Plot Outline

Planning

Film Noir

Film Noir  

·      a type of crime film featuring cynical malevolent characters in a sleazy setting and an ominous atmosphere that is conveyed by shadowy photography and foreboding background music

·      A movie characterized by low-key lighting, a bleak urban setting, and corrupt, cynical characters

·      a motion picture genre marked by grim urban settings, cynical, bleakly pessimistic characters, and starkly shadowed photography

·      Film genre that offers dark or fatalistic interpretations of reality. The term is applied to U.S. films of the late 1940s and early '50s that often portrayed a seamy or criminal underworld and cynical characters. The films were noted for their use of stark, expressionistic lighting and stylized camera work, often employed in urban settings

Home work mise-en-scene

In the scene of the movie the director has used the elements of mise-en-scene to show the audience the effect of the genre horror. The props and costumes where one of the main points that stood out to contribute to the genre, axe,blood,dead body parts and knife are only some of the main aspects to putting this scene together. The blood was very useful to put in as the audience really started to realise it was a horror, and that was only from using one of the many props they used. The directors choosing of the setting was very good and fit the movie perfectly, dark isolated woods, when you think of it you think of a horror movie. The characters put a lot of effort to try and make there acting in the woods fit perfectly so the audience could understand that it was a horror movie. The lighting was another main part that helped us show the genre as the director chose dark lights and shadows to leave suspense. Overall the movie has shown us using mise-en-scene that it is in Netherlands genre horror

fantasy

 a girl is searching for the door to help her get out of this new land she has just found when she opens the bathroom door and she finds a new world that she has to get out of and he only way out is a door that she has to find.

Film Language Pop Quiz

Film Language Pop Quiz
1) the 4 elements of Mise-En-Scene props, acting, setting and the lighting in the film

2) a continues piece of unedited footage 

3) edit is when it cuts to a next scene or fades

4) lighting could be used to create mood for example- if the film was sad they would use dark lighting for a sad display and for happy they lighting would be bright.

5) a light directly at the back of the item or persons

6) the border of screen and controlling what the viewer sees

7) thirds is when it is cut into 3 parts and it is important so it leads you to the focus point

8) they are overexpose for the purpose of scene or to show something that is important and that it is bright and happy

9) by underexposing it can show that it is dark for an emotion (sad,gloomy,misty)

10)
LOW- to show the character is powerful
HIGH- to show the character in intimated by something bigger and more powerful

11) canted means to have the camera on the side

Editing Decision Activity

"people caught in the crossfire between police and the bank robbers"
1) editing speed /slow/fast- slow
2) justification- i would use slow editing because i would like to make the character that is being effected feel confused and slow, and he/her would not no what was going on and his brain would go blank. the man/girl would zoom up to his face and look very confused and dizzy

"An innocent character is stalked by werewolf" 
 1) editing speed /slow/fast- fast
2) justification- it would be fast as the character would realise that hi/her is being stalked and she starts running and the speed of the film would be fast

" the character confesses the horrific crime to someone" 
  1) editing speed /slow/fast- slow
2) justification- the film would be slow because he is feeling guilty for the crime the he committed and will zoom up on his guilty face

"two teams compete in the fanils of a street dance competition" 
 1) editing speed /slow/fast- loud and fast
2) justification- the dance will be lid and fast because the characters will be break dancing and it will show the intensity of the competition

"a high car chase ends in tradgity"