Film Style - The elements of film

Basic Film Terminology

Shot -> Edit -> Scene
Shot
- one continuous shot, using the same shot type
- continuous shot without interruptions
- lasts about 10 sec
- you can pan and tilt but its continuous, camera doesn't stop
- camera on and camera off = shot
- one single shot before editing
-Camera or subjects can move as long as its still filming
After editing it turns into a scene
Edit
- a break in a film
- in between shots
- cuts
- dissolve (fades, smooth) ( one shot to another is usually a cross dissolve)
- fade generally end of the shot, fades into a colour e.g. black or white
- Wipe - not as common as others
Scene
- collection of shots, arranged by edit into order
- analysis is usually in scenes not shots
- some scenes are shorter than others according to adrenaline etc

Genre
- categories of composition
e.g. fantasy, horror, comedy, romance, action, drama etc

Film Language
-Mise En Scene
-Cinematography
-sound
-editing

Mise En Scene
French for to put in the scene
style of acting -> props -> setting -> lighting -> style of acting
Cinematography
Framing -> Camera position -> camera movement (tilt,pan, zoom etc) -> focus (focus pulling ( focus on a person face to background , shift), drawn to whatever is clear not blurry) -> Perspective (dialogue, what others are looking at, view point) --> exposure (lighting, underexposed (dark), overexposed (light), change of mood) --> speed ( how fast the camera/ editing--> framing ( whats in and out of the shot)
Editing
Can create a rhythm or pace in a film
does it create a beat to the film?
e.g quick shots in action film
It can create a feeling of time passing
Graphic relationships between shots, jump cut which shorten events
match cut make something that looks like something else into that something else.

Jeep Commercial
Passing of time - sun set
- time passing (wasted, you could take the jeep to do other stuff)
- Keeps changing from nite to day
- lots of different places
Match cut- sparklers to sun, lots of different people driving in the same type of car, road.

Sound
Music -> Sound Effects( overall, hints of whats happening, adds to the narrative and overall atmosphere) -> Dialogue(the plot) -> Music(creates mood, emotional response)
Voice over / Narration

6 Storyboard Images

Recipe

-Little girl
-Clown
-Father
-Mother
-Hot Investigator

Take one little girl, make her find her mum dead with a creepy clown standing over her body.
In confusion, she runs out the house screaming and eventually loses sanity.
Clown and supposedly dead parent runs out the house to calm the child, a prank on Halloween.
After a nights sleep the child wakes to see her mum lying dead on the kitchen floor, blood draining out of her.
A knife in her hand. Blood flowing down her arms, she screams.
Father comes home from work finds child gone,wife dead. Have the dad find the child after going through some horror and is accused of killing his wife and child.
Father end up dead as he slowly goes insane as he becomes confused and really blame himself what's happens.
The child is found after a few years by a hot man reopening this case.
Put in some horror on his journey and gruesome stories of what happened to the child after disappearance.
He ends up finding the child at an older age, who has gone insane and still killing...