Oscar winning short animation; Ryan

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I just put this film up because i really liked it its diffrent to any other animation ive seen, the wahy the characters are is intrguing,  It diffrent to normal animation because it deals with very dark and deep issues. O think the style of the film being in a interview is good because its diffrent, it suits the style of the animation well.

It was good to for the film to be in animation because he was cartonist and the animation is almost like whats in his mind

The Black Hole

This is a sci-fi short film, in which the character finds that a piece of paper he photocopies has a black whole init which allows him to put his hand though objects

• The font of the title is in a comic book style which gives us the feeling something supernatural is going to happen
• The way the film start is very good because all we see is a office worker looking bored and tired of his work. The low key lighting also adds to the feeling of it be a boring place.
• I think a great shoot is when there is a low angle shot looking through the black hole, its good because it simple but shows us (may sound stupid) that the hole paper isn’t just a misprint
• along with the alien sound which plays when its looking through the hole adds the suspense
• the concept is very good and gets the audience intrigued, like when he puts his hand through the vending machine and takes sweets , it has us think what would we use the paper
• the ending is very good because we don’t really expect it because we are so surprised by the fact he actually able to put his hand though and take as much money as he wants but we see him get more and more greedy. so that when he goes in and gets trapped we end up having no sympathy for him
• I think the style of the film was good because it was very basic and simple concept; they used a lot of editing techniques.
• The mise-en-scene also makes it believable because its such an ordinary setting which makes it more shocking when some thing out the ordinary 

sign language

The films is about a man called Ben who is a "board man", he is doing his last day of work before his promotion

Good things about the film:

•  The film is done in a documentary style which is different and very effective because it seems like its trying to be seriousness which is commercial because no one would really take that job seriously 
• the non-digetic music also add to the light heartedness of the film because it really calming and simple 
• The way he describes all his friends, at the start we think that he has just made up these characters of those people in his head which in the end we see he doesn’t
• The character also loveable because we see how excited he is about the promotion and the what he loves his job, also what he is wearing makes him seem a bit quirky as well
• the is a very good focus pull when he is look at the girl , is very good and a simple technique I could use for my short film
• The end of the is excellent because its not overly dramatic but its still kind of touching to see that people do actually care about him rather than just thinking he is a bit crazy
• its is light hearted and quirky, you would never see anything like this in a normal movie because we would start to get bored but it works as a short film 
• When establishing the scene it is set in and when he is putting up his sign I think really good they way the cut it to the bit of the song, this is good because it allows them to get a lot of shots into the start.
• by doing it in the style of documentary also makes us feel a personal connection to him because its like he is talking to us 

Bouncer

The Bouncer which stars Ray Winstone, the film is a about a bouncer talking about his work and telling us about the time his friends was killed and he killed the person that did it

I thought the films lots of good point some being:

• The film discussed a topic that not a lot of people would really care about because people don't really like bouncers, they fear them but don't have respect. so this main the film different to most mainstream films 
• The character ray winstones plays talks about the job of bouncer in way we don't expect he talks about people not noticing they are fathers, husbands and sons
• The characters dialogue is also very believable because he does it in a cottony accent which makes it more believable 
• through the narrative the director is able to get the point across and makes us feel that something is going to happen soon by the way he talks about the dangers of the job 
• When john is telling the story to the other bouncers it makes us start to like him and we start to see a brotherhood among them. the director makes us like the character in such a short time that when he gets killed its like we have an emotional attachment to him 
• The camera techniques are very simple it and they aren’t much any real effects, but there are a lot of cuts and shots that are stopped 
• there isn't really any non-digetic music in the film I think its done that way because it makes the film more serious 
• The digetic noises which are kind of loud, makes the setting realistic and also adds to sense that the bouncers are controlling chaos 
• The fast cuts and quick and short style of talking builds the tension up a lot and when he slows downs and start to talk longer (when he in strangling the man) there is no cuts which kind of relieves the tension despite what we are seeing 
• when he is training in the gym we think he is just trying to get stronger for the job but then in the end we realized he is actually prison for killing a man. I think that by the director doing this it ends a sharp twist in the story and some thing unexpected

Camera set up and Camera techniques

Format we film on: 1080ip hd

How to switch from auto to fully manuel:
- Take of auto lock and switch to manuel then you will have full control of the cameras setting meaning you can adjust things to get the desired shots

Gain:
- gain is linked with exposure , when there is no light it tries ti add light but gets grainy
- it measures in db and goes from 0-18

Shutter speed:
- shutter speed allows you to get more frames per second or less. in cinema it is usaually 24 whilst in pal regions it is 25

- our cameas shot 50 frames per second the higher the frame rate the better and smoother it looks and also it will make slow motion look better when editing


White balance:
- indoor is called tunstun / orange colour/ symbol is a light bulb

- out door light/ bluey/ symbol is sun

- manuel light bvalance is required if you have both type of lighting in one shot so you can adjust it to get the right look

manuel focus:

-zoom in on same ones hair because there is alot of detail and adjust until it is in focus

About a Girl 

The opening titles of about girl, is done in the font of text and the sound of key tones are played which makes us feel the films is going to about a teenage girl and for teenagers. The play on the title of about a boy makes it feel like its going to feel good film but an interesting point the name of the films " About a girl " keeps it impersonal.

