Final Project Analysis

A SHORT FILM BY:

BAILEY ABERCROMBIE

EVELYN EVANS

JAMES LAMBROS 


 

SENIOR VS. FRESHMAN 

 https://vimeo.com/127774382

  
-The dialogue behind The First Day of School-

"The first day of school can always be a troubling and anxious time, but there’s nothing like your first first day of school someplace new. Let’s observe a freshman and a senior on their first day back and just how different that experience can be."

As you'll notice in the film you can easily tell who is who. Who is the freshman & who is the Senior? Overall, the music is a dead giveaway! It's cute, simple and makes you want to giggle. Hope you enjoyed our short film! 

Thanks for watching!

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My teammates and I began brainstorming ideas and this is what our vision was for our short film. We wanted something simple and at first we thought about creating a video of still-shots in the same location/same position but we found it too complicated. But my teammates and I agreed that we should create a short film that would make sense to our audience, be able to compare to similar situations instead of creating a film that was too complicated and instead make them giggle. 


-BEFORE- 

 1st Sketch of Storyboard

-AFTER- 

Final Story Board

For the most part we followed and went along with our first idea. We didn't make too many changes besides certain locations that needed to be shot with better lighting, the way certain shots needed to be filmed (such as POV, Close Shot, Pan Shot, etc.), and the music to create character. This was truly my favorite project of all. It would have been nice to do more projects like this but the experience behind it all was truly a great learning experience.

 

Blog Post #4: Museum of the Moving Image

Museum of the Moving Image: ADR

 Visiting the Museum of the Moving Image with my classmates was truly a great experience. Although I felt the tour was quick, I was able to discover new things (that are actually very old and have been in the media/film business for a very long time) that I never knew about. I saw the different types of projectors that were created in the late 1800s all the way to the present time (a timeline from past-present), and I saw how video flip-books are processed (which I truly enjoyed making and learning about them. But overall my favorite part of the museum that made me laugh and really want to understand more about that I didn't know about was ... the ADR Interactive in Behind the Screen section of the museum. 

 ADR stands for "Automated" "Automatic" Dialog Replacement also known as "looping". ADR is a process of re-recording dialogue in the studio in synchronization with the picture being projected on a screen. There are three roles in the ADR process: the actor, the recording engineer, and the sound editor. The actor has to recreate his/her performance and perfectly match up his/her speech to that of the film. The recording engineer has to recreate acoustic spaces so that it doesn't sound like an actor is in a recording studio. The sound editor has to pick and choose the best parts of multiple takes, combine them into one composite clop, and keep everything synchronized to the picture. Inside the booth in which a couple of my classmates and I were in has a microphone, preamp/interface, headphones, sound proof foam, and a video monitor. There usually is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) but the booth really only showed a bit to understand the process and behind the scenes in a ADR station.

Every time I would watch my favorite animated movies or shows, I would look up to see people project their voices behind the scenes speaking into their microphone and act while they were recording their voices. I would love to be the actress for a character's voice one day, it definitely seems pretty tedious but something I would enjoy doing. 

The question how have the changes in the moving image technology changed the way moving images are created, how they look, and how we experience them? Well to begin with after seeing how things were projected, animated, produced etc etc, it was very much complicated and a lot of work back then. As time passed, from films looking grainy, black, white, and grey to having color and looking crystal clear is a major change! The history of technology has advanced to an era known as the digital world.  The new equipment and narrative techniques are motion pictures that are undergoing a revolution that is transforming how we look at movies and what movies look like. Technologies progressiveness has hopped, skipped, and jumped to watching movies on an iPad.  It makes it easier for everyone to capture films and feel a part of them to a whole new level.  Overall the moving image in technology may be positive to some and to others a negative change. To be honest I enjoy the moving images past creativity. But it really depends on what makes everyone's life easier and faster.

  

2015 Media 160/ Lab 1 : I will never forget the memories I created with such brilliant and talented personalities. 

Blog Post #3: Relationships Between Shots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWSh7Db-_E

The movie clip I picked as a linear media clip would be the film recognized as The Wizard of Oz (1939). The scene I felt that the editing has made a significant contribution to the storytelling and the feel of the piece is the Tornado Scene.

In the beginning of the film Dorothy is very uneasy and fearful by just seeing her body langue and facial expressions. The animals are panicking and running around, people from the farm yelling and panicking as they see the tornado approaching closer. Everything is being blown away, such as, the haystacks, trees; the objects around the farm and house are starting to break apart. Dorothy knocks out for a while after a window hits her in the back of her head. The house is lifted by the tornado and the music begins to get cheerful, some parts of clips show some comedy: you see an old women in a wheel chair whose knitting and is calm and cheerful just as the mans on the boat rowing smile and wave, a women bike riding in the tornado then turns into a witch.  All of this contributes together making this scene very thrilling.

