Title and director: - This short film is called Bitch and is directed by Dom Bridges. Narrative (Todorov):-beginning: man buying tuna -Middle: woman approaches him (point of attack) - End: Realisation Story: - woman sees a man and makes him the victim he approaches him and says he looks like her son he then shows a picture of her 'dead' son and he feels sympathy for her and listens to what she says. She says that she wants him to say bye mum so she can have the memory of her son says it. She then leaves the shop and he says 'bye mum' the audience realise first that she has walked off without paying and he is left with the bill but he takes a while to realise this and then we see his reaction.
Genre:- Comedy
- opening credits
- playful
-tone of music
Location:- a supermarket
Camera:- over the shoulder shots
- close up during dialogue
-mimicking actors experiences
Lighting:- bright
Casting binary opposites:- subverting stereotypes
- we think the bad person is going to be the man because of the way he is cast
Title and Director: - This short film is actually a music video with a story behind it, its called Swim 'Oh No Ono' and the director is called Adam Hashemi. Narrative: - The narrative of this music video is about a young boy's first sexual feelings and how his imagination is sexualised we get the feeling it might be autobiographical and its the start of his sexual awakening. Story: - The story is about a boy who gets dropped off at a hospital and all the events that happen become sexualised in his imagination Camera: - the story is all about the boy so we get alot of point of view shots and camera movements that follow him to show he's the main character Frame: - WideScreen 2.35:1 Lighting: - very muted Location: - a cold dark hospital introduces the theme of sexual awakening as we have a stereotypical view of nurses that it is a sexual job. Representations of characters: - many over-sexualised nurses and an over sexualised child Emotional response of the whole film: - Cold but curious as an audience member
Title and Director: Words by Will Hoffman and Daniel Meradante Genre: - Avand-Garde/ Art house (no beginning/middle/end) - This film has no traditional narrative Narrative: -The narrative of this short film is words and their meanings. The words seem to set up a sort of game and it then questions the audience. Editing: - The editing is a photo montage that flows with transitional images Camera:- The camera is static Sound: - The music and sound of this film has an advert feel to it. The music has a classical sound and then you can hear the sound affects over the top of it.
I found this short film on Future shorts called Lovefield directed by Mathieu Ratthe. its got a very interesting style to the film as it combines many different genres including: drama/horror and thriller. By combining these different genres the film manages to play with our minds and makes us think that the ending will be different. At the beginning there is noway that you can tell the story line but by the end its very clear. She's been driving along the road and her water has broken so she stops the car and finds a place amongst the crops to lie down. There is a tractor and a man who watches this incident and tries to help her, he gets a knife and cuts the umbilical cord and then gets a blanket from her car to wrap the baby in. Then we see the woman and her baby. However the narrative is told in a very different way its told in a make believe way so that we think she is murdered or raped as it starts with us seeing blood and a phone ringing on the floor which makes us wonder whats happened. There are two clear binary opposites in this film which are the lighting and the music, with the lighting when its the dark side of the film when it begins it is dark lighting and makes us feel scared and then at the end when we see the baby the lighting brightens up to lighten the atmosphere. The second which is when the music starts its a screechy high pitched sound over the squarks from the crow and then at the end its juxtaposed and the music is a soft piano sound. Then there is another binary opposite which is not so obvious which is the fact that we think the woman is dying but actually a baby is being born. One of the reasons we see this film as a horror at the beginning is that the man in the film is a typical southern American farmer whose wearing stereotypical dungarees and he has tattoos up his arm and our immediate reaction is that he is evil and mysterious. But we learn at the end not to always judge a book by its cover as we were very wrong! A few other reasons for our expectations at the beginning of the film is the fact that the knife made the audience jump as it hit the ground, the crow which is used to create tension and also the fact that when the man looks in the car boot there is a point of view shot which makes it seem like there is someone already in the boot who he's caught already and we presume she is next. We were very wrong!
- An auteur is a filmmaker or theatre director who has a personal style and whose aspects of a production gives the end result a recognisable feel.
What Cinema Verite is:
- Cinema Verite is a style of documentary filmmaking
An avant-garde film is:
- is a group of people who wish to create new concepts and techniques and experiment with their ideas.
Film noir is:
- Film noir is a style that describes hollywood crime dramas - creates a 'dark' atmosphere.
French new wave is:
- is a term used by critics for a group of filmmakers of the late 1950's and 1960's
its usually experimental and doesn't suspend your disbelief. Because of its tight budget there are many things they have to cope with such as: shopping trolleys for tracking shots and they have to use friends as their actors. They usually consist of long takes and many jump cuts to shorten scenes they also break the 80 degree rule. French new wave film narratives usually contain a boy and a girl, cigarettes and improvisations of dialogue.
The rules of Dogme: 1. Filming must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in. If a particular prop is necessary for the story. a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found. 2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. Music must not be used unless it occurs within the scene being filmed, i.e diegetic sound. 3. The camera must be a hand- held camera. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted. the film must not take place where the camera is standing; filming must take place where the action takes place. 4. The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable (if there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera). 5. Optical work and filters are forbidden. 6. The film must not contain superficial action (murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.) 7. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden (that is to say that the film takes place here and now). 8. Genre movies are not acceptable. 9. The final picture must be transferred to the Academy 35mm film, with an aspect ratio of 4:3, that is not widescreen. Originally , the requirement was that the film had to be filmed on Academy 35mm film, but the rule was relaxed to allow low-budget productions.) 10. The director must not be credited.
