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Foley sounds

Foley sound is the reproduction of everyday sounds for use in film making. Foley effects are sound effects added to film during post production. These sounds include footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches and many more. Many of the sounds  that the sound recordists on set did the best to avoid during the shoot.the best Foley art is so integrated into a film that it goes unnoticed by the audience, it helps create a sense of reality within a scene. Without these background sounds, the films fell very unnatural and uncomfortable. Foley artists like to recreate the realistic ambient sounds that the film portrays the props and the sets do not react in the same way acoustically as their real life counterparts. foley can be used to cover unwanted sounds captured on the set of a movie. 

So these are some examples of Foley artist, the history of Foley Jack Foley began what is now known as Foley art in 1927. he had started to work with universal studios in 1914 during the silent movie era. when Warner studios released its first film including the jazz singer. Foley become part of the sound crew that would turn Universal’s then upcoming “silent” musical Show Boat into the vibrant musical we know it as today. Foley and his small crew would project the film on a screen while recording a single track of audio that would capture their live sound effects in real time. 

Jack Foley

The most common Foley tricks:

• Corn starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunching
• A pair of gloves sounds like bird wings flapping
• An arrow or thin stick makes a great whoosh
• An old chair makes a controllable creaking sound
• A water soaked rusty hinge when placed against different surfaces makes a great creaking sound. Different surfaces change the sound considerably
• A heavy staple gun combined with other small metal sounds make good gun noises
• A metal rake makes a great fence sound (it can also make a great metallic screech when dragged across a piece of metal)
• A heavy car door and fender can create most of the car sounds needed but having a whole car in the studio is better
• Burning plastic garbage bags cut into strips make a cool sound when the bag melts and drips to the ground
• ¼” audio tape balled up sounds like grass or brush when walked on
• Gelatin and hand soap make great squishing noises
• Frozen romaine lettuce makes great bone or head injury noises
• Coconut shells cut in half and stuffed with padding makes great horse hoof noises
• Cellophane creates crackling fire effects

Editing "Arlington road" putting Foley sounds on

So far in the editing process of "Arlington road" we have re - ordered the clips and then we had to put in the opening credits. After doing that we had to put sound in the clip, because there was no sound. therefore we leant about Foley sounds. the clip had no sound so it was up to us how we figured it out. we had to be in time with everything otherwise it would have looked odd. we had to have the right amount of footsteps, there had to be silence, breathing, door opening, car stopping and many other things. Which we did find difficult at the beginning however we got hang of it at the end.     

Putting Foley Sounds onto ''Arlington Road''

These are some pictures of us Editing In ''Final Cut Pro''. We were inputting our Foley sounds that we recorded earlier into our edited clip of 'Arlington road'

Recording Our Sounds

In this lesson we went out and recorded sounds that we could imput into the clip we edited of 'Arlington road' it was quite difficult in the beginning as we couldn't find a spot where there wasn't too much back ground noise, but eventually we did and we got the hang of it and it was pretty fun :D

These are some pictures that we took to show how we got the sound..

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student opening analysis

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Film opening Structures

In lesson, we learnt about four different types of film openings structures

• A narrative opening with titles running throughout.
• A discreet title sequence 
• Titles over a blank screen
• And a 'Stylized' opening structure

A film that we looked at was 'The Shining' which has a  narrative opening.

In a narrative opening there is titles running throughout and it normally sets up the story line

straight away. Hinting out what it could be about. In the start of 'The shining' we see a car

driving through very isolated mountains hinting out that. the person in the car is going to be

alone and might be being watched because of the high angle of the camera

Another film that we looked at was 'Se7ven' , which had a discreet opening.

Discreet openings don't give much away about what the film could be about

hence why it is called discreet.

Although it does give away what type of person/people are.

In this film it seems as though this person might be some kind of murderer? or a psycho?

The film 'Donnie darko' has a film opening where the titles are shown over a blank screen.

Its fairly simple and to be honest I found it rather boring to watch. Although it did have good 

background music/ sound which made it a little more interesting.

Student Opening Analysis: Violet

I particularly liked this video, I liked the editing, the sound and the Mise en Scene. This video really inspired me it was great. However the ending spoiled it and also the opening had too much information that was one of the bad things. But overall I enjoyed the film. 

I really like this effect, it was very effective. 

I really liked this shot because it looked very natural and realistic. 

The title was very appealing, and it also stood out, and suited the opening. 

These are some of the clips that I really enjoyed in the opening and also got inspiration from.

