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Final Assig-World Cinema

Proposal

I would like to choose a topic about a 90’s film as my final assignment. Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is a French drama that is my topic I want to do in my final. This movie was previewed out on May 4th 1959 at Cannes then it is released on June 3rd 1959 in France. The story was inspired by Truffaut’s own early life. The reasons why I choose this topic are because it was a touching movie; I like this kind of movie that can influence my feelings. It was also is a very beautiful film, which shot in black and white in Paris in a chill season. Other than that, I like the style that Truffaut shot in some of the scene especially the final shot was special. It was a zoom in to a freeze frame, shows the character looking into the camera. I would like to take this film as my reference in the future and for my final assignment.

World Cinema: Term Paper

François Truffaut work in film life

The 400 blows is one of the great films in 50’s, it is a 1959 French drama film, and was directed by François Truffaut. It was François Truffaut’s first and most personal feature film that came from his own depressed childhood, so he bases Antoine (Jean-Pierre Leaud, the 14-year-old star) on himself, including in terms of appearance. It's also one of the most important and influential films ever made. This film is about a troubled youth growing up in Paris and apparently collides into a life of crime that helped define the new wave era in France; it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement.

The film's famous final shot is a zoom in to a freeze frame, to shows him (Antoine) looking directly into the camera. He just run away from a house of detention, and is on the beach, between the land and water, meaning between past and future. It is the first time he has seen the sea. In the film, for pure effect everything was adds to the impact of the final shot. We meet Antoine when he is in his early teens, and living with his mother and stepfather in a crowded walkup where they always busy of each other's way. The mother (Claire Maurier) is a blond who likes tight sweaters and is was distracted by poverty, by her bothersome son, and by an affair with a man from work. The stepfather (Albert Remy) is a nice enough sort, easy-going, and treats the boy in a friendly fashion although he is not deeply attached to him. Both parents are always away from home a lot, and don’t have the patience to pay close attention to the boy. They judge him by appearances, and by the reports of others who misunderstand him. To give agree with these issues, Antoine turns to a life with petty criminal activity and dreams of giving up school to start making a real living, he wants to get out of the city to see the ocean, something he has always dreamed of.

At school, Antoine’s teacher (Guy Decombie) has been typecast he as a troublemaker. When a pinup calendar is being passed from hand to hand, when it is in his hand the teacher noticed. The teacher ask him to stand in the corner, he makes faces to his classmates and writes a lament on the wall. Then, the teacher orders him to decline his offending sentence, as punishment. His homework is incomplete. Rather than return to school without it, he skips. His excuse is that he was sick. After his next absence, he says his mother has died. When his mother appears at his school, he is named as a liar.

The boy finally quits school after being caught by his teacher that he plagiarizing Balzac’s essay. To more trouble and eventually to a downward spiral, he and a friend steal a typewriter from his stepfather work place to finance his plans to leave home, he gets caught while trying to return the typewriter and he is sent to the juvenile detention home.

In this film, his parents left him at the mercy of social services because they said “If he came home, he would only run again”. When he was put in a police wagon with prostitutes and thieves and wants to be driven through the dark streets of Paris, his face looking out through the bars and looks very depressed and he cried. At this part it was very touching, the expressions of his sadness and disappointed can felt.

Bicycle thieves

          This movie is given an name of Oscar in 1949, usual voted one of the greatest films of all time, admire as one of the start of Italian neorealism, it is a simple, powerful film about a man who needs a job. In addition, what we collect from these entries is that De Sica and his writer were finding inspiration close to the ground in those days right after the war, when Italy was paralyzed by poverty.

The story of the Bicycle thieves is simple to understand. Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani), a man who every morning joins a hopeless queue to looking for a job. One day there is a job for a man with a bicycle. His wife Maria (Lianella Carell) strips the sheets from their bed, and he is able to pawn them to redeem a bicycle.

The bicycle allows Ricci to go to work as a poster-hanger, to paste the cinema advertisements on walls. Maria, meanwhile, goes to thank the Wise Woman, who predicted that her husband would get a job. Ricci, waiting for her impatiently, finally he leaves his bicycle at the door while he climbs upstairs to see what's his wife doing; De Sica is make fun of us, since we expect the bike could be gone when Ricci returns, and it's still there.

Then, of course, it is stolen. Ricci and his son Bruno (Enzo Staiola) search for the bicycle, but that's an impossible task in the bigger of Rome, and the police are no help. Finally Ricci gives up and he tells Bruno "You live and suffer". Then, in a scene of great cheer, they eat in a restaurant, Bruno even allowed drinking a little wine; the boy looks wistfully at a family eating platters of pasta, and is told by his father, "To eat like that, you need a million lira a month at least."

After awhile, Ricci saw the bicycle thief, and pursues him into a whorehouse. When they arguing, a cop arrives, but can do nothing, because there is no proof and only Ricci is witness. Then, in the famous closing sequence of the movie, Ricci is convinced to steal a bicycle by himself, is a continuing the cycle of theft and poverty.

 The different between the 400 blows and bicycle thieves       

The 400 blows is a French New Wave venerable classic that was relation to personal influence and filming technique. In 1945, the Italian film industry experienced economic and political crisis. However, experienced Italian filmmakers, such as Vittorio De Sica like bicycle thieves generated the idea to work outside of studios and reflect the effects of World War II in their films. This movement became as Italian Neorealism. The Bicycle Thief is mostly about looking for a stolen bike, with nice little human moments thrown in. This movie managed plan careful to give the Bicycle Thief its realistic look. Especially, crowd scenes were meticulously staged and drilled, including one for which director Vittorio De Sica hired 40 street vendors. The Roman fire department provided a "surprise" rainstorm for another scene. In addition, De Sica shot with as many as six cameras at once to get the untrained actors' spontaneous performances from several angles. The 400 Blows is about adventures of a kid who just can't get any respect from adults. Neither of these films is sentimental, but rather just shows people how they are. The 400 Blows is more entertaining overall. Neither movie is optimistic in regard to the characters, but The 400 Blows is less of a downer.

