Resident evil afterlife analysis

We open to a pattern of blinking lights, seen from the sky. It could be a distant constellation – but in fact it’s a city, specifically Tokyo. As we get closer, the neon-lit streets are full of people; it’s raining hard and, to the thumping drum-beat (the music is by trendy-sounding ), the camera slo-o-owly pans up a young woman’s legs, finally revealing the woman herself. She looks pale and. A harried Japanese salaryman walks towards her – and she suddenly attacks him, sinking her teeth into his flesh. The camera moves up and away with the street still in view, the city lights, then Japan itself turns to a city of flesh eating zombies.

The woman whose legs we just ogled being presumably Patient Zero in the zombie epidemic. It didn’t need to be there, of course, since Afterlife is the fourth instalment so Resident Evil fans know all about the back-story, but the whole scene is irresistibly cool and of course that’s the point. Afterlife is a very fetishised film, lingering over its visuals.

Matrix film analysis

The film is known for a visual effect known as "bullet time", which allows the person watching to explore a moment progressing in slow-motion as the camera appears to go around the scene at normal speed. This allows the audience to take in everything on screen as it may be of importance to the film or just simply be interesting.

The method used for creating these effects involved a technical version of an old art photography technique known as time-slice photography which i have researched however we would not be able to use this in our opening sequence as the technology is not available to us. A large number of cameras are placed around an object and triggered nearly simultaneously. Each camera is a still-picture camera, and not a motion picture camera, and it contributes just one frame to the video sequence. When the sequence of shots is viewed as in a movie, the viewer sees what are in effect two-dimensional "slices" of a three-dimensional moment. Watching such a "time slice" movie is similar to the real-life experience of walking around a something to see how it looks from different angles. The positioning of the still cameras can be varied along any smooth curve to produce a smooth looking camera motion in the finished clip, and the timing of each camera's firing may be delayed slightly, so that a motion scene can be watched (over a very short period of real time).

Some scenes in The Matrix feature a "time-slice" effect with completely frozen characters and objects. Film techniques improved the film and allowed for slow motion so it seemed as character movement was still in progress.

Location scouting

These are just a few of the possible locations that we feel will be best suited to our opening sequence and some of our main location possibilities.

production

This week we were planning to continue filming but we were unable to due to a few technical setbacks. Also todays weather did not permit my group to film as it would of affected the continuity. So far we have done the first indoor scene and we were able to use a drama room in my school and we were able to dim the lights which was very effective.