Thursday, 23 February 2012
Friday, 17 February 2012
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Initial Screenplay
INT. Lumberjack Bed room
CLOSE UP CAMERA SHORT of lumberjack face, while he’s asleep
dreaming of playing music to a large audience.
CUT TO his dream
a pan shot of him playing to the audience from t he audience perspective.
CUT BACK to his
face happily dreaming.
Morning comes around and lumberjack wakes up, sits up and
gets out of bed, goes down stairs and speaks to his parents.
TRACKING SHOT
following the lumberjack leaving his home to go to town.
CUT TO:
CLOSE UP SHOT of
the parents faces in shock.
CUT TO:
EXT. Outside
TRACKING SHOT of
the lumberjack from behind making his way to town.
CLOSE UP SHOT of
his hand hold a small amount of money, slowly zooming in to the money.
TRACKING SHOT of
the lumberjack walking through the small town from the side.
CLOSE UP SHOT of
the lumberjacks face having a good idea.
CUT TO:
A PAN SHOT of the
lumberjack walking into the music shop.
INT. Music Shop
CAMERA FOCUSES ON
the lumberjack looking around the shop.
CLOSE UP of the
lumberjack was lighting up with joy.
CUT TO a trombone
shining in the light.
CUT BACK TO the
lumberjack picking up the trombone.
TRACKING SHOT of
the lumberjack with his trombone walking to the counter.
CAMERA VIEW on
the lumberjack shoulder as he approaches the counter.
CUT TO:
The lumberjack leaving the shop.
EXT. Town
PAN SHOT of the
lumberjack walking through town.
CAMERA FOCUS ON
the photo shop.
CLOSE UP SHOT of
the lumberjack’s hand pushing the photo shop door open with his right hand.
INT. Photo Shop
HIGH UP ANGLE SHOT
of the shop from a C.C.T.V point of view, panning as the lumberjack makes his
way to the photo booth.
CUT TO:
SHOP KEEPER CAMERA VIEW
of the lumberjack trying to fit into the booth, but struggling to get in.......
CUT TO:
A MID CAMERA SHOT
of the lumberjack trying to get in the booth and the CAMERA starts to
SHAKE
slightly.
CLOSE UP SHOOT of
the lumberjack finally squeezing in the booth.
CUT TO:
CLOSE UP FOCUS SHOT
Inside the booth of the lumberjack face being in the centre of the shoot,
putting down his trombone, and paying for his photo’s to be taken.
CAMERA FOCUSES ON
the lumberjack still, but he decides he wants his trombone in the photo so
bends and a flash goes off, the lumberjack pulls a face but gets ready for the next
shot. He gets ready for the next shot, a few seconds pass and his seat falls
and the photo is taken. Pulls a face and gets ready for the final photo, a few
seconds passes and nothing happens, so the lumberjack leans forward to have a
look with a confused expression his face and the photo is taken. Pulls a face
again but decides the last one is good enough.
CUT TO:
CAMERA FOCUSES ON
the booth and the lumberjack squeezing out of, CAMERA SHAKES ABIT, collects his photos.
TRACKING SHOT of
the lumberjack leaving the shop.
Review Of Psycho
Figure One - Psycho DVD Cover
Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/horror film directed by
Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. The screenplay
by Joseph Stefano is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.
The novel was loosely inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer and grave
robber Ed Gein, who lived just 40 miles from Bloch.
·
Release:
1960
·
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
·
Screenplay
by: Joseph Stefano
·
Produced
by: Alfred Hitchcock
·
Genre/subgenre:
Thriller, Mystery, Horror
·
Duration:
109 mins
Psycho starts off with an unsteady high camera pan onto a
building where Marian Crane and her lover in a room, the audience finds out,
she wants to marry him but due to his ex wife he is indebted, that day Marian
is asked to put $40,000 into the bank, but she isn’t feeling too well and ask
to go home after would but she fleas with the $40,000. Then on her way to her
lover she has to stop at a motel due to the heavy rain and this is when she
meets Norman Bates who seems like a lonely but a nice guy, at this point you
still think both these characters are in it till the end like most films today
but Hitchcock never had that in mind.
“And here again Hitchcock's care with the scenes and dialog persuades
us that Norman and Marion will be players for the rest of the film.” (Ebert
2000)
Figure Two - Norman and a stuffed animal.
but Once you find out Norman stuffs animals for a hobby is when you start questioning what the loneliness has done to him being stuck out there with is ill mother.
