Film Making Techniques!

Handheld Techniques

Edit analysis

In the film Mad Max: Fury Road, they use a lot of editing techniques that are popular and most used in action film. Lots of cut techniques are used through out the film. At the very beginning of the film the colour used is quite dark and red as the producer want to create the atmosphere of the desert and to show what happen slowly. However for the rest of the film, the colour changes to bright and red and the action happen on the desert.

One of the special editing technique used in Mad Max: Fury Road that makes the film successful is how the shots are framed. Almost every shot are centre framed, which is against the rule of third that is popular in filmmaking. By doing this, the viewer doesn't need 3 or 4 frames to figure out where to look, the focus is always in the same spot.

Film trailer
1. The Hangover part III
_The trailer introduce us to the main three characters. One of the main character seem to be a nerd, he wears baggy clothes, sings female funny voice at a funeral and acts strange. And one of them is a cool guy wearing nice clothes, looking tone. And a smart looking guy. They seem to be a group of best friend as they appear together in many shots of the trailer, they stand close to each other. However, from what I see from the trailer the film focus on the nerd character.

_  The trailer start with a song sang by one of the main characters which is a unique way to get the audience's attention. And then the music become strong and fast which give us the idea of an action thriller. Also there are some parts that only contain dialogue without music to create a more serious of the action scenes.

_ The lighting used in the trailer is quite dark which suggests there are lots of action scenes in the movie, there are also some shots with bright lighting as it is comedy part of the trailer. However, despite the fact 

_ As watching the trailer, I expect the movie contains lots of action and chasing scenes. However, as it is a comedy movie I expect more joke to include in the trailer but there are not many and they do not seem to excite the audience. 

_ I would love to watch this film as I am a young person and I am into action film. To me the most appealing part of the trailer is the first scene because the film was introduced as a comedy so a funeral at the beginning make me excited to see what happens for the rest of the trailer. 

2. White chicks. 

_ The trailer introduce us to the two main characters as two undercover cops, they work together in a mission where they have to undercover themselves as two white rich girls. The main characters seem to be close friends as they appear together through out the trailer. 

_The music used in the trailer is fancy and strong type of music to create. Some parts are disco music.

_The lighting used throughout the trailer is high-key lighting and very bright without a lot of contrast as this is a comedy type of film. By using this type of lighting, the film brings the warm feel, comfortable and fosters an environment of laughters. This strategy of lighting is also used in 'Dumb and dumber' and 'Anchorman'. Therefore, these movies maintain a contrast bright atmosphere, where by humor can be conveyed. 

                         (A scene with bright lighting in 'Dumb and dumber' trailer )

( A scene with bright lighting in 'Anchorman' trailer )

_What I expect from 'White chick' is lots of laughters, a good story developed. I would love to see 'White chicks as comedy film is my cup of tea, and the trailer of the film makes me very excited and curious. 

Representation in media

Within the media, representation is concerned with the way that people, Ideas and events are presented to us. The media therefore needs to be viewed through a vehicle for beliefs, values and attitudes, which can either be reinforced or challenged by the audience. The media constructs meanings about the world in order for the audience to make sense of it.

In the film "Gone girl" the main actress- Amy Dunne is presented in an opposite way with most of female characters in movie. Amy Dunne is presented as a 'countertype'. Normally, the "murdered wife" in a story like this is nothing but an object. However, Gone girl is complete opposite. In the film, Amy has all the power, a type of female character that we rarely see in movies- a female psychopath. We've seen lots of women in movies who can be violent. But often those women are usually really masculine, often telling weaker character to stop being such 'girls' or 'pussies'. For example we can see from the movie 'Mad max' the main character 'imperator Furiosa' is a strong female leader that often shout at the weaker female characters. Amy, on the other hand, is opposite.

However, Amy represents a negative stereotype of women. In my opinion, this type of representation is not accurate and is hard to see in reality. Familiar representation keep reoccurring to break out the traditional stereotype of representation. This type of representation is mainly to maintain those views by a higher power.

Genre

Genre is a French term for type of kind. In media studies it is a theoretical term for classification of media text into type grouping.
( Branston with Stafford, 2010.74, 436)

1. Ted
_Ted is a comedy movie
_The poster presents two main characters, one of them is a teddy bear holding a beer bottle( which is a funny image), there are laughter between them, the colour used is very bright.
_The poster is very effective as it shows exactly what the film is about ( friendship between Ted and ...)

2. One day
_Is a romantic movie.
_The poster present two main characters, they are kissing. Also above the title of the movie is the sentence "Twenty years. Two people.." gives the audience the idea of a long lasting relationship between the two characters.
_ The poster is very effective as it describes exactly what the film is about- a love story.

3. 2012
_It seems like a sci-fi movie.
_There are the Earth and space.
_This poster is not designed well as there are not much we can see from it.

pre-production

My group intended to make a more interesting version of "How to make a cup of tea"

The script was written by Stanley :
People leave the baron computer room laughing at something leavening a lone boy on his own in the computer room staring at a blank screen. The screen is on word with the continues flashing line jumping on and off the screen but nothing is getting written. The boy's eyes start to droop like he is about to fall asleep, he makes himself awake. He gets up and make himself a cup of coffee he then takes a sip and starts to write. He does this for a little bit and then realise he has no more coffee he then gets up and repeats the process of making and drinking coffee over and over again. Then as he writes his work starts to descend into gibberish and his vision starts to blur and as he turns to see that he has just knocked over the cup of coffee he falls to the ground and the coffee just spills on the ground then the words "caffein is a drug not a beverage" appear on the screen and then fade to black.

The storyboard drew by me: