Statement of Written Intentions draft
• Goals for the production (200-300 words)
• Choice of genre/formal category linked to:
• Your initial purpose in relation to the proposed film/animation (400-600 words)
• Connections with the work of other film-makers/animators (200-300 words)
I am planning to make a animation/film a.k.a a hybrid, films like Run Lola Run, kill bill, looney tunes back in action and who framed roger rabbit are examples of this. The story is a boy(played by me) has a dream in which he is swimming in the sea on an island far away. The scene on the island will be the animation scene. He then wakes up and decides to go to this island. As soon as he slams his door shut it turns back to animation. He gets on the bus and goes to the airport, at the airport he pays a man to put him into a bag and smuggle him to hawaii. When he gets there he goes to a beach and it is the same scene as his dream sequence, the end. The music will be the classical music used in the end of oceans eleven because I think it fits the story and it made the ending for oceans eleven very good. My inspiration to this film was a short animation by a ------- animation that I watched which showed an office man breaking out of his life by jumping out of his office onto a plane of which he has a model of in his desk and flying to a far off place in this yellow plane. The idea of a man escaping his life and completely abandoning himself from everything is what inspired me for my story. The idea of having it on an island is based on a poem I read called island man which uses metaphors to show the difference from this mans lifestyle in the city in London to his roots on an island. They use metaphors like the pillow waves which I am going to incorporate into my film, when he lifts up his covers to go to sleep it returns as the sea.
Friday 7 November 2008
Monday 20 October 2008
Casablanca
Mise en Scene
Camerawork
Editing
Sound
Lighting
The Mise en scene in Casablanca wasn't very formalist it is different from that which you see nowadays but it was normal at the time that it came out in 1942. The set is quite unformalist it is a traditional 1940's club, and a glamorous street setting. The clothing and props that they use were correct mise en scene at the time but it is now considered quite a cheesy look but that is because of the fame of casablanca. Humphrey Bogart is a famous actor before casablanca he had success with The Maltese Falcon. And after Casablanca with The African Queen. Ingrid Bergman had success after Casablanca with Hitchcock films like Spellbound and Notorious. Other actors in Casablanca were Peter Lorre, Paul Heinreid, Claude Reins and Sidney Greenstreet.
The camerawork was very close in the moments between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman to show their love. For the other scenes the Camerawork was very simple as if it was from other peoples point of view in the club.
The editing uses a style called continuity editing which is editing that tries to smooth over the transitions between shot and make it look invisible.
The sound is very instrumental they play songs like "as time goes by" and the french national anthem. Although at some moments they play old fashioned romantic songs for the scenes with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.
Camerawork
Editing
Sound
Lighting
The Mise en scene in Casablanca wasn't very formalist it is different from that which you see nowadays but it was normal at the time that it came out in 1942. The set is quite unformalist it is a traditional 1940's club, and a glamorous street setting. The clothing and props that they use were correct mise en scene at the time but it is now considered quite a cheesy look but that is because of the fame of casablanca. Humphrey Bogart is a famous actor before casablanca he had success with The Maltese Falcon. And after Casablanca with The African Queen. Ingrid Bergman had success after Casablanca with Hitchcock films like Spellbound and Notorious. Other actors in Casablanca were Peter Lorre, Paul Heinreid, Claude Reins and Sidney Greenstreet.
The camerawork was very close in the moments between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman to show their love. For the other scenes the Camerawork was very simple as if it was from other peoples point of view in the club.
The editing uses a style called continuity editing which is editing that tries to smooth over the transitions between shot and make it look invisible.
The sound is very instrumental they play songs like "as time goes by" and the french national anthem. Although at some moments they play old fashioned romantic songs for the scenes with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.
Monday 13 October 2008
Classical Hollywood Film
The "Golden age of cinema" lasted from the end of the silent era in the 1920's to the 1950's. This age has brought great directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra and Orson Welles, and has brought great actors like James Stewart, Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Judy Garland.
