Creative Assignment
PART A
This is an action film with a casual plot of four men in the fight for a dropped money. The first two men are fighting for who will take the money with him and they both end up losing the cash. When the two men still fighting, there arrive another two young men to collect the cash. One of them goes into his pocket to give the other some amount so that they can have a share on the dropped cash. They both end up happy and satisfied.
The scene opens with a zoom shot focusing (Haozhang et al., 240-242) on the plants grown along the road for landscaping with a blurred view of the horizon, a gloomy sky and bird flying across it. The scene then zooms on the money that was dropped on the ground that focuses the viewer and pushes out the common way of the view of glancing at the world. The scene continues with a wide view shot (Heiderich, 53-70), two men coming from the opposite side. There is a quick cut for medium close up shot (Heiderich, 53-70) with two men bending over in front of the camera to pick up the money, the camera then points perpendicularly to the ground having a medium view covering the plantations along the road. There is a quick change of view with one of the men standing and facing directly inform of the camera with the medium close up view covering planted trees, structures such as a waterfall point and security lights, and clear sky horizon. The camera turns to reverse to focus too on the other man with the same features as the recent view.
The tracking shot speed (Clark, 162-165) should be on time with the camera slanted to capture a wide view shot of the two men, one bending two picks up the cash and the other standing still. There is a constant light blue sky at the background with striking rays at the side edge of the camera view. Another medium closes up view with one of the men facing the camera directly as the camera points vertically to the constant light blue sky. The scene continues with a wide view shot of the men on the green ground fighting over the dropped cash as the other two young men approach the cash from the opposite side.
As the two new men continue to walk towards the cash on the ground, the camera stops shortly and turns close to a hundred and eighty degrees to have a wide view of all the four men. There is a quick cut for a medium shot (Heiderich, 53-70) with the camera place horizontally on the ground to view the two men exchanging cash and red structure covering some part of the background. Green water containers are placed on the green grass ground and the left topmost end of the background covered with a clear horizon. The two men go on separate ways with a smiling face as the camera is placed constantly on the horizontal position for a wide shot. As the tracking shot is speed (Clark, 162-165) changes for a slow-motion, a quick cut is made for a wide shot viewing all men with the first two still fighting and the other two continue with their respective journey. The camera stops as one of the fighting men standing up trying to escape and another one with a smiling face walking towards the camera.
PART B
This cue’s instrumentation that I will use to score this scene in the film is a classical arrangement (Myers, Amanda, and Yusuke Ishimura, 215-221) with a thin texture composed of instruments such as a piano. Since at the beginning of the scene is a zoom shot focusing on the plants grown along the road for landscaping, we will use a bright light effect to focus on the trees as the view cuts to another quick shot to introduce the men. The film will also use a ubiquitous scoring which will be listening to in the whole film scene (Myers, Amanda, and Yusuke Ishimura, 215-221).
As the men are coming from the opposite direction towards each other along the pathway, the melody will be flowing but change with themes in every cut in the film scene (Temperley, David, and Trevor de Clercq, 165-177). When the men meet each other, the harmony raises to add an effect of the entrance. The melodic counter will arise as the men start fighting over the dropped cash rolling over the planted trees along the pathway (Mora et al. 145-159). As they continue fighting on the other side of the plantations, there will be dissonance due to battle developed by pitches combination, when they go over the plantation and change to minor sound to introduce new characters in the film. The tempo will be slowing down as the two men are approaching each other and then raises once they meet. The harmony will raise to try to create some suspense whether the new two men will engage in a fight over the money (Temperley, David, and Trevor de Clercq, 165-177).
This is countered by the peaceful division of cash they picked up from the ground, which is demonstrated by the difference made in the rhythmic density. The melodic counter will fall drastically as the man proceeds into his pocket to find some cash to give the other man for a peaceful division of money. The harmony falls for the additional effect of the calm negotiation between the two men showing the difference of events between the first two men and the last two men. The events of rhythm that is taking place will be less rhythmically heavy and the tempo of the music (Okada, Sota, and Masanobu Miura, 3428-3428). will decrease as the two men continue with the journey after the peaceful money division and the other men still on the ground wrestling. The music proceeds silent exception of some fewer legato notes played to retain the less tension of closing the film scene.
Work cited
Haozhang, Sun, Ji Xiaomin, and Wang Feng. “Analysis Unregularly Zoom Perspective by Dynamic Viewpoint.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Video and Image Processing. 2017.
Heiderich, Timothy. “Cinematography techniques: The different types of shots in film.” Ontario Mining Assosiation. Recuperado de https://www. oma. on. ca/en/contestpages/resources/free-report-cinematography. pdf (2018).
Clark, Christopher H., Patricia G. Avery, and Robb Virgin. “Uncovering the language of film.” Social Education 81.3 (2017): 162-165.
Myers, Amanda, and Yusuke Ishimura. “Finding sound and score: a music library skills module for undergraduate students.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 42.3 (2016): 215-221.
Temperley, David, and Trevor de Clercq. “Harmony and Melody in Popular Music.” The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition. Routledge, 2017. 165-177.
Mora, Joaquín, et al. “Melodic contour and mid-level global features applied to the analysis of flamenco cantes.” Journal of New Music Research 45.2 (2016): 145-159.
Okada, Sota, and Masanobu Miura. “Tempo estimation for acoustic signal of tempo variation music.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140.4 (2016): 3428-3428.