Continueity task filming and editing.

I did have to make some changes to my story board when filming.
The main difference is where person 1 and two are sat in relation to the table. we swapped it over when filming because the door was in a different place to where it was on the story board because I didn't know, at the time of doing the story board, where I was going to film it, because it didn't matter as long as there was chairs and a desk there. Also I removed the first line that person one speaks because I thought it was out of place.

There wasn't as much range of shots towards the end in the storyboard because I thought I hadn't included a match-on-action, and I wanted to show varying range so I added a handheld shot and far out shots mixed with a mid shot.

Looking back I realised that I filmed the shots in the order that they would happen rather than filming all the shots that are from the same angle, which is inefficient, but it helped me to know what shots I had done and which ones I haven't.

I also didn't have the continual pen tapping after they originally started, but I liked how it sounded like a ticking clock, and it echos the first draft of the script I wrote for this task, which sounded a lot more formal, as it is like the interviewee (the character who says no) is running out of time. Luckily this was easy to edit as it was almost the same gap between the two tracks when repeated and between two individual taps in the same track.

Story board. for 1st task.

this is my story board for the 1st task...



SCAN IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Continuity editing task

We have just got our task for the continuity editing task and I have already done the script which is...

In an office with 2 chair and a desk.  Clean/messy depending on location. Person 1 sat down in a chair wearing smart.

Person1

Enter!

Person2 enters also in smart, and sits down in the other chair

Person2

Good morning!

Person1

Yes?

Person2

Umm…No?

Silence from Person1, tapping pen

Preson2

I think I’ll just leave.

Person2 gets up to leave, just before they leave Person1 says…

Person1

By the way the correct answer was “maybe”.

Person2

Right…

Person2 leaves.

EDIT for the 23/11/12: I have cut out Person 1's first line of "Enter!" and niether characters are in smart anymore. I did this to make it seem less informal and it is being filmed at school, so I'd have less filming time if we both had to change into our costumes.

Narritives

Narritive is how the story is told, ficton or non-fiction.

Simularities
All narritives share certian elements.
Audience's expectation will have an effect on the narritive


Theorists

Vladmir Propp  1875-1970

 

He looked at folktales. There are 8 characters (AKA spheres of action) in most stories.

They are:

Hero

Villian

Donor

Dispatcher

False

Helper/Sidekick

Princess

Princess's Father

 

31 function/story lines

 

Tzvetan Todorov  1939-

 

His theory was that at the start of a story it is in equilibrium then it goes to disequilibruim, and then by the end of the story it's back to equilibrium.

 

Rolands Barthes 1939

 

A single narritive has more than 1 storyline within it.

 

Some storylines within the narritive:

 

1. The enigma -sets up and solves the puzzle
2. The action -cutting unimportant stuff out
3. The semic -connections built around characters & actions
4. The symbolic - references we can pick up.
5. The cultral -Terminolgy

 

Claude Lévi-Strass 1908-2004

 

Narratives depend on binary opposition.

 

Rich/Poor

Weak/Strong

 

Stroylines reflect beliefs of the culture/society.

Films openings 2

Touch of Evil
1958
Orson Wells

Bomb into car. Camera on crane on van, one smooth continous shot. Music overlapping - diegetic - from the shops. Car is always there. Meet the hero walking. camera never stops At the border. Sucessful  cop Vagus. Then the car explodes, bit unrealistic....

Jaws
1975
Steven Spielburg

Shot throught the seabed. The iconic 'shark' music.
Quite calm, sunset. Camera and music from shark perspective. (subjective camera)
Sudden stop- back to calm.

Film openings.

Hey this is the third week of my media course and this is the pratical blog
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We've been looking the types of camera angles and shots; film openings of Citizen Kane and Back To The Future, Sunset Boulevard, Hot Fuzz and Ferris Bueler's Day Off, and made notes on some of them. Also we have been looking at pictures and coming up with what films it could have been from. (They were just pictures and weren't from any film.) We looked at the imagery that film soundtracks alone can create.

Notes on the film openings:
Citizen Kane
1941, Directed by Orson Wells, who also directed a Touch of Evil. Citisen Kane was his first film.
Loosley based on Randolf Hertz. (The Rupert Murdoch of his time.)
All one smooth shot, starts off at the gate. "No Trepassing", always dissolves into the next shot, getting near and near, each time this lit window is in the same place, it's quite expensive and extensive; there's a bear garden, private lake, golf course and a private zoo. Sudden stop of music, and the lit window goes out. Fades into the room. Snow globe. Very dark both character's faces are in shadow, (low-key lighting). Snow globe is dropped shot from within the snowglobe when the 'nurse' comes in fades to the outside again.

Back To The Future
1985, directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Speilburg.
Ticking is the first thing you hear, then the clocks come into view, lots of clocks ticking in time with each other. Breakfast sounds, unmade bed, person isn't there. When the dog can is opened by invention. (A scienist of some sort?) shots of over full dog bowl, haven't been there for some days. Drawn towards the TV, about theft. Tuning huge amp! Overloaded, clocks chime togeher 25 imns late.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
John Hughes
Radio and weather.
 Estabiling shots. Parents being all 'soppy'. sister annoyed he got away with it
Space rocket when his parents leave, and a music montage
 Breaks the fourth wall.

Hot Fuzz
Edgar Wright
2007
Police seriens right from the start, the evolution of them.
Siloette, walking to camera. Information about his carrer.
Voice-over: Self-centred, only talking about himself, talking so fast, that it's hard to keep up with everything he says.
Sudden stop