After I watched "P", honesly, I felt sick to dead."Piranha" is a movie about a human tragedy suffered from a kind of fish, named "Piranha", which has been living in sea bolcano for nearly one million year. I think "Piranha" is belong to horror and comedy Genre. On one side, Horror is because the bloody bodies ate by the damn piranha. All the terrible shot is jumped cut scene by scene. On the other hand, the humorous element is much more from the piranha, which is they love targeting human's body except for the penis and the gels for the boom job.
In my point, I am not a big fan of "P" because of the old theme. Such as mass disaster, nature revenge,etc. As a audience, I was kinda fed up with those boring theme. However, at the end of the movie, there was a little bit out of my expectation. The whole group of survivors(main characters in "p") was saved on the boat.They both thougnt they were safe and killed all the piranha thoroughly. What in my mind was human can overcome the nature finally. Suddenly, the camera jumped cut to another scene, that is, the professor made a phone call to them and said "there is still tens of thousands piranha inside the deep sea. What you guys killed is just their babies." Then, one of survivors just was eaten by the parent piranha in the last high speed scene. Ahh, maybe by this movie, Alexandre Aja(director) tries to tell us, we should revere the nature.　
Anyway, 3D visual effection is awesome and I don't think I will go to have swimming in summer forever. - -

Scene Analysis
September 17, 2010

Lost in Translation 2003
Sofia Coppola



1.SCENE OVERVIEW




Lost in Translation share a dreamy quality and relaxed pace that you're either going to love or hate, with the right mindset, there's no doubt that Lost in Translation has the potential to come off as a tremendously moving human drama.




The film centers around two Americans in Japan: Bob Harris is a popular American actor in town to shoot a high-paying whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is the wife of a famous photographer who's killing time by decorating her hotel in everyday . Both characters spend a lot of time in the hotel's bar, where the two finally strike up a conversation. They begin to get to know each other through various excursions outside of the hotel, and quickly become good friends.


When two people meet each other understand the language when you do not need more, because the eyes that point, a common loneliness, emptiness and despair, there is no way to get Bob Harris and Charlotte do not catch the cavity. Because they know each other in their ages, two people can not integrate into the beautiful downtown to find a foreign land communication between the vocabulary, they eat together, sing karaoke OK, with silencely, with the confusion ... ... Harry’s eyes only a little more care, Charlotte's eyes only a little more happy, their eyes in Tokyo This presents some real life, have feelings, and not busy walking hurriedly after the cold . Tokyo, so someone do not want to leave. However, the reality of life in the face of the total presentation, there will naturally together that are scattered, since the restraint, it will have to exercise restraint to the end.



The two guys soon strike up a friendship based as much on emotional need as the fact that they are strangers in a very strange city.




However, she spends most of the time alone. Bob and Charlotte's first few encounters are casual - on an elevator, in a bar. Gradually, however, they begin to seek out one another and a bond develops. The two eventually spend nearly every waking hour together, holding deep conversations and finding ways to avoid the eventual parting that both know must occur.

2.SHOT ANALYSIS




The scene I chose that from 01:09:48 to 01:11:05.It is conversation between Bob and Charlotte to discuss about their marriages, their happiness and the meaning of it all.
Mise-en-scene:
This is Bob’s room .two character are Bob and Charlotte……
Colours:
This scene is in Bob’s room .They are lying on his bed after drinking on the night ,so the most of colour is grey around them
Lighting:
There is a little yellow light. They are talking under the dark place.
Sound;
There is no sound effective beside for their dialogue words. they are very quite ,Sometimes Charlotte is looking Bob to listen his marriage and how will to be in the future to come true her dream.




Character movements:
From 01:09:48 to 01:10:10 Charlotte and Bob are looking ceiling with raising their heads. From 01:10:10 to 01:10:30 Charlotte is turning to see Bob. From 01:10:30 to 01:11:00 Bob is also turning to see Charlotte, they are looking and talking each other.
The color complex, but not too much expression, not much dialogue. But every owner of the dialogue between men and women, is a humorous and vivid philosophy course. Charlotte asks Bob, are older is not the same view of life, and Bob replied, perhaps, a little bit. Charlotte, consider the unborn child will end after the birth of her self-life, and Bob replied, to live once, they are actually the same.



Cinematography:






Shot-type: Mix; Camera movement: tracking ;Camera Angle: no



















Shot-type: Mid-shot; Camera movement: zoom in; Camera Angle: no









Shot-type: CU; Camera movement: zoom in; Camera Angle: over shoulder

The two lie on the same bed with the actors, but nothing happened between them, but with nothing to fall back heart to another person what they loss themselves. Against the background of the night, this loss is particularly prominent.

This is Charlotte and Harris between the dialogue in the bed at night. The light of room is dim, but the mood is not low profile. Photographers take full advantage of the depth of the window at night, and by the natural space radiation to the light, make this scene a romantic nature, interesting, and has a meaningful significance. "Playful" side is reflected in the end of this period as a "full stop" in that scene: the right of the screen facing the ceiling sleep Harris, left Charlotte in the body curled up, like a monkey like sleeping in Harris's side, the camera is ninety degrees angle from the ceiling to the front overhead down.

