Today in class we just worked on our scripts. Since at home I finished my script of the scene from Taken, so I spent the first few minutes editing it, and then began working on my own script. I am keeping the same plot, but changing the scene, characters and a few details to make it more of a western style. For example, instead of being set in a mansion, it is set in an old bar and the middle of the woods. Instead of the bodyguards dressed in all black, they are dressed in cowboy clothing. I have also been playing around with "cowboy language" and adding certain sayings into my script. I researched online a bit and some of the sayings are very interesting, but they defiantly add to the film and make it more western. I am around halfway done with the first draft of my script. So far I am happy with it, although I want to try and go back and change the plot a bit so it is less like the one of Taken. Overall, I am very happy with the work I got done in todays class and can't wait to continue working on it!
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Last class we learnt about Misè En Scene, which I used to write a film review on instead of writing a reflection. You can access it through the link bar! Our most recent class we learnt specifically about western films, and the iconography of them, what makes a western film, a western film. We also learnt about genres in general and how they came to be. I found learning about iconography very interesting because I had never learnt about it before, and was surprised that genres in film isn't that old, since it was only created in the 20th century. At the end of class we started to generate ideas of which film scene we are going to use as a guide for our script. I knew for my movie I wanted there to be fight scenes involved, as there is usually in a western movie. The first film I thought of was a film I saw last summer, Taken. I really enjoyed this movie when I watched it, and it contains many fight scenes, so it seemed perfect. I researched some scenes from it and ended up choosing one of the scenes where he is trying to find his daughter. This I think will work well for me when I am making my own script, because I have an idea of how I can make it into the western genre. I have finished writing up the original script from Taken and I am excited to start my own script soon!
Today we were introduced to Mise en Scène. Mise en Scène is what we will be graded on this semester, for both our films. I had never heard of Mise en Scène before today, so it was interesting to learn about. The five main areas of Mise en Scène are setting, props, makeup and costume, frame and composition and performance. I learnt about each of these areas and what they mean. These elements are vital when making a film and when planning a film you must put them into consideration in order for your film to be the best it can be. There are little things, such as the placing of characters in a scene, that can change the film completely. I learnt that without these five things films would be terrible, and would not interest the audience at all. I am excited to see how I will use these five areas in my film, and seeing if any are harder than the others. I think that it is going to be hard to meet all the of the expectations of each of these areas, but is not impossible. This is defiantly going to be a challenging and eye opening course for me, which I think I will learn a lot from.
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