-Dialogue
-SFX Soundtrack
-Score/Soundtrack
Diagetic Sound- Audio that is occuring inside the film world. Eg, characters can hear and respond to it.
Non Diagetic sound- Only for the viewer to hear. Eg, like score. Not audible inside the film world.
External Diagetic VS Internal Diagetic- Internal id inside the characters mind.
We’ve been looking into foley techniques recently, so I thought I’d post the completely foley project I edited on the first year of my last course.
This is a Foley video I helped make in a small group. We recorded as many relevant sounds as we could in the time provided and added them to this clip of the movie SE7EN.
We also added an sfx for the torch light as it moves past the camera, but upon exporting it had disappeared even after many attempts.
Picture: Me, Josh, Grant & Tash on a college trip to Mt Edgcumbe.
Representation: Three happy people and one who looks like he wants to kill himself.
Context: Taken by Rob on the boat to Mt Edgecumbe to film a project.
This one infact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwoYbx1dtkE
Consumption: Uploaded onto Facebook and was viewed by everyone who was there. The album is private to only the people tagged in the photos
The class was split into groups where the task was to use a balloon as the MacGuffin. The groups worked separately but scenes at the beginning and end of each film were planned to connect all of the groups films together. I worked in a group of three and ours was to be set somewhere in the middle of the compilation.
It’s set after another groups film where someone tries to climb the tree for the balloon and falls to his injury, and set before a film that starts in a phone box.
As a starting project for everyone new to get used to the equipment, we worked in groups of about 5 and filmed and directed each others interviews as the roles were switched each time.
The main downside is that we have no creative control over our own interviews on the day of the shoot, yet still have to edit them. Because of this, most of my interview is out of focus. I’m essentially editing someone elses project. It’s a relief that it isn’t graded
The sequel to the 2008 hit ‘Taken’ returns Liam Neeson to the screens as well as the streets to save his family once again. With the twist this time being that Liam (Bryan Mills) gets taken himself. With himself and his wife on the line this time, Olivier Megaton is in the director’s chair instead of Pierre Morel, and a definite change of style can be seen.
Bryan spends the majority of the first film searching for his daughter, with the appropriate climax at the end. It built tension and fascination as the ex-soldier father employs his skills to find his daughter. Through gruesome and violent acts, it shows what a father would do to find someone they love. Taken 2 however has been restrained to a 12 rating instead of the previous 18. Because of this, the film is heavily limited to a broader audience.
Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian has the same opinion about the first movie in his review: “Liam was not shy about using Jack Bauerish torture techniques, wiring up evil-doers to the mains and zapping them with righteous volts. None of that now. That was an 18; this is a 12A, a bit tamer, just as ridiculous, but the premise is looking pretty tired.”
I’d forgive you if you took Liam Neeson’s type casting into consideration, as well as the first Taken movie. From these, you would expect the sequel to be a thriller, but it’s far from that. The plot is linear from the moment he and his wife get captured. As he guides his daughter over the phone from the cell he resides in, she brings him the tools of his freedom. From then on, everything just gets better. There are no twists and no moments of hopelessness. He saves his daughter, saves his wife, the end. I wouldn’t say it’s even tense. Don’t be fooled, this is purely an action movie.
However being a good action movie, it’s not what’s expected of the Taken series, and as I now know there’s a third one in the works, who else is there to be kidnapped? I won’t be loooking forward to see Liam take to the streets once again to save the family dog.
We all started timelines of important events in our lives
Back from finishing an ND/ED in film and media production, I have a fresh new blog and I get to enjoy the excitement of all the equipment inductions again that I completed 2 years ago!
Last years work: http://benkday.tumblr.com
Final Major Project: http://bkdfmp.tumblr.com
BA Hons and FD Film 