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CREED (2015)

Directed by - Ryan Coogler

Screenplay by - Ryan Coogler & Aaron Covington

Story by - Ryan Coogler

Produced by - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler, Kevin King-Templeton, Sylvestor Stallone

Executive Producer - Nicolas Stern

DOF - Maryse Alberti

Production designer - Hannah Beachler

Editors - Micheal P. Shawyer & Claudia Castello

Original score - Ludwig Goransson

Music supervisor - Gabe Hilfer

Visual effects - John P. Nugent & Alison O'Brien 

Costume designers - Emma Potter & Antoinette Messam

Casting - Francine Maisler & Kathleen Driscoll-Mohler 

Cast - Micheal B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Andre Ward, Anthony Bellew, Richie Coster, Jacob Duran, Graham McTavish

Production - A Chartoff Winkler

Control 

Starring - Courtney Hope

Lead Producer - Juha Vainio

Art Director - Janne Pulkkinen 

WDD - Stuart MacDonald

Lead Programmer - Sean Donnelly

Lead Designer - Paul Ehreth

Lead Character Artist - Antti Puomio

Lead Animator - Ilkka Kuusela 

Lead Character TD - Anne Seppanen

QA Manager - David Izzo

Narrative Lead - Josh Stubbs

Cinematics Lead - Mikko Riikonen 

Lead Audio Designer - Ville Sorsa

Concept by - Mikael Kasurinen & Sam Lake

Music by - Petri Alanko & Martin Stig Anderson

Story by - Sam Lake

Directed by - Mikael Kasurinen 

FRANK ASH DIGITAL STORYTELLING

 In class, we focused on a video about Digital Storytelling from Frank Ash, who works as a creative consultant for the BBC.

Frank Ash taught us how new movies are constructed at spread out to different audiences

Overall the video was very informative and i will take inspiration from him for when i am working on my film opening with my group.

DISTRIBUTION COLLAGE

 DISTRIBUTION

I chose to make a collage on the recent movie Tenet as it is one of the biggest names in the movie industry of recent months. The movie is attractive for many people and has received great reviews from the public.  

My chosen film Tenet is presented as an action/sci-fi movie. With an initial and tactical release of August 12th 2020, they achieved a box office of $325.5 million. The release in August was attractive to many people as cinemas had only recently just opened, so a movie with a big attraction caused mass sell outs in many cinemas in the world. 

With a budget of $205 million US Dollars, they were congratulated with the number of tickets sold. 

The movie based on a secret agent who embarks on a dangerous, time-bending mission to prevent the start of World War III, receives an impressive IMDb of 7.8/10

CODES & CONVENTIONS

CODES & CONVENTIONS

Film opening codes and conventions from FinnHanley

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 Our film opening began with a picture of three men, all with squares drawn around their face in red pen. This could reflect on how the man wants to kill them through the red coloured ink, implying the blood. The camera then pans slowly to a brown briefcase being opened, showing inside the gun, a passport and some money. The showing of a gun, and also red boxes around mens faces connotes a man may be trying to kill the three men and has a plan with his passport and American dollars. The camera then pans to a deck of cards, which the man spreads out on the table, and by coincidence the combination AK47 is the outliers of the deck and is what is seen by the camera. This gives a much stronger sense of death.

ON THE SET

Brief account of learning to use the cameras and tripods, what filming terminology to use on set and good practice in editing

This account is about what I learnt and what equipment we were shown when we were shown how to use the Canon cameras and Manfrotto tripods. 

Cameras and tripods. In groups we passed the camera around and each of us practised how to handle the camera, insert the battery and memory card. When you pass the cameras around you should say 'yours' and 'mine' to avoid the risk of dropping it.  We learned how to set up a tripod and to 'bubble' it using the spirit level to help make the camera balanced and in focus. We explored the camera such as how to focus.  The exposure on the camera is adjusted by moving the dial up and down. 

White balance (WB) is the process of removing unrealistic colour casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in the photo. Proper camera white balance has to take into account the "colour temperature" of a light source, which refers to the relative warmth or coolness of white light. You adjust it by selecting the ‘WB’ on the camera, it will then come up with little pictures representing difference colour tones that are used in different lights which will give a more realistic effect.

180-degree rule. We learned about the 180 degree rule.  The 180-degree rule is a cinematography guideline that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another. When the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and the shot becomes what is called a reverse angle.

On set We then learnt the terminology used in the film industry on set. The director shouts 'Standby' before filming to ensure that everyone is ready and when they are, they reply 'Standing by.'

When the director shouts ‘rolling’, everyone on set must be quiet, then he /she shouts ‘action’ which tell the actors to start. After the shoot, the director has said the last ‘cut’, he / she will say ‘strike the kit’ which is the film crew's cue to pack away, put the batteries on charge and ensure that the footage is uploaded. 

Good practice in editing. We are using Final Cut Pro and iMovie on the iMacs in the media studio. When uploading our footage, we should create a folder to keep the shots. These folders are called bins and the unedited footage from cameras are called rushes.