,

To highlight important characters or objects.

To make the characters look a particular way/show their emotions and mental state.

5.Positioning of people/objects

Positioning within a frame can draw our attention to a important character/object.

A film maker can use positioning to indicate relationships between people.

PLENARY

What are the 5 things included in MES?

Setting/props

Costume,makeup and hair

Facial and body expressions

Lighting/color

Positioning of things in the frame

Sound in film

Starter:                                                                                          May 12th 2020

Movie theme songs!

9/26 NOT awful....

Shrek √

Harry Potter√

Frozen √

Moana √

Mission Impossible √

Pirates of the Caribbean √

Suicide Squad √

Twilight √

High School Musical √

Music 

What sort of music would you expect from a horror movie?

Some dark sinister music.

What sort of music would you expect from a Action Movie?

Upbeat repetitive.

What sort of music would you expect from a thriller?

An interesting one.

What sort of music would you expect from a comedy?

Funny also repetitive not dark in any shape or form, happy.

What sort of music would you expect from a science fiction film?

A serious piece of music, to go with some sort of experiment.

SOUNDTRACK

Lo: To explore the use of sound in films.

Which includes:

Diegetic

Non diegetic

Choose a short clip from youtube : 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxPjDL8HFM

Diegetic - In this clip you would probably hear the person who plays the beast soothing the horse before it makes a loud neigh, also their would be the backing track where they were.

Non-Digetic - you can hear them talking to one another, and at 0:17 you can hear belle and her footsteps on the snow, and at 0:31 you can hear the knives clattering on the plate.

FOLEY:

Watch the following Animation √

PLENARY

All sound in a film is called Diegetic.

Types of sound in films, human voices and music.

Music is Diegetic

Foley is the recorded sound affects to add in after the movie.

Setting&colour

L/o:
To explore the use of setting & colour of films.                 Monday May 4th 2020

Starter:
6 correct
4 wrong

Setting

Why might the director choose the following settings?

1 An isolated house in a rural setting for a horror film?

They might do that because they want to build the tension, it is of course expected in a horror movie to have some sort of dark eerie setting, but because it is a horror, the setting works very well and every time when it's the same setting which comes across as quite scary, it doesn't get old.

2 A big city for an action film?

Because it's an action movie there is going to be A lot of stuff going on and because of this, the only solution really is to make a large setting so there is enough locations that they can film at and have different things going on.

3 A small seaside town for a romantic comedy

Because it's small, it usually is a very lovely sight to see in a rom-com is when two people are in the seaside, maybe they use a small town so everyone knows one another and also their isn't too many things to look at so the couple can be the main focus.

4 A range of different countries for an action adventure film?

It's an adventure , they are going to be traveling places exploring things but also there will be some sort of mission to get thrown into it, that's where the action comes from, or they might need to travel to retrieve something, or set things right.

5  A large modern science laboratory for a science-fiction film

A reason they do this is because something usually goes wrong in a science experiment which cause distribution to the story line, so in the modern science laboratory they have to find a solution and also because it is fiction it's not real so a science experiment could just be effects.

Colour

Why might a director choose the following colours?

1. Blue and red for superhero colours?

Because they are two colours which go together and are quite bold, they are also the traditional colours for a superhero.

2. A black suit for a villain?

Because black is associated with something evil, depressing, scary and even sometimes death.

3. Bright colours for a comedy film?

Because it's supposed to be funny or course you would use bright colours in a film like this, you would not want to use dark colours because people might make the wrong impression and think their is a dark part to this comedic movie.

The Greatest Showman

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-CVJuNQo6w

Tightrope song scene

Shot 1:
0:18- Birds Eye View of the house and the carriage leaving.

Shot 2:
0:26- Medium Shot of The mother's body from the waist up.

Shot 3:
1:51- Over shoulder shot, Over Zac Effron's shoulder showing the crowd.

Long shot- 2:38- A shot showing the window and The mother dancing with a figment of her imagination.The

Close-up -1:07- A full show of Jenny's Face.

The story is shown through charity, the mother's point of view mostly, but at some points it also shows the point of views from Phillip and PT Barnum.

We see characters different point at views at- 0:35-1:04-2:01-2:08-2:29-2:31 and 3:07 for all of Mr Barnum's point of views.

The way the first shots set the scene in this scene, is it keeps on switching between Pov shots.

The shots normally change between 5-10-15 seconds

The set at the start is of the family's house
It's set in that particular place because he's leaving their home.
The string changes between all their lives and where they are.
Could the same story be set in a different place?
I don't think so because, he's leaving home, he's leaving his family it just really works from the house.
The colours are very important in the film because it helps set all the scenes, in some scenes people are wearing very bright and expensive clothes.

Plenary

The star wars shot is used effectively because it's shows the tension built up between the two characters and it shows the whole room so you can really see what's going on.

CameraWork

L/o:To explore the use of camerawork in films.   

April 27th 2020

Starter:
1.Joker
2.Dunkirk
3.Sonic
4.Endgame(Thanos)
5.Star wars?

Camerawork

Pick a film to do camerawork on- Clueless

Extreme closeup - when cher is putting out her debate on the hadiens and how it does not say RSVP on the statue of Liberty.The

Close up- When Cher realizes her feeling for Josh , she gets a close-up on her shoulder up.

Medium Close Up- When Tai has just joined the school and is walking with Cher and Dion and they are talking about food there is a medium close-up on Tai and Cher.The

Mid shot- When Cher is walking down the hall after Mr Halls class and is on the phone to Dion talking about their grades.

Long shot - when Cher close to the end before she figured out her feelings for Josh, is walking down the town last all the shops, it's a long shot.

Establishing Shot- When Cher dries past a stop sign in her car, it shows the objects and scenery around it.

Ariel shot/Birds she view- When their is a shot midway in the movie where it shows the whole of their school (Beverly Hills High School)

Low angle shot- When Cher and Dion are in the shop and Cher is worrying about Mr Halls harsh debate grade.


High angle shot- When a shoe hits Tai on the head while at a party in the Valley.

Canted Angle- When Cher is on her driving test and smashes into another car it's from a tilted angle.

Pov Shot- When Cher at the very beginning of the movie the camera keeps of switching from her to her computer screen.

Over the Shoulder Shot- When Tai falls down the stairs at her again ANOTHER party it goes over Cher's shoulder.


1- Movement of the camera either up or down
2-Movement of the camera from side to side
3-Movement of the camera left to right on tripod
4-Movement of the camera and tripod towards and away from the subject.
5- A shot of an eye on a person's face: Extreme Extreme closeup
6-A shot following all the person's body: Long shot
7-A shot from the waist to the top of the head: Medium Shot
8- An extreme long shot of a building or setting (usually the first shot in a scene):Birds eye view
9-A shot from the window of an aeroplane -High angle shot
10-A shot looking up at something someone: Low shot

pick a scene and write 3 things about the camera work- Clueless

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_VJLSr3lE&list=RDQMYz0w3zh5_aQ&index=24

'I love Josh ' Scene

It uses canted angle when Cher is walking back from getting some shopping and it shows her, and the houses around her.

It also uses a medium shot when cher is thinking walking down the road- 0:27

Over shoulder shot- over cher's shoulder it shows Josh- 0:31

Plenary

I think the reason the camera shot for the joker is used because 1 it's a over shoulder shot and 2 pov shot, showing what he's looking at which happens to be himself and the people in the background.