The different sites and their functions

https://www.facebook.com

Function: Facebook  is a social media platform, meant for the ages 13 years and up. it’s purpose is to connect friends, family  and strangers on global scale. This link  between  people can be achieved by its messenger (and there Group chats especially), the posts made by  Facebook friends and the overall community is inspired by the groups and pages it has to  has to offer. Facebook  goes out of its way to cater the best it can to every user.

Graphic style: Facebook has a very  contemporary style, having a blue and white colour scheme, complimenting a website clear to read and well-organised in nature. the white takes up the majority of the screen, with the blue banner up the top.

Contextual awareness: Facebook is highly user-friendly, your list of lists of friends comes with people you may know, pages and posts they like and requests for games or apps they  may use. Advertisements for the right time, place and specific to the data Facebook has gathered about you,  they achieve this via the “reacts” on the posts, be they advertisements or from different pages. They then suggest posts to  you, coaxing you  to like more pages and express more of your interests.

Structure Templates:  Facebook is organised very well, it has posts from  your Facebook friends down  the middle, a list  of friends  and additional  features and settings to the right-hand side.

 

https://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.imdb.com

Websites; what and how

https://www.doritos.co.uk

This is the official website for the brand of tortilla chips, known as “Doritos”. The colour scheme and slogan  go  hand in  hand, as it suggests it is “FOR THE BOLD’, as the textures features smooth black background with a sharp orange colouring on top of that, being relatively simple. The logo on top of that makes it clear to the visitors, or more specifically to new potential buyers of their product. Without the logo, the website would seem incomplete, because it’s use on  the page utilises the brand name to the utmost capacity of professionalism. A video above the logo is about the two new competing flavours, and the one which won, once again telling the visitors of the page more of the what they all about.

Silent film notes for 4/1/17

• Silent film is an oxymoron;
• The silent film  era is from 1895 to 1929;
• Silent films were for the working class people, who were illiterate, saw this as ideal, easy-to-access entertainment;
• In 1900, it approached being for the middle class, having the films based on novels, because they could read;
• The films industry was evenly spread over Italy, France and the United States;
• Due to the effect of the First World War, the US had the upper hand in  the industry, as the studios had been flattened in France and Italy by the bombing;
• From 1907 to  1913, the US film industry moved from New York to LA, due the weather being sunny, therefore providing better lighting. this became known as Hollywood;
•  Movements in this era include German Expressionism, which  came from Berlin, from  a mega studio called UFA;
• Bold costumes, bold make-up, melodramatic, mise-en-scene that is psychologically expressive, clothes that tell you about a character, just by what they are wearing;
• Soviet montages that use different shot types and dynamic juxtaposition for an intellectual and emotional response, changing the mind of the viewer and making them think;
• French Avant-garde, which  is influenced by  surrealism and dadaism, in which there would likely be a non-native dreamscape, using symbolism (semiotics) to  externalise psychology of character.
• Danced was used as another method as expression.

 

Chaplin

• Starred in and created a short called “The Tramp”;
• The costume featured baggy  trousers, bowler hat, oversized shoes, a suit, a cane and a cropped moustache;
• Character was clear, courageous, ingenious, romantic, vulnerable, socially awkward;
• Chaplin would criticise authority.

 

Buster Keaton

• Vaudeville;
• Philosophical humour, always being in grave danger, in which  catastrophic action  threatens life;
• he performed his own  stunts, very precisely timed and rehearsed, being actually in danger in real life;
• A famous film of his was “The General”, did well years after it was made, as it was a box office flop.

 

Harold Lloyd

• Character wore round glasses, straw hat and an unkempt suit;
• “Fool & Fox”;
• Outsmart the bad guy just in time;
• Once the Talkies arrived, he carried on and continued to be successful;
• Used perspective in his films, for example in his film “Clock”;
• Died 23 years after his last feature.

 

Silent films are shot at 16 fps, 25 fps being that of video, 24 fps being that of film.

Film can be shot at 24 fps and in  colour and be made into 16 fps and in monochrome.

 

Research

1. Watch Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Chaplin.
2. watch film without sound, as we are telling a story with pictures alone.
3. Use camera phone to capture stills.
4. Look at some French mime.

 

Story

1. No dull shots.
2. Instead use movement, gesture and dance, more physical forms of expression. dance would display an air of romance.
3. Smaller movements are important, the subtle movement of eyebrow or a smile or the wrinkle of the nose.
4. Actors with diverse look, using their body  and face.
5. Location, noise is not an issue, so  it can be however loud as possible. But, it has to be interesting.
6. Cinematography, black and white, tinting (sepia). Embrace the fantastic.
7. Edit, titling, which  helps with the chronology  of the piece and the pace is also important.

Secondary research- Silent film

To begin  this new project, here are the selection of genres for the silent film:

Action /adventure:

These films focus on the thrills and the excitement behind the adventure.

Comedy:

These films focus on  getting on laugh by  any means, be that with custard pies or other forms of physical humour.

Crime:

Films that focus on  robberies, murders, conspiracies. focussing mainly on  either criminal or the detective.

Drama:

Tragedies and melodrama, saddening or heartwarming this is what belong to a drama.

Horror:

Films that focus on  the disturbing and the frightening.

Romance:

A story  of love, where a mutual affection between  two lovers is all about the story.

Romantic comedy: 

Once again  a story  of love, affection and sweetness, but with crazy and humorous moments alongside the romance.

Serial: 

Story of multiple parts of any genre, be that comedy, horror or adventure. Nonetheless, a tale of suspense, that keeps people hooked.

War:

These films either focus on  war itself, or its effects back home.

Western:

Films about gunslingers, stands-offs at high noon, horses and cowboys. Stories that are set  in the old west.