Seven

Noir elements of opening:

Setting:

• Dark, cold setting made through dark lighting.
• The constant fact that it was raining created a certain grey and dark mood.
• The setting of the dark and abandonded buildings which are in dark cold nasty places helps create the setting in the film.

Characters:

• they are cold and bold.
• there vestiment is always the same, dark colours.
• the work in which the charcaters specialize is in violence and crime. this helps convey this dark mood.

Sound:

• Diagetic sounds - sirens wailing in the distance.

Summary of Notes:
        After seeing the beggining part of the movie, we can see the diffferent factors from the Noir movies and especially from seven. One of the main and most important factors that I took into hand was the blueish and cold lighting that the movie genre has. There are many contrasts in seven, one important and big one that is very obvious is the contrast between the new detective (brad pitt) and the old detective (morgan freeman.) we can see that brad pitt the new detective believes that the world can be saved and that crime can be stopped. he is always around and in bright lighting when he is alone. When the other detective there is always a dark and cold setting. One particular example is from the beggining of the movie. The office of the old detective before the new one moves in is cold and dark, but once the new detective occupies his office there is a sence of bright light. We can also see the effect of contrast between the two from the editing sequence that the editor uses. The editor switches between both characters which allowed the viewer to view and take in the contrast.
Also, the noir films concentrate and occur in dark and cold themes. These movies are set in a world with no MORALITY and with no hope. It is a world  full of crime of violence resulting in an dead end street for the detectives.
Another Noir theme that is very typical in the Noir movies is showing the presence of a maze, something that can trap you and lead to dead ends. Things that can lead you to having no hope, no morality and live in a world full of crime and death. One clear example of a maze is from when the old detective goes to the library to investigate on the seven killings that he believes will occur. The director shoes how there is a precense of a maze from when the detective is looking for the books that he wants. The long lines of never ending books and the same basic shelves that are repeated and repeated. The representation of a world of repetition of repeating crime and death.
Another theme that appears is the shot of a headline or a news report which lets the viewer know what has happened or is going to happen. It lets us advance through time faster and easier. There are clear examples of this when the murder of the attorney occured (2nd killing.)
Another theme that we could see is the gluttany of the victims house, all the colors of the victims house were cold and dark. Showing no sign of life. Non-Diagetic sounds, loud high pitched noises and sounds of doom and evil are key examples of the noir film mood represented in the film.


       

Textual Analysis - Pulp Fiction

BLOG OF NOTES

-THE CHARACTERS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THE SCENE ARENT YOUR TYPICAL CHARACTERS. THEY ARE IN SOME CASE OUTCASTS, (MANY EARINGS AND DRUG ADDICTS.)
-IRONY OF THE PERSON SAYING TO STEP INTO HIS OFFICE WHEN ITS HIS ROOM AND HE IS IN HIS PIJAMAS.
-THE NARRATIVE DRIVE AND THE MAIN IMPORTANT THING IS THE DRUG THAT VINCENT VEGA HAD IN HIS COAT IN WHICH HE LATER PICKS UP MARCELLAUS WALLACES WIFE. THIS DRUG IS A KEY THING IN LATER SCEENS. TARANTINO HAS A TENDENCY TO DO THIS. 
- WE CAN ALSO SEE THE USES OF LIGHTING SHOWS THE MOOD OF THE CHARACTER WHEN HE IS UNDER THE EFFECT OF DRUGS AND WHEN BEFORE HE CONSUMES THE DRUG. THE LIGHTING IN THE SCEENE WHEN HE BUYS THE DRUG IS COMPLETELY AND PERFECTLY LIGHTED, BUT WHEN WE START TO SEE THE DRUG KIT AND VINCENT UNDER THE EFFECTS, WE GET SLOW MUSIC WITH DARK COLORS. THESE DARK COLORS COULD RESPRESENT THE WORLD OF THESE DRUG/OUTCAST PEOPLE AND HOW THEIR WORLD IS DANGEROUS AND SCARY.
-THE PRESENTATION OF THE DRUGS BEFORE THEY WERE CONSUMED WAS THAT THEY WERE IN THIS PERFECTLY LIGHTED AMBIENT, THIS SHOWS THAT TARANTINO IS TRYING TO SHOW THAT ITS NOT BAD OR THAT ITS COOL. THE WAY THE SHOTS OF THE DRUG KIT ARE OPENED AND USED IS SHOWED AS IN SOME WAY A TEMPTATION, TRYING IN SOMEWAY TO WANT YOU TO TRY IT,
-THE CLOSE-UPS AND SLOW MOTION SHOTS OF VINCENT ONCE UNDER THE EFFECTS IS SHOWING HOW HE ENJOYS IT AND THE SLOW MOTION FACIAL ACTING WORKS PERFECTLY.  

TASK 2:

-THE FALL OF MARCELLUS WALLACE (A GANGSTER BOSS) MANY CRIMINAL MOVIES ARE ABOUT THE RISE OR FALL OF AN IMPORTANT GANGSTER/LEADER OF A VIOLENT, CRIME ORGANISED GROUP. IN THIS CASE; MARCELLUS WALLACE HAD HIS FALL WHEN HE AND THE BOXER WERE CAUGHT BUY TWO PERVERTS WHICH RAPED MARCELLUS. AFTER THAT MARCELLUS WENT PRETTY MUCH DOWNHILL.
-STREET-GANGSTERS: IN GANGSTER MOVIES, THE STREET-GANGSTERS WHICH USUALLY WORK FOR THEIR BOSS ARE MATERIALISTIC, STREET SMART AND INMORAL. AlTHOUGH THE STREET GANGSTERS IN THIS MOVIE LIKE VINCENT FOLLOW TO A CERTAIN EXTENT THESE RULES, I BELIEVE THAT TARANTINO CHANGED UP THE RULES FOR HIS CRIME MOVIE AND MADE IT SO HIS CHARACTERS HAD DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE QUALITIES THAT STAND OUT FROM THE REST.
-THE RIVALRY PLOT: LIKE EVERY GANGSTER ORGANIZATION, THEY HAVE A CERTAIN WAY OF MAKING MONEY, JUST LIKE MARCELLUS WALLACE IN WHICH CREATES ONE OF THE 2 PLOTS IN THE MOVIE WHEN HIS DEAL WITH BUCH IS TERMINATED AFTER FAILING TO LOOSE A FIGHT. THESE FIGHTS AND SHOOTINGS THAT BOTH CHARACTERS HAD TOGETHER, IS VERY MUCH LIKE THE TIPICAL FIGHT SCENES THAT THERE ALWAYS IS.

Production Journal - Week 10

After this weeks hard work, toto prodctions has came to a great advance in its post-film prodction. After passing over the film from the camera, the group divided the film shots and labeled them each with the different names that corresponded to them. This is helpfull due to the fact that later in the editing process, the editior doesnt take forever to find a certain clip. we also started transcribing and jotting down the shots that we are going to use in cronological order. Friday of Week 10, toto prodctions presented the 1st draft of the documentary to the executive producer and after showing it we discussed the futur changes that we could make to have it be better. We decided on making it shorter since it was too long and mixing in more B-roll in the film durring VO.