This is the movie 300. Despite this extract not having many cuts the editing is still very interesting. It has a lot of slow motion which exaggerates the uber killing power of Spartans. There are some cuts near the end of the clip which from close ups to over the shoulder shots of both king Leonidas and the Spartans and the enemy army. There is also a birds eye view shot down the cliff side to emphasize how greater fall it is. And there is a worms eye view for underneath the feet of the Persians as they are about to fall to create suspense about the impeding doom that becomes of them. This interests me as an editor because of the quick slow to regular motions this creates an amazing sense of how superior the Spartans are to the Persians in fighting ability with needing to say it.
1- Hand Gun 2-Radio 3-Bandage 4-Lighter these are our main two props that will be used in our film extract.
Characters costume:
Alex's costume will be a typical lone heroes clothing, he will be wearing a tank top which will be dirty because our film extract is more to the middle of the film where he escapes from a group of survivors and zombies who has been injured.
Set in a zombie Britain there’s a few survivors left in Cambridge and there isolated from each other. The remaining government workers send out a broadcast saying there’s a boat in Dover leaving in a two days time however there’s only 200 spaces left on the boat and the remaining spaces are allocated by a first come first served.
The hero in our story hears this just after he’s been forced to killed his only daughter after she had been infected but a lone zombie, he is just about to give up on life and commit suicide when he hears the broadcast and he decides he’s going to live for his daughter and so sets off for Dover, how ever groups of other survivors are killing other remaining survivors they encounter to increase their chances of escaping from Britain.
Our hero manages to join up with a group of survivors but he is forced to help kill other survivors which shows the dog eat dog world in its prime. They meet up with a large family, the group butcher them and take everything that could be considered valuable, the hero then sees a girl that reminds him of his daughter and he is disgusted with himself and decides to leave the group and continue alone but the group attack and he get hurt by them/injures himself while running he then stumbles into a room to hide while he recovers he then wakes up and he’s surrounded by infected, he has to fight his way out.
He then proceeds to go to Dover only to find the remains of the group being attacked by the infected he then run's to try and help them only to save the leader of the group who tried to kill our hero they then realise when they get into Dover their is one spot left on the boat and it is leaving in 3 minutes, the leader of the group tries to kill our hero but the infected are closing in on them and the boat they both race to the ship, almost their the group leader throws sand and pushes our hero into a building then goes to board the ship our hero makes it out as the ship is leaving only to realise he failed and him saving the group leader stopped him getting out what happens to our hero no one know.
(As our hero has fallen to his knee's and the ship sails away the camera zooms out to show a large amount of infected zombies walking towards him and fades out - making a possible for a sequel aswell as leaving the viewers with a cliff hanger not knowing what will happen next)
This is only the trailer but i really like how the director has chosen how to shot different parts in The Strangers this is really good because it creates tension which leaves the viewers shocked, i am very intrested in how one of the strangers is walking behind a character who is unaware that he is behind him, bits like this occur in the film and is really smart making The Strangers scary.
I also like how you never see the strangers face's leaving it to your imagination because they hide behind their masks until they capture the characters in the house and even at that point you only see shouts from bottom of the neck down. The scene is typical a house in a kind of foresty area on its own, making a obvious place were people would be murdered.
This is the opening scene of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Director: Steve Oedekerk.
After watching this i like the overall mise-en-scene in the mountians and a helicopter which sets an overall surrounding but it doesn't show an overall impression until you see Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey). I am also intrested in the choice of words used when characters are speaking to each other, its smart and funny. The choice of clothing Ace is wearing compared to the helicopter pilot is wearing shows that he stands out and is the main character, u can also tell this from his hair style because it also standards out.
Then it goes from the mountians to a temple of monks this is smart because monk temples are assocated with mountians and far away from civilization to reach enlightenment, i like this because the scenes link together very well.
