Title: Titanic

Writer: James Cameron

Director: James Cameron

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher

July 24, 2014

We are discussing the categories of sound and the scene I chose is the shipwreck from the movie Titanic.

The first category is music. The music was composed James Horner. The music used for this scene was an orchestra, music used for this scene is very intense.

The second category is Dialogue, it is  written by the screenwriter, James Cameron. In this scene the ship’s crew spotted the iceberg and notified the captain. They tried real hard to turn the ship

around but didn’t succed. The ship crashed into the iceberg and slowly began to fill with water.

The third and final category is sound effects. This scene had a lot of unique sounds. For example, as the captain was turning the wheel, the effect used resembled foot steps. When the ship was pacing towards the iceberg they used a whistling sound to imitate the sound of the wind

and when the ship hit the iceberg there was a crunching sound.

These different types of sounds affected the audience in this scene, it showed the fear all the employees and passengers had at that moment. It is very heart pounding and difficult to watch.

The key category of sound being in the entire film is the groaning sound of the sinking, breaking vessel.

References:

American Film Institute AFI’s 10top10. Retrieved from http://www.afi.com/10top10.

Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs,C>P> (2011).Film:From Watching to Seeing. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

MovieClips.comRetrieved from http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3gNmTGu-TTbFPpfSs5KNkg.

Title: Scarface

Writer: Oliver Stone

Director: Brian De Palma

Year: 1983

Actors: Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer

Story:

In the scene where “Al Pacino (Tony Montana and Michelle Pfeiffer are at the night club, the director used traditional three point lighting, which is based on three primary sources of light, a bright key light and slightly dimmer fill light to the upper right and left sides of the camera”(Goodykoontz, & Jacob,2011). In this film lighting was very strong whereas low key lighting was barely used. The benefits of that style of lighting used was that by having bright and filler lights would help the audience feel how real the film was. Scarface scenes looked real.  For the scene where there are two kids and their mother, and Al Pacino was following their car that was going to be exploded the lighting had a glare but it was filmed outdoors. All other scenes had good three point lighting except at the end when Gina shots Tony Montana the scene is too dark and blurred. I Believe that the scene was perfect as it is and if there had been different choices made, it would have changed the whole movie and maybe the audience wouldn’t have cared too much for this movie.The graphic language used in this movie is what the audience critizise, The actors could have used less of those words and everything would have turned out fine. This film was and still is famous to a lot of people. It is a gangster movie genre.

References:

Scarface(1/8)movie clip-Political Prisoner (1983) H.D. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZgE_sUrXFY&list=PL9AC85FC3F15BF7A2

Goodykoontz,B.& Jacobs, C. P. (2011) Film from watching to seeing. San Diego,CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

Writer: Eric Roth

Director: Robert Zemeckies

Year: 1994

Actor: Tom Hanks

This film is about Forest Gump (Tom Hanks) telling his life story to an old woman at the bus stop and tells her that life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get. His story started with him and his best friend Jenny as children played together and helped each other. When other boys made fun of Forrest, Jenny would defend him or yelled for him to run, this is how Forrest having polio , while running  his braces fell and didn’t need them no more. Forrest Gump is a man with low I.Q.but he has good intentions towards everyone. In his story he explains how he joined the army and met two new friends Dan and Bubba. Forrest is a fast runner and inspires other people to run, He is a courageous man that proves at the end that love is very important, thinking of his first love as a child, (Jenny) who messed up her life as an adult.

This film is presented Chronologically, the scenes are arranged in chronological order, the audience loved this film, if the film had followed a different presentation style the audience would have been dissappointed and not cared so much for this film. This film was a winner of six Academy Awards including BEST PICTURE just the way it was written.

References:

Tom Hanks is Forrest Gump(1994)/Color 141 Min/US PG-13/CAN PG http://www.paramount.com/homevideo

MovieClips (1994) Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3gNmTGu-TTbFPpfSs5KNkg