Montage Editing.

Montage editing.

Montage editing became famous once Rocky came out. Rocky used this to show progress after along time only in a few minutes. In Rocky it showed the difference between him and his nemesis, it showed that he used quite poor techniques to train like living at a farm he didn't use a boxing bag, but instead a big piece of meat to punch, the opponenet had modern and 'better' training and the montage section of the film showed the difference between their training. Montages are in films to show progress, that's the whole reason that montages are placed in films are to show good progress they have made in a long time in only 5-10 minutes. 

Media Video.

Sound exercise. (VIDEO)

Sound exercise.

Lighting Exercise Evaluation.

Lighting Exercise Evaluation.

In this sound exercise, we used different lighting techniques to show what each shot can do to a scene in a movie. Diferrent shots can make different effects for the viewer. 

Key lighting.

Key lighting is lighting that comes from one side, for example in the video where only half the face has light on it, this effect is used a lot in photograpahy to show mystery. Key lighting is used to show predominantly dark tones and shadow but where the light is there are usually expresed colours or if no colours it is in black and white. 

Back lighting.

Back lighting is when you illuminate the person or subject from behind. This causes the edges of whatever is being lighten up from behind to glow, while all the other areas remain dark. This lightiung is usually made by a 4 point lighting setup, this set up is usally behind the subject or directily behind it so that the best effect is made. This would be effective in a horror movie when the director does not want the villian to be shown as of yet so this lighting would be best to use as it looks very mysterious aswell.

Filler light 3 point lighting.

This lighting is mostly used in television, stage, film or photographic lighting. A fill light may be used to reduce contrast of a scene and attempt to eradicate parts of the scene where there are shadows. A common lighting set up is made up of three lights around the object or person you want to do this scene with, 2 of the lights are at the front, one is called key light and the other is called fill light, the light at the back is called back light, the image below is a typical three-point lighting.

Under lighting.

Under lighting is a very effective way of using light to create a sense of fear in a scene. This lighting technique is mostly used in classic horror movies and sometimes seen in modern horros, but not as much as it used to be used. This lighting is made when the object or person has a light below themselves. This can be simply made even at home with just a torch on under your face and the same effect is made.

Top lighting.

Top lighting is mostly used in modeling photography where the persons face is shined on by the light to take away any inperfections they may have, for example wrinkles. This happens because the light goes into the skin and makes it look very smooth and round so that the person looks their best taking a photo. An example of this is below.

Low key lighting.

Low key lighting uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light of a simple reflector. You can chose where you want to make shadows on the object when doing a low key lighting shot, you can make certain shadows depending on where you place the light. Low key lighting only uses one light source usually. Below is an example of low key lighting.

High key lighting.

High key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television or photography that ains to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene. In the 1950s and 1960s, high key lighting was achieved through multipul light sources lighting up one scene. The Advantage of high key lighting is that it doesn't require adjustment for each scene whiche allows the production of a scene or multipul scenes to happen in hours instead of days.

Mise-en-Scene.

Mise-en-Scene.

Mise-en-Scene is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theatre or film production, which essentially means 'visual theme' or 'telling a story'. When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scene refers to everything that appears infront of the camera and the way it is arranged, this inclued sets, props, actors, costumes, lighting and sound. The various elements of design help express a films vision by generating a sense of time and space, as well as setting a mood, and sometimes suggesting a characters state of mind. Mise-en-scene  also included the composition which consists of the positioning and movement of actors, as well as objects in the shot. Mise-en-scene can change the way you look at a certain scene once you look into it in depth, objects may have a big effect of a characters personality or what you can gather from a scene, like the effects of certain lighting and sound. An example of this is in 'We Need to Talk to Kevin' where you have to watch the whole film to understand why some of the mise-en-scene is in certain lighting, why the director decideds to use certain colours and props, all these things come to play when you want to talk about the mise-en-scene.

Alfred Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer. He used many techniques in the suspense and psychological thirller genres. After a successful in British cinema, not only silent films and some early sound films, he took the title of the best British director, then Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955. Over a career that has been going for half a century, Hitchcock fasioned ofr himself a distinctive directional style so when a film was played you could tell it's directed by Hitchcock.

Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings, and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, crime and murder. He used decoys or 'MacGuffins' that serve the films theme of being psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcocks films also borrow many themes for psychoanalysis and feature some strong sexual overtones. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career going on for six decades, often regarded as the all time greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britian's Daily Telegraph. He was such a big infulenece to the thriller genre he was nicknames 'The Master of Suspense'. 

Psycho Analysis.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

Psycho is a thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers usually have frequent action through out. An example of this from the film is the most famous scene, the 'Shower scene'. This scene is not only the most famous scene in the film but the one of the most known cinema scenes ever. The scene is so famous due to the way it was filmed, the music, the cuts and the shots. This is such a famous scene that even people that have not seen the film know that scene, it's such a rememberable scene that people started getting afraid of having a shower because they realized how venerable they are in there and had baths instead. The music consists of screeching violins which creates a lot of drama while she is getting murdered in the scene by the psycho. The scene starts with the character having a shower then you see the shadow of the murderer and then the screeching music comes in and it all fits in well with the cuts that are made in the camera work as well. The scream is also very nerve racking due to it being so loud and realistic, a myth was that Hitchcock did not tell the character in the shower what was going to happen and just told her to stand in the shower which made the scream more authentic.

In Psycho there is a not really a hero, because the psycho murders many women, but at the end Marion Crane is about to get murdered by the psycho Norman and her boyfriend comes through the door in the nick of time and saves her life by grabbing the psycho. That is the only example of there being a hero in the film. There are many examples of suspense and shock, the shower scene is so early in the film and tricks the viewer accepting the character murdered as a main character but then is murdered early in the film. In the shower scene it starts with her entering the shower and then as the scene goes on the viewer sees someone come into the bathroom, and thats when the viewers are at the edge of their seat not knowing what was going to happen next, then Norman Bates opens up the shower curtain and there are a lot of camera angle changes in just this one scene, there are 50 cuts of different shots in that scene only. Another thing that makes this shot so famous is when the blood comes down the bath and goes down the drain then there's an extreme close up of her eye and then it slowly zooms out to reveal her dead body which is quite a chilling shot.

Hitchcock has a famous quote saying "Thrillers allow the audience to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it's like." In this film this is true and is one of the best thrillers known to cinema even though it is so old, this is achieved due to the structure of the story and how the characters are presented to the audience, for example Norman has a hobby of stuffing birds of prey and in his office there are many pictures of naked women, this is strange but from all that we cannot say straight away that he is defiantly the murderer but these are some strange things to have in a room and that is also a strange hobby to have. Psycho is known as one of the greatest thrillers made by the ending where the whole story is basically explained in one scene where they explain why he did the murders and why he dressed as his mother. the structure of the film is very well done because through-out the film we think the mother is the murderer but instead we find out the murderer is indeed Norman because his insanity is all explained.