Quiz #5 - Persepolis and Monsieur Ibrahim

sound mixing

combining sounds, mix where sounds blend smoothly with the others or may have abrupt constrasts ex. screech, can create patterns throughout the film,

Screenwriting quote

"Many novelists fail when they try to become screenwriters because they believe writing for film is writing, it is not writing for film is filming."

mister ibrahim

1960s, musics of the 1960s, music speaks about the script, actual story, music creates continuity in the scenes, 2nd arondisement, notre dame bells, city is rhythmic, paris noises, 2nd part of the movie is in turkey - contrast of music; story of young boy momo, dysfunctional family, friend with old man who has a store owned by turkish man, boy and old man communicate with music, music rebukked by father with classical music

end of monsieur ibrahim

Car crash, Ibrahim dies, leaves everything in his will to him, voice over of momo reading the will, inside the quaron is 2 blue flowers, he is the corner Arab shop owner, says sane thing you know I am not an Arab momo, Timmy song plays

setting of monsieur ibrahim

Inside shop, outdoors, streets, turkish setting, car, typical french, lots of streets especially to interact with the prostitutes, his house, neighborhood shop, a crowded dark space owned and run by Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a silent exotic looking man who sees and knows more than he lets on

unlikely friendship

Momo and the man do not become friends suddenly but over time, momo steals and has struggles in his life, the man offers wisdom and allows the boy to be in his shop even though he may take things, he can read the boy, ibrahim ends up being his father by choice, ibrahim gives him allo of his knowledge especially on the quaran

sound and film continuity

Music Stops, when he gets the note that his father has left, in dramatic moments, same song in the beginning middle and end shows familiarity

sound effects

Radio breaks up the song, hear tuning of the radio sound artificial, during text, shaking piggy bank thinking of sound during when he has sex, more natural sound effects from cars on the street

Timmy Thomas's Why Can't we Live Together

Sexy, at beginning when he is watching the prostitutes, later when he has sex for the first time, at the end after saying the same thing ibrahim used to say to him, kind of funny, bouncy, made after the time period of the film, when he has sex with prostitute

nondiegtic sound

coming from source outside story world, add on, characters are not aware of. when director adds music, ex. titanic jack and rose celine dion song, ex. jaws psycho shower scene, omniexscent narrator, sound effects

sequences in monsieur ibrahim

cuts as transitions, sound bridges, music connects scenes, music during different sequences, Dad says hes leaving, Sequence with the girl, finds she cheated, dad commits suicide, calls himself momo not Moses when his mom comes, being able to get adopted, getting car, going to turkey

music

Timmy thomas, music stops when Dad talks to him about money, different music for different sequences, turkish music in turkey, stops for dramatic moments, like the people spinning or when momo finds the note from his dad, sometimes diajetic when momo plays the radio and it is visible, other times the music is nondiajetic offscreen, music explains the emotions and thoughts of the characters,

spoken words

Voice over I don't care he is an Arab, spoken I'm not an Arab by the man

Storyboard

a panel or series of panels on which a set of sketches is arranged depicting consecutively the important changes of scene and action in a series of shots, important to understand the feel of the movie, important in animation to show the mood, how characters feel

loudness

amplitude, breadth, of the vibrations, aka volume, related to distance

Persepolis film

animation movie co-directed by the Iranian Marjane Satrapi and based on the comic book published by her in 2000, Graphic novel, Published these books in 2000

Animation

art form, each frame created by an artist

dialogues

between momo and ibrahim, Talking to himself about picking up prostitute

Stages from book to film

book, screenplay (to go from book to movie), storyboard, then shooting script

Fabula

chronological reconstruction of all the events of a non-chronological plot, persepolis moves between her as an adult and her as a child, non chronological plot because it she's going back to iran at the start, chronological moving from child to adult learning about iran, In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own

scene with prostitute at start

during credits rasio is heard switching between stations, demonstates how we are in era of radio, song - nondijetic, offscreen, song 1972 by timmy tommy why cant we live together, spirit of the time, song opens and closes the film, sounds like hotline bling

