Title:The Foreshadowing
Genre:
Log Line: A young teen is faced with a crucial decision that will ultimatly change his life.
A dark vast opened field, footsteps are heard in the background as well as voices. A young boy passes by running he is tired he is breathing hard and suddenly he stumbles and trips over a whole on the ground. As he falls he hits his head on a rock and passes out. Then he is drawn into a flashback, which explains why he is in that particular situation.
We learn that the boys name is Chris he is standing with a group of friends talking about how funny it would be to play a prank on this miserable kid. They all agree to invite the boy to Chris’s pool party, where they would throw the kid in the water because he can’t swim, little does the boy know that the pool party is fake because it’s all a part of the prank.
Once at the pool Chris’s friends tell the boy to come over so they can all talk. They all exchange some words, when the boy is not paying attention they all grab him and throw him in the pool. In panic the boy starts to flap his arms around, and begins to drown, Chris and his friends are all watching laughing at him until one of Chris friend notices that the boy is drowning. They all go in after him, but once they get to him it’s too late, the boy has died.
Chris and his friends take the body out of the water and argue about what they should do; Chris is faced with the hard decision of not telling anyone and burying the body. They agree not tell anyone and start to bury the boy’s body.
Once done Chris tells them all to go back to their houses and act as if nothing happened. One of Chris’s friends asks him what he is going to do. Chris tells him that he has no other option but to flee the country because he is the one that is going to get in trouble the most out of all of them.
Chris, gets supplies and leaves the country, he plans to leave to Mexico. Once crossing the U.S. and Mexican border the police are after him, and Chris is running for his own safety. Then the audience is taken back to the opening shot where Chris falls. Once on the floor Chris remembers the body of the boy in the water dead, in the background there’s voices getting closer and closer to Chris. Chris stays still in the ground unconscious were he then passes out and the screen fades to black.
Chris is then seen waking up the day of the prank in his bed, he glances over to his phone and receives a call from his friend. He answers the phone and his friends asks him if he is still up for the prank, Chris in shock drops the phone and realizes that he has just dreamt the outcome of the prank and what will happen to him. Chris sits there puzzled in his bed as the screen fades to black.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Dramatic Moment
The main character's name is Chris. He is a young teen who wants to get revenge at this guy who has been picking on other people for the past months. He plans to do that so by playing a prank on him. His prank involves Chris pushing over the guy into a pool because the guy cant swim. This plan goes teribly wrong when the guy starts drowning in the water and Chris thinks that he is just playing around, once Chris realizes that the guy is really drowing he goes in after him but it is to late. Instead of Chris doing the right thing and telling the police, he doesn't and decides to burry the body and run away to another country,Mexico. The dramatic moment in the film is when Chriss is running in the dark crossing the border into Mexico,and he hears sirens in the background. He does not know what to do, running and not paying attention he falls and passes out in his mind he is having flashbacks of the guy dead at the bottom of the pool, this flashback us distrupted by the sound of men getting closer to him until the screan fades to black. The production desing and everything else involved in the creation of this scene will reinforce the dramatic moment because it will al reflect the situation that Chris is in during the dramtic moment.
"Plot's that Kill"
For my film, the story will have a testing/punitive plot. At the start of the film, the character will be tested on whether he should choose the right or wrong decision with the challenges that stand in his way. After those decisions are taken by the main character he will have to suffer the consequences and will have to be punished for the wrong decision that he took. Thus destroying his moral conscience. Progresively the film will somewhat become a action and dramatic film, with certain scenes added to give emphasis on the those certain genre conventions. The idea i have with this film is about a teen who decides to play a prank on another kid and the prank goes teribly wrong when the kids life is at risk and he dies. The main character is now stuck with the hard decision of telling the police and getting in trouble or burrying the body and running away. The main character will have to deal with not only the things he will leave behind, but also the guilt of being responsible for the death of the poor inocent kid, and that guilt will progresively eat away his moral conscience as the film goes on.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Italiene Neo-Realism and Bicycle Thief
Italian Neo-Realism first started during early 1935, when anti-Facist journalist Leo Longanesi urged directors to "go in the streets, into the barracks, into the train station;only in this way can an Italian cinema be born". American films influenced the age of Italian Neo-Realism because American movies portrayed the good life, which only could be found in America and did not show the images that reflected [Americans] lives".Very few films showed whats was actually going on in Italy during that time period, such Italy's transition from agricculture to manufacturing, which cause people to strruggle econimicaly. Once the neo-realism age of film making began it was characterized as a anti-Fascist movement. Cerare Zavattini stated that the aim of neo-realism was to show Italian life without embellishment and without artifice. Some films that showed the Italian Life were films such as Ladri di biciclette or Bicicle Theif and The Pastman Always Rings Twice, all these films used long takes and complex shoots and as well as street shooots to show the neo-realism between characters and surrouindings. Roberto Rossellini shows most clearly neo-realism link between the Resisitance movemen, whith his film Open City,1946 because this film shows actual footage of Nazi occupation of Rome and shows the hard times people had living under that rule. Another characteristic of neo-realism is the documentary type of shooting, which is clearly seem in the movie The earth Trembles,1948, because this movie relies on a nonprofessional cast. Once the movement sarted to fade away its prints keeped on moving forward because neo-realism influenced the French New wave filmmakers, also the ideas of neo-rea;ism carried over with "the emphasis on class conflicts and the use of non-professional actors".
