Lighting of a romantic film scene
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The document discusses lighting techniques used in romantic film scenes. It explains that warm color temperatures like orange create a romantic atmosphere, while cooler blues do not. It also notes that lower-key, darker scenes with more shadows can feel more sensual and intimate compared to brighter, higher-key scenes. Finally, it discusses the quality of light, stating that softer lighting with more diffused shadows tends to create a more sentimental feel, as seen in classic films like Casablanca.
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Thriller films aim to keep audiences on the edge of their seats through tension, suspense and anticipation. Common conventions used in thrillers include low key lighting and dark colors to set a sinister mood, as well as diegetic sounds and a fast pace to build tension. Thrillers are often set in homes or isolated areas to create an unsettling feeling by violating the safety of a typically safe space. Subgenres include psychological thrillers focusing on mental conflict, crime thrillers centered on crimes, supernatural thrillers combining fantasy with tension, and spy thrillers dealing with espionage.
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Kate and Tilda created a horror film trailer set in Kate's isolated rural house. They drew inspiration from films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and researched production companies to inform their style. Kate's basement provided ideal lighting conditions for scary scenes. They utilized conventions like varied camera shots and montage editing to build tension. The trailer represents rural areas as lonely and the old house as hinting at past evil, with the goal of attracting a young adult audience interested in the horror genre.
Conventions of horror film trailers 2
The document discusses conventions of horror film trailers, including how lighting is often dark and eerie to create an unsettling atmosphere for viewers. Settings are typically isolated locations that increase tension. Common colors used are red, black and white which symbolize blood, darkness, and ghosts. The editing starts with long shots and slow cuts but speeds up during scary moments. Music gets faster and more intense during climactic parts of the trailer. On-screen text and a final "sting" at the end are meant to match the film's atmosphere.
Treatmant for 'hidden oak' revisited
The document outlines a treatment for a short thriller film opening titled "Hidden Oak". It will be approximately two minutes long and filmed primarily at one location, a house in the woods. Common thriller conventions like ominous music, low-key lighting, and diegetic sounds will be used. The film will feature a character named Sarah who is being held captive. Her captor's name and face will not be revealed to add ambiguity. The film will explore themes of isolation, obsession, and whether insane people can be held responsible for their actions. Camera shots will focus on over-the-shoulder angles and close-ups to maintain ambiguity about the captor. The narrative will involve Sarah's attempt to escape from her captor.
Treatmant for 'hidden oak' revisited
The document provides details on the production of a short thriller film titled "Hidden Oak". It will be approximately two minutes long and filmed primarily at a house surrounded by forest. Common thriller conventions like ominous music, low lighting, and diegetic sounds will be used. Scenes will take place in the bedroom and forest. The film will explore themes of isolation, obsession, and whether insane people can be guilty. Character names and motivations are outlined. Possible limitations include time constraints and safety in the forest. Updated notes provide specifics on camera shots, narrative, and ending.
Analysing film openings- Donnie Darko, The shining and Insidious
The Donnie Darko opening sequence establishes the mysterious tone and setting through its use of slow panning shots, tense music, and Donnie's strange behavior in his pajamas. The Shining opening uses sweeping shots of the isolated location and unsettling non-diegetic screams to build tension. Insidious employs a chilling red title font, ghostly fading text, and unnerving violin music to set an ominous atmosphere.
Film openings
The document discusses conventions and techniques used in thriller movie openings. It provides examples from films like Secret Window, Psycho, Thirteen Ghosts, and Donnie Darko. Some common conventions it mentions are using isolated locations, bad weather, sweeping establishing shots, and string music to build tension. It also analyzes the use of titles, camera techniques, sounds, and how they set expectations for the genre.
Convention slideshow
This document outlines various film conventions commonly used in the horror genre. It discusses conventions related to genre, typical killer/victim characteristics, shots/camera techniques including close-ups, establishing shots and shot reverse shots. It also covers lighting techniques like low-key lighting and sound elements like diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. Finally, it examines common narrative structures in horror films involving victims being killed one by one and a survivor confronting the killer at the end.
The shining opening_credits_analysis
The opening credits to The Shining are simple, featuring scrolling blue text against panoramic landscape views and eerie music. While seeming opposed to the film's isolation theme, the single car traveling alone symbolizes Jack Torrence's dangerous situation at the hotel, with few options for help. Alternative explanations are that stationary cars represent failed attempts to contact others, and the family's isolation mirrors the credits' focus on their car as the only communication with Dick Hallorann. The credits set the unsettling tone and require thought to fully understand their significance to the psychological horror film.
2 non genre specific ideas-
The document analyzes two non-genre specific film trailers. For the first film, "Don't Breathe," the analysis looks at how the editing varies between slow, tense scenes and fast-paced dramatic scenes, and how the mise-en-scene features common horror elements. Lighting in the trailer gets progressively darker to build tension. The second film analyzed is the documentary "Touching the Void," whose trailer has a first half with voiceovers in a documentary style and a second high-action half to show it blends documentary and adventure genres. Mise-en-scene is very bright to clearly show the Andes setting.
