Casino Royal - Shower Scene

After firstly seeing the shower media coursework: which is the second link in the below post we then realied we wanted to do something involving a shower- after looking through youtube a conversation came up about a scene in Casino royal- The shower scene, as a groupwe thought that this was perfect. However we decided that it might be a bit too complicated, therefore decided to think about some of the ideas- and we came up with the idea of a dream...

Work within the group.

After uploading the footage that we had filmed, as a group we decided that it wasn't what we were intending to do. Not the result we were after, therefore together decided it was time to think of a new idea- an idea that wasn't complex, but basic revealing the depth of the shoots. This is to ensure it doesn't become like a TV drama.

We decided to look at other media pieces, a few we came across were: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzc0gTiq5iY. Although this is a music video, the shots are unbelievable and this really gave us a lot of inspiration, we also came across another piece of media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODtjmGzo7k- we especially thought that the shower part within this was amazing, the shot and editing made it look as if it really was a film. However we then came across Casino Royale.

Main task; change-

Whilst planning to do our main task, although taking in what we had done right and wrong within our preliminary task's we still didn't agree on one idea we all still continued to fire ideas to each other which often made it to complex- we wanted to keep our main task simple and with not too many shots- however the story we were doing needed more shots that we wanted.

When we first had the oppurtunity to do almost a day of filming, we began to get the actors ready the actors in this were: Elise, Ellie and myself; when beginning we realised getting our costumes correct for the opening it took a lot longer than we though it would, therefore this left us with a minable time to film. Once all of our costumes were finished the group still found it hard to begin. We had problems with getting the camera shots to flow, and we needed to do this is order to get the correct exam requirments.

After attempting to film, everyone became fustrated and tired. We all want to get the best mark possible therefore are brains are all exploding with ideas on how we could do this, at the end of the day we ended up with about 30 seconds of filming, but nothing fitted.

As a consequence although time consuming I believe we now have a lot more knowledge of what we want; the preliminary task was useful however it wasn't a film opening after trying to do this we know no what makes the filming more TV drama and this is:  The more shots done the more it is like this. After all of this we then got together, and while importing our footage on to the computers we came to a joint agreement that we should look at other as media openings and also fiml opening's; some footage that got our attention was- Casino Royale.

After filming part of our main task- we looked over the shots, and how we thought the idea was going. However all of us agreed that it was more like a TV drama opening therefore we came up with an idea to change it but instead keep it very basic.

Animatics:

After deciding on our plot, the next step to make was planning where we would be filiming- we at first thought we wanted an old fashioned setting for the mise-en-scene in hope that it would make the opening more spooky but then we had some inspiration from other horror opening's and realised more are now set with modern mise-en-scene, so we then decided we would do the filming at Elises. When we arrived we realised this was an ideal location, and it was exactly how we thought it would be so this was really good. Are animatic has been created before filming so therefore none of our costumes are within it.

This is our first opening shot: The gate here will open, and our figure (Ghost-Ellie) will walk through. 

The door will then automatically open, as Ellie gets closer.

This is the path the ghost will then follow, the mise-en-scene here will be normal as they're just normal girls.

She will then lead towards the stairs- The camera shot at this point will be pov- (Point of view), it will be forshadow the spookyness and to also signify she's a ghost.

This is the ghosts point of view.

mirrors- this is for the audience to see the quick images of things passing by

Shot purposely for mise-en-scene- whilst ghosts floating

First shot of the girl's bedroom

This is an over shoulder shot of one of the two girls getting ready.

A shot of the next girl, getting ready- medium shot.

 Back to the first girl getting ready, by again doing an over the shoulder shot.

girl walks over to a cupboard, to get something revealling...

The ghost- although the girl in oblivious.

girl goes to shut the cupboard- showing that the ghost is now gone.

Shut the cupboard up. And turns around this is a point of view shot for the viewers.

Elise looks through the bathroom- although oblivious once again to the message on the mirror.

figure writing a message on the mirror.

Media Dictionairy!

Juxtaposition:

Connotes: This is can happen/ suggest/ imply.

Dennotes: This is in other word does happen- "There uniforms denoted they go to school"

Mise-En-Scene: This is like an arrangment of scenery- The mise-en-scene is planned, therefore anything in a TV drama/Movie, is planned. The Mise-en-scene is there to also add to the atmosphere.

Diagetic sound: This is actual sound from within, for example- The characters voices, sounds made by objects within like the: Car noises, radio and TV.

