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