Entry 4- Web of Lies
We watched an award winning short film noir called, Web of Lies.
Story Plot:
The story plot was similar to of a normal film noir story. However, in this film, there wasn't a femme fatale. The basic outline of the story is: The man tries to convince this woman to run away with him because the "boss" is planning evil on the woman. However, the woman says that that can't be true and goes to stage. The man gets hit in the head by an unknown person and wakes up in an interrogation room. He is investigated by the detective asking if he killed the woman. The detective gives him a chance to run away. At the train station, he meets the woman, and it turns out that the detective is the woman's father. The man and the woman run away together.
What I liked:
I really liked how the background music in the restaurant got muffled when the man entered the woman's waiting room. It kind of added a sense of reality to it. Usually, in films, when a character enters another room not far off from where the music source is, they just stop the music. However, by muffling out the music, it made the film scene transition a lot smoother.
At the first scene, when the man came down from the staircase, the lighting from the left side created a big shadow of the man on the wall. Since the shadow was bigger than the man, it kind of implied that he was fearing something. Shadows usually symbolise great distraught, or evil in films. I.e in the movie Princess and the Frog, the magicians bad sad was shown as the shadow, and the shadow was constantly bigger than him to show that the bad side ruled over him.
The close up shots used by the director showed a close detail on the characters facial expression. This allowed the viewers to see one's emotions. Especially in the scene where the guy is trying to convince the woman. Instead of using a medium shot to show the body movement and the face to portray one's feeling, the close-up shot allowed the viewers to see the guy's raw emotion, allowing us to see the sincerity he feels about wanting to save the woman.
The scene just before the woman goes off to the stage was good because the director shone a bright lighting on just the girl. This made the girl seem radiant and pure, heavily implying that she's good and evil. However, it also made it seem as if it was the girl's final moment, as high exposure usually relates to the afterlife.
When the guy was getting interrogated, the use of slight high to low angle and half shadow on the guy's face made him seem vulnerable. In addition, he was sitting down whilst the investigator was standing up, showing the power difference. The way the background is lit by fill light and the man's face is lit by direct harsh light creates a serious atmosphere as it puts a focus on the character's emotions.
I also really liked the last scene where there was a medium close up shot on the two lovebirds and the dad was seen at the back sorting out the dead body. It was liked showing two different occasions/ perspective at the same time? I would really like to use this for my film, where there's a heavy binary opposition between characters in one shot.
(P.S Did you know that you could just drag and drop to the blog entry instead of having to upload it? I tried it just now and yoooooooooooo)
Story Plot:
The story plot was similar to of a normal film noir story. However, in this film, there wasn't a femme fatale. The basic outline of the story is: The man tries to convince this woman to run away with him because the "boss" is planning evil on the woman. However, the woman says that that can't be true and goes to stage. The man gets hit in the head by an unknown person and wakes up in an interrogation room. He is investigated by the detective asking if he killed the woman. The detective gives him a chance to run away. At the train station, he meets the woman, and it turns out that the detective is the woman's father. The man and the woman run away together.
I really liked how the background music in the restaurant got muffled when the man entered the woman's waiting room. It kind of added a sense of reality to it. Usually, in films, when a character enters another room not far off from where the music source is, they just stop the music. However, by muffling out the music, it made the film scene transition a lot smoother.
At the first scene, when the man came down from the staircase, the lighting from the left side created a big shadow of the man on the wall. Since the shadow was bigger than the man, it kind of implied that he was fearing something. Shadows usually symbolise great distraught, or evil in films. I.e in the movie Princess and the Frog, the magicians bad sad was shown as the shadow, and the shadow was constantly bigger than him to show that the bad side ruled over him.
The close up shots used by the director showed a close detail on the characters facial expression. This allowed the viewers to see one's emotions. Especially in the scene where the guy is trying to convince the woman. Instead of using a medium shot to show the body movement and the face to portray one's feeling, the close-up shot allowed the viewers to see the guy's raw emotion, allowing us to see the sincerity he feels about wanting to save the woman.
The scene just before the woman goes off to the stage was good because the director shone a bright lighting on just the girl. This made the girl seem radiant and pure, heavily implying that she's good and evil. However, it also made it seem as if it was the girl's final moment, as high exposure usually relates to the afterlife.
When the guy was getting interrogated, the use of slight high to low angle and half shadow on the guy's face made him seem vulnerable. In addition, he was sitting down whilst the investigator was standing up, showing the power difference. The way the background is lit by fill light and the man's face is lit by direct harsh light creates a serious atmosphere as it puts a focus on the character's emotions.
I also really liked the last scene where there was a medium close up shot on the two lovebirds and the dad was seen at the back sorting out the dead body. It was liked showing two different occasions/ perspective at the same time? I would really like to use this for my film, where there's a heavy binary opposition between characters in one shot.
(P.S Did you know that you could just drag and drop to the blog entry instead of having to upload it? I tried it just now and yoooooooooooo)
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