The change in atmosphere in Psycho is superb, one minute you
think you’re watching a romance catch me if you can type of film to a horror
slasher where one of the main characters is brutally murdered which was a great
shock half way through the film.
Emotion changing within Psycho is interesting, one minute you’re
caring for Marian even though she’s the bad guy, then you feel sorry for the
motel owner due to his situation then finding out he’s a psychopath, you then
care for the Sam and Marian sister who is worried sick for her sister.
Hitchcock deliberately manipulates the viewers’ sympathies. There are
numerous red herrings: the initial tryst, the stolen money, the traffic cop.
But, after the first half-hour, the heroine is butchered in the infamous shower
scene, one of cinema’s most memorable moments. Audience identification then
shifts towards pathetic, bird-like Norman (a remarkable, brilliant performance
from Perkins) as he tries to clean up “mother’s handiwork”. (Total film 1998)
The editing within the film is flawless, especially the
famous shower scene, too much to watch when it was released, throughout the whole scene you never see the knife touch her skin and
the blood is kept to a minimum, yet it caused a lot of disturbances all them
years ago but now days it’s just a mild famous scene but helps the shower scene
stand out due to violin being played so well, but overall music stands out the
most in Psycho, adding great tension to the scenes, building up the suspense especially
the scene near the end when Marian sister is in the basement and is slow approaching
Normans mum corps. throughout the film, close up shots of the actors faces is strong in Psycho and is done well creating great tension along side the music.
“The famous shower scene never shows the knife touching flesh, but it's
still terrifying.” (Wenk 2011)
Illustrations
Bibliography
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Unit 4 - Plot Idea 2
A lumberjack, who has always been in the family trade, wakes
up one day and decides he doesn’t want to be a lumberjack anymore and wants to
follow his dreams and play a musical instrument. So he tells his parents he
doesn’t want to chop wood anymore and wants to move to the city and play music
to people and with that he leaves with small amount of money.
So hes left his home, of in search for a musical instrument
and come across music shop and goes in. With a little amount of money his
choice is limited so he starts trying the musical instruments, but a lack of
practice finds most of them hard or too expensive and then stumbles across a
musical instrument, gives it a go and finds his good with it and walks out
happy with a trombone.
Then realises that he needs a passport to get the big city
to play with his new instrument to people, so he heads to photo shop and enters
it, walks to the photo booth and tries to get into the booth but has a lot of
struggle due to his size and the size of the booths door but manages to get in
with a squeeze and sits down and puts
his trombone next him and pays, getting ready for his photo to be taken he
decides he wants his trombone to be in the photo so he bends down and as he’s
picking it up the first photo is taken. He
pulls a face in annoyances, but gets ready for the second shot, while posing
with his trombone the sit falls and his top half of his head is only in the
picture, he pulls a bigger face of annoyances but prepares for the last shot already,
a few seconds past and the photo still hasn’t been taken and he moves towards
the screen giving it a funny look and it takes the final image.
He decides that the last image is good enough and squeezes
out of the booth and collects his photos and leaves the shop.
Lumberjack - Influences
Influence on my Lumberjack character:
Zohan, Hugh Jackman, Hercules, Gaston, Flynn Rider and a lumberjack.
Monday, 6 February 2012
unit 4 - Plot Idea - 1
A middle age lumberjack, who has always been in the family
trade, wakes up one day and decides he doesn’t want to be a lumberjack anymore
and wants to play a musical instrument. So he tells his parents he doesn’t want
to be a lumberjack and he wants to move to the city and play music to people
and with that he leaves with his axe which he’s had since a little boy and a
small amount of money.
He goes to the city to find the music instrument he wants to
play and ends up at a music shop, now not bringing much money with him because he’s
not all that bright, his choice of instruments is limited and ends up with an
old trombone. So once he leaves the shop he wants to show his family his new instrument
but doesn’t have the time or money to go back to his village so he decides to
get a photo with his new instrument so he goes to a photo booth and gets a
photo of him with his trombone.
Due to him being so excited as the photos of him are being
printed he leaves his trombone in the photo booth to go and look at the photos,
and after looking at the images, he realises he has left his new trombone in
the photo booth so he goes back to it but the booth door has shut and won’t
open and he loses his temper and grabs his axe from his back and starts hitting
it with the axe but with no luck of getting into the booth.
