No County For Old Men

No County for Old Men

Mise en scene Opening scene
They use a voice over to grab the viewers attention when the scene is only showing various different landscape until it shows the viewers the narrator. It shows how remote and deserted the place where the sheriff .  A few shots later they show a man being arrested and a police officer (the narrator) putting a gas canister into the front seat. In the next scene the camera zooms into a man on the phone, and the camera is focused on him but you see a man in the background
Sound
At first their no sound being made besides the voice of the main character/narraitor voiceing over diffrent shots of empty desert and the sound of wind blowing and movement of grass, tumbleweed amd some birds chirping. Then slow music plays in the background which is non-diagetic. It all stops when the shot in the police station were a police officer is talking on the phone. Also music is building up in the background to add suspence were he gets stangled.
Editing
It opens with a blank simple title screen then fades into black. The editing is slow and each cut is around 10 seconds long. But when it reachs the scene where the police officer was stangled the speed of editing speeds up to about 2 seconds. After he died it slows down again to 7 seconds. Through out the clip they uses staight cuts as their is no fades, dissolves or wipes in the scene.
Camera
They use a steady cam when the sheriff arrests the man. Then use a long shot when the car drives away into the distance. Then they use a steady cam when the camera when the police officer is using the phone. They use a low angle when the man is stangling the police officer and a high angle shot when he washes his hands.

Rope

About Rope: Rope is one of Alfred Hitchcock's early thrillers that he directed. It was released in 1948.
 It stared James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger. It was based from the play that was made before. 

In the trailer they add suspense and show you clips that wasn't in the film. The characters Brandon and Philip considered themselves Nietzschean, supermen who believed that they are superior intellectually which made them above the law. "Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them," claims Brandon the deluded mastermind of the murder. In rope their is no hero who has to stop the villain. The criminal act has already occurred and the film is set just after the events and rather than someone trying prevent is about them trying to cover it up. With the filming they could not stop and start the film so they had to film 15 minutes at a time straight and the only cut that would occur would be when changing the film. The film uses dramatic irony as the audience we know something most of characters doesn't and they built suspense when certain characters came near the chest or used the rope for things. They would play music to get the audience on the edge of their seats. Hitchcock uses devices such as suspense, cliff hangers and red herrings. He did this from the very start of the film and when people come close to the body which kept the audience waiting for when someone discovers the body.

Preliminary Task

In the preliminary Task i was working with Ayush Bhatt, Jack Fraser and James Casal. Jack and I were both actors. I played a suspect whilst Jack played a detective. Ayush held the Boom mic and recorded the the audio of the film and James filmed each scene.
We filmed match on action shot of jack about to open and a door and then the next shot was jack walking through the door from the other side to keep the countanuity of the film. We also filmed a extreme close up and and shot/ reverse shot to show how dramatic the scene got and to keep the continuity of the film. We used these during the integration scene. We also did a eye line match using myself looking at the clock. We also use the 180 degree rule 
Evaluation
We used Match on Action. Eye Line Match, Shot, Reverse Shot, 180 Degree Rule correctly. If we did make mistakes we would of edited it out of the final cut. I believe in out film the best thing that went well was the Match On Action when Jack walked through the door. We would make improvements where we could but specifically we would improve the Shot/ Reverse shot and the Eye Line match.

Continuity Editing

What is continuity Editing?
Continuity in editing is when the film flows consistently in a smooth organised sequence.  The director try to make the film as realistic as possible. This makes it easier for the audience to comprehend and understand what is happening. The continuity is not to break the audiences concentration and not to confuse them. Their are techniques to help keep the continuity such as Eye-line match, match-on-action, graphic match and 180 degree rule.
Eye line match

We see a shot of a character looking at something of screen until it cuts to a shot of what they were looking at.
Match-on-scene


We see a character start an action in one shot and see them continue it in the next.
Graphic Match


When two shots are linked with with a similar shape of composition of an image.
180 degree Rule

The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.
Shot/Reverse

Shot/Reverse shot is used to show conversation or arguments. It helps shows their are two opposite personalities.

