case study 3 REC

The film rec is about a TV news report late at night on a fireman's night duties. when they are called to a apartment they think nothing of it and when they arrive they meet an old lady who bites a police officer then it all goes pear shaped from there.REC  is a 2007 Spanish horror film, co-written and directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.The film was shot in Barcelona, Spain and the title is an abbreviation of the word "record", as it appears on a video camera.REC follows a television reporter, Ángela Vidal and her cameraman, Pablo, who cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary television series While You're Asleep. The firehouse receives a call about an old woman who is trapped in her apartment. When they arrive, Ángela and Pablo film the police breaking down the door. The woman becomes extraordinarily aggressive and bites one of the policemen. Meanwhile, the terrified residents gather in the entrance hall and look on as the police and military seal off the building. A firefighter who remained in the old woman's apartment is bitten and plummets through the stairwell to the lobby floor. The camera crew, remaining firefighter and the second policeman go up again and are attacked. The officer shoots the old woman. The camera crew remains trapped inside the building with the residents and continue recording in spite of the policeman's pressure to stop recording. Ángela interviews a little girl named Jennifer who lives in the building. Jennifer is ill with what her mother claims is tonsillitis. She says her dog, Max, is at the vets because he appeared to be sick as well.

Horror conventions are effectively used by the deaths shown as they are quite graphic, noise also as at times it is quiet to show suspense but then at other times it is loud and people are shouting and screaming, darkness as throughout the time in the apartment it is very dark to give it a bit more fear factor, the gore is detailed and provokes a visceral response from the audition, it gives a sense of suspense and mystery because of the darkness and not knowing when the next jump moment will be and the claustrophobia feel to the scenes help create fear for the audience.The film is meant for horror fans as it has the jump scare moments,the gore,many deaths and the gripping suspense.

The characters in the film all have different roles as pablo is the person controlling what we see, the fireman is the alpha male and is the protector until he dies, when the doctor comes in he gives a sense of hope but that is soon diminished, the little girl is the innocence as she is the youngest but she later changes roles and angela plays the typical women at first but then that changes into her as the final girl.It all starts from the dog which we don't see.

The audience targeted are horror fans as it has all the traditions of a horror for example the gore,death,the jump moments,darkness and a sense of suspense and mystery.A specific example in the film for a jump moment is when the little girl spits blood in her mums face as it is unexpected.

The use of camera is hand held to give it a more realistic feel, it gives it a clostrophobic feel to it as well.the way the camera is used makes more tension as of the constant movement and the change in sound from loud to quiet in a few moments. There is a use of enigmas throughout to make you keep questioning what is happening.Numerous shots are used such as close up,over the shoulder,point of view and voyeuristic.sheavy breathing is used a lot to add to the fear factor.A specific example of camera shots is throughout the film it is taken from Pablo's point of view .

case study 1 Tell

case study 1 TELL

 

