martes, 20 de noviembre de 2012

Tension Charts

This is the tension chart for the film "The Lady and the Reaper" by Kandoor Moon Studios.

I noticed that the story in general is very linear, it starts soft but engaging, by showing the old lady missing her deceased husband, then things keep rising up after the death shows up and then the doctor and the reaper fight for the lady. In the end there is a little break, when death gives up on the fight and the doctor revives the lady once again, but then the story takes off again when the lady punches the doctor and kills herself to go see her husband, giving a big peak to the tension and finishing the story at the highest point. The music starts very touchy and mellow since the beginning, to start off the mood, the stops to introduce death, and then during the climax it gets very jazzy and active.

Here is the graph that I did for it:



This next one is the tension chart for my own film "Toy Maker".

The story of my film is very continuous, it keeps getting more and more tense without a lot of breaks. Until the end, when the supervisor comes in, there is a little pause to realize what is going on, and then it finishes in that little break but having the whole background to support that settle. The mood changes twice, just to clarify the lighting and the situation of the scenes, but it stays very much the same through out the whole film, because it is an indoor environment, at night, lid up by soft lights, possibly candles. 
The music also keeps rising, to keep up with the story.

This is the graph for it: