What is editing?
Post production:
Hope clips can be joined together.
How cuts are used?
How long ar shots on the screen for?
How are shots ordered? Whose perspective?
Editing work on narrative?

Transitions:
Straight cuts-keeps continuity and face on the file.

Dissolve:
Gradual transition from one shot to another.

Fade to black to white:
Creates sense of free passing.
Flashbacks.

Fade in/out:
Progression of time.
Montage effect.
At the beginning/end of sequence.

Cross-cutting:
Cut between two sequences.
Contrasts between two strong lines.

Wipe:
Line moves accross the scene showing transition, e.g. change of the time or location.

Jump cut:
A big change to a scene but other parts remain the same.
Something that can't be done in real life.

Visual effects:
Make it appear old or CCTV footage.

Diegetic sound:
Heard on record onthe film e.g. sound of birds.

Camera Movement
Low angle shot- Can make something or someone look big and powerful or make them feel small and vulnerable.
High angle shot- Helplessness or weak.
Pan-Camera moves, following subject.
Tracking shot-Following subject.
Tracking shot-Following shot.
Tilt-to appreciate the character. To show height and size etc.
Canted angle/Dutch angle shot- Not straught towards the audience.
Zoom in/out-To focus on key detail.
Stedicam/Handheld-Moves around with the camera.
Crane shot
Ariel shot

Camera Shots.
Extreme long shot- isn't always visable. Its purpose is to show surroundings and to show the audience where action is taking place.
Long shot- takes up a full frame. Its used to show something where it should be.
Mid shot- waist upwards if it were a person. It is the most used camera shot. If it were an object it would just show most of it.
Medium close up-half way between a mid-shot and a close up.
Close up- showing detail helps to exhadurate emotion.
Extreme close up- extreme detail. Not used too often.
Two shot- Establishing relations between two people.
Over shoulder- shows from behind someone.
Noddy shot- listening and reacting to the scene.
Point of view shot.

Narrative
Problems.
Search for truth.
They solve the problem.
They're cliff hangers.

Mise-en-scene
Lighting
Props
Costume
Location
Urban

Theme
Crime
Love
Action
Religious
Psychological

Composition and Framing
Where things are ahead or arranged in a shot

Rule of thirds
When composing a shot imagine a grid over the top of it.
Points of interest occur along tat line.

Golden Mean
When composing a shot imagine and diagonal lines over the top of it.
Points of interest occur along that line.

Framing
Framing means what you choose to include in the shot and what you leave out.
what you would leave out can be important. A thriller shot might exclude objects to create tension.
Look how much space is given around a subject.

Film Noir
Stared in the 1950's.
Dark films.
Thrillers.
First thrillers to come in the cinema.

Mise-en-scene
Characters
Props
Makeup
Costume
Lighting
Settings

Main themes: sexual politics, deception crime, the past catching up with you.

Noir stations
There are five stations.
Expressionism.
Femme Fatale
Post WW2
Hero
The City

 The Bourne Identity is a thriller film based on the main character Jason Bourne who is saved by fishermen, he awakes with no recognition of who he is or where he has come from. He returns to land with the intension to find out.

 

 

How does ‘The Bourne Identity’ use the conventions of a thriller film?

Main features:

 Menace: scary music, the introduction: the film starts with the swaying of the boat at in the darkness. You are disorientated, you don’t know where you are. The fisherman saves home and find bullet holes in his back.

The sense of menace and unknown threat continues and develops into a scenario of the main character Jason Bourne being watched over by a high tech, spying agency that clearly have power and intend to hunt him down.

High level of tension and suspense: the main character Jason Bourne has clearly no recognition of who he is or where he’s come from. He attacks the man, who has clearly helped him –he  had removed his bullet, out of fright. The tension continues to build up as Jason Bourne begins to find out his identity. This is shown when he collects his high security box, and tugs at the red security curtain to hide his actions, when it is completely unnecessary, in the anonymous and exclusive bank vault.

Narrative: the story is told from Jason Bourne’s perspective and you know as much as he does, you discover his identity with him and you are just as surprised as he is when you discover people are after him. Confusion is added when Jason discovers he has multiple passports with different identity and as Jason Bourne has amnesia, you are put into the characters situation with the confusion he is faced with.

Clues: When Jason Bourne is faced in life threatening situations, the audience in shocked with his ability and skill to defend himself and Jason begins to realise that he is a dangerous man because of his strength, stamina and his violent capability.

Happy endings: The scary music dies down and is more calming. The scenery is like a holiday an there is flowers are in the background. The music is upbeat. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hero: Jason Bourne is disempowered by the power of the men back at security when they begin to overwhelm him with the amount of people after him. He has become innocent because he has no memory of who he is, which makes him innocent. What we see is a kind man with morals and with n intension to harm anybody and to protect the girl that is involved with him. The audience feels sympathy towards him because of peoples intension to kill him. You can tell he is an innocent character when he is faced with children, his moral integrity to watch over the children and to protect them show he’s a good person.

The Antagonist: We see everything through Jason Bourne’s perspective, we don’t see any reason for the people to want to harm him, they hold all his personal records and identity and get him into difficult situations. We feel that we dislike them as we see it they are hunting down innocent people. They are the active pursuers to kill Jason Bourne. They are clearly corrupt as they also lie to each other and are more concerned about saving their own backs.

Conventional Characters: There are multiple assassins who aren’t even given names, they do not even have a line in the story they are given in instruction by technology and given strict orders, and have weapons caged up with threatening weapons. The music for these scenes are fast and load which as to the tension and questioning of what they’re going to do. the camera angles get closer to their faces and the quick movement of the camera builds up the tension.

Themes: identity, loneliness, love, danger, protection.

Key Elements: cliff hangers, plot twists, red herrings, terror, adrenaline rush, anticipation, anxiety, investigations, obsession, mind games, stalking, captives/hostages, revenge, paranoia, conspiracy, ransoms, chase scenes, cover ups, espionage. The protagonist defeats the antagonist.

Titles: Each city or country they go to is titled.

Star Personna- Actor associated with a particular genre and personality of character.

 

Typography

Style of text or font

 

Film Noir

It started in the 1950’s, it was the first thrillers that came to cinema’s. Noir films tend to be dark films with bad/dark characters. They have dark representations.

 

Demographics

·         Age

·         Gendre

·         Race/nationality

·         Socio-economic class

 

Psychographics

·         Interest and hobbies

·         Lifestyle and job

 

Slogon

·         Iconic catch phrase

·         Hint of narrative