Some Great FIlms from the Golden age are:
It's a Wonderful life
Rear Window
King Kong
Citizen Kane
North by North West
Strangers on a Train
Mr Smith goes to Washington
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
The Birds
My favourite films from these are Its a Wonderful Life, Rear Window and KIng Kong.
Classical Hollywood cinema can be described as formalist due to the melodramatic acting and the carefully considered shots. Which are both features of formalist film. For example in Rear Window when James Stewart is falling out the window the shot makes it look high up.
Some Great FIlms from the Golden age are:
It's a Wonderful life
Rear Window
King Kong
Citizen Kane
North by North West
Strangers on a Train
Mr Smith goes to Washington
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
The Birds
My favourite films from these are Its a Wonderful Life, Rear Window and KIng Kong.
Classical Hollywood cinema can be described as formalist due to the melodramatic acting and the carefully considered shots. Which are both features of formalist film. For example in Rear Window when James Stewart is falling out the window the shot makes it look high up.
Monday 6 October 2008
German Expressionism
German Expressionism was a style of film the developed out of berlin in the 1920's and is considered the inspiration for many classic formalist films. Such as Tim Burton films like Sleepy Hollow, Batman returns, Nightmare before christmas, Sweeney Todd and others like Sin City and The Crow.
German expressionism's features are exaggerated shadows which make it seem scarier and more formalist. All the buildings are in strange shapes for example Gotham City in Tim Burton's Batman and the rooftops of the cabinet of Dr Caligari. German Expressionism is also very sinister.
The camera angles that are used show people very big and grand from a worms eye point of view. Almost all the camera angles are very considered each camera angle has a point. This means that It is very purposeful, but it can be quite hard to follow.
German expressionism's features are exaggerated shadows which make it seem scarier and more formalist. All the buildings are in strange shapes for example Gotham City in Tim Burton's Batman and the rooftops of the cabinet of Dr Caligari. German Expressionism is also very sinister.
The camera angles that are used show people very big and grand from a worms eye point of view. Almost all the camera angles are very considered each camera angle has a point. This means that It is very purposeful, but it can be quite hard to follow.
Sunday 5 October 2008
Run Lola Run evaluation
I thought Run Lola Run was a very formalist film and a very clever film aswell. The form was quite realist except for small parts for example a cartoon shown at the beginning and a scene where the two main characters are talking and the editor has tinted the scene red. Except for this the form of the film is very formalist.
The story however is a difference between formalist and realist. The story of a man about to rob a shop before his mobster boss shows up and his girlfriend has to save him is relatively straightforward realist. But the story is then repeated twice more to show what could have happened and this is very formalist. But what do you classify as the story.
In retrospect the film is not as formalist as I had thought the only thing that is formalist is part of the story and a very small part of the form. It is a good film though.
The story however is a difference between formalist and realist. The story of a man about to rob a shop before his mobster boss shows up and his girlfriend has to save him is relatively straightforward realist. But the story is then repeated twice more to show what could have happened and this is very formalist. But what do you classify as the story.
In retrospect the film is not as formalist as I had thought the only thing that is formalist is part of the story and a very small part of the form. It is a good film though.
Our film
We were told to make a formalist film in class based on the title the moving man. I decided to be an editor and so me and two other editors contributed to creating a formalist title sequence whilst the others were filming lighting and acting to get the content. We made a very creepy title sequence of some text moving across the screen and so to make it formalist we reversed it so it played backwards which was very formalist.
When the content was produced we found there wasn't much for us to do with it because there was no sound or relative story which we found hard but we made it into a collection of formalist clips done to portray the characters life. A lot of these clips were reversed as well to create a formalist atmosphere plus in between shots we had some text with the characters speeches, this was only portrayed through text not through sound and in my opinion was very formalist having a silent film aspect in our age of technology.