Non diagetic sound: This is commentary sound-music which is added over the top, to add to the atmosphere although the characters can not hear this. An example of when non diagetic sound is used is in 'The persuit of happynes', when Will begins to walk there is a voice over in which says: This part of my life is called running. Therefore the audience knoow what he is doing.

Genre:
Signifier:

Icon:

Motive:

Symbolises:

Anchorage:

Establishing shot::

Medium shot:

Point of view shot:

OSS ( Over the shoulder shot)- This shot is framed from behind the person that is being filmed;

Shot composition:

This is our storyboard- This story board, is more detailed compared to our preliminary task as we now know exactly what were using it for. The storyboard show step by step the actions and movements we will be doing, the story board is also a lot more easy to now follow.

Today in class we looked at the opening scenes, of three different police dramas. The three different scenes we looked at were from: New Tricks, Heart-beat and Ashes to Ashes.


To begin we firstly started by watching: New ticks. Within the Mise-En-Scene we firstly notice what the police are wearing, for they're not in uniform but the men's costumes are- formal, and the ladies-modern street style. I think the uniform has a significant overview of the drama as this gives the impression of a relaxed atmosphere. We then notice the setting of the scene; we see this as an un-official work space for there is- Dartboards on the wall and games around the work areas. The Mise-En-Scene how ever, does show the stereotypical view of a police station. The next police drama opening that we watched was: Ashes to Ashes: We firstly notice police officers in the background, sitting down and being lazy with the lady being active, this here is juxtaposition show the women do more within their jobs. The floor in the police stations is white and black; as well as being chequered here this connotes the two colours also known as good and evil. There is also a wall for division within the police station, this is their coffee room, here Alex is now sat down whilst the man walks in and begins to talk to her, in this scene we see posters around the room of girls half naked, from this we perceive police men as lazy. We then watched Heart-Beat: The beginning shot of this scene, is an off-duty woman and a policeman on a date, in the background we see this is the stereotype of a village pub, this straight away denotes to the audience this is a friendly local environment in which everyone knows each other. As well as New Tricks, we notice the background and the outfits; the off-duty police men are dressed casual: leather jackets- this connotes 'cool' for the 1960's.


 We then continued, by looking into the sound of each opening scene, we again started with: New tricks. The opening scene firstly begins with an introduction; the music playing throughout the introducing stage is up beat- country and western, this sets and appeals the audience expectations of what to expect. We then once again here music within the auction scene, here the music foreshadows confusion of the plot, the music used here is jazz- this connotes to the audience this is where the development of the plot arises. We then looked into: Ashes to Ashes, the introducing music is iconic, up-beat and faster pace for the story and settings are a lot faster. There is also diagetic sounds throughout such as the: Radio and TV. Following this we then moved on to Heart-beat. The opening scene too starts by introducing all of the characters, beginning with a happy and iconic theme tune. Throughout there is also a lot of diagetic sounds used within the TV and radio.

After looking into the sound we decided to look at the shot types used we again decided to firstly look at: New tricks, to start with there were many close up of the main group of police, when having discussion, in this scene as well as this there was also point of view shots- these shots were used when the main lady was putting pictures of the suspects on to the white board in the middle- here the police are investigating she puts the pictures up and each time looks behind her this is the point of view shot as we see what she’s looking at and then this turns and we are then able to see what there views upon the situation is. When she’s putting the pictures up, there is use of over the shoulder shots- this allows the audience to have a wider view of the action and what exactly is going on. Whilst looking at the shot-types we also looked at the composition of shots; the woman who appears to be the only woman police officer is for grounded in the centre- this connotes to the audience leadership.  We then moved on to: Ashes to Ashes: Within ashes to ashes many medium shots were used- this shot is a shot purposely for the audience to see emotions and the characters body language- more involvement. There is also many (Point of view shots) - In which these are the main characters in the scene’s (Alex’s) point of view. There is also a variety distance shots- for example when Alex and the main police man have a conversation in the ‘coffee room. We then moved on to: Heart-beat; the first shot that begins heart beat is a two shot- a two shot is when there is two faces, the two people were having dinner and within there was also a point of view shot- the camera would always show the person who wasn’t talking’s shoulder and head. We also through looking at the shot types saw juxtaposition of the women the sergeant had taken out for dinner admiring him and his professional coldness.


