Friday 30 October 2009
Tuesday 20 October 2009
"North by Northwest" by Alfred HitchCock
'North by Northwest' is a entaling movie about stolen idenity. We, as the audience, watch and discover as Cary Grant, who plays Roger, is twisited into misfortune and disaster. His idenity is mistaken for a Mr George Kaplen, he is then forced into a murder and confused to be someone else. We watch as he is framed, using dramatic irony. We learn and discover the truth and keeps us on the edge of seat. Alfred HitchCock has this thriller so that the audience is awre and the charcaters are not. We hope foir Cary Grant and we wait in anticipation hoping that our favorite character comes up with a vegance and over comes the bad guys.
He uses many different ways to show the tense atmosphere. He used loud music and dramtic music to emphasis the drama and the danger. The build up and the quick change from quiet to loud surprises the audiences and makes them jumpy.
The lack of lighting in some parts of the movies creates and eary and uneasy. It creates shadows and this makes the audience feel timid and aware of the dark colour. But it also forces the audience to concentrate on the colours so that they aware of what is actually going on.
Cast
Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall
James Mason as Phillip Vandamm
Leo G Carroll as The Professor
Jessie Royce Landis as Thornhill's Mother
Martin Landeu as Leonard
Philip Ober as Lester Townsend
Josephine Hutchinson as Mrs. Townsend
He uses many different ways to show the tense atmosphere. He used loud music and dramtic music to emphasis the drama and the danger. The build up and the quick change from quiet to loud surprises the audiences and makes them jumpy.
The lack of lighting in some parts of the movies creates and eary and uneasy. It creates shadows and this makes the audience feel timid and aware of the dark colour. But it also forces the audience to concentrate on the colours so that they aware of what is actually going on.
Cast
Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall
James Mason as Phillip Vandamm
Leo G Carroll as The Professor
Jessie Royce Landis as Thornhill's Mother
Martin Landeu as Leonard
Philip Ober as Lester Townsend
Josephine Hutchinson as Mrs. Townsend
Film theories :)
There are many different film theories but there are many specific ones that apply to different films.
The first film theory is by a man called TZVETAN TODOROV. He thought of a theory for thriller movies. He realised that most of them follow the same idea. They start with a calm equilbrium, there is then a disruption to this equilbrium. A hero then saves the day and it then returns to a new equilbrium. A few movies that follow this is the Mission Impossible, Hot Fuzz, Batman; the Dark Knight and The Matrix.
VLADIMIR PROPP is the next theorists that I will explore. He discovered that there are many different characters, but there are several main characters.
These main characters are:
1. The villain(s)
2. The hero
3. The donor ‑ who provides an object with some magic property.
4. The helper who aids the hero.
5. The princess (the sought for person) ‑ reward for the hero and object of the villain's schemes.
6. Her father ‑ who rewards the hero.
7. The dispatcher ‑ who sends the hero on his way.
8. The false hero
Examples of films where the characters have clear roles: Skrek, Cinderella, Toystory and Superman.
CLAUDE LEVI‑STRAUSS discovered that there are binary opposites. Binary opposites are sets of opposite values which reveal the structure of a media texts. An example of this would be good and evil. Films such as Transformers, Harry Potter, James Bond and The Mummy.
ROLAND BARTHES introduced that there were different codes in films that can question the audience; this is known as the enigma code. However, there are other codes that directs take into consideration when producing a film such as the action code and the symbolic code. This examples where codes are used are the Da Vinci, Angels and Demons, National Treasure and Knowing.
The first film theory is by a man called TZVETAN TODOROV. He thought of a theory for thriller movies. He realised that most of them follow the same idea. They start with a calm equilbrium, there is then a disruption to this equilbrium. A hero then saves the day and it then returns to a new equilbrium. A few movies that follow this is the Mission Impossible, Hot Fuzz, Batman; the Dark Knight and The Matrix.
VLADIMIR PROPP is the next theorists that I will explore. He discovered that there are many different characters, but there are several main characters.
These main characters are:
1. The villain(s)
2. The hero
3. The donor ‑ who provides an object with some magic property.
4. The helper who aids the hero.
5. The princess (the sought for person) ‑ reward for the hero and object of the villain's schemes.
6. Her father ‑ who rewards the hero.
7. The dispatcher ‑ who sends the hero on his way.
8. The false hero
Examples of films where the characters have clear roles: Skrek, Cinderella, Toystory and Superman.
CLAUDE LEVI‑STRAUSS discovered that there are binary opposites. Binary opposites are sets of opposite values which reveal the structure of a media texts. An example of this would be good and evil. Films such as Transformers, Harry Potter, James Bond and The Mummy.
