Director: Sheida Producer: Humaira Camera-person: Rafia
The roles of costume and makeup designer and editor will be split between the three.
Synopsis:
A group of friends go on the a camping trip and discover a man in need.
Opening Scene: A blank scene, sounds of a coach pulling over then driving off. The group are shown to walking through the forest when one of them start to hear groans of a man from nearby. The find him rolling around on the floor in excruciating pain. Eyes red, pale skin, bloodless lips.
The group try to call for help but are not able to contact anyone.
They come to check on the 'sick' man but he had disappeared.
A group of friends go on a camping trip. Once there, they start to disappear one by one, leaving Angel, the main character, alone with the creature lurking in the distance.
Simple idea but different conventions can be added to the opening scene.
Opening scene: A girl walking alone in the forest. Her name is called a few times but she shows no reaction. The audience are then shown that she is not by herself as her group of friends are shown walking slowly behind the girl who is revealed to be Angel. Angel see's a dark figure between the trees every now and again before her group catch up to her.
Examples of Vampire conventions that can added into the opening are:
-Costume; cross necklaces or vampire themed jewellery or 'Batman' t-shirts, which are quite ironic, are worn by some characters.
-Actions; Angel sees the figure in multiple places suggesting that it's a vampire with the typical super-speed superpower.
-Mise en scene; filmed in a space with a limited amount of sunlight/sun rays.
-Dialogue; Talk from other characters about 'monsters' in the forest.
-Narrative; The group fail to catch up with Angel as another character, Lori, has a nose bleed.
Other idea can be added or changed by people in the filming group.
The ending is left as a cliffhanger in the written plot so groups can change the ending to their own idea.
All
vampires in The Vampire Diaries possess the same sort of powers so gender in
vampirism isn’t as significant as it might be in other shows.
There
is no major difference between the male and female vampires as they are all
represented as strong and equal characters in terms of vampirism. However, when
it comes to scenes showing social events i.e. parties, the girls still have the
‘sexy attitude’, vampire or not. So we see that even with the idea of
immortality, women are still shown as used as ‘sex objects’.
The
victims, humans the vampires feed on, of this TV show 90% of the time are women
in their 20’s; Implying that young women are the weakest and the more
acceptable target for a ‘drink’. The use of male victims is quite rare as the
we normally see the male as the stronger character both physically and
emotionally as opposed to women.
In
the most recent season of The Vampire Diaries, one of the three main characters,
who is a female, turns into a vampire. With this her emotions are heightened
and sense of morality is weakened. As the main audience for the TV
show are young females, the main character being a capable, attractive girl
presents her as the perfect role model.
Throughout
the narrative, there is only one gay character. Bill Forbes isn't a main or
popular character which could be one of the reasons why he was the one chosen
to be gay. This is because of the concept of ‘The male gaze’; the male audience
would much rather see a male character who’s in charge and is the typical
heroic muscly alpha-male surrounded by action. This makes them feel more
confident and ensures them that that’s what men are supposed to be like.
However, by having a gay male character, most men would feel offended as it’s
going against their stereotype. Also, homosexuals are put at the bottom of the
hierarchy for men as they go against all the traditional norms of a man.
The media conference was very fun! Even though we did sit in an uncomfortable chair for half the day, it was very useful in terms of what media is all about next year. Since we're doing music videos next year, they showed us a music video created by students who won a media award, or something and Corin Hardy, a music video director, was there!
He directed:
AND MORE!
There was also talk about media related research, media competitions and Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein; www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vqgx3 where there for Q & A!
Chloe - 17
I think Chloe's idea is very unique. The storyline makes sense. In terms of filming, casting will be easier to find compared to other ideas and locations that are needed can be found. For this narrative, there are a lot of ways to film the opening.
Alice - 14
Quite a simple idea which makes it easier to alter and add more scenes. I think the making of the opening will be quite interesting as there are loads of possible ways to do it. Again, casting and suitable locations will be easy to find.
Role
I rather be BEHIND the camera so roles like being the director, cameraman, producer etc..
Mostly director as its such a big and challenging role to take.
