http://prezi.com/lbaiphzilqfs/copy-of-concept-board/
We are having difficulty uploading our prezi, in the meantime here is a link to the html.
Our concept board is yet to be presented, and when this takes place an evidential video will be posted.
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Ideas for our concept board
My group (Chris, Anastasiya and I) came up with the following ideas.
Title:
Genre: Film Noir
Plot: Order/Structure of narrative
Narrative: Story (editing, transition, titles)
Cast: Character - accents, mannerisms
Representation - style, props, costume
Set:
Mise-en-scene: Lighting
Connotation: Suggestion/Meaning/Implied
Denotaition: Emphasised/Explicit/Factual/Stated
Sound: Diegetic, Non-Diegetic, Effect, Foleying, Synchronous/Asynchronous, Contrapunctual, Ambient
Camera: Shot, Place, Angle, Transitions
Mood:
Style:
Target Audience: Demographics (factual date, age, gender, class) (analytical)
Projected/Preferred - who it is aimed at.
Audience groupings:
Traditional (fixed)
Post Modern (open minded)
Hedomist (experimental and risk taking)
Niche
Main stream
Conventions: Established or expected rules of genre
Title:
Genre: Film Noir
Plot: Order/Structure of narrative
Narrative: Story (editing, transition, titles)
Cast: Character - accents, mannerisms
Representation - style, props, costume
Set:
Mise-en-scene: Lighting
Connotation: Suggestion/Meaning/Implied
Denotaition: Emphasised/Explicit/Factual/Stated
Sound: Diegetic, Non-Diegetic, Effect, Foleying, Synchronous/Asynchronous, Contrapunctual, Ambient
Camera: Shot, Place, Angle, Transitions
Mood:
Style:
Target Audience: Demographics (factual date, age, gender, class) (analytical)
Projected/Preferred - who it is aimed at.
Audience groupings:
Traditional (fixed)
Post Modern (open minded)
Hedomist (experimental and risk taking)
Niche
Main stream
Conventions: Established or expected rules of genre
Wednesday 10 November 2010
What actually is 'Film Noir'?
Film noire is a genre that began in the early 1940's, and Film noir literally means "black film" in French and it features themes which are particularly more negative than positive, with an overall dark and shadowy outlook - being filmed in black and white. This film genre takes in detective and crime noir as well as many gangster films of the 1930's.
Characteristics and Conventions of Film Noir:
The genereal moods of classic film noir were melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia.
Heroes or even anti-heroes, corrupt characters and villains included down-and-out, conflicted hard-boiled detectives or private eyes, cops, gangsters, government agents, a lone wolf, socio-paths or killers, crooks, war veterans, politicians, petty criminals, murderers, or just plain Joes. These protagonists were often morally-ambiguous low-lifes from the dark and gloomy underworld of violent crime and corruption. Distinctively, they were cynical, tarnished, obsessive (sexual or otherwise), brooding, menacing, sinister, sardonic, disillusioned, frightened and insecure loners (usually men), struggling to survive - and in the end, ultimately losing.
Storylines were often elliptical, non-linear and twisting. Narratives were frequently complex, maze-like and convoluted, and typically told with foreboding background music, flashbacks (or a series of flashbacks), witty, razor-sharp and acerbic dialogue, and/or reflective and confessional, first-person voice-over narration. Amnesia suffered by the protagonist was a common plot device, as was the downfall of an innocent Everyman who fell victim to temptation or was framed. Revelations regarding the hero were made to explain/justify the hero's own cynical perspective on life.
Film noir films (mostly shot in gloomy grays, blacks and whites) thematically showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience. An oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion that anything can go wrong, dingy realism, futility, fatalism, defeat and entrapment were stylized characteristics of film noir. The protagonists in film noir were normally driven by their past or by human weakness to repeat former mistakes.
