Friday, 8 April 2011
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Monday, 28 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Feedback From Peers
Feedback
Good
- Good clear camera angles
- Sounds well chosen
- Speech at beginning
- Scenes flow well
Bad
- Need sound behind voice over
- Fade in sound
- Needed bar background sound (ambient)
- Have sound all the way through scenes.
- Music too happy
- Need more speech art bar
- Sounds slightly jumpy
- Too many newspapers
- Cancel out walking
- Should all be in widescreen
- Sound jumpy
- Speaking at beginning is too fast
Monday, 21 March 2011
Monday, 28 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Phone Call To Staincliffe Hotel
We contacted the Staincliffe to try and confirm a booking of one of their function rooms. This was to give the correct backdrop for the film noir that we were creating:
The conversation was along the lines of:
'Hi, I was wondering if a media group from Hartlepool Sixth Form College could use a function room to film some of our coursework. We won't disturb anyone and be very grateful'
The conversation was along the lines of:
'Hi, I was wondering if a media group from Hartlepool Sixth Form College could use a function room to film some of our coursework. We won't disturb anyone and be very grateful'
Monday, 31 January 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Monday, 24 January 2011
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Timing on Smokin` Aces Opening Sequence
Smokin` Aces – Timed Opening Sequence
Scene 1 – Universal Pictures - 6 Seconds
This is the part of the title sequence where the company who are presenting the film Smokin` Aces. It consists if a mainly red background, with a black silhouette of a man looking upwards, we assume this is one of the characters. The text telling us it is Universal Pictures is white, so that it stands out on the screen.
Scene 2 – Studio Canal Relativity Media – 11 Seconds
This scene has a black background, with a yellow silhouette of another man. This could also be one of the characters. As in the other scene the man that we see the silhouette of is an extreme close up – with us only seeing some of his face. The text is again white to stand out against the background and to make it legible.
Scene 3 – Working Title – 16 Seconds
The next scene is similar to the first 2, with it being a coloured background (in this case orange) with a silhouette, in this case black. It is also an extreme close up of a man who could be a character. The colours used on this page are typical of the male sex, who are usually dominant in film noirs, as orange is a colour which is meant to attract men’s attention, hence why Gillette use it on their adverts.
Scene 4 – Joe Carnahan – 29 Seconds
The next scene is of the writer and directors name, as mentioned above. It is almost all black, suiting the genre again, as noir is black in French, there are some shapes in the background but they aren’t really possible to make out. This makes it similar to the genre because a lot of them are shrouded in mystery and hard to understand because of their complex storylines.
Scene 5 – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner – 34 Seconds
This is really the first scene where we see some of the signifiers of the genre. We see two men facing each other, we can’t tell if they’re friends of enemies but they are both wearing the conventional clothing, smart suits and with facial hair. These are typical of the genre we are trying to imitate.
Scene 6 – Robert Graf, Liza Chasin - 39 Seconds
Here we see another signifier of the genre, gambling, with a man in the dark background holding up a playing card, we assume he’s being poker, blackjack etc. This is typical of the genre as when they were first created gambling and ultimately corruption were central parts of all of the storylines.
Scene 7 – Ben Affleck – 43 Seconds
This also has a convention of the genre – with the character who is on screen as a silhouette smoking a cigarette. This was a also a big part of the genre as it was seen as a cool thing to do by the characters in the 40s and 50s film noirs. Similar images to the ones mentioned here and above are continued for almost a minute until the next scene.
Scene 8 – Tommy Flanagan, Joseph Ruskin, Christopher Holley – 1:40
This scene shows that it has film noir features too, but also that it has some modern features too. It has the guns, a massive part of film noirs – the fighting and gangster side of places like New York city were huge in these movies. The modern twist is that the gun is (Semi) Automatic, which is a fairly modern thing to have.
Scene 9 – Smokin` Aces – 2:23
This is the title of the film, written in white – against a black background, which is splattered with blood, another part of the film noir conventions, as mentioned murder was a big part of these films.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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