The shots in this film are organized through their content, composition, color, and movement. In The Wizard of Oz the camera shots were mostly wide shots, medium shots, close up shot, point of view shots, and two shots. The camera angels in this film were in some parts high angle shots and track shots. The cameras movements were in some cases tilt shot (bottom to top), pan shots (left to right), track shots, dolly shots, and probably stedicam shots. The Wizard of Oz composition through the scene had deep composition and a balance such as asymmetry and the rule of thirds in the film (the aligning of Dorothy and the scenery creates more tension, energy, and interest in the composition than simply centering Dorothy). The film’s color is black and white. The relationship of the sounds to the images allows the viewers to feel terrified, urgency, panicky, very suspenseful, anxious, nervous, and tense. The sounds in the film are perfectly structured, some scenes you hear the leaf’s rustling through the wind and then the wind begins howling and continues to get louder as the tornado approaches the house and farm. What determines how long the shots are and what order they are placed in by selecting the use of other transitions, creating a tone and mood. The shot transitions throughout the film are fade in/out cuts, straight cuts, contrast cuts, parallel editing cuts, and jump cuts. The question “is there a ‘right’ place to cut or not to cut?” Yes there is a ‘right’ place. The cuts taken place is used as an artistic way to transition between subjects. The cuts are not seamless they are very obvious. The reason why the cuts are obvious is because you can tell by the shots throughout the film are being focused on something/someone and the change of scenery goes from one shot to the next.

Overall, The Wizard of Oz (1939) is a classic film. The film producers knew exactly what to do to create such an intense film that makes you stay engaged. For this assignment I felt the Tornado scene was a perfect section of linear media to examine the way it is constructed.

Blog Post #2: “What I Hear”

“In order to listen we must stop, or at least slow down – physically and psychologically. We need to try to be human beings, instead of “human doings.” Writes Kendall Wrightson. For this assignment I took the liberty to go to Grand Central Terminal known to be a commuter railroad terminal located on 42^nd street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.  

I picked this location because this is the nucleus of the city. The middle of everything, bringing cohesiveness to a world that can sometimes be so apart.  The air is thick with all the sounds emanating from the walls. It has to be midday in the Big Apple. There are tourists asking officers how they can get to their location while still admiring the beauty in our city. During this sound walk I have come to realize that this city has more beauty than what meets the eye. The hustle and bustle of grand central terminal seems to never slow down. The clicks the clacks roam around the marble floor. These people are in a hurry to get to where they need to be. Those destinations aren’t going anywhere: they are stationary but the time is the object that we lack. As the time elapses the people seem to speed up. Moving around in the station I am in awe of the history that I haven’t taken the time to appreciate in the past. This building has been here since 1903 and 112 years later; it is still here bringing every type of culture together. As the day goes on everyone slows down, I hear the whispers shared amongst lovers and I envy the love. I hear the kids yelling as they run through the terminal now empty from its long day of traffic. As people purchased their tickets I could hear the diverse types of beeps harmonizing all together as if each machine is saying, “thank you, come again” repeatedly. I am here existing in this very moment and I appreciate the sounds bouncing off the walls inviting me to stay longer. The echoes never whisper hello and goodbye but whispers, “see you soon.”

Evelyn Evans

Blog Post #1: E.J.E Artistic Statement

"ARTISTIC STATEMENT"

HOLA! & WELCOME 

MY NAME IS 

EVELYN EVANS

Being inspirational is my personal motivation. I live for discovering the unkown and bring forth the beautiful things I have found such as in what I wear, to the music I listen to, scenery and the people I grew up learning from. Doing what isn't the norm is my sure way of letting my voice be heard and having my work be seen. I am fortunate enough to be able to bring a lot of my thoughts to life on a paper. Variety is truly the spice of life and I intend on making use of my limbs to explore places and face the fears that I have because I know it will only help me enhance my work. 

I aspire to be as artisitc like people I've encountered who know the in's and out of art history. I take pleasure of past, present, and furturistic emotional art. Through my poetry, journal writing, photography, short videos and painting: it is my outlet to stress. I look for meaning in everything in life, with that said ... being artistic and having a creative mind, I truly didn't consider creating a job out of it or studying in media! But the fact that I can creat and share things with others that can put a smile on someon's face makes me truly happy. 

Click this link if you'd like to see the video I created based off of my family Thanksgiving Feast :)

http://replayapp.com/v/wtIk6UJ3Rk/

Since I was a child, I was always with "a mind in the clouds." I fantasize a life outside of this World. I enjoy mythology and the classics. I daydream about Egyptians and Greek's, Dragons and castles with Kings and Queens (which is why I'm such a big fan of Game of Thrones), I love watching animation movies and shows and I imagine superheroes such as heros from Marvel and DC, you name it I know it, I'm a dork and very proud of it. 

I  could agree that looks are very deceiving. When people meet me they see a girl who's into fashion, who looks stuck up, but this is what I really am ... a girl who's into fashion and who is actually very sweet and caring. I'm a libra and a fun fact about my name Evelyn means "motherhood" and "life". I love my family so I am very much family orientated. So that pretty much sums up the type of person I am. 

The cliché  line of "the older you get the wiser you become" has never been more true because I have realized that through my experiences I learn more about myself and learn more ways that I can show others what life can offer

Life is my teacher and I am life's student and whatever is thrown at me, positive or negative, I know that these experiences are what are going to continue to shape me into the artisti and inspirational being that I hope to become. 

Overall, my dream or goals in life right now are very blurry to be very honest. I went from majoring in Biology to a media student. So everything is pretty new to me. But as a media major now, I'm going with the flow, not rushing what I want to be, but allowing my talents and interests take me wherever the universe allows me. I am excited that I am creating a blog soon enough and hoping it becomes something greater. I would be very interested in working for TV and production in the business field, such as E! News, Billboards, Comedy Central or any small industries as well. I want to create and work with a team that can help entertain, teach, inform, and make others laugh and smile. So who knows what I am going to do in life but I do know this ...

I will be working either behind a camera; if not in front of the camera. 

I truly hope my talents take me somewhere knowing that every time I wake up, I wake up excited, loving my job. 

And that's a wrap!