2014年9月25日 星期四

住在男生躯体的女生

高挑,眼睛深邃和鼻子笔挺凸显出她立体且漂亮的五官,这 是我对她的第一印象。

“我可以坐这里吗” 她问道。
那一瞬间,她的声音透露了她的性别 —— 原来“她”是男生

她就坐在我的前排,我们就这样没有交集的一起上课。我想,也许是因为从小社会灌输我的观念,我对她多少都感到一些好奇和害怕吧,所以也不敢多与她交流。走在回宿舍路上,我又遇见她了。她对我微笑打招呼,接着我们开始一起聊天吃午饭。她告诉了我她的日常生活故事,但,这些事却能深深植入心里。。。

她也像女生一样,喜欢保养,喜欢打扮,喜欢穿得美美的与朋友一起逛街,想要留一头长发。

“我认为我就是一个女人,和你没有什么不同。” 她笑着和我说。

她说,从小她就发现自己不喜欢穿裤子,喜欢穿裙子,喜欢玩洋娃娃。

“学校老师都向妈妈说:你怎么有一个这么漂亮的女儿?”

“老师,他是我的儿子。” 这句话,让她知道她不能自由违背自己的躯体,男生的躯体。

直到中学,她尝试让自己和女生谈恋爱,好消除自己拥有女生的灵魂。

“可是我真的不能忍受了,触摸女生让我觉得我好像是同性恋,为什么我要喜欢同性?”从此,她开开心心的选择做回自己,内心最真实的那个自己。

当她选择做回最真实的那个自己时,她又开始感到压力了。身边的朋友亲人都用异样的眼光去看待她,而让她感到最煎熬的还是她妈妈。

“我妈妈能接受我是个变性人,她时常摸摸我的脸夸我漂亮,可是在社会的压力之下,她下一句往往会对我说:“但是你可不可以不要这样?””

妈妈很爱她,可是妈妈却要在社会的舆论下,痛心谴责儿子,让她走回所谓的“正道”。她的妈妈要减少社会对她的伤害,却宁愿伤害了自己。

“在我进入大学之前,妈妈就说如果你爱我就把头发剪短, 所以我也把留了好久的头发剪短。”

她说,她现在也习惯了伪装,在大学里她就尽量把自己男性化,不穿裙子。
虽然已经伪装了,她还是被歧视,尤其是被男生,常把她误认为同性恋并远离他。

“千万不要认为同性恋和变性人是一样的,虽然同性恋也喜欢男人,可是我把自己当成女人,所以喜欢异性是没有错的啊。”

她说,很多人把变性人当做性工具因为社会听到变性人的新闻都是负面的,甚至有些男人会向他要求进行性行为,她会感到沮丧。

有一次,她与两个变性朋友在街上逛逛,突然就被两名警察截拦,并以荒唐的理由用手铐逮捕他们。

“我们跟警察争论了很久,他们说像我们这些变性人是不能这样穿着污染社会的,我感到到非常的气氛。其中一名修读法律系的朋友用法律条规跟他们争论,他们也知道自己是非法逮捕我们。”

“其实他们真正的目的是要我们跟他们进行性行为,不然就不放过我们。”

她说,她拒绝了可是警察依然不放人,结果其中一位朋友被强迫跟警察发生关系,他们才被放开。

听到这里,我的眼泪已经忍不住掉了下来。她们有多么的委屈,没有人愿意帮助她们就算了,可恶的是还要欺负她们。

“人家说,人只有一条生命,只能死一次,可是在我心中,我们已经死了好多次。”

她看到我掉下眼泪,却还笑笑的安慰我。

“你以后遇到什么困难,绝对不要难过,想想我就好了,我可是经历过比你更悲惨的事情呢!”

也许就是经历过这么多磨练,她比我更成熟更正面,可是我却心疼她的开朗。
上天难道就不能给她幸福吗?

“我真的只想找到真心爱我和我爱的人,你知道当我和他在一起的时候却不能结婚,不能替他生育,我有多难过吗?我真的好想成为女人。”

当她说了这番话,我想一个女人不能拥有属于自己的孩子,那真的会很难过。上帝给她拥有了女生的灵魂却附上男生的肉体,这是多么不公平的一件事!