We then moved on to look at the editing for all three: New tricks had fast transitions to start, with to establish the characters but however the pace of the scene was very slow. This means the story took more time to establish however the characters were established very quickly, we then moved on to ashes to ashes: This was a fast up beat scene, with fast transitions and a quick pace throughout however this meant the focus was a mid muddles and hard to catch up. We then looked at Heart-beat, heart beat had longer scenes than the previous two- slow and smooth. However the locations similar to the other two change quickly.

Plot:

Our opening scene begins with a gate opening, and then following by the door sliding open; but in affect it will look like the door has opened by its self, we then watch as a figure walks up the stairs. She then walks into a room, in which one person in doing there make-up and the other in the bath, though no-one other than the audience can see this figure, the two girls are oblivious. For the middle climax the story will get more 'spooky' as whilst we have been looking at film opening, we see that they either begin with high climax or low, as movies tend to have tension then suddenly everythings fine, then tension again. We're developing are spookyness to to keep the audience on edge, we finish by showing the girls are now possesed. The genre of our movie opening in horror.

In are lesson following on from beginning to plan our main tasks, we have started to develop our ideas on to paper. Whilst suggesting ideas we though this would be helpful, as a reminder so that we include anything that we’ve though of instead of forgetting it. From previously doing our preliminary task we’ve realised we have to be a lot more organised than we were to ensure we have time at the end to improve anything we may need too.

Shot types so far- Medium shots, long shots and tracking shots. A long with shot-types; we've also worked out where they will be and how to do these.

 

Beginning to plan- Main tasks.

Yesterday we began to start planning our main task- We realise now, from doing out preliminary task what we need to do in order to make it better, and fit the exam requests a lot more in depth. As a group, we have arranged to meet up so we can start our work on it as soon as possible, in order to have time left over to re-do anything we need to and get feedback, to ensure that we get the best grades possible. We are really excited about making our main task, we have also been assigned a homework- this includes looking at other main tasks, so we know what a main task includes and how they've done it, I'm also going to look at many films again and TV dramas to see the difference so that we can make that difference significant and obvious in ours, in order to fit the requirements. As this was a double lesson we also watched a TV drama called spooks- when watching this are aim was to write notes on the: Mise-en-scene, Sound, Shot-types and Editing. I find this particularly useful as it's showing us, how important all of these things are in the shot/shots for are main tasks.

Cherwell media preliminary task ellie elise connie and sarah

Preliminary task By- Ellie, Elise, Connie and Sarah.

This is our preliminary task, I really enjoyed creating it however I think there are many things we can do in our main task to improve. There are certain moments in our prelim task that give the audience, watching an atmosphere such as: When Elise is walking through the corridorvery slowly, along with the music in which each beat of the music doubles with her footsteps. The track that we used for the beginning to the end of the preliminary task was called ‘Moonlight’, we felt this gave tension to Elise’s every move and the tension built up as it went along. Throughout we had so much fun, and it was a real eye-opener we can't wait to begin on our main task.

The Art Of Film Title Design Throughout Cinema History.

The first paragraph is asking us what makes us remember a certain movie or film? I think we remember a film or TV show by whether we like it, or if the images strike to us as different. The second paragraph is telling us that we will now be talking about our first reactions- looking at the short space of time between the moment the light goes down and the first scene of the film; this is one of the most important parts of the filmm, as this sets the rest of our reactions for the rest of the film.

analyse the way TV dramas are established in the opening five minutes- Identify how conventions are used.

When deciding on which TV dramas I was going to choose, I decided that I would do two TV shows that I watch on a regular basis, these were: East Enders and Waterloo road. I then  decided I would do one that I was introduced to In a media lesson called Merlin, which I really enjoyed therefore I though I would do it, and at the same time learn more about it. I also decided to do Merlin, as I would really have to look into the show to get the right ideas.

Out of the three TV dramas I have decided on: East Enders is most frequently shown, they have show productions on: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and an Omnibus on Sundays. East Enders is about regular working people, and their everyday lives. When watching East Enders we discovered there were many establishing shots; the first establishing shot that we saw was of Carol, she was laid on a sofa following on from the previous show in which her son died; this establishing shot shows us she's very upset in dull clothes connoting she gives up. The second establishing shot moved on to Max's house, in which we see the family sat down eating breakfast; this is a very usual establishing shot, as it relates to many families in the morning. We then moved on to editing in which we found very fast-moving, East Enders is a TV drama therefore has a lower budget oppose to what a film would have therefore it's got a quicker pace, unlike a film you have to keep up to understand what’s going on, you also have to learn who the characters yourself. We then looked into the sounds that were used as there was a lot of diagetic sounds such as the: Radio, this is used for background music, as this is what people listen to in the mornings.