The 400 blows

-          In the ending, the famous and special final shot is a zoom in to a freeze frame, to shows him (Antoine) looking directly into the camera.

-          In this film, François Truffaut use a lot of Hitchcock’s style, who was his favorite filmmaker.

-          Both parents are busy to their work, and don’t have time to pay close attention to the boy.

-          Antoine’s parents don’t understand him and they also don’t believe him.

-          Antoine’s parents are not care enough to him, so he tries to do something not good to attract their attention.

-          In this movie, it shows violent. Antoine’s stepfather would slap hard on his face and he easy get angry when Antoine do something wrong.

-          The only happy moment that Antoine with his family is when they together going to cinema watch movie.

-          They not even sit down and listen or let Antoine speak out his feeling. When they noticed he skip school and lying, they just scold him strictly.

-          No one was respect and care his feeling.

-          He has a dream, and he wants to start making a real living, he tried get out of the city to see the ocean, something he has always dreamed of.

Bicycle thieves

- In the end, there is different from the 400 blows. The final shot is the camera man takes Antonio and his son Bruno’s back walk on the busy street. Slowly, we cannot see them anymore because they were into the crowd.

-     -     The film's final shot of Antonio and Bruno walking away from the camera into the distance is a respect to many Charlie Chaplin films, who was De Sica favorite filmmaker.

-       -   In this film, Ricci is an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, he wants to gets a good job but he have to needs a bike for hanging up posters.

-       -   But on his first day of work, the bicycle is stolen. He and his son explore working-class Rome looking for their bike and in search of the thief, who always seems a few steps ahead of him.

-       -   Ricci finally manages to find and caught the thief but with no proof, so he has to abandon his result. But he and his son know well that without a bike, Ricci won't be able to keep the job.

-         - In bicycle thieves, there have shows a family love where in the 400 blows don’t have that love or relationship. When Ricci noticed his bike has been stolen, he and his son Bruno keep finding the bike, Ricci will always look back and waiting for his son because his son was very tired and getting slowly. This part shows concern of a fatherly to his son.

-         - When suddenly, Ricci saw a lot of people ran to the lake because has a boy was drowning and he thought might is his son, so he quickly go and see. He was very worried his son safety.

-         - This film can be successful was the writers and director focus on some universal truths, it were about human nature, love, pride, survival and family values.

François Truffaut

François Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, film critic, and also one of the founders of the French New Wave. Other than that, he became familiar with American cinema and directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray, especially the British director Alfred Hitchcock.

                                                   

Truffaut was born in Paris on 6 February 1932 and he began to hard-working go to the movies at 7. He was also a great reader but not a good student. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who becomes his protector. Bazin helped illicit of Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he wastes the army. In 1953, he published his first movie critiques in "Les Cahiers du Cinema." In 1954, Truffaut directed his first short film.

He also directed Les Mistons (1957), considered the real first step of his cinematographic work. The other big year was 1959, the huge success of his first full-length film The 400 Blows (1959) It was the beginning of the new wave, a new way of making movies in France. This was also the birth year of his first daughter Laura Truffaut.

From 1959 until his death, François Truffaut's life and films are mixed up. Truffaut (1984) died of a brain tumor, at 52, but he left behind 21 films (not include shorts and screenplays). Truffaut was the most popular and successful French film director ever. His main themes were passion, women, childhood and faithfulness.

Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica was born into poverty in Sora, Lazio (7 July 1901). He was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. His favorite filmmaker was Charlie Chaplin. He grew up in Naples, and he started as an office clerk in order to earn money to support his poor family. He was increasingly good in acting, and made his screen debut when teens and he joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful performance idol of the Italian theatre, and repeated that achievement in Italian movies, mostly light comedies.

He turned to directing in 1940, making comedies in a similar way, but with his fifth film The Children Are Watching Us (1944), he revealed before unsuspected depths and an extraordinarily sensitive touch with actors, especially children. It was also the first film he made with the writer Cesare Zavattini who make Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948). Bicycle Thieves  was a heartbreaking study of poverty in postwar Italy which won special Oscars before the foreign film category was officially established. Then, Bicycle Thieves was also cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history.

In addition, he loves gambling. Because of it, he often lost large sums of money and accepted his work that might not otherwise have interested him. He never kept his gambling as a secret from anyone; in fact, he projected it on characters in his own movies, like Count Max (which he acted in but did not direct) and The Gold of Naples.

After the box-office drop of Umberto D. (1952), he returned to directing lighter work, he appearing in front of the camera more frequently. Although Yesterday, Today and tomorrow (1963) won him another Oscar, but it was generally accepted his career as one of the great directors was over. However, just before he died he made The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), which won him another Oscar, and his final film was A Brief Vacation (1973). Vittorio De Sica died at 73 after a surgery of removal a cyst from his lungs.

 Confidentially Yours

              Confidentially Yours is a 1983 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is based on the novel The Long Saturday Night, by the American author Charles Williams, and it was Truffaut's last film. Other than that, the film had a total of 1,169,635 admissions in France and was the 39th highest grossing film of the year.

The premise of the film is simple. Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a luckless businessman who is under suspicion for murdering his wife and her lover but his smart and beautiful secretary Barbara (Fanny Ardant), who is hopelessly in love with her boss, and tries to solve the murder and prove his innocence while Varcel spends most of the film hiding in a basement store room in his office. From the film's first sequence, showing Barbara walking to work with a happy step, the film puts a new twist on Truffaut's usual man-woman plots. The relationship that livens up the film isn't between the leads. It's between Ardant and Truffaut's admire camera. She's not just the film's centerpiece; she's its reason for being. 

