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LightingOnce Upon A Time
In America
The Third Man
Essex Boys
Single light behind Jason, silhouetting.
Spot-lighting, single light source, similar to Essex Boys, contrasting
shadows and silhouetting.
The character Eve, in her short appearance in the films beginning, is established from the chiaroscuro lighting, a thriller convention.
The femme fatale character’s lighting shows the contrast between light and dark, the tiffany lamp casting light on her face; reflecting her
vulnerability and lack of protection against the three men in the same room.
Animal Kingdom
Dark, shadow-filled shots, dark
atmosphere.
We also chose to combine ambient lighting with a harsher contrast; creating the opposites of light and dark to be created.
In our film, we’ve used key lighting to create a focused
point in lighting, attracting the viewers attention to only that;
The Pope in Animal Kingdom is another character lit in the
shadows; implying his dangerous and twisted nature.
In The Third Man, Harry Limes, is lit with high contrast between
lightness and dark.
Characters
Once Upon A Time In America
Essex Boys
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The uniformed costumes of the three men in Eve’s apartment wearing suits give them an authoritative and
professional look.
We wanted to play on the idea of ‘Ordinary
people in extraordinary situations’ this is why the male character ‘Victor’ is
in a businesslike suit, seemingly coming home from work, nothing un-ordinary or suspicious.
Smart in their choice of outfit, yet also a sense
of authority in their costumes.
The female character we’ve created isn’t the same as the
classic femme fatale, although she is vulnerable in the situation she’s trapped in, she isn’t completely helpless.
She tries to escape it, and the cliffhanger ending leaves it ambiguous to what occurs
in their meeting. Having a slight contemporary input
with our female.
Jason Locke; suit and shirt, like he’s dressed for the occasion.
Camera Angles
Close ups, camera zoomed in on important features. Transition from plughole to eye.
Essex Boys
Camera tilt; slightly
disorientating and
connotations with
wrongdoing.
Once Upon A Time In America
Psycho
The Third Man
Vanishing point created.
Focus on important locations and objects.
The alleyway that we’re filming in,
continues behind the character, creating a
vanishing point.
We’ve also created a tilted shot, slightly disorientating the audience for a second. Referencing The Third Man. As well as Once Upon A Time America in the worms eye shot to
represent dominance and authority.
Referencing the three men responsible for Eve’s death, the tilt
and worms-eye shot both are slightly
disorientating, but show the action in a
unique way.
Location
Once Upon A Time In America
PsychoEssex Boys
The seemingly normal house, a place where the characters should feel comfortable and
not threatened, the exact opposite of what actually
occur in the scenes.
The idea of the camera being intrusive, and perhaps looking where
it shouldn’t is something that can also be seen in our shots. Where the
audience realise that the trapped female is something no one else
knows about.
The camera looking into a private life.
The dark and shadowy, enclosed locations, single
lighting and a dimly lit, generic location. Something both our own film, with the
alleyway, and Essex Boys ,with the garage,
share.
A classic thriller convention, being the claustrophobic space. Seen in
Kill Bill 2, the coffin, where the lighting is dim and there is limited
allowed movement. In our film, the character is also in an
enclosed space, attempting to escape.
Kill Bill 2
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