Color/16m.m - 50 minutes/£800
JUST BEFORE DAWN
by
Davd Lamelas
The project is basically an analysis of the elements by which narative primarily works on Film Narrative conventions.
There is already something that we understand as "commercial film" and "art film". The project refers to both "systems''.
A - Com. film B - Art Film
A story telling and certain filmic element of stereotype Narrative within Film Structure directly referred to in my previous Art Film work:
Visual Information < > Oral Information
The complelity of the work will work during the film Viewing in a series of levels where the two described elements A and B would work as letters in the alphabet, parts to build up the film discourse.
JUST BEFORE DAWN
The film is set in London and opens with a police raid on a house just before dawn on a summer morning. The mood of the sequence is that of a thriller. The police act with cool efficiency. They have come with a purpose and are very methodical. They wake a man they find sleeping on the sofa in a sparsely but expensively furnished room. At first it could be a typical raid, they find a case of arms and ammunition. They take the man into custody. There is a deference in the polite way they treat him. He takes his time in preparing to go, it is almost as if he is deliberately keeping them waiting. There is a coolness throughout the scene. The audience sees the whole of the raid sequence with an objective clarity. The sequence ends with the man going out of the house and into the police car, which takes him to headquaters. He enters the building but we don't follow him. The color for most of the sequence is muted and only as he is driven to the headquarters does the color begin to assert its full richness.
The man is now back in his room. He is giving his version of the raid to some unseen people and occasionally he talks directly to the camera. He asserts his innocence and disclaims any knowledge of the plot that the police have uncovered.
A white car is seen in the street below. Inside, a girl is talking to an unseen person. She is describing the incident but as if it happened to some other character.
The man is still telling his story. He is innocent. He tells the details coolly.
The girl is seen briefly, still talking to the unseen person in the car.
The man now describes the police version of the incident: there has been an international plot to kidnap an official and destroy a plane at the airport. He is to be charged for some part in this plot. The girl is seen from outside the car. She is still talking to the unseen person. She mentions a third person who might be connected with the events she is describing.
the man now begins to contradict himself. He could be part of the plot and he could be innocent. He begins to contradict his earlier story and at times he sounds as if he is part of a world wide plan of destruction.
The scene becomes more ambiguous. He discusses his forthcoming concert. The police wish to stop the concert. He says it is an important concert and must go on. A lot of people want to hear him and at the same time he give the feeling that the concert it part of this incident. The police will try to stop it for fear something will happen. He is determined to give the concert. There is a feeling that it will be a sinister change to the story.
He is seen in concert. The shooting mainly concentrates on his performance. After some minutes there is a cut to the street outside his home as the white care moves off down the street and around the corner, just at the first rays of the sun are beginning to be seen on the surrounding houses.
Color/16m.m - 50 minutes/£800
JUST BEFORE DAWN
by
Davd Lamelas
The project is basically an analysis of the elements by which narative primarily works on Film Narrative conventions.
There is already something that we understand as "commercial film" and "art film". The project refers to both "systems''.
A - Com. film B - Art Film
A story telling and certain filmic element of stereotype Narrative within Film Structure directly referred to in my previous Art Film work:
Visual Information < > Oral Information
The complelity of the work will work during the film Viewing in a series of levels where the two described elements A and B would work as letters in the alphabet, parts to build up the film discourse.
JUST BEFORE DAWN
The film is set in London and opens with a police raid on a house just before dawn on a summer morning. The mood of the sequence is that of a thriller. The police act with cool efficiency. They have come with a purpose and are very methodical. They wake a man they find sleeping on the sofa in a sparsely but expensively furnished room. At first it could be a typical raid, they find a case of arms and ammunition. They take the man into custody. There is a deference in the polite way they treat him. He takes his time in preparing to go, it is almost as if he is deliberately keeping them waiting. There is a coolness throughout the scene. The audience sees the whole of the raid sequence with an objective clarity. The sequence ends with the man going out of the house and into the police car, which takes him to headquaters. He enters the building but we don't follow him. The color for most of the sequence is muted and only as he is driven to the headquarters does the color begin to assert its full richness.
The man is now back in his room. He is giving his version of the raid to some unseen people and occasionally he talks directly to the camera. He asserts his innocence and disclaims any knowledge of the plot that the police have uncovered.
A white car is seen in the street below. Inside, a girl is talking to an unseen person. She is describing the incident but as if it happened to some other character.
The man is still telling his story. He is innocent. He tells the details coolly.
The girl is seen briefly, still talking to the unseen person in the car.
The man now describes the police version of the incident: there has been an international plot to kidnap an official and destroy a plane at the airport. He is to be charged for some part in this plot. The girl is seen from outside the car. She is still talking to the unseen person. She mentions a third person who might be connected with the events she is describing.
the man now begins to contradict himself. He could be part of the plot and he could be innocent. He begins to contradict his earlier story and at times he sounds as if he is part of a world wide plan of destruction.
The scene becomes more ambiguous. He discusses his forthcoming concert. The police wish to stop the concert. He says it is an important concert and must go on. A lot of people want to hear him and at the same time he give the feeling that the concert it part of this incident. The police will try to stop it for fear something will happen. He is determined to give the concert. There is a feeling that it will be a sinister change to the story.
He is seen in concert. The shooting mainly concentrates on his performance. After some minutes there is a cut to the street outside his home as the white care moves off down the street and around the corner, just at the first rays of the sun are beginning to be seen on the surrounding houses.