Storyboard Imitation!

This is the beginning scene from the movie Running Scared.  I would have to say that the director did follow most of the rules with the relationship between the characters and the camera.  In the first four frames of the scene, the director did follow the 180 degree rule.  The two main characters (Joey and Olec) are always in the frame and looking at each other.  The director always had the camera on them.  The characters looked at each other for reactions for the scene and we see that as an audience.  The director also used the rule of thirds.  For the majority of the time, Olec is on the left side of the screen.  He helps frame in the rest of what else is going on in the scene.  Joey is usually in the middle of the screen.  He is the emotion of the scene so the audience looks at Joey (why he should be in the middle of the screen).  However this director did not really get the chance to use the 30 rule.  The beginning scenes went from the two main characters getting into the car to the opening credits to the two characters driving on the road but the camera is behind them.  So I can not say that the director did not use that rule correctly because for this scene at least, it was not needed.  

So overall, this director made good decisions involving the camera angles needed for this opening scene.  He made sure that he used the 180 degree rule and the Rule of thirds.  I know that these rules were used through out the whole film.  the director used these rules to help explain the chaos and panic that happens in the movie.  The director used wise decisions to help show the main characters’ relationship.

Animation!! (blog 6)

                                    

We can see that in both images have a lot of color in them.  The image we see on the left is very bright because it is during the daytime.  Light colors are used for the background which contrast well with the cool colors of the main characters.  There is a little saturation when we look at the leaves in the background.  The oranges and yellows stand out and really become part of the scene.  This still really doesn’t have a hue that stands out.  This is suppose to look like natural lighting because they are technically outside.  Since it is daytime, you probably would not think that there would any shadows.  The main characters are in a car in the daylight.  There shadows on the main characters and in the car since there is no light shown in the car.  Because it is so bright, mostly warm colors are shown, and the fact the a huge monster is squished into a car, we as the audience get a happy vibe to it.  The symbolism of this still are the monsters in the car.  They are in their own space/world and are only looking straight ahead.  This shows that they are closed off from what else is out there, until the little girl comes along of course.

If you did not guess already, this is the little girl that comes in and turns the whole monster world upside down.  This is when she gets mad at one of the main characters.  In order to show the tone, the hue is a very dark blue (also to show it is at night).  There is very little brightness because it is suppose toe be at night and it is one of the serious moments in the movie.  We do not see saturation because the hue is so strong.  There are a lot of shadows because again, it is suppose to be at night and to help the mood.  This is one of the more darker part of the movie and the lack-of light emphasizes that.  The mood is very serious because of the look on her face and everything else I already explained.  The symbolism in this still is her being in a monster costume in order to blend in.  She stepped into the monster world and costume (costume symbolizes as the world).  

Song Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qrRzNidzIc---Breaking Benjamin's, I Will Not Bow

Tempo: fast

Source: guitar, vocals

Groove: heavy metal, harsh

Instrumental: guitar, bass, drums, vocals

Structure Organization: intro, screamo, verse, chorus, repeat

Emotional Architecture: medium to high and everything in between

Height: low height with vocals and all instruments except guitar which can be high also

Width: mostly right

Depth: has four levels of instruments (pretty deep)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEVj6ZDgCIo--Breaking Benjamin, Diary of Jane

Tempo: Slow

Source: Piano

Groove: Soft, eerie

Instrumental: piano, violin, vocals

Structure Organization: Intro, verse, chorus, repeat

Emotional Architecture: medium to high (like a camel's back)

Height: High and low with vocals, piano and violin

Width: mostly panning left

Depth: still has good depth to it

Both of these songs are done by one of my favorite bands of all time, Breaking Benjamin.  The lyrics to these songs are both fairly dark.  I Will Not Bow  has lyrics about not giving into temptation and how they will do things their way, on their own terms, and that they will excel.  Diary of Jane is about a lost love and how it still hurts after everything that has happened.  The tone of the songs are very similar.  The subjects of the songs are very different.  Both of the songs do have strong melodies.  The guitar drives the rhythm for I Will Not Bow, and the piano drives the rhythm for Diary of Jane.  Both songs also have fast paced melodies.  Never does a note linger for too much longer then the next.  Both songs have a medium to fast rhythm, speed, timbre, and similar organization.  I Will Not Bow mostly has a medium range pitch with the exception of the guitar that can be high pitched at times which gives the song the extra dynamic quality it needs.  This song also has a great intensity to it.  Each instrument has it’s own moments when it comes to their intensity in their solos.  There was strong intensity throughout the song because there was always something going on instrumentally.  In the song Diary of Jane has a high range of pitches both instrumental and vocals which contributes to the softness nature of the song.  Even though Diary of Jane is an acoustic song, it does have its own intensity to it.  Unlike the first song, Diary of Jane has only a few moments to really let the intensity reach its high point which makes those moments seem more rare and special.

