Task 2: research into existing products-Se7en

This is an analysis of the film 'Se7en'.

Character - Detective  Lt. William Somerset in his flat. he is black, quit old man played by Morgan Freeman
The animal figurines show us that the man travels a lot as normally can buy them when you are on a holiday in another country so the man is well traveled.
He is drinking coffee and in America it is a stereotype that American people drink coffee in the morning so detective William is getting ready for work. The character is played by Morgan Freeman.


Also, co-star Brad pit as detective David Mills and Gwyneth Paltrow as Tracy Mills which are happily married young couple. They moved into the town couple weeks ago and they bought a house very quickly even though the estate agent did not tell them that every couple minutes you can hear the train going by. This is a thriller-horror film for its disturbing scenes.

The noise of other people taking and you can hear them which means he lives in a flat or an apartment, there are sounds of cars driving which shows us that he lives in a urban area.
He has a nice laid out house, white walls without any family pictures or decorative things to make the house look good and normally the women would decorate the house nicely and it is not so that shows us that he is single and that is why he has a single bed as he is alone without anyone to a company him at home. He is a detective and as he is alone that can mean that as a detective his job becomes his wife so he is alone probably from choice.
The chess piece  is signifying that he plays chess so he is going to be in intelligent as intelligent people normally play chess. That playing chess links with strategy as you will learn how to be more strategic as it is a strategic game to play and he needs to be strategic because he is a detective and he will need to be strategic to find serial killers as it is not easy to find a serial killer and he will need to use strategy to find the serial killer.
He some props when he is getting ready to work he has a pen, knife and a napkin which are laid out in a line and he picks them up the same way he put them there it could show that he may have OCD or he is Meticulous so he likes doing everything in a certain way.

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A lot of noise when he is trying to sleep like the cars driving and people talking but it is all quiet then then when he goes to sleep there is a loud 'boom' sound and then the title sequence starts, some say that there is a calm before the storm and that is what happens as it is quiet and then after the title sequence ends things will happen that will change the point of view of detective William.

Title sequence
The title sequence tells the story of the antagonist. The titles are shaky and jumpy which could show what is happening in the serial killer's mind as he is not stable   so he will probably kill couple people. 

Extreme close up of the man having his skin in his fingers cut off so that he would not have a fingerprint on the crime scene and that will make the detectives harder job to find him

some of the Pictures of victims are quite graphic and – he may be a Pedophile. He scratches the eyes of children.

The incidental music is creepy and it is like someone is scratching a door or something like that with their nails to make it more thriller like so the music fits with the genre of the movie.

He cuts the God word part out of the money note because he probably thinks that Money should not be associated with God as money is the root of all evil and and God is good so he does not want people to associate money with God and religion.

The red light signifies that in the old days when they were making pictures they made them in the red light so the antagonist can make his own pictures.

He is censoring sexual words like 'Intercourse' so that people, mostly small children, will not read about sexual intercourse because the antagonist thinks that children should not know learn about sexual intercourse as they are just kids and he is protecting them from that. He is censoring out the eyes of a child which that  could be him so he does it because he does not like what he has become and he does not want the child which is him when he was younger to judge him of what he has become as children are innocent but he is not innocent. But then he draws all over the baby to get rid of the whole picture,this seems like he is angry at him self as you do not draw all over something if you are not angry.

Task 1: Preliminary task

The 180 degree rule

The 180 degree rule is used when there are two or more characters in the same scene and there is like an imaginary line from one character to the other character and you can cut on one of those lines so if character 1 is on the left and character 2 is on the left because your mind does not understand it.

We incorporated it when the actors Rhys with Lukas and Harry and that harry was on the left and rhys with Lukas was on the right when we cut the films.

the preliminary task video

 

Match on action

Match on action is when one character is giving something or there is an action being done and it switches the camera from a different angle and the action keeps going.
We incorporated this in our film when Lukas and Rhys are walking through the door and the camera switches from Lukas and Rhys are behind the camera and as they go through the door it switches to when they got through it showing their faces. Also, when Rhys pushes Lukas to Harry and the camera is looking at lukas and then it switches to the side angle looking behind Lukas.

The eye line match

The eye line match is when two characters are on the same height and they are looking at each other on the same level. We incorporated this when Rhys and Harry the actors are talking to each other and they are looking at each other on the same height.

Preliminary task

The film making process went in terms of the storyboard is when is that we did not use them as we thought of a better idea so we did not use the storyboards. It was harder doing this way as we did not know what shots  we needed but it worked out quite well.

The thing that I learned about video editing on adobe premiere is that you can put two or more different videos together seem like there is just one video so you do not get that affect when you are watching the video. Also, I learned that you can add titles and you can fade them in and out to make your movie better and make it more understandable. In terms of sound I used Incompetech and we used only one sound for the whole of our video and I learned that you can cut the music to suit your video. And you can turn of the sound on your video without getting rid of it, the sound can fade in and out as well to suit your video.
In terms of transition I learned that you can fade in and out a video to show pass of time in the video. Lastly, you can change the color of each video so if one scene is darker than the other one you can make it either lighter or darker so that all the videos fit in color wise rather than all the videos being different color and they will not match each other.