Friday, 15 October 2010

Se7en: This is a table showing and explaining all the elements that are considered when creating a title sequence.

Element

Denotation –What you see?

Connotation- What it means?

Information

  • Theme
  • Location
  • Genre
  • Characters
  • Narrative
  • Cops finding bad guys
  • Thriller
  • Room in apartment
  • Psychotic
  • creepy man
  • Complicated story line and plot

The information gives the audience a sense of the story line and how the story is going to unravel. And the type of story it is. It also focuses on small intricate details that the audience will need to remember throughout the film.

Genre


 

  • Thriller

Similarities to other thrillers and differences to other films e.g. westerns, romantic comedies and horrors.

Camerawork

  • Shots
  • Angles
  • Movement
  • Extreme Close-ups
  • Canted angle
  • Bird's eye view
  • Movement is relatively still

This makes the audience focus on the small details being presented. Signifies the importance of the character and what he is doing. It also focuses our attention on what the director wants us to see.

Mise-en-scène

  • Lighting
  • Movement
  • Props
  • Costumes
  • Colour
  • Cinematography
  • Font and type.
  • Dark and mysterious
  • Slow and steady
  • No real connection between the props
  • No costumes as of yet
  • Black, red and white
  • Shadowing of objects
  • Almost hand-written and childlike – lower case.

The Mise-en-scene ne creates the mood and the tone of the film. It gives us the underlying feeling that the film is going to be quite complicated and puzzling almost a mystery.

The lighting creates a back drop for the film and the colour represents evil, gore and death.

Sound


 

  • Dark and edgy
  • Pace -Slow then fast
  • Dialogue is dark (un holy)

The sound differentiates the genre as the music starts off soft and gets faster and more chaotic whereas in a horror the music is loud and dark from the beginning. So we know what type of film this is going to be.

Editing


 


 

  • Jump cuts
  • Credits
  • Overlapping images
  • Computer effects
  • Flashing light and images

The irregular editing featuring lots of different effects and pictures, creates uneasiness and tension for the audience. We are kept on edge and don't know what to expect next.


 


 


 

Snatch: This is a table showing and explaining all the elements that are considered when creating a title sequence.

Element

Denotation –What you see?

Connotation- What it means?

Information

  • Theme
  • Location
  • Genre
  • Characters
  • Narrative
  • Robbers, gangsters, gamblers
  • Urban City – London
  • Thriller/Crime
  • A large cat of different nationalities
  • Simple plot, numerous storylines within the film

This information gives the audience a sense of what the film is going to be about. The audience will know that the film is going to have multiple ideas and explore multiple cultures.

Genre


 

  • Thriller/Crime

It is similar to other Crime films but it is also features similarities to some thrillers. But it is different to other films e.g. westerns, romantic comedies and chick flicks.

Camerawork

  • Shots
  • Angles
  • Movement
  • Extreme close ups
  • Mid shots
  • Camera zooms
  • Point of view sots
  • Pan
  • Tilt
  • Canted angles

The audience get a brief introduction to the characters and their lives. The shots focus on what the characters are doing. The director wants us to establish what is happening in the scenes.

Mise-en-scène

  • Lighting
  • Movement
  • Props
  • Costumes
  • Colour
  • Cinematography
  • Font and type.
  • Dark and tense
  • Fast and irregular
  • Cigars, guns, money, diamonds
  • Suits, shirts, gold jewellery, 'East End' men
  • Dull colours and white
  • Highlighting objects: diamond and money
  • Bold and white

We can see that the film is going to be chaotic as the men are all involved in 'dodgy dealings'.

The colours show the different nationalities of the characters shown and possibly their separate roles.

The font type outlines the main characters.

Sound


 

  • Up tempo music
  • Regular pace
  • Police sirens
  • Dialogue is tense

The music is fast but regular which indicates that it is a thriller but also a crime based film (there is also police sirens). The dialogue suggest that there will tension between characters.

Editing


 


 

  • Jump cuts
  • Image zooms
  • Freeze frames
  • Transitions
  • Repeat of camera effects

The editing keeps us on edge. As there are a lot of jump cuts. Even though we known what the film will consist of, we do not know what to expect next.

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