Film Analysis - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Film Analysis - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Here's the opening to Breakfast at Tiffany's, most people will know know about this film as it's a classic, but here's a summary of the plot for some people that might not know about this film. 

In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a relationship. Maintaining a childlike innocence yet wearing the most perfect of designer clothes and accessories from Givenchy, she spends her time on expensive dates and at high-class parties. She escorts various wealthy men, yet fails to return their affections after they have given her gifts and money. Holly's carefree independence is changed when she meets her neighbor, aspiring writer Paul , who is suffering from writer's block while being kept by a wealthy woman. Just when Holly and Paul are developing their sweet romance, Doc appears on the scene and complicates matters, revealing the truth about Holly's past.

The film starts with a long shot showing New York, letting the audience know where the film is set, We then is a wide shot showing a Holly getting out of a taxi, we then see a low angle making the Tiffany building making it important and the we see  her walking to a shop window showing that there might be something important there. We then see a medium shot showing her looking at the window taking out her breakfast. We also see another wide shot showing Holly walking down the road by herself. 

Film Analysis - Step Up Revaluation

Film Analysis - Step Up Revaluation

Here's the opening to Step Up Revaluation. People that like dance films will know about all of the Step Up film but here a little bit about the film. 

This film is set in Miami. Sean and his friend Eddie lead a flash mob who call themselves The Mob and they have flash mobs all over the city so that they could win an online contest. They also work at a luxury hotel. Sean meets a girl named Emily who is the daughter of the owner of the hotel, who aspires to be a dancer which her father doesn't support and they hit it off. Eventually Emily joins The Mob and finds out that her wealthy business father threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands-of people, Emily must work together with Sean and The Mob to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause.

Now to analyzing...

The film starts with and aerial view of the city where the film is set which is Miami, this is give the audience a sense of where the film is set. After the aerial view the director uses a long shot showing the audience what's going on the streets of Miami and giving the audience a sense of how busy the streets are. We then see a close up of a woman's legs this is getting the audience  thinking about 'who is this woman and what is she doing there'. We then see another close up of a man's face and a camera, getting the audience thinking what is he recording. After that we only see that the director has used long shots so we can see the dance.

Film Analysis - James Bond Quantum of Solace

Film Analysis - James Bond Quantum of Solace

Here's the opening to James Bond film Quantum of Solace. Everyone knows about all the James Bond movies so I am not going to bother explain what the film is about... so lets get to analyzing the film.

The film starts with an aerial view, This is establishing where the opening of the film is set and it will let the audience know where they are.

After the aerial view there are several of extreme close up of the cars and then it goes to a establishing shot so that the audience know where the cars are driving. Then there is aerial view and then other close up of the cars. Throughout most of the opening of the film there are a lot of aerial view, extreme close ups and close up shot, however getting to the end of the opening you see a lot of long and wide shots so that the audience can see the action.

Learning camera angles

Learning camera angles

Today in class we were learning about different camera angles and what effects they have. Here are some of the camera angles we learned:

Aerial Shot - This camera shot is taken from an overhead position, this is often used as an establishing shot. Here is an example of an aerial shot.

Close up - This shot is a head and shoulder shot which is often used to show expressions/ emotions of a character. This can also be a shot of an object, so that it will reveal detail. I didn't find any examples on youtube.

Extreme Close up - This shot is where a part of a face or body of a character which fills the whole frame, which will dominate the frame. Here's an example of a extreme close up.

Point-of-veiw shot (POV) - This shot shows the view from the character's perspective. This shot is usually edited so that the viewers are aware of who's point of view it is. 

Over the Shoulder shot -  This shot is looking over the subject's shoulder. 

After knowing some of the camera angles, we were then instructed to select 5 different film openings and analyse them. We were told to identify the different camera angles and their effects towards the audience. 

Here is an over view of the different camera angles:

   

Preliminary task plan 2

Planning for Preliminary task 2

We now started looking at different locations to film our preliminary task. We looked at several different place in the school, trying to find the right place to film. 

And we thought as we would do the filming during our lesson we decided to film it in our teacher's office. Now we had the cast and the location ready and we learned all the camera angles and we were ready to started filming.

Script for Preliminary task

 

Script for Preliminary task

here is the script that me and my partner Gloria came up with. We decided to do a detective type of film and we came up with this script.

Script

Person 2: What happened? Why did you kill her?

Person 1: I don’t know what happened.

Person 2: You’re a killer!

Person 1: I didn't kill her, I loved her.

Person 2: You killed her. (bangs hand on the table)

Person 1: I LOVED HER! (shouts)

Person 2: If you loved her then why did you kill her?

Person 1: I told you I didn’t kill her.....

we liked this script because it dark and mysterious. We also picked this script because it will leave the audience wanting to know what happens next, what's going to happen to him? Did he kill her are not?

These are the type of effects that we are trying to put forward to the audience as we want to get their attention and make them want to keep watching. 

Preliminary task plan

Planning for Preliminary task

We now have started to plan for our preliminary task. we started figuring out a script first before everything, we then came up with a script that was mysterious and a detective type of film genre  and we liked it so we stuck with it.

I will be posting the script after this.

We then started thinking about the cast and how will be the best at playing the role, we also decided to cast people from our class because it would be easier as we could film during our media lesson.

Our main focus for the cast would be only males, so we started looking at the boys in our class and seeing who would suit the roles. And this is a list of the boys that would be perfect for our task:

> Martin

> Mack

> Harron

> Tristian 

> Ramone 

> John 

  

We now have to pick between the chosen cast, and we decided to pick Martin and Mack.

Now we went on to picking a location, and thinking about the lighting and the camera angles we had to include.