As time passes by and he’s sitting next to the door of the
photo booth wondering what to do and after being there for awhile he falls
asleep and as he asleep a stranger puts money into the photo booth and enters
it and walks out and collects her photos and as he comes around the door to the
photo booth shuts. He asks the stranger how did she get the door to open and
she replies by putting money into the slots to open the door, with amazement he
runs up to the booth door and starts looking for money in his jacket and jeans
and realizes he doesn't have any money left as spent it all on the photos and
the trombone and goes crazy hitting the photo booth and falls to his knees and
starts to cry, the stranger walks up to him and gives him some money to pay for
the door to open. He goes in and grabs his trombone and thanks the stranger by
giving her his old axe and walks away holding the trombone close to his heart.
Review of Rope
Figure one - Poster
Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope
(1929) by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn (treatment) and Arthur
Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and
Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring
James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, it is the first of Hitchcock's
Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being
edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long
takes.
Directed by - Alfred Hitchcock
Produced by - Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein
Written by - Patrick Hamilton (play Rope (1929)
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Suspense
Duration – 1hr 17 mins
Rope gets going straight away from the start, with the
opening scene of Brandon and Phillip killing of David and then putting him into
a chest in the centre of the room. Instantly after that the audience can see
Brandon can handle it with ease and being excited about it but for Phillip
who’s having trouble dealing with what they have just done. Which makes one
thing there’s going to be trouble keeping it a secret because you got Brandon
who seems he wants to tell the world about it and be proud and Phillip who is
scared and worried there going to caught.
Then to make things worse their having party at the flat
where they’ve hide the body, and to make things even worse David’s parents and
friends are coming. Once the audience find out that there’s going to be a party
where David is hidden, it creates great suspense as knowing someone got to open
up the chest for something. Then Brandon decides to put all the food and
cutlery on the chest instead of the dining table which makes everyone think
he’s either crazy or smart.
Figure two - The set
The films was an experiment for Hitchcock, abandoning most
standard film techniques which allowed for the long unbroken scenes, it is said
there isn’t any editing within the film but one can see there is a few moments
such as when the camera angle zooms into a back of a character to make it less
obvious but this was done twice within the film which made it stand out to me
personally, as Mr. Phillip Jr agrees.
“The supposedly invisible editing is more of a distraction than being
really innovative.” (Phillip Jr.
2002)
Due to Hitchcock experimenting with “Rope” the film felt
very stagy at moments such as when Brandon, Phillip and Rupert are talking, so
that Phillip is in the shot he walks right up to the other two just to fit into
the scene.
“Experimental Hitchcock murder mystery, very stagey” (Crum, 2004)
Figure Three - The Maid and Chest
The scene where the maid is cleaning the buffet away from
the chest and the camera is set on the chest watching her, while the characters
are off to the side talking about where David could be. The long angled shot of
the maid walking from the kitchen all the way back to the chest, then slowly
clears the table cloth to open the chest, This is probably one of the best scenes
in the film as its feeding the audience slow build up of suspense then just as
she’s opening it she is stopped by Brandon which makes Rupert even more curious
about where David is.
Then once all the guests leave and one assumes they get away
with it as they’re about to leave to bury the body and just as they’re waiting
for their car and Rupert rings up asking if he could come up because he’s left
his cigarettes behind, which brings back the suspense due to the audience
knowing about Rupert knowing about them killing David which causes greater
thrills when he comes up to get his cigarettes case which he didn’t leave, it was just an excuse
to come back and confront them about it.
Then as Rupert is describing how he would have planned on
killing David, the camera goes around the room and looking at each object as he
would say to Phillip and Brandon, which made it feel like one was a detective
looking at crime scene for any evidence.
“manipulative editing and control of the
audiences viewpoint.” (Brown, 2000)
Overall after seeing the murder and finding out they’re
going to have a party with David in the chest, which makes everyone think that some think is just going to
open it up and find him but once Rupert and his expertises is coming the
suspense becomes greater knowing someone like Rupert might pick up on the
situation, which he does.
Bibliography
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Unit 4 - First influence Map
Monday, 30 January 2012
And Unit 4 Begins
Character - LumberJack
Well this is going to be interesting. :)
Prop - Trombone
Environment - Photo Booth
Well this is going to be interesting. :)
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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