The Layout of all scripts are the same. descriptions are aligned left and are written with space between lines stating an action or description or dialogue. Any dialogue is aligned in the centre, separating it from the rest. The font is also very simplistic and spaced out to make it clear enough to be read quickly.
Any location, time or character names are written in capitals to make it more noticeable.
If a description or dialogue has not finished it is continued onto the next page; writing "(CONTINUED)" at the bottom of the page.
Conventions
The names of the characters who have newly entered the scene are in capitals after that there's no need.
Location is expanded on using "INT." for indoor shooting or "EXT." for outdoor filming, followed by the specific location; E.g. "HUTTER'S HOUSE" in Shadow of the Vampire then ending with whether it is "DAY" or "NIGHT" to specify the time of day. E.g. "INT. ANTHONY'S HOUSE - NIGHT"
Any camera movements or transitions are stated in capitals; E.g. "FADE IN:" in Interview with the Vampire.
Directions for the actors are always written in present tense, this tells the actor what they should be doing or feeling in that scene. E.g. "Reed laughs self consciously as he turns the shower off." in Sucker: The Vampire.
Dialogue is the most important part of the script, the dialogue is typed in the centre of the page with spacing before and after to make it clear.
A group of friends are sponsored to do a camping event. Once
there, one by one they start to disappear, leaving Angel behind alone with the
ghostly figure lurking in the distance.
Synopsis: A group of young adults go camping in a jungle park just outside
the city. During their 4 nights there, they start to disappear one by one
during the first 2 nights.
This starts when Angel and Lori play fight and Angel accidently
hits Lori in the face causing her nose to bleed. Angry, Lori goes away from the
camp site to clean up but does not return.
The rest of the
group go to find her leaving Caroline and Jamie behind to take care of
everyone's belongings. While looking for Lori, Angel spots a dark shadowy
figure in the distance; she looks away when Connor calls her to tell her they
found the Lori's water bottle and tissue roll covered in blood on the floor. When Angel
comes to look back the distorted figure, it had disappeared.
Returning to the camp site, worried, Caroline tells the group that
Jamie went to find a spot that has signal. After an hour, he does not return.
Convincing themselves that this is a joke, the group continue with what they were
doing.
Realising that it’s been 4 hours since the disappearance of both
Jamie and Lori, the group becomes scared and paranoid and start to accuse each other
of being psychopaths. All hope for return to the city is also impossible as
there is no signal to call the coach or anyone else to pick them up.
Meanwhile, Angels continues seeing the ghostly figure between the
trees but doesn't mention anything to the group, in case they accuse her of
being the ‘mysterious killer’.
However, as time goes on, they disappear one by one until Angel is
the only one left. She zips herself into her tent, when she’s comes to pop head
out to have a look around, her head hits a hard object, she looks up and see’s
what appears to be a vampire looking back at her.
The
stereotype entails that woman are spineless and more delicate than men, so when
presented in horror movies they are put in the role of the emotionally and
physically weaker character who surrender to the darker force, also known as
the victims. Horror movies have become famous for representing woman as damsels
in distress who are eventually murdered as a punishment for their mistakes
witnessed by the audience within the beginning of the film. This relates
to how the media, in general, interprets females as sex objects; showing them
wearing revealing clothes and being completely incompetent. The same level of
respect for women is shown in horror movies.
The
age of female characters in horror movies are always likely to be within a
close range. We either normally see young females who are good looking and of
the white race. An example of these is of ‘Sorority Row’ where the entire main cast
are beautiful young adults or we see preteens, whereas we see male characters
of different ages, different state of minds and physical strengths; for example:
Ryan Reynolds in ‘The Amityville Horror’ and Patrick Wilson in ‘Insidious’.
However,
in more recent horror films, there tends to be that one final girl who manages
to ‘take down’ the killer/antagonist. But it appears as though this one girl needs
at least a small amount of masculinity such as a unisex name, masculine
clothing or even may be less attractive than the other female characters. A
character example of this is Wendy Christensen from ‘Final Destination 3’.
Wendy tries to save everyone from their death and even though the film ends
with a cliff hanger, she is one of the people who survive.
