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Narrative Theory

  Narrative Theory

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Jackie Chan, the mean actor the hero of the movie, trying to save a set of Chinese zodiac bronze heads that where stolen from a Beijing place, with his team. 

The villain try to stop him and his team from getting all the Chinese zodiac bronze, by chasing them and obstacles them in different ways just to make sure they don't get the Chinese zodiac bronze.

Within all the mission he have to do his team was always with him to support him and make sure is always safe and complete the mission. There are always  two people in the van that support him during the mission.

Equilibrium

On this first scene the character look like a normal person with his own business, the shot itself tells you that everything is going fine, the smile on the faces also highlight the feeling. Long shot to show the location and where the characters are. 

What is happening in this shot his the mean character having a conversation for a business with a rich man. [11:41]      

Disequilibrium

As the film reaches the middles, there scenario dramatically changes as well, the mean character doesn't seams happy like before, he's in danger and this time his in front of one of his villains.

This time the scenario is in wide shot the composition look very good and clear, as from the composition techniques, protagonist his on the left and the antagonist on the right, this shot respected it. 

What is happening in this shot is now the actor is in a difficult situation with his team and they are going to be killed by the villains, but the mean actor stopped them and once again he save his team. [56:39]

New Equilibrium 

Finally the actor look happy again like at the starting shot, but this time in a different situation, as from the preview shot we saw him in a difficult situation, so on the last shot it shows that he survive all his villains and the obstacles they put in front of him, but his condition are worst.
The composition of this shot is a Medium shot of the character.
What is happening in this shot his the actor after all what passed is in the hospital and his family member came to visit him. [1:56:39]

Barthe' Codes
This film is an action movie, the mean character he have to save Chinese zodiac bronze. On this movie they use a lot of wide shots, because as an action movie every single movements counts, close up are less but useful, because face expression are needed in action. Camera movement are very often depends on what is happening.
As the actor have to safe the Chinese zodiac bronze he find a lot of obstacles during his journey, it wasn't easy, sometimes he does risk he's life.
The Chinese zodiac bronze are very important, one because they are very expensive, precious and religion value. The symbol of the twelve Chinese moth.  

   

  

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Cinematography

Editing

GLOSSARY

1. Diegetic: Sound that are visible on the cream or whose source implied to be present by the action.
2. Non-Diegetic: Sound that sources aren't visible on the scream or not even appear in the action. 
3. Ambient: Background music that is used to add emotion and rhythm to a film.
4. SFX: Artificial Created or enhanced sound
5. Mood: Anticipation, possible danger, fear, joy.
6. Tone: Is used to match the production sound track so that it may be intercut with the track, tone may also smooth edit points and give a feeling.
7. Genre: Represent the multi editing, like in the horror genre relies on high degree of stylisation.
8. Theme music: The music that is used in the opening/ending sequences 
9. Voiceover: Is a production technique where a voice is not part of the narrative.
10. Musical Score: Is original music written specific to accompany a film. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects.
11. Synchronous sound: Can be either ambient,(sound recorded during the filming of the sequence) or  a sound effect.
12. Asynchronous sound: A sound that match the action being performed however is not precisely synchronized with the action. 
13. Contrapuntal: Sound that we wont associate with the events on the screen.
14. Silence: Is a film with no synchronized record sound, with no spoken dialogue.
15. Selective sound: Sound that focus on a particular character, to high light the scene.
16. Sound bridges: Sound that begins with the carry-over sound from the previous scene before the new sound.

SOUND IN SHERLOCK HOLMES

In the starting clip you can hear the piano, the sound of the piano it's slow and Diegetic, also violin in it as background, because compere to the piano the violin is very low and after few laps we can also hear few cords of a guitar.
On the following clip the Diegetic sounds are, on the beginning the intro with the piano, then the galloping horses and their neighing, that gives you the idea that something is happening. In the clip it has the Diegetic sound of the Guns sounds, the sound of the steps, that gives you the chase moment, the fire sound and the actor breathing during the chase moment. the sound of the broken glass, the crow and the door as well.
The Non-diegetic sound in this clip is the music in background.
The following clips has a a really attractive music and the music also follow the scene, with the slow starting music and to fast, also called tempo increasing, that gives the audience the feeling that something is going on.
    

Sound in film

Mise-en-scene

film language AMA

Friday The Thirteenth      

        This film is about, a child that went in holiday with his mom in the wood. Most of the time the boy is always alone and no one cares about him, one day on the boat he get killed. After his mom get killed, he came back alive to get revenge and start killing every one that comes in the wood. A group of young people came for holidays in that wood and he start killing all of them one by one.

       

The settings in this film, is shot in the wood, but the main building was the small house in the meddle of the wood. That make think about the old horror films, and also must of the horror movies are base in the wood or in a house to make you feel like everything is fine but at the end of the day once you in you lost and death.

The props in this film most used are: knives, rope, broken glasses, pitchfork. Most of the time the film use a lot of time the pitchfork, from that you can understand where the movie is based, it's a connection to the area, but in horror movie you can actually use everything to kill as the point of the movie is to get everyone dead.



In this movie the hair are normal and sometimes messed, the killer is wearing a mask bag to scare the victims, all the actors that get killed they have a blood make up on them to give the audience the real effect of blood, most of the time the victims are killed by a rope so theres no blood.
As you can see from the shot the killer is dragging the dead body downstairs




The facial expression is very, very real, you have the first part of the movie when all the actors are calm and relaxed, and as soon as the killer start chasing them you can see them screaming and running and their face expression is very scary and them too look very scared. As you can see from the actress face she look very scared and she's lying on the floor, to make it look scary, they did a close up shot.





The lighting and the colour in this movie are mixed, in the calm scene is all in colour, but the colour is nearly dark yellow/red, but when it comes to horrible scenes when the killer comes out then then it turn in black and white, to make the audience feel the moment of fear. The movie lighting is very dark and most of the time you have only one light source.