Monday, March 15, 2010
Job Security
In this film there are two security guards, one is concerned about a chest that is on the monitor. One guard decides to go and check out the chest while the other stays back and "enjoys" himself, these shoots provide a good example of parallel action, as the guard gets to where
the chest is supposed to be at he finds that it is missing, he then finds out that it has been stolen by a burglar, the guard accidental jumps into the back of the burglars pickup. The climax of this film is when the guard makes it out of the pick-up and into a
taxi, but then the camera pans down to reveal that the taxi driver has the key that opens the chest. This last part leaves the audience in shock and in disbelief because one is left puzzled to how the burglar manged to pass as a taxi driver, also one is left thinking about what might happen to the guard because he is still in the same car with the burglar.
the chest is supposed to be at he finds that it is missing, he then finds out that it has been stolen by a burglar, the guard accidental jumps into the back of the burglars pickup. The climax of this film is when the guard makes it out of the pick-up and into a
taxi, but then the camera pans down to reveal that the taxi driver has the key that opens the chest. This last part leaves the audience in shock and in disbelief because one is left puzzled to how the burglar manged to pass as a taxi driver, also one is left thinking about what might happen to the guard because he is still in the same car with the burglar.
Reverie and the DSLR Revolution
In this first still of them both kissing, clearly shows the ability of this camera to capture in full details in an environment with dim light. Because both the guy and the girl are wearing colors that would be difficult to catch under that type of lighting, with such a clear picture, that gives emphasizes to the cameras ability.
In this second image of the girl in the dress, again it show the ability of the camera to capture in detail the image although it is in a low light environment, also it is impressive how the camera is able to capture the shoot with out it being grainy. To add on the camera focuses girl but the background is still very clear, which also demonstrates the cameras selective focus.
In this last image, the guy is in focus while the rest of the background is not, and the camera is able to clearly show the guy in detail, and its surprising because it seems like they are shooting in a completely dark environment. Cameras ability is great when shooting in dim light.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Rhythmic Match and Master Shoot
Rhythmic Match
1.I think that my story demonstrate the concept of rhythmic matching well, because theres some parts of the film were the actions match the sound. Also in the voice over it clearly explains what rhythminc matching is, which further demonstrates the concept. Some problems that me and my partner faced in creating this film was the acual matching of the actions with the movements because it was hard matching the movements of the character to the paste of the music. something that we could have done so that our film could have come out better would have been choose the music first and then shoot the actual film because then we could have got an idea to how we want the movements of the characters to be like. Another thing that we could have done better would be the story line because towards the middle the story gets confusing, so by making the actor lok at the door first and the introducing the second chracter it could have been less confusing.
2. I think we had a good camera work.what is surprising is that in this film the camera work was all done by hand and the shoots came out to be pretty good. The only bad thing would be that we did not have enough time to prep for a good setting location but we managed to somehow pull of the shoots we wanted in this film. One of the most creative shoots in this film would have to be the last shoot, because it is a pan of the camera from the plug outlet to the computer and the to my face. This shoot provides comedy to the film because the audience laughs at the end when they see the reaction of the character after his computer has been turned of.
3. Challenges that i had on the edit was putting all the movemets of the characters and some how making them match with thee music that i choose. To demonstrate my concept in the edit i had to take certain shoots that showed the actual concept in play. But again showing this concept was not eassy because it was hard matching the movements to the music.
