WALL-E
The scene I chose starts with the door to WALL-E‘s garage opening with little visibility due to the sand storm. The whole scene has many different camera shots (too many to write in every time there is a change!), dim lighting, and little music until WALL-E turns on his video. There is very few words spoken and most expressions are sighs, yells, and little noises.
You hear the sound of the door opening and the wind blowing. Wall-e leads Eve in and the door shuts. At first you only see Eve’s eyes, she sneezes (because robots sneeze from dust storms), then WALL-E turns on the lights and eve is amazed at all of his things she sees. The shot starts with a mid shot of Eve, zooms in/pans going behind Eve, then turns and tilts showing the wall of the garage and then WALL-E on the other side of the garage finishing plugging in the lights. WALL-E then says Tah-da! The shot looks back at Eve from behind WALL-E and WALL-E waves her to come forward. The next shot looks at Eve from behind a shelf in the garage as she looks at everything on the shelf.
Next is the shot if the Cockroach running into his Twinkie and popping his head out!
Eve then comes upon the big bass fish on the wall (the camera zooms out) and the fish starts singing. Eve whips out her gun. The shot move to WALL-E. WALL-E jumps and yells, rolls over to her and pulls her away then goes to her other side pushes her away and point to her gun to put it away. WALL-E then begins to show her his collection of human artifacts, first with a hand egg beater. While WALL-E rolls to get another item to show her Eve breaks it, puts it on the shelf, and WALL-E comes back with bubble wrap. He shows her how to pop them. She takes it and precedes to pop them all. Next WALL-E gives her a light bulb that she lights up. He is surprised and takes it back and wonders why it doesn’t light up for him. He gives it back, she lights it up again, and then puts it on the shelf while WALL-E finds something else.
WALL-E hands Eve a Rubik’s cube. The shot then follows WALL-E grabbing his tape from the toaster, taking Eve out of the picture, WALL-E rolls back and Eve had solved it. WALL-E is surprised again, takes the cube, and puts the tape in her hand. She unwinds it while WALL-E is looking at the cube. He looks over throws his arms up, throwing the cube, and yells. He quickly takes it away and tries to fix it. He then rolls over and tries to play it. He watches the screen and makes a sad sigh. The shot moves to the screen, the movie comes on and he gets excited. The shot then goes to Eve and WALL-E. WALL-E looks at Eve and points with both arms to the screen. Eve “ooohs” and gets closer to the screen while recording it with her blue scanner. WALL-E then rolls away to get his disc he had just found and dances like on the movie playing. Eve tries to copy but bangs hard on the floor instead. WALL-E stops her and showed her another move of spinning. Eve spins super fast and knocks WALL-E in the wall and he gets a little broken…and has to put in a new eye.
Then Eve finds a lighter and lights it. WALL-E “aahs.” They stare at the flame and then the music from the movie is slow, soft, and romantic in the background. WALL-E then turns and stares at Eve. They show the movie and the people singing to each other. WALL-E stares at Eve’s hand and shaking, he tries to reach for it. She pulls away and he turns away. Then she notices the movie and the people are now holding hands in it. Then WALL-E gets an idea and knows what to show her next! Excitedly, he shows her the plant he found. This activates her prime directive: She takes the plant into a special containment capsule within her body and goes into hibernation mode. WALL-E freaks out a little.
I think that the purpose of techniques was to really get the viewer entranced and involved in the movie. They used little dialog between the main characters but were still able to tell a wonderful story through gestures and short expressions. The movie’s overall purpose was to be simple while still getting across an important message and telling a wonderful story while doing so.
Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1o42BhiRq0
Part Two: How I plan to teach Film/editing techniques
I chose this film to pick a scene from because it is very well done and can be used to teach a younger group of students as well as older.
This film has the purpose of sending the message to kids to keep the earth clean and that it is important to exercise. Children may not always get that message when seeing the film, so it would be very helpful to talk about that in school.
Although my clip doesn’t show those things is does show some things that are becoming out-dated and I think that is good to show students that in case they may have never been exposed to those kinds of things before.
I think that the old-time movie that was shown in the movie is great to expose students to. Both young and old. Those types of films were so much more real and had little to no special effects and little violence. I wish movies like that were still made but since they are not it is good to expose students to that. It was a different kind of movie that was produced in that time, but a great one.
With teaching film/editing techniques, I believe that I would start with teaching the vocabulary. Most students have seen a film and could probably understand what they mean from there description. I then would go into looking at various clips and showing example of the vocabulary.
I would next go into the different types of film making, i.e. live action, animation, stop-motion animation. Showing examples of each. If the technology is available, I would then go into a project where they would create their own short film. Going over the different software, how to use a digital camera or video camera, uploading, what to do once you’ve gotten that far (editing photos/putting things together), and finalizing tools (adding music and credits. If the technology wasn’t available I think I would have students write a paper similar to part one of this assignment and analyze a scene from the movie. Making sure they are keeping track of every detail and their thoughts on why it was done that way. It is a great way to make students realize how much time and effort is put into making just one scene from a film.
Part Three: Shot-by-shot analysis of a commercial
**Sorry, I don't know how to put video in here yet, Still learning :)
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