On
the other hand, some horrors present the antagonist to be a female. This is due
to the development in feminism; woman can be portrayed as strong and powerful
characters. Jennifer in ‘Jennifer’s Body’ breaks the convention completely as
she is a young, pretty and popular girl who is possessed and strong enough to
kill her male classmates. The typical storyline of a horror movie is that the
killer goes after the victim, however in Jennifer’s Body; Jennifer uses her
looks to manipulate the male’s sexual neediness and then feeds on them.
Although,
when a female is used as the villain, it seems as if the female has to be a
supernatural being or has to be possessed to be able to put aside emotions and
gain physical power to kill; suggesting that a ‘normal’ female being cannot
commit such deeds. For example: Little
Regan from ‘The Exorcist’, Samara from ‘The Ring' or again Jennifer from ‘Jennifer’s
body’.
Comparing horror movies from 1970’s to horror
movies created in 2000+, the idea that females can also be the heroes who try
to figure out what to do to stop or physically do stop the killer or they can
be the villain is completely valid, yet not widely used as males are still
thought to have natural masculine characteristics.
Mise en scene + Camera + Editing
After the last titling at the beginning of the opening, all writing is wiped, leaving a blank black screen. The screen fades to reveal a cloudy sky. As the camera pans down to ground level, the brightness slightly increases. When the camera reaches ground level, a white mansion, a tree and a young girl is facing and knocking on the tree trunk singing something in Spanish and then turning around to look the opposite way, can be seen.The idea that young girl is the first person seen in the movie makes her important to narrative. The camera is placed under the shadow of the tree, making everything that is placed under it darker than the rest of the shot, meaning the girls face, features or the colour of her clothes can hardly be seen. However, in the background of the same shot, the white mansion is clear and exposed using high key lighting; natural lighting coming from the sun, also making it an important part to the narrative.
After a few lines of the girl singing, other young children start to enter the shot, walking towards the girl. The girl by the tree continues singing and knocking on the tree which makes it clear to the audience that the children are playing a game. As the other children get closer, the camera cuts to a medium close up of the girl and an arm of another child reaching out for her. This could be foreshadowing an event that may happen later on in the film. When they reach the tree, the girl who was originally standing by the tree starts to run after then.The camera follows them running round and making faces at the girl cutting between long shots, medium long shots and medium close ups and tracking from behind various other trees, creating a sense of being followed. Before cutting to what seems to be inside of the mansion, the camera tracks from behind the trees to show a medium close up of a scare crow with an enigmatic facial expression.
Sound
While panning from the sky downwards, the young girls voice is heard saying "Un, dos, Tres, Toca la pared" which translates to "One, Two, Three, Knock on the wall!" As the genre is Horror, the audience can associate this with physical conventions of a scary scene. For example, random knocking on doors/walls, smashing together of objects or glass breaking.
As the scene is set outside chirping and singing of birds can also be heard creating a naturalistic setting.
The faded footsteps of the other children are heard as soon as the enter the shot.
When the camera cuts to a medium close up of the girl, her voice becomes slightly louder. This makes the audience feel as though they are the camera. After the girl starts to run after them, the children start to laugh and squeal, indicating that they are happy and having fun.
The sound of the telephone ringing from the next scene is overlapped into the previous which is the shot of the scare crow.
28 Days Later
Mise en scene + Editing + Camera
The opening of 28 days later shows different clips which are associated with the theme; zombies and narrative of the film. It starts of with titling saying 'Fox searchlight pictures presents' then cuts the back of the head of a monkey with wires attached to its head surrounded by TV boxes each showing different CCTV footage of areas around London. The camera then pans from the side of the tied down monkey to a TV showing footage of several man with blacks masks covering the security cameras at "Cam 3 - - - Cambridge Primate Research Centre" when the screen goes blank. This was to give the audience an insight of the causation to the zombie apocalypse narrative. The movie title '28 days later' appears in the middle of the black background in white and within it red fluid is released. This connotes the theme of evil, murder and blood that appear in the movie. The title than fades with a burning effect expressing the idea of destruction and massacre. From the black screen it cuts to fast cuts of several scene of riots and anarchy and the police who are wearing British police uniforms to add to the fact that the film is set in England. The camera then cuts to and stops on a long shot of a man wearing a blue cliche hospital patient uniform, holding a white plastic bag, walking over a bridge towards the camera. It is obvious to the audience that the scene is part of the film as the background and the actions of the man are different to the scenes of riot. This scene and the next are separated by a black screen and titling saying 'Produced by Andrew MacDonald'. This is meaningful as the producer is important to the creation there put in between scenes that need to be most payed attention to.
