lemon's media blog (Mr Halsey) (Coursework)

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...

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 kee...

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 wh...

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

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

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.

Amrit's video: WWW: I think the music suited the video perfectly, I liked how the video was actually a makeover of an actual fiction character and I think that the pictures at the beginning that showed a before and at the end, an after, was a good idea because it showed the contrast between the makeup. EBI: It would have been a little better to have a transition which would add a nice video effect. Anisa's video: WWW: I liked how the ending showed how the makeover looked like from a different angle. EBI: I think that there should have been different music. Annya's video: WWW: I liked how much detail there was in the transformation of the zombie such as the flesh wound on her cheek which was nice. EBI: I think the video was a bit too sped up and her eye movements kinda spooked me. I think I could improve on my own work by filming it on a camera instead of a phone and I think I should have made the video a little bit more edited because I only ended up adding ar...

Keywords: Costume Lighting Actor (placement and movement) Make-up Props Setting Kingsman: The costume the people are wearing are all old style christian texas clothing except for the main actor with the gun who is wearing a suit. The lighting is ambient and uses natural light instead of artificial light that is usually a whiter colour. The actor is in front of the woman with a gun in his hand and pointing it at her face, the people in the back are intimidated and some are scared, they all look like they are going to attack the man in the suit (you can tell by their facial expression). The woman and some of the people probably would have had some foundation on their face to make it reflect light and so it looks as if they are slightly sweating which gives us a hindsight on how the atmosphere is in there. The setting looks to be in a church and in texas. Scene from pulp fiction: genre: thriller. Scene from shawshank redemption: genre: Drama Scene from Stephen Ki...

High-Key and Low-Key Lighting Low-key lighting  is created by using only the key and back lights.  This effect produces strong contrasts of light and dark and creates dramatic shadows.  The effect is known as chiaroscuro, which comes from the Italian words for light (chiaro) and dark (oscuro). High-key lighting  means that more filler lights are used.  The effect appears more realistic and might depict either a sunny day or a more dimly lit scene.  The major difference is that, although shadows are still created, the contrast between light and dark is much less pronounced.   Identify examples of  high  and  low-key  lighting. Say which depict  top ,  back  or  under lighting . What  effects  are created by the lighting in each image?      1. High key lighting from the left side and depicts back lighting. The effects this lighting has is it causes the audience to sense a ...

1. Q: What do you think the film is about and what might the storyline be?why? What genre(s) do you think the film belongs to?why? 3.Who do you think is the target audience? why? 1. I think the film is about a policeman who fights crime and I think the story is set in the future because there's a flying car and the buildings look futuristic. The reason why I think the man is a cop is because in the poster the car looks like a police car and the man is holding a gun so they seem to correlate perfectly, I think the woman is his partner because they are put together. 2. I think the genre this film belongs to is action, sci-fi. The reason why I think the film belongs to those genres is because that's a flying car and it looks futuristic so it has to be sci-fi, I think the movie is a action film because the man is holding a gun and that pretty much explains action. 3. I think the target audience is 18+ because the film looks like it contains a lot of...

A reminder of our notes on Sound: Sound is incredibly important to our understanding of a film.  The music, dialogue and sound effects (SFX) all contribute to the way we appreciate what we are watching on the screen.     Diegetic and non-diegetic sound Diegetic  sound comes from the world of the film we are watching.  This could include dialogue by characters in the scene or music or other sound that comes from a source we would naturally expect that sound to come from, e.g. a radio or TV. Non-diegetic  sound is added during post production, e.g. voice over or music sound track. Parallel and contrapuntal sound Parallel  sound is music we would normally expect to hear accompanying a scene, e.g. soft romantic music might be played over a love scene. Contrapuntal  sound is music that we don’t normally associate with the scene we are watching, e.g. classical music played over a bloody fight scene. Sound bridge ...