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Film Industry: British film industry factsheets

1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. A British Film is a film that is made by people who are British, if the film is funded within Britain, is the film about the British culture and finally if the film is shot and set in Britain, but there are many different films that are set in Britain but are counted as American movies.     2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? A films production context is the  conditions under which the film has been made. So, in the Hollywood production context, this means that Hollywood studios  3) When did the James Bond franchise start? The James Bond Franchise started in 1962. 4) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, what began to change in British film in the 1970s and 1980s? In terms of film censorship and graphic content which used to be quite serious before the 1970s. Now this has changed between 1970s and 1980s. This meant that in Br
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Editing video task and learner response

Learner respone: From Mr Halsey Moa: No SRS: No 180 °: Yes Nice opening shot with smooth camera movement-often a rare sight in student productions. Continuity editing/match-on-action just isn't there. The flick to black screen ruins any sense of continuity I don't like the huge text on screen-you should be able to tell a simple story without resorting to this. At one point,continuity is completely wrong-0:33, the edit seems like match-on-action but the character changes no dialogue, no shot-reverse-shot I'm afraid this doesn't meet the brief at all As stated by Mr Halsey, i didn't meet the brief, however, this is because I had less information and I didn't know how the planning went for the clips that I used in my video that I edited. The three editing techniques I learnt is that: There has to be continuity otherwise the audience may be confused. It's better when you're the person who knows the story line but the audience need to be ab
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Film & TV Language: Editing video

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Key skills The following clips and links should help you with the key skills you need to demonstrate in your preliminary exercise. Match on action Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot showing the same action of the subject in the first shot. This creates the impression of continuity - the action creates a 'visual bridge' which is easy for the audience to follow. Look at this YouTube clip for match on action - the cuts you want to look at in particular are at 2 seconds, then again at 18 seconds: Shot/reverse shot Shot/reverse shot uses over-the-shoulder shots to show a conversation between two characters. Look at this example from the Hunger Games movie - specifically between 0.50 and 1.30. With shot/reverse shot, you need to observe the  180 degree rule .  180 degree rule The 180-degree rule of shooting and editing keeps the camera on one side of the action. This keep
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Editing: blog task

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Key terminology for editing: Transitions Continuity editing Montage Pace Juxtaposition Continuity editing Most editing of narrative film is continuity editing.  This is when shots are placed logically so that one event follows on from the next.  We, as the audience, automatically try to make sense of one shot joining the next one.  For example, if we see an exterior shot of a school and the following shot is a classroom, we assume that the classroom is inside the school building we saw in the previous shot.   Transitions A straight cut is the most common method and the audience are so accustomed to seeing these that we rarely notice them when they occur. A fade out – the screen fades to black. A dissolve - one image blurs into the next. A wipe – one part of the screen wipes across the other. A jump cut – an unexpected edit where the audience’s attention is forced to focus on something very suddenly.   Pace The speed at which the film cuts from one shot to
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Film & TV Language index

1) Film poster analysis 2) Mise-en-scene blog tasks 3) Star persona: video feedback and learner response  ( actual video to star persona ) 4) Lighting blog tasks 5) Sound blog tasks 6) Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video feedback and learner response 7)  Cinematography blog tasks 8)  Cinemography video task and learner response 9)  Moonlight - trip homework 10)  Blade Runner 2049 - trip homework  11)  Editing blog task - 750 word analysis 12)  Editing video task and learner response
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Contrapuntal and parallel sound

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video: Alishan's and Jack's sound project.
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star persona.

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This video was sped up by x1000, I did this by changing the clip speed to x1000. I added an instrumental of Kodak Black's song "Tunnel vision" and I had to trim the first part of the instrumental because it started late and would not be in sync with the video.In the end, I made a side by side comparison of how Jack's sister looked before and after the hair transformation. Because there were 2 clips, to make the the clip change less abrupt I added an transition when the clip changed which did make it less abrupt.
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