The opening continues to show scenes where the man, who now clearly is the main character, walking passed the empty streets and areas in central London.
Sound
All though out the opening title sequence the song 'East Hastings' by GYBE is played.
However, during the scenes shown on TV, the sounds of screams, crashing, radio and distortions play over the music and when the montage ends, the music becomes even louder.
How do they establish genre, narrative, character, ideology
through technical and symbolic codes?
8 Mile.
Genre-Technical & Symbolic
The facial expressions show seriousness, anger or sadness - giving an idea of the Drama genre.
The rap music throughout the opening sequence - giving an idea of the Music genre.
The hip-hop hand gestures and the imitation of holding a microphone to the mouth show that the film is within the Music genre.
The low key lighting of the set a serious mood to show a dark side emphasising the Drama genre.
Narrative-Technical & Symbolic
The setting of the scene is a unclean and vandalised and the character has no reactions towards it therefore it tells the audience the type of lifestyle the character has. Also relating to the Drama genre.
The fact that the main character has locked himself into an entire restroom could mean that the character keeps any feelings or emotions to himself and locks out the world during the movie.
The cross-cutting used in the opening shows nearly all the actors action, the idea that he is doing some many things/movements at one time, gives the audience an idea of the multiple things the character has to go through or experience within the narrative.
Character-Technical & Symbolic
The character and his reflection can be seen with the shot, meaning that there is another side of life/personality as opposed to his potential rap/music life.
The character is wearing a hoodie, beanie hat, tracksuit bottoms and trainers, making him appear like a stereotypical thug.
Eminem being used as the main character is a powerful iconic representation as it emphasises the goals and dreams of the character in relation to Eminem.
Ideology-Technical & Symbolic
Eminem being used as the main character is such a powerful iconic representation of someone who goes through a lot in life but doesn't give up what the really want to do because of anything.
-British-American -Film Director -Producer -Screen writer Movies include:The Dark Knight Trilogy
Inception
Insomnia
The Prestige Style: Psychological, With non-linear narratives and Neo-noir. Tactics: Uses multi-camera for stunt and single-camera for
dramatic scenes. Uses rapid cutting. He likes to hide truth
behind scenes,e.g. Makeup, costumes.
Chris Weitz
-Film Director -Producer -Screen writer -Actor Films: Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Golden Compass
American Pie
About a Boy Style: ?
George A Romero -Film Director -Editor -Screen Writer -'Godfather of Zombies' Movies: Dawn Of The Dead
Land Of The Dead
The Crazies
Night Of The Living Dead Style: Horror, Zombie, Gruesome, Dark
We were easily able to put together a rough edit of the scenes we wanted and well recorded. This was to fix the order of the scenes so that when edited accurately it flows smoothly.
We still need to record a shot of our main character walking up the stairs as without it, the continuity of the edit doesn't work.
We were not able to re-record the scenes with errors but we cut and shorten some clips by using the precision editor to put together the clips the we cut, allowing the video to play in a smooth way. We approached a problem with a clip as the acting wasn't complete before the camera stopped recording. we overcame this by adding titling and this helped cover up a jump cut.
Some camera movement wasn't as stable as is should have been so we cut it out and had a POV shot by the same character.
Towards the end of the video we noticed that we crossed the 180 line. However, it worked as the character looks in the same direction.
We also detached the audio as part of the sound editing. during, we overlapped audios to make the background sound and any additional sound continuous.
We worked together and evened out roles to complete the task and were happy with the end result.
We worked as a group to film our story for the preliminary exercise. By taking different roles and helping each other out, we managed to work together sufficiently. This will help us with our own real production work. We managed to put together an idea to film about and created a rough storyboard to find out what shot types would go best with the scenes. We did not write a script as we decided to have no dialogue in production to make the acting and storyline stand out.
