Our film has many themes , but the two main themes are lonliness and child absue . So in finding the images I tried to find pictures that featured both. As you can see some of these images show a person alone and upset to show that they are going through their situation alone and have no one to turn to like our character lilly. We also have some happy images that relate to the happy times she will remember when writing her story.
"Read the script - Digest the Story - Project your ideas through your own experiences".
Shindlers List He said that it had to be made in black and white because all they knew from that time period came from black and white photography. This shows the research and the deep thought that goes into the cinematography process. because he said " it would be wrong to make it in colour" this just shows the care that he put into his work which i should feature in my own.It also shows how he want the audience to identify with the time period because if all they know from this time period is from black and white photography that will also be the case for his audience , so he is able to take them back in time just by simply using black and white. now as for me and my film , if i want to make the audience feel a certain way or evoke a certain emotion , what i have do is think deep and do extensive research on how people see the key themes or my narrative now and in the past and play on them which will evoke real emotion from my audience , this can be done through the lighting, camera positions and movements and also the setting.
Saving Private Ryan "25" minuets depicts the whole D-Day events of the invasion of Normandy in this film. This just goes to show that time isn't an obstacle I should allow myself to get blocked by. it also shows me how creative i should be because they connected some ammo to a drill and it turned out to look like a real machine gun from a POV shot ,shows the creativity that an individual has, because not only does it test the ability to create good and unusual ideas but to portray them on make others see what you see and make them feel how you want your audience to feel is the ultimate test of a Good cinematographer. this video also taught me that cinematography isn't only to do with camera positions/movements, lighting and setting , but you can also slow down the speed of the frames to see how emotions and expressions form on actors faces or to see the process of certain important actions , which ill keep the audience gripped and very interested.
Minority report in once scene he used his childhood experiences at the puppet shows to portray a scene in a certain way. he created a certain atmosphere with the use of cinematography to make his audience feel the way he wanted to feel. From all the research i have done one cinematography , apart form the text book stuff, the one thing that has remained constant throughout cinematographers is that its a very personal thing. one said that if you gave 5 cinematographers the same story , same script and the same actors that each one of them will make it look totally different from each others. So i learnt from this that i have to add my own personal touch to our cinematography and almost like my signature on my work.
Munich This film was about men who were involved in certain events getting killed off 1 by 1. In this film "the camera became the hunter" and Janusk began to try new things like shooting reflections of people , shooting through windows ect.. which he admits was very hard but worth it . with my cinematography i am going to have to think outside the box am and be a lot more creative with my ideas and think of things that break conventions of typical and basic cinematography.
The Diving Bee and the Butterfly This film is about a man who has be paralysed all over except from one eye lid. So Janusz started by covering one eye and seeing what he thought someone in that position would see and feel. now in my film i will have a lot of point of view shots , so i will need to put myself in the position of my character to what they are seeing ,where they will look , how they will feel how they would move , which all creates realism and it will great too.
I have learnt a lot from this video and plan to use a lot of what was said in my work.
What is Cinematography ? Cinematography in its simplest terms is having control over the Camera and the Lighting. but that is just the basics, as a cinematography you hold and important role in the whole film making process. ranks as highly as directors cinematographers have a lot of power and say in how each shot looks. Their role is to make sure that each and every shot is following the whole theme of the film by controlling the lighting and the camera, this will make the audience move to the emotions and feelings they are while watching a certain film, if the cinematography is correct. Janusz Kamink , who is an cinematographer and has worked on ; Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, Shindlers List and Indiana Jones :the Crystal skull, said that cinematography is " a profession that allows you to show the world who you are" this means that the art of cinematography is a very personal one and different individuals have different ideas.
Art of Cinematography
Cinematography is classed as an art and likened to photography because it involves the manipulation of camera and lighting the only difference is that the images in cinema are moving instead of still. As two persons drawings of the same thing could never be the same , so can two cinematographers work never be the same, because it is down to the individuals own creative ideas that the camera is positioned or moves in this or that way or the lighting is like this or like that.
