Tracking Shot

Scary Scene - Editing Practice

2nd Movie Clips Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31P4DgkW9Ns

Genre: Animation, Adventure
Mise-en-Scene: Costume - Tradition Chinese Martial Arts Shorts
                          Props - No Props Used
                          Setting - CGI Animated Chinese Town
                          Performance - Martial Arts Fighting Movements/Stances
Genre Typical:


Sound: During this scene there is a score in the background that matches the fight scene being played. All of the sound is foley and 

Sound Terminology

Diegetic Sound - sound from within the film world / sound that the characters can hear

Direct Sound - sound that comes directly from the scene

Foley Sound - sound created after the video, over-dubbed in post

Score - music specially written for the film

Soundtrack - music used in the film, but not specifically made for the film

Parallel Sound when the music goes with the images i.e. dramatic music with a fight scene

Contrapuntal Sound - when the music goes against the images i.e. sombre music over a fight scene

Sound Bridge

My Favoured Photography

I like this picture because the photographer has used long exposure to capture the light from the head and tail lights of the cars. Due to the colour of the lights and the time of day that the picture was taken, this image has nice lines of contrast between the white lights, black/grey background and red lights.

I really like macro photography because it allows us to see things that we normally aren't able to. Macro photography usually uses bright colours in the background as the most common things to take macro photos of are insects. Insects are usually dull coloured however, when you look closer you can see hints of vibrant colour hidden. This creates a nice contrast with the main image and the background, which is usually a natural green.

Astrophotography interests me because it allows a photographer to capture the stars and systems. The bright stars contrast the dull colour of the night sky creating a beautiful image.


I like how the photographer has captured various bright and warm colours in the picture. This photo clearly capture the setting Sin along with the horizon line. This cave reflects the orange tone of the Sun on the rocks creating a nice bronze shade. The camera also captures the flowing waves which also reflects the Sun's rays in a captivating way.

F Stops and Shutter Speed Explaination

This image was taken with a low F Stop, that most likely being around 1.8. This gives the image a shallow depth of field. However, because more light is being allowed into the lens, the shutter speed must increase in order to keep the brightness of the image at a suitable standard. The fact that more light is being allowed into the lens but being captured at a faster rate means that the light that was in front is captured nicely, although the light that was behind is gradually captured in a worse quality, becoming blurry, thus, creating a shallow depth of field.

This is an example of a high F Stop (F 32). This allows less light into the lens but slows the shutter speed down so the light is captured slower. This means that everything in frame is in focus giving you Depth of Field.

Technical Terms Photography

F Stops/ Aperture - F, 1.8, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 32 (Controls the amount of light that travels through the lens) 1.8 - 8, more light through the lens  WIDER APERTURE. 8 - 32, less light SMALLER APERTURE.

Shutter Speed - 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500 (Controls how fast or slow light travels through the lens) 1/8 - 1/60, slow shutter speeds. 1/60 - 1/500, fast shutter speeds. Faster Shutter Speeds allow you to capture movement better. Burriness is captured from a slower shutter speed.

• Shallow Depth of Field - foreground is in focus, and background is out of focus (Controlled by Aperture) Lower F Stop gives you Shallower Depth of Field.
• Depth of Field - when both background and foreground are in focus. Higher aperture give you DoF.

F, 1.8, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 32

    1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60 , 1/125, 1/250, 1/500

F stops and shutter speeds must match up or the image will end up either too bright or too dark. The lower the F Stop, the faster the shutter speed and vise versa.

M - Manual - you control both aperture and shutter speed

A -  Aperture Priority - you control the aperture and the camera automatically does the shutter speed

S -  Shutter Priority - you control the shutter speed while the camera does the aperture


Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds is a square grid that allows the photographer to frame the subject better. This gives the photographer a better understanding of where to have things in the frame if not being centered.

Horizon Line


The horizon line 

Film Opening Analysis

Black Panther Scene Analysis

Cinematography

This scene begins with a young child asking his father to tell him the origin story of his homeland. The scene has a black screen for the first 10 seconds then fades into a wide shot of the stars and a meteorite hitting Earth.

The main camera angle throughout this scene is all level with the 'characters' in frame. This is because the story being told shows all of the people involved as equals. However, when the King of Wakanda is first shown there is a slight low-angle because he is more powerful than the other characters.

The camera movements during through this scene are fluid as it is CGI. There are no cuts or transitions. Although, the camera does circle a single point a lot, with the camera circling this one point the background changes from a solid to smoke then to a solid again taking a new form.

