Preliminary

 

 

 Continuity exercise

Our film starts off with a following shot of Matt, playing football doing various skills such as a stopover. He then beats the defender, however, the defender, me, gets a bit rowdy that he has been dribbled past. The defender takes down the player with the ball and gives away a free kick. We then get a slow motion shot of of the defender taking the player with the ball down. This allows the viewer to reflect on how severe the tackle was.

We then did a hard cut to a POV shot of the player putting down the ball on the ground for a free kick. This immerses the viewer and makes them feel like they are the character taking the free kick. We then hard cut to a over-the-shoulder shot of the player taking the free kick, giving us a overview of the goal. In the cut the defender is trying to make a wall to block the ball from going in, with the keeper directing him where to go. We then hard cut to a shot of the ball, slowly panning up towards the free-kick takers face, where he is nobly looking towards the goal, as if he aims to shoot the ball into the goal. We then hard cut to a pan shot around the players face where he is looking towards the goal. This then cuts to a following shot of the players leg, running towards the football, then proceeding to kick it. We then get a POV shot of the football going into the goal then dropping to the floor. During this POV shot we see a shot of my face looking as the ball flies past my face and a shot of ben Richardson diving towards the ball attempting to stop it going into the goal.

This tabletop opening sequence to a movie was about a man who was attempting to kill someone. It starts by doing a pan over a piece of a news article from the newspaper. This shows a picture of three men, all with squares drawn around their face in red pen. This could reflect on how the man wants to kill them through the red coloured ink, implying the blood. Below these squares are the three men's alias. Below the alias' there is a short brief telling the owner of this newspaper article which person he needs to kill. 

The camera then pans to the man's hand opening a briefcase, in which we see a gun, a passport and a large sum of American dollars. This could connote that the person is travelling to America, from the American money he has in his briefcase, and the passport implies he's leaving the country. The gun really lets the cat out of the bag if it wasn't apparent enough that he was going to kill someone from the newspaper article. 

The camera then pans to a deck of cards, which the man spreads out on the table, and by coincidence the combination AK47 is the outliers of the deck and is what is seen by the camera. This gives an even stronger sense of death to the short film as an AK47 is a machine gun. The camera then pans to the final part of the opening sequence, a display of drugs, most likely cocaine, spread out into 4 lines, with a rolled up note next to it. This gives the viewer a sense of worry, as they are lead to think that this man is mentally crazed, and that he is not in his right mind to be attempting to kill someone right then. 

 In class, we passed around the camera, learning how to turn it on, take a photo, zoom in, insert the memory card and battery and loads of other vastly useful tools in using a camera. We also learnt how to put the camera onto the tripod, how to use the tripod and how to take the camera off the tripod without damaging the camera or the tripod. 

We also learnt about the 180 degree rule, which means that you should have the same relationship with the left side of the shot as you do with the right side, so it is not too obvious that it is filmed in a set, indulging the viewer more into the scene.

We also learnt about the on-set etiquette, which meant that when the director shouts rolling, everyone must be quiet, and prepare for him to say cut and strike the kit, marking the start of the filming. 

ON THE SET

 In class, we passed around the camera, learning how to turn it on, take a photo, zoom in, insert the memory card and battery and loads of other vastly useful tools in using a camera. We also learnt how to put the camera onto the tripod, how to use the tripod and how to take the camera off the tripod without damaging the camera or the tripod. 

We also learnt about the 180 degree rule, which means that you should have the same relationship with the left side of the shot as you do with the right side, so it is not too obvious that it is filmed in a set, indulging the viewer more into the scene. 

We also learnt about the on-set etiquette, which meant that when the director shouts rolling, everyone must be quiet, and prepare for him to say cut and strike the kit, marking the start of the filming. 

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE: CAMERA TECHNIQUES

The subject of the photos is the vase holding bright yellow flowers.

Camera angles pptx from SamdeBruin4

Sound in film

Attached here is my media work on sound in films. I have used the films 1917, Guardians of The Galaxy 2, Dunkirk and the Silencing of the Lambs as examples of sound in films.