Film Langauge Essay - Mr Bush (:

27 Dresses

27 Dresses genre is comedy and romance. Throughout the scene you are presented with diegetic sounds which consist of the protagonist talking and the music played in the back ground. The scene is romantic as she is confessing to a male about how much her love has grown for him and near the end of the confession the music starts to plays, which is parallel to the scene. The reason why it was parallel sound is because that particular scene the producers and director wants the audience to feel as if they are on that boat, witnessing true love, so they attract the audience with the music. If they used contrapuntal sounds they would have lost the audiences interest and not take the scene as serious as it was. 

The editing used in this scene is jump and fade because it is like you blink and the scene has changed, this could create mystery and suspense because you are not able to see the other characters expressions, this enables the audience to stay in focus with what is happening, as you’re not shown every moment of each character. Also, as she continues her confession, the male’s expressions are not giving any sign of connection with the feelings she is giving out, which makes the audience wonder what will happen next, allowing them to continue watching.

The lighting used in this scene is high key because as the male is walking through the crowd you see shadows of the other people on him but his shadow shown quite realistic, they used this to show his facial expressions and they want him to stand out from the crowd for the audience to draw all their attention to him and no one else, with the key light. The rest of the lighting comes from the decorations and candles, giving a more realistic look to the scene.

The camera angles used are medium long shot to focus on the character more than the setting. When the male is moving through the crowd, they use panning, this connotes the audience to follow the male like they would if they were in the scene, and there is no stress to the audience’s eye and a zoom. They do an over shoulder view from the males shoulder to connote what both male and female view. This allows the audience to see from the characters point of view. They continuously repeat this view; could be using a shot reverse shot from over the shoulder because the audience are able to see what they are seeing and also able to identify with the character, empathising with them. Throughout the scene there is a high angle from the male looking up to the women on the stage, to connote who is in control of the feelings. Besides that, the rest of the scenes are medium long shot. 

The clothing the protagonist is wearing is a black dress, this questions the audience because black is meant to connote evilness and dark, however the protagonist is neither evil nor dark, but she is seemed to be mysterious and tries to hide away from her feelings. This connotes her innocence and how she shy’s her character away from the world. Her body language towards the male is as if she wants to 'live life on the edge' but her innocence and she being shy is stopping her from being open. This allows the majority of the audience to relate to her because people in love do not tend to be open, they tend to be shy. Therefore people can relate to them.

The male is wearing a grey top, with a navy shirt and a black blazer; this colour connotes a similar feel to back but the colour connotes protectiveness and very open hearted compared to the colour black. However, the male looks quite scruffy because of the way his hair is laid. Men tend to be more open, allowing the male audience to relate to him.

The make-up and the hair are very simple, because it is a Hollywood movie, the make the make-up and hairstyles more realistic as romance happens in everyday life, so it is hard to exaggerate with make-up, plus this will confuse the main audience and lose their primary audience.

Cinematography -Mr Bush (:

Its a Wonderful Life (1946)

Its a Wonderful Life's genre is a drama, fantasy and romance. The movie is about an angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

The cinematography used in the particular scene are: firstly, at the beginning you see a medium-long shot of a little girl in bed, she calls in the protagonist, her father, with a long shot and as he walks they us panning. By using a long shot, the audience are able to see the type of character he is by the way he is dressed. He is dressed smartly with a suit and a tie, however his posture is not straight and he slouching connoting his character is not really interested and does not care about what is doing or how he looks because, maybe, his job takes a lot of energy out of him or just does not appreciate his life.

Secondly, there is a close up to the petals that fell on the little girls bed, which could connote those petals are foreshadowing something that will come up later on in the movie. They continue to use panning and focus on the protagonist, by using panning it allows the audience to follow the moving image smoothly with their eye. There is another close up of the protagonist putting the petals in his pocket pretending he had stuck the petals back on to the flower.

Finally, another close up is shown of the two characters in that seen to allow us to see facial expressions and only focus on them instead of the mise-en-scene.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) (stop at one minute)

Eyes Wide Shuts genre is drama, mystery and thriller. the movie is about a New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long adventures of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.