The lighting in the scene at the beginning is very dark as we are introduced to an age of war and violence, thus connoting the somewhat 'evil' within the people. After we're introduced to the protagonist of the story everything becomes bright as he glows the same way that the material used to create their city does. This allows us to differentiate between the main protagonist and side characters.

Each character in the frame is in focus as each person is crucial to the scene's development and what happens next. 

Sound

All of the sound in this clip is over-dubbed. For example, the voice we hear is a voice over which corresponds to the story being presented on screen. The sound that we hear as part of the characters moving is all foley sound as this is CGI. The score playing is parallel to the scene that is being shown to the viewer. The voiceover is diegetic as it can be heard by the characters in the world of the film.

Induction Task - Evaluation

Skills Learnt/Developed

One of the skills I have developed through this project is photoshop. I used photoshop briefly for my GCSE Media Studies coursework, however, I did not use as much of the program as I did in this task. For example, during this task I learnt how to create a colour overlay using 'Layer Style' feature. This allowed me to change the colour of different aspects of my print advert which made it look more professional. Another feature I used on photoshop for the first time during this task was the 'Dodge Tool'. This allowed me to change the brightness to the main image for my print advert.

Another skill that I developed a lot during this unit was my photography skills and how to correctly use a DSLR camera. I have a DSLR camera of my own although, it is a Canon which I have only used for video. My experience with the Nikon Cameras in the Photography Studio was completely different to the one I had with my Canon camera. This furthered my understanding of how cameras work and how to use them closer to their full potential. Along with the cameras, I learnt a huge amount about lighting and exposure while in the photography studio. Through trying various different intensities of lighting I have learnt which setting go best with what type of image you want. This also goes for the three-point lighting where by turning different lights on and off you can get different effects such as contrast and a more 2-D looking image.

I have furthered my knowledge of editing with Premiere Pro. In the past I have used different editing softwares such as Camtasia and Sony Vegas which are similar to but also completely different to Premiere Pro. For example, in Camtasia you don't have to manually render ever video and image that you put into the software. I have also learned how effective a simple cut can be in a video project. At the beginning my group and I thought it would be effective to have fancy transitions after every shot, however, this just made the video look very unprofessional. By just having a cut our moving image advert flowed better and made a lot more sense.

Teamwork

The team I was in have never worked together before and this has its advantages and disadvantages. First of all, the biggest disadvantage is that we don't know how each other work and what the other people's strength and weaknesses are. After the initial stage of getting to know the team I was placed in we slowly got to know the roles that everyone felt comfortable playing. For example, I was more more compatible with the direction and camera work aspect of the moving image advert, whereas someone else was more comfortable editing the advert itself. However, even though everyone had their own preferences, we all tried all of the different parts of the task, such as photography, moving image camera work, video editing and still image editing.

An advantage of working in a team is that you don't have to do all the work yourself meaning that there is less stress on each individual. This allowed the work to be completed faster than if working on our own. Although another disadvantage of group work is that certain individuals will take advantage of the hard working people in the group and will take a backseat in the production line whilst taking credit for the final product, and this was quite evident in my group.

Planning

During the planning stages of the product the recce and helped write the script which was a task completed with the input from everyone in the group. I also came up with the basis of the moving image advert, however, the entire idea wasn't just mine. As this was a group project, everyone contributed to the task to create the idea and storyboard that we did.

Planning was effective and useful for my group as it allowed everyone's ideas to be contributed and heard. It also gave us the opportunity to change things slightly if it didn't flow with the storyline correctly. Although a lot of good ideas do come to you whilst filming so we didn't stick completely to the storyboard and script, but this doesn't mean that they are completely useless.

If I was to do this task again, I would change the persuasive method(s) that we tried to put across in our advert as it could have been better if we tried it in a different way, yet there is the possibility that the advert could've also gone worse that it did if it was to be changed.#

How the project met my expectations

Everything about this project was a success in the fact that no matter whether or not what my group came up with was a failure or a professional level advert we have now learnt the skills to be able to make something better than what we just did in this unit of work. The skills that we have learnt and developed through this project will allow us to better our work in the future too as some of the skills that we have learnt are not mutually exclusive for just one style of work within the media.

In the future I hope to improve on everything as there is always room for improvement and I don't know everything so I will always be learning new things. No matter how good an advert I make in the future may be, it won't be perfect so I will have the opportunity to make it better.

Pot Noodle Moving Image Advert