Independent Reseach Critique

Jason's Research Script
1. His research topic was how power is portrayed.
2. The areas he decided to focus on was lighting and color.
3. He uses quotes from the director

Carmen's Research Script
1. Her research topic was political thrillers.
2. The areas she decided to focus on was background information, government corruption, cutting, and camera movement.

3. She used interviews and secondary sources.

Independent Research Script Part 1

Research Topic: Romance
Research Question: How do different cultures portray illnesses and how people deal with them?

3 areas of comparison:

• how the significant other deals with it
• how it affects their lives as a whole
  
• what the culture has to say about how different people deal with illnesses
  

Films:
American: The Notebook and A Walk to Remember
Other Culture:

Sound Film Treatment

Logline: A couple leave their 3 mischeivous children with a babysitter as they go on a date and imagine that their kids are tormenting the babysitter.

A couple try to find a babysitter last minute so they can go to a nice resturant the opening night. After an hour of calling people they finally find a babysitter and the babysitter comes over to watch the 3 children.

While at dinner the parents are talking and wondering if they should check up on the children. They then talk about things that their children could do to their babysitter. Fades into a scene of the children chasing the babysitter around the house and one bumps into a shelf and knocks over a picture frame. A sound bridge fades into the next scene and the parents realize a waitress dropped a glass in the resturant.

The parents have another imagination that the kids are tying up their babysitter and throwing things at her. They then hear a scream which fades them back to the resturant scene which was a baby screaming.

As they are leaving they have a final imagination that the kids are writing on the walls and laughing and throwing things around the house when the babysitter is tied up. The parents rush home thinking they are going to get home to a messing house. Once they walk in they see all their kids passed out in front of the tv with the babysitter sitting on the couch reading a book.

Fades out.

Narrative:
Sound Design plays an important role in the development of character, setting and conflict.
Sound bridges as transitions from one scene to another. a close up of the children related to a eerie sound. room tone/ romantic music to set the scene of the resturant and suspenceful music for the setting of the home.

Production Elements:
Foley Sound Effects incorporated in film either realistically or expressively.
a glass falling down and breaking, a baby screaming, little kids laughing and screaming, kids running on hard wood floor.

Sound Bridge as a scene transition
sound bridge as transitions from reality to the parents' imagination

Montage or Leitmotif tied to character
a suspenceful sound tied to the children