Tell is a 2012 short psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Ryan Connolly.
Taylor  argues with his girlfriend Jenny before taking a hammer from his car and murdering her. He then wraps her body in a sheet, takes her upstairs, and hides her in his attic. He then phones Ray  and informs him of the crime. Referencing an earlier conversation in which a drunken Ray had suggested murdering Jenny, Taylor tries to convince him to help cover up the crime. Ray declines, leaving Taylor to deal with the consequences alone.He begins to clean the blood from the kitchen floor, and hears something moving in the attic. He goes to investigate, and hears Jenny screaming. Whilst investigating, he finds blood dripping from the loft hatch, and goes up to investigate, where he finds the body as he left it. As he climbs back down the ladder, he slips on the blood, and is knocked unconscious.On regaining consciousness, Taylor finds blood on his forehead, and looks up into the still-open attic, where he sees a hallucination of Jenny looking down at him. He goes to the bathroom and cleans the blood from his hands, head, and clothes, and finishes cleaning the kitchen. Terra , Jenny's friend, arrives, and finds that Jenny is missing. Taylor tells her that she has walked out, and left her phone. Fearing that Terra knows of the murder, he arms himself with a kitchen knife, but she leaves before he attacks her.Whilst disposing of the blood-stained towels used to clean the kitchen, Taylor takes a saw from his garage, and takes Jenny's body into the bathroom. Once he has put the body in the bath, Taylor closes Jenny's eyes, and prepares to cut her arm off. However, he is interrupted at the last moment by the shower curtain moving. He goes to investigate, and looks back to find Jenny's eyes now open again. The curtain moves again, and Taylor jumps back, hits the light switch, and falls to ground. The curtain is then pulled back, and a shadowed figure steps out from behind it. Taylor runs from the bathroom, and then the house. Whilst outside, a police car pulls up, and Taylor returns to the house.When Police Officer Diaz  knocks on the door, Taylor tries to stop her from entering the house. When she does, she begins to search the ground floor and, on finding nothing, goes to search upstairs. Taylor again attempts to convince her that there is no issue, and is forced to remain downstairs whilst Diaz searches the upper floor. Diaz does not enter the bathroom, and therefore does not discover Jenny's body, but Taylor stabs her in the neck as she turns to leave. The two struggle silently, with Taylor pushing Diaz's gun down into its holster to protect himself. He is interrupted by an apparition of Jenny standing at the door, giving Diaz time to draw her weapon and shoot him. The two separate, and fall against opposite sides of the room, where they sit against the walls, dying.

In the short film tell it used many different camera shots such as pan,over the shoulder,birds eye views , wide ,voyeuristic, close up and off camera violence. throughout the film tension was built up using flashbacks , sound effects, music, lighting and shots.with shots like enigma and action code it gave a sense of suspense as there was an uncertainty of what will happen next which gave the audience a sense of suspense.

 

There were many props used such as weapons like the hammer which he killed his girlfriend with using off camera violence , the knife with what he was thinking of stabbing his girlfriends friend but didnt and in the end stabbed the police officer with and the gun he was shot with by the police officer.

 

The use of lighting was used well in the film as it used backlighting to show darkness and half and half lighting to show a dark side to the character this can be symbolic.sound effects are used to build suspense and add a bit of mystery to the film.They are also used to show emotion as when she calls him pathetic in the first scene he reacts badly to this and the music reflects this with a deep bang noise to show he is now annoyed.

 

With camera angles when he puts her in the bath to cut her up he is looking very upset and guilty so the close up is showing emotion and when he is on the phone to his friend and he is looking worried and is panicking. the camera has the habit of following people as for example when the police officer is upstairs looking around it is following her as if we were just behind her.

It has certain horror conventions such as the music to create an atmosphere and it touches on themes that horror films usually do for example guilt and death.Its also touches on real life as he talks to his friend about there social life and arguments between couples as well as typical horror things like suspense, fear, death and emotion.

The camera is used to good effect as it gives you clues to the story line and gives privliged postions as well as pulling you away from the action to keep some of the suspense going and give you a shock when action just appears like when the police officer is stabbed as you are not expecting it he just runs up the stairs and stabs her and when he falls off the stepladder and hits his head it just kept the suspense going.
 

 

 

 

 

case study 2 breaking bad

case study 2 breaking bad

 

 

BREAKING BAD – Series 4, Episode 12 ‘Face Off, October 2011, Thriller, Director: Vince Gilligan

 

When chemistry teacher, Walter White, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given only two years to live, he decides he has nothing to lose. He lives with his wife and teenage son, who has cerebral palsy, in New Mexico. Determined to ensure that his family will have a secure future, White embarks on a career of drugs and crime. He proves to be remarkably proficient in this new world as he begins manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with one of his former students. The series tracks the impacts of a fatal diagnosis on a regular hard working man and explores how a fatal diagnosis affects his morality and transforms him into a major player of the drug trade.

