Edward Scissorhands

Director: Tim Buton
Released: 1990

(Sorry this blog won't be as long as some of my other blogs!!)

Okay, after Emily did her presentation in Film about Edward Scissorhands and Jess and everybody said it was "Really Good!!!" and I "Had to watch it!!" I thought I would get my mum to take it out for me!! (She works at a libary!!!) It was really good and had quite a strange story line, but I think overall it was a good story.

The best part of the film for me was when all the woman met in the street together to talk about gossip, I really like how over the top it was and how when the husbands came home everyone went back in there houses. As well that parts with the old woman telling the story was a good twist!

I thought the camera angles in the film were very good, and I also like the editing!!! I thought the cinematography was very good as well and you got a whole sense of what this reallity was like.

Overall I really enjoyed this film and thought it was very good. Im sorry for the shortness of the blog but I didn't really feel this film..........

Music In Film

One of my best friends Hannah is the most musical person I know, (When I say musical I mean as in music instuments not Singing musicals) and her dream job would be to write music from films or in other words and film score. So when I had the homework of doing a small clip about film music you want to guess who went to for advice on what music to do??? You guessed it, the moment "Homework and Film Music" came out of my mouth she pounced on me and told me what she thought would be best,and that she was so excited she is lending me the DVD and soundtrack!! So here is me talking about as she puts it "On of the best music scences EVER"

Now I know I have already reviewed Prince Caspian, but this is The lion The Witch and The Wardrobe and they are both different films. Anyway the film score composer is Harry Gregson-Williams A.K.A (Accourding to Hannah) THE BEST FILM COMPOSER OF ALL TIME. And even though Im not obsessed with him as she is, his music is really good. I think the films everyone will know he has sone has been the Shrek films, and the music from there is brilliant. His most recent film would have to be X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and in that film the music is WICKED!!! And aswell as all of these amazing films, he has also done this music for the Narnia films.

Anyone who wants to listen to the song here is a spotify link: Harry Gregson-Williams – The Battle

And to those who are like "WTH is spotify?!?!" Here is a you tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idiEsYmQWa0

The scene I am chosing is called the battle, and basically the main characters are getting ready to fight the white witch and the music here is MIND BLOWING!! In this scene Aslan has just left so Peter and Edmund are deciding whether or not to go to battle. It starts of really quiet and dark and mysterious like you not to sure what its going to be like, then you get this up lift of horns and then it flows into violins and all smooth but still with the horns but there is not precussion. I think is really fits the scene for there is this build up ready to go to battle and no one wants to go but the courage there is amazing, and you can feel it through the music.

Then the next part of the song is really cool, Peter has made the decsion to fight and insted of going straghit to the battle the music picks up with the horns and then you go through the map they have been studying and into the battle itself, the editing is brilliant for you get a real sense of what is going on and the way the transition between deciding whether to go and going to FANTASTIC.

Here is the screen shots!!!! From left to right, make sure to go on the you tube link to watch it, it is unmissable.

The next scene is amazing with the camera, it travels over the coming army and the music is so uplifiting and there is so much hope in it, and then when the camera changes and goes over to the bad guys there is a change and the music goes all dark and earey......

Anyway, over all this part of the film is AMAZING and even though my friend might be a bit obssesed with score music she chose a really good scene to do, and I haven't seen the Narnia films in a while so it was nice to see it again.

Elephant- Cin

Okay, I want to first say that I had NO idea this film was going to be about a school massacre, someone could of told me before hand!!! You should of seen me in my free next lesson in the library on my iPod touch doing a wiki search about the whole story!! All week every time I see someone in army gear or something I get the heeby jebbys and think that at any moment they might try and kill me.......any way, fear aside I thought this film was SUPER DUPER COOL (apart from the part where they killed everyone) I loved how it was made and how the director basically took everything normal from a film and turned it upside down.
The film starts with a long shot of the sky showing time passing. At the end of the film this scene really made sense, the film is set over a day and this is the sky that day. And what I think the director is trying to show is that the clouds and the sky never change, they always stay the same and that every night and day they just do the same thing, and the director was showing how everyday is the same and different at the same time........if that makes any sense. Basically he is showing that the day was normal and that something that would never happen.....happened.
Then next part of the film I really like, I’m not to sure which shot it is for it is a tracking shot and a long shot rolled into one. It is the camera looking down on a car but not in a Birdseye view angle but slightly lower. The camera moves slowly from side to side obviously in time with the car. The car is moving from side to side so the audience get a direct feel that the person driving is not in a normal state.
The next shot I really like it when John got into the car and started it, the camera moved like it was actually on the hood of the car. As a viewer, you find this quite strange for you know how smooth the camera is moving around the film and when you get this jerky movement it throws you off a bit.
Then the you get a tracking shot of everywhere John goes, from around the car then to the school and everywhere he walks. At first I thought this wasn't going to be very good and the film wouldn't make much sense but after a while you understand what the director is trying to show through camera tracking and that is what it was like to be in the hall ways on that day. Putting the viewer in the shoes of a student, and actually and almost be IN the film. I thought this was really effective for instead of just Point of view shot and camera panning, you got a real sense of knowing the characters.
There was a part of the film where there was a tracking shot for nearly 4 minutes, I thought this was good but also a little off putting. As a viewer your not really to sure what is going on by following someone around a school, and your not to sure what is coming next. But again you also get the feeling of going around the school just like any regular student.
The next aspect of the film I really enjoyed was the time sequencing by all the different time sequences put together to show that it was one day, there was small aspects to show how it was all knitting together. At one point there was some people saying congratulations in a scene and then you heard it in another scene. I thought this was a really good way in the film for instead of just moving around one day and only getting the view point from certin characters at certin points in the day you get the WHOLE day from most of the charcters percpective. Also I like how when every chacter is introduced there name comes up on the screen. This helps you know there name so again you can feel as if you know them personally and as if you went to school with them. There was this shot I really liked during the killing where the camera is not really foucsed and just sitting there when in the background you can see one of the killers walking towards the camera and at first he is blury and then as he gets closer he becomes more clear. I like this shot for you get a real sense of not knowing if that is the killer or not or just a random student.

