Colour and Editing ... Tal Rosner ...

Tal Rosner's 'Without you' has inspired my idea for my video ... i love his use of jump cuts and how he uses different lenghts of cuts to create variety and interest to the piece. I also love the use of sound...sounds as if alot of them are natural and the sounds he may have picked up while filming each section so they don't make sence when edited together...obviously i am not going to imitate this video but you will be able to tell where my inspiration came from!

Behind the Scenes ... Tokyo Drift ...

Editing ... Various filming techniques

This is similar to the last video but this one shows you different angles and techniques to use within film such as panning and tracking, low angle shots and over head shots. This was very useful to look at before is started filming my own video and i also have learnt about lots of different techniques i didn't know before! It is only a home made movie but i think it helps me relate to it alot better and it is alot more simple to watch and understand.

Editing ... Fast and slow cuts

This short video looks at the techniques of Fast and slow editing techniques but also the effect of using more than one camera angle in one scene to show different view points and also to add excitment and generally more intrest.

Colour ...

Colour... Sony Bravia ... Paint Ad ...

Following on from the original advert, Jonathan Glazer directed the second in which a tower block in Toryglen in Glasgow, Scotland was covered in 70,000 litres of environmentally friendly paint with the help of over 1400 separate explosions featured as imitation fireworks. This was filmed with a crew of 250 people over a 10-day period in July 2006.

Colour... Sony Bravia ... Bunny Ad ...

'Play-Doh'

Colour ... Sony Bravia Bouncy Ball Advert ...

The Sony Bravia launch was supported by an advertising company featuring 250,000 brightly-coloured rubber balls (Real not computer generated) bouncing down a San Francisco Street. The advert was made by a Danish photographer Nicolai Fuglsig. I think this advert is great because the use of using so many coloured bouncy balls connotes fun excitement which you will get if you buy a Sony Bravia product ... similar to this the later adverts for Sony Bravia e.g. the coloured bunnies and colour paint up the side of a building also follow this colourful, fun and fresh atmosphere.   

Colour ... Brain Training ...

http://flashfabrica.com/f_learning/brain3/e_brain03.html

I found a brain training game on the internet where colours are written in a different colour to what the word is saying e.g. BLUE and YELLOW...

I thought this was very interesting and very relevant since in my video i am try to get across how we all may see colours differently to each other.

Colour...Typeography

This is a Stockport College sign as you enter or leave the car park...it wasn't that interesting sincei have never noticed it before now. I still didn't find it very appealing until i took this picture...i think the pale, smooth, dulcet tones of the grey and the contrasting blue makes it simple yet fairly fasinating.

Colour...Ideas...

When i was out and about i found Henry the post! It looks as if someone has just graffitied a face onto a post in Marple Memorial Park.


I thought it was nice, bright, friendly and inviting it makes you feel happy!...well it makes me feel happy and very youthful!
However in the dark it may become very intimidating as if it is watching everything ... each move you make.

Thoughtful ideas agency ... blog...!

http://thoughtful.squarespace.com/

We had a talk from a design agency last week...after the talk i decided to see if they had a website or to see if i could find any other information about them. I came across a blog they constantly update which i think will help me in the future with my ideas, my creative/lateral thinking and also it may inspire me more to add ideas, and maybe just general thoughts to my blog more often!

http://www.dlkw.co.uk/

Pop art vauxhall corsa advert by DLKW London (1st February 2010)

I saw this ad when watching tv the other night i thought the use of a black car and a massively busy and bright background was interesting ... it gave me an idea to use something simple in the foreground of my video and use colour within the background as the dominant feature!

Colour...Colour Wheel Idea?

Possible idea?

After a group discussion today i decided i wanted to make colour a huge part of my movie...i want to film things that are the colours from around the colour wheel maybe? using fast cuts to subtly make my way around the colours....i also want to add sections of black and white to show someone that maybe colour blind? things that we know the colour of without seeing it eg...banana=yellow, Orange=orange...