Film noir films were marked visually by expressionistic lighting, deep-focus or depth of field camera work, disorienting visual schemes, jarring editing or juxtaposition of elements, ominous shadows, skewed camera angles (usually vertical or diagonal rather than horizontal), circling cigarette smoke, existential sensibilities, and unbalanced or moody compositions. Settings were often interiors with low-key (or single-source) lighting, venetian-blinded windows and rooms, and dark, claustrophobic, gloomy appearances. Exteriors were often urban night scenes with deep shadows, wet asphalt, dark alleyways, rain-slicked or mean streets, flashing neon lights, and low key lighting. Story locations were often in murky and dark streets, dimly-lit and low-rent apartments and hotel rooms of big cities, or abandoned warehouses. Often-times, war-time scarcities were the reason for the reduced budgets and shadowy, stark sets of B-pictures and film noirs.
Characteristics and Conventions of Film Noir:
The genereal moods of classic film noir were melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia.
Heroes or even anti-heroes, corrupt characters and villains included down-and-out, conflicted hard-boiled detectives or private eyes, cops, gangsters, government agents, a lone wolf, socio-paths or killers, crooks, war veterans, politicians, petty criminals, murderers, or just plain Joes. These protagonists were often morally-ambiguous low-lifes from the dark and gloomy underworld of violent crime and corruption. Distinctively, they were cynical, tarnished, obsessive (sexual or otherwise), brooding, menacing, sinister, sardonic, disillusioned, frightened and insecure loners (usually men), struggling to survive - and in the end, ultimately losing.
Storylines were often elliptical, non-linear and twisting. Narratives were frequently complex, maze-like and convoluted, and typically told with foreboding background music, flashbacks (or a series of flashbacks), witty, razor-sharp and acerbic dialogue, and/or reflective and confessional, first-person voice-over narration. Amnesia suffered by the protagonist was a common plot device, as was the downfall of an innocent Everyman who fell victim to temptation or was framed. Revelations regarding the hero were made to explain/justify the hero's own cynical perspective on life.
Film noir films (mostly shot in gloomy grays, blacks and whites) thematically showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience. An oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion that anything can go wrong, dingy realism, futility, fatalism, defeat and entrapment were stylized characteristics of film noir. The protagonists in film noir were normally driven by their past or by human weakness to repeat former mistakes.
Film noir films were marked visually by expressionistic lighting, deep-focus or depth of field camera work, disorienting visual schemes, jarring editing or juxtaposition of elements, ominous shadows, skewed camera angles (usually vertical or diagonal rather than horizontal), circling cigarette smoke, existential sensibilities, and unbalanced or moody compositions. Settings were often interiors with low-key (or single-source) lighting, venetian-blinded windows and rooms, and dark, claustrophobic, gloomy appearances. Exteriors were often urban night scenes with deep shadows, wet asphalt, dark alleyways, rain-slicked or mean streets, flashing neon lights, and low key lighting. Story locations were often in murky and dark streets, dimly-lit and low-rent apartments and hotel rooms of big cities, or abandoned warehouses. Often-times, war-time scarcities were the reason for the reduced budgets and shadowy, stark sets of B-pictures and film noirs.
Monday 18 October 2010
My first attempt of making a Prezi, on Digital Media Technologies.
This was the first time I had ever made a Prezi, therefore it was not very good. Our task was to just practise using Prezi and get used to it by making a short Prezi on Digital Media Techonologies.
Thursday 14 October 2010
I am Ledgend opening title sequence: Conventional or Unconventional?
During a media lesson, we closely watched the opening title sequence of the film ‘I am ledgend’ looking closely at it’s conventions.
Firstly the opening title sequence is conventional in the way that There is realistic Aesthetic which recreate actual real life experiences. It opens with a news report of a lady declaring that a cure for cancer has been found. It is shown in a different aspect ratio of 7:9, whilst the the film is shown in a 16:9 ratio. It also runs audio without the footage when the news report is being shown. It establishes the city where it is set (New York) by showing yellow cabs, big buildings and the city. We are left with a hook, as to why Will Smith seems to be the only person alive.
It is also shown as unconventional in the way there is a non diagetic soundtrack, and the directors credits are shown during the news report. Also the way it leaves the audience hanging as the plot is made unobvious and hard to understand.
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