Foley Sound FX

Foley is the department of sound that adds real sound effects using things in the real world. They show the film on the screen in front of them and, with a microphone, record noises that would accompany the scene by carrying something out (snapping a leek or celery stick for breaking bones, stomping on a tray of gravel for footsteps, striking a slab of meat for punch sounds etc.), syncing their actions with the video feed.

The different methods of achieving certain sounds is revealed in these two videos:

Charlie - Quentin Tarantino

Actors

• Christoph Waltz
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Uma Thurman
• Tim Roth

NB: Tim Roth has been in Reservoir Dogs, Hateful Eight and Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman has been in Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2 and Samuel L. Jackson has been in Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained

Shots

• Trunk Shot - POV shot of someone or something in the trunk, low-angle
• Close up on eyes - Creates tension, signifies intimacy
• Aesthetic of beautification - Makes murderess, gory scenes with beautiful, stunning women
• Close up on feet - Show the pace
• Close up on lips - Also to beautify
• Ouvre
• Foley
• Shot reverse shot

Josh - Tim Burton

Bio

• Born in California
• Known for dark comedy
• 2 children
• Started off making short films in backyard
• Badly behaved student
• Childhood hero was Roald Dahl
• Started working as Disney animator

Movies
Genres

• Adventure comedies
• Superhero films
• Sci fi films
• Musicals
• Horror films
• Gothic Fantasy
• Murder mystery
• Animated

Actors

• Winona Ryder
• Johnny Depp
• Christopher Lee
• Jeffrey Jones
• Helena Bonham Carter

Tropes

• Blonde ingénue
• Black and white
• Vertical stripes
• Pale face, dark haired, misunderstood loner
• Vibrant colours
• Overly or unsaturated colours
• Ethereal, vulnerable, whimsical characters

Edward Scissorhands

• Suburban houses are ridiculously over saturated whilst Edward is completely de-saturated
• Pastels, chromes, greys, blacks, whites
• POV shot, discomfort, seeing through the characters eyes

Alice Through the Looking Glass

• Aerial shots
• Medium shots
• Shot-reverse-shot, over the shoulder
• Vivid colour palette

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Dynamic colour palette
• Heightened sensory
• Louder sound effects, brighter colours, wider lens,

• Graphic Match
• Binary opposition
• Polarities

Dmitri - Woody Allen

Biography

• Born in New York, the Bronx 1936
• An auteur filmmaker
• Been a part of 73+ movies

Movies
    Sleeper
    Match Point
    Café Society

What makes a Woody Allen movie?

• In every single Woody Allen movie, the opening credits are the exact same in terms of colour (black and white) and font (Windsor FF-Elongated
• Frantic comedic nature, plays very similar characters
• Knows a lot about Jazz and music
• Often his movies take place in New York but for a while he made films in all kinds of locations
• Mise-en-Scène=EVERYTHING IN THE SCENE
• Props, costumes, makeup, location, lighting, camera... Everything

Christopher Nolan

• British director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
• Co-works with his brother
• Known for The Dark Knight Trilogy, Interstellar, The Prestige, Inception etc.

Film style

• Recurring themes
• Protagonist seeks vengeance, psychologically damaged, traumatised, tortured, obsessive, driven
• Protagonist mirrors the antagonist
• Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in The Prestige
• Batman and the Joker/Ra's Al Ghul/ Bane
• Urban settings
• Costuming
• Men in suits, muted colours
• Wide close-up conversations
• Moving camera
• One-takes
• Films with IMAX camera

Dark Knight

• Release date - 24 July 2008 (UK) 18 July 2008 (USA)
• Budget - $185,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross - $533,316,061 (USA)
• Production Companies - Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures, Syncopy

The Prestige

• Release date - 10 November 2006 (UK), October 20 (USA)

Jared Hess - Charlie

• Born in Glendale, Arizona
• Writes, directs
• Known for comedies
• His comedies make the most money
• Writes for Nicktoons, children's channel
• Most successful film was Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite

• A movie abouyt a slightly abnormal teenager, main plot is he helps his friend become the Class President

Nacho Libre

• A movie about a fat monk who becomes a famous wrestler, played by Jack Black

Gentlemen Broncos

• "A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist" - IMDB

auteur - has artistic control, usually has a recognisable style of filmmaking
linear editing - standard editing
non-linear - make it slightly abnormal
continuity editing -
parallel editing - cutting between several things happening at the same time

• Napoleon Dynamite
• Co-written by his wife
• $44,500,000 profit ($400,000 budget)
• Shot in 22 days
• Doesn't seem to follow any usual film formats
• Light comedy
• Very exaggerated characters
• Not specific to any generation/age
• Lots of very quotable "one- liners" which helped the film to grow a following
• Written and shot in an interesting way, almost made to look unprofessional. This adds to the comedic nature of film.
• Lots of (almost) random cuts
• No real story until about an hour in
• Nacho Libre
• Made a profit of $50,000,000 (budget was $30,000,000)
• Comedy/family film
• Unpredictable humour
• Quite a predictable storyline
• Follows a very regular storyline
• Received average ratings

Types of Shots

EWS (Extreme Wide Shot)
The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Often used as an establishing shot.

VWS (Very Wide Shot)
The subject is visible (barely), but the emphasis is still on placing him in his environment.

WS (Wide Shot)
The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.
AKA: long shot, full shot.

MS (Mid Shot)
Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

MCU (Medium Close Up)
Half way between a MS and a CU.

CU (Close Up)
A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame.

ECU (Extreme Close Up)
The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.
Variation: Choker

Cut-In
Shows some (other) part of the subject in detail.

CA (Cutaway)
A shot of something other than the subject.

Two-Shot
A shot of two people, framed similarly to a mid shot.

(OSS) Over-the-Shoulder Shot
Looking from behind a person at the subject.

Noddy Shot
Usually refers to a shot of the interviewer listening and reacting to the subject.

Point-of-View Shot (POV)
Shows a view from the subject's perspective.

Weather Shot
The subject is the weather. Can be used for other purposes, e.g. background for graphics, establishing.

 

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