Preliminary Task- what did we do?

There were 4 tasks that we had to do to complete our preliminary task.

•  we storyboard our shot sequence 
• film the shots in school
• edited our shot on finalCut express 
• upload to youtube

Preliminary task- Brief

For our preliminary task we had to film a sequence of some one walking along the corridor, opening the door and having a conversation with another person. We had to watch how we filmed our camera angles and also the length of the edit and especially the continuity between the shots to make our film look realistic.

Source code

In the lesson we watched the film source code that I found very interesting. Our teacher told us you watch the first five minutes of the film. We had to look at how the director used sound and mise en scene. The director used parallel sound that went with the sound that went with the sound of the train. These two sounds made the watchers feel quite tense from my opinion.  The film introduction ends with a cliff hander with the train blowing up at the end.

Reverse Zoom

Here is a good example of a reverse zoom shot using a dolly in the film 'Jaws'. It's created by the camera zooming in while moving backwards.

  

Camera movement

Last lesson we looked at camera movements. 

From a fixed position, the camera can: 

• Rotate left to right- this is called Pan.

• Tilt up and down, this is called Tilt.

• Tilt on an angle to give a disorientating effect- this is called Dutch Tilt but is also known as Canted.

• Zoom- the camera remains still but the focus is adjusted to move either towards or away from he object.

• Reverse zoom- when the focus zooms in while the camera moves away from the object.

When the camera is free to move around the set you can film using a:

• Tracks- the camera moves fluidly on a set of tracks. 

Stedicam

• Dolly-the camera is on wheels so can be moved in any direction.

• Crane-the camera is placed on a large crane arm that enables it to move around with ease. It allows the camera to move quickly between different heights.

• Rolling shot- the camera moves diagonally making the images askew.

• Handheld camera- the camera is held in the hand and can therefore move in any direction without the need for tracks; however the result is usually a very shaky picture.

• Stedicam- the camera is worn on a weighted harness to keep it still and balanced, while allowing the freedom of handheld filming.

Contrapuntal Sound

Here is an example of contrapuntal sound in the film 'Trainspotting'.

This week we did a story board in which we drew out a story and had to describe the camera moments and sound, we then took pictures of the story in clips and described it. Here it is finished and edited hope you like it.