Thursday 9 December 2010
Monday 6 December 2010
what is a triller
thrillers are designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats till the end of the movie, thrillers are designed to cover many different genres that are recognised largely by movie goers such as; misteries, murders and cheesy chase scenes in the woods.
generic conventions of trillers:
1. Plot twist
2. keeping people unsure about what is going to happen
3. a lot of action
4. often chaotic
5. have resourcefull heroes and exotic settings
thriller plots can vary widely, very intelectually chalenging, spy thrillers, supernatural themes and scientific and medical.
a popular theme is spy thrillers, a spy vs an unpopular enemy in exotic locations= LIKE
these are so popular because everyone likes a bit of action suspense and exotic locations.
some thrillers are challenging and can attract slightly more intelectual people to the cinema, these tend to involve some phsycological aspects which can get intelectual audiences to start analysing the character.
thrillers are often Hybrids, this means that they are not just thrillers, you can have any mix of the following and many more:
1. action-thrillers
2. adventure-thrillers
3. sci-fi-thrillers
4. crime-thrillers
5. western-thrillers
6. film-noir-thrillers
7. horror-thrillers
and even
8. romantic comedy thrillers
thrillers are massively suspensefull, arguably the best director of this was hitchcock. he would cover up information, this added more suspense and tension keeping the audience more on edge. this normaly would build up to a climax later in the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsobNoNJzOc
this is the link to a video of thriller conventions i could not get the embeded code as it was blocked...
generic conventions of trillers:
1. Plot twist
2. keeping people unsure about what is going to happen
3. a lot of action
4. often chaotic
5. have resourcefull heroes and exotic settings
thriller plots can vary widely, very intelectually chalenging, spy thrillers, supernatural themes and scientific and medical.
a popular theme is spy thrillers, a spy vs an unpopular enemy in exotic locations= LIKE
these are so popular because everyone likes a bit of action suspense and exotic locations.
some thrillers are challenging and can attract slightly more intelectual people to the cinema, these tend to involve some phsycological aspects which can get intelectual audiences to start analysing the character.
thrillers are often Hybrids, this means that they are not just thrillers, you can have any mix of the following and many more:
1. action-thrillers
2. adventure-thrillers
3. sci-fi-thrillers
4. crime-thrillers
5. western-thrillers
6. film-noir-thrillers
7. horror-thrillers
and even
8. romantic comedy thrillers
thrillers are massively suspensefull, arguably the best director of this was hitchcock. he would cover up information, this added more suspense and tension keeping the audience more on edge. this normaly would build up to a climax later in the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsobNoNJzOc
this is the link to a video of thriller conventions i could not get the embeded code as it was blocked...
Friday 26 November 2010
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Prelimination post production blog
Before editing we must open the fotage from the final cut server(basically a big external hard drive where we keep all the fotage) to the final cut pro (the etiting software)
first we open final cut server and find our footage that we shot, on the left hand side there is a side bar that has a little cog that when you press it brings down a list of options. you drop down to find the item that says check out, press it and a new box poppes up asking you where to put the files. You press the browse button and select the desktop option, this will put it on the desktop, then select to change the media into a type that you can edit using the drop down box on the left and press ok. the files will load onto your desktop.
Once they have moved across to the desktop you can then click on them to open the footage in an editing software. The editing software will open with all your footage in a box to the left.
creat a new folder calling it edit bin and then go thru all your shots selecting which ones you want and which ones you dont, place the ones you want into the editing bin and rename them appropriatly (to do this you press the modify button on the top of the screen, this gives you the option to rename it.) and leave the ones you dont in the original folder.
Logging our shots:
when selecting the shots go thru them carefully watching them to make sure that they are not out of focus, or not bubbled (leveled correctly), or that they are to fast, or the light is not ballanced, basically any shot you do not like as a group you get rid of leaving in the rushes bin, moving all those that you do like into your editing bin.
Organising your shots:
when it comes to organising your shots you have to think about how much screen time to give to the characters, and making sure you keep to the story board. We shot with two actors that we grabbed out of PS (private study) they acted out the story very well and did remember the lines very well however they did cut into each others lines to fast making it extreamly hard to edit and cut so we attempted to keep to the story board but it made the scene seem more like some sort of machine gun action sequence, which does not work so well so we have tried to cut in some calmer shots to make it a lot more calm but we need to stick to the story board and this is not really working out.
