I went to the 3D showing of Migration at the beginning of the quarter with my kiddo and decided to do a clip of the movie for storyboard class practice. The audio is on the left the visuals I drew are on the right. Storyboards are like snapshots of each frame that are used to tell or plan a story by filmmakers.
At this showing, I also happened to see as an extra bonus after the previews that involved Vector and some minions on the moon.
Who is Vector from the “Despicable Me” franchise? Everyone knows Gru, the main villain, but Vector was a side villain, whose plotline just got resurrected in this short easter egg preview attached to the “Migration” movie to draw extra attendance from movie “geeks” like myself who loved DVD extras or hang around to see if there’s a little bonus clip after the credits. Illumination studios did a great job on that series, so (to not divulge too much information) if you have not had a chance to see the minion movies…Vector had stolen a shrink ray with plans to shrink the moon and wasn’t referred to in any that followed. He does see Bob (the floating minion) who is waiting for a ride and attempts to even catapult himself off the moon, but winds up elsewhere and does not get home to where we know if he will reappear anytime soon, be re-discovered later in a future minion movie, or just be a continuing running update gag about his status every once in a while to satisfy curious fans…only the future will tell.
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Audio And Sound Effect Importance
Audio is extremely important in video production because of all of the emotional strings that can be pulled depending on the chromatic scale and happy, sad or dramatic tone of the music used. Comedic pieces might have recognizable themes running behind them like in the Benny Hill Show. Cartoon music might pause right before Wile E. Coyote drops an anvil or pauses in midair to emphasize the moment. The Queen’s Cartoonists use of sound effects, moods, and tempo demonstrate a wonderful example in this video here and the same principles can be applied to all visual media from TV shows and commercials to movies.
The music l chose in one of my previous projects was dramatic on purpose because I wanted to add some excitement to the educational topic highlighted as well as our business installations being linked to progress and advances from earth to outer space.
Bram Stoker carfully chose the music in Dracula’s Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to span from haunting- “The Beginning” | Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) to the “Love Song for a Vampire” video, one of my favorites I chose to include here:
I always tended to group my songs into themed sets when I would add a recording to a cassette tape in the 80s and divide my CD collection categories in the 90’s and 2000’s in a similar manner. I would name these tapes or sections things like:
“Playful” and throw songs or CDs in that had childhood games or lyric mentions like “Pop Goes The Weasel” – 3rd Bass (1991), “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Stevie Ray Vaugn, KORN – “Shoots and Ladders,” or just fun upbeat songs like “Beautiful People” Marilyn Manson, songs I could skip along to like “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats, Sublime’s “Hong Kong Phooey” (or the whole “Saturday Morning: Cartoons’ Greatest Hits” album produced by Ralph Sall or upbeat albums in general.
Favorite genres like jazz would have abums from bands like Cherry Poppin Daddies, Harry Connick Jr, and Squirrel Nut Ziippers…how do you organize your music?
Image Systems In Movies: What Is It?
Posted By adminFebruary 16, 2024No CommentsEditImage Systems in Movies: What is it?
There are several movies with an “image system” that come to mind and some I ran across during research. An image system is a repeated visual technique or image that reappears. Some are obvious like the red balloon that floats though almost the entire 1956 short film “The Red Balloon.”
Some are used to highlight the story…in the “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” the cameraman uses different shot techniques such as blurring and loss of visuals to illustrate the forgetfulness of losing memory. Other image system examples (in too many movies to mention) range from rear view mirrow views in detective or racing movies to views in windows or the use of many reflections in different mirror angles.
In my favorite movies, such as “Tank girl,” “The Mask,” “Roger Rabbit,” and “Cool World” animations and comic book stills or even a cartoon universe are injected that show the same character in similar iconic attire. Lori Petty appears in a tank top or pigtails for Harley Quinn in Batman series fame similar to the character she portrays. Jim Carry is repeatedly seen in a yellow suit when he is in “Mask” form, and both Jessica Rabbit reappearing in her iconic red dress and the “Cool World” Holli Wood character and cartoon world keeps blending with reality.
Dystopian sets and panels help connect some of these plots with the stories they were borrowed from and reinforce continuity of the story setting. Once aware of what image systems are, it is hard to not watch and catch a few director image styles as an “Ah-ha!” moment in future viewing to come.
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COLOR – Making Movies Stand Out
Color is a fun yet important setting consideration when deciding how to film a movie. Color can emphasize all kinds of moods from blue for sadness to red for rage. “The Matrix” uses a green color palette for coding and a futuristic/tech look. Movies sometimes just highlight one character by painting it a different color from the rest like the red coated girl in Schindler’s List. She represents innocence and from the rest of the black and white film, her death is highlighted this way to show war deaths as meaningless.
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To highlight the main character, certain movies will also highlight the main character with certain colors. In “The Mask” Jim Carry’s Character is always seen in green makeup with a yellow suit making it easy to follow the antics going on, and “Kill Bill” put Uma Thurman in an iconic yellow jumpsuit. “Mad Max beyond Thunderdome” sticks to mostly machine dark colors on top of the desert sand color behind.
Most interesting of all, “Dick Tracy” stuck to a 7 color-palette scheme in the making of the movie. The director and cinematographer went as far as painting the buildings, choosing the cars, and making the suits based on the scheme of primarily red, green, fuscia, orange, cyan, blue, and yellow. The saturation brings more drama and the audience is not used to seeing a fixed pallete used in that manner, I highly recommend seeing it as a treat to the eye.
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