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I am a Master's Degree holder in Film Design but more of a passionate storyteller through Art, Acting & Direction. I enjoy working as a Story Artist for multiple 2D/3D Animation Series and Live Action Films where I got an opportunity to do cinematic experiments under great people. These are a few thumbnails that I do for my studies of storytelling and it helps me a lot by understanding the treatment. I continue to do this for my learning and look for opportunities to work with talented people.
Jurassic Park (1993) - Introduction of T-Rex.
The film study was made about the introduction scene of T-Rex which is well crafted by the Director Steven Spielberg. The target of this scene is to show the introduction of the most awaited dinosaur in the movie and it has been designed accordingly. Story-flow, Music, Acting, etc all have a target to give importance to the main character (T-Rex) in the entire scene, but most importantly the camera treatment. If we notice, not even a single shot has a top view to establish the the overall surroundings. Event the master shot / long shots has designed lower view or maximum human eye level. I feel by following this treatment, the viewer can experience more thrill as this is the kinda turning point of the story. Also be it helps the viewer to understand the size and proportion of the creature and it has helped to keep the importance of the main character. One more important I have noticed is that there are a maximum number of reactions. All human characters we see give only reactions to whatever happening around them. This behavior supports to main character to give more thrilling experience to the viewer.
There are many more things I have learned during the study, slowly I will slowly share with everyone. If you also found something interesting, please share or DM me. 🙂
No Country for Old Men (2007) - Police Station Sequence
Opening scene of a police station when a policeman arrested Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) and talking on the phone, camera slow movement increases the tension between the audience and the scene. It will look strange as an audience if we see someone carrying an oxygen tank. The same representation the director tried to convey from a policeman character. The same thought is conveyed in the policemen dialogue as well when he's talking on the phone and explaining about the psychopathic killer. Also while policemen were talking on the phone, the director purposely made the background blur so that the audience's mind won't get diverted when the psychopath is escaping from the trap. The reason is director want the audience listen and see the contrast situation before actual struggle starts.
When the actual struggle starts, there is one low camera angle from back where both characters falls down on the floor is to show the impact of falling on the floor. When someone wrap something like chain, around someone's neck while standing, it takes more efforts to hold it tightly while standing and there are chances that the character can save himself from the trap...but same thing its very difficult to to escape from the trap while lying on the ground. Also imaging the impact of handcuff around the neck of policemen when they fall on the ground. To give this feeling to audience, director has used low angle from the back.
Now about the expressions, director has already established the madness of a psychopath in earlier scenes...here to show the pleasure of killing a policemen director has use the top angles where expressions can clearly visible. The shoe marks of policemen on the ground give a true feeling of struggle for life shows best from top angle.
At the end to make audience neutralize and take out from the messy sequence, top angle of wash basin scene has added...and then close shot of the main reason from where all this started...Psychopath with an Oxygen Tank.
The Man in High Castle (intro)
The web series is about what the world might look if outcome of World War II turned out differently. The color theme of the series is amazing and it keeps changing according to scene, story and mood. I choose to make thumbnails because I like the opening storytelling which give a good introduction of a subject and main character.
The Redemption
This sequence is Written, Directed and Storyboarded by me, with the collaboration of my composers!
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