Waterloo road is shown every Wednesday, and it's a series so this means it has a higher budget and there is more time to introduce the characters, as well as a variety of slow and quick editing through out- due to the higher budget they can do this. Waterloo road firstly comes on showing us what’s previously happened in the episode before to remind the viewers. We then see an establishing shot of another family. This is another stereotype (of the family). The families rushing around getting ready, we know what for as the school uniform connotes that they are going to school. The mood within this establishing shots shows the audience tension as well as the quick editing connotes this. The second establishing shot is of the children walking down the hill to get to school; the hill could denote there going down hill, as waterloo road used to be a school filled with rage and naughtiness however it's now changing showing it's perhaps growing as a school. The shot to show this is called a tilting shot.

Merlin is also only shown once a week and this is on Saturday- Merlin in also a series show, but is much more a-like to a film than the other two TV dramas. The first establishing shot we get in Merlin is of himself and the Prince Arthur running through the forest. There is a lot of non-diagetic sound, with an intense atmosphere throughout the first 5 minutes; we are faced with many shots such as: Long shots, Medium shots, point of view shots and tracking shots. The long shots appear to us when running, medium shots when Merlin is comforting Arthur as he's been hurt, the point of view shot when Arthur looks behind him and we see were and what he is looking at and then back, the tracking shot is used when they're running. This looks amazingly effective.

TV dramas always end with a cliff hanger- this is too ensure the audience will want to watch it again and again so they don't miss anything out. This is very good for TV shows as it ensures the audience. East Enders and Waterloo road are much more relating to many people oppose to Merlin that’s mostly audience at an older generation, this is also shown by the days its shown (Saturdays at six O clock) here this shows the audience target as many children would be out at this time.

Lesson.

Today in are media lesson, we looked at three different TV drama opening's these were: East Enders, Waterloo road and Merlin. Two of which are series and one that’s a soap, on most days throughout the week. When watching these we were specifically looking at the: Mise-En-Scene, Sound, Editing and Shot- types. These are all essential in TV dramas and films, we were also looking at the difference especially between: Merlin and waterloo road which are the series programmes, to East Enders which is not looking for the difference in shots and editing. Series have a bigger budget as it comes with around ten programmes however oppose, to something like East enders which is on everyday they have to space there budget out, so that they can keep it running over a longer period of time.

Story board- Prelimary task

This is a story board of:  Mine, Elise’s, Connie’s and Ellie’s preliminary task planning- here this outlines our story from the beginning to end. It firstly shows, Elise one of the two characters we chose to have in this- She walks out from behind a bush, she mysteriously looks around walking around and towards a room. The next shot is of Elise shutting a door and walking, she walks very slowly this is to show the audience the mysterious atmosphere. The next shot is of Elise opening the door; we then cut again and put the camera over her shoulder to show the door opening. The fifth shot is of Elise’s hand turning on the light switch; this then follows by me Sarah rummaging through a load of books, trying to find something. Then I turn around in shock, then Elise does the same and then our dialogue begins: Elise “What are you doing here?”, and I then reply by saying: “Probably the same thing as you!”. That is then where are preliminary task finishes.

Editing

Today we started to edit our prelimary task's, it was really good watching ourselves back and it was really good practise for our main task as it allowed us to give ourselves feedback, unfortunately a bit of our filming was missing, so we had to re film. We did everything the same and finished everything in enough time to get back to the start we had firstly got to, after watching it back we had also picked up on everything it lacked before, we are now really happy with our task. We now have to edit it a bit more, and add some music/ sound effects to finish it.

Prelimary task

Today we started on our prelimary task, we had a few troubles with the camera as it would have full battery, but as soon as we went to start it would say "Battery empty, shutting down" on the screen therefore we had to find an extension lead, we finished our prelimary task in the end and it worked really well we firstly started with Elise- Elise is one of the actors we have used in our prelimary task, Elise first walked out from behind a bush mysteriously, past the camera as the camera followed her, we then went through to the drama room and we got a shot of Elise’s legs, the camera zoomed out as Elise got closer. When she got to the door the camera cut, and we then went behind Elise to capture her opening the door, Elise pushed the door half way open and then the camera cut again. After this cut we extended the camera, to get the cut but over her shoulder to make it more effective she then pushed the door all the way. We then moved the camera to the room we would be entering and zoomed in on a light switch although this was completely black for two seconds you then hear the light switch being turned on and the lights then come on. We then once again cut, and the camera then comes on to me Sarah, I'm also being featured in our prelimary task, you first have a medium shot of me rummaging through a load of books, as soon as the lights come on I turn around in shock to find Elise, we stay in our positions but the camera moves to behind me where we see Elise again she says "What are you doing here"?. The camera then moves behind Elise again and I reply "Probably the same as you", this is where prelimary task finished.

