Evaluation Questions - Mariana

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 1

Planning - Group Photos

Planning consisted of us discussing locations where each scene would take place in and and what type of shots we would use. It also consisted on us considering the whole plot of the story and what would happen for the rest of the movie, not just the opening scene.
We finalised the plot line and made sure everyone knew what the final idea was, we also made sure that we had noted down what movements there would be involved while recording, for example panning from left to right or zooming in or out.

Match Point - 9 Frame Structure Analysis

Tennis instructor Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) grows friendly with Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), a wealthy student who shares an interest in opera. Invited to attend a performance with Tom, Chris meets the family and instantly attracts Tom's sister, Chloe (Emily Mortimer). Chris marries her to get a job with her millionaire father, Alec (Brian Cox), but a dangerous affair with Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson), Tom's American girlfriend, threatens his newfound social status.

The first shot suggests that the movie is going to be about a tennis player or someone who plays tennis for a hobby. It also suggests that the guy lives a stylish high life because of the place that he's at, a private club which suggests that he has an elite status.

This frame suggest that the character really enjoys the arts such as reading books, maybe the opera and theatre.  This could mean that he supports people that have worked hard to get to where they are... harder than most. Maybe because he himself has worked hard to get to where he is.

These stills suggest that he's starting to catch feelings for both of these women. Who knows who he'll end up with. 

These stills suggest that he's in love or just looking for someone to spend time with that he actually likes and can actually talk to about real things that happen in life rather than just about money. This also highlights the fact that he's having an affair and that things might get complicated because of it.

These stills highlight that he intends to kill in order for the complicated situation to end and therefore not having the risk of it coming back to ruin his the life he has now.

These stills suggest that he's been caught for the murders he committed, however in the end there's a plot twist, while getting rid of jewellery that he stole from the old lady that he killed her ring doesn't land in the river, it lands on the floor and a homeless man finds it, and the police arrests him and assume he's the murderer.

Costume Planning and Audience Expectations

When planning costumes we thought about what a teenage girl would wear based on what I normally wear and what other people that we know wear. We also thought about what would be appropriate for a girl the characters age to wear.

We also took into consideration what our target audience thought, for example the characters had to be portrayed correctly for the opening scene to be good, if it wasn't good the target audience would not want to watch the rest of the movie.

When planning what the detective would wear we looked at T.V shows with Detective characters and what they tend to wear, from that we noticed that they mainly wore suits, usually not expensive looking suits and mainly grey and brown suits rather than black.

I think that the costume we chose for the detective meets the target audience expectations because it fits with what you would expect for a detective to wear, if it didn't look like something a detective would wear then you would not think from the very beginning that the character is a detective, you would think that he's just a person in the movie and that he doesn't play that big of a part in the movie, that he isn't important at all.

Iconography associated with genre

Crime thriller is all about solving a murder or finding someone who's been kidnapped, the audience can see what has happened, maybe they see a shadow going up the stairs and that's the killer or kidnapper. 

Dark places to highlight mystery and danger that will affect a certain character.

The Dark Knight - Essay

The Dark Knight is an iconic film for the DC Comics franchise and for people who are DC Comics fans, like me as it retells the story of a hero that you would call out at night using your flashlight because you're scared of the monster under your bed... or is that just me?
Due to such iconic characters a lot of work had to be put into the making of this movie in order for the characters to be represented the way they are portrayed in the comics.

planning the storyboard

Zodiac Opening Scene Analysis

In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.) become obsessed with learning the killer's identity and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Zodiac claims victim after victim and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, cyphers and menacing phone calls.


In this opening scene you are introduced to Jake Gyllenhaal's character who is a reporter, you are introduced to his lifestyle and find out that he has a son and most likely is divorced due to the fact that he is doing the school run on his own. The titles in this opening scene are suitable because it looks like the font of a typewriter which would have been used by reporters and writers at the time and before the events that are being looked at in this movie.


There are various editing techniques the main one being match on action for example when the son running into school in minute 1:46 and then it cuts to him walking back to the car.
There are also jump cuts between what he's doing and the mail being delivered. An example of this is minute 2:14 when the van is pulling up outside a building.


This aim of this task was to help us strengthen our skills at analysing opening scenes

Hair and Makeup

Taken

Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Then his worst fears become real when sex slavers abduct Kim and her friend shortly after they arrive in Paris for vacation. With just four days until Kim will be auctioned off, Bryan must call on every skill he learned in black ops to rescue her

Hair and makeup in this film highlight the ages of the characters and what they have done, for example Neeson's character has messy hair throughout most of the movie which may highlight that he may have just done something that required physical movement for example running, so therefore his hair may be sweaty.

The makeup that the daughter and her friend wears highlights their ages, the daughter is most likely in her teens, she doesn't seem to wear that much makeup, if she does she keeps it natural.

The makeup also  may represent the state of a person, for example pale makeup could highlight that the character is feeling unwell or that they're dead.

The Departed

South Boston cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes under cover to infiltrate the organization of gangland chief Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). As Billy gains the mobster's trust, a career criminal named Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) infiltrates the police department and reports on its activities to his syndicate bosses. When both organisations learn they have a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin must figure out each other's identities to save their own lives.

Hair and makeup are crucial in this movie, it helps highlight their professions and the age of the characters. For example the lady shown above seems to be in her early 30's, because of her natural looking makeup and her hair tied back it suggests that she doesn't really care what she looks like in the morning. For the men the hair slicked back shows that they have power and the beard makes them look more serious and intimidating. The bolder makeup that the woman is wearing in the elevator makes her look older and more sophisticated.

Oldboy

Although his life is already in a downward spiral, things get much worse for advertising executive Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) ; while drunk one night, Joe is kidnapped and thrown into solitary confinement in a bizarre, hotellike room. For the next 20 years, Joe suffers unimaginable torment, but the motive and identity of his captor remain unknown. When he is inexplicably set free, Joe emerges with one goal: to find the person who stole two decades of his life.

Hair and makeup in this movie are crucial because the hair could be shown to represent the victims feelings, how he's seeking for revenge for the time that he lost while he was held captive and his lack of human contact which may have led to him going crazy and losing the ability to talk to those around him.

The makeup could also represent brokeness, maybe
an injury that is on the inside, like a mental health problem.