X Men Analysis

Having a scene with just dialogue can be very boring if the dialogue isn't very interesting or important to the plot this can make the audience bored and not interested in the scene. Adding music and sound effects too a scene helps tie the scene together especially the music,but the music shouldn't drown out your dialogue in the scene. If you have a action in a scene like a explosion in a scene and there's no sound effect to go with it this can really ruin a scene and make the scene feel unrealistic and this ruins the movie magic.

Music
The Music in the clip starts from the beginning of the clip and goes through the entire clip till the end. The music peaks at 00:06 it then lowers around 01:13 when Bobby starts talking the music changes tone at 01:27 when Professor X starts says X men. It also peaks at 00:56 when Bobby is about to use his power.

Sound Effects
00:06 - ball bouncing on concrete
00:09 - kid teleporting, sounds like a squeaky whistle, swish
00:12 - catching a ball
00:22 - clay pigeons being thrown
00:24 - Cyclops laser beams  hitting the pigeon and Cyclops laser beam sound effect
00:48 - lighter sound effect
00:50 - fire ball being created
00:58 - whistle sound of Bobby using his ice power
01:01 - freezing the fire ball
01:02 - frozen fireball smashing on the ground

Dialogue
00:04 - Logan: What is this place
00:12 - Kid off screen: Hay no powers
01:06 - Storm: John
01:06 - John: Sorry
01:13 - Bobby: I'm Bobby what's your name?
01:16 - Rogue: Rogue
01:18 - Logan: What will happen to her
01:28 - Bobby: Welcome to Mutant High

Narration
00:08-00:11 Professor X
00:15-00:18 Professor X
00:19-00:54 Professor X
01:19-01:27 Professor X

Visual Effects Research

 Tutorial that could help with this effect

 Scene 1 Shot 2 

The effect in the shot is of a boy lighting a cigarette with the tip of his index finger. The X Men films have used fire ball effects in their films , and many other effects.

Tutorial that can help

Scene 3 Shot 1

This special effect in this scene will probably be the hardest to film and do. The effect in this shot is several teachers teleporting into the cafeteria. Again X Men use teleporting special effect with Nightcrawler in X Men 2.

Tutorial that can help

Scene 4 Shot 9

The effect in this shot is of a few lightning bolts when Jay and Tom shake hands this should be quite simple to do.  Even thought the effect shown in the picture and video it shouldn't be that hard to change.  Again X Men provides the answer for the special effects.

Script with Selected Shots

The Script WIth Shots

Team Production Meeting 2

Date: 20/11/13
Present: Alex, Matt and Sam.
Agenda: Decide Shots.

• We all went through the script and decided personally what we wanted.
• Went through script and incorporated all of our ideas to decide these shots:

1. Long shot, follow Jay

2. Extreme close up

3. Over Shoulder

4. Medium close up

5. Medium long shot from side 

6. Long shot sweep

7. Mid shot

8. Over shoulder, Shoulder in focus then it goes out of focus and focuses on max.

9. Cut between convocation, mid shot

10. Camera sweeps across canteen slowly, pauses at Jay then carries on to show boy dieing.

11. Long shot

12. Flash backs

13. Pan though library isle to Jay

14. Over shoulder shots for convo

15. Long shot

16. Extreme close up 

Shot Blocking and The 180 Degree Rule

The 180 Degree Rule

The 180 degree rule is a camera angle that centers around two character. When using the 180 degree rule you create a imaginary line in between the two characters. This line is called the action line while shooting you must keep the camera on one side of the action line while focusing on the characters, if you go over the imaginary action line this can disorientate the viewer, confuse them, lose the sense of whats happening, when the scene is happening and the position of the characters and makes them look like they've changed position . When the camera crosses the action this is called jumping the line or crossing the line. If you do want to cross over the action line you have to show this in the film by panning over the characters shoulders and do the same when you want to go back.

P1 Composing For Film

When composing music for film the main thing to do is research the film find out what the film is whats the genre, whats it about, whats the story and really get in depth with the film and characters and make it come across in the music.Make sure that the music connects with the characters emotions and personality especially if its character based themes.One of the most import things to do with the music is to make it connect with the audience. Especially emotionally if you can get the music to fit with a characters and then get the music to connect with the audience, It is also good to make theme catchy or at least bits of it so its more memorable to the audience. If your struggling trying to compose experiment a little you might find a tune that fits really nicely and you can just develop from there.

Hans Zimmer composed the music for The Dark Knight with director Christopher Nolan. Nolan and Zimmer discussed how they wanted to do the score around the joker's character, so Nolan would constantly send Zimmer pictures and footage of what Heath Ledger was doing with the character and Zimmer would experiment by refrecing his performance and pictures so he Zimmer could get a feel of the character. Zimmer used string instruments like guitars and warped and edited them so that the wouldn't sound recognizable  like useing a piece of metal to pluck the guitar strings. Zimmers intentions when making the soundtrack was he wanted something provocative and something that the audience would dislike and hate. When Hans Zimmer was creating the music he took the qualities of Anarchy, so someone that has a sense of fearlessness, don;t obey by the rules and someone who does what ever they want. I would say that the joker theme is very effective it really builds upon the character and adds to finalize Joker. The theme really adds to the tension in the scene and can completely flip a scene around with it, compared to other themes I wouldn't say this is memorable if I heard it without the film to go with it I would struggle to realize what it was from.

Script and Character Bios

Draft of my Script

2nd Draft of my Script

Character Bios 

Jay 

Jay is around 16 years old and average height. Jay comes from a family full of powers his mother can read minds, his cousin can teleport and even his baby brother can shoot lasers out his eyes, everyone in his family have power except him and his dad, his Dad has come from a family without any powers so when Jay his worried if his Dads genes has carried on to him. Jay's Mum send's him to Merriweather Academy cause she is worried that Jay doesn't have a power and she hopes that the Academy can help Jay out with finding what his power is.Jay's goal in the story is too find out what his power is by any means necessary, even if it might kill him along the way. 

Bully

Bully is in his last year at the school and a lot taller than Jay and Max.Bully is part of a group called Pyromancers that are a group of kids with fire based powers that do alot of the bullying around school. Bully picks on Max because he see's him as an easy target but after what Max did to him I doubt he's gonna pick on Max ever again. Bully's goal in the story is to cause trouble around school and make it hard for Jay and Max. Max and Jay don't know Bully's real name.

Max (also know as Lecher Kid)

Max is slightly younger and around a few inches shorter than Jay. Max is part of a race called Lecher's. Lecher's are people with powers that can absorb over peoples powers and use them for a short amount of time depending on how long they absorb the person for. Max's goal in the story is to help Jay find out what his power is even if it might put Jay into grave danger.