Sunday, 30 January 2011
Tuesday 18th January 2011 - Main Task
Mr. O'Hara showed us four various title sequence in preperation for our main task (to create a short openning to a made-up film) which included '8 1/2' (dir. Federico Fellini), 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' (dir. Shane Black), 'Layer Cake' (dir. Matthew Vaughn) and 'Se7en' (dir. David Fincher). Part of the main task also involves researching three film opennings of various movies, my Empire Film Guide has a list of the 'Top 10 Openning Credit sequences' so I will be using that for my research (I have already chosen two, I just need to choose a third).
Friday, 28 January 2011
Tuesday 25th January 2011
Due to the tape containing the original film becoming corrupted on the computer (even though it looked fine on the camera), the media piece had to be reshot. Bradley Dalton and Jake Smallwood did the acting once again and I worked behind the camera alongside Josh Hanson, who was absent when the original media piece was shot. Like the first attempt we had to experiment with the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot-reverse-shot. There was no mise-en-scene needed for the media piece, the lighting was high-key and the only equipment we needed was the camera and various objects in the classroom (such as a table and chairs).
Moral from today: Check to see whether the tape will work on the computer (check for signs of corruption), start recording just after action is said and finish filming as soon as cut is said (without them being heard on the finished piece).
Moral from today: Check to see whether the tape will work on the computer (check for signs of corruption), start recording just after action is said and finish filming as soon as cut is said (without them being heard on the finished piece).
Friday, 21 January 2011
Preliminary Task - Friday 21st January 2011
The task we were given (as stated in my previous post) is the following:
Film and edit a character openning a door, walking into a room, walking across the room, sitting down and having a 2 line conversation with another character in the room. I will also be demonstrating my use of match-on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180 degree rule (keeping the camera on one side of the action).
Shot list - Description
1 Tilt shot behind a person walking up the stairs
2 Aerial shot from the landing of the person climbing to the top of the stairs
3 Reverse tracking shot up to the door (almost)
4 MS showing person's hand turning door knob
5 CU of the person's hand turning the knob
6 LS of other person looking at his mobile then looking up at the camera surprised
7 POV - Door starting to open
8 MS behind person openning door
9 Pan in room showing person walking in and over to the person sitting down
10 MS - Person saying: 'Have you been waiting?'
11 MS - Other person: 'I nearly fell asleep. What time do you call this?'
12 CU - Person: 'You won't believe this - but I just discovered Elvis is still alive!'
13 CU - Other person looking shocked
The actors involved are two males playing male parts, they are Jake Smallwood playing the person walking into the room and Bradley Dalton as the person in the room. No props will be used, the settings are the hallway downstairs, the landing leading to the Media classroom and the Media classroom itself and the lighting is most likely to be high-key.
Filming began soon after this post was originally published. Bradley operated the camera for the first half of the shoot (the sequence involving Jake walking up the stairs to the classroom). Some difficulties faced during filming was the tripod not being useful for the aerial shot so it was done hand-held. Another difficulty faced by us was the tracking shot was hard to pull off since Bradley fell on the stairs during one of three takes we did before nailed it. The final problem we faced was a bad panning shot I did as I had forgot to loosen the tripod so it ended up moving jerkely. The film I think would have turned out to have been a good one had it not been for a problem mentioned in my next post.
Film and edit a character openning a door, walking into a room, walking across the room, sitting down and having a 2 line conversation with another character in the room. I will also be demonstrating my use of match-on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180 degree rule (keeping the camera on one side of the action).
Shot list - Description
1 Tilt shot behind a person walking up the stairs
2 Aerial shot from the landing of the person climbing to the top of the stairs
3 Reverse tracking shot up to the door (almost)
4 MS showing person's hand turning door knob
5 CU of the person's hand turning the knob
6 LS of other person looking at his mobile then looking up at the camera surprised
7 POV - Door starting to open
8 MS behind person openning door
9 Pan in room showing person walking in and over to the person sitting down
10 MS - Person saying: 'Have you been waiting?'
11 MS - Other person: 'I nearly fell asleep. What time do you call this?'
12 CU - Person: 'You won't believe this - but I just discovered Elvis is still alive!'
13 CU - Other person looking shocked
The actors involved are two males playing male parts, they are Jake Smallwood playing the person walking into the room and Bradley Dalton as the person in the room. No props will be used, the settings are the hallway downstairs, the landing leading to the Media classroom and the Media classroom itself and the lighting is most likely to be high-key.
Filming began soon after this post was originally published. Bradley operated the camera for the first half of the shoot (the sequence involving Jake walking up the stairs to the classroom). Some difficulties faced during filming was the tripod not being useful for the aerial shot so it was done hand-held. Another difficulty faced by us was the tracking shot was hard to pull off since Bradley fell on the stairs during one of three takes we did before nailed it. The final problem we faced was a bad panning shot I did as I had forgot to loosen the tripod so it ended up moving jerkely. The film I think would have turned out to have been a good one had it not been for a problem mentioned in my next post.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Tuesday 18th January 2011 - Pre-Preliminary Task
Period 4 - Preliminary task was given to me by Mrs. Stephens. The task involves me filming and editing a character going into a room, walking across it, sitting down and having a conversation (consisting of 2 lines) with another character. During this task, I will demonstrate my use of match-on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180 degree rule (keeping the camera on one side of an action). I consider this easy since I did a piece of film similar in my other A level subject Moving Image Arts.
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