Save The Cat Beat Sheet: Theme Stated

In film, the pre-production process requires a plan in order to organize and carry out the filming process. This is where the Save The Cat Beat Sheet comes in play. This Beat Sheet is used as a sort of planning sheet to know when and where to say and do certain things, like a script, but less detailed. This sheet is used in every bit of the film including the introduction to plan out when and where to execute certain scenes. The introduction on a beat sheet is divided into multiple sections including Opening Image, Set-up, and Theme Stated. In this blog, I will be discussing the Theme Stated.

The theme stated is the point in a film opening where the theme of the entire film is shown/visible to the audience. The theme stated is also used to establish the exposition of the film. Exposition in film is defined as a device used to get across an idea via a detailed explanation.

Save The Cat Beat Sheet: Set-Up

In film, the pre-production process requires a plan in order to organize and carry out the filming process. This is where the Save The Cat Beat Sheet comes in play. This Beat Sheet is used as a sort of planning sheet to know when and where to say and do certain things, like a script, but less detailed. This sheet is used in every bit of the film including the introduction to plan out when and where to execute certain scenes. The introduction on a beat sheet is divided into multiple sections including Opening Image, Set-up, and Theme Stated. In this blog, I will be discussing the Set-up.

The set-up is where the two friends are introduced to each other. This is because it shows the reason behind the killer stabbing the new friend. The theme stated is self-explanatory, as it shows or introduces the theme of the film. The few clips of the murder that took place are considered the theme stated because the theme is “don't trust everybody” and when the new friend (Paige) becomes comfortable with Kayla, Kayla murders her.

Save The Cat Beat Sheet: Opening Image

In film, the pre-production process requires a plan in order to organize and carry out the filming process. This is where the Save The Cat Beat Sheet comes in play. This Beat Sheet is used as a sort of planning sheet to know when and where to say and do certain things, like a script, but less detailed. This sheet is used in every bit of the film including the introduction to plan out when and where to execute certain scenes. The introduction on a beat sheet is divided into multiple sections including Opening Image, Set-up, and Theme Stated. In this blog, I will be discussing the Opening Image.

The opening image is the first thing that the audience sees after the title of the film (if the title is shown before anything else). In the first draft of our film opening, the opening image shows the two girls having a conversation about a party the night before. This does not have much meaning as my teammates did not take roles very seriously and made up the film opening as they went.

Sound In Film: Part 4

After filming a movie, the movie still needs changes to make it more aesthetically pleasing, interesting, eye-catching, etc. This is where Sound is introduced. Sound in film is a technical code used by filmmakers to make it audibly pleasing and to enhance the genre, therefore, attracting more audiences. In this blog, I will be discussing the second element of sound and, since there are four key elements of sound, this blog will be discussing one of those elements, in the previous blogs, dialogue, sound effects and voiceover were discussed, equating to four elements of sound discussed.

The final element of sound is Music, the importance of this element are listed as: catching and keeping an audiences attention, enhancing the genre of the film, making the film more aesthetically pleasing, etc. Filmmakers use music for a number of reasons, however. They use it at an extremely quiet manner to fill in the emptiness of a conversation, a decent volume for action-packed scenes for a more dramatic effect, a higher volume for a filler if there is no other dialogue and a loud volume for scenes like signing, musicals, etc.

Sound In Film: Part 3

After filming a movie, the movie still needs changes to make it more aesthetically pleasing, interesting, eye-catching, etc. This is where Sound is introduced. Sound in film is a technical code used by filmmakers to make it audibly pleasing and to enhance the genre, therefore, attracting more audiences. In this blog, I will be discussing the last element of sound and, since there are three key elements of sound, this blog will be discussing one of those elements. Since dialogue and sound effects were already discussed, there will be one more blog in the future discusses sound in film, which equates to four elements of sound discussed.

The third element of sound is the Voiceover. The voiceover, as the name suggests, is one's voice playing as an audio over the video. Voiceovers are used in many ways for multiple reasons. These reasons include: narration, expression of emotion and thought process, explanations, etc. An example of a voiceover is when the camera zooms or cuts to a Extreme Close-Up shot or ECU for short towards someone's eyes and the audience hears a voice talking over the video edited into an echo-like manner. This was an opportunity for the audience to see and hear the thought process of someone and how they figured out their next move in the moment of something drastic.

Sound In Film: Part 2

After filming a movie, the movie still needs changes to make it more aesthetically pleasing, interesting, eye-catching, etc. This is where Sound is introduced. Sound in film is a technical code used by filmmakers to make it audibly pleasing and to enhance the genre, therefore, attracting more audiences. In this blog, I will be discussing the second element of sound and, since there are four key elements of sound, this blog will be discussing one of those elements, and in the future, there will be two more blogs discussing the last element and in the previous blog, dialogue was discussed, equating to four elements of sound discussed.

The next element of sound is Sound Effects. This also plays an important role in sound because it emphasizes the actions that are being taken on- and off-screen. Sound effects can be used in many ways including: Enhancing the genre of the film, making the film more (or sometimes less) realistic, etc. An example of sound effects is rain falling. Obviously, rain when the camera records it can be noisy and distracting, so the filmmakers take it as their responsibility to create their own, pleasing, less noisy version of rain such as pouring a watering can on cement and footsteps between the droplets. This will give the scene a more realistic touch to it, and also make it pleasant to the ears.

Sound In Film

After filming a movie, the movie still needs changes to make it more aesthetically pleasing, interesting, eye-catching, etc. This is where Sound is introduced. Sound in film is a technical code used by filmmakers to make it audibly pleasing and to enhance the genre, therefore, attracting more audiences. In this blog, I will be discussing the first element of sound and, since there are three key elements of sound, this blog will be discussing one of those elements, and in the future, there will be three more blogs discussing one element each, equating to four elements of sound discussed.

The first element of sound is Dialogue. Dialogue in sound is defined as the sound of characters speaking. For example, having a conversation; each word that comes out of each character's mouth is considered dialogue. But why use dialogue? Dialogue is used for a multitude of reasons such as: revealing information to the audience, enhancing the genre of the film, explaining what is happening in the film so that the audience can understand better, and so on.

Dialogue:

Hello

Hi! How are you?

I am ok, this dialogue is easy!

It really is!