Final Edit - Guilt Trip

location -
 hindringham woods. we picked this location as there were no building around, it was easily accessible and there were lots of trees so it wasnt to light and had running water through it which adds to the abandoned and eerie feeling.

soundtrack-
the music we wanted was just piano with no word as we felt that if it had word it would ruin the mood of the opening. for the second part of the openind we played the first bit of music backwards to add a dream or non-reality feeling to the opening.

equipment list-
digital camera, digital SLR (nikon d3100)  and a tripod.

shooting schedule
starting shooting 7th november - all week at college we did the editing of the first part we had filmed- cutting the clips, putting them in order, editing the colour of the clips we needed to making sure the colours matched and putting some music over the top.
last day filming 14th november - we filmed the rest of the opening. we found a swing in the woods which we thought would bring a good scary theme to the opening. we came into some problems when it came to editing as we had filmed the end of the opening on two days so the light is different in the clips. we had to adjust the light leves in a few of our clips but in the end we had the clips looking natural and linking together well.

contribution-
i was the actress in the opening.  with the editing i helped cut the clips and find the right music for our opening and find a way to reverse it for the end of our opening.

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What is a British film?

The king’s speech (2010)

• British historical drama directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. The films about King George VI who has to overcome his stammer, he sees Lionel logue an unorthodox Australian speech therapist. After his brother Edward VII abdicates he has to do a speech on the radio at the beginning of World War 2. it relates to British
• The main actor Colin firth is British, Helena Bonham carter is also British. However the other main character Geoffrey Rush is Australian. So they have a mixture of nationalities to make it appeal to a wider audience.
• Tom hooper and David Seidler are both British.
• The studios involved with the making of the king’s speech are see-saw films, bedlam productions and nickelodeon movies. The film was distributed by momentum pictures which is in the UK, paramount pictures (Australia) and the Weinstein company (USA).
• The film was released on the 6^th of September 2010 for the telluride film festival and then later released on the 7^th of January 2011 in the UK. The running time for this film is 119 minutes.
• The budget to this film was £8 million. The film grossed £3,530,000 over its opening weekend in the UK playing 395 cinemas, clocking a per screen average of £8,885.
• The UK Film Council, invested £1m to the making of this film.

127 hours

• A true story drama directed by Danny Boyle and the screenplay was written by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy. The book “between a rock and a hard place” was written by Aron Ralston. The story is about A mountain climber who becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
• The main actor James Franco is American as are most of the other actors.
• Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy are both British but Aron Ralston is American.
• Genre of this film is a biographical adventure film
• The studios involved with the making of 127 hours are film4 productions and handmade films. The film is distributed by fox searchlight pictures(US), pathé (UK/France), Warner bros. (UK) and 20^th century fox (DVD).
• Release Date was the 7^th of January 2011 (UK) Filming locations for 127 Hours are ad feedbackMoab, Utah, USA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Utah, USA
• The running time of the film is 94 minuets.
• The budget for this film is $18 million the gross revenue was $ 50,818,731

Another year

• A drama directed and written by Mike Leigh the story is about A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
• The main actors are Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville they are all British.
• The genre of this film is a drama.
•  The studios involved with the making of the film are thin man films, film4 and focus features. The film was distributed by momentum pictures.
• The release date of this film in England was the 5^th of November 2010.
•   The running time of this film is 129 minuets
• The budget was $8 million and the gross revenue was $17,318,865

Four lions

• A comedy/ drama directed and written by Christopher Morris. Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point.
• The main actors Will Adamsdale and Riz Ahmed are both British.
• The genre of this film is a comedy/ drama.
• The studios involved with the film are film4, wild bunch, optimum releasing and warp films. It was distributed by optimum releasing (UK) and drafthouse films (USA).
• The release date in England was the 7^th of May 2010
• The running time is 97 minuets
• The budget was 2.5 million and the gross revenue was $4,529,130

Made in Dagenham

• The Director was Nigel Cole and the Writer was William Ivory.
•  A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
• The main actors Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Andrea Riseborough are all English.
• The genre of the film is a comedy/drama/history.
• The studios involved with the making of the film were BBC films and number 9 films. It was distributed by paramount pictures (UK) and sony pictures classics (USA)
• The release date in England was 1^st October 2010
• The running time is 113 minuets.
• The budget was £5 million and the gross revenue was $9,038,485.