 
This episode is called face off and the plot in the episode is after failing to kill Gus via car bomb, Walter  removes the bomb and asks Jesse if he knows of a place that Gus frequents that does not have security cameras. Before Jesse can think, he is approached by Detectives Kalanchoe and Munn and taken to the police station, where they proceed to question him about his knowledge of Brock's ricin poisoning.Jesse is interrogated for a long time about the ricin, but he claims that it was a lucky guess. Having been contacted by Walter, Saul finally arrives. Jesse tells Saul that Gus often visits Hector to taunt him, which Saul relays to Walter. Upon learning that he and Gus are long time enemies, Walter visits Hector and offers him a chance to kill Gus. Hector contacts the DEA, where he insists on talking directly to Hank but he just curses at Hank through his interpreter and is quickly brought back to the nursing home.Tyrus inspects Hector's room for anything suspicious but finds it safe for Gus' visit, failing to spot Walter just outside. Jesse is released from police custody after Brock's diagnosis reveals that he was not poisoned by ricin, and is immediately kidnapped by Gus' thugs and brought to the lab to cook the next batch of meth.Gus and Tyrus corner Hector in his room. Gus asks Hector to finally look at him, which is something Hector refuses to do during Gus' taunting visits. As Gus prepares to inject Hector with poison, Hector finally looks at him tearfully, then with rage in his eyes, and begins ringing his bell numerous times. Gus realizes the bell is connected to Walter's car bomb under Hector's wheelchair and the bomb explodes, killing Tyrus and Hector instantly. Gus walks out of the room, calmly adjusting his tie appearing to be unharmed; but the camera then pans to reveal that half of his face and scalp were torn completely off in the explosion. He then collapses and dies as care home staff come running to the site of the explosion. Walter hears the news of the explosion on the radio and is relieved that his plan to draw Gus out into the open and kill him apparently worked. He then heads to the lab, kills two of Gus' henchmen stationed there, and burns down the lab with Jesse.

 

In this breaking bad episode there are many different angles and shots used such as there is a montage of Walter white and Jesse are setting up the explosion things and it would take a couple of hours but it is shown in a few moments.there is also at the beginning a dolly as it slowly goes past the cars.there is a birds eye view of Walter sat in the car park then it comes down and zooms in and shows a close up and shows his reaction to the news of the death of hector.There are lots of action code as it zooms in on a knife to give suggestion the knife is important.when the explosion goes off it is off camera violence as you don't see the room blowing up you see outside the room what happens.There are also lots of over the shoulder shots used to show realism as to feel what is happening from the characters perspective to connect better with the character.They generally use natural light to show hector, the light coming through the window shows him and the henchman.

single cam and multi cam

single camera production

When looking at single camera techniques there are many different camera shots to consider such as over the shoulder which is watching what is happening from a persons point of view and pan shot which is capturing the whole area and all the action in the process.with single camera techniques you can alter certain things such as backlighting to give a silhouette look , half and half lighting to symbolise darkness in somebody and you can build up tension using enigma code or action code by looking up at a person then looking at a weapon.single camera production is in the whole different techniques you can use with just a singular camera.

 

 multi camera production

The multiple-camera setup, multiple-camera mode of production, multi-camera or simply multicam is a method of filmmaking and video production. Several cameras—either film or professional video cameras—are employed on the set and simultaneously record or broadcast a scene. It is often contrasted with single-camera setup, which uses one camera.

Live programs such as The X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing use the multi camera set up, as it means the audience can look at the program from different perspectives. The reason for using multi camera set up on Live shows is so the camera’s can be set up in place and ready for each shot, if the program was shot single camera, it would make it much more difficult to keep the pace of the show, and the camera would change position each time it was moved.
Other shows such as Jeremy Kyle, although this is pre recorded, still use multi camera set up, this gives the viewer the different perspectives of the guests on the show, the host, and the studio audience reactions, it also saves time in the post production stage.

