tyche
American beauty
American beauty
analysis
Summary
Carolyn and Lester are eating dinner as usual, though Lester eats with much more gusto than we saw earlier. Jane walks in and apologizes for being late. Carolyn, speaking in an almost hysterically upbeat tone, suggests that Lester tell Jane about his day at work. He cheerily tells his daughter that today he quit and blackmailed his boss for almost sixty thousand dollars. Lester and Carolyn then begin to fight viciously, Lester greeting Carolyn's belittling statements with sarcasm and vitriol of his own. Carolyn keeps trying to stress Lester's irresponsibility while Lester asks her repeatedly to pass the asparagus, commenting in between requests that he already has another job. When Jane tries to leave, Lester shouts at her to "sit down!" Shocked at this new side of her father, Jane sits, and both Jane and Carolyn stare at Lester. Lester then gets up, walks to the other end of the table, picks up the asparagus platter, and returns to his seat. He calmly and clearly states, "I'm sick and tired of being treated like I don't exist." When Carolyn interrupts him and continues to rant, Lester stands up, smiles, and throws the asparagus platter against the wall. This dramatic act has the intended effect: Carolyn shuts up. Lester pleasantly tells Carolyn not to interrupt him, and then sits down and continues to eat his dinner. After a pause, he tells Carolyn that they're going to start alternating their dinner music.
In this task we broke down and analyzed the dinner scene from American beauty looking at things like mise en scene, cinematography, etc.; how they affect the scene and convey the narrative within it.
how this scene shows Lester's shift in character and how that new dynamic is represented within the cinematography.
independent scene analysis
For this task i reviewed the in another life scene from the film everything everywhere all at once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert released in 2022. i analysed the textural analysis of the film and the visual production.
Remaking American beauty
In this exercise we storyboarded and recreated the dinner scene from American beauty. we filmed in the callywith studio with a cannon 80D, rode mic, libec tripod, and a apsc camera lens. we spent around 45 minutes shooting the scene in the studio, capturing as much as we could. we went for the aesthetic of a cheap, simple props and lighting, as we had effectively no budget.
Pre production paperwork
Treatment
Recce
Storyboard
Risk assessment
This is the paperwork involved in the pre production of the scene recreation for American beauty. The treatment involved givng a synopsis of the scene, describing the comparison between the original scenes astetic and our re creations astetic and purpose. the storyboard is a scanned in version of a storyboard we made to plan the scenes we needed to produce the final product of the scene.
Shot list
The editing
The finished piece
induction evaluation
single camera tecniques
A single-camera setup is a method of filmmaking and video production where only one camera is used to shoot at a time.
in this exercise we took some single camera pictures in varying shot types, which can be seen in the gallery.
a broad verity of shot types are demonstrated, including: wide shot, close up, pov shot, birds eye view, mid shot, cut away, over the shoulder, Dutch canter, and an extreme wide.
the shots were used to put focus on the subjects of the image and, in a few, location.