Confidentially Yours is a romance, comedy, murder movie that was the last film Truffaut made. Francois Truffaut was love for the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Then, it should be no surprise to find Truffaut paying respect to the "Master of Suspense". He likes many of Hitchcock's films it mixes murder with humor, with the two leads misunderstanding each other, a good deal of misdirection, and everything turning out okay and he was using Hitchcock style in his film.

In addition, the film belongs to Ardant. She's a tall, leggy actress with a strong face who strides along with confidence and seems to look upon life's mysteries with humor and a little skepticism. She's great in this film. Twenty years later, in middle age playing a wordly aristocrat in Ridicule, she proves she hasn't lost a thing.Confidentially Yours won't be added to any list of Truffaut's great films, but it is a very undertaken and enjoyable piece of work. If you like Truffaut, Ardant or Hitchcock, its well takes your time to watch.

This movie does seem like a "real" Hitchcock movie but it doesn't have a certain feeling to it. We are watching a "forgery" in a sense. Truffaut, for however talented he may be, he can't really pull this off completely.  Confidentially Yours is a fun, and exciting entertainment by one of the greatest French directors of all time. It just can't really hold up to Hitchcock classics like "Rear Window", "North by Northwest", and "The Birds.

At first, the story line gets too complicated to follow, and coincidences occur left and right, but Truffaut by this point he was only interested in making good entertainments and in that he was succeeded admirably. 

Compare or the improvement of Francois Truffaut previous and latest movie

First, the main differences between Truffaut previous movie and latest are the use of camera movements and angles. Although Renoir had made a resourceful and fresh use of traveling and long takes, Truffaut masters this technique as anyone else does. The camera was moves smoothly; it nearly swings or floats from angle to angle following an action. Truffaut enjoys playing around with the camera: extremely long takes as we have never seen in any of the previous films like some of them in the classroom, other in Antoine's friend house, or a magnificent take at the end of the film in which we see Antoine, then a panoramic view and then Antoine again, running towards the sea. He also shoots from impossible angles, like those at the beginning from below the Tour Eiffel, or the nearly zenithal take following the jogging students in the streets. Or he teases us with the fake black out, when Antoine goes down the stairs to throw away garbage. Or shows us inner feelings through close-ups like the scene in which Antoine lies to his father telling him he did not take his map.

           

            However, the most difference is the treatment of action. Truffaut is an observer, a very good photographer. He was happy takes a shot in shooting casual, long scenes like the boy tearing away his notebook pages; the whole sequence of Antoine's arrival at his empty home is excellent, the three reflections in his mother's mirror in which she will look afterwards, or Antoine combing his hair, laying the table. Also the spinning ride, or the long traveling following the escape of Antoine. They are long, but not slow. They keep tension up, as if everyday acts and decisions could be heroic and transmit the greatest interest and attraction. It looks like a documentary on human life!

Truffaut's aim was trying to make a realistic and moving film, which, by watching his film, I realized that he had done very well. He also combining the humor and drama too, we have the defining French film of the 20th century. A black and white film that is actually full of colour in his film.

Conclusion 

              

As a conclusion, compare between Francois Truffaut previous and latest movie.  I more like the Francois Truffaut latest movie, Confidentially Yours than his first movie, The 400 Blows. The reasons are the story of Confidentially Yours is more interested and attract to me especially the end of the twist ending. Through Francois Truffaut’s movies, we can know his style was like Hitchcock style because he is his favorite filmmaker to learn from him. Other than that, I like the beautiful lady named Barbara in this film that she was giving a great performance. However, The 400 Blows was Francois Truffaut first movie and it really a great movie that was the begin of the New Wave in France. Francois Truffaut also has his own famous final shot is a zoom in to a freeze frame that the actors in his movie, their eyes were looking directly to the camera. For example, the two movies I had mentioned. I also have compare Francois Truffaut’s movies with another filmmaker called Vittorio De Sica, who was directed Bicycle Thieves. He also has his favorite filmmaker to learn his style in the movies that Charlie Chaplin who was his most favorite director.  So, in the movie of Bicycle Thieves was basically speeding up. Other than that, De Sica has a lot of movements in his movie like when a person walk there would have a car pass by.  Both of the filmmakers have their own long term and difference style, not to say who are not good. They were really great filmmakers in cinema but I more like Francois Truffaut than De Sica is because the story he think in his movie and the style was I like and wants to learn from him

Film and tv 2- Report

Film and tv 2- Report

1^st Draft

Paradise.

enigma productions

The music video is based on a teenage girl diagnosed with cancer. She is somewhat depressed by the things that happen to her and her family since she had been diagnosed with cancer. Her middle income parents are always arguing about her medical bills and she feels like she is a burden to them. Her classmates keep away from her because they fear that she might “spread” the cancer to them. Even her parents’ friends are always showing pity towards her parents for having an ill daughter. She feels that she is embarrassing her family. To cope with all this issues, she often sits in her bedroom and calms herself down, closes her eyes and escapes to her paradise, which is her imaginary world or “happy place” where there is no sadness and hate and everything goes right for her.

The opening shot will be an introduction of the teenage girl without the music. These will be shots of her bedroom fully equipped with medical machines by her bedside for her weekly treatments. There are old pictures of her and her two other siblings and parents on the shelf, smiling happily without knowing that one of them would get cancer. And then we see her, 15 year old Felicia, sitting on her bed and staring blankly at the floor, listening to her parents argue downstairs about her outstanding medical bills. 

