Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Creative critical reflection -1
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Friday, 5 December 2014
Second Take - Paper Boy
I had initially finalised this as the film opening to my story. However, after showing the video to a few of my friends and teachers at school, I got some feedback regarding a few elements that they thought were either missing or should be changed. Therefore, the changes that I made in this video were, adding two scenes which would better establish that the character is interested in education as well as extending a scene of him riding his cycle. These two edits allowed me to add more content to my video and doing justice to my storyline.
Friday, 28 November 2014
Use of titles - Paper Boy
One of the conventional methods of using film titles is placing them in the left or the right bottom corner of the screen. I have used this method and placed the titles on the opposite sides on the subject in my frames. I consciously shot the footage in a way that there were empty spaces in the frame to use titles.
The titles appear when there is more fore-ground. By using an effect to give motion to the title, it is made to appear as the character starts moving out of the frame.
A similar method is used in the opening sequence of the film ‘Social Network’. The character is running on one side while the titles appear on the opposite side of the frame. Similarly as the character in my film rides on his bicycle towards the right side of the frame, titles appear on the left side.
The typefaces that I have used are Avenir heavy and Avenir book. The main title is in typeface ‘Impact’. These are simple clean fonts and have been used in black or white colors. I wanted the titles to be easily viewable on solid the solid colour empty spaces in the frame.
Social Network: Title(left side) Protagonist (entering from the right side)
Social Network: Title(left side) Protagonist (entering from the right side)
Paper Boy: Protagonist (standing on the left side) Title (on the right corner)
Paper Boy: Protagonist (exiting on the right side) Title (on the left corner)
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Study of sound in a film
I am born in a time period where films have evolved drastically in the ways they are made. Therefore, it was hard for me to even imaging a movie without sound. It was only when I came across films such as those of the legendary actor – Charlie Chaplin, that I found out about silent films. However, this also made me realize the power of sound and the value it gives to silence. Sound is like editing; it is has no limits to its creative possibilities. A filmmaker can mix any natural sound to design a sensible piece of music, thus a lot more meaningful relations can be created by putting visual along with acoustic possibilities.
There are three aspects of sound that we perceive. These are perceptual properties of film sound. Their interaction with each other defines the overall texture of a film.
Loudness: Which we all understand as volume when we try to increase and decrease, in our speakers.
Pitch: Which tells us how low and deep the voice or sound is or high and shrill it is.
Timbre: The quality of the sound which we can identify as we hear from different stereo systems.
Similarly, sound in cinema is categorized into three types. These types are selected, altered and finally combined along with the visuals in a film.
Dialogue: Which is scripted before the film as the story progresses and is finally said by the actors in the film.
Music: Is ideally given after the film has been shot to enhance a particular mood of the scene as well as create a sense of anticipation of the story.
Sound Effects: Which is recorded during the shoot as well as added to the visuals during the edit of the shoot. The purpose of it is to make every scene more realistic to the audience as well as add drama while showing certain actions and reactions in the film.
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