Film Aspects Slide Deck 4

How does tone work in film?

Tone gives a type of mood and atmosphere of a film scene in a movie, the director uses this to give points and views to what the movie is directed to, e.g Serious,Attitude, amusing, etc.
What else can we call tone in film?
I would refer tone to other words like Emphasis and Stress, because it does relate to what the movie can show relative to its genre.
What are 3 main elements of tone?
Authors use a lot of elements to create tone, things like imagery, details, and figurative language. I think its a must for authors to use words to convey feelings and emotions to create tone, and everything has to go for its main subject in the film or whatever its subject may be,
How and why does Coppola use tone in the classic film 'The Godfather'?
The author of this film uses exposure to make the film both dark and bright. Tone was used effectively to give the movie both dark and bright type of feelings, dark for him going through tough decisions dealing with violence and death, while his daughter is outside in the brightness getting married having an excited celebration.
How can directors control the feelings of the scenes?
Adding both Lighting and Exposure with details and points as to why its happening, e.g Darkness = Sadness and misery.

How is contrast used in films?

Contrast is used in many ways, things like Colour, Camera Movement, Blocking, Tone, Art Direction etc.
What are the ways directors can contrast in film?
The use of Camera movement/angles, giving a film colour and Tone, and just the use of art and how things are going to be used to take part into the film.
What is contrasted in Spike Jonze's ad?
She went from darkness into the beginning, to coming home to where she is more comfortable and dancing in so much colour and brightness showing emotions. Camera angles and we moving crazily, Art was used effectively on the walls to show emotions, All colours on the rainbow was used during her happy scene.
Why did he contrast these things?
By showing what many things can be shown into one short ad video, and how many things can be used effectively.

How does the insert shot work in film?

Insert shot grabs the audience attention to the focal part of a scene, what ever its showing, the audience is going to see it.
What is an insert shot?
Insert shot is an isolation shot that focuses on a specific detail in a scene.
What is the purpose of an insert shot?
When a scene uses an insert shot, the viewer has time to see the specific detail the scene is trying to show, it can be a single object, or a ton of objects. The character is to also communicate with the viewers.
What are the 3 main aspects of the insert shot?
Composition, Colour and Timing.
What 3 things help the audience feel about the insert shot?
Shot size, Shot Angle and Camera movement will help the audience feel about the insert shot.
Composition of the insert shot helps with what in film? 
Shot size depending on Extreme close up to Extreme long shots helps make the scene get a better feeling. Shot angle depending on many angles like, Dutch tilt, Pan, Birds eye view etc, can be used to make everything seem more realistic and powerful. Camera movement also is a good technique to use when doing insert shots, if the camera was to stand still in every single scene in the movie, it would just be a disaster.
Colour in the insert shot helps with what in film?
Colour is used to draw attention to specific points within insert shots. also colour is not always to use to draw the eye, but as an narrative device and use to contrast.
How long you dwell on the insert shot helps show what? 

How does the over-the-shoulder shot work?

Over the shoulder is shot behind a person over the shoulder. Its framed to where the person looking, either an object or subject. The person who is looking at an subject or object would remain 1/3 of the screen for we are supposed to know where they are looking.
What is the effect of an over the shoulder shot?
Over the shoulder shot will connect your characters
What film aspect shows a disconnection between character?
Single shot angle, to show isolation or an imbalanced between the characters.
What eventually totally isolates the female character?
She began to lose connection and is no longer on the same page as the man who she had been having an over the shoulder conversation with.

How is the dutch angle used?

A dutch angle also known as dutch tilt, can be used for dramatic effects in a film to help portray unease, desperate action, unsettling, intoxication, etc.
The dutch angle does what?
Dutch angle is used to signal when something is disorienting unsettling.
What is a dutch angle?
A dutch angle is a shot that has a noticeable tilt on the camera's "X Axis"
Who and when created the dutch angle?
Dutch tilt is a camera technique that was used by the German Expressionists in the early 1900s, basically not actually dutch.

How does production design work in film?

A production design is an overall look of the production from a film.
What makes up production design?
The production designer is in charge of each shooting location to be perfect, prepared and on point. The production designer takes the writers work, the directors vision, also with the producers plannings, to synthesize everything into a visual story.
What are the 3 main things production design can help reveal?
Setting of Mood, Character and Theme.

How does film blocking work in film?

Blocking a scene is to simply work out details of an actor's movements into relation with the camera.
What are 3 ways directors use blocking in film?
1. Planning where actors will be placed on the set and on the first camera position.
2. First shot light positioning.
3. Lighting and adjustments
What are 3 main shapes for film blocking?
Circles, squares and triangles.

How do visual motifs work in film?

What is a motif?
Decorative image or design, or something that repeats forming a pattern.
Why are they important?
Motifs allow directors, writers and Authors to design a more poetic and stabled narrative, giving audiences and readers symbols of larger ideas.
What makes a great work of art?
In films there are many things you can find out, and come back to over and over again to find greater and greater depth.

How does colour work in film?

In film making, colours are used effectively to set tone or contrast to bring a scene together, and it always speaks before we think whats happening.
How does colour in film affect people?
Colours elucidate emotions and have a psychological affect on people
What are the 3 factors in determining colour?
HUE, Saturation and Brightness.
Why is hue in 'The Matrix' mostly green?
The movie takes place inside of a digital matrix, we also associate green with code, the green in 'The Matrix' has a certain sickly quality to it reflecting the overall state of affairs in that world.

How does camera movement work in film?

Camera movement works in many different ways, things like directing an audience attention into what is happening in the film., revealing off screen space, or create expressive effects.
What are the purposes of the Whip pan and Slow pan?
Whip pan turns from one place to another quickly to form a jolt of energy, and slow pan gives us time to take in the landscape.
What is the purpose of the tilt shot?
Tilt often reveals somethings to us, suddenly redirecting our attention.
What does the reverse dolly zoom help show?
To show us that the character is having an intense internal experience.
What are difference between a steadicam and dolly shot?
The Steadicam is stabilised on a camera operator which you have more space to move and gently get a good shot. Dolly shot does offer the same tracking camera movement, but just more bigger and you won't have really enough space to film in a room with a lot of people.
What can the hand held shot help create for the viewer?
Almost the same as the steadicam shot, but more shaky to give the viewer a more anxiety feeling.
What should directors ask themselves with their camera movement?
Maybe think about going further more into what they are doing with there shots, e.g putting two or more shots together and see the full results.
Camera movement should be doing what?
Camera movements should always have a part in the movie where they feel like they are in the movie, and always satisfying people and not having people wish they saw what they wanted to see and later in the movie they didn't get the chance to see.

How does a POV or POT shot work? 

POV, which stands for Point of View shot is a film angle that shows what they actors in the film are looking at.
What is a POV shot?
A point of view shot is a short scene in a film that shows what a character is looking at they can look at it in first person too.
What is a 'Point of thought' shot?
POT is a shot aimed at a subject or character that happens within easy reach
Why are they important?
Its important because it helps and engage a reader or viewer to the character's feelings and actions.

How do establish shots work in film?

They place where they are filming there location in the film, then what type of camera technique they are going to use, and tone to hype the audience to lead us to the next part of a movie.
What is an establishing shot?
Establishes a scene, transitioning to a new scene.
Why is it used?
Its important to have this because it sends a clear message that a new scene is about to open, and it gives the audience some hints in the movie.
Why are establishing shots usually the most expensive?
Because you can see everything.