for this blog i decided to write about the movie "brazil" in this shot it deals with sam lawry character being almost tortured by his friend jack in order to get information out of sam.
1st shot
location:in this dome like structure with a chair in the middle followed by a walk way
shot type:CU-2S
camera angle: EL-LA
camera movement: steady camera- handheld
shot description: the shot starts with a close up on sam character followed up by a dolly zoom. the zoom focuses out ward to the entire room to show its secludness and to show the audience how the room can be uncomfortable.
2nd shot
lcation: characters
shot type:2S
C.A- L.A -P.O.V
CM- hand held
shot description: the shot is at a low angle from the characters, then quickly changes to sam character (POV) in which the audience steps into the shoes of sam and sees the guards strapping his hands to the chair.
3rd shot
shottype:ELS
camera angle: HA-OTS
camera movement:rack focus
sht description: the shot starts off with a wide angle shot towards jack character at the end of the path. than the shot turns into the over the shoulder shot of jacks character. the scence goes back and forth between characters using the tracking method.
4th shot
shot type:EST-CU
camera angle-HS-OTS
camera movement:crane
sht description: this shot starts off with jack getting shot in the head in whci he turns the camera and looks up. the camera is at a high angle to capture the expression of jack and sam. then the camera uses a low angle to film the guys suspending from the top of the dome structure.
5th shot
shot type EST
camera angle -L.A-E.L
camera movement stedicam
shot description: this particular shot was very low angle shots , almost down to the ground. then the lighting was very low in infuse "big"shadows.
6th shot
shot type-EST
camera angle- E.L-L.A
camera movement:TRUCKING -CRANE
shot description:this shot has alot of actin and they used techniqes in which the action was parralle to the viewer. when the armed men are stteping down with guns pointed at sam and jack the angle of the camera is position where you can see all the men firing thier weapons at once
7th shot
location (5:09 on the video)
shot type M.S
camera angle- E.L
camera movement: steady camera
shot description- the shot opens up pretty wide with jack and sam on one side of the frame and the rest of the open space was left for the background of the set. then as jack is cover up by paper on the street, the camera goes to a low angle to sam in which you see sam on the grond with pedestrians surronding him.
8th shot
shot type- wide shot
camera angle-L.A
camera movement- steady camera
shot description- the shot deals with alot of low angle shots. the camera seems like its chasing sams character but really its keeping steady. the following shot is at a zoom out
9th shot
shot type- wide shot
camera angle-H.A
camera movement- steady camera
shot description- the shot opens up with a wide angle shot. its a zoom out of the set and sams character. followed by a shot that is against the wall of the sets. which long gates to scene
10th shot
shot type -medium close up
camera angle - OTS-BE
camera movement- steady camera
shot description- the shot opens up with a "bird's eye" shot, sam climbing through all the garabage to get away from the creatures that are after him. then the camera moves to wide shot of sam and the creatures afters him.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
blog # 2 "L.A confidential" and "the post man always rings twice"
(SURPRISE)L.A confidential- where russel crow's character finds the dead body underneath the house of one of the victims who was killed in the cafe.
-the postman always rings twice- the character of lana turner finds out that she was sold out to the cops by her lover played by john garfield in the interrogation room
(SUSPENSE)- L.A confidential- there was a scene in this movie in which it was towards the end of the movie where the character Ed Exley and the character Bud white were on a stand off with the local police officers in this abandon hotel in which it was meant to be an execution of both characters. in one scene the character bud white seems to have been killed in all the co motion and instead turns up alive at the end of the movie.
-Post man always...- -"The post man always rings twice"-when both characters played by lana turner and john garfield set up a plan to kill "lana" husband played by cecil kellaway in the bath tub. the plan gets interrupted by this cat who is climbing up these steps into the power cords. than an officer pulls up to fill up at the gas station. which makes both characters nervous. they end up getting away that night with trying to kill the character that cecil was portraying.
(DIEGETIC) L.A CONFIDENTIAL- scene starts in the abandon looking hotel where they are trying to get information out of danny devitos character. and one of the comments that he says strikes russel crows character hard. because danny devitos character mentions that he has pictures of a cop having sexual reations with a prostitue. russel crow character rushes out of the room into the trunk of danny devitos car to find that the pictures that were takin where not of im but his co worker ed exley.
-when both characters played by garfield and turner set up a plan to get a guilty letter that garfied character sign stating that turners character was one to blame for her husbands murder.
(NON-DIEGETIC)-LA Confidential danny devitos narration throughout the movie.
-Postman always rings...- music plays frightnly as franks opens the kitchen door and sees cora with a knife.
-the postman always rings twice- the character of lana turner finds out that she was sold out to the cops by her lover played by john garfield in the interrogation room
(SUSPENSE)- L.A confidential- there was a scene in this movie in which it was towards the end of the movie where the character Ed Exley and the character Bud white were on a stand off with the local police officers in this abandon hotel in which it was meant to be an execution of both characters. in one scene the character bud white seems to have been killed in all the co motion and instead turns up alive at the end of the movie.
-Post man always...- -"The post man always rings twice"-when both characters played by lana turner and john garfield set up a plan to kill "lana" husband played by cecil kellaway in the bath tub. the plan gets interrupted by this cat who is climbing up these steps into the power cords. than an officer pulls up to fill up at the gas station. which makes both characters nervous. they end up getting away that night with trying to kill the character that cecil was portraying.
(DIEGETIC) L.A CONFIDENTIAL- scene starts in the abandon looking hotel where they are trying to get information out of danny devitos character. and one of the comments that he says strikes russel crows character hard. because danny devitos character mentions that he has pictures of a cop having sexual reations with a prostitue. russel crow character rushes out of the room into the trunk of danny devitos car to find that the pictures that were takin where not of im but his co worker ed exley.
-when both characters played by garfield and turner set up a plan to get a guilty letter that garfied character sign stating that turners character was one to blame for her husbands murder.
(NON-DIEGETIC)-LA Confidential danny devitos narration throughout the movie.
-Postman always rings...- music plays frightnly as franks opens the kitchen door and sees cora with a knife.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
what makes a movie good
I think what really makes a movie a great movie is a great story line. i think its important for a writer to do research for a movie to insure its accuracy. Also the actors need to know what they are doing. if the actors are bad then the movies doesn't fall behind.
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