A) My connection In my group I had a lot of contributions. In the beginning of the pre-production Matt and I were editing his treatment and trying to come up with a good plot about what was going on and how we should shoot the movie. Matt and I decided what will be the best shot to convey the emotion in the story and the best way to tell what is happening. Also I create the prop and production schedule.
Through this shot I used a worm’s eye view of Matt to show how he was powerful and at the same time scared. For each other shot that I did in the movie I tried to find the best angle and the one that convey the most emotion through the scene. Through this shot the angle was able to portray how the emotion in the scene was rolling. Also I helped with some of the sound production.
Through this me and Matt worked together to produce the best sound quality that we were trying to produce and make the best audio for each scene as we watch it go through. Also I helped Rami with a little of the editing where I felt that some of the scene needed to be cut and how some scenes should be put together.
Through the edit we put together we saw that the shots played out really well and saw how it was playing well through out the shots.
B) Reflection of movie as a whole The movie as a whole was really good. The casting for the movie was very good because all the actors knew what they were doing and how they were suppose to act for that specific scene. The actors were able to play their role in a believable fashion and people knew what was going on. I feel that the actors were able to give a distinct feeling to the characters.
For example like Matt was able to make a believable impression of a man who was talking to his father’s will writer and talk about what was happening. And Dan was able to show a good contrast of Matt’s character that was good while Dan portrayed the evil brother really well. The characters were not very strong on involving the audience but we were able to involve the audience a little bit. However the gestures that our actors produce can be seen as real.
Our dialogue was good however the person saying it showed have been the will writer saying certain parts of Matt’s line and Matt does the same for my lines. The energy from my scene and Matt’s scene are really well portrayed because we were serious and we took the time to practice and get into characters when we were starting the process. As for the Acting it was great because everyone knew what they were doing and how they were suppose to do the scene so it was very well ran and shown in the movie and it made the movie look better. The people were able to understand and stick to the script really well.
Also the script in the movie worked really well because the lines in the script was consisted exactly like what the characters were going to say so that the actors when they were doing their roles they knew every line because they already new the script and the way it is going to play out really well. The script is working very well because it so play the story out. The script was show in the right way with showing it saying it when we can show it and we showed it pretty well in the video and were able to make it look good with the words. Also the script was much interconnected to the film and it made a lot of sense when they were put together.
The wardrobe was very interconnect because we could see what was going on because of the clothing helped move the story because it showed what was happening. The wardrobe made sense to the movie because it showed that people were doing business and there were discussing something that was very business like and portrayed the mood of the scene and very well shown what was going on. Also the wardrobe was the best for the scene because it was also very dark and ominous which allow it to show thing that was different from the people and show what was going on and the different sides. The music however was the same and did help move the movie. The music is good because it works for the shots because when it is playing through them movie the sound will play and it sounded very well. The music was also very well used because the music helped also portray the emotion in each scene and build tension on certain scenes and in other scenes create suspense through the whole scene and make a great match for that scene. Also the props were used very well.
The props were used very well however some of the thing and props were confusing when we used them like the blood on the paper and the whole scene after Austin grabbed the case. Also the case was not very good of a prop because it look really bad. The lighting was very appropriate because of the way the lighting is used and because a lot of the shots were dark and used very well because it made the movie look very cinematic. Also the angles of where the lights are situated were really well used to because it created fast fall off on the person and it showed a very cinematic look at the shots. Also the lights help make a person seem important while in other lights made the person seem less important. The title and credits were good because it gave acknowledgement to all of the people who contributed to the movie. The title was also very legible and was able to tell who was in the movie and who did what part. The title was not very dark and ominous however but very plain and simple. The title and credits does not interfere with or give anything away that was very important. Also the title and credits were on the screen long enough for the people to see each person who contributed to the movie. The framing of the shots were also very good because it showed a lot of the emotion in the shots and showed the people the shots that helped move the story as it unfolded because the shots are showing what is expressed in the movie and in the exact shot. A lot of the camera shots do not draw attention to themselves but they make a really good shot for the movie and move the movie along with the emotion of the shots. The camera were at a constant of different angles that make the movie seem more dark and allowed the emotion to seep into the characters at the same time allowing the audience to understand what was going on. Also a lot of the shots were smooth and they were not bad shots at all and they were pretty good shots that does not draw attention away from any part of the movie. The sound was used very well ad it showed up really well to. Because we can here what is going on in the story and how the actors feel through the story by what they say. The sound was much distorted in some shots.
The sound here was very small because the wind picked up and was very distracting so we were not able to hear the music and what happen in the dialogue. However the movie sound effects were really good because they were very clear and concise and they sound very realistic like the neck snapping. The editing was done really well because we can see the movie flow well and seem very realistic because there is not anything that look very bad like a jump cut but very slowly playing through and look very well developed. With in the editing there were very little scene by scene jumps so there was shot that showed scene by scene continuity. The only problem was that the shots were not what the audience expected at some of the shots because it turn from what the audience is going to expect is going to happen to another shots that was on the other side of what the audience expected. The story it self was really good and it really connected to the idea of Film Noir because it showed a lot of the aspect that people see in film noir and the movie was right on target. The movie also told the story very well because the audience understood that an evil brother was going for a family fortune and they understood what was happening in the story. In the ideology of the movie is that we can see the difference between the good and bad guys. The good guy is Matt who protects the whole family ideas while Dan plays the evil person who wants the family interest for his own ideas. The actors were able t portray the ideas of the characters really well because of the way they react the ideas and people that shape them. The cinematic style that made the movie had some of the ideology of film noir seeping through and being shown in the movie because of the use of lighting and shots shows the dark aspect of the movie. The protagonist is a spokes person of the idea of the director’s film but not a spoke person of the director himself. Because the actor was able to show through the story not the movies directors feeling but the directors interpretation of the movie’s story. The films tone is dark and it reinforce the story of the movie and the values of the characters because it shows what the characters in the movie values and how they need these values to shape their lives. C) Movie connection to film Noir The movie connects to the genera of film noir.
The shots here are a good use of shadows. And shows the way that film noir uses shadows to portray violent scene while still staying within the realms of law.
Another way that the movie connects to the film noir is the idea of the darks taking over because most of the movie is shot at night so people will think that it is the time of crime just like in the film noir movies. Also the movies are very shady and dark so it connects to the genera because it shows the idea of film noir.
The lighting here is a good connection to film noir because it shows the dark side and the darkness as well as the shiftiness of the characters. The lighting also creates a sense of crime in control and telling people what is happening and the dark side running amok and dark aspect is taking over.
The movie also connects to film noir because the movie shows death like in film noir because in the dark movies they also have a lot of death and the death is a symbol of the way the dark side of humanity is taking over.
The chase is another way that connects to film noir because there is a lot of people you follow to get information and to figure out what I happening. This film connects to a lot of aspects of the film noir genera because the film portray the dark side of humanity and how it can cause people to do things and how humans an that side is always going in deeper and causing more trouble. Me overall used a lot of the ideas of film noir and connected it to our short film pretty well.
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