The screen play

The screenplay

Camera

Camera panning felt to light to show junk yard area

AC1

Walking along the road when a car approaches him

The ac1 jumps along into the woods as he dodges the car which tried to run him down.

Camera

Car shown driving away

AC1

Gets back on the road camera shows him looking at the car further down the road, sighs as relief to show he no longer needs to worry about the car now, carries walking down further the road.

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Camera

E.S to show the wrecked area he is in.

AC1

Comes through gate of destroyed area

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Searches through the building for supplies

Camera

Head camera, to show him going through objects, then an M>S to show him in the room..

Snake shot- of camera following him behind

AC1

Turns around as sign of fear only to see a rat behind, (sighs of relief)

Camera

Over the shoulder shot 

 View from the rat’s eye shot looking at the AC1. Low angle shot.

AC1:

AC1 kills the rat. False build of tension

Camera

Picks up rat to be placed in the bag

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AC1

Walks outside

Camera

 Focus on face

Then blurs to focus on AC2 who is standing next to car

Then close up shot of AC2

AC2

Pulls up the gun point it at the camera, this being AC1

Prop

Gun facing the camera off set

Screen

Title

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AC1

 Walks outside, feeling secure

Camera

Alternative ending                                                                 Shows the car parked outside

AC2

Point’s gun at AC1 pulls trigger.

Camera

Titles

Music

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Coming down the mountain

This week we watched a clip from the movie "coming down the mountain. The opening of the film. In which we get an insit in to what the film is about. The main charectors David gives the opening narration.

In the movie there are many shots used to make an effective and creative movie. Firstly there is a 'Panning shot' when David and Ben are walking towards the bus stop. Ben walks behind David, following David. This shows us that David is the natural leader of the two brothers. We can also tell David is more able than Ben. Also in the shot the movement of the charector is diffrent. Ben walks much slower, while David is much faster. The way Ben walks and his head movement shows us he is disabled. 

Also in this clip composition is used to show Ben' disabillty and venerability. Once David leaves Ben on the bus on his way. The camera  compsition is focused on Ben a close up shot of his face. His face shows a sense of fear within his eyes. Even though the bus is full of children his age. This is effective because from this we can tell Ben is scared. Which links to his disability as he won't be able to protect himself. 

The pitch

Once the brief was set, me and my group went about thinking about our production pitch. This was where we actually thought what we could do for our final piece. We had to consider the actual synopsis of our piece, the actors, the location, the treatment we're going to give it and finally the soundtrack. Here is our presentation about our pitch.

Doctor Who - camera shots

Personally when I found out that I had to watch part of an episode of ‘Doctor Who’, I wasn’t very pleased, as I am not a big fan of the programme (after having to watch hours of it with my best friend !). But their is one particular episode.

The next scene is set on the ships captains quarters/deck, the screen starts of black, and then it tilts upwards to reveal both the captain and his understudy (Russell Tovey) working on deck. It begins with a long shot of the two crew fiddling with the controls, and it then cuts to a point of view shot, showing the controls and the various different warning messages flashing up on the screen. There is then a mid shot showing the reaction of the captain and the second officer in charge trying to deal with these messages. There are also some close ups in the scene, but mostly towards the end.

The next scene is back in the restaurant and uses a variety of shots from close ups to establishing shots/extreme wide shots. Also during the dialogue between the doctor and the waitress there are a lot of over the shoulder shots been used. There is also a close up cut shot of the waitress putting the wrist strap on which is used to transport them.

After the transportation has happened you first of all see an establishing shot of an empty street at Christmas, special effects are then used to insert the characters in. There are a lot of wide shots and two shots in this scene to cover the interaction between the Doctor and the waitress, there are also a lot of close up and reaction shots as the people in the scene are meant to be shocked of their arrival and there surroundings as it is the first time they were supposedly on earth. During this scene it also cuts to a news broadcast to accurately inform the doctor about what is happening.

Also in general there are alot of special effects that make the clip, and really give the audience an idea of the goings on, e.g. the meteor shower, as seen from the boat deck. Other than the special effects the different camera shots were quite repetitive throughout this clip, however I think the effects used worked well with this genre of television drama.

Sound - diegetic sound

Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film:
Voices of characters
Sounds made by objects in the story
Music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( = source music) Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world Diegetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame. Another term for diegetic sound is actual sound
This is a sound which the characters within a film/footage can hear. Diegetic sound can include everything from traffic noise, telephone rings. doors slamming and animal sounds, to industrial machinery and dialogue These sounds may be used to generate a reality effect for the audience, but can also take on symbolic meaning.

For example: The perpetual rain of the metropolis in David Fincher's film "Seven" creates a constant backdrop to the action of the film. it also becomes representative of the inhospitable nature of the city.

Diegetic sounds can also become synonymous with particular characters and act to signal their particular presence in a film. In the film "Scream", for example, the killer harass their victim with the use of a telephone. The opening image of the film is of a phone ringing and the character who answers it becomes the first victim. From then on in the film, the sound of a phone ringing becomes associated with the disjointed voice of the killer contacting their next victim. This everyday and banal sound then becomes threatening and creates tension for the audience.

