Storyboard Imitation

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 I used the clip from blog 3 which was from the movie Source Code. The director follows the 180 degree rule because he never jumps the line. For the parts when he is on the train, the camera is always in front of him. When we move to the scenes where the woman is at the military headquarters the camera is always behind her or to her side. If it is in front of her it is because she turns around. The camera never breaks the 180 degree rule in these scenes either. The director doesn’t break the rule of thirds either. All the important things fall on these invisible horizontal and vertical lines. The different ways his body is positioned in different shots shows me that the director made sure the main elements lined up on these invisible lines. The same thing happens when we go to the senses of the woman in the military headquarters. They make sure the box window that you can see his body through is on the lines. She is one the lines as well. They make sure her face and lower half are on one of the points. The director also follows the 30 degree/30 percent rule. The director moves the camera a lot through the different scenes. There is a few shots that doesn’t move the full 30 degree, but most of his shots do. In the start of the scene he is barely on camera. As the camera moves, more and more of his body shows up on scene. This shows us that he does follow the 30 degree rule. Another example is when they move the camera to a side shot. This is showing us that not only does he follow the 180 degree rule because he doesn’t cross the like, he also follows the 30 degree rule. The director seemed to follow all the rules. As I was watching the clip I did not notice him break any of the rules.

Movie Deconstruction

The Pursuit of Happyness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcZTtlGweQ

The theme of this movie is even when life is at its worst you still have to keep going, for yourself and your children. This scene exemplifies this theme because it shows the main character losing everything. The only thing that he doesn't lose is his son. It shows his life struggles. In this trailer, he never stops trying to better his life. I believe that the theme is active because it never comes out and tells you what to think. Its a movie that wants you to take out of it what you want and make it your own.

Well one of the things that helps to reinforce my theme is the spacing. Throughout the trailer we can see that he doesn’t have much space anywhere. His home is small and towards the end when it seems he become homeless, him and his son are curled up in a corner. This shows us the limited about of space they have. The shape also reinforces my theme because their are a lot of shadows cast throughout this trailer. His face always seems to be more in shadow. This gives us a more somber mood or feeling. His life is going to shambles around him, so the shadows play apart in symbolism. Tension and Release play a part in this trailer as well. A lot of tension is built up as his life falls apart in front of us. It creates tension because we don’t know if he will be able to fix his life or not. Some of the tension is released when he meets the stock broker and starts taking the test to be hired. The clip is more active than didactic because they don’t tell you what to get out of the movie. They want you to get out of it what you want. Another thing that plays a part in this clip is the idea of contrast and affinity. The main character contrast people in this clip, but he is like others as well. You can tell that the people he lives around or surrounds him are lower class like himself, which would be an affinity to him. He is in contrast with the upper class people or the stock broker that is presented to us in the trailer. He wants to be just like the upper class people. 

Animation Deconstruction

I chose two pictures from the show the Looney Tunes. In the first picture the hue is analogous. The colors in the background are mainly black and gray except for the yellow light in the windows. The characters contrast each other, so they all stand out from the background. In the second picture the hue is complementary. This complements the two characters. The girl character has a light yellow hue while the boy character has a black and orange hue. In the first picture the background is saturated except for the bright light coming from behind them and it is desaturated. The character are desaturated. They are all light in contrast to the background. In the second picture the background colors are saturated and the window light in the background are desaturated. The characters and the car they are in are desaturated as well. The value of the first picture is high for the background because the background is so dark except for the bright light coming from the background. The second picture has a high value for the background and the guy character. The girl character has a lower value. In the first picture all the character have a slight shadow cast across their faces and the inside of the car is made dark. The inside of the car has a lot of shadows. This portrays the mood of fright or terror because of the look of their faces and the dark lighting. In the second picture the girl doesn’t have any shadows on her face because the light is shining directly on her. The guy character’s face is completely in shadows. This covers his emotions not letting us know exactly what he is thinking. You are only supposed to know the girls emotions in this picture. The parallel movements in the first picture are the way they are looking. They all seem to be looking to the side and slightly back. The character in the back is the only one looking forward, this shows the overlapping movement of their eyes. In the second picture the parallel movement would be the turn of their heads. They are both looking at each other in the same way. In the first pictures shows the weight of the characters by the seatbelt holding them down. The second picture shows weight by the characters holding on to the top of the car. 

