Film sounds

Civil War       

https://youtu.be/GYRFS0h8mHo

Diegetic- sound from within the film world/ sound that the 'characters' can hear.

Direct sound-sound coming from the actors mouth.

Foley sound- is created by the sound artist mimicking the actual sound in a recording studio.

Score and soundtrack

score is instrumental music written to accompany a film.

soundtrack is a song played in the background of a film.

parallel and contrapuntal sound-  We can use the word parallel and contrapuntal to describe the use of music( score or soundtrack) in films.

Parallel- When the music 'goes with' the images i.e dramatic music in a fight scene.

Contrapuntal- When the music 'goes against' the image i.e sombre music over a fight scene.

Sound bridge is a type of editing that occurs when sound carries over a visual transition in a film.

In Civil War the director used Diegetic sound when one of the character's are walking slowly in silence,and then hears a sound from behind and it is someone who he is fighting. The Director used Diegetic sound so that the audience can see that the characters are filled with energy and focused, this will make the audience feel excitement because the scene is building tension with silence, so the audience will be curious of what's going to happen next. Also within the scene there is score, director used a instrumental written by the film company to build up to the climax, audience would feel on edge.

Expository Documentary on Zehra

Documentary modes/types

Expository mode is a regular form of documentary using direct address and directors do this to address the viewer directly, using titles or voices that advance an argument about the historical world,This style of documentary is shown usually on television.

My Group Documentary 

The Purpose of the documentary is to show how people with disabilities make their way around the school. Voice-over throughout the entire documentary to make the audience understand what it is about. Time lapses will be used in order to make it look more appealing. Day-to-day routine of what a person with disability has to do. Facts about how many people with disability go to the school, as well as their opinion on how easy it is to make their way around the school.

Questions such as :
         - How long does it take to get to school?
         - Do you think the school is designed to make it easy for people with disabilities to go around               the school?
         - Do you experience any bullying because of this?
         - How hard is it to make your way around when using public transport?
         - How people treat disabled people in the school?

Facts & Statistics :
          - The amount of people with disability going to the school
          - Get a wider view, include the amount of people with disability in London, not just the school.
          - The amount of disabled people that find it hard to travel around and how minimal access they               have to some facilities, such as transport

https://www.dlf.org.uk/content/key-facts
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-facts-and-figures/disability-facts-and-figures  https://www.england.nhs.uk/wheelchair-services/ 

Script 

• Disabled people are around 3 times as likely not to hold any qualifications compared to non-disabled people, and around half as likely to hold a degree-level qualification ⁷.
  19.2% of working age disabled people do not hold any formal qualification, compared to 6.5% of working age non-disabled people 
  14.9% of working age disabled people hold degree-level qualifications compared to 28.1% of working age non-disabled people
• Around a fifth of disabled people report having difficulties related to their impairment or disability in accessing transport ¹⁶.
  Between 2004 to 2005 and 2011 to 2012, the percentage of buses with low-floor wheelchair access increased from 52% to 88% ¹⁷.

3 Camera Experiments

Tracking shot

- First of all we used shoulder raid to make the shot more stabled and higher , we took the shot from behind the person but kind of over the shoulder along with making the person i'm working with walk out the college and the scene will cut when someone else walks pass, It was successful because the audience will be able to see where each character is going in one shot.   

Focus pull

In the shot one person was in focus, and all the attention was on him along with the background being a blur with me standing there , then i will be in focus when we have a conversation.

180 Rule

I made a script for this shot and the script is about two boys that are talking about girls, we used 180 rule to show their facial expression and how they are engaging within the conversation.  

mise-en-scene

IT

https://youtu.be/FnCdOQsX5kc

Setting:

This film is set in Derry, Maine. Many various locations include School, houses, Library and abandoned houses.

Costume:

The characters in this film wear normal everyday clothes except from the clown, Pennywise, who wears a dirty white clown suit .There is also an iconic yellow coat which the character georgie wears and was put on many print ads and seen in trailers.

Make Up:

The character Pennywise wears clown makeup to give him a pale complexion and red paint on his nose lips and eyebrows. Other than that the characters don't wear makeup.

Props:

Props used in this film include balloons, toys,books,paper boat, bikes, flashlight, movie projector.