“我天生就是这样了,我也不想这么“特别”,可是既然上帝给了这样的我,我就只能接受,从困境中找出属于自己的快乐生活。”

“其实很多人会用上帝不允许变性的理由去歧视我们,我想告诉他们这是错误的观念,因为上帝是包容的代表,歧视我们的是这个社会是人所制造出来的想法。”

听她说了这番话后,我真的觉得世界上任何人都是平等,没有必要去歧视谁,没有人想要一出生就跟别人与众不同。

今天,我上了一堂特别的课,我很欣赏她在这个封建的社会中还保持了积极乐观的态度并散播正能量。我也很感激她为我的人生打开一扇门,让我看看这不能轻易触碰的世界。







2014年6月1日 星期日

Public Screening Night Review

27.05.2014 was the public screening night for media students. The aim of the public screening is to let other faculty’s students in University Malaya have the opportunity to watch the video production that produce by us. The event start on 830pm at amphitheatre of Faculty of Built Environment. Here is our program tentative:  
8 pm entrance

Some of the students had set up all the sound system and adjust the position of the projector during that time. Other students gathered and found a seat at the amphitheatre and ready to enjoy the show.

830pm screening

The screening started at 9pm after fully prepared.

These are the films that screening at that day.
1. Show Reel
2. Bomoh – short film
3. Bunga – short film
4. Alam Melayu ( Melaka) - documentary
5. The Wound – Public Service Announce (PSA)
6. Zahirah – short film

7. Lovely Pop – commercial advertising
8. Inspektor Petonah – short film
9. Mahkluk Ganjil – news coverage
10. Seram Kampus - documentary
11. Pembunuhan Ratu Kampus – news coverage
12. Hantu Menyambut Merdeka – short film
13. After the Strom – short film
14. Epilogue  

10pm exchange presents
We had gained a lot of fun during this section. This section made us interacted more with each other such as juniors, seniors and students who take this course as elective.

1015pm eat
After we finished our “tea time” is the time to say goodbye. We had taken a picture for all the students who come to the public screening night


2014年5月17日 星期六

Director Journal 12 - Screening Night Review

Screening night was an amazing night! The aim of the screening night is to that night. However, without an awesome director there won't be an nice video! The directors of these production video are Ariff, Hisyam, Shinno, Liew, Syazwan, Danny and more. It's not easy publish the production video that done by the students who are taking art of filming and television production at department of media studies. There are 14 videos had been projected on to conduct a team for shooting but its worth when we saw our work projected on the big screen.



Our theme for the screening night is “Vintage and Tie Bow” therefore we dressed up and styled ourselves with vintage outfit.

Everyone look gorgeous!!
The best outfit for male - Augustin

The best outfit for female - Mia

 The dinner started with the show reel of the screening night. The show reel is a sample of the videos edited together to show footage of the videos that produce by us. The show reel brings out the feeling of energetic and lively which make a good start for the dinner.



After the show reel, the 14 production videos started to project on the big screen. Before the video started to project, there was an introduction to the director and the favorite quote of the director. One of the quotes that I like the most is the Shinno’s quote – “ Pemulaan adalah bermula sekarang”.  I think the class of art of film is a good start for us to let us explore in film production.


Among the all of the production, the production that I impressed me the most is “ Inspektor Petonah”.  The good composition of the video creates a strong visual effect which attracted audience. The director uses a lot of symmetrical shot which lead to a striking scene. 
The director of "Inspektor Petonah" use a lot of symmetrical shot which is similar like the picture above. 

Besides that, the director uses a lot of comedy elements in the video and the make the audience laughing so much.


Of course, the short film “ ZAHIRAH” also became one of my favorite video. Although the duration of the short film is around 2 minutes but the unexpected ending makes the audience curious about what’s next scene going to happen. ZAHIRAH is a good short film and it leaving room for our imagination.

Lastly, I really like the epilogue! The epilogue is the piece of writing by Prof Azizah at the end of a work of literature, it bring closure to the work. The director using vintage color correction to edit the video. The costume and the scene bring our memory back to 80s and it really suit with the dinner’s theme. That is why I like the epilogue so much.


I really enjoyed the night and learned a lot through watching the film production of the other groups. It is a nice experience for me. 

Reference
Darren Rowse ( 2013). Digital Photography School. 5 Elements of Composition in Photography. Retrieved from http://digital-photography-school.com/5-elements-of-composition-in-photography/.