Over all I really enjoyed this film and thought because it was diffrent it made it more........diffrent.......Any way I thought it was good and a nice change to a film.

Flightplan: Mise-En-Scene

First of all ZOMG!! This film was proper good!!!! I saw it a while ago but only like the middle part, but I thought this film was SUPER good!!! I really enjoyed the story line and loved the twist, and also the whole thought of a child going missing on a plane is something you don't really think about because it just doesn't happen and no one can really go missing on an aeroplane because it's such an enclosed space and so adds a bigger sense of danger.

Okay, now to the real work. Mise-en-scene was the main aspect of how we saw the main character. I noticed that most of the time when she was running up and down the plane the director used a tracking shot on the other side of the plan. I really liked this idea for you really got a sense of running on the plane with her and trying to find the child. Also it showed how fast she was running and how desperate she was. I think most of the camera angles showed the stress she was in and how she was going into having a breakdown when trying to find her daughter.

Another mise-en-scene used to help portray the main character is the lighting. In the film not many bright lights are used, for it is in a storm there should not be the sun out and happy, as well most of the film is set around night time so all the lighting is very dim. I think this adds real affect to how worried she is for her daughter. If she can't find her and a night it makes it 100% worse for anything could happen to a child at night and even though it is on a areoplane and there is not much of a chance for someone to take her it's still pretty scary on what time of day it is.

The decor in the film in the main aspect that makes it more exciting. It looks like a regular plane and this adds to the drama that is might actually happen in real life. Even though the aeroplane company may not really exists but the reality of a real life aeroplane and a real life situation adds to the affect more. Also in this film I think parents can relate to the mum as if they had a missing child they would feel the same way.

Overall, I thought this film was really good and better than I though it was going to be. I really liked the whole idea of the story line and the film was really well made.

Editing- Prince Caspian

When all the scenes from the set have been filmed, they need to be edited together to make sense. Normally, a person will have to go trough hours of film to make the final cut and edit out all the unwanted parts of footage. Editing can take along time to do, and normally films come out 6 months after they have been filmed due to editing and sound editing.

What normally makes a film really good is the way it has been edited together, it gets dull with the camera on a single person and not really moving to anyone else. For an example of some editing I thought was really good is The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
I think it has come to the time were I have to admit an obsession (other than Twilight) I have with films. My favourite part in a movie like Narnia or the Lord of the Rings is part before the battle. When I was little I liked the idea of good guys and bad guys and loved how the camera showed each aspect of the each side and the idea of so many people willing to die because of a fight made it much more exciting.
Obsession aside, I really like the editing in this scene from the film. Here we see the narnians getting read to battle the Telmarine army. The editing in this scene I think is amazing!! The way the camera moves around the scene you get a full sense on what is happening and you get a sense that you could be in the scene as someone in the army.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQLosYnsA4&feature=related

This is the link I am using to describe the battle, its about 4:23 in so you might have to wait for it to load for a bit.

I like how this part of the battle starts with a close up of what the soliders look like, it gives you a sense of what there is to expect. Then it pulls back to a shot of the whole army. This part is good for you can see how many people there are.

Then, there is some close ups of the on coming army and there is a real sense of how big it is. The camera folllows the soliders and than it is cut to an over all shot from behind of the armny.

After seeing every angle of the oncoming army, it is than cut to a reaction shot from the other side. Then, we are cut to a tracking shot of a white horse amoung a group of black horse. The audience know that this charcter is important from the

way the camera cut from one scene to another.

Overall, editing is important in a film and gives the audience an overall feeling of what is happening in a scene and feel like they are in the film.