At the end of film,Charlotte once again walking in the street, but this time she did not have no previous sense of direction, she found a life goal, find the power of life to continue walking, from the chaos of life came out. Harris left Tokyo, but also marked him out of the "lost" the shadow, to find a new life path.

The city of Tokyo, and here is no longer a simple city, but it is a road, a magic, a magic power of the road. With the same as Harris, we like to mind from wondering, and he relieved his feelings to be away, all of them were in one.

Scene Analysis
3514_james

The Virgin Suicides, 1999 Sofia Coppola
“On the play ground”

I. SCENE OVERVIEW

Firstly, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is based on mid 1970 which is the story of five sisters.
And this scene is also described love which had a mind of 1970's girls. I think the scene, huge trees are ordered to be cut down which make the youngest of the Lisbon girl tries to kill herself, is similar to this scene. So It affect 'lux' and other girls suicide as well. Because after this event, they cannot going out anymore by the her mother's rule. I can understand that ‘Lux’ try to watch the real world but she was suffocated by the name of ‘adult’ when she almost knows about the real love and the true of life as teenage little girl.
Still the stand-out music by Air is a pretty good consolation to the film's shortcomings. From this scene, the air’s music (play ground love) played which is about lux and trip in the love.

#Scene 1

#Scene 2

Shot Size:This is a long full shot and close up then long full shot again. In the first place, I can tell the place from the full shot then it is closed up to focus on lux’s face which we can know the situation, such as what is her status from her face, we can think a part of scene which shows lonely feeling of lux.
Sound:
When lux recognizes her situation, music is start playing. Air’s music (play ground love) which is the major part of back ground music of the film. Even though it is just back ground music, the moment the music start, we can guess that it is lonely scene. It brings me to a lonely feeling that builds an image that kind of loves about depths of the isolation.

Contrast Dominants:There is a main contrasting color would be Lux’s face and white dress with the blue morning. It is in very light blue, white and black highlight the shot and light shining is on her face directly which makes contrasting. The background is obviously a blue lonely play ground and she is blended into the area that we might think her mood all together in this shot.

Camera Angle:The angle of the camera is based on the ground level. Camera Angle is fixed to the ground. When she looks around the play ground, camera is still fixed. From this angle, I know a lonely expression that she gazes on empty ground.
Lighting:The lighting in this scene is very important part.She lay down on the ground, and the light is from the left side of the shot. The light shows the time when is the morning and it emphasizing to show the empty place.


Color usage:From the beginning I can recognize the color blue which means cold and repressed the emotions of lux and Trip that they feel depressed and desperate.

Character Movement:
From the Camera lens she is in the corner, lux maintains a certain fixed place. After the wake up, she looks around to want to find something, and then she recognizes Trip is gone.

Camera Movement:
It is a fixed lens, there is no outstanding movement.

#Scene 3
Her face is totally different before when she enjoy the time with ‘Trip’. She just bites her crown, which she gets from the competition.
There is no happy mood on her face anymore.
Everything is gone. She would think that the world is the end.

Color usage
The main color is blue which illustrates the cold dawn.
We can feel the cold from the ground and air.
Blue is colored every around the shot so it could make a meaning that we dose not know what is the love and happy.

Lighting
In the dawn, it brings blue lights that only trace the specific area from the sun, which is lighting on her sad white face.
Blue color and mixed light with darkness which is evidence obviously to know that it is early morning.

Character movement
Firstly, she just woke up and tries to understand the situation so she looked around everywhere. When she take a taxi, she dose not move anymore. She just gaze at outside from the window to see somewhere then we can find that only her eyes are moving.

Depth of field
When she wakes up, the shot is focused on her sad face. From the first shot, there is one person who propertied only small part of the shot. She is described small size of character. It means that now she is just the smallest character in the world.



Camera movement
Camera is still stopped to focus her doing. It is fixed for the long shot. After that, camera zoomed in her face. When she is in home, camera is fixed again to long shot.

#Scene 4
"We’re suffocating..."
"No. You’re safe, here."
"I can’t breathe in here..."


Sound
All over the sound of the scene is ‘Play ground love’.
‘Play ground love’ music makes calmness and quietness. Each of sounds is well organized to every shot. Hence, background music represent atmosphere over the playground very well. In addition, birds are singing with slow tempo of music that tells us the morning atmosphere as well.

Camera Angle
The first angle is not so high because this angle makes us to check her situation carefully. After that, it is changed to high level to see the entire playground. When she arrive at home, level of camera height is fixed to the normal eye level which makes us to watch every moment briefly that our eyes do not follow anything so we can distinct the happening simply.

Screen graphic/Composition

In the first place, her body is propertied most of the shot. After that she is described the small part of the shot compared to her surroundings. And we can feel the atmosphere of the morning that makes easy understand what the event was. And then we can recognize that she is al

#Scene 5

Script

Trip :
"I walked home alone that night. I didn’t care how she got home. It was weird.
I mean, I liked her. I liked her a lot. But out there on the field...
It was just different then. That was the last time I saw her."
"You know, most people will never taste that kind of love.
At least I tasted it once, right?"


III. Bibliography

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_Suicides_(film)

http://www.mattriviera.net/2010/07/life-in-100-films-virgin-suicides.html

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/virgin-suicides

http://www.screenit.com/movies/2000/the_virgin_suicides.html