Research - Intertextuality

Intertextuality is when in the making of a media product you refer or draw reference from another media product. For example there is a famous scene from the film Psyco where the lady is in the shower and a man comes in and stabs her to death. Ideas from this scene have been a reference point for other films such as The Stepfather, What Lies Beneath and Fatal attraction

Bathroom Scene form The Stepfather

This is the scene from The stepfather. In Psyco the shower rail is pulled down and and a sharp object is held up and then stabbing actions. This film uses those aspects for the film so the audience can draw reference to fatal attraction.

Bathroom Scene From Fatal Attraction

This is the scene from Fatal attraction. This film uses the ideas from Psyco when the knife is held up in the bath and when the blood is dragged down the wall. This is also intertextuality used for the audience to draw reference and make comparisons between the two films.

RESEARCH: 180 Degree RULE

180 Degree RULE.

This rule tells us that the camera stays on one side to indicate position of the characters. e.g: when watching sports if you look at the pitch you see a camera scrolling up and down the pitch but only on one side.

This rule enforces the continuity of a film.

Rule should be considered at all times, but only can be broken to add effect but must be explained. 
- Breaking the rule will confuse the audience.


WHAT HAPPENS IF 180 DEGREE RULE IS BROKEN???

• CONFUSE audience.
• Audience behaviour - lose focus.
• Missing vital part of a film and storyline/plot

*EVALUATION: We all did this when we had to do the PRELIMINARY task of focusing on camera work and we after are camera shots we seemed to have broken the 180 degree Rule however we took a second to think about it and plan the filming of the video and we finally understood how it works. This has developed are understanding of GOOD FILMING.

Research and Practice - Finished Foley Project

This is our finished foley project we did for Arlington Road. For this project we had to re-edit the film opening from scratch rearranging the clips to suit the nature of a thriller. We also had to add titles and our own foley sounds to the opening of Arlington Road.

The first thing we done was gather all the clips together and put them in a sequence on Final Cut Pro. We then added titles to our sequence. When adding titles we made sure it was done in the conventional order.

After adding the titles we then had to add sound. We used sound from soundtrack pro and made our foley sounds which were footsteps, Heavy breathing, screaming and talking. When making our own foley sounds we had to use a camera and record ourselves making these sounds. For example, Remello done footsteps, Umar done the heavy breathing and Emadul and Javayl done the talking. We then added these sounds to soundtrack pro and made them in sync to the footage.

Once everything was done in soundtrack pro, we exported it to Final Cut Pro. After that, we then exported everything that was in final cut pro, including all the sounds, into a quicktime.mov file.

Editing foley sounds

Here are some screen grabs of our editing process of the opening title sequence of Arlington Road:

This is all the footage on Final Cut Pro

This is where we added titles to our footage

This is our footage now in soundtrack pro

This is where we added our own foley sound to our footage such as footsteps and car noises.

RESEARCH: FOLEY SOUND

Foley Artists often watch the clip and make the
sounds according to
 what is being shown trying to get the timing right.

FOLEY SOUND

Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects which are added in post production to enhance the quality of audio for films, television, video, video games and radio.These reproduced sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass. The best foley art is so well integrated into a film that it goes unnoticed by the audience. It helps to create a sense of reality within a scene. Without these crucial background noises, movies feel unnaturally quiet and uncomfortable.

Foley artists look to recreate the realistic ambient sounds that the film portrays. The props and sets of a film do not react the same way acoustically as their real life counterparts. Foley sounds are used to enhance the auditory experience of the movie. Foley can also be used to cover up unwanted sounds captured on the set of a movie during filming that might take away from the scene at hand, such as overflying airplanes or passing traffic.

This part of a film is very practical and you must get the sound PERFECT. or near it.

*EVALUATION: When WE done Foley sound in are filming of ALINGTON ROAD. we found that we had to pay attention to every bit of the film scenes being shown to us and the fact we will need to make the sounds flow across each scene and had to be inventive with the way we record the sounds. 

RESEARCH: IN DEPTH (title sequences)

DIRECTOR

DISTRIBUTION COMPANY

PRODUCTION COMPANY

TOP BILLING ACTORS

Key conventions of a title sequence opening of a film are to have the essentials of: 

Name of production companies.

Director, more famous the director is you can make his name a brand so that fans or supporters would be more attracted to future movies made by this specific director.

Producer (s). / Executive Producer (s) 

Actors in some film they are ordered in status of higher rank in their acting career.

The most important variable is to have the MOVIE TITLE. MUST HAVE. it leaves the audience in the dark if not added in. 

RESEARCH: Timeline Sequence

The Title Sequence:

Definition: The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. 

A title sequence is the method by which cinematic films or television programs present their title, keyproduction and cast members, or both, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound. It usually follows but should not be confused with the opening credits, which are generally nothing more than a series of superimposed text.

- Wikipedia (The Free Encyclopedia)

This is an IMAGE FROM SEVEN. and just shows an idea of simple basics of titles added on to a  opening.