Codes and Cons of Openings

Time: As we are students , are not getting payed , haven’t got all the time in the world etc , we are given  deadlines/dates to complete making our opening sequence whereas directors/professional film companies have all the time they need to fully create their masterpieces.

Budget: As we are still just students and  have not yet earnt a living we will have to stick to natural resources, basic equipment etc. to make our film look realistic.    

Location: As we are filming our first couple of shots in the dark it doesn’t matter as much where the location is as the darkness doesn’t give any background features away. However as the rest of our film opening is being filmed outside so we need to select a suitable scene/area to base our free running getaway chase.

Cast: To start it will be hard to find the suitable characters to star in our main task. However if the character doesn’t look like they relate to the role of the film then it will look odd. However if the cast members are capable of playing the certain roles correctly then it will result in a success and look very effective/realistic in the final film opening.           

25 Word Ideas For Practical Work

Rob and I decided that we want to base our main task on the genre - action and adventure - as we can really get the most ideas out of it and produce better shots, angles and scenes. Also we feel most comfortable to base it on action as we are both fans of this genre so we have a broad range of ideas that will be useful and aid us in the making of our main task.

The words scattered above in a wordle are words that relate to what is going to be included in our main task!

Opening scene of film with digetic/non digetic sound

       

This opening scene of the film 'Rush' is a very good example of an opening scene with excellent digetic and non-digetic sounds. Digetic sounds in the scene include the cheerings of the crouds and to the roaring engines of the racecars. However from the sounds of the scene there are slightly more non-digetic sounds being added in which include the main soundtrack being played with violins playing low tones to create a suitable atmosphere for the scene , the commentators and there is a narrative voice talking throughout the scene who is one of the main characters (Nikki Lauda).

All these sounds together create a great build up of tension , grabs the viewers attention instantly and overall rush is a brillant film with an impressive opening scene.

Lighting Workshop

On the 11th November 2015 year 12 and 13 media students attended a lighting workshop that helped us all to learn more on how to use lighting in our videos/blogs. Many techniques were shown by the teachers and were really helpful. Some key shots/clips are shown above in the short video. From the workshop I have learned that lighting can significantly change the atmosphere of the shots , also lighting can easily effect mood/atmosphere inside and the outside of a room/building.

Preliminary Task

This video is our final film for bot Robert and myself's preliminary task . Overall in my opinion we have done very well to complete this task on time. A lot of hard work and time was given up to create this short video with using more advances packages and softwares including Adobe premiere pro.

As we were planning the rough storyboard for our preliminary task , we had a good idea of what we wanted to do which was about two working friends that were discussing one of them being in a  rapidly occurring debt situation, but quickly ending up agreeing on going to nandos !
From our original storyboard to our final finished film, there were obvious differences which were on purpose to make our project better.

The equipment we used for our preliminary task :

• Canon 650D DSLR
• RODE VideoMic Pro
• Tripod     

Although it took us several attempts to get the correct/relevant shot/camera angle , we managed to acheive whatwe planned and we also included the 180 degree rule and the reverse shot. 

After me and Robert finished filming , we took in turns to edit our recordings on Adobe Premiere Pro on the Apple Macs during school time in the media room/suite. With me persoally i found it hard to get used to the premiere pro editing software as i have never used in my life before so i had no experience with it. 

 
A Screenshot of our Progress on Adobe Premiere Pro on the Apple Mac

 

 

 Overall the editing was good in our film but there were some neagtive points as we only had one camera to shoot all of our footage on so it took a long time to capture everything we needed. Also as it was just only Robert and myself filming so both of us had to take it in turns filming each other as well as trying to film each other in the same shot at the same time.

The most enjoyable parts of making our preliminary task was the filming itself for both of us as we thoroughly enjoyed using all the equipment and experimenting with advanced shots and effects etc. One of the main effects we used in Adobe Premiere Pro to enhance our film was the brightness as in the original footage it was quite dark and hard to see the characters expressions on the screen. So we tried to increase the brightness on every single clip without making any of them stand out so they all had the same level of brightness. Robert and I both found out by experience that the rendering took for absolute ages to complete because our videos were in very high quality and there were lots of them.

Finally in my opinion , the whole preliminary task was very good fun and a great first attempt which has made Robert and I very excited for our next media filming task where we will improve the story-line , effects , audio , and the footage.

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