Thursday, 29 October 2015

Mills:
  • Aggressive (kicks down the door/ swears 'Detective Mills' 'M.I.L.L.S' 'F**K off'
  • He acts on impulse "feeding off emotions"
  • Mad/ Angry
  • Violent- physically pushes the photographer down the stairs
  • Kind / gentle / loving to his wife and dogs (energetic)
  • Very emotional/ passion
  • Impatient
  • His crime is 'wrath'
  • He wants to be a "HERO" he is -Confident he can fix things
  • Naive


Somerset:

  • Calm, he thinks things through/ ahead of the situation / thinks about consequences 
  • Patient
  • Keeps a grip on his emotions
  • Rational
  • Neat/ Precise, he gets dressed (picks fluff of his jacket/ cleans coffee jug/ lay out all of his things he needs with him for work)
  • Quitting, he thinks the world is too broken/ messed up that it can't be fixed, clean.

  • APATHY (e.g. people see a crime and does nothing about it.)
  • Jaded and Cynical (sees the bad in life)


                      MILLS                                                                                    SOMERSET




Se7en- Location&Setting


Location& Setting




Director : David Fincher

Movies he has directed : Alien 3, The Game, Benjamin Butler, The Girl with the Dagon Tattoos, Gone girl, Zodiac, Fight Club, Social Network.

Scene 1 (Exterior Scene)

  • The buildings/ apartment looks worn and old 
    • looks like in the 90s
    • in the city but in a poorer area
    • there are bars separating the building and outside making it look like a cage
    • Colour palette are not very colourful/dull (e.g. green, brown, grey)
  • The atmosphere is gloomy due to the lack of sunlight and rain. 
  • It is unsafe/ busy
    • there were people walking pass them(workers)
    •  there are also police in the scene that was bringing out a dead body and guarding the apartment entrance door to where the murder happened.
    • Aggressive- people pushing through when walking by
  • Diegetic Sound of cars/ amulance 

Scene 2 (Somerset's Room)




  • Old fashioned cloths
  • Lacking of colour
    • White
    • Brown
    • Beige
  • Diegetic sounds
    • cars
    • the outside sounds of neighbors talking, even though he is in the walls of his house he is still being disturb by the 'city' (it's presence is there, he can't escape it
  • Violence- Flick knife, which is seen is that the world outside is dangerous to the point where you need to keep a knife incase you are attacked)
  • He's a very clean and organized person, he has the control over the house and his belongs of where it should be.



Scene 3 (Tracey Somerset scene)




  • Violence/Cruel world - Somerset and Tracy were talking about abortion and what Somerset said basically says that this world is terrible. He made his partner abort his child because he doesn't want the little being to born into this world.
  • Reaction shot - sad/lost of hope
  • Diegetic sounds of plates/cutlery clanging - its crowded, not clean, not very appealing  





Friday, 23 October 2015

DEXTER credits





Dexter is an American TV crime drama mystery series. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a blood spatter pattern analyst for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department who also leads a secret life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system.



Denotation
Connotation

  •  Daily Morning routine
  • Sauce dripping (ketchup) on the knife
  • Floss 
  •  shaving throat
  • t shirt
  • cutting bacon
  • fried egg knife

  • Murder
  • Blood dripping 
  • Strangling 
  • throat cutting
  • suffocation
  • slicing flesh
  • Egg being puncture

Monday, 12 October 2015

Sound Mix


Today as a class we were given many scenes to put together so that it makes sense, however there were no sounds and therefore we also had a file of different sounds to put the video and the sounds together. We were shown of a version that was completed by our teacher (Mr. Harrison). He then taught us some basics about premiere, premiere is a software to edit videos and off we go for the whole lesson trying to put everything together.

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Western credit

Premiere

So the THEME was: Western!!! 

Today we were experimenting with premiere, we were tasked to making a opening credit sequence with a reference to, 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' 1966 credits. We watched it together as a class and identify what theme it is, fonts and was it good or not.

Firstly we were given a file with many pictures of a cowboy riding the horse, then on our teacher (Mr Harrison) show us the tools in which can enable you to animate the cowboy and the horse around the page. So after I put the files in premiere I started by drawing a mountain ( a very bad mountain tbh XD), then I move the cowboy figure around by putting a keyframe in the beginning then every 5 seconds or so I adjust my rotation, x and y axis etc so that the horse jumps into the middle of the screen and then stop abruptly. Keyframe is the "key" tool for animation since it allows you to move the figure little by little and instead of staying in the same place for the entire opening if it was not on a keyframe you'll be moving it as a whole. Each keyframe is specifically in a place that you want it be and during keyframe to keyframe the figure will move smoothly to transition to another keyframe position. 

To be honest, it was really hard to understand for me and to explain especially how the process was. However, by the end of class I learnt so much more about the software and therefore the next time I use this it'll be a lot easier and faster. Hopefully *fingers crossed*.