18th November 2010

Today in our media lesson, we have been given the task of filling in a sheet with information about our main project. We didn't have enough time to go into detail but when we have some free time we will go into furthur detail.

Film introduction practice

We were given the task of shooting the opening introduction from a film.

First we were given the movie Juno but after consideration and problems with filming we changed the movie to the worldwide hit 'Resevoir dogs' which opening is very simplistic but also very effective.

Resevoir dogs opening;

(Inser resevoir dogs opening later)

We have recruited many high profile actors to participate in our film. These actors being some of our closest friends. A list of actors in film are;

Joe Wright
Luke Pitchford
Isaac Warburton
Tom Peck
Daniel Mucklin
Michael Worthington
Matthew Wilkin
Lewis Bradley
Phil Anderson

We unfortunately didn't have much time on filming as we only had 20 minutes so everything was a bit rushed. Also we only had one lesson to film so we didn't bring any authentic costumes to create realism.

Non diagetic and diagetic sounds

In our latest media lesson we have been learning basic terms on sounds, non diagetic and diagetic.

These are pretty simple terms to grasp and used a lot in movies for many effects.

Diagetic; This is all the sounds you can hear from the actual scene itself. Any possibly noise made by the actors or scenery is Diagetic sound. You can also use diagetic sounds to bridge the gap between scenes to maintain continuity.

Non diagetic; Contrasting with diagetic, non diagetic sounds are all the sounds that are not in the scene. A key example of this is background music which is mainly used for setting the emotion the scene is trying to perceive.