It is really hard to say which song is my favorite.  But if someone held a gun to my head and told me that I would absolutely have to choose, it would probably be I Will Not Bow.  I really do love that Diary of Jane is a very eerie sounding song.  But I love that I Will Not Bow sounds really full and that even though it sounds like complete chaos at times, it is so structure.       

Running Scared Sounds Script

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2oCNXYBkuA
This is the intro scene from the movie Running Scared.  This introduction ends around the 1:02 mark.


Running scared introduction

FADE IN

EXT. OUTSIDE OF STORE - DAY

JOEY (wearing a grey hoodie, black jacket, and blue jeans) opens the door (SWOOSH DING) runs out of the store carrying OLEC (wearing a Razor's jersey and jeans).  The music that is playing is a guitar.

FADE IN

EXT. OUTSIDE BY THE CAR - DAY

Joey puts Olec into the car.  The wind blows by (WOOOSH).  Joey drops a GUN into Olec's lap (PUP PUP).

FADE OUT

EXT. OUTSIDE OF CAR - DAY

As Joey opens the car door (CLICK) the title (with a green background) A Media and Entertainment True Grit Production, (with a yellow background) A Vip Mediemfounds 1&2/ MDP Film Production.

FADE IN

EXT. OUTSIDE ON THE ROAD - DAY

From a red STOPLIGHT,  Joey is driving really fast down the road (VROOOM).

                                                                OLEC

                                                   Joey!  Joey!

                                                                 JOEY

                                                  What the fuck?  Fuck

Shows a LICNESE PLATE and the gun.  Joey looks at Olec.  Olec has blood on his shirt.  Olec is using his inhaler (SHUUUH). Joey is breathing heavily (HHHAAAAHUUUHHAAHAAAHUUU).

                                                                 JOEY

                                                 Come on Olec.  Stay with me.

Olec finishes taking his inhaler (SHUUUUH)

                                                                 JOEY

                                                 Come On.  COME ON!!

Joey slams on the gas pedal a little harder (VROOOOOM VROOOOM).  The car is atarting to squeal as Joey starts to swerve (EEEEKKKK EEEEEKKKK).  The lighting in the scene starts to get flashy.

                                                                 JOEY

                                               Come on kid, we're gonna make it.

                                                                 OLEC

                                              We're gonna crash!

Joey looks at the road, sees a biker, and swerves (EEEEEKK) out of the way.

Scene flshes to a drawing of a gun (PLOW).  The bullet goes into the title Running Scared.


           There are many elements to this introduction alone.  The introduction contains many kinds of sounds such as casual and semantic.  As we all know, casual sounds are the natural every day sounds.  In this introduction, there are many that stick out.  The first one is the opening of the door.  We open doors every day to get in and out of our houses, dorms, and classrooms.  Then there are cars, we are constantly around cars which makes them a natural noise to us.  These are important because these sounds remind the audience that this is a natural setting.  Then the semantic sound is wind, which we are exposed to, but someone would have to really stop and listen in order to hear what the wind sounds like.  In this, the wind is more dramatized for the effect of the heavy situation.  It is a representation of real with a more dramatic feel.  

Also in this introduction, there is a lot that is going on, and there is much distance between the sounds because it is so fast paced.  The distance was needed in order to keep all of the sounds in one area.  There is also directional sound because all of the sound is focused on one specific area.  The road had great distance, but all of the sounds were directed only on the road.

Finding your Howl

http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/51.01.YourHowl 

The story Finding your Howl, once captive wolves are set into the wild.  Mummon (main wolf) realizes that he must find his "howl" to become the alpha so his pack will survive extinction.  He went through his personal hell of weather elements, starvation, fear of the unknown and that fact is he can make it on his own.  Eventually, Mummon found his howl and his pack did not fear extinction.  Finding you Howl is a story about a wolf’s journey/realization about finding oneself and facing the troubles that build with whatever life has in store.  