The intro of the song starts and there are intercutting shots of her parents arguing loudly downstairs and Felicia staring blankly and silently at the floor in her room. She could be daydreaming of the days before she was diagnosed with cancer, when she and her family would enjoy going on weekend trips and her friends would have sleepovers. And then she would be reminded of when her friends wouldn't allow her to sit with them in the canteen.

When the first verse starts, she would stop herself from daydreaming and go about her day, preparing herself for breakfast. She goes to her bathroom mirror and brushes her teeth and washes her face. Then she inspects her pale face closely in the mirror to see the negative results of her chemotherapy sessions. She brushes her fingers through her hair and a whole bunch of it clings to her fingers. She is horrified and is about to cry. She closes her eyes to calm herself down and takes deep breaths.

She gathers herself and gets dressed etc.

During the chorus, she enters her paradise. The people in her paradise wear happy and colourful masks. When she arrives, she is given her personal mask and joins the citizen of her paradise in happiness. In her paradise, she witnesses beautiful things such as a father helping his daughter get up after falling on the ground and bending down to dust the dirt off her dress. She also witnesses a boy bringing flowers to his girlfriend and a group of friends having a laugh together. She basically sees everything that won’t happen to her because she has cancer.

At the bridge of the chorus, the people in her paradise start to act weird. She then realises that she has to wake up from her dream. She mouths the phrase ‘i know the sun must set to rise’, meaning that she has to face reality and find happiness in it, no matter what the situation.

At the last choruses, she gets up and puts a smile on her face as she reunites with her friends etc.

QUOTE: The rainbow only comes after the thunderstorm.

2^nd Draft

Paradise.

enigma production

The music video is generally about the disease that all human beings have suffered from at some point in their life or are still suffering from it: procrastination. It is the avoidance of doing tasks which needs to be completed and instead doing things that are more pleasurable to us. In our music video, we follow a small group of college students who go about their usual routine of going to college and coming home. At college, they receive assignments as per usual and take these seriously at the beginning. As the day goes by and students are back at home, they are exposed to many other distractions. In other words, they are no more in their “work”state of mind. Thus, the students tend to do activities that they find more fun to do. These activities are students’version of “paradise”. However, at the back of the students’minds, there is a nagging feeling that they must complete their assignments. 

The opening shot (no music) will be of Celine’s index and middle finger standing upright like a man. We track Celine’s “finger-ninja”as she plays with it, mimicking a ninja jumping around here and there. The music fades in as her “finger-ninja”walks across Celine’s desk, revealing Celine’s sad face as her head rests on the desk. She sits upright and looks around her desk troubled and sad. The scene cuts to Celine asking her mother a question downstairs in the kitchen. We hear muffled shouts of her mother directed towards Celine with an angry expression on her face. Her mother shakes her head and points to Celine’s room, telling her to go. The scene cuts back to Celine in her bedroom sitting at her desk, her face still looking troubled.

Celine slams her room door. She goes to bed angry because her mother didn't let her skip college. She wakes up, brushes her teeth/washes her face and puts on her shoes at the front door, still angry.

At the start of the lyrics, she is in the car, singing along to the music she is listening to. There will be a shot taken from inside the car focusing out at the Point College signboard through the car window and a shot of her hand turning the ignition off showing that she has arrived at college. She walks through the college doors then through her classroom door. She sets her bag down at her seat as the lecturer starts his/her lesson. From the back we see her dozing off . She closes her eyes to take a nap.

During the instrumental part, we show shots of her other classmates creatively sleeping while their lecturer continues to teach.

At the start of the second verse, Celine is startled when the lecturer wakes her up. The lecturer walks to the front of the class and writes their assignment for the week on the whiteboard. Celine and her classmates make a face. Back at home in her room, she tosses her bag to the ground and takes a shower, then has a snack. After this, she takes her assignments out and place them on the desk as she sits. She contemplates on which one to do first. There are flashes of shots of her in a bored pose, staring at her books, close her book, then looking over at her laptop.

At the chorus, she enters her paradise by logging onto Facebook and chatting with her friends..eating potato chips and watching tv..

Before the bridge (lalalalala), we show Celine’s calendar. Each date is being ticked to show that time goes by.

At the bridge, she realizes that she has to complete her assignment before it is too late.

At the third last chorus, she does her assignment with full focus in the night and the scene cuts to her handing in her assignment at class the next day with a smile on her face. She and her classmates exaggeratedly celebrate after completing that assignment (throw confetti, jumping around in class) and the lecturer shakes his/her head and rolls his/her eyes.

At the end of the song, the lecturer ends up giving them another assignment and his/her students just stare blankly at him/her.

Quote: “Homework first, then go play”or “Don’t procrastinatelah.”

 3^rd Draft

Paradise.

enigma production

The music video is about procrastination. It is the avoidance of doing tasks which needs to be completed and instead doing things that are more pleasurable to us. In our music video, we follow Celine, who goes about her usual routine of going to college and coming home. At college, she receives assignments as per usual and take these seriously at the beginning. As the day goes by and Celine is back at home, she is exposed to many other distractions. Thus, she does other activities that she finds more fun to do. These activities are students’ version of “paradise”. However, at the back of the her mind, there is a nagging feeling that she must complete her assignments before time runs out. 

The opening shot (no music) will be of Celine’s index and middle finger standing upright like a man. We track Celine’s “finger-ninja” as she plays with it, mimicking a ninja jumping around here and there.

The music fades in as her “finger-ninja” walks across Celine’s desk, revealing Celine’s sad face as her head rests on the desk. She sits upright and looks around her desk troubled and sad. The scene cuts to Celine asking her mother a question downstairs in the kitchen. Her mother has an angry expression on her face. She scolds Celine and shakes her head then points towards Celine’s room, telling her to go. We cannot hear their conversation, only see their expressions.

