Notes on 'Berlinale Keynotes Film 2.0 is cinema toast?'

Movies inspire and awaken people they also educate but anger some. Changes that are taking place in technology and new generations of people we are moving into Cinema ‘2.0’. Moving into a period with big changes, a film can become an experience where we can participate in the film. The film industry is changing as well, based on the concept of calibration. Viewer becomes user.
Why is this occurring?

Four big drivers:
• Web 2.0 – Very different from the .com period, access through the ‘things’ such as phones and media players. Concepts of screens are changing. Not very far from having actors in your living room through being holograms.

• Broadband – HD films on the internet, something that is happening today. New web you can browse the physical world e.g. GPS. True multimedia no longer looking like cartoon character but the real deal.

• XML – Not for presentation but for collaboration and computation, the internet is becoming a giant global computing. Enriched with services. Building communities around videos e.g. ratings

• Peer to Peer File Sharing – Open source anyone can access and change.
The next generation there is no longer fear of technology to them. Watching less TV, come home and turn on the computer. Generation now process content differently. The internet now their world. Kids are now changing everything that will affect the future. Kids now know more about this than their parents. Kids want freedom and choice they want to customise everything. A generation that wants to have Fun, Speed and Innervations. New blog created every second of every day.

Collaboration Cost – Greater than the cost of boundaries of cooperation. Rise of the internet and companies evolved into networks. Cost dropping so much that Peers can come together. 150,000 open source application projects. Creating our own content not the internet creating it. Box office revenues are declining and the people who visit the cinema are declining and people who watch films are home are even declining! However Video games are on the rise. People are watching films on their own personal media systems.
What is a film is changing, 3 minute film. People can now create their own dashboard on top of their games. Welcome the future because the future will soon be the past.

Individual Work - Location

Individual Work - Sound

Sound


Sound is a very important part of any movie production, if the sound isn’t right it can really spoil the film. There are two types of sound:

Diegetic:

This is sound that comes from sources within the film for example, the sound of a bird in a cage. It’s sound that hasn’t been placed onto the film whilst the editing took place.

Non – Diegetic:

This is sound that has been placed over the original film and the source can’t often be seen for example, the sound of a dog barking in a housing estate.

Music

The type of music is going to play a huge part in our production. Using something that is up beat and energetic isn’t going to have the same affect as something that has an eerie and mysterious feel.

It’s high likely that we will be placing Non Diegetic sound over our production. Typical sounds can be placed over during the chase scene like a dog barking as the two characters run to the playing field.

For Diegetic sound there will also be emphasis on footsteps, when the killer walks around the house with camera shots of his feet, say walking up the stairs and the sound of his footsteps quiet but emphasized in a way that gives the viewer an intense feeling.

Individual Work - Editing

Editing

I have comprised a small video to show some simple transitions that can be used in our production, it will be posted on our blogs but here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPJl-F2o_7o
Transitions
Transition One, Fade: The most basic transition, it’s so simple and effect that I think it works the best out of all the transitions. It provides a nice smooth change between a scene. It would work best with a calm scene rather that a fast paced action scene.

Transition Two, Dissolve: Another simple transition but one at which I feel doesn’t work very well at all. It gives the film a crude, patchy and unprofessional feel.

Transition Three, Wipe Wide Down: This transition would be good to show a new day. It feels like it wipes everything clean. It would be used to show different times of days.

Transition Four, Page Curl: This one is also like Wipe, it feels as if it should be used to show a new beginning or change in time.

Transition Five, Inset: Personally I would not use this transition it feels very unprofessional. The transition feels too blocky.

Transition Six, Flip: This transition I could see being used in the title or credits bit not within the actual video clip itself.

Transition Severn, Bars: This one I feel is the worst of the lot, it feels so very unprofessional and doesn’t work well as a transition at all.

Thriller Research - Editing/ Transitions

For examiners use. See notes page (Editing)