Clips of the Wilhelm Scream By Scott Wright

The Wilhelm scream is a film and television stock sound effect that has been used in more than 200 movies, beginning in 1951 for the film Distant Drums when in a scene from the film, soldiers are wading through a swamp in the Everglades, and one of them is bitten and dragged underwater by an alligator.. The scream is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion. The sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western in which the character gets shot. The video above has good examples of the Wilhelm scream.

Sound

Sinister - Official Trailer 2012

Sinister is a good example of these edits.

Editing



 

Editing

Editing helps construct the narrative. We are so used to editing we barely notice it. Editing is usually ''invisible''. Editing can be used to condense long, boring activities in to quick  bursts of visual information. A simple edit is called a cut it is called this because it cuts to different parts of film getting of bits you don't need. In the assassination scene in North by Northwest from Roger Thornhill getting in the taxi and to the scene where he is looking down from the UN building there are 26 cuts, this is there so you can focus on the reactions of people. The pace of editing can be used to create excitement and tension for example in the shower scene of Psycho when Marion is being stabbed the pace is fast but as she dies the pace gets slower.

 

Types of editing

• Dissolve: dissolve is when a scene dissolves into another scene.
• Fade out/in: fading is when one scene fades to a complete black then another fades in.
• Wipes: Wiping is where one scene wipes across another scene revealing/ replacing the next one this can happen from any direction
• Iris:  An iris replaces the last scene by appearing from the centre like an iris of the eye
• Jump cuts: Jump cuts are when two scenes that feature common elements right after one another so something stays the same but the rest changes. This is used for disorienting or comedy effects.    

  

  

The cuts in North by Northwest

 

The ''Sinister'' trailer is a good example of these editing types. 

Basic Camea Shots

Extreme Long Shot

Long Shot

Medium Close Up

Extreme Close Up
 

Close Up

Medium Long Shot

Medium Shot

Mise-en-Scène

Mise-en-Scène is everything in a frame of a film/TV series etc. E.g. Lighting, costume, colour, facial expression and composition. 

In the Jaws opening scene all of this is there it can suggest things such as being in fire
(for lighting) suggests a haven so if you leave the fire you are isolated from the area which makes it seem like something is going to happen. such as the couple in the first scene they are away from the fire and then start to go to the sea to swim which isolates them even more. There is a broken fence that they run by and the bars of the fence suggests cage, which means trapped. Sound is used for the music, conversations, running and the waves but when that is all left behind it will make the audience think something's going to happen.    

 

How are Generic elements and camera angles used to create suspense in the attic scene of the Exorcist?

One element is the music, there is none. This is used to create suspense because you are looking for what she is.

Camera angle, it is filmed from behind her as if someone or thing is looking at her from behind objects and above to suggest she is weak.

The empty rat traps say it wasn't the rats.

The stereotypical vulnerable, isolated young women alone in the attic in her nightie.

The candle light flickering off of objects to make it harder to see.

When Carl came up into the attic the suspense dropped because brought light and more sound to the scene. 

It's in the middle of the night and dark.

The title The Exorcist suggests something will happen.

 

Pokémon Giratina & The Sky Warrior

Pokémon Giratina & The Sky Warrior

We were told to post a image of a poster that is our favourite film so... this is my favourite film because it is Pokémon and has my favourite Pokémon Giratina. He is basically the devil! he was banished to a world called the Distortion World by Arceus, the creator of all Pokémon(God).