Film Opening Structures

During our lesson we learnt three main film opening structures they are the following: 

• A narrative opening 
• A discrete opening 
• A stylised opening 

A narrative opening mostly has the titles running through. In a narrative opening it usually contains most of the information, which sets up the narrative and establishes time, place, location, mood and often the characters. It normally invites the audience into the sequence. An example of a narrative opening is the shining. 
  

The shining 

A discrete opening is mostly shown to give the audience large amounts of information on both the characters and setting of the film. A discrete title sequences are separately edited making them stand apart from other film openings. An example of a discrete opening is from the Enemy of the state. 

Enemy of the state

Credits over a blank screen, it may be simple and effective in some ways, however it could be boring to watch. Credits on a blank screen are fairly simple, with no images but mostly text. So the most important thing is based on the sound, if the title sequence is just based on credits than the music will need to be engaging. An example is Donnie Darko  

Donnie Darko

A stylized editing is shown to be very sophisticated, however it does take a long time to do. A stylized title sequence is often split up into equal parts allowing the audience to see the action taking place at the same time, however through different perspectives. But the most important thing is that it takes longer than to edit. An example of a stylized editing is from Taking of Pelham 123

Taking of Pelham 123

Film openings

The film 300 is the perfect example that uses most of the conventions. In the clip I posted it clearly states the film name, the distribution company is ident and the music associated with the film, the production company is ident and it sets the mood and tone and outs into place the genre.

The film 300 distubutors are the Warner Bros and their company is shown to match the story line of the movie.

This gives the audience an idea of what the film might be like, showing them an idea. Moreover the poster of the film 300 shows what genre the film is, you can tell that there will be fighting, blood and deaths in it.

The tiltle of the film '300' is in red and the font of the film makes it look like blood, as it can get washed away, moreover the mise en scence of the clothes their wearing you can also tell where about the film was set, as they have arrows and shield, you'd have an idea that the film is set, it was set in 480 BC.

Conventions of film opening

In movie openings you will always have the production logos and distribution logos of the main companies that work on the movie. Depending on the budget of the film/hype created for the film these logos will be edited in a form related to the movie, such as 300 the Warner Bros logo is made to look like a shield and is worn away and dirty. This is to reflect the story line of the film. 

The conventions of film openings. The classic order goes like this:

- Production company ident

- Distribution company ident

- Music associated with those idents

- List of credits - directors,actors,casting etc..

- Title of film

- Establishing shot

- Find out where its set (location)

- Introduce main characters

- Find out hints about the storyline/situation/narrative

- Sets the mood and tone and outs into place the genre

The film 'The taking of PELHAM 123' is the perfect example that follows the order of a conventional film opening.

The classic opening:

- Skyline/cityscape

- close up of a building, close-up of a particular window

- go into that room associated with the window & meet the characters

Re - Editing a film opening

In today's lesson we ordered pre- shot clips of 'Arlington road', we ordered the opening and arranged them in the correct order on final cut pro, it was quite a good challenge. We were then told to add the opening credits. At first we found it quite difficult because the texts wouldn't go in the places we wanted it to go, so we just settled on putting them all on the bottom right hand corner, so it looks pretty basic. We were very pleased with it as it was our very first attempt at anything like this

Re - Editing a film opening

This was our editing process of Arlington road, as you can see some clips of our editing process. Firstly we arranged them in the right order and then we added the opening credits. 'Final cut Pro' it very straight forward and simple to use.  

This part was really hard at first and we spent quite a lot of time on it, because for all three of us in the group it was the first time doing something like this, we wanted it to be perfect. We wanted the 'UN' to come in at the perfect time. and we eventually did it. It was worth the time! :D

FDA YEAR BOOK

1)  How many suspense films were released in 2010?
    38 films


2) In total, how much did these suspense films take, gross, to the nearest million?
    It took the gross around £42 million


3) Which genre of film had the highest gross in 2010?
    It was action/adventure


4) What was the most popular family genre in 2010?
    action/adventure

INTERTEXTUALITY

Intertextuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films. It can include an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another. Quite literally films 'borrow' from each other, and you, the audience, may recognize certain camera angles, aspects of mise en scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others.

Fatal attraction is one of the clips we analysed in class. It had many use of Intertextuality from the film Psycho. Psycho is a 1960 american thriller movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's about a young women who steals money from her employers client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. 

In the short clip of Fatal attraction that we watched, what happened was a mad women with a knife wanted to attempt murder on another women. The setting was in a bathroom which was clinical white. Whilst they were fighting a man was downstairs boiling water so he couldn't hear what was going on. He then heard screaming from upstairs therefore ran up the stairs to find the mad women throwing the knife around at the other women. He then gets involved and eventually drowns her.