Me, Elle and Muna were actors and Chanelle was the Director/Cameraman. However we all had a chance to place the camera in a certain place that we wanted or fix a particular shot to familiarize ourselves with the tripod and camera.
Within the filming, a task was include the 180 degree rule. We did this successfully by filming from different levels and angles on one side of the line so that when edited together it flows smoothly while obeying the rule.
On the other hand, a difficulty we came across was filming in the location we wanted. As it was on the school grounds, not every room was accessible. In the end we found a suitable classroom to film in and we were happy with it.
What I learnt from the workshops... Teen Representations
I learnt that imagery used for promoting a movie such as a teen movies are as important as the film itself as this DVD cover/Movie poster is one of the first things that an audience sees.
Teenage actors are used in teen movies for the intended audience (teens) to be able to relate to and understand the characters and the situations they are staged in. Body language, costume, make-up, facial expressions, positioning, colours, fonts, background ... are well thought out to hint character personalities and parts the story line of the movie to the audience.
DVD cover conventions
-Main title
-Main actors
-Main image
-Reviews
-Institutional logos
-Rating
-Format logo
-Spine title
-Bar code
-Special features
-Back Cover Images
-Blurb
-Billings block
-Technical specifications
Editing and Filming
30 degree rule/ Jump cut; Part of film editing that says the camera needs to move at least 30 degrees when two different shots of the same subject are edited together.
Shot Reverse Shot; Almost like the 180 degree rule. When two characters are filmed having a conversation, the camera cuts from one side of an actor to the other to show they are looking at each other.
Establishing shot; An extreme long shot/long shot to show the setting/location of where the film takes place
Action Match; Avoiding a lapse in time when different shots of the same moving action is edited together.
180 degree rule; In a conversation between actors the camera stays on one side of the actors, forming an invisible line cutting through the characters.
Continuity editing is editing shots in order of time and place.
The opening of the City of God movie is rather comical yet quite significant in terms of the nature of the film; the chasing and killing between characters. The use of an obscure character, a chicken, grabs the attention of the audience even more than a human character in a more conventional situation like a car chase, would; even though both situations would consist of a chase due to fear or fear of death. However, a car chase would settle by the character being caught but in this movie, the chicken is never caught. The chicken could also represent the value of money in a place like the favelas. The mindless pursue of the chicken could also be thought as the mindless purse of money; the same way that the gang foolishly follow the paths of the get-a-away chicken, most people living in the same conditions would do the same thing for money
The camera exposes a group of people in their usual life routine in the favelas. It starts by showing a eye-catching extreme close-up of a blade which is being sharpened. The size of the shot makes the object quite relevant to the chicken, although in a negative way. The camera cuts repeatedly to make the knife difficult to be seen yet the sound of the sharpening of the blade is easy to hear. There are also close-ups of short cuts of the surroundings; people cooking, playing instruments, what they are wearing and preparation of other chickens. This influences the audience to guess why the chicken is there in the first place. During all this, a continuity shot is used to show the chicken trying to free itself from the string wrapped around its leg using a low angle close-up of the legs of the chicken. This scene also shows the intelligence of the chicken; pecking at the string, and pulling its legs loose.
The imprisoned chicken manages to escape into the alleyway. The music stops and the camera cuts to a close up of chicken blood on a plate to emphasize one of the themes of the movie which includes blood and killing, hence the slaughtering of the chickens in the throughout of the opening scene. The escape of the chicken is significant as it results into the introduction of new characters, disequilibrium's and restorations within the narrative. The disappearance of chicken is shortly noticed by the man who seems to be the leader of the gang who are ordered by him to go after the chicken through the narrow alleyways and streets. It seems that every member of the gang are carrying guns as during the birds eye view of the group running after a chicken, gun shots are heard. This also emphasizes the killing theme throughout the film.
A hand held camera chases after the chicken from a low angle, to make the audience feel as if they are present at the scene. However, no matter how close the camera and the gang members get to the chicken, they never manage to catch it. This could give the audience an idea that the innocent/most harmless character will survive. There comes a point were the chicken 'flies' into the road. It's attempt of flight, which usually connotes freedom, even though chickens can't fly, shows the level of desperation to get away from its death. Also, after flying into the street, the chicken is continued to be chased unintentionally by a car. The car gets as close to the chicken to make the audience feel as if the chickens going to be killed. However, the chicken yet again survives a near death situation. This could be foreshadowing of one of the characters in the story line.
