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De-fective Love

“A psychological disorder that drives people to kill the ones they love in order to preserve or consummate their beloved one...”

Synopsis:

Jay, an unemployed independent photographer, who falls in love with an undergraduate student, Eva from the very first sight. To capture her heart and soul he makes a way to get into her life. Thinking he has succeed, something else has occurred and another side of Jay has came out, a side that will definitely make Eva, his forever, at any cost and ways.

Target Audience:

Anyone, no particular groups or age boundaries.

Context:

“It’s Called Love” has no relation to previous work.

Everyone has a different approach or perspective towards the word “love”. It can be expressed in many ways and terms as some believes it and some doesn’t. Having psychological disorders involved in this short film, it may not be an important issue for today but this depends on how people deals with “love” around them in the nearer future. “Love” can definitely play with people minds and sometime in can even control their life or the way they behave and act. It could turn someone behaving unexpectedly and do things that you wouldn’t expect or imagine them doing at the first place. (Refer to real life/personal case study).

Research:

Ab-normal Beauty_Oxide Pang Chun (2004)
Use of camera and lighting effects



American Psycho_Mary Harron (2000)
Character behaviors and attitude - hiding the characters alternate psychopathic ego from others as they escalates deeper into their own illogical, gratuitous fantasies.



Obsessed_Steve Shill (2009)
How love can make people behave differently and dangerously - desperate to get close to someone, at any cost.



“How far would you go to protect what’s yours?”

Preproduction:

Step Outline

Script

Location
(Outdoor)


(Indoor)


Characters



Characters Profile

Experimental shots/editing on color and tinting









Methodology:

2 Weeks of shooting - 3rd week into February 10’
Location wise, easy access with no restrictions, however, using the park as a location may have minor problems.
Own flat -easy access, no time nor space limit/restrictions.

Contingency:

The weather may be one of the problem for shooting outdoor, however if something does happen, a plan B will be needed.

The sound that will be involved in my production work is exploring the emotions of the characters as well as creating the right sense of atmosphere with the use of music. However, I do not want to turn each scene in to some sort of music video kind of feeling with music playing in the background and just actions with no dialogues. The major sound in this production will be mainly diegetic sound where the audience will be able to hear the sound that is being played on screen. The music or sound I will be using will be play through live instruments, the keyboard, where my character will be expressing his feelings through the music being played on the keyboard. A way of expressing the characters feeling through music rather than words. It also creates the mood and atmosphere of happiness, anger and sadness.

The sound that will be use in this production will consider as pretty important to me especially as the production work will not be containing heavy dialogues or speeches but actions, movements and use of diegetic sounds which will be expressed visually. The idea of using music to express the characters feeling and the mood of the scene came through an interest of Korean dramas. With the influence of Korean dramas, I came across a drama called “You’re beautiful” directed by Hong Sung Chang, where music is used in the drama to express a characters feeling, not only this but also a skill of approaching to another character without the use of dialogues but music. This type of technique has been used throughout most of the 16 episodes. After watching this drama and impressed with the sound being used, I wanted to explore a similar technique for my production work but rather than singing a song, I have gone for just music instrument on its own without vocals. As an audience point of view, watching the korean drama “You’re beautiful”, I was able to feel the atmosphere of the scenes more stronger with the music being played by the characters. It makes the scene more realistic and puts the audience mind more into the story and gives the audience a rough guide of how or what the characters emotion is saying or feeling.

To conclude my sound design for my production work, I have attached a few clip examples from the Korean drama “You’re Beautiful” of how the sounds were used in the drama.

(please refer to portfolio for full analysis and annotation)

Music Video



Example Clip of "The Killa" Short Movie

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

"What happens when you sleep?"



Paranornal Activity, a similar concept to A Blair Wtich Project and Cloverfield, all uses handhel cameras as to produce a sort of documentary feeling, which gives a more realistic sense and taste to the film. However, Paranormal Activity is based on a real life case study and being told it is "real life", people would definitely want to see this film and explore how scary this world is and what they might be missing.

It is very simple and basic, a couple filmed themselve due to the girlfriend, Katie, who have been having disturbing moments when she goes to sleep as if a ghost/demon is following her each night. Using the camera, they were able to film what is going on each night as they go to sleep and if there is actually something in the room or house that is haunting Katie and her life.

After hearing many stories about this film, with ongoing comments about how scary it is and how people screamed in the cinema, I, myself wanted to go and experiement the tension and excitment the audience had. To my surprise, it was a huge dissapointment and towards the end of the film I felt dizzy and sick due to the handheld camera and alot of moving around with the camera was going on, I couldn't bare it.