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Props of our trailers
Props are objects used by actors during screen productions that are movable or portable on set, distinct from scenery, costumes, and equipment. The document lists props that will be used on trailers, including horses, a hose pipe, phone, glass of wine, horse equipment, a car, suitcase, wheelbarrow, shovel, and wind turbines.
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What is a trailer
A trailer is a short preview of an upcoming film shown in theaters, DVDs, online and mobile devices. Trailers aim to intrigue audiences about a film's plot without revealing too much. They do this through selectively edited clips and footage that build up and tease the story over 1-3 minutes. Trailers are carefully crafted to capture audiences' attention and encourage them to watch the full movie.
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This project integrated various technologies, hardware, software, and online resources to create content. The respondent used several softwares and hardware to complete tasks like the film opening and preliminary film logos. They gained new skills from programs like video editing software. Online sharing of their work through websites allowed them to reach their target audience and share their work more broadly.
The lighting for our movie
Low key lighting will be used for the abandoned house basement scene to create shadows and a dim hue using lights placed at eye level or lower. This lighting technique is suited for horror and will require adjusting lights for each actor placement. High key lighting using multiple bright lights placed high above will be used for the school scene to allow for easy continuous shooting, as is commonly used in comedies and sitcoms. The street scene will use available natural light just before dark.
First day fiming
The document discusses the filming of a movie on the first day. It provides panoramic shots of the filming locations and compares footage from two different locations shooting the same scene. Details are given on props used and challenges filming in an abandoned house with difficult lighting. Makeup was also used to recreate damage from a beating for one scene.
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The document discusses the filming of a movie on the first day. It provides panoramic shots of the filming locations and compares footage from two different locations shooting the same scene. Details are given on props used and challenges filming in an abandoned house with difficult lighting. Makeup was also used to recreate damage from a beating for one scene.
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Olivia will break up with Jordan via text message. While walking down the street, Olivia will listen to music on headphones. As Olivia talks with Chloe at school, books will be on the table. Jordan will step on shattered glass while approaching Olivia in the dark to create a sense of horror, and a rope will be used to show how Olivia gets kidnapped and tied up so she cannot escape.
Risk assesment
The document lists potential risks for a film shoot, including getting cut on glass, breaking or dropping equipment, costume malfunctions, and animal attacks. It identifies who or what is at risk for each hazard, and whether the risk level is high or low. For each risk, it provides suggestions for avoiding the risk, such as wearing shoes, using a tripod, checking costumes, and scouting locations in advance.
Props
Olivia will break up with Jordan via text message. Olivia will be walking down the street listening to music on headphones. While Olivia talks with Chloe there will be books on the table as they are having a conversation at school.
Characters
This document introduces the key characters for a student film, including the main character Grace Hilton who will play Olivia, Andres Domecq who will be the camera man, Logan Parks who will play Jordan, and Ana Medina who will play Chloe. Brief descriptions are provided for each character including their name, age, physical features, and role in the film.
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The document contains short summaries of potential horror movie plots:
- A perfect girl disappears from her normal life, with search parties unable to find her before something worse happens.
- A man who moves to a remote village in Spain is not accepted by the locals and begins killing them.
- Five friends playing hide and seek in the woods disappear one by one, with the sole survivor pursued by the killer.
- A story set in a remote area of southern Spain where it is said the animals transform into beasts that kill at night.
- At an old British boarding school, a myth tells of a ghost named Gabriela who seeks revenge every full moon. A curious new student investigates alone and unprepared for what
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Sounds
Diegetic sound refers to any sound that comes from a visible or implied source within the story world of the film. Non-diegetic sound comes from a source outside the story world and acts to enhance the narrative or mood. A sound bridge connects sounds between scenes, while a sound motif uses recurring sounds to represent particular characters, ideas or situations. Dialogue is conversation between characters, and a voiceover features unseen characters speaking over related images.
Mise en scene
Mise-en-scene refers to everything visible within the frame of a film and helps communicate essential information to the audience. It has 5 elements: settings/props, costumes/makeup, facial expressions/body language, lighting/color, and character positioning. These elements establish the time, place, and relationships while providing clues to a character's personality and mental state through visual cues. Mise-en-scene manipulates audience expectations and adds meaning, drama, and mood through intentional creative choices.
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- 3. 2. Brightness (and Shadow) Brightly lit or “High-Key” scenes tend to be more cheerful and upbeat, while darker “Low-Key” scenes hold more intrigue. Shadows in film can easily make a scene feel more sensual. This famous still of Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music, demonstrates how shadows can transform an encounter in a glass gazebo into an intimate, life-altering moment.
- 4. 3. Quality You can judge the quality of light in a film scene through the hardness or softness of its shadows. Hard quality light has dark shadows with sharp edges, and often feels more raw than soft quality light. Soft lighting, often used in older films, has lighter, diffused shadows and tends to feel more sentimental. If you’ve seen Casablanca, you know what I mean.