Media Studies 2009-2011

 This is our preliminary exercise. It could have been better as we had to redo it twice as we wern’t happy with it.

There were alot of bad points:

We didn’t check the sound before we started so it was very loud when we played it back,                               We didn’t have enough material so we only were able to use what we filmed, we know now for next time to create alot more footage than is needed. We only have 20 seconds so we could do with some more footage. We didn’t create mindmaps before we started but we did create a few storyboards so our organisation level was very good, this is one of the good point.                                                                                                 We had problems with continuety as the actors didn’t wear the same clothes on the days they should have which meant we had to retake our film.                                                                                                          We also began filming to soon which meant when we edited it cut off the dialogue which is shown in our video.                                                                                                                                                                Some of our angles were good like the door handle shot this was a very good close up and really looked good the effect was good too. The shot of Laura walking into a shot wasn’t very good though as she suddenly dissapeared, we could improve this now we know.

You need lighting so the audience can watch the film clearly so you can see the actors.  You do not want the character as a blur or so the sun is on them so the camera picks that up. You want a good clear shot with good lighting that either shows a meaning or has to have a purpose to be there.

In cinematography, the use of light can influence the meaning of a shot.

E.g. film makers often show villains as shadowed or veiled usualy a dark character.

A video shot log is a written record of the shots on a tape or disk.

This can be made either as the shoot progresses or after the shoot finishes.

In it you include: Date its shot, Location shot, Who operates the camera, Other people around (Staff), And additional comments.

Below this you have a time code, Take, Duration, Description and Audio along in a graph. This sets it out neatly for you so you can add to it underneath.