Preliminary Task Evaluation

On the 18/10/2012 we watched our preliminiary tasks in the lesson and got feedback from the people in our class about what was good and what needed working on.
 We were evaluated on:
- Holding a shot steady
- Match on action
- Editing
- Shot-reverse shot
- The 180 Degree rule
- Camera Angles and;
- Camera Shots

In our task we got good feedback but there was parts where we needed to work on.
 In the first scene of the task there was a editing error where when James (me) start talking to Emma and then just disappears. We got some good feedback from our good shot types and our use of various shot types. We also got good feedback on our match on action when emma was opening the door. We got good feeback on the editing, but we had some minor errors that when it changed from the shots we could hear the click, if we edited just a fraction earlier we wouldnt be able to hear it. Also we stuck to the 180 degree rule.

Overall I think it was a good task and that we did alright and that we will take into account about the errors and will work on it in our next task.

Casino Royale Analysis

 

Casino Royale opens with an action scene, in this action scene 'James Bond' is the white man and villain is a black man. This links to the ethnicity of the film and stereotyping black people as 'villains'. The target audience would be from the ages of 15+ because it is an adventure/action film which appeals to a wide variety of people which means the film would produce a lot of money and certainly a lot of profit.
Before the action scene begins, the music is very slow and this creates suspense and gives off the idea that something is going to happen. The sound speeds up using higher pitch and louder volume too, this is obvious that something is being chased and links to the fact a chase scene is in progress.
This would usually attract more men as it is an action film but families would also go to see this film as 'James Bond' is a very well known film, and known to be exceptional

Preliminary Task

Over the course of a few lessons, we we're given a task and that was to film, edit and upload a short film consisting of various shots we have learned in previous lessons, such as; Medium shot, over the shoulder etc. We also learned about other various shots and angles of the camera and effect it would have on the audience

We were lucky to get a spare office that wasnt in use when we were filming our film and that we had to take many shots because we couldnt stop laughing or half way through the shot, we would forget our lines. It took 3 lessons to film our task as we had to keep refilming the whole task as all of us would be in different clothes than the previous time.

We (Jordan, Emma, Bryony and I) chose to do an interview.  We did all of the filming and editing in 5 lessons (Around 5 hours). Editing took 2 lessons to do, the first lesson we put everything together and cut out all of the faults that we have filmed, then the next lesson we made sure everything was fine and that there was no faults.

We decided to do an interview because we could get more shots in and more oppotunities to get more marks.

Saving private Ryan - Action movie cliches

Saving Private Ryan is film based in World War Two, staring Tom Hanks who is the main character. The movie is about walking through occupied France to find a person called Ryan, through the movie you see them risk their lives to find Ryan, who they are sending home because all 3 of his brothers have sadly been killed in action. This cliche happens many times in action movies/war movies, where they have to risk their lives to save anothers life.

In first two minutes of this film we see a war going on between two sides, the Americans and the Germans. This is a cliche in action films where there are two sides fighting, expecially in war films such as this. In this opening scene we see blood, blown off limbs and lost companions. This is very common in war films such as this and is also a cliche as it shows the horrifing acts that it is based upon.

Research and planning

There is limited evidence of research and planning.
Make sure you upload your preliminary task.

You MUST have at least 8-10 posts on here by next Tuesday, including:
- Analysis of at least 4 different genre openings (analyse how mise-en-scene, sound, plot convey genre to audience)
- Preliminary task diary
- Preliminary task evaluation
- own ideas mind map - what genre? plot? etc
- Analysis of at least 2 openings of films from your chosen genre