While it was largely commercial factors that driven the development of narrative film, it is also important to recognize the role of individual artists who have made it a means of personal expression. In general, the film image of the silent period was simplified in nature, acted in unnecessarily animated gestures on which to focus the eye; and supplemented by live music, theater musicians and written titles for mood and storytelling. In particular, within the limits of this medium, one director has arisen to make silent films an art and unleash their potential as a medium for serious speech and persuasion. As an actor in 1907, D. W. Giffith progressed quickly to the director’s job where he worked in near collaboration with his camera crew, experimenting with shots, angles and editing methods that could enhance the dramatic impact of his scene. He discovered that he would create an appearance of simultaneity by practicing simultaneous editing in which a film alternates two or three scenes. He will then increase the suspense between cuts in the movie by switching more and more quickly before the action scenes collide.

Reflect exercise 2

I decided to take each dirty shoot to actor A and actor B. when A is talking, the camera is mainly focus on A’s face but still can see B’s back or his side, in the same way shooting to actor B. The camera will set in the back 2 foot long distance to the A and B.

Reflect of “The background action: how to keep it real and why to get it right.”

After read the article, authenticity is mainly important in a film, as Tom Reilly said in the article: “What we stage and shoot has to look and feel real, or we lose the viewer and the film loses credibility.” The film in terms of ideological content have a common requirement that they must be true and credible, and in terms of artistic expression, the film should be close to life. Any details should not be distorted against life. The authenticity of a film is closely related to the creator’s view, life experience and artistic accomplishment. Furthermore, in some case, the crew of film will invite professionals, like Tom Reilly mentioned in the article: “ When staging complicated scenes, we sometimes bring in technical advisers to be on the set and make sure that we get it right. Shrewdly, sometimes we even cast them to play a small role.” In a word, to ensure the authenticity of the film, props, background, any other details are important elements.

Decoupage means to cup up, but it is not editing, and is used to obtain continuity. This word in English, in the expression continuity script. On another side, as the article mentioned, Montage means to join up or connect things such as pipes, electrical writing, etc. water tight, functional, unidirectional, means not to join but to cut.

While decoupage is strikingly absent from most English language theoretical and technical film dictionaries and introductory volumes on film art, when mentioned at all its meaning is almost without exception mangled byong recognition. The expression “classical analytical editing” refers to the fact that, in the classical method, the finished result must adhere to the film’s continuity script or decoupage technique.

Reflect to exercise 3& 4

Exercise 3

Script No word of exercise 3, in this script, there is no dialogue, mostly are environment shot and actor’s body language, to combine with decoupage technique, I will make many number of breakdown for this script. In the script, there are many “movement” for the actor, so I could make each breakdown shot for each movement.

Exercise 4

In the start of the script, I would shoot with decoupage technique, because there are many movements, body language of Ella. So, I could shoot to many breakdown shoots. When Juliette appears, I think she might appears peripherally, so that the after plot will be reasonable. Furthermore, the camera will close to Ella when she notices Juliette, and the camera will give Ella a close up shoot, to see her acting and her reflection. When they two talk, I prefer to make the dirty shoot for them, to see their face and body language. The camera will be each their back. And also could shoot as a medium shoot.

In scene 2, when Juliette is heading towards the counter, Ella hurries up behind her, I would like to take the shoot in the front of they two, and camera focused to Juliette but when Ella comes, they are both focused.  After that, the dialogue part will be shoot as medium shoot. Furthermore, Ella’s POV will be central to the efficacy of this scene, so I might add shop assistant’s POV to make the authenticity. This is we learned from week 5, as we been told the background’s authenticity. After that, in the scrip, there will be a single shoot for EFTPOS shows approve, that will add more authenticity, so that the audiences will feel the story is real and enjoy the film.

In scene 3, I think the function of shooting will be quite similar to scene 1, except the dialogue part. When they having the conversation, I would like to make the medium wild shoot, after they end the conversation, Ella slaps Juliette in the face, Ella is more surprised than Juliette, I think there could use decoupage, but not a lot. Bucase we have to see the continually shoot. In a word, I think appropriate use of decoupage will emphasize the structure of the story.

Extra scene analysis

https://video.sina.cn/ent/m/2015-05-16/detail-iavxeafs7604605.d.html?from=wap

Mountains May Depart is a 2015 Mandarin language drama film directed by Jia Zhangke. This clip is using a cool color tone to fill up. The location is set up in a train station, Tao and her son is waiting for the train. The camera is panning smoothly for this scene. Meanwhile, the clothes they wear also are cool tone, so that it fills the scene more complete. After that, the following shot is a long shot which is the image of the waiting hall and the back of the two characters. The long shot here is to point out the character’s frustration and lonely. The next shot is a extreme long shot, the scene here is Tao and her son standing out of the train station. The purpose of this shot is to show the dreary scenery and the character’s emotions. Meanwhile, the soundtrack is 90s style Cantonese lyrics song. In the 1990s, it was the golden age of entertainment industry in Hong Kong. So the purpose of the soundtrack here is really fit the story line, because this clip is telling the story happens in that generation. Also, the lyric song in here is helping the story developing the emotions of this clip. In the next scene, this is a tilt-down and smoothly pan shot and it finally freeze to a medium shot. In the last scene of this clip, Tao give her son a key of their home form the past, this is a foreshadowing. The key for the son-Dollar, is stand for the home and he can not comeback, especially for the Dollar went to Australia and growing in there. The key is more like a souvenir for him. For the Asian, the key representative the family or home and also could be interpreted as guardian of the family. For the Yong son- Dollar, he might think the home is far away but he has the key.