Song Deconstruction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B89Osfj8dg

The Crow & the Butterfly 

By: Shinedown

LISTENING FRAMEWORK

(SIMPLIFIED)

LISTENING PHASE 1 (Rhythm)

Tempo [slow, medium, fast]

The tempo is slow or Andante

Source [where is the rhythm coming from?]

Guitar, drums, vocals

Groove [describe how the personality of the rhythm]

powerful, intense, prominent

LISTENING PHASE 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation [which instruments drive the song?]

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, symbols, bass guitar, keyboard, tambourine

Structure/Organization [how is the song built? Order, patterns, etc.]

Intro / verse / chorus / guitar solo / verse 2 / chorus repeat / finale

Emotional Architecture [Draw how the song build and drop?]

LISTENING PHASE 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

 - Height [high and low of frequency]

High frequency

 - Width [stereo panning left/right]

It pans more to the left

- Depth [layer of instruments - via loudness]

4 layers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25ORRgLxdA&ob=av3n

Second Chance 

By: Shinedown

LISTENING FRAMEWORK

(SIMPLIFIED)

LISTENING PHASE 1 (Rhythm)

Tempo [slow, medium, fast]

The tempo is Medium or Moderato

Source [where is the rhythm coming from?]

Vocals, drums, guitar

Groove [describe how the personality of the rhythm]

Powerful, behind the beat, solid, upbeat

LISTENING PHASE 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation [which instruments drive the song?]

Keyboard, percussion, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, symbols, bass guitar

Structure/Organization [how is the song built? Order, patterns, etc.]

Intro / verse / Chorus / verse 2 / chorus repeats / chorus repeats again / finale

Emotional Architecture [Draw how the song build and drop?]

LISTENING PHASE 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

 - Height [high and low of frequency]

high frequency

 - Width [stereo panning left/right]

The panning is more to the left

- Depth [layer of instruments - via loudness]

4 layers

I chose to do two songs from the same artist. The artist I chose to do my listening framework sheets on was Shinedown. The lyrics of the two songs are very different. The Crow and the Butterfly is about a Mother losing her child and wanting him back. At the very end she is comes to terms with what happened. The song Second Chance is about a girl leaving home and saying goodbye to her parents. She is in search of her own life. The lyrics are completely different. Even though they are completely different Shinedown sings about serious situations. Both of these songs have a serious tone.The melody is more upbeat in Second chance than it is in The crow and the Butterfly. The Crow and the Butterfly melody is slow, but intense. The rhythm for the song Second chance has a moderato tempo, while The Crow and the Butterfly has an Andante tempo. The source of rhythm for both of them were guitar, drums, and vocals. The groove for the Crow and the Butterfly was powerful, intense, and it was very prominent. The song Second chance was powerful as well, but it was more upbeat, solid, and behind the beat. Since the songs I chose were from the same band, I noticed they used the same instruments in both songs. The only instrument that I picked out in The crow and the Butterfly that I did not pick out in Second Chance was the tambourine. The emotional architecture for both were close to the same. Again, I feel this is because I listened to two songs from the same band. The intensity for both of them was loud. The Crow and the Butterfly was more intense than Second Chance, but Second Chance had its moments. The pitch on both of the songs was high. I think this is because the singer does not change, therefore, the octive won’t change a whole lot. The timbre for both of them was simple. I could hear all of the sounds and they were all distinct. The organization was ordered. The neither of the songs had a chaotic feel to them, but just a flowing order to them. I like Second Chance better because it is more upbeat and the lyrics hit closer to home than the lyrics for The Crow and the Butterfly do.