Monday 23 April 2012
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Audience feed back.
miss moore told us that we needed to add a small over voice to a section to our ots to make the scene make more sense than it did before the corrections were made.
this is the sheet of improvements we had people complete for us.
A class mate assessing our workMonday 16 April 2012
conventions of film noir key words
the characteristics of film noir are made tp make you feel or look at a person like melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia.
genre quotation
Film Noir (literally 'black film or cinema') was coined by French film critics (first by Nino Frank in 1946) who noticed the trend of how 'dark', downbeat and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France to theatres following the war, such as The Maltese Falcon (1941), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944), and Laura (1944). A wide range of films reflected the resultant tensions and insecurities of the time period, and counter-balanced the optimism of Hollywood's musicals and comedies. Fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair and paranoia are readily evident in noir, reflecting the 'chilly' Cold War period when the threat of nuclear annihilation was ever-present. The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict, purposelessness and sense of injustice. There were rarely happy or optimistic endings in noirs.
Classic film noir developed during and after World War II, taking advantage of the post-war ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion. It was a style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960 (marked by the 'last' film of the classic film noir era, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958)).
Important Note: Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film. It is also helpful to realize that 'film noir' usually refers to a distinct historical period of film history - the decade of film-making after World War II, similar to the German Expressionism or the French New Wave periods. However, it was labeled as such only after the classic period - early noir film-makers didn't even use the film designation (as they would the labels "western" or "musical"), and were not conscious that their films would be labeled noirs.
i found this quote usefull to help me understand the history of Film Noir
Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male character [e.g., Robert Mitchum, Fred MacMurray, or Humphrey Bogart] who encountered a beautiful but promiscuous, amoral, double-dealing and seductive femme fatale [e.g., Mary Astor, Veronica Lake, Jane Greer, Barbara Stanwyck, or Lana Turner]. She would use her feminine wiles and come-hither sexuality to manipulate him into becoming the fall guy - often following a murder. After a betrayal or double-cross, she was frequently destroyed as well, often at the cost of the hero's life. As women during the war period were given new-found independence and better job-earning power in the homeland during the war, they would suffer -- on the screen -- in these films of the 40s.
http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
Classic film noir developed during and after World War II, taking advantage of the post-war ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion. It was a style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960 (marked by the 'last' film of the classic film noir era, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958)).
Important Note: Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film. It is also helpful to realize that 'film noir' usually refers to a distinct historical period of film history - the decade of film-making after World War II, similar to the German Expressionism or the French New Wave periods. However, it was labeled as such only after the classic period - early noir film-makers didn't even use the film designation (as they would the labels "western" or "musical"), and were not conscious that their films would be labeled noirs.
i found this quote usefull to help me understand the history of Film Noir
Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male character [e.g., Robert Mitchum, Fred MacMurray, or Humphrey Bogart] who encountered a beautiful but promiscuous, amoral, double-dealing and seductive femme fatale [e.g., Mary Astor, Veronica Lake, Jane Greer, Barbara Stanwyck, or Lana Turner]. She would use her feminine wiles and come-hither sexuality to manipulate him into becoming the fall guy - often following a murder. After a betrayal or double-cross, she was frequently destroyed as well, often at the cost of the hero's life. As women during the war period were given new-found independence and better job-earning power in the homeland during the war, they would suffer -- on the screen -- in these films of the 40s.
http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
Sunday 15 April 2012
research; distribution of film
films can be Distributed by many different ways,
-streaming
~streaming is where the film is sent via Internet to a television or console, this is done by such retailers such as netfilx, lovefilm. these are now becoming a big money way of selling film to the captive audience. Over these retailers you rent the film for so long which is streamed to your device, this is the more modern way to rent over going out to your local Blockbuster and physically renting the film, this way you do not have to leave the house to rent or return.
~streaming is also a bad thing it can be stolen through illigal downloading, this is becoming more and more of a problem to film makes such as Warner and Warp films.
-socail networking is free advertising to the film producers, this allows them to advertise up and comming films, the users of facebook (over 845 million active users) will comment on the film to there friends unintentionally advertising there film to others.
www.indiemoviesonline.com/
http://www.lovefilm.com/
http://www.netfilx.com/
-streaming
~streaming is where the film is sent via Internet to a television or console, this is done by such retailers such as netfilx, lovefilm. these are now becoming a big money way of selling film to the captive audience. Over these retailers you rent the film for so long which is streamed to your device, this is the more modern way to rent over going out to your local Blockbuster and physically renting the film, this way you do not have to leave the house to rent or return.
~streaming is also a bad thing it can be stolen through illigal downloading, this is becoming more and more of a problem to film makes such as Warner and Warp films.
-socail networking is free advertising to the film producers, this allows them to advertise up and comming films, the users of facebook (over 845 million active users) will comment on the film to there friends unintentionally advertising there film to others.
www.indiemoviesonline.com/
http://www.lovefilm.com/
http://www.netfilx.com/
Sound - and understanding how to use it...
My initial thaughts on using sound in film, my initial thaughts on using sound are that hey use sound in diagetic and non diagetic ways. Diagetic sound is the dialouge, and sounds filmed whilst the film scenes are being filmed. They use non-diagetic sounds to emphisise certian aspects of the film and to make us focus on the dialogue or the sound being emphisised these sounds can range from emphisised sounds or the sound of the wind, guns, explosions. The sound must also be syncronised to the film so they voices match and the sounds are in the correct timing with the film.
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