Lewis Cowdry Film Studies

When we filmed, we used two cameras to get perspective from two different places, this worked well as we had lots of different shots to choose from when editing the whole performance. The use of two perspectives allowed us to add interest to the final product as the constant change in camera angles makes the viewer want to keep watching.   To create the sense that Mr Tumness was afraid and weary of Lucy, we used a high birds eye view shot of Lucy handing one of his parcels back to him. We did this because it shows that he didn't want to get too close to her as he reached his arm or as far as possible to take the parcel, indicating that he was frightened of her. This also adds variation to the type of shots we used to make the whole recreation seem more professional and add some interest to it. We used the shot of Lucy looking around acting as if she's amazed at Narnia to show that she was surprised that she was there as she wouldn't expect to be there considering th...

The social groups represented in Hacksaw Ridge are young males that were in the second world war. Also, older war generals that served in the fist world war. The film is in the war genre as it is a story based on a real person called Desmond Doss who served in the war. This is shown by using a young actor playing Desmond. Also, by the mise en scene, the costumes are those of the soldiers that fought for America in the war. the narrative in the film is mostly dialogue between characters though there are a few scenes in which the character of Desmond narrated what was happening.

Film: star wars a new hope. Production company: LUCASFILM Distributer: Director: George Lucas Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor Composer: john Williams Editors: George Lucas, Marcia Lucas, Haul Hirsch, Richard chew, T.M. Christopher Stars: Carrie Fischer, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness Notable related films: a new hope is the first original film in the star wars franchise which has many different directors such as George Lucas, JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson and more. Production notes: Anew hope used models and green screens to make some of the scenes in space. As the technology has advanced, the directors use CGI and different special effects to create these scenes in the newer films. Audience expectation: as a new hope is the first film made in the franchise people didn't know what to expect when they went to see it in the cinema. Though the film did have a lot of hype as it was one of the first films of this type to be released as film w...

Making of Narnia Exterior We used a forest in Wymondham which was local to us so it wasn't too long of a walk to get to. Although, it was very cold and quite frosty, this just added to the atmosphere we wanted for Narnia as it supposed to be winter time. We made sure that our actors (when they weren't being filmed) had warm coats on as we didn't want them to get too cold.  We chose to not do snow to make our Narnia as we thought it would create too much mess and it would be hard for us to get the snow in every angle we wanted to film. If we were to do snow, it would mean that we would have to limit what we could film as we would have to make sure snow was in every scene and cover a lot of the forest area which would mean a lot of time would be spent after cleaning it up. We also chose not to use a lamppost as there wasn't any nearby to where we were filming so instead we used a tree as we believed it would be more effective than just having a lamppost in the...

DIRECTING STYLE EXTERIOR SHOTS For our LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE scenes, I looked at multiple directors, each with their own distinctive styles. I specifically looked at Wes Anderson, as his warm hues and centralised characters create interesting final outcomes. These images show how we have used the warmer hues and tried to centralise the characters. The lighting also created this warmer effect as the sun had been setting. These images are stills from the first part of the scene, when the two characters - Mr Tumnus and Lucy are outside, and when they first meet. The camera work was important, as we wanted to capture the bewilderment on Lucy's face as well as Mr Tumnus' shock of seeing a human. The directing style itself had been quite simple, because I didn't want to over complicate it. As I also played a large role in creating the storyboards, it allowed me to direct each scene nicely. DID ANY OF YOUR STORYBOARD IDEAS CHANGE ON SHOOT? ...