The chicken eventually stops, as it is trapped again but this time between a young boy, Rocket, and the gang. This is shown by the 360 degree camera movement around Rocket showing the entire mise en scene and all characters in the scene. The young boy realises that he and the chicken stands between an armed ganged and the armed police. This makes Rocket as powerless over his life as the chicken, making the animal and himself equal.
Low key lighting- Shows a dark side of the movie. E.g. Disequilibriums, Hate, Villains...
The mirror- Shows a different side to the character. Even though its the same reflection it could hint a different side to the character or his lifestyle.
Actions/Gestures- The main character uses his hands to signify that the movie includes Hip-Hop and Rappers. He does this by using typical Hip-Hop hand gestures as he mimes to his music. He also holds his fist to his mouth as if he's holding a microphone. This also connotes a big role of music and career within the movie.
Expressions- Throughout the opening scene, the main character keeps a serious and neutral facial expression. This could be used as a signifiers for the genre of the movie, which is drama.
The Costume/Make-up- The character is wearing a beanie hat, trainers and a hoodie which makes the audience automatically think of the stereotypical images such as 'thug' or 'trouble-makers'. Even though these are stereotypes, they could be the characters actual personality.
The Setting- Dirty toilets with graffiti all over the walls and dim lights which connotes the environment the characters are living in and maybe even their financial ability.
Music- Mobb Deep - Shook ones pt. 2. This is both diegetic and nondiegetic as the actions of the character is in sync with the music the audience hears. When he takes off the headphones the music stops and the audience realises that he was also listening to the same music.
Titling- Very simple entrance (fades in and out), font and colour. Signifies the simplistic plot and characters.
Camera work- Close-ups, Over the shoulder, Medium shots, fast panning and fast cuts to show each other characters movements, actions and expressions.
Dialogue- Actors speak with aggression and there is no sign of friendliness in the intro. This symbolises the fact that its literally a tough place/time to be accepted.
-All 3 shows include heroes and villains. (All Human)
-All have the sub-genre of Crime.
-Camera shots are similar as all are drama. E.g. Close ups, fast tracks, Long shots...
-Background music before, during and after scenes is used in all 3 shows to create tension or any intended emotion within the audience.
-A large amount of signifiers and iconography is used in all based on each genre/sub-genre. E.g. Prison break uses police officers, prison bars, guns... The Vampire Diaries uses blood, weapons, Nature...
Mise en scene
The film starts by showing two of the institutions, 'UFC' followed by 'UGC'.
After some titling
Street view-car driving by
Empty restaurant terrace-
Medium shot of an old man - who rubs out a mans name from a telephone book due to death.
reproductive system to show the birth of Amelie
Pregnant lady
Birth of Amelie
Actor/Actress name- hand spelling them out with plastic alphabets
Child-like activities; playing with hands, drawing on her face, making faces, playing with dominos...
Editing
Combination of cuts and fading is used throughout the opening.
Sound
One sound plays throughout the opening in the background, with a narrator narrating each scene in French.
Camera
Unstable stand
Close up of child
panning
low- angle shot
high key lighting
Mise En scene
The movie starts by showing the log of the institution involved in the making of 'The Godfather' which is 'Paramount pictures'.
After the institution, there is a black screen followed by the title of the movie before a face of man is shown. The background behind the man is dark and there lighting is only shone onto the actors face. This could be used to help the audience concentrate on the dialogue and the facial expressions of the character.
Editing
The most common transition is the 'fade-out' and 'fade-in' of each take.
No cuts are used. This may be used to continue the slow theme of the opening scene.
Sound
During the clip of 'Paramount pictures' non-diegetic slow background music starts to play. This is known as the original Godfather soundtrack.
At 0:24, the music fades out for dialogue to start; "I believe in America..."
Camera
There is no major camera movement.
Although throughout the opening, the camera starts to pan slowly from a close-up of the actors face into an over the shoulder shot of another character, adding to the audiences curiosity.
