Matty Muncey/ Media Blog

What is a genre?  By definition, A film genre is a category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film. For example, a main genre of film is an action. An action would usually consist of violence, frantic car chases with explosions and a slightly dull setting. Whereas in a Comedy you would expect a bright colourful setting with clumsy, clueless characters causing trouble.  There are also sub genres and hybrid genres. A sub-genre is a genre that isn’t big enough to be it’s own genre so it falls into a category of main genre. Whereas a hybrid genre is two genres combined to make their own genre (romance and comedy makes rom-com).  Thriller genre:  Typically, in a thriller, you would expect certain conventions such as suspenseful music, dark undertones and underpinned by mystery and questions. However thrillers are one of the most broad genres in film as there are so many different aspects of thriller......

Prelim part 2: Editing: Myself and Josh (the director) edited together on Premiere Pro. Before we did anything we looked the all the rushes to pick out which one was the best. We then went in chronological order putting in each clip to the preview and dragging the chosen part of the clip to the timeline.  Once we had a ruff cut we experimented a little bit by extending the clips and playing around with it. For example when the character enters the room we started with the shot from outside too the long shot inside. I made sure I cut it on the movement, when the door shuts as it makes it less noticeable to the audience.  One big problem we had, was when one of the actors had his arms in a different place in two clips. This made it very hard to decide to cut before or after as the actor was doing two different things. In the end I extended the clips to avoid any ruff editing.  

Prelim Part 1 Filming: My group were given a story board that we had to replicate. There were many different shots and angles of the scene such as long shot, close up etc. We had two actors, a director and a camera man (me). We used a black magic with a nikon lens and a tripod. The lighting was already perfect so there was no need for artificial lighting.  To setup each shot, I zoomed in so I could focus more accurately, zoomed back out to the point where what I wanted was in frame and marked where the actors where standing to avoid continuity error. I would then wait for the director to say “Stand by” to double check that everything is in place before hitting record and then when I did record, I say back “rolling” to let the director know that the camera was recording.  We did one take for each shot we did so that in the editing we could swap back and fourth if we needed to. The first shot we did, was the long shot. This is because it is the most important...

Editing software  We use Adobe Premiere Pro which is one of the best in the industry with films like Avatar,  Deadpool and Gone Girl.  The main short cuts: C - trim handle  V - selector  H - hand tool + - timeline zoom in – - timeline zoom out cmd + Z - undo The most important command of all is: cmd + s which will save your work. This is because Apple become very unreliable when your running software like Premiere Pro. If you don't save it and it crashes your going to be very disappointed. Timeline: This is the section that you place all of your audio and clips into. The in and out points: This is the preview window of a clip before it goes into the timeline. This is used for when you want to perfectly cut a clip and you can compare it with the clip before using the preview window. Rushes and Bins: These are the folders that you keep your clips in. Generally you will use these folders to sort through each scene ea...

In this essay I will be analysing the sound in a scene from Shutter Island. Martin Scorsese uses multiple sound techniques in order to show the audience specific themes in this scene and to give them an idea on what to look out for.  The sound pattern in the scene:  Classical music:  Start: Contrapuntal, non-diegetic sound - Parallel, diegetic sound -  Contrapuntal, non-diegetic sound  Middle: Parallel, diegetic sound - Parallel, non-diegetic sound, Contrapuntal diegetic sound - Parallel, diegetic sound  End: Contrapuntal diegetic sound - Parallel, diegetic sound. As the Teddy and Chuck are showed in to the office of Dr Crawley we start to hear classical music fade in. We then see a high angle shot of the building as the music gets louder transitioning into the indoors scene. From this we can assume it was used as a sound bridge to keep the scene flowing and catch the audiences attention as the scene progresses. After some dialogu...