For this project, these are the roles of my team members:
Me: Actor, Location Scout, Screenplay
Bams: Risk Assessment, Filming Schedule
Kenneth: Behind the Scenes, Editing
Shannon: Storyboard, Audience Research
I am quite exited on this project, I hope me and my team can connect well and plan good and our final project can exceed our expectations. I'm mostly nervous about the location scout because i do not know any location that is fitting and efficient for the project.
Reflection: For this project, we had to make a film opening with the genre of our choice. My group consists of shannon, bams, kenneth and me. We chose the genre of horror involving serial killers and rituals. I hope this project will help me improve my production and research skills in media studies.
This is everything that we've learnt in class including theories, camera angles and shots, editing, mise-en-scene, and sounds.
Camera
Each member of the class had to create a mini poster showing how each camera angle looks, as well as the meaning and connotations for the shot. Below is a list of the angles we learned about:
Camera Movement
My teacher shared this video with us, it was very helpful when I was trying to remember all of the camerawork we used in class.
Camera shots:
Long Shot: Shows the full subject and setting.
Extreme Long Shot: Shows the subject from afar.
Medium Shot: Balances subject and setting, often used for conversations.
Cowboy Shot: Focuses on action, often used in Westerns.
Close up: Focuses on the face or details, shows emotion or importance.
Extreme Close up: Highlights tiny details and intensity.
POV: Shows a characters perspective, creates immersion.
Over the shoulders: Shows one character from another's viewpoint, creates connection or tension.
High Angle: Makes the subject appear weak or vulnerable.
Low Angle: Makes the subject appear powerful or dominant.
Dutch Angle: Creates unease or tension.
Establishing Shot: Provides location and context, often helps sets a scene.
Fixed
Camera remains static
Calm, peace, normal
Push in
Camera moves slowly toward subject
Brings the audience closer, more involved, getting more serious.
Pull out
Camera moves slowly away from subject
Takes audience away from the action, leaving a character. Detaching from subject
Pan
Side to side, camera fixed
Reveal information, mirrors natural head movement of the audience.
Tilt
Up and down, camera fixed
Same as pan, just a different direction
Dolly
Camera moves around freely
More immersive, we are moving inside the subjects world, we feel part of the action
Tracking
Camera moves around on tracks
Similar to dolly, but smoother.
Crane
Reveals the epic size of the setting, landscape.
Handheld
Camera is shakey
Very natural, immersive. High energy
Zoom
Zoom
Brings audience closer to budget. Draws our attention to something.
Mise-en-Scene
Editing
Continuity Editing
Non continuity editing
Straight cut (cut)
Eyeline match
Shot /reverse shot
Cutaway / Insert
*Match cut
Cross cut (parallel cut)
Flash back
Flash forward
Jump cut
*Match cut
Continuity Editing
Continuity editing example
Sound
Description
Effect
Diegetic sound
Sound that can be heard by the characters within the media text.
Add a sense of realism. Reveal information to characters (and then audience)
Non diegetic sound
Sound that can only be heard by the audience.
Enhance meaning, create an emotional response in the audience
Trans diegetic sound
Sound that transitions from one to the other.
Creates a link between the audience and the world. More immersive
Sounds; non-diegetic tones
Description
Effect
Melodic
Positive and pleasing connotations
Enhances a positive scene. Create positive emotions in the audience.
Adds deeper meaning to scenes. Insight into the character's thoughts. Maybe they seek pleasure in doing bad things.
Storyboard
this is an example of the rough sketch of what were gonna do for our film.
Storyboards are helpful in film production becuase they give everyone an idea of how the film will look visually. It can also save time when shooting becuase the camera angles/movements have already been thought of. I tried my own practice storyboard using a short movie. Here is what it looks like...
Theories
Steve Neale Theory: Movies should be similar enough for them to be identified by genre, but stand out enough to attract audience.
Hypodermic needle and Two Step flow
Social Learning and Cultivation Theory
User and Gratification
Media Ownership
everything we've learnt in class has helped us greatly in our project making. it has enhanced our skills and given us a deeper understanding that nothing is ever done acidentally or without meaning. it has helped us analyse movies and also inspired us to do the same in our projects.
This was the actual storyboard for my groups media ad project.
The storyboard below was supposed to be the one we would've used, however we scrapped it and didn't use it, this is because we pretty much entirely changed our plans when it came to where to shoot, but looking back to it, I think it's because it was too complicated and we didn't have enough time.
With the storyboard, we managed to get ideas and have a clearer picture of what we wanted in the ad. However, we didn't go according to the storyboard, although some ideas were still done.
this is the behind the scenes of our project shooting
We spent a total of 3 days shooting for our project. Although it was sort of a rush and I was worried we would flunk the project, we made it just in time and did better than what i expected.
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