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Story board

Mood board based on the film - Stomp the yard

Media Homework

Analysing the scary scene in "The Birds"

•  How many shots are there?
• There are 18 shots.

• Where was the camera positioned for each shot?
• Establishing shot
• Mid shot
• Long shot
• Low angle, mid shot
• Mid shot
• Mid shot
• Close up
• Mid close up
• Mid shot
• Medium close up
• Close up
• Close up
• Long shot
• Mid shot
• Close up(mid)
• Long shot
• Low angle close up
  

What principles of continuity are used here?

The principle of continuity is used at the start when she opens the door (mid shot) and then it turns into a medium long shot as soon as she gets inside the house.  The next scene where they have used continuity is where the women walks into the room with the dead man where it goes from mid shot (showing a medium shot of the room) and then a close of the characters face so the audience got a clear view of her reaction to the situation. This allows the audience to get involved and follow her through the journey.

What is the effect of the editing on the viewer?

This allows the audience to get involved which is likely to have more of an effect on the audience rather than just telling the story. This keeps the audience drawn in and interested as it is more realistic. By using a point of view shot, it allowed the audience to put themselves in the characters shoes as both herself and the audience are not aware of what has happened. The movements of the camera such as when they zoomed into the dead man helped emphasize and feel what the lady must of felt.


What is the best bit for you in this sequence in terms of learning new techniques and why?

When the women witnesses the death of the man, the movement of the camera and techniques allowed us an audience feel her every step and get involved. The mid shot to a close up really created suspense and made the clip so much more upbeat then it would have been without the camera techniques and the editing.

The Advanced Camera Work

Advanced Camera Work

In this lesson, we worked on different camera techniques such as spin look,multi level, character dolly,dark voyeur and discovery. Before we were set the task, we were taught how to set up a tripod and place it upon a dolly. We all worked together to produce the clips as our class is very small. The multi level clip was the first clip, we took so it took a little while as it was our first time using the tripod but after a bit we managed to get the hang of it and finished filming within the set time.

I have made it clear for the audience by adding a heading before each clip so this avoids confusion.

The Accident Video...

Evaluation Of The Accident Video

Carmela, Kamini and myself created an accident video which i feel i have learnt a lot during the process of making the video as well the duration of editing the video. I realised some of the scenes/characters was not clear therefore can cause confusion with the audience as to who is who.

In this clip, i am helping Carmela up after her accident but the angle at which it was taken at is really unclear. It was supposed to be over shoulder which did not turn out as we had planned. So in the future i will not make this mistake.

Storyboard/planning

This is the storyboard, i created for home learning. This is about a group of children playing on some hills when they decide to play hide and seek and just as they all run off, you notice a hand coming from one of the nearby bushes(suggesting that this person is up to something mysterious). And then at the end you see a child lying on the floor  with blood coming from its head.

This is a picture of myself,carmela and kamini planning our shots.

Bad head room and nose room

Good head room and good nose room

Bad head room

Good head room

• This is a close up picture of a young teenage male
• He is wearing a checked shirt which suggest he is at college.
• As part of the males face is covered slightly this creates a sense of mystery and trepidation as the audience are unsure as to who the character is. 
• The teenager is only providing the audience with the smallest amount of attention, which seems frightening.

Evaluation of first task

In my first lesson of media studies, i produced a story board with a peer for a genre of our choice. We were given a story line which we had to add to, to make it the genre we had chosen, ours had fallen under drama. I have posted the story board underneath(it is of a drunk man who fails to notice a family having a picnic). Once we had created the story board, we presented our ideas to the rest of the class and later went onto producing a same video clip using the images from the story board. In this same video clip, i added music to shot 3 which suited the picture but unfortunately did not get to complete the video so if i had more time, i would shorten each of my shots because i felt they were too long as well as adding background music throughout the whole video clip.