Editing in final cut:
when editing in final cut I found it really easy to cut to the exact place that we needed to cut to in the shots and the audio, the only thing that does not work out is that the actors cut into one anothers audio to fast making the editing really fast and seem like an action scene. We told the actors not to play around while acting and to not play with their hair so that the shots made sence. Wells the male actor in our Prelim is quite fidgety and we had several problems with the cutting as his hands where always doing something different. so the continuity was slightly off but we have sort of managed to cut it correctly.
The final cut program works like any editing software, two screens to view, one to view the shots in the editing bin and the other to view the shots that you bring down into the time line.
The time line:
the time line is the basic cutting floor you can add shots, take away shots, cut the shots to exact frames, add frames to the begining of shots or the end of them and do the same with the audio.
while using the time line you can get the parts of shots that you need to the areas that you need them in. you can also make sound bridges linking the audio to another visual shot.
first we open final cut server and find our footage that we shot, on the left hand side there is a side bar that has a little cog that when you press it brings down a list of options. you drop down to find the item that says check out, press it and a new box poppes up asking you where to put the files. You press the browse button and select the desktop option, this will put it on the desktop, then select to change the media into a type that you can edit using the drop down box on the left and press ok. the files will load onto your desktop.
Once they have moved across to the desktop you can then click on them to open the footage in an editing software. The editing software will open with all your footage in a box to the left.
creat a new folder calling it edit bin and then go thru all your shots selecting which ones you want and which ones you dont, place the ones you want into the editing bin and rename them appropriatly (to do this you press the modify button on the top of the screen, this gives you the option to rename it.) and leave the ones you dont in the original folder.
Logging our shots:
when selecting the shots go thru them carefully watching them to make sure that they are not out of focus, or not bubbled (leveled correctly), or that they are to fast, or the light is not ballanced, basically any shot you do not like as a group you get rid of leaving in the rushes bin, moving all those that you do like into your editing bin.
Organising your shots:
when it comes to organising your shots you have to think about how much screen time to give to the characters, and making sure you keep to the story board. We shot with two actors that we grabbed out of PS (private study) they acted out the story very well and did remember the lines very well however they did cut into each others lines to fast making it extreamly hard to edit and cut so we attempted to keep to the story board but it made the scene seem more like some sort of machine gun action sequence, which does not work so well so we have tried to cut in some calmer shots to make it a lot more calm but we need to stick to the story board and this is not really working out.
Editing in final cut:
when editing in final cut I found it really easy to cut to the exact place that we needed to cut to in the shots and the audio, the only thing that does not work out is that the actors cut into one anothers audio to fast making the editing really fast and seem like an action scene. We told the actors not to play around while acting and to not play with their hair so that the shots made sence. Wells the male actor in our Prelim is quite fidgety and we had several problems with the cutting as his hands where always doing something different. so the continuity was slightly off but we have sort of managed to cut it correctly.
The final cut program works like any editing software, two screens to view, one to view the shots in the editing bin and the other to view the shots that you bring down into the time line.
The time line:
the time line is the basic cutting floor you can add shots, take away shots, cut the shots to exact frames, add frames to the begining of shots or the end of them and do the same with the audio.
while using the time line you can get the parts of shots that you need to the areas that you need them in. you can also make sound bridges linking the audio to another visual shot.
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Preliminary task Evaluation
Location: Hurtwood house editing suit.
we used the door to the private study room as the entrance and exit where wells our male actor and had joe already standing in the room leaning slightly against the wall. the lighting was good.
During the filming we all gave input in the group, I was manning the camera and giving ideas for shots, I asked everyone to confirm that my shot was in focus.
Lighting
we used natural lighting from the room so the overhead lights. this was not a huge importance to the scene as the item in question passed on was a rubix cube, taking a slightly comical twist on our preliminary task. the light was not specifically effective and did not change anything within our shots, because all the lights used in the shots where just to light up the whole shot as a wash.
During our filming
I have learnt that there are many shot that i did not know about in fiming sequences and I learnt that when you film a sequence you must always go over the whole script.
we used the door to the private study room as the entrance and exit where wells our male actor and had joe already standing in the room leaning slightly against the wall. the lighting was good.
During the filming we all gave input in the group, I was manning the camera and giving ideas for shots, I asked everyone to confirm that my shot was in focus.
Lighting
we used natural lighting from the room so the overhead lights. this was not a huge importance to the scene as the item in question passed on was a rubix cube, taking a slightly comical twist on our preliminary task. the light was not specifically effective and did not change anything within our shots, because all the lights used in the shots where just to light up the whole shot as a wash.
