For my fade example, me and my group filmed a clip a section of people’s faces and used the dissolve to morph there faces into one another. The close ups of the people is to show the similarities between different people and show that even though they all have different lives, they are still all the same.
Fade in/ out is used when an picture turns to a colour, usually black. Fade is generally happens at the beginning of a film or act, and fade outs is generally happens at the end of a film or act.
An example of fades is from the 2013 film trailer Gravity, about an astronaut and a medical engineer that try and survive together after an accident leaves them drifting in space. Throughout the trailer, there are many fades to blacks. The fades helps the audience to feel the characters fear as they are detached in space and understand the emptiness of their atmosphere. The fade are frequent as they cuts to the sound of the character breathing the rhythm gets quicker and makes the audience feel more anxious.
I’ve made three different short films that show the effect of jump cut. My first example of jump cut portrays the theme of anger. In the clip two characters have a fist fight, the scene is cut to a fast rhythm to show the anger shown by the characters. The camera moves around the characters as they fight, i wanted to show when the one character was overpowering the other, but resulting to wide angle shots to prove that the two characters mostly have the same strength.
The second film that involves the jump cut technique portrays the theme of confusion. In the clip the character is lost around a college and cant find where he is meant to be. The jump cut gives the effect of leaping in time as the character move around the camera changes positions to wide angles and close ups, doing this technique and by slowing down the clips, the audience can feel and understand the emotion of confusion that the character is feeling.
In my third clip, that has the jump cut technique, i’ve tried to show the theme of panic. In the clip the character has lost and goes looking for his wallet. During the scene the characters walks around looking for his wallet and keeps switching between a close up of him searching in his pocket for the wallet, by doing this the audience know that the character has been searching for his money for a while, as the use of jump cut helps to leap through time.
In the 1968 film Stanley Kubrick film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ there is an effective use of Jump Cut. In the scene an ape, throws a bone in the air. It goes high, then as it comes down, the bone turns into the spaceship.
The bone which is a weapon of pre-histoirc man and the scene contains a jump cut as the bone flies through the air. Then the scene takes a leap forward about a million years, and the bone gives way to a similar shaped spaceship. This jump cut quickly shows the evolution and advances of man, to the ape to modern day, where we had been to space. This scene portrays the birth of modern man, and shows a dramatic upgrade new technology that have happened through millions of years, but shown in a few seconds. Kubrick uses this scene to portray the message of how sufficient the evolution of man is, as compared to other events that happen in the universe the birth of man is a small and sudden development.
A jump cut is film editing technique in which two sequential shots of the same subject, taken from the same camera positions but a varied slightly. This type of edit can give the audince a really sense of emotion just though the edit. It’s mostly used to give the effect of jumping forwards in time.
In the Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, the jump cut was famously first used extensively. For this reason, jump cuts are considered a violation of continuity editing as it draws attention of the constructed editing on the film, it aims to give the appearance of continuous time and space in the story-world.
The Net is a 1995 cyber thriller. The film is directed by Irwin Winkler and stars Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. Plot: A computer hacker stumbles upon a conspiracy, putting her life and the lives of those around her in great danger. This film will appeal to anyone that enjoys watching enjoyable thriller, with a strong female lead, this film will attract a large female audience.
The film started will, and thrilling. With interesting characters and many plot twists. Although as the film goes on the film loses tension. It has a great lesson in the plot, showing that computers rule the world, and how a glitch in systems can change your life.
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In my film i’ve used cross cutting by joining a clip of an interrogation and a clip of someone running. As the clip goes on the speed of the cutting gets faster, this creates The audience thinks that the person running is going to become connected to the interrogation scene. For example the audience may believe that the person running is going to come a save to man being interrogated or that the person running is the man later escaping. Their ideas will change when the man being interrogated gets shot, which is when the audience really starts to question, who’s running? and why? The big revelation is that the man running looks exactly the same as the man that gets shot. This also develops a character arc as in the end the woman was right to question weather it was the same guy that stole the drugs, as in the end they shot the wrong guy.
Cross Cutting is an editing technique used in film and video to establish action in two different locations, occurring at the same time. In this technique the camera will cut from one action to another. Cross cutting can be used to create suspense and excitement during a scene, for example in a chase sequence swapping from one person to another.
Orphan Black is a Canadian/ American science fiction television series starring Tatiana Maslany. Plot: A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her. The series will attract audience with interest of Si-fi dramas.
The show is a fresh idea, I’ve seen nothing like it before. It’s got a great twisting storyline, that aways lives the audience shocked and surprised, making it one of the most interesting TV shows in a very long time.
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Big Brother is a British reality television game show in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house for several weeks, trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. When the show first aired in 2000 it had a large audience, although as the show became a way for ordinary people to become celebrities the show started to use many of its followings. Now the show targets young teenagers.
The show can produce many classic TV moments. But is not worth watching the whole series, for the most part the shows boring and an idea that is passed its sell-by-date.
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