At the electro intro, Celine slams her room door. She goes to bed angry because her mother didn't let her skip college. She wakes up, still angry, brushes her teeth/washes her face and puts on her pyjama top. She didn’t realise it for a moment, then she takes it off and puts on a tshirt. At the front door, she puts on her shoes and sighs.

At the start of the lyrics, she is in the car with her mother, singing along to the music on the radio. A shot is taken from inside the car focusing out at the Point College signboard through the car window. She turns the radio off (MUSIC CUT) and gets out of the car, then waves goodbye to her mother. (MUSIC CONT.) She walks through the college doors, followed by her classroom door. She greets her friends as she sets her bag down at her seat. The lecturer starts his/her lesson. From the back we see her dozing off. She closes her eyes to take a nap.

During the instrumental part, we show shots of her other classmates creatively sleeping while their lecturer continues to teach.

(MUSIC CUT) Celine is startled when the lecturer wakes her up. The lecturer walks to the front of the class and writes their assignment for the week on the whiteboard. Celine and her classmates make a face.

(MUSIC CONT.) At the second verse, she leaves her classroom and goes down to the lobby to wait for her mother. It is raining heavily. She looks at her watch then exhales frustratedly. Halfway setting her bag on the floor, the scene cuts to her bag being set on the floor in her room. She takes a shower, then has a snack. After this, she takes her assignments out and place them on the desk as she sits. She contemplates on which one to do first. There are flashes of shots of her in a bored pose, staring at her books, close her book, then looking over at her laptop.

At the chorus, she enters her paradise by logging onto Facebook and chatting with her friends. She asks her friends if they want to hang out. The scene cuts to her meeting up with her friends at the mall. They go for a karaoke session singing the chorus of this song. Second part of the chorus, they are eating at a restaurant or shopping in the mall.

At the instrumental part, we show shots of her doing activities like watch dramas and cartoons on TV, play badminton and playing outside with her dog (running close up) intercut between a dolly in shot of her homework on her desk.

Before the bridge (lalalalala), we show Celine’s calendar. Each date is being ticked to show that the week is going by.

At the bridge, just after entering her house, she is at the kitchen about to make Maggi mee for herself when she realizes that it is Sunday and she has homework due for the next day. She runs up the stairs and enters her room.

At the second last chorus, she does her assignments one at a time with full focus in the night. There is a shot of her putting a completed assignment aside, then going on to the next one.

At the last chorus, she rejoices and smiles indicating she has done all her assignments. The scene cuts to her happily getting into bed and pulling the sheets over her head to enjoy her worry-free sleep.

Quote: “Stop procrastinatinglah”

FIRST NARRATIVE STORYBOARD (PARADISE)

SCENE 1 – Violin intro

LOCATION HOUSE – CELINE’S BEDROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Close-up, finger-ninja walks into frame from camera right. Track finger-ninja.

Shot 2 Close-up, Celine’s face resting on desk comes into frame with finger-ninja in foreground. Focus on Celine’s face. 

SCENE 2 – Violin intro

LOCATION HOUSE - KITCHEN (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

ACTOR CELINE, MOTHER

Shot 1 Celine’s mother’s back blocks camera view then moves left to reveal Celine, medium shot, talking to Mother. 

Shot 2 Medium shot OTS, Mother scolding Celine.

Shot 3 MCU shot, Mother saying “NO!” and points to staircase, angry expression on her face.

Shot 4 Medium two shot profile of Celine and Mother. Celine angrily turns and stomps off.

SCENE 3 – Electro intro

LOCATION HOUSE – CELINE’S BEDROOM (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Close-up shot, Celine turns the door knob then camera tilt up to Celine screaming at her mother downstairs, then slams her bedroom door. Shot from outside her bedroom door. 

Shot 2 Bedroom door closes to reveal medium shot of Celine slamming the door. 

Shot 3 Camera track (medium shot) Celine from the back walking to her bed and banging things on the way. ^action-cuts

Shot 4 Medium shot, pan from her blanket to her angry face then she turns over to the other side. 

Shot 5 Medium shot (mirror), Celine walks into bathroom, brushes her teeth angrily then bends down to the sink.

Shot 6 Medium shot of Celine coming up from the sink, washing her face then looking at her angry face in the mirror.

Shot 6 Pan from left to medium shot, Celine gets frustrated that she has put her shirt on the wrong way. 

LOCATION HOUSE – FRONT DOOR (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 7 Low angle, Celine opens the front door and sits to tie her shoelace, gets up and walks off frame over camera.

SCENE 4 – Verse 1

LOCATION OTW TO POINT COLLEGE (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Medium shot, Celine shoes walk into frame. Track Celine shoes.

Shot 2  Pan from left, medium shot, Celine shoes walking on pavement (off centre).

Shot 3 Long shot, Celine walking on the pavement. Traffic in foreground

Shot 4 MCU frontal shot, Celine enjoying her music on her earphones.

SCENE 5 – Verse 1

LOCATION COLLEGE LIFT

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Tilt down to close up shot, Celine’s finger presses floor number 2: POINT COLLEGE. 

SCENE 6 – Verse 1

LOCATION COLLEGE MAIN ENTRANCE (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Pan, long/medium long shot, Celine walks towards camera, entering college glass doors. Celine blocks camera vision to blackout.

Shot 2 Static long/medium shot. From blackout, Celine walks away from camera and opens class door.

SCENE 7 – Verse 1

LOCATION COLLEGE – CLASSROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE, LECTURER, CLASSMATES

Shot 1 Pan, medium frontal tracking shot, classmate #1 walks towards class door then goes off frame. Celine opens class door and walks towards her seat, making eye contact with her friends and saying hi.

Shot 2 MCU shot, Celine walks into frame from camera left and sits down at her seat. She looks straight up at her lecturer in front.

