English - Film Aspects

WALT: Analyse how film aspects show learning.
Success criteria: I can explain why and how tone is used to show meaning in a film.

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How does tone work in film?
Through brightness in scenes to create a certain mood/ feel of a situation.

What else can we call tone in a film?
Brightness.

What are the 3 main components in a film?
Tonal range (light/dark), Storyboard (lighting and art direction requirements), exposure.

How and why does Coppola use tone in the classic film 'The Godfather'?
to show the difference between lives and situations like when its dark when he's mafia-like and bright when its the wedding.

How can directors control the feelings of the scenes?
Through tone as well as props set dressing and wardrobe.

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What are the ways directors can contrast in a film?
Things can be contrasted in a film through tone and production design, Blocking, Directing the camera and colour.

What is contrasted in Spike Jonze's ad? The dark desaturated world barely any colour, low lighting, all clothes, subways and streets are dark coloured to dark jacket taken off and white shirt is shown face is shown clearly through lighting lots of colour in the background and blocking to show how someone constricted breaks free the colours cause this ad to be eye-catching intelligent and emotional.

Why did Spike Jonze contrast these things? to show happiness and how interesting and emotional colours and blocking as welling as lighting can be to set a mood and grab more attention.

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What is production design?
The overall look of the set to create a specific mood to reveal character or communicate themes throughout the story.

What makes up production design?
Colours and contrast, Wardrobe choices and Empty or full frames.

What are the 3 main things production design can help reveal? Mood, Character and themes.

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What are 3 ways directors can use blocking in a film?
Spaces, shapes and lines.

what are 3 basic shapes for blocking in a film?
Circles, triangles and squares.

What are moods associated with these shapes?
Circles feel safer and inclusive, Squares create limited spacing boxing someone in, triangles are sharp and they feel more aggressive but they also have an apex.

What 2 things can blocking help with?
Contrasting and communicating subtext.

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What is the purpose of the whip pan and the slow pan?
Whip pan creates an effect as if you're looking at something and the slow pan makes it so you can take in the background and scenery.

What is the purpose of the tilt shot?
It redirects our attention.

What does the reverse dolly zoom help show?
To show the character having an intense internal experience.

What's the difference between a Steadicam shot and a dolly shot?
the Steadicam shot is when a person is fitted with a stabilized camera and the dolly shot is when the camera is on tracks.

What can the handheld shot help create for the viewer?
It has a shakey feeling which creates anxiety sort of effect.

What should directors ask themselves with their camera movement?
How to combine different camera movements and techniques together in a unique way.

What should camera movement be doing?
redirecting focus or attention to something important.
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How does colour in film affect people?
they elicit emotions (brings them out)

What are the 3 factors in determining colour?
saturation, brightness and hue.

Why is the hue in the matrix mostly green?
Because the movie is associated with the digital matrix and you put code with the colour green.

Why do some films desaturate?
To give certain movies cold, raw, gritty kind of look or takes us back in time.

What can more/ less brightness show in a film?
To create contrast within a film.
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What is an insert shot?
It focuses on specific detail within a scene.

What is the purpose of an insert shot?
to communicate crucial narrative information.

What are the 3 main aspects of the insert shot?
Composition, colour and timing.

What 3 things help an audience feel about an insert shot?
Shot size, shot angle and camera movement.

Composition of the insert shot helps with what in film?
to represent the state of the plot.

Colour of the insert shot helps with what in a film?
complimentary colours help with contrasting scenes.

How long you dwell on the insert shot helps with what?
To give different senses of urgency or how dramatic a scene can be.

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What is a motif?
Recurring elements that have symbolic significance in a story life.

Why are they important?
Because they ensure the story is able to operate on more than one level.

What makes a great work of art?
When you can get different meanings and thoughts from the same film after multiple viewings.
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What does the Dutch angle do?
It enhances an unsettling moment in the script and helps signal something is wrong.

What is a Dutch angle?
It is a shot which is when the camera is tilted on an angle on the cameras x-axis.

