Monday, 26 September 2011

Reflecting back on the AS year-Technical skills

I have learnt and developed different technical skills during the AS course.
Positioning of a camera can have different effects on the viewer and different meanings. We first had to practice how to use camera and learn the shot types as this was done for our prelim trial run before the filmmaking.
 
Camera movement - Panning - camera stays still but the camera moves from left or right.
Tracking- when the camera base moves sideways to follow action, which is usually on a set of rails.
Handheld-used to show characters point of view
Tilting -camera base remains still while the camera moves vertically up or down.
Extreme long shot
Wide shot
Close up
Mid shot
Medium close up
Over the shoulder shot
Cutaway-(for example a programme may cut away to another event to show something not in the scene as they may link
Cut in (something show in detail )
Two shot
Establishing shot- opening shot of a programme
Low/high angle - shows power relationships
Point of view shots- so the viewer can empathise with a certain situation.
We need to know exactly what it is and where it is that we will be filming also why an
Object has been placed there and how effective it is.
Setting and décor
Costume and make up (feelings can be expressed through them)
Body language/ movement
Lighting (dark -light can be about the character of a programme.
Props.
Sound (soundDiegectic- sound on set (voice
Non diegetic (sound effect
Sound bridge ( linking two scenes together
Dialogue
Sound effects
Motif (introduces the character e.g. superman.
Accent (regional identity
Editing -
This was the final thing we done.
Different types of edits
I have also learnt how to upload videos from the hard drive to the Macs.
 Shot/reverse shot ( most often used in conversations
Cross cut ( takes us from one situation to another
Match cut (mid shot of a gun then cuts to a close up of the gun shooting the object
Transition ( effects) slow/fast motion - we used a lot of this in our film as this expressed the characters feelings
Ellipsis( invents that happen in an amount of time) the use of final cut pro using to edit our thriller Film on the apple Macs. I found this the most challenging but I got use to using final cut pro and improved. cut pro to import sound effects and music in our film. This was my main part as I was the sound women during our filmmaking.

Shot types
Mise-en-scene -

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