A History Of Violence

  A history of violence opening secene analayse

Camera analyse
Their were two shots in the first scene and 4 shots all together. To film the film they must ofused a steady cam for some of the shots they used. Or at one point they might of used a tram to keep up with the car. Their was a extreme close up on the gun to symblise the gun's power.
Sound analyse
When he enters the building is when the non-diegetic sound starts as slow music plays. Their were also many diegetic noises such as the radio playing county music. The sound of the truck driving past. also their s the sound of the bell, or the fridge door opening. Their was the sound of the water pouring, the sound of the girl which was all the diagetic.
Editing

Their where 12 cuts which all started when the character in white shirt walked through into the lobby. Since the first cut they started happening more often and making the shots shorter to help build suspense.
Mise en scene
On screen it shows the characters where tired as they moved slowley. When the character in white was into the lobby he touches things and it ust being nosey. He acts so calm and relaxed even when he is arround the dead bodys. He was even calm when he shot the girl. The guy in white was dressed casual while the other guy was dressed in black but dressed smart. It was obvious he was the leader as he gave orders which the other character followed out imidently. When they left the room the guy in white moved the chair so everything looked normal and just to show they are fixing every little detail.

Styles Of Edititng

Styles of editing


Straight Cut
one shot moves instantly to the next without attracting the audience attention
Straight cuts help retain reality. They do not break the viewers suspension of disbelief

Dissolves
Fading one shot off screen while another shot screen while another shot is fading in
The audience will be able to see both shots on the screen at the midpoint of the dissolve
If the film maker wants to show a connection between two characters, places or objects

Fades 
a gradual darkening or lightening of a image until it becomes black or white
One shot will fade until only a black or white screen can be seen
Used to
indicate the end of a particular section of time with the narrative

Wipes
One image is pushed off the screen by another

Jump cut
A jump cut is where the audiences attention is brought into focus on something very suddenly
This occurs by breaking the continuity editing
This is known as discontinuity
It appears as if a section of the sequence has been removed.

Unknown

Unknown
Unknown is a thriller which was released in 2011. Directed by Jaume Collet-serra. Its writers were Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Stephen Cornwell (screenplay). It stars Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones. It had a Budget of $30,000,000 (estimated) and earned $21,856,389 (USA) on 20th Febuary 2011 on its opening weekend. It earned a Gross of $130,786,397 worldwide by 12th of may 2011. The storyline is about a Man (played by Liam Neeson) awakens from a coma, but discovers that someone has taken his identity and is living his life. No one recconises him or believes him. Not even people closest to him. He is determined to prove that he is really who he claims to be.
Hosptial Scene
The Hospital Scene
This scene is where Liam Neeson re-enters the hospital seeking medical help. As they ruin scans he falls into a sleep from the anesthetic and when is woken he sees a familiar face who he believes is out to get him. He gets strapped to the bed and his drip was poised. A nurse enters the room as she realize he has been strapped to the table but before she can do anything to help, she was killed off by the villain. The music during the scene built up tension do the events and as he was reaching for the scissors before the villain re-enter the room.

The Car Chase Scene
As the Scene starts the tension slowly builds up as each cut is slow but then gets faster and faster. When the car crashes and spins out of control the chase starts. The speed of each cut becomes fast and music starts to play to keep the audience on the edge of their seats in the events of the film. Their are many fast shots during the scene but the scene ends when one of car crashes into a tram.

The birds

Birds

Birds is a horro/thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, it was released in 1963. It starred Rod taylor, Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette. This isnt a typical horror/thriller because their isnt villian. The plot is a middleclass women persues a potential boyfriend to a small town in north calofonia, whilst she was their birds started to randomly attack. They birds numbers increased as the attacks grew more vicious.

Sound Exercise
In this the film clip we are practicing using the boom microphone. We create a short film about two gangsters known as Wayne & Wess. Wess was jumped and looses £25,000 and it is up to Wayne and Wess to make up for the money that was lost. The film ends when Wayne and Wess are inside the building and police sirens are heard in the distance. We tried using non diagetic and diabetic sounds in the film. Also we tried using on and off screen sounds. This included the police sirens as off screen whilst on screen sounds were the characters walking. We tried to add the use of parallel sounds to make

Brief

 Foundation Portfolio: The Brief You have been asked to produce the titles and opening sequence of a new fiction film in the thriller genre.The sequence should last a maximum of two minutes.You may work in a group of 2 - 4 students.As acting is not assessed you are free to use actors that are not members of your group.The film is worth 60% of your coursework grade.The accompanying blog is worth 40% of your coursework gradeTogether the Foundation Portfolio is worth 50% of the overall AS Level. 

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