What is a British film?

The king’s speech (2010)

• British historical drama directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. The films about King George VI who has to overcome his stammer, he sees Lionel logue an unorthodox Australian speech therapist. After his brother Edward VII abdicates he has to do a speech on the radio at the beginning of World War 2. it relates to British
• The main actor Colin firth is British, Helena Bonham carter is also British. However the other main character Geoffrey Rush is Australian. So they have a mixture of nationalities to make it appeal to a wider audience.
• Tom hooper and David Seidler are both British.
• The studios involved with the making of the king’s speech are see-saw films, bedlam productions and nickelodeon movies. The film was distributed by momentum pictures which is in the UK, paramount pictures (Australia) and the Weinstein company (USA).
• The film was released on the 6^th of September 2010 for the telluride film festival and then later released on the 7^th of January 2011 in the UK. The running time for this film is 119 minutes.
• The budget to this film was £8 million. The film grossed £3,530,000 over its opening weekend in the UK playing 395 cinemas, clocking a per screen average of £8,885.
• The UK Film Council, invested £1m to the making of this film.

127 hours

• A true story drama directed by Danny Boyle and the screenplay was written by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy. The book “between a rock and a hard place” was written by Aron Ralston. The story is about A mountain climber who becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
• The main actor James Franco is American as are most of the other actors.
• Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy are both British but Aron Ralston is American.
• Genre of this film is a biographical adventure film
• The studios involved with the making of 127 hours are film4 productions and handmade films. The film is distributed by fox searchlight pictures(US), pathé (UK/France), Warner bros. (UK) and 20^th century fox (DVD).
• Release Date was the 7^th of January 2011 (UK) Filming locations for 127 Hours are ad feedbackMoab, Utah, USA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Utah, USA
• The running time of the film is 94 minuets.
• The budget for this film is $18 million the gross revenue was $ 50,818,731

Another year

• A drama directed and written by Mike Leigh the story is about A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
• The main actors are Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville they are all British.
• The genre of this film is a drama.
•  The studios involved with the making of the film are thin man films, film4 and focus features. The film was distributed by momentum pictures.
• The release date of this film in England was the 5^th of November 2010.
•   The running time of this film is 129 minuets
• The budget was $8 million and the gross revenue was $17,318,865

Four lions

• A comedy/ drama directed and written by Christopher Morris. Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point.
• The main actors Will Adamsdale and Riz Ahmed are both British.
• The genre of this film is a comedy/ drama.
• The studios involved with the film are film4, wild bunch, optimum releasing and warp films. It was distributed by optimum releasing (UK) and drafthouse films (USA).
• The release date in England was the 7^th of May 2010
• The running time is 97 minuets
• The budget was 2.5 million and the gross revenue was $4,529,130

Made in Dagenham

• The Director was Nigel Cole and the Writer was William Ivory.
•  A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
• The main actors Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Andrea Riseborough are all English.
• The genre of the film is a comedy/drama/history.
• The studios involved with the making of the film were BBC films and number 9 films. It was distributed by paramount pictures (UK) and sony pictures classics (USA)
• The release date in England was 1^st October 2010
• The running time is 113 minuets.
• The budget was £5 million and the gross revenue was $9,038,485.

lighting
　
key-This is the main light. It is usually the strongest and has the most influence on the look of the scene. It is placed to one side of the subject so that this side is well lit and the other side has some shadow. this is a 3-point lighting technique. you only have one light on the main subject.

Fill- This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. It is used to fill the shadows created by the key. The fill will usually be softer and less bright than the key. you could move the light further away to achieve this. You could also set the fill light to more of a flood so that the light spreads over a wider area.

Back-The back light is placed behind the subject and lights it from the rear. Rather than providing direct lighting its purpose is to provide definition and subtle highlights around the subject's outlines. This helps separate the subject from the background and provide a three-dimensional look.

High-key-this bright and diminishes contrast. high-key lighting doesn't require adjustment for each scene which allows the production to complete the shooting in hours instead of days. The primary drawback is that high-key lighting fails to add meaning or drama.

