Horror Genre

Hellraiser 2: The first Two Minutes

The movie starts off with a bang, where the lead female actress goes up against the antagonist of the film. The lighting utilized is very artificial, with the help of computerized graphics and illusions the director was able to pull off his desired work. the clothes of the woman look as if she was going to go to sleep or maybe woken up from her sleep, this has a panic effect on the audience as to what happened previously. The two minutes, looked as if the film was arriving on the back of something, maybe from the first installment of the series. 

Comedy/Humour

Superbad: First Two Minutes

The first two minutes of the film just focuses on two friends having a casual chat over the phone. The two friends get focused on the camera for an equal amount of time, but the first friend in the movie is shown prevalence, this is shown when the camera is always being focused on his head from a close range. The lighting is natural in the first actors setting as he is outside, whereas the second friend is inside, the lighting is artificial.   

Romance/Drama Film

Dear John (2010): First Two Minutes

This movie starts off with the lead male's voice, he takes the audience into a journey while he is telling the story, at the same time, it is visible he is in a still position suffering from pain. At the very beginning of the film the camera angle is from the lead actors perspective, as if the audience is looking through his eyes, this makes the audience have a glimpse of his view. As the film progresses onto one minute and a half the scene changes to when he was a little boy, it was obvious he was having a flashback. The lighting was very natural over the two-minute course, the clever trick the director probably utilized was moving the camera angle diagonally-up above the lead actor's face to become one with the natural light of the sun rays, which in-turn created a perfectly orchestrated shot, which also contributed to the optimism of the audience.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

There are a few things that I thought that we could have worked on, the fluidity of the speech, the length and increasing the angle shots of the filming. The speaking parts, (personally on my behalf) should have been louder, the length of the filming by including more camera angles and shots, for example a high angle shot in the corridor outside the classroom should have been implemented to show the collision in more detail.  

Preliminary Task Final

Preliminary Task Diary

The filming was swiftly quick, as the whole group had good communication with each other, everybody had an input to the discussions about the filming, which helped everyone including myself aware of which roles we had been designated to.

Preliminary Task Diary

The second half of the filming was pretty frustrating due to the unavailability of the class, tom filmed the scene where matt walked into the class, and interaction with Aaron and I soon followed. This part of the task was where the shot angles could really be utilised, simply because of the reason that there was more space affordable, and the natural lighting which was flawless gave an extra reason for optimism.

Research and planning

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Action movie

The Expendables- first two mins
This movies starts off with a dark, strikingly mysterious feeling, almost giving off a 'not for the faint-hearted' feel, where the lighting is very dimmed, kept to a minimal, leaking only the shadows and vague silhoettes of each character. As the movie gradually moves on the lighting becomes more stronger, piercing the darkness and soothing the music in the background, suddenly the first voice penetrates to the surface breaking the walls of the audience. The sound effects start to gain more momentum building up, setting the pace of the characters' running, pulsating the heartbeats of the audience, such as myself. The title of the movie 'The Expendables' is displayed at the centre of the screen, with complete silence, in a murky silver colour, giving a rustic, badass, no-nonsense attitude of the movie. 

Preliminary Task

The first scene starts off with Matt and Nadib, walking into each other, sparking off a bit of an angry moment, the lighting involved within this scene, had been fairly easy to manipulate, artificial lighting was only implemented as that was the only visibly available element. The lighting implemented within the last scene had been mainly natural, due to the positional seating of aaron and I, the camera angle had more freedom to roam.