Long Take Shots

Definition on a “Long take”

Anything significantly longer than the norm (for its time and place.

E.g. In the 1940s anything over 9 seconds long is considered a long take. à “9 Lives”, “The rope” movies

Deep focus photography

Is where you get the background, middle ground and the frontal ground all in focus. Keeps several planes of shot in focus at the same time.

It is done so that it allows several actions to be filmed at the same time. And it is used in combination with long takes, so decreasing need of editing.



It is used so that they can be various actions happening at the same time and that they are connected in a way and that they make sense.It is combined with long take shots to decrease the level of editing used, so that it is cheaper and easier.

Positive	Negative
Can show many actions happening at the same time.	You can get distracted and not watch a detail as many things are happening.
Less editing used as there are less cuts and shots.	Audience may get bored
Symmetry of scene	Slow shots, more action needed
Establishing and action shot all in once	If actors confuse or ruin the scene they have to start it all over again.
Economical	Suffocating for the audience
No extensive camera movement	A bit monotonous
Audience not distracted when camera is no t moving so they focus at the principal act.	Make feel the audience not involved
Audience feel like they are there and that they can’t do anything, feelings involved.	It can feel as if it one long establishing shot.
No distractions, it focuses attention and ideas about the story.
Emphasises that it is like a reality film show, very similitude (looks as it is real)
Actors are more involved in their part. They are able to develop their characters in real life.
It is clearer for the audience, simple film. Audience feel respected, not manipulated as they don’t have to be so focused on the film.
No sense on no escape.

External analysing:

·        Who made it?

Steven Spielberg and it was based in the novel which was written by Michael Crichton. He is Jewish, and he is very pro in the Jewish course.

·        When?

The movie was made on 1993, but release 11^th June of 1993.

·        Why did he/she make it?

Because before making another movie he needed to do Jurassic park because he needed to create a good reputation as a producer so that he would won money.

“He knew that once I had directed Schindler I wouldn't be able to do Jurassic Park.” Spielberg said.

·        Who is the intended audience?

Pg 13 intended for a wide audience.

·        What is our engagement with the film?

It doesn’t have any political intended. One of the most important films made of the CGI

·        Who financed/produced the film?

Universal studio as they paid Crichton a further $500,000 to adapt his own novel, the also spent $65 million on the marketing campaign for Jurassic Park, making deals with 100 companies to market 1,000 products. Movie studios have a lot of power in movies.

·        Who really called the shots (control)?

Steven Spielberg

·        What tradition is it in (genre)?

Set in a very familiar environment, mixture of science fiction with action. Monster (such as king kong), adventure. See scientists as heroes.

• Connections:
• I am legend

·        Social cultural concept: at 1993 people start worrying about the earth, pollution starts, global warming, SAVE THE EARTH motions. Film shows that the world is in danger for messing with nature. It shows how much more we care about money (capitalism) than we care of nature

Almost a billion dollars. More Jurassic park movies were made and it was a huge franchise.

• Other movies of spilberg:

E.T

Jaws

Back in the future

Jurassic Park

Duel (spilberg’s calling card)

Indiana jones

Description and analysis of Jurassic Park

Film making technique	Analysis of effects in filmed scene
Camera angles	1.The samara is quite a long way back at first. 2. Starts zooming into one of the cars. 3. Camera is going closer to the character. 4. When the dinosaur is shown the camera angle is from down to show the size compared to the people. 5. Focused at the character eyes and then they show us what the character is seeing as a point of view as if we were him, and show us all Jurassic park. 6. Two bright red cars in middle of a green field with a couple of tall trees. The cars where far away.
Lighting – interior, exterior, etc	Natural lighting
Sound – digestic (from the setting of the film) or non digestic (sound track, music, etc.	1. Non digestic sound, classical music. 2. The opening sense with music. 3. Then you start hearing the cars. 4. Music of wonder when they realize there is a dinosaur next to them 5. the music becomes more aggressive and fast as they get closer to the place where dinosaurs are created
Framming of shot /composition	1. Lot of verticals, for natural objects (trees). There are also ecos. 2. Deep green field. 3. When camera zooms in the sky changes, maybe the time of day has change.
Use of colour and lighting	1. Natural objects, mostly green alive colours. 2. Red is a colour of danger, love, passion, love. 3. Red is becoming more seen so the sense of danger is more powerful.
Editing/time sequence	1. We’ve gone from long shot to close shot. 2. There are about 15 shots approximately. 3. Change of time when changing the shot. 4. The first around 4minutes happen in the same time, there is not a big difference between them.
View point – restricted (from the characters point of view) or omniscient(seeing things the characters can’t)	1. The face of the character is telling us that he is surprise, and as we don’t know what he is seeing because we can’t see it causes a feeling of tension. When he takes his sunglasses from his face it causes a bigger feeling of surprise as he wants to see everything clearer. 2. The women doesn’t sees the dinosaur first because she is distracted watching the map to create suspension and when she sees it and also surprises it’s a double effect. 3. We have different reactions from the characters. The park owner reacts he is happy to see the other characters surprised. He also seems proud because they always look for dinosaurs but they just see bones, the director uses their emotions to express that they are seeing their life dreams. 4. Another character jealous he is the realist of the film. 5. The accountant is also surprised because they will win a lot of money with the park. He is just thinking about money – different reaction. 6. They have mention the t-rex and that makes the audience to maintain interested in the movie. 7. There where some scientists in the cars and they want to host the park. The car stops and they see one dinosaur, they get out the car and get pretty close to the dinosaur, and didn’t bother at all as they come closer. The dinosaur stands in two legs to eat. The scientists are surprised because they have never seen a dinosaur before. High emotion in the scene, sense of wonder.

Film Questionnaire

1. How would you define a good film? 

A good film is the one that traps you in its story, and make you feel inside it by changing your emotions according to the successes of the movie. 

2. If you like a film, do other people have the right to tell you you’re wrong?

No, because every person have a different perspective as each person gets trapped in the movie for a different reasons, they get different emotions. It also depends if the person got trapped into the movie and totally got it and felt it, or if it did not.

3. How should people behave in the cinema?

Everyone should behave respectively as they should be consider in the audience which is watching  the movie as well. They should remain silent unless they are watching a comedy movie and they laugh as it is what the movie expects you to do.

4. Is film an art form? Explain your answer.

Of course, film is an art as it depends on other ways of arts also, such as music, performing, photography, etc. It is also an art because the writers and film makers must be creative which is the mean requirement of any art.

5. Who should get the final credit for a film, why?

I think everyone taking part in the movie should take credit but the main ones are: The editor and the director.

6. How many different roles can you think of in the making of a film?

There is a high variety of roles there are more than 20, as we have to consider the designers of costumes, filmmakers, producers, actors, etc. 

7. Is there a function of film?

Films can have different functions it depends on the gender of the movie. But it's main function is to transmit certain feelings or  pieces of information.

8. Why do people make films?

Their are different motives, to express their feelings, knowledge. Also because they do it as an art to gain money or show their interests.

9. Do film makers have a moral responsibility to their audiences?

Yes they should because if they want to produce a film for the world to see, they should be considerate with the audience and not show really strong things because some people might have strong reaction toward so hard images or scenes.