Rim-defines the outline of your subject and can take an image from dull and flat to eye-catching and dynamic. this is like back lighting but is placed looking straight at the lens of the camera.

chiaroscuro-defines objects without a contouring line, but only by the contrast between the colours of the object and of the background. using chiaroscuro lighting characters can be defined without colours

How Has Expansion of Digital Media Been an Improvement For Audiences?
the expansion of digital media has been a big inprovement for audiences as people can now access films, tv programs and other in lots of different ways. people can now download movies straight onto there ipod which has increased sale as people can watch films on the go. one way which has grown in popularity is on demand tv this allows people to view shows of there chose when they want to watch them and you can also do this on phones and ipod now. also you can star series that you want to watch and they will come at the top of the page so that you dont have to look through the whole website just to fine the episode you are looking for this has change the amount of audience watching tv when the program is scheduled. people used to have to watch the program when it was on and couldnt watch it anyother time. being able to record the progams you want to watch and then view them when wanted on sky has lead to more audience and more people having sky.

Web 2.0
 To allow users to continue to interact with the page, communications such as data requests going to the server are separated from data coming back to the page. Otherwise, the user would have to routinely wait for the data to come back before they can do anything else on that page, just as a user has to wait for a page to complete the reload. This also increases overall performance of the site, as the sending of requests can complete quicker independent of blocking and queueing required to send data back to the client. some web 2.0 sites : YouTube, last.fm, eBuddy, flickr, blogger, reddit, skype, gamesnips, littlewiki.
Some advantages of web 2.0 are that it cost less, it is more flexibal in the possibility of choosing technologies, it has easier and faster access to information when and where it is needed, the integration of a variety of technologies in the teaching-learning activites.
Some disadvantages are then an internet connection is required, it leads to a low quality of the actual content, it gives everyone the opportunity to complain, thus creating a community without rules and it has limited security. is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing on the world wide web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. By increasing what was already possible in "web 1.0", they provide the user with more user-interface, software and storage facilities, all through their browser. This has been called "Network as platform" computing. Users can provide the data that is on a Web 2.0 site and exercise some control over that data.

Working Title Films

This is a British Company based in London. Founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983.  Radclyffe left and Eric Fellner another independent film producer joined the company. PolyGram was the company’s corporate backer. PolyGram Films was merged and sold to Universal Studios in 1999.

WT 2 is a subsidiary company and an independent film production arm run by Natasha Wharton and has produced films like Billy Elliot, Shaun of the Dead and The Calcium Kid

Working Title Television is a joint venture with NBC Universal and will be based in London and Los Angles.

NBC announce a new fashion reality series, it will partner with media studio electus to search America for the next top brand in fashion.

Random House Children’s Books and Jane Turnbull announced that Working Title Films and PeaPie Films have acquired the film rights to Trash, a novel by British author Andy Mulligan. Richard Curtis, a successful screenwriter will adapt the novel.

Trash is a contemporary thriller set in the third world which follows three boys making a living picking through rubbish mounds, until a surprise discovery sets them on an adventure against corruption and authority.

Production Note for Atonement

Adaptation

A classic British romance from Ian McEwan’s book. Atonement. This film was developed at Working Title, produced by Robert Fox, directed by Richard Eyre. The director, Richard, was busy with other projects and ‘handed over the helm’ to Joe Wright his debut 2005’s Pride and Prejudice earnt him a BAFTA Award among others. Films co-chairman Tim Belvan said “We needed a plan on making this exceptional new director’s next movie.” They brought Atonement from page to screen. He comments “In making a book into a movie, the story reveals itself to you as you make it. You question the structure and points of view.” He realised that realising the narrative would be an exciting filmmaking challenge.

Academy Award winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton had been adapting the novel – Wright explains “When I first saw the script it had departed from the novel so Christopher and I started again. The script was rewritten we stuck to the book as faithfully as possible.” The screenwriter confirms that that was the approach that worked best “We returned to the structure of the book. The novel grows in power as the story progresses.” Paul Webster rejoined Working Title and thought the book was Ian’s best. Joe Wright brought a vast visual imagination to the film and Christopher wrote a beautiful script.

Bevan recalls discussing the difficulties of bringing Atonement to the screen with having to have three actresses to play the same role  and the intertwining fates and noted  “ The film was going to be all about the detail a sense of  ‘ if only I’d have done this instead of that ‘.”

Hampton had a difficult job as it is a very interior novel and had to show what the characters are thinking using adaptations.

