- Camera
- Mise en Scene
- Editing
- Sound
Camera
Frame -
Angle -
Movement - Pan Left/Right (on tripod)
Tilt Up/Down (on tripod)
Tracking Shot - Follows something
Steady Cam - Makes the camera look like it is gliding or floating , smooth shot.
Handheld - Shaky Cam for fights, makes it gritty more real, movement with object.
Mise En Scene - All the things that are in the scene that make it.
Costume - Victorian Suits = Victorian Period
Lighting - Time of day, dream scenes etc
Actors - Appearance, voice, body language, class, gender
Makeup - Fantasy Characters, dead characters
Props - Used in background, given to character to give more information
Setting - What type of film will it be i.e Warzone = war movie, Upper Class House = Drama about this family etc
Editing
Transitions - can add to pace of movie or add to the cinematic artsy part of the movie
Order of Narrative - Mixing a story up to get interest, so using a bit from the future at the beginning as the first seen part of the film this would gauge interest with the watcher asking questions etc
Pace - How fast or slow you want a scene to be i.e a love scene slow and intimate pace, fighting scene fast pace to add to confusion and intensity of scene etc
SFX - Sound Effects added in after filming to add more to a scene like creaking floor boards for a horror film
Sound
Dialogue - What is being said and how does it affect the scene
Music - Diegetic (what is recorded in scene) or Non-Diegetic (whats put on top of a scene) Parallel (music goes with scene) or Counter Parallel (When music doesn't go with the scene)
Boys in the Hood - Analysis of first 6 minutes
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Camera
A long shot, tracking shot is the first piece of film we actually see, it track some kids walking to school from the other side of the street like we are walking to school with them, from this point of view we can see all the rubbish, bad pavements and stray dogs showing how much of a run down bad area these kids are in.
Match on Action shot of the kids going under the crime scene police tape and entering the crime scene, this keeps the movement and flow of the scene going. Also this scene signifies that these characters think it is okay to just walk into a crime scene of a gang attack.
The camera fades from the blood and the talk of the blood plasma to a class room, using steady cam to pan around the class and move to the teacher.
The static shot down the pavement to the main child walking home from school and a drug deal or something starts fighting in front of him he just walks around it - this shows how normal it is for the kid to see this kind of violence.
Sound
The recorded sound of the gang attack without imagery of it gives more intensity and impact to it.
All the child characters speech is slang and with swear words and none of them are very articulate - showing they are not very well educated or taught how to speak by their parents, bad parents bad education.
The teacher speaks with a bored patronizing tone to the class, this has connotations that she thinks she is better than the class, better to be teaching there, a bored teacher means a bad teacher, a bad school, bad area, bad kids it all comes together to make the whole place of the movie is a bad area.
The mother speaks with attitude towards the patronizing teacher, this could show that this is a person, a character that does not go along with the stereotypes of the people that live in the area.
Editing
The Order of Narrative - The scenes are in order of what happens, the gang attack the day before and then the kids walking to school and seeing it the next day.
The pace of the scenes following the gang attack are all quite normal paced not fast or dragging slowly, this could be used to symbolize these scenes that we see as the audience are meant to be part of the normal every day for the lives of the characters.
Mise En Scene
The children are dressed smartly for school but still in what looks like quite cheap clothing, the poorness shown shows what the area is like.
Black People in america have stereotypical connotations of traditionally being less educated and connected to crime and gangs. A poorer Class.
Crime scene shows the danger of the setting with the blood, bullet holes and crash, the whole first 6 minutes show how bad the area is.