Persuit of happyness.

 The persuit of happyness, is based on many different juxtopositions throughout. One of the main juxtopositions in the film is when Chris Winters, acted by Will Smith; acts as a man who is struggling to make ends meet due to him investing into a luxury 'bone scanner', putting everything he has into this in order to create a luxury life for his little family. Though the outcomes very different to what he and his wife Linda thought it would be, unfortuantely the bone scanners stopped selling. This meant Linda had to do double shifts at work to cover he son Chris's day care prices, when one day Chris gets home to an empty house he's devastated, his wife and son have gone. Then the phone rings its about the job course, they've told him hes been accepted on to the course. At the same time he's lost everything he loves, hes just been given the most amazing oppurtunity to get his life back on track. Chris then had a phonr call from Linda, he got his son back and Linda moved to New York, she was fed up and didn't want to be in her position anymore, leaving Chris to bring up his son by hiself. He started his course to become a stock brocker, this is when we see the juxtoposition of how different his work life is  to his home life. At home he looks like he's struggling, unhappy and stressed but in the work enviroment the atmosphere changes completly he's surrounded by people that are all suited and booted, getting ready for there days work everyone looking happy, when we see this scene of the work enviroment, the shots used are long shots, medium shots, tilting to show the high buildings denotes success. As there is also non digestic background sound making everything more upbeat, then when Chris picks up his son from day care we see small buildings this cannotes failure to the audience. Throughout the film, there is refrences to class which in this film at the beginning is very low but towards the end it changes to upper when he gets the job as a stock brocker, throughout the film men are represented in all areas much more thoroughly then woment, this is because men are traditionally the ones to work. In the film Chris talks about when he was younger, what he wanted to be, hat he became none of the things that he wanted to be untill the very end his good skills come to good use and he begins to thrive again, so he can endure a fantastic life with his son again. The rubix cube is a symbol of intelligence in this, as is the bone scanner- his lifes not yet complete.

In Her Shoes (2005) -Trailer

This is the opening trailer of: In her shoes; featured in this clip are some key points in the film, it shows a story developing. Here the film producers have used many camera shots such as: Medium shots, establishing shots, point of view shots, long shots. Mise-en-scene is also a big factor in this, for example the backgroung. The lighting withing this is very brights an upbeat.

Poster

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  The title along with all four girls, foreshadows this films going to be ‘MEAN’.
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   All girls are wearing pink, signifying pink is a main colour theme for the film.
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   This picture, from the way they are standing implies friction.
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   She's in front of everyone else, signifying she's the boss.
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   This connotes these girls are the main characters.
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   Lindsay Lohan, standing away from the other ‘Mean girls’ , show us there's something different.  
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   The way Lindsay is standing also foreshadows she’s fighting with who she is.
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   Lindsay has a more distanced relationship with the girls, as she's standing along

• Actress Cameron Diaz takes a lead role, in the film: My sisters keeper.
• Abigail Breslin takes the role as the daughter, there purposely to help her older sister with a serious illnes.
•  Actress Sofia Vassilieve, takes the roll of Cameron Diaz's daughter in the film.
•  This picture connoted a good healthy relationship between mother and daughter.
•  The background of this posters like a big bubble, its a ward picture but had to me it gives the impression of a darker side, a cold atmosphere.
•  At the bottom of the picture is the mothers oldest daughter, shes got a serious illness.

Charlie bit my finger - again !

 Charlie bit me!

This video, is of two brothers being recorded by there dad, although perhaps not intentionally this is very entertaining and recognised by many all over the world, I personally don’t think they would have thought this video would have been so famous and recognised. There are also videos of people re-doing this video showing this. This video has also been shown on you’ve been framed.

Claude-Levi-Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss: Narrative theory

A narrative theory is the coherence/organisation given to a series of facts about someone/ someone’s story. According to research the human mind needs narrative to make sense of things. In everything we see for example a story has a; beginning, middle and end. Claude Levi-Strauss was a social anthropologist; he studied myths of tribal cultures. The research he discovered has been adapted by media theorists to reveal oppositions in media. The oppositions are opposed to others so that we can make different views and new discoveries.