2014年4月26日 星期六

Kill Bill 2 Movie Review


"The bride is back for the final cut."



The opening scene same with the vol 1, which is the bride shooting by the gun. However, Kill Bill 2 had mentioned about the relationship between the bride and Bill.

The using movement of the camera lens can bring different view and feeling to the audience.

Here is the analysis of using of camera lens movement for the opening scene:

For the opening, the director use whole black scene and subtitle to create the suspense. The director also use some disturbing and anxiety background music to evoke the curiosity of audience.



For the following scene, the director using close-up, black and white scene and tilt composition to show the bloody face of the bride. The director using black and white for this scene because he would like to stress that the terror of the bride and show the life as pale person. 

Lens movement
Opening and the end of the movement of the camera lens and the ending of the camera lens are mutually contrast. 
Start of the camera lens movement.

The camara lens pull back and then rise. When the lens is pull outside from the church, there are four killer shown at the scene. The movement of the camera lens rise and pullback to whole scene because the director want to avoid the bloody slaughter process which can cause audience feeling uncomfortable.

End of the camera lens movement


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Bill is located on the left of the scene and the bride is located on the right of the scene.
These two scenes also formed a contrast
First, the director using close-up for the bride and she looked at Bill.

The next scene is the perspective of the bride look at Bill by using close-up.


Reference
Peter Tonguette(2004). Kill Bill: Vol.2 .Retrieved from http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue9/killbill2.html.

Les Choristes Movie Review

Les Choristes is a French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. This movie belong to drama and romantic genre.


The story of the Les Choristes is about a failed musician Clement Mathieu comes to a strict boys' boarding school. The tough headmaster Racine use the motto "Action - Reaction" to rule over the students. Therefore the students behave nicely in front of the teachers but always create a lot of trouble after that. Mr. Mathieu tries a different approach by introducing music into their lives to change their attitude. He forming a boy's choir to discover their musical talent. However, Mr. Mathieu like one of the troublemaker young boy's Pierre beautiful single mother which add some romantic genre into the movie.

The film was shown at the multiple international film festival  and the film also list on the highest- grossing film of 2005 worldwide. It shown that the film gain support from the audience.


However, the plot of the story had been critic as being formulaic because audience can predict what's going on happen next. The plot of the story quite alike with other films about inspirational teachers. " Their influence will change a life of the students" and we can see when the opening of the film. The movie seem cannot break from the formula of drama genre.



Reference

Edward Douglas (2005). The Chorus (Les Choristes). Retrieved from http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=7904.



2014年4月25日 星期五

Director Journal Week 11

Our group had finished for the shooting before week 10. This week we have to conduct the final edit for the short film- Zahirah. As a editor, I had been instructed by the director to edit the subtitle to the short film. I used the new software on the Mac that I haven’t learned before to edit the subtitle of the short film. However, I think I can handled the new software because I had been learned Adobe After Effect before.

Here is the translated script for Zahirah:
Mother:           She has become an ustazah. This has finally fulfilled me and my husband’s ambition in making her an Islamic teacher. Our efforts in nurturing her did not go to waste, Piah.
I am grateful for having a righteous daughter like Zahirah. She has self-respect, listens to the elderly and obey to religion rules. You have also seen it, right? From a small kid to a grown adult, it was not hard to teach her. She is brilliant. She was a clever student in school and became the apple of the eye of her teacher. After that, she went to Egypt to continue her studies. She was the top student there, (getting good results every semester).
Alhamdulilah.
Please have a drink, Piah.
For now, she does not want me to stay alone here. She wants to take care of me. That’s why she was willing to stay here with me. When she has more money in the future, she will bring me along to move to a bigger house.
Zahirah:           Assalamualaikum.
Mother:           Waalaikumsalam. Zahirah, there you are! We just only talked about you. Come in and greet Aunty Piah.

Zahirah:           I go in first, mother and Aunty Piah.
Mother:           Zahirah just came back from teaching, Piah. Now she owns a car, life is easier. This whole month was fruitful for her. Well, teaching religion studies gives great blessing and reward. How is your son now, Piah? Has he started working?


I replayed the short film many times in order to listen clearly the conversation between the character and put subtitle in the right timing. After editing the video, I think that learning video editing software is very important to media students. It is a skill for us to find a job outside the university. If you lazy to learn something new, you will lose at the beginning.