The start of the film you can here a girl singing in a field in her own, you can just see her silhouette. Which makes us feel like there is no one looking out for her and also the fact that we can’t see her face makes her seems more impersonal. Because she’s singing Britney spears it also makes us think shes innocent and soft.

When we first see her she’s not what we expect, she has a deep mancunion accent which gives her a hard exterior because it so strong. We also kind of shocked because shes starts talking to the camera straight away as if we were mid way through a conversation with her. The sky and setting is really grey, colourless and feels like a massive prison. The way she is dressed and what she talks, along with the setting about shows us that she comes from a working class family. She starts by talking to us about how her brother shallows floss and her mum thought it was worms but the way she says it to us shows neither she nor her mother is educated.

As she task the camera makes several cuts chopping out bits that she is saying its almost like she’s talks so much they cant get it in or also that they just aren’t bothered like everyone else. The way she talks makes it also seem like there is a camera crew with her. She tells us her mother and father have divorced and her mother is left 3 children and looks down on her dad but the girl disagrees to what her mother thinks of her dad.

We start to realize she really loves her dad and wants him to look after but he seems less then interested in her. For example when there at the cafe and she talking about running away he seems like he doesn't care. Another example of this is on the day he is meant to take her out he brings her to his football games then after he goes o the pub and leaves her outside with a packet of crisps an a coke which she seems to think its normal. Her dad is also unemployed and doesn't seem to be looking for a job, which adds to the atmosphere of the area being somewhere with no prospects.

Her feeling towards her mother is different to how she feels to her dad, she seems to blame her mother for all the troubles they have. She even calls her mother a bitch, which is kind ironic because her and her mother seems to be similar, they both want to escape from there current environment , the girl through singing and the mother through scratch cards. The audience start to dislike the ,other as well when the girl tells us about the story about the mother throwing the puppy in the river when the girls bought it home without asking. Which also makes what happens in the end more ironic.

The girl starts to grow on us and we start to like her because if we look past the harsh accent and the appearance we start to realize she's just a young naive girl who has plenty of personality and is really lively. We also see the singing as escape for her because it almost makes her appear innocent to us again because it’s something a young teenage girl would do

The end of the film is disturbing and some what unexpected. When she throws the dead baby in the water like its nothing and then carries on talking about ice cream, and then we see the baby slowly floating out of the plastic bag, which some could day represents her because the way the baby floats out the bag its almost like its giving birth to it. Then when the bag gets trapped in the fence as it floats down the river almost like in a way saying the girl is trapped here for ever. I think the way the ending is composed is straight forward and not particularly dramatic, it is done in a straight forward manner like the rest of the films.

 I think instead of the director getting to deep into  everything like most main stream films would do and makes it dramatic, all he does is shows us snippets of her life and conversations which gives us a clear picture of her. The simplistic style makes it a good film.

skin deep part 2 / and my view on the film

 I thought the film  was amazing because even though it was an obvious type of story its not patronizing and its also emotive. Yousaf Ali Khan tells the story in away that rather than feeling resentment towards Romo we actually feel sympathy for him because at the end we see he is actually traumatized and we realise its more than him trying to fitting in. I personally thought the shots of him looking in the mirror and patting down his hair shows him to self conscious and also it shows the inner fight with his heritage because his hair is the only thing that could possible give him off.

Khan also kept us intrigued because he sometimes made us feel that romo was about to get found out and he add to this not just with dialogue but also with the camera shots for example in the pub with his uneasy work mate ask him if he has Asian in him khan makes fast cuts of people laughing and it is played louder which makes us a bit nervous for him. The pov shots with the 3 three men saying racist things also makes us feel apart of the film and very easy as if they were calling us it and makes us feel for romo and see his situation isn't just black and white.

The last shot was also very effective because when he smashes the mirror you see his sister with the cake in her hand, whilst he is lighter shes is darker and could never get away with what romo is doing, so we feel sympathy because we can imagine who it would feel to see your own brother being shamed of what him and you. The shots with the bullies in the bathroom with him makes the ending very intense and the quick cuts also add to it. The lighting in the film also makes it very hard heating because its  dark and gritty.



The films has a very strong script and manages to go in depth into his problem without having unnecessary scenes