Ideas
Keep the ideas simple. If the idea gets to complex then there is more likely to be more problems, recently The Film Council awarded cash to four young scriptwriters who pitched their thriller, horror or comedy movie ideas in 25 words or less. This 25word approach was raised last year. Research for this kind of project really means getting a full understanding of what the task involves by looking properly at real examples and at examples done by previous media students.
Planning
Planning is the biggest stage of the production, its best to have a record for all the planning that happens. Story boards are the best way of getting the planning easily across. We need to do a visual plan also. With the storyboard, we need to do get across the location of the camera, how long it last and any music. Feedback on the storyboard and ideas can be vital and can bring about lots of improvements.
Monday 25 October 2010
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Preliminary Task
Planning
For our planning we had to come up with the whole concept of the production. Therefore we had to come up with a storyline and suitable place to film it. We thought of a meeting between a drug dealer and a person who owes money to the drug dealer. This idea is simple and very effective. We chose to film in two different places, for to introduce the dealer and one to film the interview because the room was small and the door and corridor was useful for the part before the meeting. Also we had to get some props together these consisted of a shirt and clock amongst other things.
Filming:
Filming:
The filming was very easy because we knew exactly what we needed and wanted to do. First we filmed the drug dealer to establish him and give him power. This was simple and only took a few shots to get it right. Next we changed room to use the corridor and the door that was also simple. After that we did some verbal filming, this was harder than the other shots because it was important that we got it right. We didn’t use very many shots, we used close up, extreme close up, 2 shot, medium shot, over the shoulder shot two shot, cut in shot and a dolly zoom.
Editing:
This was very easy because we didn’t have many shots that we didn’t need or had to decide between using. The editing took quite a lot of time, the programme is very hard to get used to using. We decided on DSD productions and make a title sequence, this idea came mainly from the music. We had to get rid of a few things within the filming that we didn't need for example people looking at the camera when they are film. We finished the introduction to the film with credits. This was a big part of the editing as we had to find a picture and font to go with each person. Also we had to find a soundtrack or numerous soundtracks that fit the clip. We went for just having one non diegectic all the way through because there is only one line of diegectic sound which is dialogue. When this sound occurs we faded out the non diegectic sound to hear the diegectic sound
Sunday 10 October 2010
State of play
Television is viewed to be inferior to film.
Cinema is superior to television in every way.
Recent advances in technology mean that the picture and sound quality its not poor meaning it can still compete with cinema. Ellis wrote about the aesthics of television he concluded that industrial limitations such as budget can have a effect on camera, mise en scene and editing. Jonathan Bignel also made a similar point about television "the emphasis on mise en scene associated with the greater depth of colour, lighting and camera movement. Film is responsible for the stylistic interest to quality programmes.
HBO- Home Box Office
HBO can afford to make better production because its a subscription channel, therefore they receive good reviews E.g The wire. These create lots of money because they can go on for lots of series and can bring in lots of money from box set sales.
State of play- small screen to big screen
Paul Abbott wrote about the investigation on journalists unravelling a narrative about political corruption. The film had a $60 million budget. T.V dramas have the possibility of extended narratives, this means they can be more detailed and complex. Television uses one kind of establishing shot in a way that is never used in film. between scenes and before breaks televison programmes uses a repeated visual motif before cutting to the interior for the next shot.
Cinema is superior to television in every way.
Recent advances in technology mean that the picture and sound quality its not poor meaning it can still compete with cinema. Ellis wrote about the aesthics of television he concluded that industrial limitations such as budget can have a effect on camera, mise en scene and editing. Jonathan Bignel also made a similar point about television "the emphasis on mise en scene associated with the greater depth of colour, lighting and camera movement. Film is responsible for the stylistic interest to quality programmes.
HBO- Home Box Office
HBO can afford to make better production because its a subscription channel, therefore they receive good reviews E.g The wire. These create lots of money because they can go on for lots of series and can bring in lots of money from box set sales.
State of play- small screen to big screen
Paul Abbott wrote about the investigation on journalists unravelling a narrative about political corruption. The film had a $60 million budget. T.V dramas have the possibility of extended narratives, this means they can be more detailed and complex. Television uses one kind of establishing shot in a way that is never used in film. between scenes and before breaks televison programmes uses a repeated visual motif before cutting to the interior for the next shot.
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Shot reverse shot
Shot reverse shot or shot/countershot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other
180° rule
The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle. The 180 degree rule enables the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immediate subject and is important in the narration of battle scenes. Avoiding crossing the line is a problem that those learning filmcraft will need to struggle with. 
With the car chase, a possible solution is to begin the second cut with the car driving into frame from the "wrong" side. Although this may be wrong in the geographic sense on set, it looks more natural to the viewer. Another possibility is to insert a "buffer shot" of the subject head-on (or from behind) to help the viewer understand the camera movement.
With the car chase, a possible solution is to begin the second cut with the car driving into frame from the "wrong" side. Although this may be wrong in the geographic sense on set, it looks more natural to the viewer. Another possibility is to insert a "buffer shot" of the subject head-on (or from behind) to help the viewer understand the camera movement.
Continunity
This is a fundermental principle of moving image production. Continunity is normally secured by producers following the conventions of the classical realist text, this allows the plot and story to unfold in a way that the audience can assume what happens inbetween each shot or sequence. For example a person travelling on a train, the audience will not think it is short and they will assume inbetween shots there is nothing of significance. But if the character moved then the continunity rule has been broken.
Sunday 3 October 2010
Camera shots T.V Drama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfE8kHlxOQ&feature=channel
The first shot of this clip is a close up however it is through a mirror. The reason why this is used is because the director wants to make aware to the view of how sad the woman is. The next few shots are both closes up but using a following shot to keep up with what she is doing. These shots are very cheap to do because there is not much movement, no expensive props and only the one camera used. Also with all of the changing of the shots and the close ups this makes the viewer interested so they don't turn over.
Afterwards it changes subjects very quickly, firstly there is a close up of a man and then very rapidly zooms out on him. This shot is used to bring the viewer out of the world of shameless and denote that the character is not where he is meant to be.
Further on in the clip there are medium shots which show a part of the subject whilst focusing as well on other aspects, for this clip the shot focuses on man but also his two sons. After that there are lots of over the shoulder shots which gets boths characters in the shot so this tells the viewer that they are interacting, the fast editing again keeps the view wanting to carry on watching. All of these shots are very low value.
The first shot of this clip is a close up however it is through a mirror. The reason why this is used is because the director wants to make aware to the view of how sad the woman is. The next few shots are both closes up but using a following shot to keep up with what she is doing. These shots are very cheap to do because there is not much movement, no expensive props and only the one camera used. Also with all of the changing of the shots and the close ups this makes the viewer interested so they don't turn over.
Afterwards it changes subjects very quickly, firstly there is a close up of a man and then very rapidly zooms out on him. This shot is used to bring the viewer out of the world of shameless and denote that the character is not where he is meant to be.
Further on in the clip there are medium shots which show a part of the subject whilst focusing as well on other aspects, for this clip the shot focuses on man but also his two sons. After that there are lots of over the shoulder shots which gets boths characters in the shot so this tells the viewer that they are interacting, the fast editing again keeps the view wanting to carry on watching. All of these shots are very low value.
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