Meeting

Yesterday we met up at Laura's house for a few hours to talk about our opening scene and talked about the plot and we sorted out a storyboard.

This is our firstdraft of our storyboard for our opening sequence.

Goodfella's-Opening

Even though this clip is 10 minutes long, I am only want to look at the first 3 minutues of it.
In the opening scene the main lighting is dark and they have done this by putting a defuser over the light to produce a darker shade. They have done this to give sense of badness and something bad is going on. The darker shade gives sinsister impressions to the viewers.
When showing the credits, it shows that it will start off on a moterway because the credits come onto the screen like a car moving and they have added car effects to make it look like the titles are cars.
The camera angles in this clip include:
Establishing shot, this is used to show people where the scene is set.
Close up, this is used to give the sense of the persons facial features to show how they are feeling.
Extreme close up
Medium shot

If the camera is close up to the actor and there is darkness around the characters this gives a sense of evil and tension within the scene.

Sin City opening title sequence

This is the opening title sequence to Sin City.
Lighting
The lighting in this opening tiltle sequence is animated lighting, this means that there is lighting in this but it has been drawn in. (this also applies to most animations).
The colours used in this opening sequence include black, white and red. This resebles plain and simple, the black and white draws attention to the red. The red in this may represent evil, this is because something bad is going to happen in the film.

Opening scenes part 1 intro and Sin City

In the next few blogs i upload, i will show the opening to some of the American Ganster films i listed in one of the blogs i posted earlier.


This is the opening to Sin City.

There are different camera angles and techniques used.
Different camera angles/techniques include:
Establishing shot, this is to show where the scene is set. In this case it is set in a city lots of things are going on and it is a relly busy atmosphere.
Long shot this shows where the character(s) are in the scene, this shows what they are doing, where they are going etc. This may show what sort of person the characters are. Evil, good etc.
Medium/Long shot. This is to show what the character(s) look like from the whole body, how they walk talk, etc.
Medium shot, this is mainly used for dialogue,
Close up is used to show expressions which is being
Medium close up
Shot Reverse Shot
180 degree rule

Lighting
There is not much light to this scene.
It is mainly dark. A key light is used with a defuser to dim the light on the characters faces.

This also has low key lighting to create a mysterious atmosphere which keeps the viewers attension. The red draws attention to certain areas because it stands out from the black and white.

Film Ideas

Seeing as we are going to focus on American Ganster theme for our main idea me and the other guys decided to look up some different American Ganster films to get some ideas that we can use.
Some american ganster films include:
Casino
Sin city
American Ganster
Scarface
Goodfellas
The untouchables
The god father
The road to perdition.

Lighting

Today we learned about lighting and different ways lighting can be used.

Key light - main/ most important light
Back light-

Main idea feedback

Today we presented our ideas to the rest of our class.
Everyone seemed to have liked our ideas and thought that they were good. They liked/preffered our main idea. They gave us some ideas that we listened to and thought about them to help us with our main idea.