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Editing...The Ring

I was looking at how i wanted to edit my video and i came across the 'cursed video tape' from the film The Ring (2002, directed by Gore Verbinski). This video uses very sharp and snappy short clips that really don't relate to each other at a first glance, i want my video to be similar although i will change the way we see things eg...black and white, sepia, blurred vision, very loud sound and very quiet sound ect...
I think this is a very good way of displaying the horror genre and i think this technique works well just showing snippets of the events because if they were longer they would be fairly disturbing.

Colour ... Schindler's List

Similar to the photo of the Butterfly the whole film is set in black and white apart from the small girls coat! Obviously the use of colour is making the young girl stand out ... the use of red connotes the themes of film ... danger, death, struggle and war. The coat suggests she is vulnerable she stands out above the others around her. I would like to incorporate this technique within my short film however  i don't have the time or knowledge to create this yet so i want to use colour scenes and black and white scenes in my film as a starting point.

Colour ... Photography

Black and white/Colour.

I am unsure of the photographer ... however i wanted to look at images that use one colour amongst a black and white photo.

The use of using bright colours or even any colour within a black and white photo makes the object the dominant feature ... it stands out! 

I like this image simply because if there is something needed to be highlighted or noticed within its environment e.g if it is small and rarely noticed at a first glance. 

Colour ... Wizard Of Oz

I looked at how the Wizard of Oz begins in black and white then changes into colour when she opens the door of her house in Oz. I think the use of using Black and white footage at the beginning of the film connotes that her life is dull, boring and possibly repetitive (she never moves away or leaves the farm she lives on). When she is taken to Oz the colour is very saturated and almost unreal ... this is to connote fantasy and adventure! She has gone beyond her boring life to somewhere new, fresh and exciting. 

Metaphor, Metonym and Analogy

'Metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, "London," as the capital of the United Kingdom, could be used as a metonym for its government.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

A few more examples...

Yellow Cab - New York
Red Phone Box - London

Metaphor, Metonym and Analogy

Metaphors, Metonym and analogy are used through out Stories, Advertising, Moving image ect...

Metaphors ... A metaphor are an analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by the use of a word instead of another.

Examples used in advertising/Graphics...

I think these to Aids awareness posters are very successful in portraying their meaning!
They have used two different creators that are normally associated with fear this instantly connotes the feelings we feel towards catching the disease or even carrying it. The adverts also fairly deserve making them instantly memorable and very, very affective of stressing their importance.

Story Telling

'Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images, and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation, and in order to instil moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters, and narrative point of view.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Baz Luhrmann adaptation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2Ik2EPvLA
This film is a modern take on Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet; however it still retains the original Shakespearean dialogue. Even though this makes it more difficult for us to understand the story has been told to us through generations in such a successful way we understand the concept and contents of the story.
To be a great story teller I think you need to...
Captivate your audience by making the story interesting and full of action
The way in which you deliver your story...make sure everyone understands the basic elements
Be descriptive to make sure your audience can visualise the story as you want them to see it.

So in order to make my treatment successful i need to carefully consider all of these elements...

Story Telling...Treatments...

This was the first time I have tried to write a treatment, I thought it went fairly well however when we shared to the group it seemed more like a Character description. It was very hard for me to get into the style of writing I needed to use.
I have had a look at how I need to write a successful detailed treatment that contains everything a director and script writer would need to know about the film or animation.

http://www.writingtreatments.com/HALLOWEEN.pdf

This treatment is fairly long and the one i was attempting to write didn't need this kind of length however I thought it was good to get a proper insight on how a proper treatment is written.

The different between this one and mine is...
Mine didn't include the action...I spent to long on my descriptions
Although the Halloween H20 treatment does contain details and descriptions it explains what’s going on and what happens throughout the film
A treatment also needs to continually flow ... action after action without slowing down at all!

Protagonist and Antagonist...

I have been looking into what best connotes a protagonist and antagonist...i have recently found that the story follows the protagonist which is most likely to be the hero or stereotypically a character the audience are on the same side which makes the antagonist the 'bad guy' or someone who gets in the way creating problems for the protagonist to resolve.

Examples are....Batman (protagonist) and the Joker (antagonist)

Harry Potter (protagonist) and Lord Voldemort (antagonist)