 

 

single camera vs multi camera 

 

The advantages of single camera productions:

 

• This mode of production allows for the reconstruction of events in a different order than they may have occurred. For example, it allows many shots at different times of the day to be taken at one scene. On the next day of production, shots may be taken at a different scene and then the two can be edited together in post production. As a result this means that sometimes it can be a quicker process, which for other reasons too, makes it an advantage of single camera production itself.
• In some cases, the process can be quicker as explained in the advantage above.
• With single camera productions, it will also be cheaper to film, compared to the high cost of the multiple camera mode of production. This is simply because with this production set up, you are only employing one camera unit, which would obviously be cheaper to run than having multiple cameras set up. However, it may also cheapen the cost if you have expensive performers acting in the production, because with single camera set ups, seldom to you need all performers at any one time, whereas with multiple cameras, you would, as you are filming all action at once.
• The control of aesthetics is a big advantage to single camera productions. Depending on the show, the aesthetic can have a huge effect because the lighting and sound and other aesthetics are individually made up for each shot, it therefore makes everything look more realistic, which in itself is another advantage.
• It looks realistic.

The disadvantages of single camera productions:

 

• Unfortunately, single camera productions also come with its disadvantages too, one and probably a huge factor being the different angles. Different shots and angles can be very effective depending on the film or television program, especially within a specific genre such as action, where various shots and angles are needed to heighten the intensity of the scene. This in turn, could arguably ruin the aesthetic of the show, which ironically is an advantage of single camera production.
• As stated in the advantages above, you can play around with the order of the shots you take and at what location, to quicken the process and leave the work of reconstructing each scene to the editing. However, it is exactly this that will slow you down in the long run as it will take time to do this. In some cases, single camera set ups can be quick, but this only accounts for the production itself; in post production however, you have to take the time in editing and reconstructing the scenes together.
• In shows such as peep show and c.s.i they use a single camera and films such as shutter island and the tourist they also use a single camera.

The advantages of multiple camera productions:

• Of course the first most obvious advantage of multiple camera productions is that is a much quicker process. With multiple camera set ups, it allows you to record the action in multiple shots and angles all in one swift process. This is a necessity for shows that can't take their time in filming if they have to output their show on a regular basis; these are programs such as soap operas, which normally output their show once a week and sometimes even have live performances.
• Multiple camera productions can also be cheap, just like single camera productions, but for a different reason. This is because with a multiple camera mode of production, it means you can produce a film or television program in a shorter amount of time, which can make it the cheaper set up.
• Multiple camera productions also tend to capture the best performances from the actors and actresses. This is because, unlike single camera productions, you do not have to repeat each scene. Repeating a scene may make their performances worse as they are being forced to act out the same bit over and over. It isn't uncommon to find directors even record rehearsals because performers put most of their effort into their first few tries. However, it is also possible to find these performers are being secretly filmed in rehearsals because there is pressure on them to act well when they are put in front of the camera and the crew, which ultimately could even make their acting worse.
• Another advantage closely related to, and party covered in the first advantage of multiple camera, is that there is better coverage of the scene. More shots, angles, footage etc of the scene, means there is more material that could possibly make a better production.

The disadvantages of multiple camera productions:

 

• Ironically, as multiple camera productions are the much quicker process, it does still take a long time to set up at first. With more than one camera unit employed, as the same with other equipment, it means it will take longer to set it all up.
• The aesthetic is also not as good with multiple camera productions because unlike single camera productions where the equipment is reset after each shot to fit the atmosphere of the next one, with multiple camera you must stand by the aesthetic from the beginning as the equipment is already set up.

• Another disadvantage of multiple camera productions is that the locations in which the footage is shot, is less believable, because with this mode or production, the scenes are generally filmed on-set, rather than a real location, which otherwise would add depth and aesthetic to the film or program. 

• In shows such as scrubs and films such as bad boys 2 they use a multiple camera.