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.