synopsis

My animation movie is going to based on a number of ideas some being from Quintin Tarentino and from a game called mirrors edge which is based on the 1st person view. My sequel will be based around a woman who will be my only character in the story and it will start in a hospital were she is lying in a hospital bed and the film starts were she opens her eyes and is slightly blinded by the bright hospital light.

How i am basing my view for my animation.

Statement of Intentions. not finished

For my Media Image Arts course I am going to be producing my own film, we have a choice on how we want to create are film either live action or animation, I have chosen animation due to my experience with Adobe Flash.

My animation film im going to produce will be formalist will based upon the animation sequences in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 where the scenes swith from live action to animation throughout the film.

Im going to make my animation a two side sequel with a lot of bright colours on one side of the sequel and dark colours on the other sequel. My animation will be around 1-2 minutes long.

How I am going to use my animation locations will be using one method by trying to find images of locations on the web or taking them by camera and editing them to look maybe cartoon like or not 100% real.

If I can possibly use the first person effect on some characters during my short film and give the perspective of the viewer feeling how the character does. The reason I will use this technique is because a computer game has influenced me for this type of view.

In some of the film I will try to use slowmotion to give a adrenaline effect on a character e.g. if the character is running away from someone in the film.
My film sequel will be about free running a sport where people jump from objects to other objects e.g. someone jumping to one roof to another.

Im still thinking of what I can call my film im thinking about “jumper” because it relates to the sequence.

Questionaire on Realism in film.

First i will write the questions i asked then i will put my 9 responses underneath.

1. What is your favourite film?

2.That film is quite a formalist/realist film. (if we dont know what the film, ask them more about it to find out). Would you say you like more formalist or fantasy films?

3. What is it about Realism or Fantasy you like?

4. What do you consider makes a realistic film?

5. What films do you consider to be realistic?

6. Could you try to give a definition of realism


Person 1

Responses

1. The Pursuit of Happyness

2.The film is a Realist film because it was based on a real man and his son.
i like Fantasy films.

3. I like Fantasy more because it mainly shows how a directors mind thinks and how his imagination lets him speak in a movie.

4. A realistic film is made up of everyday elements and a storyline which could be true.

5. Well i think Pursuit of Happyness is real to some extent because it is based on a real storie.
Scarface because its based on a real story.

6. Realism is when you make a film into reality.

Person 2

1. Lord of the Rings

2. Formalist film and likes fantasy

3. How the speacial effects give the film a different view.

4. Giving a film a real storyline.

5. Pursuit of happyness and bank job are based on real stories.

6. A film which is based on real life events.

Person 3

1. Essex Boys

2. its a realist film because its based on a real story.

3. I like realist films because it shows real life events in a film.

4. Well i think it depends on what the storyline is.

5. Pursuit of happyness because its based on a real story.

6. When a movie is turned into reality.

Casablanca

Casablanca was made in 1942 and is an American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Humphery Bogart as Rick Blaine, he owns "Ricks Cafe", and Ingrid Bergman as llsa Lund, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo.

Classic Hollywood Cinema

Elements of Classic Hollywood Cinema

•  Obscuring the camera to create "natural" flow of story - creating a believable reality using various film techniques - un realistic this makes a type of formalism rather than realism.
• Film centers on the actions of a protagonist.
• Story is about protagonist's struggle to pursue desire.
• Story takes place in linear, continuous time that is consistent connected to a fictional reality- you don't feel "disjointed" sense of time.

German expressionism. not finished

What are the key features of German expressionism?

German expressionism was a term used to refer to a number of related creative moments which emerged in German during the 1920s.

Expressionism as a movement spanned across many media to include theater, architecture, music, painting and sculpture.

The first expressionist films was The cabinet of Dr Caligari.(1920), The Golem (1920)

Sound in German expressionist films are very dark music like playing a violin very

rapidly.

Lighting
The lighting is focused more on the characters faces and what there doing or there whole body.

Camera work

The camera work is pretty much close up shots in the film always focusing on the characters facial expressions.
Mis En Scene

objects that are usually in german expressionism films are wierd things that you wouldnt have in a formalist film.

Editing

There wasn't editing when they shot these scenes.

Where can the influence of German expressionism be seen in history?

About Run Lola Run

Run Lola Run was definately a formalist film because in the film the storyline repeats itself three times throughout the film.

Setting:
The setting was based around a french city or maybe german city and the use of locations is used very wisely, using locations like a bank, a supermarket, a flat.

Camera Shots:
Theres alot of close ups in the film because most of the film is shot with the man being in a phone booth and the woman character running.

Sound:
the sound that is used is fast adrenaline music to support the woman running all the time.


one major part of the film is fate, because the film repeats itself 3 times it gets the viewer guessing whats going to change next time round

My Formalist Film

The formalist film i watched was Scarface, how Scarface is a formalist film is how it shows a columbian immigrant end up turning into a major drug lord.

Brian De Palma the director done very good camera shots including 

worms eye view to make the characters have a higher status they would have.

wide shot to include the location of where they were shooting the scene.

Sounds in the film are real, because its all the general sounds of a movie ( Guns, Cars, Swimming in a pool, People in convertables listening to Miami style music)

Class Formalist Film

Ms Flavell set the whole class a task of working together to create a formalist film. 

We got put into 5 groups including camera work, lighting, sound, editing and Mis En Scene.

 I got put into the camera group and had some ideas about what camera shots we could have used.

Heres what i thought of:

Medium shot 

Cutaway shot 

Cut in

Point of View 

When it came to shooting the film there was only one person needed so i then joined the sound team, (sort of) and helped out.