Rated: TV-14
Primary audience: 14-35
Secondary audience: 36+
Gender: Most typically males but also females (e.g me!)
Location: At home?
Likes: Comedy, Voices (e.g. Mila Kunis), drinking, rebellion, marijuana, animation, sarcasm, adult jokes (mild language, sexual) etc...
Dislikes: Rules, authority, Parents/adults.
Job titles: Any! It's a relaxing, funny show so it releases any stress just before going to bed.
Mise en scene
The movie starts by showing the institutions involved in the making; Legendary Pictures, Warner Brothers and DC Comics. All following the Black and Blue coloured theme. This is followed by a cloud of blue smoke which then creates the 'Bat signal'.
A long shot is used to show several building and skyscrapers of 'Gotham City' during day time.
The camera zooms into a building with tinted windows and when close enough, a window bursts into pieces.Two characters, which seem to be villains due to their clown-like costumes are shown using weapons.
Another character is shown standing alone at the corner of a road holding a bag and a clown mask similar to the previous characters, showing that his role is connected to the others. He isn't alone for long as a car with two other characters with the same clown themed masks, pull over to pick him up. Following their actions, it isn't clear what they are all doing until 1:46, when the there is a conversation about 'shares'.
Editing
A few quick cuts are used to show the situations between the different characters. However they are within the same time frame; as if overlapping each other, making it mostly continuity cuts.
No transitions are used.
The first 40 seconds of the movie are edits of logos from the institutions involved in the making of the movie.
Sound
When the long shot of the buildings is shown, a ticking music starts playing in the background until the window smashes, then the music tempo builds up. This is repeated a few times which gives the impression that wherever danger is involved, the slow building tone is used to create tension before a sudden sound. E,g Window smashing, Car brakes and gun shots. There is no speech between the two up in the building, the speaking starts when the character standing alone enters the car. Here they talk about 'sharing' something, audience can immediately spot that there is going to be some kind of robbery.
Camera
The scene starts with a zooming long shot of the dull buildings of Gotham. then using over-the-shoulder shots to introduce the characters in a way that hides their true identity.
A combination of Medium shots and Close ups is used during the continuity shots which briefly shows what each (pair of) character/s is up to.
Mise en scene
After the first transition the scene that follow are within a low key lighting setting. Colours of Blue, Grey and Black are used to emphasise the emotions and mood of the characters and storyline, which is shown on the flat screen TV on the cafe wall, showing technology in the time the movie is set.
The actors used o play the role of business people at a cafe are all above 18 years of ages, this shows the importance of 'Baby Diego' as being the youngest person in the world.
The camera follows the main character into the street, continuing the low key lighting as the there is a lot of smoke produced by the famous Red London buses, cars and derelict motorcycle carriages. The pavements are black and dirty as the rubbish bins have not been managed. The people walking in the streets are all wearing dark coloured clothing, almost blending in.
However, the advertisements on the buildings and buses are all moving images relating to the year (2027) it was set.
Editing
At 0.05 a black screen cuts to the cafe scene at 0.06.
The main character walks in to the cafe and looks up at the TV screen in the top corner; which then cuts into a point-of-view to show what the character is seeing.
As the main character makes his way out of the cafe, continuity cuts is used to follow him into the streets.
Sound
Throughout the black screen and into the first scene, the voice of 2 different newsreaders is used to tell the story of the death of ' Baby Diego'. The female voice showing a more emotive tone and the male more of a neutral informative tone.
Entering the road, the sound of motorcycles, worn-out car brakes, buses and honking tunes out any casual street conversation.
The sound of the explosion and the noise after included the burst itself, females screaming, glass shattering and a high-pitched tone. This is an effect to imitate what a person at the scene would hear.
Also music from the TV is heard in the background of the cafe scene until the character enters the street, which over takes the music.
Camera Cafe
High angle shots are used that show the actors looking up to it as if the camera is the TV.
When the main character enters the room and looks up at the TV, the camera is placed at a low angle as if the camera is the eyes of the character.
The moving shot is used to follow the character out of the cafe. Street
Exiting the shop the camera films the street from right to left until the main character is within the shot. then the camera continues following the character until the camera is placed on the left side of the actor to show the explosion.