I think our editing was very good we managed to portray a formalist mood whilst leaving the sound editors enough space to create a story out of our clips. In my last post i said that a film can't have a formalist story and form. We tried this with this film and my point has been proved, our film made no sense it all, it was a bit of a joke seeing our accomplishments making the film but in all seriousness it did not work. An example of a film with a formalist story and realist form is minority report and signs, an example of a film with formalist form and realist story is sin city. An example of a film with formalist form and story is Brazil which many people found a great film but for me was unbearable because it was too much.
When the content was produced we found there wasn't much for us to do with it because there was no sound or relative story which we found hard but we made it into a collection of formalist clips done to portray the characters life. A lot of these clips were reversed as well to create a formalist atmosphere plus in between shots we had some text with the characters speeches, this was only portrayed through text not through sound and in my opinion was very formalist having a silent film aspect in our age of technology.
I think our editing was very good we managed to portray a formalist mood whilst leaving the sound editors enough space to create a story out of our clips. In my last post i said that a film can't have a formalist story and form. We tried this with this film and my point has been proved, our film made no sense it all, it was a bit of a joke seeing our accomplishments making the film but in all seriousness it did not work. An example of a film with a formalist story and realist form is minority report and signs, an example of a film with formalist form and realist story is sin city. An example of a film with formalist form and story is Brazil which many people found a great film but for me was unbearable because it was too much.
Monday 29 September 2008
Formalist film
For our H/W we had to watch a formalist film. I decided to watch "sin city". SIn city is a bunch of shorts stories from graphic novels and are about criminals one of them is from the point of view of a police officer, the other is a man whos prostitute is killed, and a man trying to kill a police officer. It is a very formalist film as it is done in black and white except for some parts of the screen which are in colour for example blood, shoes and a woman. This is done to make an object stand out. For example it shows a woman who is the love of one of the main characters life and it shows her whole body in colour which makes it stand apart from the blurred out black and white figures and this adds to making her seem much more beautiful than everyone else.
Another thing that is formalist in the film of sin city is the way parts of it are presented is very exaggerated. For example when a police car goes over a hill it goes high in the air. Plus when the police come to the door of someone's house the cops are in an exaggerated number.
The story of Sin City isn't so formalist but the form of it is formalist and so this works. I think that if the story of sin city was formalist then it would be too much and wouldn't work but they didn't so it has succeeded in being a good film.
Another thing that is formalist in the film of sin city is the way parts of it are presented is very exaggerated. For example when a police car goes over a hill it goes high in the air. Plus when the police come to the door of someone's house the cops are in an exaggerated number.
The story of Sin City isn't so formalist but the form of it is formalist and so this works. I think that if the story of sin city was formalist then it would be too much and wouldn't work but they didn't so it has succeeded in being a good film.
Thursday 26 June 2008
26/6/08
Gantt Project
So far in the pre production process I have made my Gantt Project. I have determined I will spend the summer doing the planning, and then from the beginning of september to the end of november filming and animating, with december and early january for editing and soundwork.
So far I have an idea of what I'm going to do and I am wanting to do a set of three adverts for duvet covers. One of the adverts go like this:
An office worker is being loaded with work showing stress. It then cuts to the office worker lying down in bed relaxed. We then zoom into their brain in which she is having an animated dream of her swimming in the ocean.
Other ideas are a vegetarian cook that dreams of a field with animals and a schoolkid dreaming of a jungle.
So far in the pre production process I have made my Gantt Project. I have determined I will spend the summer doing the planning, and then from the beginning of september to the end of november filming and animating, with december and early january for editing and soundwork.
So far I have an idea of what I'm going to do and I am wanting to do a set of three adverts for duvet covers. One of the adverts go like this:
An office worker is being loaded with work showing stress. It then cuts to the office worker lying down in bed relaxed. We then zoom into their brain in which she is having an animated dream of her swimming in the ocean.
Other ideas are a vegetarian cook that dreams of a field with animals and a schoolkid dreaming of a jungle.
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