The cinematography used in the particular scene are: firstly, they use a medium-long shot and panning to show the settings and the clothing the man is wearing and then there is a sudden jump to a close up with a man in a gold musk and white face, it is a close up allowing the audience to concentrate on the facial expressions on that man, which is just a straight face connoting seriousness and intensity.

Secondly, there is tracking shot of a group of people doing some ritual and then a zoom to two people on the top balcony and they turn and face the camera, connoting something is going to occur due to these men./women. there is a shot reverse shot used and you are looking up at the men, low angle shot, connoting the importance of the men/women in that particular room. Then there is a long shot to show the whole room and what exaclty is going on, showing the audience different angles of the room and ritual connoting what everyone is looking at. they go to a scene of a taxi driving, which could show someone important is in that taxi and is the main protagonist or hero to stop something bad to happen.

Finally, there is a zoom out of a women and man eating grapes (or some sort of fruit), and then a zoom of becoming intimate, as it zooms in the audience is able to see the type of expression on the ladies face and she does not look too comfortable, which could connote she could be leading him on for the ritual to take place or she feels guilty about almost cheating on her husband.

The key difference in these two movies are: most of the angles shot in Its a Wonderful Life if they use natural movements like panning, but for Eyes Wide Shut they use tracking shots.

Four Still Images:

The Ring

In the image of 'The Ring', the type of angle the shot is a medium long shot. The reason for this is because you are able to see the setting and also you are able to see the facial expressions on the lady, which persuades the audience to see further in too. If you have not seen this movie and you see this image you are persuaded by the facial expressions to see how and why she is screaming and frightened.

The Last Exorcism:

The image above shows a long shot of the girl and man looking as if he is going to perform a ritual or some sort of prayer on the girl for her to release the demon from her. This picture is effective due to the type on angle it shot in because you are able to see the what exactly is going on and the mise-en-scene which is every appealing and allows the audience to get their own view on what exactly is happening, instead of being told from a picture whats happening, they are able to have their own view, as your are unable to make out the facial expressions.

Mary Poppins:

The type of shot taken in the picture about is a medium shot, this is effected because you can see the facial expressions and the mise-en-scene allowing the audience to be empathetic to the characters.

Harry Potter:

In this still image of Harry Potter you can see a high angle shot, medium shot to see the environment they are in, their facial expressions but you are unable to understand what they are looking at. Judging from watching some harry potter films, it has some relevance to an adventure they are going to go on. This is effective because the audience are able to understand what is going on but are also able to make some assumptions on what they may be looking for.

Extension Task - Mr Bush (:

The history of Hollywood’s technological development is one of opportunism driven by economic motives. Many critical accounts, however, suggest that the inventions of cinemas, and its following technological development, responded to a pre-existing aesthetic. 

In the late 1920s, the sound in cinema of picture palaces incorporated all the major features of cinema technology, it was essentially creating 19^th century inventions; mechanical sound recording, an efficient film transport mechanism, the electric light. Although, a few cinemas pay much attention to the development of sound technology, the cinematic equipment is a machine of the audible as well as the visible, and more fundamental changes have taken place in the technology of electrical sound recording and transmission than in the optics and chemistry of image processing.

There are two main sounds, Parallel and contrapuntal sounds. Parallel sounds are when the music is expected with a scene, for example soft romantic music playing over a love story. Whereas, contrapuntal sounds are when the music is not expected with a scene, for example, classical music playing over a fight scene.

For contrapuntal sounds, it allows the audience to see a different light what is actually going on in the scene, following on with my example for contrapuntal, in a fight with classical music playing over it would allow the audience to relate to the emotions in the scene instead of getting the adrenaline of the up-tempo music with a fight scene, which is parallel sounds.

On extra paper, I have done a collage of contrapuntal and parallel pictures with certain songs. For parallel sound, I used images for death and war; the music accompanied was ‘Phil Collins-Against All Odds’, this is parallel sounds because the music relates to the type of pictures presented.

On the other hand, for contrapuntal sounds I used romantic pictures with a song called ‘Requiem For a Dream by Clint Mansell’, this shows an intense orchestra instrumental with romantic pictures to show the contrast and how certain photos express different emotions.