Sound- Non diegetic

Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action: Narrator’s commentary,
Sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
Mood music
Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the source outside story space. The distinction between diegetic or non-diegetic sound depends on our understanding of the conventions of film viewing and listening. We know of that certain sounds are represented as coming from the story world, while others are represented as coming from outside the space of the story events. A play with diegetic and non-diegetic conventions can be used to create ambiguity (horror), or to surprise the audience (comedy). Another term for non-diegetic sound is commentary sound.

This is sound which does not exist within the story of the film, but is put onto the film in post production. This type of sound could be in the form of a music soundtrack, voice over or extra sounds which enhance the meaning of elements within the film.

For example Bernard Herrman's haunting soundtrack for Martin Scorcesse's "Taxi Driver”, would become under the definition of non-diegetic sound. The shrill and repetitive violin sounds which Herrman created as the soundtrack for the shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho", function as a musical echo for the knife stabs inflicted on the character of Marion Crane.

Camera Movement

In today's lesson we talked about the  diffrent camera movements. how directors and cameramen use this movement to bring out character and show diffrent moods within movies. below are some examples of different camera movements we looked at.

Crab	A less-common term for tracking or trucking.
Dolly	The camera is mounted on a cart which travels along tracks for a very smooth movement. Also known as a tracking shot or trucking shot.
Dolly Zoom	A technique in which the camera moves closer or further from the subject while simultaneously adjusting the zoom angle to keep the subject the same size in the frame.
Follow	The camera physically follows the subject at a more or less constant distance.
Pan	Horizontal movement, left and right.
Pedestal (Ped)	Moving the camera position vertically with respect to the subject.
Tilt	Vertical movement of the camera angle, i.e. pointing the camera up and down (as opposed to moving the whole camera up and down).
Track	Roughly synonymous with the dolly shot, but often defined more specifically as movement which stays a constant distance from the action, especially side-to-side movement.
Truck	Another term for tracking or dollying.
Zoom	Technically this isn't a camera move, but a change in the lens focal length with gives the illusion of moving the camera closer or further away.

Gossip girl

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Preliminary Task

In this weeks lesson we planned, filmed and edited our preliminary task. The planning involved story boarding, and thinking about where to film. Once we had done this we decided to start filming, we used various shots, angles, movements and compositions in our task including: medium shots, long shots, close ups, 180 degree rule etc. Below is our finished piece

The final clip is good. the editing is done well although, we as gruop could have done it much better.The diffrent camera angles we shot during the filming have come out very well.This task took us three days to complete. As seen in the blog post before we had to draw aout a story borad, which is always key when starting filming as it gets us to brian storm diffeent ideas. and put them together. To clip. we did change something from the story board but it was minor

During fimng we did lose our frits choice of fliming location due to it being occuppied on the day of filming. so we had back up., whicyh is shown in the clip. Which worked much better than the original location.

The main task

This is the main final task. Which I as my group have planned will take us a couple of months. The brief for this task: we need to create an opening scene to a film it can be any genre. And has to be longer than two mins, but no longer tha two mins and thirty seconds.

For today's lesson in media. We had to watch a few diffrent opening scenes such as " Zombieland",  Iron  man. We got some ideas from this. Such as iron man is got an animated start. Which we could add to ours. Although zombie land, uses diffrent comers angles which we need to include in ours. But the iron man looks to be my favourite.You can watch it above

Compsition - cinematograph

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Focus pulls; this is used when trying to focus on a subject. Also there is throwing focus, which is mainly used for transition from one clip to the next. It can also be used to show the point of view of drunk or groggy person. Throwing focus in today’s media is done during post production, thus because you easily add the focus or defocus. This is less expansive and much better.

Depth of field (DOF): this is determined by the size of the camera iris the small the iris the greater the depth of field. There more light you have on your subject the easier it is to focus on it. So in low light conditions it is much harder to focus on our subject. There are five things which influence the depth of field such as light conditions, camera filter, shutter , gain and lens angle ( also known as zoom) to help you to get better DOF. U would need to make sure that the entire above are correct. Such as adding more light, changing and adding filters, adding some digital gain (this could compromise image quality and you could add or remove the shutter. This would at best help you the depth of field.

Framing: this is all about composition. The same rule you find in still photography apple here. Framing is basically all the different camera shots such as close up, medium shot or cut. All this are what make framing work. For framing to wok you need to make sure the shots are accurate at best.

Camera movement

For our first time using the cameras we had been asked to create a short clip that will include different camera shots and a variety of camera movement. The clip that we created includes a still panning shot were the camera is moving but the subject stays still. We also created a shot were the camera is following a moving object, for example following a moving bus. The clip also shows a tily up shot, this shot begins low down and the camera slowely moves up to reveal the actor of the object. As a group we also decided to film a over the shoulder medium shot which shows two people in the frame, but showing the reaction of one actor whist the others back it towards the camera to show them having a conversation. Once all the filming had been created and was happy as a group that we have provided enough different camera shot movements, we then focused on editing our clips together into one short video. Here is our short clip showing different camera shot movements: