Wednesday 22 February 2017
Saturday 18 February 2017
Essex Boys and Metaphorical spaces
How does the director of Essex Boys use metaphorical spaces?
(Photo of guy
driving car in tunnel with lights on windscreen)
This photo is a
great example of metaphorical spaces, because it foreshadows that maybe this
character is trapped within the car by bars, similar to a prison. This is meant
to tell the audience that this character could potentially end up in jail if he
continues to do what he carries on with his life in the same way. Furthermore,
the fact that half of his face is blocked out behind these ‘bars’ helps reflect
his emotions that he might be feeling to the audience. In addition to this, the
fact that there is another person in the shot but is completely blurred out
suggests they have a strained relationship and the guy in the front doesn’t
care about him. All of this adds to the tension of the scene.
(Tunnel with
emptiness and lights)
The use of vanishing
points in this shot help reflect the chaos that is going on in film and how it
is a world of crime. This is seen through the fact that it is a very dark shot
and everything seems to heading towards the centre but is broken up by the
different lights perhaps representing that things in the film are always going
wrong and being delayed. Furthermore, that fact that non of the light is
natural helps add to the feeling of things going wrong because it is sating
that there is no hope for these people heading down the tunnel into the
darkness. In addition to this, the fact that there is only the one car going in
could symbolise that once you are in there is no coming back which reflects the
severity of the potential consequences they could face for their crimes.
(Guy stumbling on
the empty shot)
However, in this shot
we see a man stumbling over into the wide-open abyss, which can be seen as a
metaphor for him being all on his own and not knowing where or what he is going
to do. In addition to this, the use of vanishing points in this shot reinforces
that idea because everything is leading to once place, normally the centre, but
in this case it is off to left showing everything is disoriented for the
character also. The use of a quite grimy and murky grey colour palette also
helps connote the emotions of the scene across to the audience, we are meant to
be thinking about what a dull boring place this is.
Friday 17 February 2017
Sounds for thriller
Sounds for thriller
(Website links temporary as pictures aren’t
working)
One of the main goals that I set out to achieve with
my thriller was to create an atmosphere of tension. One of the best ways of
doing this was through the use of sound effects and music.
I looked into other TV and Film thriller to see how
they used different sound effects to create an atmosphere, I found that in
programs such as ‘Peaky Blinders’ they seemed to use high tempo music with a
louder beat to it, they also synchronise cuts and character movements to fit
the beat of the music to help engage the audience and let them know that
something is about to happen. Because of this we thought it would be good to
use this within ours.
Choice1:
Choice 2:
Furthermore, just before this music in the opening
we would have some calmer music because it represents the tranquillity of the
scene and how there is no danger at that point in time.
However, it would be odd to just change completely
so we were going to add in a load bang of a car door slamming because that
creates a nice cut point for us to work with.
(car door slam) https://freesound.org/people/baujahr66/sounds/157257/
In our thriller we have two scenes where we have a
black screen and it was important that while this is up we still give the
audience and idea of what is going on, it will also engage them more because
they use their own imagination to interpret what could be going on. We would
use the sound of heavy breathing because they character would’ve been kidnapped
and therefore won’t be able to see, so we wanted to let the audience experience
the same thing. This sound also helps add to the feelings of chaos and paranoia
and that is what we were hoping to achieve.
Friday 3 February 2017
Thursday 2 February 2017
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