Film Ms wigley (:

Film process

• Someone has an idea for a movie.
• They create an outline and use it to promote interest in the idea.
• A studio or independent investor decides to purchase rights to the film.
• People are brought together to make the film (screenwriter, producer, director, cast, crew).
• The film is completed and sent to the studio.
• The studio makes a licensing agreement with a distribution company.
• The distribution company determines how many copies (prints) of the film to make.
• The distribution company shows the movie (screening) to prospective buyers representing the theaters.
• The buyers negotiate with the distribution company on which movies they wish to lease and the terms of the lease agreement.
• The prints are sent to the theaters a few days before the opening day.
• The theater shows the movie for a specified number of weeks (engagement).
• You buy a ticket and watch the movie.
• At the end of the engagement, the theater sends the print back to the distribution company and makes payment on the lease agreement.

A film distributor is an independent company, a subsidiary company or occasionally an individual, which acts as the final agent between a film production company or some intermediary agent, and a film exhibitor, to the end of securing placement of the producer's film.

During this period,1920s to 1950s, Hollywood film production was dominated by the studio system, which saw an ownership develop in which a handful of major studios competed with one another by signing and developing stars and using films as 'vehicles' in which to serve these stars up to the public. While some critics have argued that this resulted in highly processed, highly manufactured and highly repetitive films, it is an undeniable fact that some of the greatest Hollywood films of all time were created during this period. 'Gone with the Wind', 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Casablanca' are just three of the classics released through the studio system, and it is also clear that the decline of the studio system in the 1950's and 1960's coincided with the end of Hollywood's dominance of the American film industry.

Horizontal integration means the merger of firms at the same stage of production in the same or different industries. For example, AOL and Time Warner.

Vertical integration means the merger of firms at different stages of production and distribution in the same industry. For example, Sony and Ericsson

Film Noir (: Mr Bush

Film noir was created by French film critics, Nino Frank in 1946, who noticed the trend of how 'dark', downbeat and black the looks and themes were of many American crimes and detective films released in France to theatres following the war.

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 Film noir films, mostly shot in gloomy grey, blacks and whites, thematically showed the dark and cruel side of human nature with doomed love, and they emphasised 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, dirty realism, futility, defeat and entrapment were stylised characteristics of film noir. 

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Film noirs films were marked visually by expressionistic lighting, deep-focus or depth of camera work, disorienting visual schemes, gloomy shadows, skewed camera angles, circling cigarette smoke and unbalanced or moody compositions, called Chiaroscuro. Usually settings often use low-key lighting, dark, claustrophobic appearance. 

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In different scenes, film noir can use either: High-key lighting or Low-Key lighting. High-Key lighting is when there a more filer lights and the shadows are more realistic, where Low-Key lighting is when it shows strong contrasts of light and creates dramatic shadows. However, the main lighting used is mainly Low-Key lighting to create the gloomy suspicion in the scene.

2)  In this scene, film noir, consists of filler light being used as you can see the shadow of the man on the women and there is a shadow on the right side of his face, Low-Key lighting as it has created dark, dramatic shadows, which could connote he is being dominated by the women’s smoke as she blows into his face. By a women smoking connote femmes’ fatales, which is when the character is mysterious and unloving and the man is allowing the women to blow in his face as his facial expression is straight. 

The clothing of both characters is: the man is wearing a suit to how high classed he is or it could be his usual look because in the 1950s people dressed in suits for their everyday life. The women however is wearing a very revealing dress to connote a side of her personality which is quite dominating and mysterious but with long formal gloves, which questions the reader on what type of person she is, because the long formal gloves connotes an elegant side to her. Her facial expressions are not clear because of the shadow because the light is hitting her face directly, creating a large dark shadow on her lower face. 

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The man who wasn't there (2OO1), use film noir, as you can see when he wakes up there is Low-Key lighting with top lighting which allows the audience to see the facial expression of the protagonist. From then you can see he is in peace but as the three other men wake him up there is back lighting and also key light because you can see the facial expressions of the pope but you can vividly see the guard’s facial expressions due to the back lighting. Throughout the scene, there is a large amount of usage of top lighting which connotes they want the audience to see the protagonists facial expressions and the surrounding but when there are certain parts where the light is not there, it could connote his mixture of feelings but he keeps a constant facial expression throughout which is questionable for the audience, whether or not the lighting is reflecting his feelings or the people around him. 

