Reserch: Narrative

Russian theorist, Tzvetan Todorov, had a theory that all narratives follow a particular structure. They begin with a equilibrium, where everything is balanced, progress as something comes along to disrupt that equilibrium, and finally reach a resolution, when equilibrium is restored.

The key difference between a story and narrative is:

• Story = a sequence of events, known correctly as the plot
• Narrative = the way those events are put together to be presented to an audience.

Movie: Home Alone 

Equilibrium: A Family wants to leave to France for a their christmas holiday.

Disruption: They leave/forget their son Kevin home alone when they go to France, burglars.want to beak in to the house because they think its empty.

Recognition: Kevin knows that the burglars want to break in to the house so he starts to make traps for the burglars to defend his house.

Repair: He catches the burglars and his family comes back to him.

New Equilibrium: Peace is restored to the house.

Preliminary Task : Feed The Fish

Some aspects of the preliminary task were adequate, and somewhat plausible to fit my needs. And a part of that was the camera angles that were use. We used various camera angles that were all suited and related to the scene that was being filmed. During the conversation scene between the boss and the employee we used a reverse shot between each of them, to make it stand out as a normal conversation. Albeit- even in this case we stumbled across some problems. When filming we should have stuck to the 180 degrees rule, this would level out the eyes within the shot, if we used our time more efficiently then this could have easily been resolved.

Unfortunately, one big problem with this preliminary task is that the editing was not to the utmost good level. There were times within the editing where some parts messed up pretty badly. For example, our transitions were unprofessional and blank. They contained no combined transitions between two intercepting clips, but rather a simple lined up clip-after-clip, meaning a shot would end and start straight over at another clip without a transition between the two. I believe this was due to not using our time as efficiently again, and if we had planned it more within the pre-production we could have handled it well and this wouldn't have been a problem. Another thing that could have been improved is the position of the camera angle that took a drastic turn in the editing. We found that some clips were filmed, rather than being landscape like most of our clips, they were portrait. And this means when we wanted to rotate them and put them on a landscape view, there would be these rough black edges at the sides of the clip because of the rotation by pixels between the two different coordinate axis.

In conclusion I think that we could of done a better job, if we took more time filming and editing to get rid of the problems stated above, but considering that this is the first filming task it allowed us to make mistakes so that we can learn from them.  For example the 180 degree rule is very important and must be filmed correctly.

Institutions Film Distributors

Film distributors - A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for the marketing/advertising of

a film after its finished, big company such as 20th Century Fox , Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures they distribute big budget films such as Spiderman, Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar. There are also independent film distributors they distribute films with a lower budget, such as Film 4 films, Lions Gate Entertainment.

Big Film distributors - Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. that started on On September 28, 1989, which serves as Sony's main global film production/distribution company today, Sony pictures is the 4th most popular distributing company with films such as Spider-Man, Men in Black and Ghost busters. Sony Pictures total gross profit is $24,744,320,642 and has created 534 movies.

 

Independent distributors - Lionsgate is a company that was was founded on July 3, 1997, by Frank Giustra, a Canadian investment banker hoping to grow the film industry in his home town, As of 2012, Liongate has become most successful independent film distribution company and is the sixth most profitable movie studio, movies such as American Psycho, The Hunger Games, Lionsgate has a gross profit of $3,872,078,001 and has created 227 movies.

Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing is a style of Film/Video editing in the post-production process of film making and television programmes. The main purpose of this style of editing is to smooth over the movie, and make each shot in line with the previous one.

Contu

Continuity editing has its rules and they are:

• Establishing shot 180º rule 
• Crosscutting
• Re-establishing shot 
• Shot / reverse shot
• Eyeline Match

Research Into Similar Media Text: Sound

The Grudge uses a lot Silence to scare the audience  Silence is a great tool to build up tension before the big shock. for example at 1:48 you hear nothing but a door opening but a second later you hear a very load cat scream which would make the audience jump. The Grudge also uses a lot of creepy sound tracks to buld up the atmosphere.