Who created the Dutch angle and when?
German expressionists in the 1900's

What 3 things do directors need to consider for the Dutch angle?
Identify the moment, consider the moment and enhance the moment.

What 4 things can enhance a Dutch angle?
Amount (degree) of tilt, Camera height, Lens choice and depth of field.
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What is the effect of an over the shoulder shot?
To show the connection between characters without any dialogue.

What film aspects show a disconnection between characters?
Single shot (showing just one person).

How does the director of this scene show the disconnect of the characters?
By not including both characters and only having one character visible.

What eventually totally isolates the female character?
The single close up framing of Theresa compared to the connection between the waiter and Ford
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What is a POV shot?
where you can see through the characters eyes or their perspective.

What is a point of thought shot?
Where characters stare and wonder throughout a scene like they're looking off to something to make us have an emotional connection with the character/scene.

Why are they important?
They help express the emotions of the characters and feels throughout the scene
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What is an establishing shot? 
It establishes a scene.

Why is it used?
They establish a new location, tone and helps with transitioning to a new scene and build a relationship.

Why are establishing shots usually the most expensive?
Because you see everything they do in the scene and what they put into it as well.
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13
What is film theory?
Film theory is a set of academic approaches in film that consists of 8 main components such as; Types of film, shots, angles, lighting, colour, sound, editing and mise-en-scene. And how it all relates to reality, other arts, audiences and societies at large. 

English - Creative Writing

The gym. Closed for the day, soon to be opened. Training gear, organized and stacked nicely from the previous class. The floor padding, clean and sweat-free after being clean just hours before. From within the everlasting silence of the closed gym, the sound of the water droplets from the tap drumming against the steel sink, the echoing tick of a clock striking second by second, the roar of the nearby cars outside driving by and the hum of chatter from the sidewalk. The eye-watering smell of bleach, the subtle hint of Dettol throughout the gym mats and walls, the sour smell of old sweat and the faint smell of leftover protein. People are about to enter the gym and begin their night of training they're all in a rush to get to the gym in time so they can have the chance to stretch and warm-up before the session starts. Some are worried, some are not as worried.

The gym has now opened and there is a light hum on chatter, people greeting each other and choosing who to train with for the session, water running as people fill their drink bottles to guzzle throughout the night, the grunts as people stretch, the sounds of people pounding and bashing the boxing bags as if they're their opponents. But the loudest thing in the gym is the retch-worthy smell of feet throughout the gym. There is a contagious amped or enthusiastic sort of feeling being passed around the members of the gym.

Training time. People bashing pads and draining all their energy trying to get the sequence correct and to avoid punches and throw counter punches whilst still getting footwork and technique correct. The floor pads drenched with sweat from the exhausted members.  The hiss of people exhaling while hitting the pads, the pants of exhaustion within breaks of sequences, people shouting as they encourage other members to push themselves further and to continue even though they're tired and exhausted, the sound of water gushing and people quickly refill their bottles to quench their thirst and to rehydrate themselves. Training is over and all that is left over is the deadly whiff of sweat.
                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                           
Write out 3 sentences where you've used at least 3 of the 5 senses

Senses

1.)  Sight:  People bashing pads and draining all their energy trying to get the sequence correct and to avoid punches and throw counter punches whilst still getting footwork and technique correct.

2.)  Sound:  From within the everlasting silence of the closed gym, the sound of the water droplets from the tap drumming against the steel sink, the echoing tick of a clock striking second by second, the roar of the nearby cars outside driving by and the hum of chatter from the sidewalk

3.)  Smell:  But the loudest thing in the gym is the retch-worthy smell of feet throughout the gym.

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I replaced detol for Dettol to correct it.

I replaced the word smelly and bad stinking feet for the retch-worthy smell of feet to make it seem more disgusting and to make the smell seem more intense as retch is to vomit.

I had also replaced the word running for gushing to make it seem like its more fast-paced and intense whereas running could be at any speed but gushing it harsh and fast