Katie Tallis - A Level Film

1. The camera tracks along the traffic jam at the beginning of the scene. This is the characters' reality of life in LA. What might this signify about the dreams and ambitions of the characters that are striving to 'make it' in Hollywood? While the camera tracks alongside the traffic jam, from the very beginning it show's all different people and personalities. It's easy to see this by the fact that each person has different cars and are listening to a variety of different genres of music. The cars have been perfectly positioned so that the audience can see each person and see how different they are compared to one another. In addition, none of the cars are like sports or super cars, thus showing that they cannot afford all these luxury things even though they live in LA. It shows that all these people are competing against each other to become the most successful and live their dreams like they hope they do. A lot of the people in the cars could actually be strugg

How far does the knowledge of the production process encourage a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship ? (829 Words) Independent films are very different from the main stream films that we see in day-to-day life. For example, Marvel films would be classified as mainstream as they attract a huge audience from all around the world and are made to create profit, whereas independent films are made to convey certain messages and ideas, ones that people might think are abstract or different from normal life. They often do not have a huge budget to create the film, and will use non-actors because it’s cheaper and can be used to convey a sense of realism within the film. ‘Winter’s Bone’ does just this; because it is an independent film, there are a lot of people within the film who are actually not actors at all, and instead they just live in a community like that, out in the middle of nowhere with no real communication to the rest of the world. The film, made in 20

During this task, we chose to create a horror film about a college student who becomes so overwhelmed with work and life in general, he goes on a killing spree. We showed this by having the first minute of the short film full of repetitive shots, such as the card being scanned to get into the college, the work piling up as the film progresses to show how much work he has to do and a shot of a tree blowing in the wind with the grey sky in the background. We thought this would be evident to the audience that life has become repetitive and boring for the main character, and thus he wants a dramatic change.  We then showed the 'snap' of the main character by the use of a firework clip. This emphasises the idea that something inside his mind has 'snapped' and therefore both relates to the song perfectly and the title of the short film, 'Before You Snap'. The rest of the short film was dedicated to showing the killing spree that the main character went on.

(Note: the scene where the main character 'snaps' has been replaced from a plate smashing to a firework going off - along with non diegetic sound of the firework and screaming. The scene which featured the shot of the arm covered in blood has also been replaced with just blood on the wall, or paper since we couldn't put the blood on the wall itself, so we improvised.)

Shot 1: (repetitive montage) scanning the ID card at the gates Shot 2: ( repetitive montage) work piling up on the desk as the repetitive scene continues Shot 3: ( repetitive montage) scene of the trees outside (plus possibly tilt of the camera looking from the ground to the sky?) Shot 4: the character 'snap': "before you snap" song lyric: firework going off in the sky to represent something went off in the character's mind Shot 5: camera positioned behind the main character walking down a hallway - main character walks into the classroom - camera follows him in and zooms in while he stabs the victim - doesn't show anyone's face once the back of the main character Shot 6: shot of the blood splatter on the wall Shot 7:   shadows on the wall of the victim and the main character Shot 8: the ending - mask lying on the table - spotlight above it increases in brightness as the camera gets closer to the mask - bloody knife layin

Create a list of cinematic ideas for a key sequence: this must include extreme close up, medium shot, two shot, zoom-in, high angles, low angles, low-key lighting, editing, sound, etc. Beginning: The short film will start off with a repetitive montage of shots. These shots will be of: walking into college, scanning the card, walking to class, getting notes and books out, taking notes, packing away, walking out of college (?); regular things that happen on a day to day basis within the college. These will then be repeated through the use of editing to emphasise the repetition of a day-to-day life. The shots will slowly get faster and faster, until the character 'snaps'.  Middle:  The main character, Michael, will then go on a murderous killing spree, much in the style of Michael Myers in terms of the weapon, but Jason Voorhees in terms of the mask. There will a use of middle shots from behind, not showing the main character's face but will show him going into rooms