The publicity sheet I designed for horoscopes film

Director: Harry Proctor

Editors: Thomas Cartledge, Harry Proctor, Rachel Cullimore, Ferda Yayci

Starring: Thomas Cartledge, Rachel Cullimore, Harry Proctor

STARTED FILMING - FINAL PROJECT

We have finally started filming on 27th April 2009. Everything went well and editing is also completed today 28th April 2009.

This is the storyboard for horoscopes on left

1 Minute Films (13 March 2009)

We all watched the films we made in the session which I found really enjoyable. There were alot of different inspirations 'the Science of Sleep' has gave us. The moving images I tried to make for my 1 minute was my first experience cause I have never made one before and had no idea how to make it. I think I could've done it better..

1 MINUTE FILMS

Here are the 1 minute short films links below to get some ideas on how to make a short film;

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWF-wWV06jI
• http://www.filminute.com/2008/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFF3I_SilG4
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DMBIzAcK0

Diegetic/Non-Diegetic Sound

DIEGETIC

Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film:

• Voices of characters
• Sounds made by objects in the story
• Music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( = source music)
• Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world
• Diegetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame.
• Another term for diegetic sound is actual sound
• Diegesis is a Greek word for "recounted story"
• The film's diegesis is the total world of the story action

NON-DIEGETIC

Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action:

• Narrator's commentary
• Sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
• Mood music
  
  
  Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space.
  The distinction between diegetic or non-diegetic sound depends on our understanding of the conventions of film viewing and listening. We know of that certain sounds are represented as coming from the story world, while others are represented as coming from outside the space of the story events. A play with diegetic and non-diegetic conventions can be used to create ambiguity (horror), or to surprise the audience (comedy).
  Another term for non-diegetic sound is commentary sound.

http://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm

My Comments/Research on 'Science of Sleep'

Director and Writer: Michel Gondry
Tagline: Close your eyes. Open your heart
Plot: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

A timid young man can't control the fantastical plots and images of his dream world from intruding into his waking hours in Michel Gondry's science-fiction romance. After a promising new job sours, Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) finds new inspiration in his neighbor Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg). To connect with her, shy Stephane releases the bolder personality of his dreams, but his waking insecurities threaten to destroy the relationship.

• The subject of "The Science of Sleep" seems to be a romantic, surreal and dreamlike film.
• I think the film is very interesting as it might not be for others.
• First of all, the subject of the film attracts attention.
• It was strange but very surrealist.
• I like the way how it shows the freedom to dream and the similarities of the dreams we also could see while we sleep (surrealist & strange).
• Main character who is confused with dream and reality
• Experimental technique

The link below is the trailer of ''The Science of Sleep'';

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCrM5i_W3c

SOUNDTRACK

Velvet Underground; After Hours

Mise en scène

My research on 'mise en scène:

• Mise-en-scène is a French term and originates in the theater. It means, literally, "put in the scene.
• For film, it has a broader meaning, and refers to almost everything that goes into the composition of the shot, including the composition itself: framing, movement of the camera and characters, lighting, set design and general visual environment, even sound as it helps elaborate the composition
• Mise-en-scène can be defined as the articulation of cinematic space, and it is precisely space that it is about.
• Cutting is about time; the shot is about what occurs in a defined area of space, bordered by the frame of the movie screen and determined by what the camera has been made to record. That space, the mise-en-scène, can be unique, closed off by the frame, or open, providing the illusion of more space around it.
• In Travelling Players (1975), a film by the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, a group of people move into the past by taking a long walk down a street in one shot; time moves backward as they walk. There is a sequence in the film Grand Illusion (1937) by the director (and son of the Impressionist painter) Jean Renoir in which a group of World War I POWs receive a carton of gifts.
• or something else in the scene. If a mistake is made, the entire shot has to be made again. The economics of Hollywood production frown on such methods. For the viewer, a film that depends upon mise-en-scène and long shots makes special demands. Without editing to analyze what s important in a scene by cutting to a closeup of a face or an object, the viewer is required to do the looking around in the shot, to be sensitive to changes in spatial relationships and the movements of camera and actor

Robert Kolker, Film Form and Culture

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~landon/Local_Information_Files/Mise-en-Scene.htm