Realistic type of Films (Details)

Realistic Film - Tries to show films as real as possible. Just as you were there.
 - Not very worked, this means just as it would be, in real life.
 - Diagetic sound (sound always come from something in the Mise-en-scene).
 - Lighting is used depending on the set of the movie. Normally regular lighting butthey never altered it from as it would be
 - The set of realistic films, are normally real places. Instead of making sets so it looks as real as possible.
 - Camera angles are always height of real people (camera is commonly at shoulder height) as well as moving of the camera always trying to simulate a neck moving.
 - Long shots and very few cuts only for a change of scene or maybe sometimes withing a scene.
 - Use of deep focus, and simulation of the human eye.

•Example of realistic film: Nine lives  
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Formalist type of Films (Details)

n - It is constantly cutting, and trying to express a feeling.

n - They do not try to look like real life, but mostly to create a feeling.

n - They use artificial materials such as effects, lights, non-diagetic sounds in order to create the feeling the director/film maker wants to create.

n - It tries to be artificial, yet it still tries to use this in its advantage to express something such as a feeling, an emotion, an action or a message.

n - Heavy editing, heavy lights.

n - Non-diagetic sounds used to create the effect wanted from the director.

Matrix - The Pill improvised dialogue

Neo´s choice of pill

Neo meets Morpheus and now he gives him the option to take the blue pill or the red pill. If Neo takes the blue pill he will wake up on his bed without remembering anything, takes the red pill and he will continue discovering about the Matrix and keep his way just as he is.

Neo is in the room with morpheus just to make his choice

MORPHEUS

(Neo enters the room)

 - Finally, come. My name is Morpheus as you probably know.

NEO

(Morpheus guides Neo to his chair)

 - It´s a pleasure to meet you.

MORPHEUS

 - The pleasure is all mine.

(Morpheus closes the door, and walks near Neo)

 - I can feel your confussion but in a few moments all we´ll be clarified  for you. You are now entering a dark cave.

 - Tell me Neo. What do you think of Destiny?

NEO

 - Destiny doesn´t exist, its nonsense.

 MORPHEUS

 - Why do you think so?

NEO

 - I don´t like the idea of someone or something controlling my life.

(There is a deep silence in the room)

 - Tell me. Why am I here? What is this place? Why have I been chosen?

(Neo pauses for a bit)

 - What is this feeling that I have?

MORPHEUS

 - The Matrix, Neo, the Matrix.

 - The Matrix is everywhere it is everything. It is the one that shows us what we really are. The truth
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NEO

 - What truth?

MORPHEUS

(Takes a time to answer the question)

 - That you are a slave, and that this world is your cage, a cage you cannot feel nor see, nor touch. A jail made for your mind.

 - To know what it is, to know further more you´ll have to experience it and do it by yourself.

 (He takes out a metal box, and opens it, inside there are 2 pills.)

NEO

 - Tell me, how do I do it, I want to know more.

MORPHEUS

 - This is the first and only chance you´ll get.

 Blue pill will take you to your bed without remembering anything and without any knowledge of the Matrix

 Red pill, and I´ll show you the rest of the cave.

(Neo stretches his hand to the pills.)

But choose wisely as there is no turning back.

(Neo says nothing, just stares for a while)

(Neo stretches his hand and takes the red pill.)

 - It´s done.

Barney´s Masterclass

Markham College brought Barney, a very talented film director, he was invited by a teacher (Mr. Keller) which is his friend. Barney showed us two of his best films.

True Colours
The first ¨True Colours¨ about how perception can affect people´s life. In this case a family man that has a little injury in his mouth because of a football that flew to his face but it looks in my opinion like herpes and that´s why his wife suspects. Then his wife see´s him in the supermarket with a broken wine bottle in his hand, and again perception so she goes away in the car with his son. It is a simple and short movie (10 minutes long) but Barney do it in a way that you can feel how the man feels. I like the camera angles that Barney uses and there is a part that he follows him with the camera just when entering the supermarket that I liked it a lot because you can see him from another perspective and you see how is he walking (which is in a hurry) but it looks as if he was mad in his way of moving and also his used and untidy clothes, which it really looks very different as it really is. Perception.

Ultimo Recurso
In the second film we have a woman in the car, and she is assaulted by a guy. He asks her to drive to an unknown place in Peru that we don´t know and he steels all her belongings. She accidentally crashes the car into a pile of trash in a poor place of Lima, she is now hurt as well as her unborn baby. I quite didn´t understood the point of the whole movie but I really liked how Barney filmed the movie. I enjoy how he filmed both of the characters with the camera inside the car! So you can see there expressions and see them so close enough as if you were there. Other thing I found really useful and important is how he took different shots of the woman touching her belly when driving and the expressions she made.

Matrix - The Pill scene

Matrix – The Pill

What extra elements “make” the film?

• Camera angles + focused shots on faces (Morpheu’s glasses)
• Dark, gothic costumes – well designed and costly
• Mysterious setting, abandoned – “putrefying elegant”
• Storm outside – sound – adds mystery and drama etc…
• Boy language and the expressions (Morpheus confident smile and Neo confused face)
• Framing of armchair and its shadows
• Colour – filtered to give impression