HANNA ANALYSIS

Hanna:

This scene is from the film Hanna. It contains a lot of violence, action, drama and excitement for the audience to watch. Instantly, we can see the film is to do with some sort of prison as she is wearing an orange jump suit, which symbolises the prison uniform. During the opening part where Hanna begins to try and escape from this prison, we see many close ups of her face. This is used; so that we can see the detail of the blood from her victims she has kills. This demonstrates she is a flawed anti-hero. This means she’s not your typical hero who is perfect, she is killing people in a brutal manner in which, she can escape. This shows ruthlessness and how strong and violent she is as person. Furthermore, we see a close up of the gun. This highlights that this item demonstrates this scene is violent and dangerous. We then see a wide shot, which shows us the massacre she has created in killing all these security guards. The non-diegetic sound of the music is in time with her heart beat so it pumping fast and is used to entice the audience which gives enhances the term ‘action’ film. The camera is behind her so it’s following her. This shows that she is in control and that we are following her and she is protecting us. While running many shots are used to give many perspectives of Hanna herself. The first shot is a low shot looking from the feet up which shows us her authority. Finally a close up shot of her face, which presents the fear, she shows in being caught and her determination to escape. At the end of the scene, we hear the synchronous electric sound and we see a close of Hanna swirling round very fast is a connection to how crazy and mentally disturbed she is as a child. Finally when she opens the hatch to escape the bright shining of light represents the light at the end of the tunnel and her pathway to freedom. 

Harry Potter Sweding

Considering they used no money, they had to bring in and make props out of items they had. This was filmed quite well and took good scenes out of the film. They could've made it better if they used a proper camera however they used an iPhone 6 to film this so there could be some improvements. Also, the camera moves around a bit so it would've been better if it stood still.

ZODIAC OPENING 5 MINUTES

Pursuit Of Happiness Sweding

Pursuit Of Happiness Sweding: 


We chose the film 'Pursuit of Happiness' for different reasons. To begin with, as a group we discussed many films and we concluded that most of us were all comfortable with the film. Another reason was that we loved the brilliant overview determination message it send to the viewers throughout the film. Finally we knew the film it very well and some of our group knew most of the words before looking into the script so we decided to do 'Pursuit of Happiness'. The  three different scenes we chose to film was based on our favourite scenes, what we thought were the most powerful, inspirational scenes in the film and the scenes that portrayed the clear overall message of the film. It was very easy to find actors for this film as we used all the people in our group to play different part and actors in the film, which in the end worked out well and was organised. It was also easy to learn the script as most of us knew the words of the scene before, therefore we only needed to have a quick look over the scene and look up the script for one scene. While filming there were things we did well. For example, we worked very well as a good and the chemistry was good which I think reflected in our acting. On the other hand, there are a few parts in the sweding which the filming isn't very good. Actors heads are been half cut when we should be able to see there face. I take this as a lack of experience in filming but it's only a mistake that we will now learn from for next time which in the long run will be a positive. Also, during the editing I think the music is great and fits perfectly with the film.


 

Camera Shots

Camera Shots

There are 5 main components when looking at a camera these include:

1) Angle

2) Movement

3) Position

4) Composition

5) Depth of field

Establishing Shot: Sets up or establishes the setting of a scene. It is typically at the beginning of a scene.

Close up Shot: Tightly frames a person or object to show detail or emotion

Medium Shot:  Shot from waist of knees up from a medium distance. This shows more body language and less specific detail.

Long Shot: Shows the surrounding, typically filed filmed from a distance.

Tracking Shot: Follow the action at a certain distance. It keeps the subject on screen.

Bird’s Eye View Shot:  It looks down on an image from a high point.

Dolly Shot: The camera is placed on a dolly and moves at a constant rate. It does not always follow the action.

Handheld Shot:  Filmed from the camera man’s point of view. It is a little shaky in order to show the scene from the subject’s perspective and feeling.

Zoom Shot: Either zooms in to isolate the subject or zooms out to show it in a wider context.

Point of view shot: Seen from a characters perspective.

Swish Pan: Moves swiftly from one subject to the other.

High Angle Shot: The camera is located above the subjects and films down. It it is used to show which character has less power and authority.

Low Angle Shot:  Filmed from knees up. It can also show the power of a character in a conversation or dialogue.

Editing Techniques

Editing:

Editing in film is a process of cutting and assembling film footage to produce a finished product.

The role of the film editor includes organising transitions between shots making decisions about shot duration and maintaining continuity.

Shot Duration: It is the duration of shot will usually reflect the narrative context.

Pace: This reveals information about characters

Transition: The process of cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut.                               

Dissolve Shot: The proceedings shot merges into the following shot, resulting on two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.

Eye Line Match: A common convention to maintain continuity, a character looks at something and in the next shot reverse shot we see what they are looking at.

Match On Action: A similar technique where two shots are linked by an action.

Shot Reverse Shot:  Where the camera cuts one subject to another back and forth to follow the flow of a dialogue or interaction.

Montage Sequences: Consists of a series of shots that are edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole.

Kuleshov Effect: The way film editing evokes emotions from a viewer. It is the way in which images are cut together that can induce a feeling from the audience.

Prelim Task

Prelim Task 

During our prelim task we filmed in an open area outside the lunch hall which the lockers are located. I think the filming went as well were all excited and determined to do well as a group in our first filming lesson. The role I played in the filming was filming the high and low angle shots of the scene as well as reading out the camera shots to my other group member when they were filming to make the process quicker and flow better.

The lighting in the open area was very light. The bright lighting did not emphasise the pessimistic feeling and the power difference between the two characters, as it was just a bright sight during the whole filming. However, we could see the pressure and tension created on the characters face while trying to open the locker due to the bright lighting.

Before filming, my group and I were quick to set up the camera however we struggled when it came to adjusting the angle of the tripod to film the different shots. We took plenty of shots from all different angles so there was a lot to work with when it came to editing plus from a directors point of view, it would mean that if anything deleted there is a backup. We also made notes on how to set up the camera and all the settings to make it easier for next time.  We used high/low angle shots to show authority and who had the most power and who was inferior. From this it was able to identify who the bad/good character was which. We were given a storyboard which we filmed using a range of different shot such as wide shot, over the shoulder shot, close up shots of actors, high/low angle shots and a close shot of the door opening. This meant that when we edited the clip we had a variety of different shots.

In the scene in order to keep the continuity and made sure we used technical terminology such as ‘action’ and ‘standby’ to make sure everyone was ready before we filmed. From filming this I have learnt a wide range of shots and what they symbolise to the audience. I have also learnt how to set up a camera and adjusting the certain parts to the camera to make different camera shots such as high/low angle.

This is scene 1.

This is scene 2.