Monday 3 November 2008

Evaluation on technical analysis

Through my technical analysis I've learned that cutting from still images to still images creates a certain mood and helps to show the nature of something calm for instance of a countryside. However, to create this effect you need time and zou may use some long takes. But we only have two minutes so this is nothing for our opening sequence.
Also, I learned that a mix of different shot sizes, angles and movements such as LSs and CUs is important for the audience to see the action from different points. Having a variety decreases the risk that the film gets boring. The rate of cuts should also be considered as this gives the film its speed and mood, too. For a chasing sequence the shots must look quite messy just like the nature of the action so there handicam would be best along with fast-paced cuts.
Something else I've noticed is that there's not only for example a typical CU/tracking in/ eye-level shot in films but sometimes the camera moves from one position to a different one so that shot size, angle and focus change without using a cut. I like contrasts in films, be it in cutting rate(fast/slow)or music(harsh/calm), if one of this follows the other because it creates a fairly good mystery. It awards it an unreal look. So we will definitely use that.
Again, as in my first product analysis, I realizied that we don't need sound all the time to create our preferred mood, so we will have a mix of pure, natural sound with other parts where we will use something of the music we selected and Tom has posted.

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