Read the film transcript for the Welcome the world film.
DANNY BOYLE
The Olympic and Paralympic Games will be taking place in different venues all over the UK. And at each of those venues there will be movie screens that act as a welcome to all the athletes and visitors who will be coming to the UK for the Games.
STUDENT 1
We met the film director Danny Boyle, who has done films like 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire and The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio. He’s taught us about how camera shots can make and build atmosphere by themselves, and that sounds as well can make a real difference. If you watch a horror film in silence it won’t scare you at all, because you need sound to make you jump.
DANNY BOYLE
You can create your own world by creating your own props and your own costumes and you know, stuff like that, but the other way to do it is to go somewhere real and shoot it. You let the real place inspire you, and I would encourage you to do that if you can.
STUDENT 3
It’s inspired me with the film that I’m doing in year 11, which is next year, so I’m going to take some of the sound ideas.
DANNY BOYLE
There are different forms of close up and they’re really important. You can use that, you can virtually see what he’s thinking, or you think you can. It is interesting watching sports people when they win a race, or they achieve something that they want to achieve. The close up that we were talking about has incredible power. So in cinema generally you should restrict the use of those close ups, for very, very powerful moments. You’ve also got the contrast between the loneliness of training, and the achievement of the stadium. That’s a wonderful dynamic change. That’s usually what drama is built out of, that huge change, that you suddenly see Kelly Holmes face [Danny gasps] and she realises she has done it, the change in her face, it bursts open, and that’s what we love watching, we like seeing those huge dramatic changes. We hope we’ve given you some ideas there, and that you’ll be able to go away and tell your own stories, and help us welcome the world to London 2012.
