Friday 28 November 2014
Peaky Blinders History
PEAKY BLINDERS from ITV Central on Vimeo.
This is a news report on the history of the Peaky Blinders who were a gang in Birmingham close to the 1920's. The show has a Noir aspect to it so I will analyse its opening.
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Wednesday 19 November 2014
Continuity Task
What is continuity in a level media?
What was our brief?
We had to complete a task
which included making a video that helped us to understand continuity within A
level media. We had to stick to the following rules:
180 Degrees
The
most simple diagram which I found helped me to understand this most.
most simple diagram which I found helped me to understand this most.
Whist
filming you have to stay on one side of the action. It keeps the order of characters looking at each other when only
one character is seen onscreen at a time.
The
most simple diagram which I found helped me to understand this most.
Whist
filming you have to stay on one side of the action. It keeps the order of characters looking at each other when only
one character is seen onscreen at a time.
Match on action shot
Whilst
searching for what this exactly was I found a definition which summed it up
perfectly for me to be able to understand.
‘Match on action (or cutting on action)
is an editing technique for continuity
editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying theaction of the subject in the first shot.’
Shot reverse shot
‘Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique
where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen),
and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.’
In addition to this we had to include a door opening and
closing.
Holli & Ruby Final Continuity Task from Ruby Millard on Vimeo.
This is our final continuity video. My input on the task was filming and editing and my partner Holli was in the video and also contributed to editing
Se7en Analysis Essay
Se7en Analysis
The film se7en is about two
detectives on the hunt for a serial killer whose victims are attacked based on
the seven deadly sins. ‘Pride,
covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.’ He makes a book for each.
During the opening title sequence we are shown the killers murder
diaries. As gloomy as it is they have allowed the creator of the scene to fill
the clip with different texture. The books have ratty pages and the ink seeps.
The director has also been quite clever to shine light through different pages
so that we are able to see what is on the other side. As they are full of dark
pictures of the victims and scribbled diagrams and mad thoughts. Defacing picture of a boy, starting with the eyes,
might indicate personal issues from childhood or simply represent the violence
of the character. While less graphic than say the images of instruments of
torture shown in the sequence, there’s something more sinister about the act of
crossing out the boy’s eyes. The act takes away something fundamental about our
sight that connects us, so the metaphorical removal of the eyes is like locking
the figure in, imprisoning. This may be the character showing is jealousy
without meaning to. He may not mean to show that he cares but in fact taking the
effort to target someone shows that he feels an emotion. Have it be anger or
hatred. We never see his face. This could be because we are meant to feel like
we are the character, or we are being shown by the character what great
accomplishments he has been making.
As a whole it gives us a schizophrenic experience from the murders mind.
There are electronic fragments of sound and extremely short close ups of the
Killers hands. Occasionally hand written text overlaps the filmed
footage. Broken and it looks as if it was not meant to be seen. Like the murder
could not help but blurt it out. It feels like it is on a different layer and
if it’s from the characters mind makes me think that he sees in more than one
dimension. Instead of hearing voices he may see them. Instead of seeing colors for example he may feel them. He may have Synaesthesia. Lots of
people would like to experience this as it is the unknown to the majority, but
this may eventually send someone insane and the confusion may lead them to do
strange.
After all of this I think that the character
is quite contradictive to himself. Two of the seven deadly sins are pride and
anger. To create something so detailed filled with things in different media
takes a long time. To not feel proud of what you have made at the end is
impossible. He feels anger towards the victims as they are committing the sins.
Which in fact means when he gets to anger he is committing it himself. I would
also include envy. He may feel this way towards the little boy who’s eyes he
crosses out. But I think at the end of the crimes he commits he feels to smug
to feel envious. Before he may have but in an act of anger it is taken away and
replaced with pride.
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