Staging and Movement:

Pennywise the clown moves like a vicious animal so he can demonstrate he's abnormal and also to put fear into the characters. He also does this creepy smile which is meant to scare the characters and audience.

Silhouette

The video explaining silhouette  and soft box

lowkey lighting / high key

low key photography contrasting effects shadows
Black backdrop creates contrast/mood/shadow
Different ways to set up low key photography, ISOS make sure it's low because if its high the photo you take will look too bright.

Light is on 4
Distance light make a difference
Whiteboard is to reflect the light
Good for a profile
Adjust the light to 3

Set up 2
You would have 2 of the lights on a low setting eg 3
Set up 3
Silver brolly
Face it up
Light is on 4 low the light softer

What High Key Photography is? (Infinity lighting)
We want the whole backdrop white,
Two cone light are called flash reflectors, they just need to light the backdrop. (they need to be set up on 4-6 which are the highest settings) the purpose of it is too light the whole backdrop white.
Model light would be on your model, this would add lighting to the setup, if it’s too bright you’ll have to set that backdrop like lower to create the best lighting for your photo.
Your Backlight brings your model (subject) forward,
Silverside of a reflector, give you more contrast so it makes the shadows darker. Silver would be used for black and white pictures generally.
The Gold side of the reflector gives you a warmth colour, and this would be used for coloured images generally. 

Nikon front camera

Top left button-moves the bottom of the dial around
FPS-Frames per second
CL-3FPS
CH-6FPS
Timer icon-Timer for photo
Play icon-Playback(view photos)
if looking at a photo and you press up or down it presents a diagram
Left and Right- look through photo
Menu-Controls the setting on the camera

How to change the colour settings
Camera icon press right then to set picture control
vivid colour
Monochrome- Black and White

Left hand side WB is White balance
ISO - High ISO means the picture will be very bright
when using ISO while Viewing an Image means your zooming out into the full name of the photo.
+icon Zoom in
Red dot- used for moving image
Lens-Af:auto focus
A- auto

Nikon camera

DSLR- digital single lens reflex

                                                               TOP LEFT-Dial

                             M-Manual which controls everything eg: aperture, shutter speed and F sops.

                             A-Aperture priority used to create shallow depth of field/depth of field 

                             S-Shutter priority used to create movement/ Blurriness 

                             White marker determines what setting your using

                                                                 FRONT DIAL

                                                              controls the aperture

                                                                BLACK DIAL-

                                                            controls shutter speed 

Right hand side: LCD screen(contains liquid)

LCD-liquid crystal display this shows you what is happening on the camera number on top left of LCD screen-shutter speed , right side of screen- F stops/ aperture 

Number in brackets - How many pictures you have left to take 

Bottom left(L/fine)-files

                         Fine-Large 

Hot shoe mount- Sensors

Left and Right speakers-Generally for videography  

camera settings

ISO

Iso is a camera setting that will make a photo brighter or darker, as you increase your ISO,  the photo will become brighter.

 It is measured in numbers for example the photo 

White Balance 

The colour balance on a digital camera, photographers use it to get colors in your images as accurate as possible.

production and infinity

In the studio Scott tort us 
different lighting for photography, for example, Infinity lighting, high key photography bright but not that much shadow and white backdrop portray make everything white.


There are four lights, first two lights use to light backdrop and make sure light is in a 45-degree angle, completely be on the backdrop, the natural light is coming out of them as well as put it on highest setting 6 and switch it to manual.

Projection photography 

projection link to the Mac

Get very dramatic and artistic effects 

Depends on where you position the projector

Can project through the model to the backdrop or straight onto the backdrop

-Use something called continuous lighting

If you get something from google image the image                    has to have good resolution and get a good sized

Technical and aesthetic

The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb or guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such as designs films, paintings, and photographs.

The Horizon is the apparent line that separates earth from the sky , which the line divides all visible directions into two categories.

Framing is a technique where you draw attention to the main part of your image by blocking other parts of the image with something in the scene. 

Composition the way the various elements in scene  are arranged within the frame. 

Depth of field-primarily to isolate the subject from its environment, and it is used a lot in portrait work.  

advertisements for photography

commercial

As you can see there is a coke can surrounded by ice cubes,  director done this to make the coke look refreshing so they can sell their product within their business 

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fashion

Is when they devote to display clothing and other fashion items, usually been shown in adverts or fashion magazines such as Vogue  














                                                     

Editorials 

Editorials are used to tell a story, article, text or an idea within the context of a magazine.

