Seven

In this I will be talking about the opening of the movie Seven.

 The first visual we see is a dull book being turned over. This automatically gives the audience a sense of mystery. However when as soon as we see the razor we find that it is not mysterious but it is scary. we see more mystery as we see more of this trailer as we see an unknown set of fingers. the person is cutting his skin with the razor. The mystery if this being that we don't know who this person is or why he is cutting himself with the razor.

The sense of mystery and horror continues as we only continue to see flashes of the unknown character doing random things, for instance writing a letter.However it did not seem that he was writing a letter, more like a book. the fact that he was threading pieces of paper together made me believe that he is writing a book. The director is probably intended for the audience to be convinced he is writing a book to indicate that the character is an isolated person.

Throughout the opening of the movie, the soundtrack and the abstract colours also made an impact on the audience. the music had been very diegetic to show suspense, tension and horror. The abstract colours also showed us that this film was not going to have a nice and happy opening but rather open in a bad note. Which in my belief the director intended for us to read in order to ask all these question as to what the character doing?, what is going to happen next?, etc.. The reason the director chose to use such a mysterious opening is to draw the audience and make them stay to watch the rest of the movie.

Children Of Man

During todays media studies class, were watching another opening of a film called “Children of man”. This film was made during 2006. 

When the movie starts we don’t get a visual. Instead we see a blank screen. However we do hear a news report.  As soon as we I heard the news report, I understand the purpose of the blank visual. The news report was to report a homicide and it was a way to show some respect of some sort. Where that is usually done by silence, we needed to know hear the report so a blank screen was the best way to do it.  This kind of thing would not have been done should it have been someone else, however the death was of the youngest person. This automatically gave me a sense of what the movie was about; the reason why the title is called “children of man”: humanity is becoming extinct. Therefore everyone is extremely upset that the youngest child has been killed.

Main characters of all movies stand out in one way or another. This is how I guessed the main character was. The scene where we hear the news report is at a coffee shop. People are gathered around the TV with sad expressions. This is when a man- whom I guess the main character is- comes in and buys a copy. He only glances at the TV, differentiating himself from everyone else. My other reason as to why I guess he is the main character is because of the fact that the camera follows him. My guess is that the director intended for us to find out that he Is the main character by this action.

The main character has said one or two words, which where to order his coffee, however we found out a great deal about him from when he leaves the coffee shop. When he exits he walks a bit and stop as he finds something to put his coffee on. He takes out a bottle of -what we assume is alcohol- and puts a bit in his coffee. This and his postures and his costume tell us that he is a very unhappy person. His costume is very dull, no bright colours. His posture un professional despite his profession which is yet to be told, however we know that it is a well paid job. These are all the things we could tell about his character without any words about himself.

Three Colours Blue

In class we have watched the french film three colours blue and discussed in pairs the importance of the opening scene and how much information you can get off just the start of the movie.

I think the most important shot in the opening scene is the part when they show the car break leaking, immediately telling us the story line is of the car crashing however the question being which character survives?

The shot where the car stops determines which actor/actress plays who. the man who stretches when he gets out of the car being the father and the women who calls for the child is the mother, and finally the child who runs out of the as soon as the car pulls over is the daughter. We establish the name of the child, who's name is the first word spoken. From what i gathered the girls name is Diana. As i said before we hearthe mother saying the little girls name however we don't see her.

The screen time at the right beginning of the movie shows us that the car going through the highway. This could imply that the passengers of the car are bored. My suspicion was confirmed whenb we see the shot of the girl in the car with an extremely bored and tired expression on  her face. An even more exact example would be when the girl yawned.

I personally believe that sound and picture is both very important. however you could tell so much from just the sound. For example, the start of the movie when the car is driving through the highway. If you haven't had watched it you would have assumed it was a plane on a runway. You can hear things so much clearly if you just focused on the sound and not the picture.

Movie Review

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones!

I recently went to the cinema and watched the brand new movie the Mortal Instruments. This movie was first a best selling book series written by Cassandra Claire and was turned into a movie because of how great all five books were selling.
This movie was AMAZING. It took a while for me to warm up to the books, however I immediately fell in love with the movie from the very beginning .

 This Movie is about Clary Fray (played by lily Collins) who is a shadow hunter (half angel, half human.  Their purpose is to hunt demons) but is oblivious to this information because her mother kept this from her for her entire life. That is until her mother gets attacked by a demon therefore forced to leave behind her human life and embrace her shadow hunter side, with the help of her new friend and love interest in the movie Jace Wayland (played by Jamie Campbell-Bower). Together along with Isabel Lightwood (played by Jemima West), Alec Lightwood (played by Kevin Zegers), and Clary’s best friend Simon (played by Robert Sheehan) they try to find Clary’s mother who has been kidnapped by a name that is feared in the underworld: Vladimir.  He is using Clary’s mother because he she hid the Mortal cup from him. The mortal is a mortal instrument that is extremely powerful and Vladimir will stop at nothing to get it.

I would highly recommend anyone to watch this movie. You would not regret it.