The number 23

On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth

A review from cinema blend gave the film 2 ½ stars out of 5

IMDb gave the film 3 stars out of 5

IGN movies gave it a 2 ½ starts out of 5

The overall rating for this film is around half was not brilliant but not rubbish it has a good story line but the end goes know where.

Mise-en-scène: The beginning of the film is just setting the scene the music is quite light and the character is talking but as a voice over this limits us as we don’t make a strong connection. The film goes back in time before strange connections kept happening zooms out from a Christmas tree this makes the view happier and does feel anxious. Most the way through the film non-diegetic sound is being use slow suspense music and his voice over. all the way through the film they put suspense type music and the mood doesn’t lighten up the voice over makes the viewer feel like they are thinking it. This make you make connections with the number 23. He goes into a dream type world where he images things around him from the book that are going to happen and always tries to stop it. Throughout the film he get more and more obsessed and goes into the book a lot more often the pace of the film speeds up a little as he gets more obsesses the music becomes more dramatic with a heavy drum beat so that the viewer feels in the story and they start making connections with the number 23 in their own life. Towards the end of the film when his family is broken the music is sadder but still has the heavy drum. Right at the end of the film when he nearly get hit by the number 23 bus the music dies down and you see the bright lights of the bus and the noise of the bus the light make you think of heaven that he has seen his light but as he just dodges out the way the music start faintly in a happier mood but not completely happy this is to make the view happy that they are coming together as a family.

Comment on the representation of Englishness in Midsomer Murders

Midsomer murders s13e03p01

Mise-en-scene- at the start of the clip they battle with to cultures as it starts with a Weston rider. This makes the audience feel like he is an outsider looking in on the village but in contrast with that he is riding a white horse which could suggest that he is a hero. He then reaches a typical English village with thatch roof cottages. The streets are deserted and only a few people notice that he is riding around the village, it then goes to a shot in the pub this is to show how everyone in the village is close and this represents English countryside as everyone knows everyone as most villages are small with a very small community. The horse back rider jumps off his horse grabs his gun and walks steadily to the house this shows that he is a calm cool person and nothing is going to get in the way off what he is going to do. He kicks down the door this makes you feel on edge as you are not sure what’s going to happen next. The music stops and you are left in suspense then after a few seconds you hear a gun shot and an oldish woman runs out screaming. Then cuts to the midsomers name and you are left hanging. Then some more riders come onto the screen but this riders look nobler and are carrying flags from around the world this shows a multi-cultural Britain. They show a helter skelter which is a traditional English fun fair ride this contrast with the Weston play going on in the background.

There is then an establishing shot of the main character. He is playing a shooting game which makes you feel like he wants to be a young boy again and in doing the scene it make you feel childish and happy. The shot it of a car diving to what looks like an ordinary house but when he walks to the door and calls for the person they are know where to be seen. This contrasts the last scene of feeling happy as it makes you anxious. Another car drives up ferociously they use a over the shoulder angle to make you feel part of the action. The other man hears the car runs back to his own car like he has done something wrong the other man pull out a gun at starts shooting at the other man in the car driving away. This has an English tone to it as the stereo type of the English farmer is meant to have a shotgun. They flick from one character to another as they drive off this put the audience into suspense.

The music for the first few scenes until you hear the lady scream is a Weston type to go along with the rider. Then you hear the midsomer murders theme tune until more horses come into shot. The rest of the shots have diegetic sound. You then get to the house scene and you hear a faint violin this is to add suspense. The two characters in the cars speak in a farmer English accent. The camera shots are quick and they pan a lot as the characters are always moving and the scenes are more action then just in depth conversations this to set the scene and to get you into the story as the beginning was a cliff-hanger.   

Narrative theorys

Vladimir Propp’s theory was formed in the early twentieth Century. He studies Russian fairytales and discovered that in stories there were always 8 types of characters evident. These are: the hero, the villain, the donor, the dispatcher, the false hero, the helper, the princess and her father. He did not state these characters were all separate people e.g. the provider could also be the helper. There are only 8 different character types and only 31 things they ever do. Once you have identified the character type (e.g., the hero) it’s easy to guess what they will do (save the maiden, defeat the villain, marry the maiden or whatever) because each character has a SPHERE OF ACTION. This is easily relatable to films and programmes today.