Aperture and shutter

F Stops/Aperture

F, 1.8,2.8,4,5.6,8,11,16,32.

More light through the lens 8-1.8(wide aperture)

Less light 8-32(smaller aperture)

Controls the amount of light that travels through the lens

Shutter Speeds

⅛ 1/15 1/30 1/60 1/125 1/250 1/500

⅙- 1/500 fast shutter speed (movement)

⅙-⅛ slow shutter speed (blurriness)

Controls how fast or slow amount of light travels through the lens

Shallow DOF : The background out of focus

Depth of Field

F, 1.8 ,2.8 ,4, 5.6 ,     8 11 16 , 32

½  ¼ ⅛  1/151/30 1/60 1/125  1/250 1/500

M - Manual

A - Aperture priority

S - Shutter priority

Fine Art

I want to start off with fine art because i want to show off the beauty of melanin  because i feel like  it isn't shown enough and with fine art i will be able to use different styles of art and make it look unique.

photography introduction

What type of photography I am interested in?




J. COLE has featured in many magazine covers for example complex and this style of photography seems to be based on fashion as well as r&b, I like this picture because the colours are bright and show the popular artist in magazine covers as wallpaper along with J.cole looking up, may suggest that they are his idols.

Photo of Tokyo and it is a landscape picture, I like this picture because you can see different colours and they are so bright along with making Tokyo stand out.

I like this picture because of the fashion and the white and black as well as model facial expression, the model makes a calm facial expression.

I like this picture because Anthony Joshua is my idol, and you can see the joy in his face

as well as his physical appearance showing that he is fit, healthy and strong.  

Reflection and Evaluation

Screenwriting is one of my strengths because I have experience with it and for the KitKat advert, I knew what to make each character say and do because I made the storyline,  I just know how to make different characters, I think acting has helped me with it as well  because I had to act as different people and it just helps me imagine it more and go into deep thought as if I'm there as a character seeing what is happening. I think I need to remember the layout for screenwriting as well as  learn more about screenwriting,  I even started my own script.

I have learnt a lot about cinematography, especially when I was in a group  working on our project KitKat advert, I knew that teamwork was important for this project because working well together as a unit we are able to accomplish more than its individual members can do alone, and I work really well within a group because I encourage people within the group to achieve their goals and they may not have realised they could reach on their own along with I make sure no one is left out or feels nervous and everyone is getting along with each other. My role in the project was being a director but I didn't just focus on my ideas for the project asked everyone opinion, for example, when I and my teammates were talking about the settings and everyone thought of different places instead of me saying let's just use my setting, I made everyone setting fit within the storyline . I did this so that my teammates feel that we are a team and we are equal, also I knew wasn't good at filming or editing so I took a role that suited me more, however, I did still try to film and edit  even though that wasn't my strong point but my teammates that have experience in it guided me and helped me, I knew what kind of shots I wanted to take for our advert , so I tried to film it with T guiding me but I was failing even though I was failing I wasn't trying to give up because I know I can improve within filming.

Furthermore, we had a problem where we couldn't fit everything from our storyline into the advert because of the advert would be too long, so I decided to sacrifice my ideas from the storyline and improve on my teammate's ideas as well as helping them confront their fears being in front of the camera. I am an experienced actor and I wanted everyone to be in front of the camera along with everyone trying different roles even if they struggled at it, I  made sure everyone can experience something different and not just something they are used to, so we can all learn new things that can benefit us. I thought about types of shots we are going to use in our advert so we can make our advert look more engaging.

Editing for me has always been a struggle, to be honest, I am inexperienced but I am improving on using premiere where you edit videos, and when I had to put a short horror clip together and I was struggling in the beginning but got helped along with me improving on it, I think for me I have to practice on it more but I am getting hang of it. Also photoshop I often forget how to use the tools, and I think any project that will have to do with photoshop I will struggle in, my advert print for KitKat for me could have done way better.



I would say my role is being a director, always have ideas on what to do for each project and lead at the same time as well as I have good communication skills, my three main targets are working on Photoshop improve on using it, editing videos, I need to film more.