I have learnt a lot from this video above. from other definitions I have read, Christopher Doyle makes it seem more of an art an creative and sometimes spontaneous thing. He said that cinematography is "Translating your ideas into images" this meant to me that all the ideas i have in my head of how i want to portray my film are possible on camera with the aid of mis en scene and the correct lighting and camera movements. He also said that the "movements between the camera and the actors is a dance" a lot from that statement also , I took it to mean that I should be creative with my camera movements , like dance.I shouldn't limit myself to just still shots and boring pans or even keeping the camera on the tripod , maybe even try it hand held moving or following the actor and not having the actor to think about having to keep in frame which will allow them to act more freely and naturally. Not only will the camera and the lighting help portray the themes I am trying to get across in my film , but the location plays a vital role as well because no matter how good my camera operations are or our lighting is if the location isn't correct it will not look good or represent what I am trying to portray. "Why this story happens is because it happens here"
This short film reveals the inner feelings and views of a world so much bigger than a girl can imagine. Her outlook on life has been simplified to common metaphors of a young child. However the deeper meanings behind the metaphors are more than some children could bare. The story opens with the setting of a regular, every day classroom. The teacher gives the children their daily assignment. Today it is no regular assignment. They have been requested to write a short essay-fiction or non-fiction about their worst fear. The teacher jokes about how she is deathly afraid of spiders- therefore her essay would consists of giant spiders taking over her whole house! Lilly’s (main character) fear is a monster that she takes careful detail describing. She describes his actions and his ways- the reasons why she is afraid of him. Throughout her writing there are cuts/fades to Lilly wandering around the park alone. After school hours she’d rather roam the park finding things to occupy her time than go home. In her thoughts while she is at the park she plays on the swing set, kicks around an old found ball, lay in wonder in the grass. As the end of her story approaches it seems to become clearer of who the monster really is. This is reassured by the concluding sentence and the last shot of someone (her father) assaulting Lilly- this being done by a p.o.v. shot of her dad hitting her as she steps foot into the house. This story gets inside the head and thoughts of a young child who lives in an abusive family. She has created a ‘monster’ in her head as to replace the actual abusive father who has caused her to think this way. The sadness of the main character has made it for the audience to be highly empathetic towards her experience. The entire purpose of the story comes together in the end when it all ends in a bang as the audience finds out that the monster is not an imaginary character in a book or a cartoon, yet an abusive father living in her very own house.
This is our 1st In the form of a Power point Presentation the more detailed in our treatment. After we received our feedback and we analyse what was wrong and what we could change, we decided as a group that it would be in our best interest just to change the story all together , so we did . Above is our new treatment for our Film "Monster"
The story stars out as a clip based in olden times. This can be deciphered through the date on the bottom corner of the screen, as well as the granulled old style filming. The voice on the radio speaks of a third murder by the mysterious ‘red rose killer’ who leaves a red rose at the scene of his every killing. The voice on the radio also describes the targets as young, attractive women. As someone turns the radio off the scene fades into current day with the effect of granulled type film being taken off as well as the text ‘current day’ in the bottom corner being displayed. We are then seeing an older man distressed in his sleep. He is shaking and mumbling. At this time there are flashbacks of scenes of murder- this is to represent what the man is dreaming about. The scene cuts from the dream to reality a few times until finally the man wakes up. There is no diagetic dialogue as music covers the man’s voice. He picks up the phone dials a number and then speaks into the telephone (we cannot hear his voice). There is a cut to an analog clock. A fast forward affect of the clock turning quick lets the audience know a long time has past- even though it has only taken up a few seconds of the clip. Afterwards, we see a women walk into the room. Her dialogue reveals that she is the man’s dead wife’s sister. They have not spoken since the death of Lily (sister and wife). The man seems to be in painful agony (coughing, speaking uneasy). He tells the sister that he has a confession to tell her. As he starts telling his story he pulls out a letter and describes it as the beginning of everything. There is a flashback of a woman writing this letter. His wife is the one writing to him to confess her unloyalty to her husband. She narrates the letter as she writes it, folds it up, and puts the letter on his pillow, followed with a red rose on top of the letter. The continuation of the film happens with a large amount of flashbacks and flash forwards into current time. The man confesses that he has killed his wife as well as 3 other women due to the rage and anger he had acquired from being cheated on. The clips of him killing the other women are tastefully shown with flashbacks of hints of killing and seduction. As the women he was after were unloyal women, just like Lilly. He confesses his killings to the sister. She is obviously very distressed and didn’t know what to think of it all. Before she has time to put her input into the tragedy of her sister and those women, the main character dies. She places one white rose on top of him as there was a vase with white roses next to his bed. This concluded the film with a quote from the bible talking about clearing away your sins, and red turning into white. “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
Feedback It wasn’t clear how we will show the difference between the past and the present.
From our pitch it wasn’t clear how his wife actually died from the way we described the death it sounded like suicide.
We wasn’t clear about how we were going to show the voice over the video
There were many little things we need to clear up in our story.
The way we explained it seems like it will most likely to run over 5 min, which is what we are limited to so that me a problem.
There seems to be nothing going on in the middle of our story, it sounds boring and may lead to our audience loosing interest.
When we pitched the our idea our feedback was positive on the beginning and the end of our story , our audience liked the way it linked with the two quotes and the fact that we had and old radio at they beginning a tv at the end showing the contrast in the time period.
There is not enough character motivation which will lead this man to confess this, and why would someone listen to a person who has just killed their sister it came across unrealistic.
They also told us that it would be hard to show the violence without making it looks silly.
When we pitched our idea, they said that some thing was lacking and they didn’t feel that the flashbacks and narration would be enough to carry the story.
Our story was perceived as too predictable, they wanted to see more of what drove him to this sudden confession and they wanted to see more of his back story and what lead him to religion, on student said that they felt they were hearing about the 2part to a film because so much of our main characters back story was missing. They wanted to see more of what lead him to religion and they want that transformation to be displayed.
Why would he call his sisters in law of all people to tell they story to, and why would she listen it doesn’t seem to make sense to our audience.
Our film has many themes , but the two main themes are lonliness and child absue . So in finding the images I tried to find pictures that featured both. As you can see some of these images show a person alone and upset to show that they are going through their situation alone and have no one to turn to like our character lilly.
