Film opening research #2- Madagascar 3

 How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? 

-2

What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? 

- The penguins flying away in a plane and they are in Africa's Safari. Alex the lion has a dream where they all aged.

What connotations do the images carry? 

- The images carry over worry and fear because he was scared to of aging and being left behind.

How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset? 

- The scene shows images of Marty and the hippo extremely old compared to Alex.

How does the film establish an enigma from the outset? 

- Alex starts off with a nightmare and then gets surprised with a model of New York made out of clay and dirt. Then he begins to talk about how he wishes he was in NY.

What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? 

-Most people watched the other Madagascar so they know the back story on how Alex wishes he was in New York and how he ended up in Africa.

How has technology been used effectively? You might want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniques. 

- Zooms out of Alex's face once he wakes up, When the plane fly's away it shows the trail that it left in the air. Lastly, when Alex is on the dirt model of NY there is music being played while he has flashbacks of being in NY.

Film opening research #1- Kung Fu Panda

 How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? 

-There are 3 titles that are displayed during the opening sequences to the film.

What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? 

- Po (the panda) starts off by telling a fake legend/fantasy about himself.

What connotations do the images carry? 

-The images carry hope and ambition as he hopes to become apart of the furious five.

How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset? 

-As Po was daydreaming about being a hero, his dad is trying to run his restaurant and is trying to get Po's attention to help him work.

How does the film establish an enigma from the outset? 

- After Po snaps out of the dream, he is called to work, then it transitions to the furious 5 training

What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? 

- It is funny how Po's father believed that Po actually had a dream about noodles.

How has technology been used effectively? You might want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniques. 

- Transitions from cartoon/comic into 3d animated characters. The camera is also showing angles from different places of the room and restaurant. 

My Film Opening Project - Genre & Group Members (action, working alone)

Practice Essay "How do the film elements in the first 5 minutes of Agent"

 

Agent Carter's five-minute sequence incorporates several aspects of the film, including sound, angles/shots, editing, and mise-en-scene. To begin, let's discuss sound. Post-synchronized dubbing is used seconds after the movie starts. The two characters' discussion is placed on a Marvel character cartoon filmstrip. Diegetic sound is also used in the opening scene when the office alarm goes off and the man answers the phone to listen to the emergency recording. A nondiegetic sound is introduced when the businessmen move up the stairs. In this scenario, we can hear the music, but the characters couldn't have heard it while filming. Then Agent Carter fights off all of the attackers (grunting and punching), and this is an example of direct sound when the character screams for help. Following that, I focused on camera angles and various types of images. Throughout the five-minute action, the most of the images were taken at eye level, with the exception of a couple. A point of view shot is revealed when the man is on the phone and looks down at the piece of paper. To gain a clear idea of what he's looking at, we see the paper via "his eyes." After removing her significant other's photograph off her desk, carter holds it in her hands in another point of view shot. A high angle shot is briefly shown when Agent Carter compels one of her victims to kneel down on the ground and shackles him to a pipe. In this brief moment in which the viewpoint is recorded from above, the guy appears small, which is essential since he is small at the time because he has no authority and is completely controlled by Agent Carter. Some editing techniques were also found in the Agent Carter short clip. A cut occurs when the scene shifts to a year later, however this cut is also a fade because the colors fade away and the screen goes dark. Another editing process is demonstrated in the five-minute film when Agent Carter is speaking with the man piloting the spaceship. The filming switches between the two characters to create suspense. Another type of editing that can be seen when the alarm goes off is leitmotif. Even while leitmotif sound is typically nondiegetic, it is in this case because the audience and characters are all aware that when the alarm goes off, a crime is in progress that demands special assistance. Finally, I recognized elements of Mise-en-scene in the Agent Carter clip. Agent Carter is at her office as the scenario in this film begins. We can tell that none of the men take Agent Carter seriously because she is a woman, as proven by the scene change at the gas station where Agent Carter is knocking them out one by one. Throughout the video, low-key lighting is used to create a sensation of suspension and tension. This illumination is especially crucial when agent carter is at the gas station, trying to get past all of the males in her way. 

My Favorite Genre - PowerPoint

 

Mise En Scene in a Professional Film

 I decided to comment on the mise-en-scene of a Netflix show called, “Alice in Borderland”. I made this decision because I really found this show interesting. Alice in Borderland is a manga series created by Haro Aso. The story focuses on Arisu Ryohei, better known as the titular "Alice". In Alice in Borderland, an obsessed gamer finds himself in a barren and distant reality where the players have to play a game and win in order to survive. In Alice in Borderland, the characters emerge in a distant fantasy land called Borderland where the only way to survive is to play games and earn lives. He is a juvenile delinquent with poor luck in life who's nearly finished high school. This show had many different elements that stood out to me therefore choosing this show to write about was a no brainer. In deeper detail, the show starts off as a young man who is jobless and plays videogames all day. As Arisu (the main character) continues to play, different camera angles are shown which represents shallow space. In shallow space, the image appears flat or two dimensional, because there is little or no depth. A few camera angles were a POV of Arius playing an FPS (first person shooter) game, then it switches over his shoulder, and finally it ends up zooming into his controller. As you move through the first few scenes of the movie you will notice that when the players are chosen to play the first game that the lighting is low-key, helping portray a sense of inactivity and sorrow. This emptiness causes the viewers to think about what has happened and leaves them on their toes wondering what will happen next.  In this scene low lighting took place as the characters are chosen everyone in Tokyo disappeared and everything suddenly turned dark. Just these few attributes changed the whole movie. The movie started off as an average sunny day in Tokyo, the streets are packed, families are together, heavy traffic, and people rushing to work. Once Arisu and his befriends cause a car accident for goofing around in the middle of the street, they see police officers and start running so they go hide in a public restroom. As they are hiding, they suddenly hear a weird sound. Once they decide to find out what that one weird sound was, they slowly start to realize that Tokyo was abandoned. The scene of the movie instantly changed from happy to gloomy. Throughout the movie most scenes were portrayed in dark key lighting. Throughout the movie, the sounds have always been changing. The sounds were portrayed as mystery, death, intensity, pain, and even happiness. The movie ends after a long fight. Arisu wins the game, allowing all players to choose to either remain in the game forever or return to real life. Arisu and Usagi decide to go back to the real world, where they learn all Borderland players were injured by space rocks in a meteorite attack on Tokyo. In the end scene there were many close-up shots of all the people that were eliminated as well as Arisu's shocked face. 

  

 

 

My Favorite Genre - Video