This is my Story board and plan

This is my story board and plan of what my preliminary task was going to look like. we ended up using one of the other people's in my group for the final thing as we thought it would look better in the final piece.

My Anamatic

I created my animatic by using a program called Adobe Image Ready CS. I did this by scanning in the story board for my preliminary task. I then opened the image in Adobe image ready CS and created a new file. I then dragged each frame into its own layer. I then picked the moving time of my animatic i chose to have 1 second between each frame. I then saved it and uploaded it into "www.photobucket.com" i then posted it straight onto my blog.

my definitions of the different types of shots

Close up:

1)   See expressions and reactions that are important focus on key points and gestures

Medium shot

2)   To see reactions that are important/possibly shoulder gestures body language/ dress code/setting

Long shot

3)   To see the full body of someone and gestures. Things that are not necessarily significant/sets/scenery/large area/establish scenes/sequence in context

High angle shot

4)   To show that the person would be a lower status and the camera is superior. The person would feel vulnerable/inferior

 Low angle shot

5)   To show superior/higher status/taller

Point of view shot

6)   Person is like the camera/ see what the character sees/feels/in the shoes of a character

Spectator shot

7)   Fly on the wall/ 3^rd person/ bigger picture/ privileged viewing position/ enjoy the spectacle 

Tracking shot

      8)  To track what’s going on/ move with the person/follow the action 

i also acted in and helped Georgina edit her preliminary task this is it below:

This is our final preliminary task. We filmed our preliminary once and when we had finished editing it, we realised that we had made some continuity mistakes. So we re-filmed my group consisted of 2 actors and 1 person to film each shot. Julian and Mungo acted it out whist i filmed it.  Then we all edited our work together as a group putting our own input into each edit. we edited our video on 'Final cut pro.' We came across a couple of difficulties during filming but we ended up happy with our final video. Hope you enjoy it: 

i also acted and helped Georgina edit her Preliminary task:

30˚ Rule

The 30° rule is a basic film editing guideline that says the camera should move at least 30° between shots of the same subject. This change of perspective makes the shots different enough to avoid a jump cut. Too much movement around this may adjust the 180˚ Rule. 

Shot Reverse Shot

Shot Reverse Shot is the opposite angle of the original shot another word for it is shot/counter shot. It is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking 'back' at the first one. This means the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

Continuity

Most continuity errors are subtle, like changes in the level of drink in a character's glass or the length of a cigarette, others can be more noticeable, such as sudden drastic changes in appearance of a character (clothes, hair) or objects around them. Such errors in continuity can ruin the illusion of realism.

The person who posted this video on youtube has disabled the request of embedding it onto other things. this is the URL which will also take you to the same page to see it:

Continuity mistakes

Match on Action

Match on action is a cut in film editing from one scene to another, in which the two camera shots compositional elements match, helping to establish a strong continuity of action. It can be used to underline a connection between two separate elements, or for purely visual reasons. In a match on action, an object or action shown in the first shot is repeated in some kind of shape and form in the second shot; the objects may be the same, be similar, or have similar shapes or uses.

180˚ Rule

180˚ rule -In the example of a dialogue, if Lisa (Orange shirt in the diagram) is on the left and Annie (Blue shirt) is on the right, then Lisa should be facing right at all times, even when Annie is off the edge of the frame, and Annie should always be facing left. Shifting to the other side of the characters on a cut, so that Annie is now on the left side and Lisa is on the right, will disorient the viewer, and break the flow of the scene.

i found this video on youtube so i embedded it onto my blog. Although it explains exactly what the 180˚ rule is for some people it might be abit confusing as it gets abit messy when they enter alot of people into it.

Creating My First Media Film

Today we got told to make a short video around the area of our school of whatever we wanted. We first put all the equipment together and then i got partnered with Domi to do the exercise. I thought that we could make a video and cut and make it into a sort of suspicious robbery or dramatic video. We started off with me filming Domi's feet as a close up shot. I then filmed a full screen image of her back profile running away from the shot. We then decided we could also change it to her running towards the camera so we filmed that too in a full shot. We then swapped and did the same but filming me instead. We luckily saw a police car driving past us so we wanted to quickly capture it as it was driving off to make our narrative more realistic.