His clothing is what they wear in prison, which connotes the setting and the type of person he is, but the lighting and his voice over says differently. Therefore, all these techniques used allow every individual to have their own opinion on the character.

Twentieth Century Fox- Ms Wigley

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia are a series of seven books by C.S. Lewis, telling the history from its creation to its ending of a land where animals talk. Television Serial adaptations of the first four books have all been televised by the BBC and released on DVD. They have joined with the BBC to advertise the movie by showing it and it was posted on many billboards around the country which promoted the movie a lot.

The premiere also advertised the movie because whilst the premiere was going on it was advertised on the radio and the presenters would talk about the movie, which interests the listen in directly persuading them to watch the movie; they also create an image of how many people have attended making the listeners believe the movie is really good, such as “Capital Fm”. This is not only advertising the premiere it is also adverting the radio station to show the efficiency.

The Chronicles of Narnia made several of games, depending on the story; they were produced on PS3, PS2 Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. 

Finally, The Chronicles of Narnia were also advertised in McDonald.They were toys in the happy meal and in the restaurant, there was a small section where they had, in a transparent box, all the characters in Narnia and the setting was just like the movie which promotes the movie and catches the audiences eye and allows them to have a little in site on what the movie is about.

Mise-En-Scene (: Mr Bush

The image above shows a women and a man at a restuarant. The man is wearing a blue and yellow/cream suit and the women is wearing a black dress. In the scene the men looks as if he is trying to sell something to the women or trying to make some sort of deal and in his left hand it looks like he is holding money. His facial expression could connote that he is desparate, with the eager look upon his face.

Whereas, the women in the black dress and red lipstick is looking away from the man. She looks as if she wants to ignore the man nd get on with her evening, the look upon her face could connote that she has done something that she cannot get out of and her only result was to ask this man. She looks rude and agnorant because of her body language, with the elbows on the table and raised eyebrows to connote no manners and she believes the ‘deal’ that he is purposing to her is not what she wanted to happen.

The colour of the background is red, with a red lamp on the table, which could connote anger and blood, she could of murdered someone becuase she is wearing red as well so it relates back to her. The red could also connote love, and how they are just a married couple goin through a tough time. They are also surrounded by green leaves. This could connote how different they are to the rest of the people in that restaurant. The colour green can represent nature and also symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. It could be the growth of a new relationship or start and fresh beginning; because it is a dark green colour it connotes ambition, greed, and jealousy. Green and red do not complement each other, which could connote this two people, are two completely different people but are forced to get along because of ones doing.  

In “The Devil Wears Prada”, which is a comedy drama, in the scene presented you see the protagonist first she seems to be well educated by the way she walks, sophisticated and eager to succeed but does not seem to connect with the environment she is in. she wears casual wear, jeans, scarf and jacket, nothing expensive. She looks very fragile because when she sees the buildings she looks intimidated by the size which connoted that she is frightened easily but well powered people and the environment. She seems to stand out from the crowd because she is not use to the way they are. She is judged by what she wears but it does not stop her from her interview and agrees with what is provided.

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Inception is a movie that is combined with genres such as, action, crime, mystery and Sci-Fi. In this scene, he is describing what happens in this whole movie, which is also educating us about the story. The characters are dressed casually but the main characters wear simple but different clothing by wearing old school business suits. The girl she is wearing a usual outfit worn by a usual school girl. The environment has a close connection with the characters because they know what could happen and they do not look alien to the rest of the surrounding characters.

Saw 2 which consist of the genres: crime, horror, mystery and thriller. In the scene represented you can see a light ball and different types of lights around to connote what the kind of murder or torture will happen next. Then you are given a scene where a man with a neck lock around his head with only boxers on with blood dripping down his eye in a dark room with only a few lights that we saw previously. You are then represented with ‘jigsaw’ the protagonist in the movie. This connotes the horror and thriller in this scene and how it will be gruesome by knowing the key is in his eye and the only way to survive is to get the key out.