Some of the aspects that are borrowed from 'Psycho' were that both the settings were similar. They were both in a white clinical bathroom were both the murders took place. Moreover in the film fatal attraction, when she was trying to kill the other women, staggering the knife everywhere it had many jump cuts, an editing element that was borrowed from the film 'Psycho'. In addition to that when the mad women was dying there was music, to build up the tension, which is also similar to the film 'Psycho'. 

Intertexuality

Intertexuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films. It includes texts that refer to other media texts that producers assume that audiences will recognise. Intertexuality describes that films borrow from each other, and as the audience we may recognise certain things. Examples are they may recognise certain camera angles, aspects of Mise en scene, sounds or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others. Various films are made together to give a different film/message. Example of films are Shrek, scary movie and Simpson and many others that have borrowed from films. This make the audience feel more involved and also recognise these aspects, and makes it more familiar.

The 'Roommate' is an example of intertextuality, it borrowed some aspects from the film PSYCHO 

PHYSHO is an Alfered Hitchcock production, Roommate has taken some ideas from this film however not just Roommate there have been many other films that have embedded ideas from this film. 

One of the examples is the shower scene, the camera angle in both PSYCHO and Roommate are from the top. It is shown as a high angle shot from the top.

The other example is the bathroom curtains both showed in PSYCHO and Roommate.

Another aspect is the curtain pulling both the victims in the films sem to have pulled the curtains. 

An significant thing is that in both Psycho and Roommate there victims are women
as you can see in there clips. 

Therefore in Roommate there have been various use of intertextuality, there are many aspects that been borrowed from the film PSYCHO. 

example of intertextuality

I looked at the film 'Not another teen movie' and found they had a loads of different scenes that have been embedded from different movies..Including..'She's all that' , 'Ten things I hate about you' and 'Bring it on'

Here are a couple of examples

'Not another teen movie' And 'She's all that'

In these pictures you can see, this girl is 'nerd'. they are both wearing Overalls with paint all over them. There names in the films are also very similar, The girl on the left is 'Janey' And the one on the right is 'Laney' So it is made pretty obvious that this was copied/borrowed

'Not another teen movie' And '10 things I  hate about you'

In this scene both guys sing to the 'Nerdy' girl trying to win her over.

'Not another teen movie' And 'She's all that'

This is the part in the film where the 'nerd' girl gets transformed. As you can see both girls are wearing similar red dresses.

'Not another teen movie' And 'She's all that'

In this clip, the 'Nerdy' girl that has now been transformed gets taken to a party by the typical 'hot popular guy. These two guys are also both Football Jocks in both the films

'Not another teen movie' and 'She's all that'

Both the girls are drawing/painting pictures of there mothers who in the films have both passed away.

'Not another teen movie' and 'Bring it on'

Both these pictures look very similar, in the films..both girls are having 'cheer leading wars' on who has the best routine.

• These are just a few examples from the film 'Not another teen movie'. Before I learned about intersextuality I hadn't realised that movies do actually 'borrow' ideas from other movies, and I was surprised to what extent some movies go to. Although I  know that 'Not another teen movie' is based on copying other films hence the name, it made me feel quite intrigued when I realised which films they had taken the ideas from. And as a viewer I felt quite proud when i recognised where it was taken from.

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films, you can make reference to another media text in a media product. Quite literally films borrow from one another, e.g. Scary movie, Shrek, The Simpsons have all ''borrowed'' ideas and aspects of other films. The audience may recognise the ''borrowed' ideas, making them feel included in the idea developed and may help them understand the film better and what might happen next, giving them a sense of familiality

The film 'The Stepfather' is an example of a film 'borrowing' ideas. The ideas in 'Step father' have very similar aspects and ideas as the thriller film 'PSYCHO'

This is Alfred Hitchcoks production of 'PSYCHO' many ideas have been taken from 'PSYCHO' and have been embedded into other films, 'The Step fathe'r is just one example of that.

We found that in most horror films it is very common that the victim is a female.
Just like in 'PSYCHO' and 'The stepfather'
Also 'The stepfather' have a scene just like 'PSYCHO' in a white bathroom that almost looks clinical 

Just like 'PSYCHO' , 'The Stepfather's weapon is a Silver knife to attack the victim.

(PSYCHO)

Although not very clear, this was an obvious part of the film from 'PSYCHO' that had been embedded into  'The stepfather' The Curtain pull. 

Again another intertextuality.....The female victim in 'PSYCHO' does the exact same position when falling down the bath tub falling.




These are all examples of Intertextuality, if we watch films carefully, or not even carefully because sometimes they are made obvious we will see that most films have gotten influenced by another