Shot 3 Medium long shot, lecturer is teaching in front of a whiteboard.

Shot 4 MCU shot, dolly in. Celine closes her eyes to sleep.

Shot 5 MCU, pan from left to right. Her classmates sleeping in different positions. 

Shot 6 MCU two shot (one in foreground, one in background), focus change from front to back, of her other classmates, also sleeping.

Shot 7 (MUSIC CUT)

Long take:

- Medium shot, Celine is awaken by the lecturer (half body, no face). Lecturer walks from right to left behind Celine. Track lecturer.

- Medium shot (from back), lecturer knocks on table to wake other classmates. Classmate #2 (profile shot) walks into frame from camera left, asking lecturer permission to go to the toilet. 

- Medium long frontal shot, lecturer allows classmate #2 to go. Classmate #2 walks off frame. Lecturer walks to front of class. 

- Medium profile shot, lecturer writing their assignment & due date on the board. 

- Over the shoulder wide shot, students react to their new assignment.

Shot 8 Medium shot, Celine’s reaction to new assignment.

Shot 9 MCU, pan from Celine’s classmate picking up her bag from under table, to Celine saying bye to classmate and checking phone. Then Celine get up to leave class.

SCENE 8

LOCATION COLLEGE LOBBY (EXTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Long shot, Celine walks into frame, away from camera to lobby pick-up area.

Shot 2 Pan from left to right, Celine walks into frame from camera right, and stops. Medium profile shot of Celine taking bag off shoulders, tilt down to Celine dropping bag to floor. Halfway drop, cut to..

SCENE 9

LOCATION HOUSE – CELINE’S BEDROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Medium shot (match to previous frame), Celine’s bag lands on the floor in her room.

Shot 2 Medium shot, Celine walks into frame and goes into the bathroom with a towel in her hand. She closes bathroom door.

Shot 3 Medium shot (match to previous frame), Celine opens bathroom door with towel wrapped around head and a new set of clothes on. Celine walks off frame.

Shot 4 Panning medium long shot, Celine takes her books out of her bag and puts them on the table. She sits down at her table.

Shot 5 Medium frontal shot, Celine opens her books and looks at her assignment, then plays with her phone.

Shot 6 OTS close up shot of phone, Celine Whatsapp messages her friends and asks if they want to hangout. They agree.

Shot 7 MCU shot, dolly out, Celine smiles at her phone. She puts it down and gets up from her seat. 

chat with friends on whatsapp, “homework start doing alrdy ah?”. replies, “next week only hand in ma!” ask to hangout, replies “YES” just before chorus. Celine smiles and gets up. 

SCENE 10 – Chorus 1

LOCATION SHOPPING MALL – KARAOKE (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE, FRIENDS

Shot 1 Medium long shot, dolly out, Celine’s friends greet Celine in front of the karaoke place. Celine walks into frame. Camera tilt up, they walk into karaoke place. 

Shot 2 Medium shot, Celine’s friend picks a song on the screen.

Shot 3 Medium long shot, Celine and her friends sing along to the song.

SCENE 11 – Chorus 2

LOCATION ROLLER SKATING RINK (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE, FRIENDS

Shot 1 Close up shot, Celine ties her roller skating shoelace.

Shot 2 Tracking long shot, Celine and her friends roller skating.

Shot 3 POV shot, Celine’s friend falls down and laughs. Celine gives a hand to her friend. Cut to..

SCENE 12 – Instrumental

LOCATION HOUSE – HALL (INTEROR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE, FRIENDS

Shot 1 POV shot (match to previous frame), Celine receives a bag of chips from a friend.

Shot 2 Medium shot, pan from left to right, Celine and her friends watching TV.

Shot 3 Medium shot, Celine’s friends are walking off camera from couch, Celine turns off the TV using remote.

SCENE 13 – (LALALA) bridge 

LOCATION BADMINTON HALL (INTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE, FRIENDS

Shot 1 Wide shot (from empire’s seat), Celine and her friends playing badminton.

Shot 2 Medium long shot (through the net), Celine accidentally hits friend #2 with racquet. Celine laughs.

**INTERCUT: Dolly in, Celine’s desk with her books.

Shot 3 Medium long, low angle shot, friend #1 and friend #3 drops to the floor laughing.

SERIOUS version?? Close ups of shuttlecock, cut to dog toy

Shot 4 Panning medium long shot, Celine runs away from friend chasing her with racquet, towards camera (MCU). Cut to..

SCENE 14 – (LALALA) bridge

LOCATION HOUSE – GARDEN (EXTERIOR/DAY)

ACTOR CELINE, DOG

Shot 1 Tracking medium shot, Celine running away from her dog, smiling.

Shot 2 Tracking medium long shot, Celine’s dog chasing after her.

Shot 3 Medium long shot, Celine petting her dog. Then, she throws dog toy. ?

**INTERCUT: Dolly in, Celine’s desk with her books, close up to assignment and due date.    

SCENE 15 -  bridge

LOCATION HOUSE – KITCHEN (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 Medium shot, Celine walks into frame and reaches for fridge door.

Shot 2 MCU profile shot, Celine opens fridge door and bends to take a drink for herself. Camera tracksCeline as she stands up to face the calendar on the freezer door. She realizes something.

Shot 3  Over the shoulder, the calendar Celine is looking at. Celine runs off camera left.

Shot 4 Close up shot, Celine leaves her drink on the counter. Hands go off camera.

SCENE 16 – second last chorus

LOCATION HOUSE – HALL/STAIRS (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

ACTOR CELINE   **Celine’s sister and brother kacau her otw up ?

Shot 1 Medium long frontal tracking shot, Celine turns and runs out of kitchen towards stairs. 