Master Shoot
1. I think that in this film the concept of master shoot sequence was demonstrated very good because we clearly showed what its waw giving details and descriptions. Problems that we faced in this short film production was gettting the audio to work with the film because the llocation that we decided to film was a bad location for audio, which made it very hard not only in the edit but in the actual shooting itself. Other problems that we had was that the background noice on one lacation was so loud that we could not hear the actors speaking, which also turned out to be a problem in the edit because we had to raise and lower the audio levels on several parts.
2.I think that the actors were shoot well in the diouluge sceen because it clrealy shows our concept as the camera movement goes from over the shoulder shoots to close ups. Also the way the camera was spositioned in some sceens mmade it loook like the actor was superior to that of the other actor, which was good because thatshow we envisioned the actors to appear. Themost creative shoot would have to be the panning of the lady handing the note to the girl, because the pan was done nice an smooth. Also this shoot creates a sense of mystery because the audience is left to wonder whats in the note, the reason for this shoot beeing one of the most creative shoots in this film.
3.With this film there was alot of schallenges in the edit because first our audio levels were to luod and in some parts there was no audio at all. So to edit this film first I had to turn up the audion levels in the parts were they speak and turn it down when there is no conversation because of the bockground noice. To demonstrate my concept in the edit i had to cut from a lang shoot to a two shoot waist shoot then into a over the shulder shoot and then into a close up, by doig so I clearly demonstrated the master shoot sequence because it consited of all these shoots.
1.I think that my story demonstrate the concept of rhythmic matching well, because theres some parts of the film were the actions match the sound. Also in the voice over it clearly explains what rhythminc matching is, which further demonstrates the concept. Some problems that me and my partner faced in creating this film was the acual matching of the actions with the movements because it was hard matching the movements of the character to the paste of the music. something that we could have done so that our film could have come out better would have been choose the music first and then shoot the actual film because then we could have got an idea to how we want the movements of the characters to be like. Another thing that we could have done better would be the story line because towards the middle the story gets confusing, so by making the actor lok at the door first and the introducing the second chracter it could have been less confusing.
2. I think we had a good camera work.what is surprising is that in this film the camera work was all done by hand and the shoots came out to be pretty good. The only bad thing would be that we did not have enough time to prep for a good setting location but we managed to somehow pull of the shoots we wanted in this film. One of the most creative shoots in this film would have to be the last shoot, because it is a pan of the camera from the plug outlet to the computer and the to my face. This shoot provides comedy to the film because the audience laughs at the end when they see the reaction of the character after his computer has been turned of.
3. Challenges that i had on the edit was putting all the movemets of the characters and some how making them match with thee music that i choose. To demonstrate my concept in the edit i had to take certain shoots that showed the actual concept in play. But again showing this concept was not eassy because it was hard matching the movements to the music.
Master Shoot
1. I think that in this film the concept of master shoot sequence was demonstrated very good because we clearly showed what its waw giving details and descriptions. Problems that we faced in this short film production was gettting the audio to work with the film because the llocation that we decided to film was a bad location for audio, which made it very hard not only in the edit but in the actual shooting itself. Other problems that we had was that the background noice on one lacation was so loud that we could not hear the actors speaking, which also turned out to be a problem in the edit because we had to raise and lower the audio levels on several parts.
2.I think that the actors were shoot well in the diouluge sceen because it clrealy shows our concept as the camera movement goes from over the shoulder shoots to close ups. Also the way the camera was spositioned in some sceens mmade it loook like the actor was superior to that of the other actor, which was good because thatshow we envisioned the actors to appear. Themost creative shoot would have to be the panning of the lady handing the note to the girl, because the pan was done nice an smooth. Also this shoot creates a sense of mystery because the audience is left to wonder whats in the note, the reason for this shoot beeing one of the most creative shoots in this film.
3.With this film there was alot of schallenges in the edit because first our audio levels were to luod and in some parts there was no audio at all. So to edit this film first I had to turn up the audion levels in the parts were they speak and turn it down when there is no conversation because of the bockground noice. To demonstrate my concept in the edit i had to cut from a lang shoot to a two shoot waist shoot then into a over the shulder shoot and then into a close up, by doig so I clearly demonstrated the master shoot sequence because it consited of all these shoots.
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