2014年4月18日 星期五

Director Journal Week 10

Dr Azlan asked us to pitch idea for short film. Only three sentences are needed.
So here is my first draft of the synopsis

CHANGE
A woman who called Jess always complaining about her appearance and she does not satisfy with her look. One day, she decided to do a plastic surgery.

When she woke up from the surgery, she realized that her face totally change even she also can’t recognize herself. Therefore, she started to live in a life that she didn’t expected.

She regrets for what that she had done because the surgery had changed her life upside down. At last, her life changed again. She decided to encourage those who are low self-esteem and become a successful motivational speaker.



After Dr.Azlan listened about the script, he asked me to add “twist” for the ending of the short film. Therefore, here is the edited version for my synopsis.

CHANGE
A woman who called Jess always complaining about her appearance and she does not satisfy with her look. One day, she decided to do a plastic surgery.

When she woke up from the surgery, she realized that her face totally change even she also can’t recognize herself.

One day, she met with a girl, Kim who had same face with her. They both shocked. After a long talk, they decided to exchange their living life because they had boring about the living life they had now. However, Jess doesn’t know Kim had an intention for this action. 

Director Journal Week 9

For this week, Dr Azlan requested us to explain about the slideshow that had been taught by him. Dr wanted to test us whether we understand with the lecture. However, it is quite hard for me to understand some of the concept because I don’t have much experience on film production. I think the best way of learning is we will apply the theory what had been taught by Dr when we face the problem during the process of the production.

Besides that, some of the members in our group had to attend the test which done by the lecturer from UPM. Although I didn’t take part in it but I still try to study some note about film production. Hope I can use these theories someday. 

2014年4月14日 星期一

Lizzie McGuire the Movie movie review


The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a comedy film and the film was released by Walt Disney Pictures.
This movie is the first Disney Channel Original Series to have theatrical film.
The Lizzie McGuire movie had reached number two in United States box office on 2003 because the film serves as a series to the television series.

The film is about Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip becomes a teenager's dream come true.

From the style of the movie, I think the main audience of the film are teenagers. Therefore, the movie use an interesting starting to attract their eye's ball.


The starting of the movie using the cartoon of Lizzie to create an interesting and funny atmosphere. 
The director using the animation of cartoon Lizzie to introduce the casting and the crew. 



Animated Lizzie represented the inner's thoughts of the Lizzie and addressing the audience directly in the manner of the Greek chorus. The advantages of the animation is to reflect a live-action character's innermost thoughts.The animated Lizzie can show visually illustrate the main character interior monologues.


The animated Lizzie was voiced by the main character, Hillary Duff.


The other interesting part of the opening part of the movie is the main character start with singing and dancing happily.
This scene had showed that Lizzie has a star dream. At last, she finally made it on the stage and shine on the stage. The opening of the movie can be said related to the end of the movie.




Reference
The Disney (2000). Animated Lizzie. Retrieved from http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Lizzie_McGuire.


2014年4月12日 星期六

Super 8 Movie Review

Act structure explains how a plot of a film story is composed. 
The three acts are labeled as act 1 setup, act 2 confrontation and act 3 resolution. 



The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships and the world they live in. The first act usually comprises the first quarter of the screenplay around 30 minutes.

 In the movie Super 8, the first act refer to the start of the film. The mother of the main character Joe Lamb has been killed in an accident. Joe was more attached to his mom than his dad who is Deputy Jackson Lamb who never really been there for his son.

Later at the Lamb's house, Louis Dainard pays a visit. He was blamed for the death of Jackson wife's death and forced him out of his house and puts him in his squad car. As Joe watches his father take Louis away, his gaze shift to a silver locket in his hand.

Four months later, Joe and his friends Charle get summer break and they has been shooting a Super 8 film which is a detective story for a film festival in Cleveland. The crew include Cary, Preston and Martin. Charle had rewritten the story so the detective now has a wife. He invited Alice to play the character. 

The group arrives at the Lilian Train Station, where Charles intends to shoot a scene with Martin as the detective of his story, trying to get his wife Alice to leave a zombie infection. As they film the scene of the train thundering past the station, there is a explosion of the train. The train-wreck site scattered with strange little white cubes. Joe picked up one of the white cubes and the strange events started to happen around in his life.