The author Jonathan Flaum shares a story about a classmate’s story.  The classmate wrote about a Tiger at a zoo.  The tiger wanted to escape: so the tiger planned an escape to jump out of the cage.  But every the tiger was about to escape, the tiger always woke up in a different cage.  The story is that there is no easy escape from a situation that we either created or is out of our control.  The cage that everyone is stuck in is apart of ourselves.  To overcome the cage/problems, we need to overcome ourselves.

The first lyric I thought of is from Breaking Benjamin, "What I found, in this town, I'm heading for a breakdown."  This lyric popped in my head because in the explanation about how the cage is our home, yet it also can act like a prison.  What the lyric is saying is that "he" can not stay where he is any longer because he thinks he is going to lose his mind.  It is completely normal for someone to want to leave somewhere that they have been all their life (captivity to wildlife).  But then the story described the cage as being a prison and a home (fear of the unknown and struggling to survive in the short story).  How something can be as comfortable as home, but cruel as a personal hell.  If the cage is a part of us, can people technically overcome themselves completely, since that problem always be attached to us like the cage would be?  How do we know if we are over the barrier?  

The Breaking Benjamin lyric is actually inspirational because it is about someone breaking out and moving on with their life.  In a creative sense, it is a distinct and relatable song.  Everyone has experiences, people, and situations that they want to just escape.  This song can go for most types of ages and people.  The sound is very rebellious sounding, grunge metal, screamo, and original riffs.  This sound is very relatable because it sounds rebellious which is good for the message of the song.  Since the song is about leaving the known and going into the unknown, it can be considered rebelling, a.k.a, going against authority (leaving the town part).  The whole song is about escaping that cage and starting  off with a clean slate.  The only problem that I see with that theory is, will that person ever be able to get through that fear or barrier?  Even if that person escapes by moving on, will that barrier he or she once tried to escape come back to haunt and manipulate them?  The genius of this song/lyric is that it can be interpreted in many different ways.  To some people, this song speaks the truth about how we need to just leave to escape our demons.  It is possible to escape without going through a personal hell.  To some other people, the rebellion may be a mask for not facing the barrier and themselves.    

So we have two conflicting ideas from very two different types of sources.  Both ideas can be seen in multiple ways and I respect both ideas.  I just wonder if there is some kind of theory out there that is a good median between the two ideas.  I appreciate Flaums story about how in order to overcome a problem or a barrier, we need to face ourselves to get through the situation.  There are problems that are created by us, but then others that are out of our control.  But then the words of Breaking Benjamin also are about people being able to leave and let go of the barriers that might be holding you back from whatever dream you have.  That is the genius behind both theories, one theory may not be always right or wrong.  It depends on the person and the situation.        

Background

Hey guys!!  I just wanted to give you some extra information about myself.  You are reading my blog, so you should know a little bit about me.  My full name is Julia (Stowe) Moore and I am from the Chicagoland area.  What that means is that I grew up in the suburbs about an hour north of Chicago (not in the actual city).  My actual town’s name is called Lake Zurich.  I grew up with my parents, two older brothers, and most of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents near by.  Basically 95% of the Moore clan is together all the time.  In high school I took many art and photography classes.  A few times I was entered into some shows.  I played the piano for 12 years and won some Solo Ensemble Awards.  I also sang for five years and won some awards too.  I also love watching and playing sports (BIG Blackhawks and Bulls fan).  I played soccer for 6 years, played basketball for 5, was a varsity runner in track and cross country for 4 years.  

Here at Ohio University, am involved with AVW (Ohio Sports Zone) and part of the Delta Zeta Sorority (also known as the Barbie Dream House on Mill).  Many of you are probably wondering why I would come all the way to Ohio University.  The reason is that out of all the schools that I looked at, OU was clearly the best out of all of them.  OU had the best media programs for academic reasons.  Also, OU by far had the best campus I have ever seen.  My main goal is to edit films for Hollywood.  I believe that OU will give me the tools to help my make those dreams come true.   

So now you guys kind of know who I am.  So I hope you enjoy reading :)

What inspires me: Julia Moore

The Lord of the Rings  trilogy are some of my favorite movies.  It was actually the movie that inspired to look into editing.  This is one of those films that makes me think how they did that and makes me want to learn more about the process.