SCENE 17 – last chorus

LOCATION HOUSE – BEDROOM (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

ACTOR CELINE

Shot 1 MCU frontal shot, Celine opens her door and looks towards her books on the table. She walks towards camera off frame.

Shot 2 Panning medium shot, Celine walks into frame and sits at her table. She grabs a pen and starts doing her work.

Shot 3 Panning medium shot (posterior), Celine is bent over at her table. She puts a book aside indicating that she has done that work.

Shot 4 MCU shot, Celine sits back in her chair and throws her pen on the table with a relieved smile on her face.

Shot 5 Medium shot, high angle, Celine lies down on her bed, still smiling. She pulls the blanket over her head and sleeps.

SECOND NARRATIVE STORYBOARD (THE SCIENTIST)

SCENE INTRO

LOCATION BACK ALLEY (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 1 Medium close up (MCU) dolly out shot, Beverley’s hand slides across a wall with graffiti on it.

LOCATION BADMINTON HALL (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 2 Medium shot, Beverley’s friends enjoying themselves.

Shot 3 Medium shot, Beverley and another friend laugh.

LOCATION ARCADE GAME CENTRE (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

Shot 4 Close up shot, Beverley and Winnie’s fingers pressing buttons and controlling the joystick.

LOCATION BACK ALLEY (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 5 Close up dolly out shot, Beverley’s sad face is revealed as she continues to walk.

LOCATION HOUSE – BEDROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 6 Low angle medium long shot, Beverley walks into her room. 

Shot 7 Low angle MCU tilt up shot, Beverley looks angrily out the door and closes it.

Shot 8 MCU shot, Beverley is thinking. She gets up to exit her room. 

LOCATION HOUSE – KITCHEN (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 9 Medium long tilt up shot, Beverley enters the kitchen to talk to her mother at the sink.

SCENE VERSE 1

LOCATION PARKING LOT – (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 1 MCU shot, Beverley is thinking back.

LOCATION HOUSE – KITCHEN (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 2 MCU shot, Beverley’s mother is scolding her.

Shot 3 MCU shot, Beverley argues with her mother.

LOCATION PARKING LOT – (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 4 MCU tracking shot, Beverley has a fed-up expression on her face as she walks. 

LOCATION CLASSROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 5 MCU frontal tracking shot, Beverley’s lecturer walks to the front of the class.

Shot 6 Medium shot, the words “FINAL ASSIGNMENT. DUE: APRIL 23^RD” is written on the board as the lecturer points at it.

Shot 7 Panning wide shot, Beverley’s classmates react negatively to the assignment given.

Shot 8 MCU shot, Beverley pulls a face as her reaction to the assignment.

LOCATION PARKING LOT (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 9 MCU tracking shot, Beverley continues to walk. 

LOCATION HOUSE – BEDROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 10 Long shot, Beverley sits on her bed.

LOCATION HOUSE – KITCHEN (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 11 MCU shot, Beverley’s mother is scolding her.

Shot 12 MCU shot, Beverley argues with her mother.

LOCATION ARCADE GAME CENTRE (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

Shot 13 MCU shot, Beverley and her friends celebrate after winning at the arcade.

LOCATION HOUSE – KITCHEN (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 14 Medium long profile shot, Beverley’s mother is scolding her.

Shot 15 MCU shot, Beverley gets irritated.

Shot 16 Medium long shot, Beverley walks away as her mother shakes her head at her.

LOCATION PARKING LOT (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 17 Close up shot, Beverley is thinking back.

 LOCATION CLASSROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 18 MCU high angle shot, the lecturer looks up to Beverley, walking into frame from camera left, as she hands in her assignment.

Shot 19 MCU low angle shot, Beverley gives a nervous smile at her lecturer.

Shot 20 MCU high angle shot, the lecturer takes a look at her assignment.

Shot 21 MCU profile shot, Beverley explains her work to the lecturer.

SCENE CHORUS

LOCATION HOUSE – BEDROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 1 MCU frontal shot, Beverley opens her door and shouts angrily at her mother, then slams the door shut.

LOCATION CLASSROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 2 Close up shot, the lecturer assesses her assignment.

Shot 3 Close up shot, the lecturer’s hand puts Beverley’s assignment on the table and fiercely points at it.

Shot 4 MCU profile shot, Beverley continues to explain her assignment.

Shot 5 MCU shot, the lecturer tells Beverley that she is not satisfied with her assignment.

Shot 6 MCU shot, Beverley walks away disappointed.

LOCATION PARKING LOT (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 7 Medium long posterior shot, Beverley stops walking at the end of the parking lot.

Shot 8 MCU posterior shot, Beverley looks around.

LOCATION HOUSE – BEDROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 9 MCU high angle shot, Beverley is doing her assignment at her desk.

Shot 10 Medium shot, Beverley is taking out her anger on her teddy bear. She then flings it across the room.

Shot 11 MCU high angle shot, Beverley sighs as she does her assignment.

LOCATION HOUSE – KITCHEN (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 14 Medium long profile shot, Beverley’s mother is scolding her.

LOCATION HOUSE – BEDROOM (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 15 MCU high angle shot, Beverley is doing her assignment at her desk.

Shot 16 Medium shot, Beverley’s teddy bear lands on her storybooks.

Shot 17 MCU high angle shot, she rests her head on her hand as she looks at the laptop.

Shot 18 Big close up shot, Beverley’s fingers are typing on the keyboard.

Shot 19 MCU high angle shot, she sits upright and continues typing.

Shot 20 Big close up shot, Beverley’s fingers are typing on the keyboard.

LOCATION HOUSE – BEDROOM (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

Shot 21 MCU frontal shot, Beverley is still at her desk doing her assignment.