During our filming
- we set up the camera properly, we bubbled the camera (meaning we made sure the camera was still and flat on the horizon) everytime we filmed and we made sure we white balaced the room.
- after each shot we would move into another shot, checking that we bubbled the camera and the tripod.
- we checked that the shot was correctly framed each time. remembering the rule of thirds.
- during the filming we made sure to not cross the 180 degree line and to remember the rule of thirds while setting the shot up, we also put the height of the tripod higher to get the over the shoulder shot. To keep in the slight commedy of our preliminary task we got a shot of Wells feel and he was wearing nike shoes, whose ad line is just do it, the line used thru out the script also foreshadowing the whole script.
- we shot the whole script from all the different angles starting with a long shot of the two, then a over the shoulder shot of Joe doing the whole script (while setting up for this shot we got wells to stand in the exact spot he was standing in for his lines. then we closed up on to Joes face to do the close up once again doing the script over, then switched over to Joes side to film Wells going over the whole scrip and sequence again.
- we stayed on the same side of the 180 degree line the whole time we fimed, remembering not to cross it. We may have crossed it in the final shot as Wells exits the room and walkes to the right of the camera but hopefully it worked.
- before filming we went thru the whole process correctly and before we filmed we made sure everyone was quiet, then our director called stand by at wich point we all got ready, turning over which ment i had to press the button to record and say turning over, then the director would call action at which point the actors would leave a few moments and then come on and get filmed doing the whole dualogue.
I have learnt that there are many shot that i did not know about in fiming sequences and I learnt that when you film a sequence you must always go over the whole script.
Wednesday 6 October 2010
Introduction to video camera
TIME CODE:
time code tells you how much of the memory you have used up, it is located in the top right hand corner of the screen and is set up to tell us the minutes seconds and then frames which go up to 24 but there are 25 frames ( 00:00:00)
FOCUSING:
its very simple to focus the camera, all you have to do is zoom into a point that is stationary using one of the wheels then you have to use the second wheel to focus the immage on your screen and then zoom out again to have a clear immage of what you want to shoot.
WHITE BALLANCE:
hold a sheet of blank white paper or card in front of the camera to have the white ballance of the shot then you press the white ballance button and the shot colour will be set.
TRIPOD SETUP:
to set up the tripod it only takes a few easy steps, first you open the tripod and unlock the legs, locking them into place when your done. after this you lock into place the pan handle and unlock the bottom then looking at the green circle and ajust the air bubble into place in the center of the circle then you lock the top into place by locking the bottom. this ensures that the camera once on will be streit and not wonky.
PLACING THE CAMERA:
to place the camera on the tripod all you have to do is loosen the right knob and then slide the camera into place pressing down the little button on the left.
BASIC CAMERA SHOTS:
Extreme wide shot, this shot is normally used as an establishing shot
Very wide shot, this is mainly used to place the character in the suroundings normally not a lot of enphasis on subject.
Wide shot, subject takes up the majority of the shot.
mid shot, shows some of the subject still gives the imnpression of the whole subject.
Close up, subject takes up the frame
Extreme close up, shows extreme detail.
Cut away, shot of something else.
Cut in, shows close up of part of the subject in detail.
Two shot, a shot of two subjects framed in a mid shot.
Over the sholder shot, looking from behind one subject at another subject.
Noddy shot, a shot of one subject nodding as if an interviewer nodding at his subject.
Point of view shot (POV), shows the view from the perspective of the subject.
Weather shot, the subject is usually the sky, can be used for other purpouses.
180 DEGREE RULE:
a line that the actors stand on and the camera cant cross unless in the shot the camera spins around the actors.
THE TERMINOLOGY BEHIND SHOOTING:
STAND BY / STANDING BY: to tell the camera men to get ready to shoot.
TURN OVER / TURNING OVER: the camera is rooling/ turning over.
ACTION: actors start acting and the set goes quiet.
CUT: stop filming.
changing from still cameras to film cameras has not effected me that much as I have been filming for a while now and we are constantly surrounded by the media, but changing from filming ski videos and skate edits, it changes a lot to know the proper techniques.
time code tells you how much of the memory you have used up, it is located in the top right hand corner of the screen and is set up to tell us the minutes seconds and then frames which go up to 24 but there are 25 frames ( 00:00:00)
FOCUSING:
its very simple to focus the camera, all you have to do is zoom into a point that is stationary using one of the wheels then you have to use the second wheel to focus the immage on your screen and then zoom out again to have a clear immage of what you want to shoot.
