Din Din's - Final Film Project for Moving Image

Din Din's - Final Film for Moving Image

 

The final outcome of my final film turned out to be an abstract film of the markets going home to cook a boil up and then the warm fuzzies I get when Iv'e fed my family (kids).  I had the idea to do an abstract film from the start and to tell the story or a routine we go through. I decided to go with the idea of when we go to the markets our usual ritual is to go there have a look around at the stores and to enjoy the kai (food). We go to the markets to grab us a pork bones and sausages from the butcher, potatoes and greens from the vegetables and fruit area and definitely grab us some raro donuts (a must in the household).

The markets is a place to enjoy the company, food, entertainment, and to do some healing with the retail therapy. My kids are the main inspiration for this piece and the incorporation of them is to show that they are the most important things to me in this life and I will try my utmost but to cater to their needs especially their stomach. 

Din Din's is the title of the film as this is what we call dinner time either kakai's or Din din's (dinner).

The music chosen were two separate music tracks one being a Polynesian drumming track to represent the Polynesian invasion and the colours and beat of the music. In editing I tried my best to try and sync the beats and images together at the same time to create harmony and the flow arrangement. With every strong beat there was either a interchange between images or play with effects to create either rapid movement or easy play in between interludes. The second track was from Whirimako Black and is actually based on food so that it all links back to the theme and mood I was trying to create.

Camera shots were difficult at times, trying to film in rain and control some sound recording if any good recording the time. I very much enjoyed even though it was time consuming the editing process in Premiere.

3 minute stalker movie - Nights Watch

24.05.2016

We have been divided into groups of four and have been given the task to do a movie which includes suspense in it.  The group includes me, Dorothy, James, Tahana and Nicholas with the late arrival of Biley and Grace. We have been given the task to do a stalker 3 minute film and learning from previous classes the best ways to create suspense.

Pre - production of film has been done to make the filming process easy which includes audio, costume, actors, location, booking of camera, concept, storyboarding and research for blogger.



STALKER

Have taken industrial sound effects that might help with the suspense of the film.  Might help with the mood of the film.

Since I had gone to Rarotonga for the filming of the movie.  I looked at the behind the scenes production to do while I was away, that included doing / collecting sound effects or music for the editing of our films.  I enjoyed that process as now I know how to download and import to premiere.

Suspenseful Stories

17.05.2016

Suspense - Alfred Hitchcock
Master of Suspense
Rising Action - stakes must always get higher, build it up, the suspense needs to grow.

Suspenseful Scenes

Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart,Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest movies ever made. The film received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked No. 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and No. 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition. In 1997, Rear Window was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Flow of Movie Scene for suspense

Mise en Scene - the pre production process of analysing the scene and what vibe you what to introduce to the audience.  Need to think more about whats happening outside the film and internally thinking about everything.

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Darkness - The whole room was dark already portraying a vunerable state for the

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Point of view

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Silence

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Not speaking

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another tension

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consequences of what might happen are more

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Lighting / camera angles / wide shots / still / airiness suspense

Munich - Steven Spielberg

Munich is a 2005 French-Canadian-American historical drama and political thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organisation after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.

Based on the book Vengeance about Yuval Aviv, who states he was a Mossad agent, Munich follows a squad of assassins as they track down and kill alleged members of the group Black September, which had kidnapped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.

Shot in Malta, Budapest, Paris and New York City, Munich was a critical success but is also one of Spielberg's lowest-grossing films. It garnered positive reviews and five Academy Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay (Kushner and Roth), Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn) and Best Original Score (John Williams).

Palestine / Israeli 1972 broke into Olympic Village , had killed 11 Israeli athletes.  The film was the reaction after that incident.

Setting of the scene

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Confusion / characters

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Sounds of sirens
Predictability
Rushing sounds
Silence (major thing)

No country for old men






No Country For Old Men - Hotel Showdown - Duration: 7:37

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller film directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, it tells the story of a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran to whom chance and greed deliver a fate that is neither wanted nor denied; a cat-and-mouse drama set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas Themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance are explored; ones that the Coen brothers have previously explored in Blood Simple and Fargo.

The film premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. It won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards –Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay, allowing the Coen brothers to join four previous directors honoured three times for a single film. In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) including Best Director, and two Golden Globes.The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year,and theNational Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.

More critics included No Country for Old Men on their 2007 top ten lists than any other film, and many regard it as the Coen brothers' masterpiece, as well as one of the best films of the 2000s. The Guardian's John Patterson said "the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based Western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors," and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that it is "a new career peak for the Coen brothers" and "as entertaining as hell."  

I enjoyed this film its entriguing and yet quite enticing film to watch.

Lighting

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Door

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Silence

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Suspense in waiting

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Climax and then rided out


The Hurt Locker - Katherine Bigelow






The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film about an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are being targeted by insurgents with booby traps, remote control detonations and ambushes. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, it is as of 2016 the only film by a female director to have won an Academy Award for Best Picture or Best Director, as well as the lowest-grossing film to have won the Best Picture award.

The Hurt Locker shows soldiers' varying psychological reactions to the stress of combat, which though intolerable to some, is addictive to others. The story unfolds after a staff sergeant is killed by an insurgent trap and an apparently calm veteran is brought in to head the squad. His comrades suspect that their new team leader is being driven to take terrifying risks. Writer Mark Boal drew on his experience during embedded access to provide an authentic background for the production, although army procedures were portrayed with artistic licence.

Techniques generate suspense

Sound > acting, fast

>Close ups

>Audio - Steps , distortion of sound inside his suit

>Breathing 

>Being careful (acting)

>Volume in and out

>Leading up (audio)

>Camera shot of wiring (suspense on the sort of endlessness and then the number of wires connected to that main one).  Of more bombs climax then amps it up with parallel cutting (two camera angles for the same space of time). A different kind of tension happening.

>Sign posting danger the two guys out of the danger area.

Quite fascinating the elements that create a sucessfull scene and shot. pre-production manipulating the tension in a scene.

State of doing something > something is always going to happen >dont let it become a flat scene.

A bit of a mystery >everything .narratives the stakes get higher >should not play all your cards @ once.

Camera Techniques

Camera techniques

Hand held, camera movements, framing, extreme close ups, point of view, canting, camera

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Mise en Scene

Colour connection, art direction, colour patterns

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Editing

Parallel editing, pace, cutaway, slow motion

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Lighting

Low key lighting, back lighting, chiaruscuro

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Sound


Digetic/non digetic sound effects, music, silence

Audience Expectations - Dramatic Irony

Audience knows more about the actors. Lose the punch > suspense of knowing >richer in reward

Camera Techniques

Hand held camera

Exatreme Closeups

Racking up the suspense

Canting - Dutch Tilt

Putting the camera on a slight tilt

Generating suspense by creating a sense of disruption / disequilibrium.

Camera Angle

Shooting charcters from a high camera angle may make them look particulary vunerable, increase audience identification and suspense.

Digetic - The sound source within the world where actors and audience hear sound.
Non Digetic - The sound outside the scene that only the audience can hear.
Internal Digetic - Is for example the