The second act also referred to as rising action, typically depicts the main character's attempt to resolve the problem initiated by the first turning point, only to find  him or herself in ever worsening situations. The main reason of the main character seem unable to resolve their problems is because they do not yet have the skills to deal with the forces if antagonism that confront them. The second act comprises the next two quarter of the film around 60 minutes.

The town devolves into a state of crisis after the train- crash. There are many report about the missing household items and dogs. Later Jackson grows concerned when the Military begins to roll into Lilian through radio frequency.  

Shortly after hearing the transmission, Jackson encounters Alice's father Louis, who tells Jackson to keep Joe away from Alice. Jackson demands that Joe keep away from Alice, but Joe claims that Alice isnt like her father. They two reach a wordless impassses before Jackson under arrest and locked away by General Nelec.

Joe heads over to the cemetery after this, where he sits at the headstone of his Mother's grave. He hears some loud noises coming from a garage near the tombstones. He is surprised when Alice appears in his rooms. They watched the home movies of his mom and suddenly the strange white cube that Joe picked up at the crash site started to vibrate before shooting through a nearby wall and leaving a hole behind.

After that, Alice heads home and saw his father drunk and smoking. She rushed away from the home with bike because disgusted by his father. Alice was taken by a large creature at that time. Because of this incident, Joe intent to get back into town and rescue Alice. They discovered some secret of the large creature before they under arrest by General Nelec. They managed to escape and they rush off to the cemetery. 

They saw and heard strange things from the garage. Eventually, they found all the missing people at there and the large creature eating the limb of another human.

The third act features the resolution of the story and its subplots. The climax is the scene or sequence in which the main tensions of the story are brought to their most intense point and the dramatic question answered, leaving the main character and other characters with a new sense of who they really are. The third act comprises the final quarter of the film around final 30 minutes.
Joe, Alice and Cary return to the surface safely. As they do,a ll sorts of mechanical objects in the area become magnetized to the water tower's top area. The water tower burst after the locket of Joe flies up to the magnetized watertower, where he metallic objects and the white cubes morph into a spaceship. The creature climbs on top of the water tower and disappears. The watery content raining down on the people below and all of the family reunion again. Alice and his dad and Joe and his dad seem to remend their broken relationship because of this incident.



Reference

Sidney Lumet(2013).Three-act Structure. Retrieved from http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/pruter/film/threeact.htm.

Stephen J. Cannell (1998). What is the Three Act Structure? Retrieved from http://www.writerswrite.com/screenwriting/lecture4.htm.

IMDb(2001). Super 8. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650062/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_pl_syn.

2014年4月11日 星期五

Director Journal Week 8

Our group had to finish the real shooting by this week. Therefore, I had got some advice from the senior in order to make sure the shooting go smoothly.
            The thing that he had mentioned was always have a back-up plan. If we ever organized shoot dates, no matter what plans that we had made, we might going to encounter some problem to extend the real shoot. For example, he told me that he planned to split up the shots at different place so there was a mix of difficult and easy sets- up.

            I think his advice is very useful therefore we might follow the advise that he gave to run our real shooting.

2014年4月4日 星期五

Director Journal week 7

The crew member set up for the living room.
Our rehearsal shooting run on last week and we conducted our rehearsal on the studio media faculty.

Before we started the rehearsal shooting, we had to prepare well all the props and camera setting.
We used main studio as living room and the pantry of the media faculty as kitchen.

We used around 3 hours for the rehearsal shooting. In the process, Ariff as the director and giving instruction to the camera man for the shooting angle.

After rehearsal shooting we realized that cooperation within the crew members can make the job finished in shorter time and do better.

Next time I think that we can do the best!

2014年3月28日 星期五

Dark Skies Movie Review


1. A supernatural thriller follow a young family - the Barrett family who living in the suburbs. The Barrett family consist of father Daniel, mother Lacy, eldest son Jesse and the youngest son Sammy. Daniel has been out of work at least three months which become an issue they fight for everyday. Sammy communicate with Jesse from their beds via walkie-talkie and reads scary stories about the Sandman to him in order to distract him from their parent's fighting. The family start to experience an escalating series of disturbing events which involving their family safety and peaceful. From that time, Sammy tells Lacy that the Sandman had came to his room. Daniel and Lacy try to brush it off but the incidents become more intense. When the myth become clearer, Daniel and Lacy realize they targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force. Daniel and Lacy take action to solve mystery of what is after their family. However, they failed to protect their children from being taken away by the Grey - aliens that have traveled millions of light years to experiment on human. Three months later, Lacy realize that the walkie-talkie begins to crackle and Sammy pick up the walkie-talkie. He hears Jesse call his brother's name.


2. Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. 
The Dark Skies different from other movie that marked as genre sci-fi because the film add horror genre into it. The director manage to generate some tense and creepy atmosphere in the film such as the ransacked kitchen, some paranormal furniture rearrangement and a convoluted camera monitoring system. Besides that, the director try to create the feeling of terror in this film by using the sound effect. The director first using the quiet scene and suddenly using increasingly loud tension chord to shock the audience. For example, the way of characters banging their head against glass or staring agape into the camera. Despite all these scenes, the director didn't use the visual effect of  the alien " grey" directly at the front part of the movie but his choose to build up the emotion of the audience to feel the tension of the character. Therefore, the Dark Skies different from other Sci-Fi movie such as ET, Men In Black and more that using a lot of imaginative content and futuristic visual effect.

3. The time background setting of the film is 20th century.  We can know that the idea of the film present is 20th century because the convenience of the internet accessible by the character and there is no futuristic setting gadget for the film.

The place setting for the Dark Skies is suburbs - a usually residential area or community outlying a city.
There are a lot of scenes showing that the resident around the area doing activities around the residential area.


Some of the important props that use in the film are
bicycle


walkie-talkie


food can

the dead bird

gun


wood 


drawing paper



4. Here is the shot types that had been used in Dark Skies.


1) WS (Wide Shot)
The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.
AKA: long shotfull shot.
The starting of the movie show that this is an ordinary family. 
2) MS (Mid Shot)
Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.
After Jesse heard some voice that cannot be hear by other, he become unsound mind.
3) MCU (Medium Close Up)
Half way between a MS and a CU.
Lacy was trying to protect her children so she was looking up and down for Sammy and Jess. However, she didnt not realiaze that Grey is standing behind of her. She end up with locked alone inside the room.
4) CU (Close Up)
A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame
Lacy realized Daniel wasn't in bed and when he found Daniel, she saw Daniel in this expression and later he was nose bleeding.
5) Cut-In
Shows some (other) part of the 
subject in detail
Daniel realized that he had some allergic symptoms on his left ear in the morning.
6) (OSS) Over-the-Shoulder Shot
Looking from behind a person at the subject.
 
Lacy was talked to her client at that time after that she walk to the glass and started to bang to the glass which shocked client.
7) Two-Shot
A shot of two people, framed similarly to a mid shot.
Lacy asked Sammy whether he know who did about the prank of the ransacked  kitchen and Sammy answered her it was done by Sandman.


5. One of the critic of editing style in the film of Dark Skies is that the film using jump cut.
Jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary slightly. The jump cut usually have to avoid in the film. However, the Dark Skies using the jump cut well and bring a good effect.
 Here is the comment of the audience about the jump cut that use in the film
"One of my favourite moments is a P.O.V. shot that turns expediting jump cuts into otherworldly temporal blips by amplifying the disturbing soundtrack hum at the point of each edit. It's more effective, frankly, than the one or two awkwardly-rendered shots we get of the "Grays," who are at least used sparingly. "

As a conclusion, if the jump cut use well in the film, it will add a sense of speed to the sequence of events.

Reference

Bill Chambers(2013). Dark Skies (2013) - Blu-ray + DVD + Ultraviolet. Retrieved from http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2013/05/dark skies.html#sthash.ebyhl2Oa.dpuf


Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin (2006). Film Art: An Introduction (8th Edition). New York: McGraw Hill. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-07-331027-5.

Shaun Munro(2013). Dark Skies Review: Laughably Derivative Sci-Fi Falls At Every Hurdle
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Kyle Anderson(2013). Interview with “Dark Skies” Writer/Director Scott Stewart. Retrieved from http://www.nerdist.com/2013/02/interview-with-dark-skies-writerdirector-scott-stewart/.

Media college.com. Shot types. Retrieved from http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/.

Rotten Tomatoes(2013). Dark Skies Movie Info. Retrieved from http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dark_skies_2013/.