Chapter 5: Sound

Sound is very important to a film, it can transform the scenes into much more than. In this film the use of sound is simplified in the sense that it doesn't have any crazy unnatural sounds. There is no symbolizm or motifs. Silence in this film is either where it is needed as they interview Clive Owen in the beginning and the end of the film. In the beginning of the film, the introductory scene has a song called Chaiyya Chaiyya which is a Hindu song. The dialogue in this film is very functional and fast paced since much of the movie is either the robbers dealing with the hostages and or the cops or the cops talking to eachother about the robbers, so much of what is taking place is fast dialogue. There tends to be swearing, again mainly in the intense scense where it is more necicerry and adds to the drama and heat of the shot. The voice over narrator is Clive's character who talks in the beginning and the end of the film, in the beginning he is explaining the story only the story is incomplete and by the time the movie is ending the story comes full circle and the movie has covered what story Clive started to tell in the beginning of the film. Then the movie picks up where he stops telling and thus completing the story and the movie as a whole. He was chosen to narrate the story because it is him who was the robber, he knows what is going on, it is his story. Who better to tell the story?

Chapter 4: Editing

In this movie, there was fast passed scences where quick cutting was neccisery, and not to mention our cultures short attention span gets bored with anything less. So the scenes where the movie has a high intensity, there are many more cuts. There are very few scense where the shots are lengthy, the only time you see this is at the beginning and the middle of the film where the camera is directly on Clive Owen were he is talking for a lengthened time. Or in the interigation room where the camera shots might be on one persons face for a ten second period at the max. Particularly in this film as I mention before, in scenes of high intesity there is going to be more cuts to make it more chaotic and less cut and dry. How does your mind work when your stressed and thinking about a million things you have to do that day? It's all over the place, film is no different.

Chapter 3: movement

During many of the scences the camera is kept up close to the action to emphasize movement. There are of coarse high angles and panning shots, and long shots. Which all good movies should have to give a variety of emphasize on different scenes. For example the beginnging shot is a long shot showing an entire city with the buildings, the city streets, the moving cars and crowded streets. This shows the movement of city life and gives a sense of the busy lifestyle attributed to a large city and the movement as a whole. It also sets up the movie right of the bat to show where the movie will be taking place and in turn it sets up the rest of the so you have a general understading of time and place. So camera angles and movement can tell a lot about a film. The movie scenes are very naturalistic, they tend to show realistic movements of walking, falling, all the regular movements a human would make are typically shown this way. The majority of the shots are filmed lyrically with naturalistic patterns but as a hiest movie goes, it does tend to be a chaotic film so parts where there is intended confusion or high areas of stress it is depicted in such a way.

Chapter 8 : Story

Clive Owen as Dulten Russel is the narrator in the story from the beginning then it takes off into the story as a regular screen play. It is him because he is telling the story as if it has just happened and he is waiting for the rest of the story to unfold. As the audience we supply the opinion and get to keep guessing what is going to happen next between the hostages/robbers and the police. The film is in chronological order besides the beginning where it shows him talking which is really near the end. The narrative is realistic. The genre is easily a classic hollywood heist with a twist. The film shows a sort of "what goes around comes around" idea. The film also shows how not everything is about money, while he does make away with some money at the end thats not the big twist and what the owner of the bank is trying to keep hidden.

Chapter 6 : Acting

In My film all the lead roles are popular stars. I don't know for sure but with actors like Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster and Willem Dafoe, I'm sure they got some artistic leeway. I am not too familiar with most of the actors as far as their history in roles but I know Denzel Washington is usually an important character, typically a person with power. Clive in his more recent films as been sort of a dirty character, mischivious, not neccicerily evil but inbetween good and evil. The acting style is realistic. Clive Owen does a great job as the lead role of the bank heist, I think his voice alone is very dark which ads to his role, Denzel is usually the head honcho so he fit the role of the leader of the police case in this movie.

Chapter 11 : Critique

What makes a movie good or bad is how it holds the attention of the audience. It really depends on the specific person viewing the film. I for instance could get turned away from a movie if there are overly evil films or if there is a setting or characters that make me feel uncomfortable. For example I hate the show "Fraiser" because I don't like the main character and I don't like "Just shoot me" because of the four particular characters that just don't work for me. The same goes with "king of the Hill" and " Drew Carey". But as an overall audience and appreciation, Cinematography, characters fitting their parts or roles, that character being able to act the part, the realism or if the movie calls for it the surrealism, or whatever the genre or feel might be. All things that will tie in to making a movie good or bad. A person might be drawn to a particular film because of emotions, women tend to like chick-flicks because women more often like that feeling of love and emotion and love stories. Or a sterotypical guy likes things that blow up and fighting so certain films are defenitly geared towards certain audiences based on age, race, or gender. Any given movie can say whats cool and hip in the era it was released in. Or it can show and say what ideas are being brought up, or recerculated and what trends are out, things dealing with government and different forms and styles of comedy. It could also show historical truths mized in with explosive cinematic flair!

chapter 9: writing

Clive Owens, the lead role in the film does a lot of talking and even of screen talking, they are probably some of the more important parts of the film because he gives you clues as to where he is, what he is doing, and or throws out witty riddles to cops to keep them on their toes. Most of the speech in this film is dialogue besides the parts where Clive is talking to the camera. The dominant theme in the movie is simple, it's one man (Clive Owen) and his friends who rob a bank for a certain reason (not necessarily the money). The movie takes place as a story where the main character who robs the bank is sitting in a cell of sorts and is telling the story as it has already taken place, almost as if he is recalling it. The interesting thing in this movie is how the main character doesn't want the money, he robs the bank to get back at someone in the higher ups in the bank which is a mystery until the end of the movie. There are no noticeable metaphors. The point of view is told as a story as if the main character is recalling it all and telling it but then the movie turns into a regular dialoged film. The voice of the narrator is the main character at a few points.

page 96 and 98 questions 1-15

i'm choosing a scene at the beginning of the movie where it shows the lead actor clive owens sitting in what appears to be a dark room and all you can see is his torso up and his face and he is talking to the audience.

1. Eyes are directed directly to his face because everything in the background is dark at first.
2. Extremely low key, high contrast
3. Tightly framed shot, camera is farley close
4. neutral camera angle
5. He contrasts with the black background
6. all standard, no apparent filters
7. Clive Owen
8. high density, all in face and clothes
9. composition is dead center
10. the form is closed, the fram suggests he is in a tiny area but he also says that directly in the line.

11. The frame is tight with an equal amount of sides on both left and right

12. the shot is composed of two planes, foreground (actor) and backgroung (brick) that is all there is nothing in the middle ground

13. Character placement is in the center of the frame
14. Character looks straight into the camera
15. there is only one character in this scene.

cinematographer- Matthew Libatique

The cinematographer for 2006's Indside man is none other than Matthew Libatique. Matthew has done work such as Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason"), Spike Lee (She Hate Me, Inside Man and Miracle at St. Anna), and Joel Schumacher (Tigerland, Phone Booth and The Number 23). Matthew is most famous for his work in "Requiem for a Dream". Matthew has worked with Spike Lee in two other films making Inside Man a good collaboration of the two talented Film gooroos. Matthew's earliest work started in 1990 and is continuing. The Film "Inside Man" and Matthews work in it is fanominal with the lighting and the brillient camera angles.

intro, stance on movie Critic

For the rest of the Semester I will be taking the stance of a reviewer and if allowed, partial critic.