micro essay on copyright issues...

Copyright...

copy right law and copy right originated in the UK from a concept of common law ; the statute of Anne 1709. 

Types of work which copyright applies:

literary: song lyrics, manuscripts, manuals, computer programs, commercial documents, leaflets, newsletters & articles etc.

dramatic: plays, dance

musical: recordings and score.

Artistic: photography, painting, sculptures, architecture, technical drawings/diagrams, maps, logos

Typographical arrangement of published editions: magazines, periodicals

sound recording:may be recordings of other copyright works, e.g. musical and literary.
films
broadcasting and cable program's 


rights of copyrights:

Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work. To qualify, a work should be regarded as original, and exhibit a degree of labor, skill or judgment.
the copy right law means that any body found to have taken a picture or sound from any body who has not given permission you could be sued by the owning party. it is to the extent that any photo of Google with out copyright con cent cannot be taken with out giving recognition to the owner such as the url.
It is an offence to perform any of the following acts without the consent of the owner:
Copy the work.rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public.Perform, broadcast or show the work in public.Adapt the work.The author of a work, or a director of a film may also have certain moral rights. The right to be identified as the author.Right to object to derogatory treatment.

mirco essay on foleying....

Foleying is the art of being able to create sounds with objects other than what they should actually made by, such as coconuts hitting on sand for horse steps.

Some foleying machines have to be handmade but other some foleying objects can be found in shops they purvey percussion instruments.  Any object from anywhere can be used to make an alternative sound.

Here are some examples of basic foley kit:

wind machine

rain box

marching men object. 

Wind machine: A sheet of canvas over a revolving drum of wooden slats. The fierceness of the wind is determined by the speed of the revolution. The drum it turned unevenly, for wind never blows at a consistent speed. Adjusting the tension of the canvas as its free end can also alter the sound.

Rain box: 2 wooden boxes 6’x6”x6”, the floors of which are studded with nails hammered up from the outside. Dried peas inside, the two boxes are then see-sawed to create the sound of rain.

Marching men: identical wooden pegs fastened to a frame at the top by flexible or elastic bands, so the pegs hand down, when held by the frame and plopped rhythmically on a hard surface.

The bat and melon ploy: for head traumas they use a melon, when hit hard with a baseball bat or a mallet when you need to bash in somebody's skull. In live performance, a watermelon is more visually impressive than any other kind.

They use foleying because it is allows you to add in diagetic sounds after you have filmed the scene because some diagetic sounds are louder than the voices, or the sound the director/writer wants you to hear.

notes on neo noir...

'Blade Runner'
typical things to expect from noir films...

• most people were smoking.
• chiaroscuro lighting, dark and dull lights. 
• sepia filter, monochrome, similar colours, yellows browns.
• narration from main charicter,
• chrime reporter, anti hero.

untypical things to expect from noir films...

• guitar based bacl in sounds, in other noirs it is a violin for more suspence,
• usually set in urban areas (citys)
• shows blood
• more camera angles.

Mullholland Drive...
typical things to see in a noir film...

• smoking
• slow transitions
• femme fatale was strong now seems week and scared
• lots of shadows
• urban area

untypical things to see in a noir film... 

• no male antihero just two femme fatalles.

Foleying...

SoundWorks Collection: Gary Hecker - Veteran Foley Artist from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

se7en OTS

Se7en from Brian Kornic on Vimeo.

Ideas for my OTS and sound...

i would like to do my OTS being similar to the 1995 film Se7en. I found that the film Se7en really inspired how I wanted to do my OTS because it was deep, and gets stuck in your head, its very powerfull and captures your imagination.

I would like to do a OTS of the style of the film Se7en,

• Dark,
• Dim coloured lighting,
• No faces just hands,
• Screeching sounds,
• Heartbeats,
• Violent objects in the hands, blood on the weapons,
• Flashing between each shot,
• Desaturated colour only red for blood,
• neck sliced with old rusty meat cleaver(relevance to the killers past(copycat murder?) blood splatters over camera and flashes away.
• i would like the scene to cut away from the hands to a scratching, flicked image(white chappel tv programme uses this and it creates major suspence, and makes you fell drawn as the flicks increase in speed the muder happens?)

i realise that this idea is very ambitious and would need alot of foleying, asyncronous sound and it would be hard to match the sound to the film, it is worrying that the film may not look professional and not flow together.

i would need these images and sounds for...

• Sliced neck,
• Scratching,
• Scraping of metal(delicate)
• Screams
• Deep dark beats laying over the film ots
• books dropping
• paper ripping,
• slicing the watermelon for neck
• paint for the blood over clear plastic in front of the camera.

finding the correct props for this OTS will be hard as i will need old rusted murder weapons such as meet cleavers and garden tools....

over the next 6 weeks i will be posting how i will progress with this idea... 

sound - and understand how to use it...

my initial thaughts about using sound in film, there is not diagetic sound which is sound added into the film extract after the scene has been filmed such as gun sounds, there is also diagetic sound which is the actual sound which was filmed when the scene was filmed. they also use dialouge because in both diagetic and non diagetic because the dialouge can be dubbed afterwards.

i know think that films sounding ffects are more complicated than i first thaught such as when they foley the the sound which means they use another sound to replicate another.

story board of our practice film noir.

Buster Rayburn is in a prison cell.
his voice can be heard.'here i am again, they said i wouldn't make it on the outside. if only i didn't meet that dame.
buster is drunk in a bar on his own and is greeted by a gangster who says he has a job for him. buster turns the job down.
the gansters girlfriend lacey appears, buster cant take his eyes of her.
back to buster in a prision cell, (voice over) if only i walked away when i had the chance...
buster is back at the same bar drinking bourbon, lacey lane walks in and whispers in his ear seductively.
lacey gives buster a gun and a kiss...
buster shoots the gangster as he leaves his house one morning
buster and lacey meet in a dingey hotel room. she thanks him and says that she will run away with him that night.
buster waits for lacey at the rail station. the cops turn up and and arrest him. lacey can be seen in the background, she has obviously reported him to the police.
back to buster in jail. his voice over can be heard, (voice over) you see, dames always bring a man down. she wont hurt anymore suckers now...
buster quickly grabs the police mans gun in a struggle, manages to fire a shot which hits lacey and she dies.
flashback to buster walking out of jail.........


this story is typical of a film noir there is an antihero( buster ), femme fatale ( lacey ) and the villian ( the gangster ) the anti hero is typically drawn in by the femme fatale and murders her gangster boyfriend, the anti hero doesnt get away with the muders but the femme fatale dies also so the anti hero does end up being the only one left alive at the end.