Research and Planning - Cinema Trips

 

Recently I have been to the cinema twice, once to see Man of steel and once to see After earth trailer that appeared where Pacifica Rim, Monters University, despicable me 2 and Now you see me in a later post I will analyse one of these trailers.

Research and Planning- Camera Techniques Analysing A Clip

This trailer starts with a jump cut when the scene introduces Frankie four fingers then jumps to him gambling this is done to show his character in a quick scene.

Then a cut away from phone call about a diamond to the actual diamond to show what the people in the clip are talking about and show it is how there all connected.

Match cut from the American to his henchmen back to the American then cut to another man then back again this is a very busy scene but does show how far news traveled of this diamond.

After this the trailer jump cuts to Brad Pitt boxing then Jason Statham talking and then a match cut to Gorgeous George being knocked out then back to Brad Pitt I believe this is to show the connection between the characters and a hint to what will happen.

Cut away to brick top talking to brad pit then Statham's character and back to Brad Pitt I believe this is to show how they will all become connected through the boxing just before hand.

Then there are a few more jump cuts to show how all the other characters are related and at the end  of the trailer there are simple straight cuts through all of the characters this is to show you who stars in the film, tells you the director and when it is out, this is a good trailer for all those reasons.

Research and Planning- Camera Techniques

Jump Cut -
Has no continuity, jump cut is an abrupt transition, typically used in a sequential clip that makes the subject appear to jump from one spot to another without continuity, for example french new wave film breathless - but could work really well to show someone getting shot in a genre like crime/gangster movie.

Match Cuts -
These can be used in any scene, match cuts are used to show a relapse of time by shooting one seen switching to a matching action then switching to the next scene, for example walking down stairs shot of feet the at the bottom of the stairs seen in the film space odyssey. 

 Cut Away -
Once again used to show a relapse of time but cut away go to a related image this time then back to the original scene, for example top of the stairs cut to a person looking at the first person then at the bottom of the stairs this can once again shorten a scene you see this in Wall-E

In this clip you can see all information and clips mentioned.

Research and Planning - Genre I could use

Crime/Mystery

This genre of film is largely attributed to the characters main motifs, common ones are; love, danger, death and material possession for example in snatch its a large diamond.

There are two different ways to make a crime film though, there's the take from the detectives point of view where usually someone commits suicide or is murdered and that is where the mystery lies a good example of this is seven and the Detectives have to figure out who caused the crime and there's the take from a crime point of view or the criminals point of view where you get a look into something not many people get to see in there lives, usually they have things like boxing, guns, knifes and jewelry then the characters outfits are usually things like large coats flat caps and suits a good example of this type is the film The Krays, I personally believe Crime and Mystery is a good genre to do because it is very easy to find old buildings and shoot most of the scenes as alot of it is just general conversation and not as much action.

 Thriller/Horror

Horror films are good genres because usually there easy to make but work on our primal instinctive fears or what we least expect, but like crime there are two man branches of horror films there's the paranormal take on it where its ghosts and mysterious happenings which cause an atmosphere of fear putting people on edge probably the most famous example of this is the exorcist or if more of a thriller sixth sense, then there's the other take on these films where it is often a killer a lot of blood and aggressive behavior and people trying to get away, these usually take places in houses or if someone is lost and works as these are places people usually feel safe in, examples of this film could be the Texas chainsaw massacre or the saw series. These films are very easy to make because all it takes are props such as houses broken down houses knives ect and the common characters are small children as an evil character or a asked man.

Action

 

Some action films would be good to make as a few very famous ones for example rocky are very much true to life stories and don't require conglomerate budgets compared to other ones like transporter, I believe if you did a true to life original story much like Rocky or First Blood it wouldn't take a big budget and the convention is something wanted or stolen and earning it or getting it back and to make a film like Rambo which is a rather iconic action film there is a chance all you would need where a few props like police uniforms or badges, knifes, guns and a set to film it like a woods.

 

 

Romantic

 

 

My final possible genre is Romance, a lot of the time romantic films follow a very similar convention of boy meets girl they have there opposites but they find a way to make it through and more often than not there's a happy ever after a good example being the holiday. Where a lot of other films may be easier to get main characters I believe it would be hardest for a romantic film but other than that hurdle I believe it would be very easy to make for the simple reasons of it being very cheap as it can be shot anywhere and there are already very simple and conventional story lines.



Research and Planning: Our first lesson

In our first lesson we watched many movie clips for example 300 and one say all the clips where from extremely different genres of films some comedy some crime and action romance ect once we had watched these clips we were given the challenge to look for

• what genre the clip is
• how can we tell
• what are the key points of the trailer
• what information is the trailer giving us
• the release date
• the key actors/actresses
• key conventions for certain genre

Once we highlighted as much information as we could we relayed it in a group discussion and I believe this was a good lesson as it has given me basic criteria for my  trailer and told me what are vital information's and common conceptions to comply to with my particular genre.