SCENE VERSE 2

LOCATION STREETS (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 1 MCU posterior tracking shot, Beverley is walking.

LOCATION TRAIN STATION (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 2 Long shot, Beverley stands in the middle of the station.

LOCATION PARK (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 3 MCU low angle shot, camera rotate slowly, Beverley is looking around.

LOCATION TRAIN STATION (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 4 Close up high angle shot, Beverley is riding the escalator up while thinking.

LOCATION PARK (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 5 Medium frontal shot, Beverley is crouching down while leaning on a tree.

LOCATION TRAIN STATION (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 6 Pan from right to left, to medium tracking shot of Beverley walking in between the crowd.

LOCATION ARCADE GAME CENTRE (INTERIOR/NIGHT)

Shot 7 MCU shot, Beverley and her friend are playing a game and laughing together.

Shot 8 MCU frontal shot, Beverley celebrates as she wins a game.

LOCATION STREETS (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 9 Point of view shot, a group of ladies look at Beverley.

Shot 10 MCU posterior shot, Beverley looks back.

LOCATION TRAIN STATION (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 11 Long shot, Beverley stands in the middle of the station.

LOCATION STREETS (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 12 Long shot, Beverley continues to wander.

SCENE CHORUS

LOCATION TRAIN (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 1 Medium shot, Beverley leans on the wall of the train, looking down.

LOCATION BUS STOP (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 2 MCU profile shot, Beverley is laughing while chatting with her friend.

LOCATION TRAIN (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 3 Insert shot of the train tracks from the back of the train as the train was accelerating.

LOCATION BUS STOP (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 4 MCU shot, Beverley is laughing while chatting with her friend.

LOCATION PARK (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 5 High angle shot, camera slowly rotates, Beverley crouching down in between tree branches.

LOCATION TRAIN STATION (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 6 Medium posterior shot, Beverley walks towards a staircase and takes off her hat.

LOCATION STREETS (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 7 Close up shot, Beverley’s feet walk away from camera. In the foreground, her assignments drop to the floor behind her.

SCENE ENDING

LOCATION BUS STOP (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 1 MCU profile shot, Beverley’s smile turns to a frown.

Shot 2 Medium shot, Beverley starts to get sad.

Shot 3 Long shot, Beverley is sitting at the bus stop alone.

LOCATION STREETS (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 4 Medium shot of Beverley’s leg walking towards the camera.

Shot 5 Close up shot, Beverley’s feet walk into frame from camera left. Camera tracks blood on the road towards Beverley’s face. Camera dolly out to reveal MCU shot of Beverley dead on the road.

LOCATION TRAIN STATION (INTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 6 Medium long posterior shot, Beverley walks up the overexposed staircase.

LOCATION STREETS (EXTERIOR/DAY)

Shot 7 High angle shot of Beverley’s feet walking away from camera off frame.

Problems faced

In Film and TV Production 2, our group chose to do a music video (MV) as our assignment and this was the first time attempting to make one. It was really something new and rather challenging for us as previously we had only done short films because the visuals in short films and music videos are quite different. For example, it is essential to have an establishing shot in short films whereas it is not necessary in music videos. All of us took charge of our own positions and helped each other when needed.

The first problem that we faced was shortage of equipment. We did not have the required LED light to light up our subject to create the preferred mood . Thus, the results of our first camera test was that the background and subject were either underexposed or flatly lit. To resolve this problem, we used other light sources such as sunlight, phone flashlight, table lamp and reflectors such as white paper and styrofoam board to add light and create a specific mood in a shot.

Secondly, we had a limited number of camera batteries and on certain occasions, we had to take a break during the shoot to charge our batteries. However, we use that break time to edit the recently shot footages.

Thirdly, due to our group being in two different batches, we had slight differences in our weekly schedules. So, planning for our shooting schedule was a bit of an issue. We had to juggle between meetings with different groups for different subject assignments.

Next, location was one of our major problems in shooting this music video. We had a scene where the setting was a roller skating rink. The location we had in mind had been shut down and upon searching for other roller skating rinks on the Internet, we found out that they too were either shut down or unreachable by public transport. In the end, we decided to alter that scene so that it would be less time and money consuming.

60% of our shots were outdoor shots and weather was definitely a problem. We wanted beautiful backgrounds for our outdoor shots so we went to a few places like the KLCC park, Petaling Street and so on but sometimes the weather was not on our side. During the daytime, it would sometimes be too sunny so we would have to wait for theclouds to block the sun so that the light is not too harsh on the subject. Towards the evening,it would rain and we had to wait for the rain to stop.

For a lot of the shots in the music video, the D.O.P. wanted to try many different angles for each scene. At one particular shoot in the KLCC park, the D.O.P.and the actor had to climb a tree to get various angles and the outcomes were good. Although it was dangerous for them and at one point the security guard warned and told them to get down from the tree, it was worth it. Other than that, since we were shooting at public areas, we had to constantly make sure that we were not blocking anyone’s way. Also, for some of the shots, we needed a crowd of people to walk pass the stationery actor but most of the time there were only a few people. So, we had to wait till it was lunch hour.

As we journeyed from one place to another, we took impromptu shots at places where the D.O.P. felt would best suit  the mood of our music video. Thus, we had to constantly be alert and quick on our feet. For example, as we were walking towards the KLCC train station, we noticed an overexposed stairway that led to the outside where it was sunny and that shot gave the impression that the character in the music video was going to heaven. Thus we spent about 10 minutes at that spot taking a few shots.

          As a conclusion, there were many problems faced throughout the whole process of making this music video because different crew members have different opinions, so disagreement and mixed reactions have occurred in our discussions. However, we always compromised and found a solution. Overall, we really enjoyed ourselves during the shoot as we got to venture out to different areas other than our college area and also meet new people along the way.