ROLAND BARTHES introduced that there were different codes in films that can question the audience; this is known as the enigma code. However, there are other codes that directs take into consideration when producing a film such as the action code and the symbolic code. This examples where codes are used are the Da Vinci, Angels and Demons, National Treasure and Knowing.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th August 1899; he died on the 29th April 1980. He was well known for his thriller movies and is known to be the best director of thriller at present. He created unique movies that are well known and popular. In 1920, Hitchcock applied for a job as a title designer when he discovered that Lasky was opening a studio. He then got his first chance to direct the movie ‘Always tell your wife’. Impressed by his work, they gave him another movie to direct called ‘Number 13’. But unfortunately before the movie was finished the studio closed down but he was hired by Michael Balcon to work as an assistant director of a company. However he did so much more, he worked as a writer, title designer and art director.
But in 1925 he produced a film call ‘The pleasure Garden’ as a British/German Production. In 1926, he made his first major movie called ‘The lodger’. And in the same year he got married and then later had one child.
In 1940, David O. Selznick, who was an American Producer, got in touch with Hitchcock and Hitchcock and his family moved to America so that Hitchcock could direct Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
In 1970, he was rewarded the AFI lifetime achievement award, this was when he quoted his most famous quote; "I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen and their names are Alma Reville."
By this time he was starting to have health problems; he started to have kidney failure and had angina. In the same year he knighted and made him Sir Alfred Hitchcock. He then died peacefully in his sleep from renal failure. 600 people attended his funeral, as he was such an inspiration and was such a legend.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Aventure malgache (1944)
The Fighting Generation (1944) (uncredited)
Lifeboat (1944)
Bon Voyage (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945) (uncredited)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th August 1899; he died on the 29th April 1980. He was well known for his thriller movies and is known to be the best director of thriller at present. He created unique movies that are well known and popular. In 1920, Hitchcock applied for a job as a title designer when he discovered that Lasky was opening a studio. He then got his first chance to direct the movie ‘Always tell your wife’. Impressed by his work, they gave him another movie to direct called ‘Number 13’. But unfortunately before the movie was finished the studio closed down but he was hired by Michael Balcon to work as an assistant director of a company. However he did so much more, he worked as a writer, title designer and art director.
But in 1925 he produced a film call ‘The pleasure Garden’ as a British/German Production. In 1926, he made his first major movie called ‘The lodger’. And in the same year he got married and then later had one child.
In 1940, David O. Selznick, who was an American Producer, got in touch with Hitchcock and Hitchcock and his family moved to America so that Hitchcock could direct Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
In 1970, he was rewarded the AFI lifetime achievement award, this was when he quoted his most famous quote; "I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen and their names are Alma Reville."
By this time he was starting to have health problems; he started to have kidney failure and had angina. In the same year he knighted and made him Sir Alfred Hitchcock. He then died peacefully in his sleep from renal failure. 600 people attended his funeral, as he was such an inspiration and was such a legend.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Aventure malgache (1944)
The Fighting Generation (1944) (uncredited)
Lifeboat (1944)
Bon Voyage (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945) (uncredited)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Continuity Project
This is a video of many different types of shots, from an extreme close up to a long shot. The different shots identify different and important factors to the mini story of the continuity project that I needed. It has helped me to understand the different shots and the different affects that the different shots have.
For example, there is an extreme close up of her. This indicates the fear and surprise which she feels when she is being attacked. There is dramatic irony as we, as the audience, know the attack is coming, we are left questioning why is she being attacked? Who was attacking her? What was the motivation for the attack? These questions urge the audience to continuing watching.
I think that this project went well because it flows and it has accomplished the aim set out. I now understand how to create a 180degree rule and understand how to put this into context.
I had several problems when creating this mini movie, such as, not getting the correct shots and having to retake them many times. Also knowing about where the best lighting was so that I, as the camera worker, was not in the shots as a reflection or shadow. In the future I will have more ideas about where to position myself in the best way possible so that I won't be in it.
For example, there is an extreme close up of her. This indicates the fear and surprise which she feels when she is being attacked. There is dramatic irony as we, as the audience, know the attack is coming, we are left questioning why is she being attacked? Who was attacking her? What was the motivation for the attack? These questions urge the audience to continuing watching.
I think that this project went well because it flows and it has accomplished the aim set out. I now understand how to create a 180degree rule and understand how to put this into context.
I had several problems when creating this mini movie, such as, not getting the correct shots and having to retake them many times. Also knowing about where the best lighting was so that I, as the camera worker, was not in the shots as a reflection or shadow. In the future I will have more ideas about where to position myself in the best way possible so that I won't be in it.
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