Tzvetan Todorov proposed a basic structure for all narratives. He stated that films and programmes begin with equilibrium, a calm period. Then agents of disruption cause disequilibrium, a period of unsettlement and disquiet. This is then followed by a renewed state of peace and harmony for the protagonists and a new equilibrium brings the chaos to an end. The simplest form of narrative (sometimes referred to as ‘Classic’ or ‘Hollywood’ narrative).

Claude Levi-Strauss looked at narrative structure in terms of binary oppositions. Binary oppositions are sets of opposite values which reveal the structure of media texts. An example would be GOOD and EVIL – we understand the concept of GOOD as being the opposite of EVIL. Levi -Strauss
was not so interested in looking at the order in which events were arranged in the plot. He looked instead for deeper arrangements of themes. For example, if we look at Science Fiction films we can identify a series of binary oppositions which are created by the narrative

Earth- Space                Good-Evil

Humans- Aliens           Past-Present

Normal-Strange           Known-Unknown

Barthes’ enigma code – The narrative will establish enigmas or mysteries as it goes along. Essentially, the narrative functions to establish and then solve these mysteries. Roland Barthes' narrative theory claims that a narrative can be broken down into five codes or sets of rules. These are:

1.       Action code which refers to the events taking place

2. Enigma code which refers to the questions raised and answered
3. Semantic code which refers to the characters and characterisation
4. Referential code which refers to the information and explanation
5. Symbolic code which refers to the connotations of signs

Reference: Wikipedia, filmreference.com

Hollyoaks - season 18 Ep. 32

Gilly and Rhys start shouting and getting aggressive as Gilly slept with Jacqui. The scene then cuts to Jacqui who is about to go into her house to find her mum asleep and goes to her for comfort.

Camera

The camera starts with over the shoulder shots to show the expression on the characters faces to see how they react to the news about to be told. The shot then goes to a mid shot to show Rhys getting up and jumping on Gilly then as the conversation progresses and the characters get angrier they shot from under rhys so that he would look more dominant and bigger as he is the character who is angry and then it switches to Gilly looking down on him so that he looks more vulnerable and a lower power as he is the one who has done wrong and should look up to and be loyal to his friend but instead he slept with his girlfriend and should be looked down on.   

In the next shot Jacqui walks into it. it is a close-up so that you can see how she is feeling .then it is close up of her bags in her hand and the door and see walks towards the door which is light so it looks like she is walking into light and gives it a zooming out effect with shot stays the same until she reaches the door then pans with a close-up shot up the arm of the sleeping mum with a mug in her hand this could symbolise that she was waiting for her daughter always whenever she is needed.

Sound

In the first scene there is diegetic sound only. There is the characters speaking and some noise from the tv  this to so you focus on what the characters are saying and so that you get the right mood of the characters. The music on the tv gets quieter as the characters get more angry so that nothing draw attention away from who the characters are feeling and what they are saying.  The second scene there is non-diegetic sound and some diegetic sound there is mood music being played to shoe that there doesn’t need to be words to see how she feels and no words can be said she is that sad. The music being played is a soft melody of a keyboard and a man singing quite high pitched this makes the mood soft sad and not happy.

Editing

the first scene has quick cuts between every shot as the pace is quick and the energy is high. In the second the cuts are slower than the first ones  as the mood is sadder so if the cuts were quicker it would ruin the mood.

Mise-en scene

The location of the first scene is in a house living room in what is usually a relaxed environment the character Gilly is wearing darker clothes then rhys so this could represent good and evil as Gilly did something bad and rhys didn’t and he is wearing white. The second scene is outside to begin with it is dark with barley any light apart from light from the house which is like the light at the end of the tunnel the has all of her bags and is also wearing dark clothing which could indicate that she is also in the wrong and needs to look for the light as she need forgiveness.  In the house is light and looks warm as the mother is wearing only a small top. This playing on the stereotypes of the house it should be warm and welcoming which the daughter Jacqui needs.

the male gaze

The male gaze

Mulvey argued that in film, women are portrayed as sexual visual pleasures for men, an technique is used where the audience is put into the role of a man, and on screen the camera lingers on the female, displaying her as visual pleasure for men. In cinema theory,, Laura Mulvey identifies the Male Gaze, in sympathy with the statement that "Woman is a symptom of man." what this means is that femininity is a social construct, and that the feminine object the object of desire, is what constitutes the male lack, and his positive identity.