The film dragged on very long and it was in a very a slow pace, which slowly took my attention away and I wasn't focusing anymore, especially with the seasick feeling wasn't helping either. Throughout the film, creepy things would happen but only bits by bits, nothing major until the end, where it was the most scariest and jumpy out of the whole film. Other than that, there wasn't much tense built around the film.

The film was suppose to bring a full horror atmoshphere but instead, it felt more like a horror comical combined together as the main character Micah, was being a comdian throughout the film towards his girlfriend, Katie. The only part I look forward to during the film was the bedroom scene when they couples go to sleep. Firstly, because the camera is on a tripod so it was still and the other reason is, it is the only interesting part of the film as action and freaky-doing takes place. You'll see unknown shadow figures, door closing and opening, bedsheets being slide away and what freaks me out the most is when Katie gets drag away from her bed.

Overall, the film does contain spooky and freaky-doings that would totally give you the shiver. However, because of the long pause and unneccessary parts, the tension fades away before another disturbing image/prescene occured.

Task: To reenact a scene from any film. Shooting the scene within exact shots, angles and acting/dialogues.

As part of the assignment, me and my group has reenact the a selected scene form the film Shes The Man, starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. Each participated different roles on set to complete the task and below shows the finishing of the assignment/task.

Shes The Man [Original]

(starting from 3:40)

Shes The Man [Reenact]


Quick Peek:

THE PROPOSAL

"Here comes the bribe..."



If you're a fan of chick flick film, this is one to watch. Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, both creating a comedy and drama film leaving you in tears of laughter. Bullock and Reynolds play well off each other, and generate some major laughs throughout the film. However, The Proposal is exactly what you expect it to be, then again maybe it’s not. All the usual romantic comedy clichés are present and all the usual characters are too.

Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a tough New York City book editor feared and disliked by her employees, who've secreted dubbed her Satan's Mistress. Reynolds is Andrew Paxton, who has been her slave, er, assistant, for three years without any time off. When the Canadian-born Margaret's visa renewal is denied she forces Reynolds to marry her in order to avoid deportation. He agrees with the caveat that he 1) will get promoted to book editor and 2) they publish his novel and 3) he gets to take his first ever time off - going home to Alaska for his grand-mother's 90th birthday.

With doubting immigration officials watching their move, Margaret goes home with him but this city girl quickly finds herself out of place in the small urban town. Then there's the added pressure of sharing a bedroom and pretending to be engaged in front of his doting family. Naturally they begin to fall in love.

Overall, the film is pretty much predicatable and the sort of film you would state as a chick flick film with the love, romance, comedy, drama and good looking characters too. Something you would find in almost every chick flick films.

DRAG ME TO HELL

"Even nice people can go to hell"



Drag Me To Hell, a horror film directed by Sam Raimi who explores the film with death through cursing from one person to the other. Christine Brown, a working class lady dying to impress her boss with the promotion of an assistant manager meets a client during work. An old lady approaches her and begs for help to save her home where she has been living for over 30 years. Despite Christine trying to impress her boss, she rejects the old lady and refuses to help as they couldn't do anything else. However, after rejecting the poor old lady, the old lady started to curse Christine and horrbile things started to happen.

I feel like Sam Raimi has returned to the fold and raised the bar yet again for anyone making contemporary horror movies, creating what could be described as a refresher course in how to craft a fantastically scary film, without resorting to nasty tactics.

The performances are uniformly excellent and the casting, as with most of Raimi's films, is perfect. The make-up on Lorna Raver who plays the old lady, Sylvia Ganush was astonishing and really freaks people out just with the look of it from head to toe, including the scary old and yellow finger-nails. It may be a bit exageratting, however it worked totally great throughout the film as it does cause jumpy parts towards to audience especially with close-ups and unexpected picture frames of Sylvia Ganush, the image of her causes the horror throughout the film.

I find the film fairly interesting as every scenes catches my attention with drama inside and exciting storylines. There wasn't a scene that drifted me away and leave me off to somewhere else. The film jumps from one plot to another without having too much unnecessary scenes, this makes the film just full of horror as you don't have time to sit and relax after one horror to the other.

Overall, the film fits in its catergory and theme of horror and thriller. However, the only dissapointment was the ending as it was pretty much predictable to the audience and 15 minutes before the ending it already gave out the answer of how the ending would be and who will die towards the end. But you just have to watch it to the end to see how the person dies in the final scene.