WHITE BALLANCE:
hold a sheet of blank white paper or card in front of the camera to have the white ballance of the shot then you press the white ballance button and the shot colour will be set.
TRIPOD SETUP:
to set up the tripod it only takes a few easy steps, first you open the tripod and unlock the legs, locking them into place when your done. after this you lock into place the pan handle and unlock the bottom then looking at the green circle and ajust the air bubble into place in the center of the circle then you lock the top into place by locking the bottom. this ensures that the camera once on will be streit and not wonky.
PLACING THE CAMERA:
to place the camera on the tripod all you have to do is loosen the right knob and then slide the camera into place pressing down the little button on the left.
BASIC CAMERA SHOTS:
Extreme wide shot, this shot is normally used as an establishing shot
Very wide shot, this is mainly used to place the character in the suroundings normally not a lot of enphasis on subject.
Wide shot, subject takes up the majority of the shot.
mid shot, shows some of the subject still gives the imnpression of the whole subject.
Close up, subject takes up the frame
Extreme close up, shows extreme detail.
Cut away, shot of something else.
Cut in, shows close up of part of the subject in detail.
Two shot, a shot of two subjects framed in a mid shot.
Over the sholder shot, looking from behind one subject at another subject.
Noddy shot, a shot of one subject nodding as if an interviewer nodding at his subject.
Point of view shot (POV), shows the view from the perspective of the subject.
Weather shot, the subject is usually the sky, can be used for other purpouses.
180 DEGREE RULE:
a line that the actors stand on and the camera cant cross unless in the shot the camera spins around the actors.
THE TERMINOLOGY BEHIND SHOOTING:
STAND BY / STANDING BY: to tell the camera men to get ready to shoot.
TURN OVER / TURNING OVER: the camera is rooling/ turning over.
ACTION: actors start acting and the set goes quiet.
CUT: stop filming.
changing from still cameras to film cameras has not effected me that much as I have been filming for a while now and we are constantly surrounded by the media, but changing from filming ski videos and skate edits, it changes a lot to know the proper techniques.
Wednesday 29 September 2010
introduction to photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a graphic and picture editing tool. It enables the user to alter, manipulate and create images either from existing photos or found images.
we used such tools as:
the marquee Tool which cuts box shapes around a part of the image and then we can edit and place onto another picture.
the clone stamp tool which makes a perfect copy of a highlighted part of the image
the burn tool which i found easy to use, and the dodge tool, the dodge tool makes the selected area lighter and brings out the light. the burn tool however does what the name suggests and darkens the selected area.
the laso tool allows us to select an area more accuretly and to select around more delecate shapes.
the move tool enables us to as the name suggests move a selected area around
we can also use the effects drop down box across the page to find better effects and to make the images that you are trying to look more realistic, i placced a helicopter from the film poster of cloverfield into the helmet of master cheif from halo. then used the drop down bof to select an effect that made it look as if the helicopter was reflected off the lense.
we used such tools as:
the marquee Tool which cuts box shapes around a part of the image and then we can edit and place onto another picture.
the clone stamp tool which makes a perfect copy of a highlighted part of the image
the burn tool which i found easy to use, and the dodge tool, the dodge tool makes the selected area lighter and brings out the light. the burn tool however does what the name suggests and darkens the selected area.
the laso tool allows us to select an area more accuretly and to select around more delecate shapes.
the move tool enables us to as the name suggests move a selected area around
we can also use the effects drop down box across the page to find better effects and to make the images that you are trying to look more realistic, i placced a helicopter from the film poster of cloverfield into the helmet of master cheif from halo. then used the drop down bof to select an effect that made it look as if the helicopter was reflected off the lense.
Wednesday 22 September 2010
basic stills, camera work and composition
Composition:
Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.
Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.
Rule of thirds:
works like this, when you have a picture the eye naturally forms on the four focus points, these focus points can be found by dividing your picture or screen shot into thirds both horizontaly and vertically.
Rule of thirds:
works like this, when you have a picture the eye naturally forms on the four focus points, these focus points can be found by dividing your picture or screen shot into thirds both horizontaly and vertically.
One last thing about the Rule of Thirds:
Once you have got the hang of the Rule of Thirds you will very quickly want to break it! This is fine. As I said earlier these rules are best used as guidelines and if you can create a better image by bending or ignoring rules then go ahead.
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