media studies 2009-2011

Firstly we looked at the opening sequence of ‘Skins’. It started with a panning shot of the woods which gave the establishing shot the right atmosphere and genre. I like how it made the setting look intense and the charactors look mysterious. It makes the audience automatically wonder whats going to happen. So gives the genre a horror/murder mystery theme. For our inspiration we have taken the skeleton of this storyline and made it into our own. We liked the beginning sequence of the panning shot and the intenceness. We like some angles of the shots (close ups of some charactors, establishing shot). And last of all we liked the style of acting, to show the worried and scared state.

We then looked at the opening sequence of ‘True Blood’. For the opening sequence there was a flicking of different images such as dead animals, children playing on swings. The editing used here was very effective as they used methods such as black and white, sepia and old style film. This was only the opening sequence with credits but it seemed to tell and show the whole story line in a few seconds. I found this really effective and decided for the opening credits we would use a similer style.

So overall we decided that we are going to use the style of both ‘Skins’ and ‘True Blood’ to make our opening sequence as effective and intense as possible.

Ideas for destination: Osmotherly Woods, a random field, deserted village.

Setting the scene: Sunset/dark, Evening time/ early morning, tents, bbq, fire, pajamas, sleeping bags etc.

Things we need (Props): Tents, sleeping bags, matches, fags, empty booze bottles, junk food etc.

Storyline: A group of youths having a campout but things go mysteriously wrong for one girl. She invites herself along, which no one is really pleased about, and begins making the well awaited trip hell for the other teenagers. Will they get their revenge or will she live to tell the tale?

Actors: Mixture of sexes, naughty misbehaving teenagers.

Evaluation

I am rather happy with the final product, but what needs to be improved is:

In some of the shots there is too much head room, some camera angles are at odd positions, and some of the editing is jerky.

We also broke the 180 degree rule, and we did not include shot reverse shot. So we had to go back on another day to refilm.

After this we made a huge improvement, and everything went along with the criteria.

What i would improve is some of the editing is too fast, and i think it could be slowed down abit, so that the audience could understand the story line more.

I thought that their perliminary exercise was very well sequenced, and all the shots matched well.

They included shot reverse shot and handing over an object, and made sure that they didnt break any rules such as the 180 degree line, which is good.

I think they have also used many different camera angles and close ups and long shot etc, which makes the sequence more exciting.

The only bad thing i have to say is that the editing is too fast, and may confuse the audience, as when the character opens the door, takes the chair and sits down, it all happens extremely fast.

You will firstly need to produce a pelimenary exercise. This will need to involve a short sequence of someone walking down a corridor into a room, where they will meet someone else and hand them over a package. It wont be marked but will need to be included in the portfolio.

You will also need to present planning and research material which will be worth 20%. This will also include, storyboard (anamatic), reca report, shooting script, dialogue script and health and saftey report and research.

Making the film is very important as it is 50% of all marks. You need to think about using conventions, think about editing, producing a piece that works as an opening sequence, think about the mise en scene, us of sound and light, and to remember that the actors don’t matter. After the film, you will need to produce a evaluation which can be multi media such as audio clips and discussions.

The continuity task has to include, character opening a door then crossing the room, character sits down in a chair opposite the other character, then they exchange an object and some dialogue. The sequence must demonstrate match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 rule.

Selection Tool - used to select clips in the timeline

Track Select Tool - select all tracks from a given point, or select multiple tracks

Ripple Edit Tool - Adjust an edit point on the timeline

Rolling Edit Tool - Adjust an edit point between to clips without messing up the rest of the timeline

Rate Stretch Tool - Change the rate of the clip and changing the speed of the timeline so that it will fit

Razor Tool - Cut a clip into two clips

Slip Tool - Move the clips in and out points by the same amount together which then means the rest of the timeline is not affected

Slide Tool - Moving a clip back and forth on the timeline

Pen Tool - Create control points

Hand Tool - Dragging the timeline meaning you can view the left and the right

Zoom Tool - Click the timeline to magnify or clip one particular part of the timeline to zoom in

The adobe premiere workspace can be customised in many ways such as rearranging the panels, and turning them into specialist panels for different tasks.

The workspace is divided into five different panels:

Project Panel - where you store all the edited versions of your video such as the audio clips and graphics.

Monitor Panel - where you view video clips to check your happy with the outcome.

Information Panel - shows information about the selected item.

Timeline Panel - you rearrange the elements of your video to how you desire.

Tools Panel - where you choose editing tools to use in the Timeline Panel.

Adobe premiere can be used for amateurs as well as professionals. It shows and overall view of the premiere and can be used along side of other softwares such as adobe photoshop.

This software works by, importing your video material on a tape or other source, then for you to do all your editing, then to import all that changed material back on to the tape etc.

Its easy to use and is used by some of the top professionals, its a powerful editing tool, and can produce some high definition and broadcast quality products.

Premiere can do many things such as import videos, in many different formats, edit, manipulate and arrange the product, add effects and titles etc and export your edited video into many different types of formats such as video tape, DVD and many others such as internet formats.

BUT there are some things which premiere can do such as: the built in title maker is not very advanced, the sound editing is also not very advanced and will need another sound editing tool so back it up and the range of special effects are only standard compared to a professionals standard.

Premiere does come at a price, but and overall view on it its that it is a good editing tool and cost effective.

What is video editing?

It is where you manipulate and rearrange video shots to create a preferred piece of work. Editing is normally counted as one of the post production work, so other post productions are things like sound mixing.

Some of the other post production/editing are things such as rearranging, adding and removing sections of video clips or audio clips, applying colour correction, filters and other enhancements and creating transitions between clips.

The goals of editing are: remove unwanted footage, choose the best footage, create a flow, add effects, graphics, music, etc, alter the style, pace or mood of the video and give the video a particular angle.