Traditional animation

each frame developed by hand, takes fast pace

Computer generated animation

easier animation, done on computer

mashant

egyptian actor, very handsome, holly made dr.jevargo

pitch

frequency of sound vibrations, aka percieved highness or lowness of the sound, helps ear sort the sounds

theme of monsieur ibrahim

friendship, unexpected friendship,

timbre

harmonic components of sound give it tone quality, aka nasal vs musical tone mellow, texture or feel of a sound

dijetic sound

has source in story world, sound that comes from world of film, characters are aware of, ex. characters talking, dialoguecan be on or offscreen, perceptual subjectivity, internal or external

Storyboard

has the images that the producer sees in the movie, movie director will make a storyboard, transform book text to images in movie

Animation

has to do with beauty of the drawing - black and white except for certain things in color, black and white contrasted, persepolis is animated, not for children has a lot of tough topics like war, people dying, can show certain emotions and thoughts differently with animation

synchronous sound

hearing sound at same time as we see what makes it

silence

in dramatic moments, momo is prone to silence sometimes, finding note from his dad that he is leaving, when the people in prayer are spinning x Man giving Moses cash for his coins, trying to talk to prostitutes,

Persepolis

means city of persia, persian city, in iran today, memoir in graphic novel, no recognition that we are in iran... people have an everyday life, does not orientalize the film, exoticism when she goes abroad

style of the film

music kind of tells you how to feel, not explicit, follows the boy,

sounds present

music, speech, noise, loudness, pitch, timbre - all define the overall sonic texture of a film, recognize different voices, shape experience of film, sound mixing - sparse, dense, abrupt, smooth

momo

neither mohammed ni moses, father is jewish, boy with identity crisis

asynchronous sound

out of synchronization, spoofs on poorly dubbed films,

Screenplay

script, later goes through many stages and final version is shooting script

Plot

selection and arrangement of a story's events

sound bridge

sound carries over from one scene to the next, yes

fidelity

sound faithful to source as we concieve it, if viewer takes sound to be coming from source diajectically, unfaithful - comic effect, subjectivity, or provides transition

rhythm

sound follows rhythm of scene, happy scene happy music, coordination involves beat, tempo, and pattern or stronger and weaker beats, slow sometimes fast, speech has rhythm, movements in image also have a rhythm, most common tendency is to match visual and sonic rhythms to each other, tight correspondence can yield powerful dramatic climax, to emphasize speaker or speech can create cuts at pauses, disparities between visual and sound rhythm can create mysterious effect,

voice over

story unfolding thorugh someone telling the story, added after, comes from offscreen, ex. in un secret boy narrates as a man, ex. voice on phone talking with blind person

scene with piggy bank

talking to himself, credits still going on , boy practicing how to pick up prostitute, music interuptted by his speaking, diajectic, inside, flashback, momo as young boy, later money will be used to buy prostitute, can hear bells background noise, girl is listening to radio/ hula hooping

Persepolis is an autobiography based on historical events

tells the story from the perspective of a young girl in persia, marjane also left twice, historical events of war, elements of her love life, friends, parents, relationship with other characters, some who have been imprisoned

Marjane strapati

took 3 years to make movie with artists, made classical animation movie, avg 40 secs of film for a week of work, the rebel, the independent spirit, is in the movie, confiding in her grandmother, visiting her favorite uncle in jail, on the eve of his death, egging her friends on to punish evildoers. She says that she always drew and told stories, I was Iranian and I wanted so much to become a Westerner it make life hard for me, says her point of view is subjective

cell

transparent strip to reproduce paint; would draw on cell

Voice over reading dictionary about Sufism, the voiceover can be considered unreliable because he is a child, like we are hearing momo's thoughts, camera is usually close up to show emotion, against law but inner peace, french, turkish are spoken,

voiceover / dialogue

sound perspective

way a film suggests the placement of sound in the story world, can ease from one point of view to another, suggest characters movement through space, can manipulate story and plot time → simultaneous sound - sound takes place at same time as image in terms of story events, nonsimultaneous - sonic flashback, earlier in story sound

sources of sound

where sound is coming, are characters aware, diajetic or non diajetic

Shooting script

will have annotation about the characters, film direction, truly final draft used on set by the production people, actors, and director to make the movie from the screenplay