Preliminary video

Here is our groups Preliminary video, many mistakes such as sounding, and minor camera work cropped up as noticable errors, here are some other noticeable errors;

A few of the most noticeable errors are:

- Poor lighting in lift scene

- CCTV timer is counting from 0 and resets during clip

- School displays are on show

- Continuity error between 1.19 - 1.20

Consequently from this video, a lot of ideas have surfaced that we will use in our final video. Again, these idea's will be explained in furthur posts.

Complication (Adobe pro)

With numerous problems with this program such as Rendering, Lagging and Freezing, a joint decision was made to do the main editing for this PRELIMINARY task at Isaac's house where we use the program;

Song Vegas

This is because that Isaac actually owns this software and is much more used to the layout and features so we have the maximum knowledge to get the best outcome.

Media Lesson (23rd September)

Me, Isaac and Luke had 4 units of media today so had a long period of time to get work done. We all had specific jobs to do in this time period.

Me: My job was to choose the specific clips for the second part of the video and put them in order in adobe pro.

Isaac: His job was to collect the clips for the first half and put them in order using the same program.

Luke: Catch up with blog and help out my and Isaac when needed.

Media Lesson (Friday 17th September)

After a long period of babbling around school trying to import our video clips onto the school system, we finally managed to succeed. In the hour period left of this lesson, Myself and Isaac have gone through the two different folders and just watched and got a over-view of all our video clips. Meanwhile Luke has been completing his blog and is now fully caught up.

Luke Pitchford

Today, mine and Isaac's friends decided to undertake AS Media Studies. We have welcomed him into our group and are looking forward to his input over the next two year period.

A link to his blog will be published on my home page very soon.

Storyboard

Over the past couple of days me and my partner Isaac have been creating our storyboard for our preliminary task.

Here is a picture of our storyboard;

Continuity

Continuity, as like match on action, shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule is an essential term in media. The overall concept is very simple;

Continuity is the continuation of a scene with numerous shots integrating within each other (which could have been shot in different time periods) without breaks in the scene. It also is a variation of small scenes that keeps the movie flowing without spending too much time on one particular scene.

E.G.

• Get on the train
• Sit down in the train cabin
• Get off the train

I will analyse the first 10 seconds of this scene from the oscar winning movie series;

1-2 Seconds: For the first second and a half, the camera angle starts with a long shot. It then changes angle to a close up of Rocky facing Clubber Lang.

4 seconds: The camera angle stays theoretically the same but changes from a close up to a long shot.

5-10 seconds: The camera angle stays the same and the shot style (long shot) also remains the same also.

180 degree rule

The 180 degree rule is essential in keeping the viewer focused and avoiding confusion. Once a scene has been established, the camera must stay on one side of the action.

If two people are facing each other, a line must be drawn. This line usually runs straight down the middle between the two people, like so:

Once this line is in place, the camera can move anywhere providing it stays on the same side of the line once filming has begun. If the camera is switching between two faces during a conversation for example and then suddenly cuts to the other side of the line, then it will appear that both people are facing the same direction instead of looking at each other.

Shot reverse shot

Again, as like 'Match on action' shot reverse shot is quite s simple technique but also very effective and used in basically all movies known to man.

Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off screen), and the other character is shown looking the opposite direction to imply that both characters are looking at each other. A simple and very effective illusion and also means that only one actor/actress is used at a time.

Here is an example of shot reverse shot;



42-43 Seconds is a very easy example of opposite camera angles that implies that both characters are looking at each other.

Match on action definition

Match on action is a very sinple but essential tenchique, where the perspective of the camera changes during a scene and the scene continues to flow.

Here is an example on youtube as the term Match on action is being demonstrated.



A good example of 'Match on action' is between 2 and 3 seconds. As you can see, the perspective changes while the scene still flows without any disruption.

'Match on action' also occurs between the seconds;

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Preliminary Exercise Brief

'Produce a continuity exercise which involves a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom they exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. The task should demonstrate;

• Match on action
• Shot/reverse shot
• 180 degree rule'

Before continuing onto the next task, I will research what these three terms above actually mean.

Introduction

Hello, my name is Joe.

I am studying media studies at A level as one of my three choices. My other two personal choices were English language and Drama. In my course it was nessecary to choose groups to work with throughout the year period.

Group names;
Joe Wright- RN- 16 years old
Isaac Waburton- MS- 16 years old- http://www.isaacwarburtonmedia.blogspot.com/

Unlike all the other groups we have chosen to work in a single pair instead of triple or quaruple numbers of people. This is based upon work load and we are both very determined to exceed our target grade by at least 2 whole grades.

School target grade- C
Personal target grade- A

Me and Isaac are very alike and are extremely hard working and at all times focussed on our task. We have already done a lot of research over the summer period and already have a very strong idea for our final production.

We both are looking forward to the next two years and even more the successes that will consequently follow.