MediaStudies3

Scene Summary…

“Bad guy”(BG) stands up from her chair and picks up a gun on the way out. the camera follows the (BG) until breaking off at a notice board with pictures on it the camera zooms in on the one of the pictures featuring the “good guy”(GG) and then it dissolves into the real person and he also stands up out of his chair and picks up a breifcase on his way out of a room.

There is a short montage of both the GG & BG showing them getting closer to each other before eventually meating. The GG gives the bad guy the breif and goes to shake his hand to seal-the-deal with a close up on the hands the audiance can see the gun that the BG is holding and then there is an extreme close-up of the GG eyes and then there is a gunshot, cuts to the GG lying in a pool of blood and then the camera zooms in on the blood and then dissolves into the liquid in the cofee cup with lipstick on it. The camera zooms out to show inside the BG’s office. The BG proceeds to the notice board and there is a close up of the GG’s picture and the BG crosses it off then she sits back down and a phone rings there is a close of it as the BG picks it up and then the scene ends with her saying “HELLO”!!!! Woot!!

Roles…

Me: I am the GG and will be doing editing with help from the others of course!

Tristan: Is the Director he also did the storyboard and will probably do some editing!

Shonal Isla: Is the BG!

Chloe: Is the CameraWoman and has written the script!!

Costume…

Shona Isla: Will wear her school clothes covered up by a big trench coat and trilby hat to suggest Film Noir conventions and also to hide her identity!!

Me: I have to wear smart clothing because I’m supposed to be a form of authority!!

And Props…

Gun(fake of course?), breifcase, coat, fake blood, pictures of classmates and the hat.

In Class we were shown 2 different film openings although one of them wasn’t an opening but it could have been used as one. The purpose of the first one(the one that wasn’t an opening) was to show how the use of props can dramitcally change the mood or tone of movie, in this example a creepy old man pursues a yong man but he has a camera over one eye making him seem even creepier.

the second opening was actually an opening and it was called “The Hitcher” it featured a young man traveling across a desert area in a car and he picks up a stranger along the way. This stranger only gets stranger as the scene progresses as he tells the boy that he has just decapitated his previous driver with his little knife. After several taunts and threats the boy eventually plucks up the courage to throw the stranger out of the car. This scene also emphasised the use of prop because the knife was a lot more threatining than a gun might have been beacause being cut up is a much more slow painfull death.

During class time we were given the task of making a 2 minute film in a double period (roughly 2 hours). My group decide to do a follow up to another 2 minute film that a group in one of our teacher’s other class’ did fortunately 2 out of the 4 of us were in that group (I wasn’t). Our film featured me chasing tristan around outside and inside for about 1 and a half minutes before both of us got killed off by Shona isla. I really liked doing this because it ment some hands on experience with the camera and editing software showing me how easy/hard it can be.    �

During our third Openning Scene Production Meeting we began to discuss storboarding and finalising our ideas. Our basic idea is some flashy credits and then an office scene where there are several objects that foreshadow what happens later on in the movie although were not making the rest of the movie. As for storyboarding we didn’t have much time and so only got very little done.

Anchorage was explained to mean that it helps convey or suggest a certain theme or genre etc. in a media text as a very basic example if there were blown up buildings in a poster it would suggest an action genre.

At the beginning of the movie there are some shadows which seem like the shadows of people or Jail cell bars on a floor. This is later found out to be the shadows of the movies title “The Untouchables” which is written in a black serif font. After some credits there is a bird’s eye view on a small room with lots of people surrounding and pampering a man suggesting he is very powerful. The audience is established with the setting (Chicago), date (1930) and much of the plot (Gangs competing for power) when some white text appears in the middle of the shot. There is silence during most of this scene suggesting they have great respect for the man in the middle. A British man begins to talk and then we are given a close up of Robert De Niro’s face and when he begins to talk the barber accidentally cuts him because of other gang movies we are led to believe that he will get very angry and resort to violence but instead says that violence is “not good business”. Next there is a long shot on a street corner which then zooms in on a little girl going in to a bar with a bucket. Inside the bar the bar tender is arguing with a supplier who leaves as the girl enters, there is a man dressed in a white suit who’s face is also not shown. The girl and bartender make small talk while the man in the white suit fiddles with is suitcase. He then leaves the bar without the suit case then there is a close up on it suggesting the little girl has spotted it. She then grabs it and rushes after him shouting “mister”.  Then there is a long shot on the bar with the man getting in a car and the whole bar bursting into flames.      

Our first meeting wasn’t extremely productive but we got some good ideas going. Our idea for our Production is a scene in an office type place and a form of authority like the police being murdered.