Overview

Camera Angles/Movements/Shots and Sound

Introduction
I am going to make indication of the different forms of shots and how certain things such as sound effects should be used.

Types of shots

Within adverts there are a range of camera shots that are used in order to make the interpretation of the advert have a certain impact and in order show things that are important in a certain way therefore meaning that the audience recognise them.

Long shots

Long shots are highly used within adverts as they show the full image of what is occurring therefore meaning that the audience are informed of the surroundings within the advert.

Mid shot
This shot is effectively used when the camera is within a close range of the product but not too close hence why it is called a mid-shot due to the shot's requirement to be in the middle. If applied to a character within a mid-shot this will be the indication of their waist upwards.

Close-up
This shot shows a range of detail therefore providing enough imagery for the audience to make analysis of the product. As a close-up shot this is therefore close and when it’s the character their upper image above the shoulders is shown.

Extreme close-up
This is a very informative shot as it shows a particular part of an object or when referring to the character their nose or eyes.

Level shots

This is a straight shot towards something. Therefore this shot is direct and provides a clear image of the object or other things it may focus upon.

High angle shot
This is a shot that is done at a high level meaning that the image focused on is at a low level. Therefore this is looking down on something.

Low angle shot
This shot is mainly used to make something or someone to be enlarged. Mainly used to make emphasis when differentiating men from women. Therefore within this shot something is looked up to.

Speed of
This is the speed of the different shots in which are used when doing films. Therefore the speed can be high or slow to even slowmotion. Speed of films make emphasis of certain things for example when high speeds are used this shows an exciting and energetic scene. As opposed to a high speed shot a slow-motion shot is used to put audience at ease and for them to get in to the moment and clearly see what the advert wants to emphasise. Furthermore when both are used mainly starting with a slow to high speed this shows a rise in something for example excitement.

Transition from one shot to another

Transition from one shot to another is highly used in as the audience can be withdrawn from the film if it focuses on one scene without change. Transition can be used to show the change in occurrence or to simply set a different image. In order for the transition to be professional effects of the image dissolving or fading is shown.

Shot duration

The shot duration is effectively used in order to ensure that the advert does not lose the audience in terms of their attention span.

Voice overs

This is mainly used when narrating a certain film. The voice can be done by males, females or children depending on the target audience.

Sound effects
Sound effects are used in order to show the impact that something has etc. The sound effects mainly used are songs in which has a relation to the film. If sound effects are not used this may be to show how serious the subject of the film is or to allow non-diegetic (natural sounds) sounds to be heard by audience.

Unit 22 task 2

Identify audience

·         Determine what you are trying to tell

·         Story needs to be imaginative and creative

·         Clear objective

·         Proposal-overall idea of what it’s about (treatment)

·         Storyboard (For both the 1 and 5min short film)

·         Beginning, middle and end

·         Use equilibrium

·         Genre/mood e.g. comedy (mood-feeling (mysterious)

·         How is the character going to be conveyed

·         Misc en scene (what props, setting/style, costume etc.)

·         Narrative structure (linear or nonlinear)

·         Shortlist (time and shots including camera angles)

·         Location list (find other locations besides the school)

·         Be imaginative

·         Shooting schedule (date, when you are going and where)

·         Equipment list (sound and lighting required)

·         Tripods, camera, SD card etc.

·         Risk assessment

·         Budget (predict cost)

·         Timeline

·         DIARY UPDATE EACH WEEK

Budget

Equipment cost	Equipment cost
Camera - Sony hdrcx190eb full HD camcorder  £139	Camera - Sony hdrcx190eb full HD camcorder  £139
Tripod  £29	Tripod  £29
mac £1000	mac £1000
Editing software  £699.95	Editing software  £699.95
Lighting  £20	Lighting  £20
Setting	Free

Risk Assessment

When carrying out the filming for the 1 minute short film there may be a range of problems that may occur in terms of injuries within the locations that we will be. However as our locations do not have many hazards injuries will be least likely to happen. However in order to ensure that the injuries do not occur we should have precautions beforehand for example wearing the appropriate clothing to go within the certain location etc.

People who may be potentially harmed:

Curtis Fletcher

Haris Zulfiqar

Munashe Mukandi

Risks

Road:

Cars

Bikes

Badly surfaced or damaged roads

Home:

 Unattended objects on the floor

Falling objects

Loose or trailing cabling.

Concept: Our Proposal and Treatment
Our shot film is going to be an action short film which will be aimed at an age range of 16 to 40 year olds. Our film is going to be based on the presidential campaign in which Obama and Mitt Romney will be participating in through doing their speeches. Therefore we are going to start by creating the first setting of our scene through them saying their speeches followed by one of them getting shot in which a news report will occur only to find out the news reporter is the assassin.

Equipment
Video Camera

Lighting

Microphone

Props

Picture frames

Chair

Bottle

Cast and Crew
Curtis Fletcher
Haris Zulfiqar
Munashe Mukandi
Other characters

Misc- En Scene
Within our short film our aim will be to create a image that will go with the sound effects and we would like to ensure that it has a modern look therefore we will use a mixture of dark and colourful colours to convey this. The characters within film will therefore wear modern clothing in which will be formal as this will be a presidential campaign.

We will also use props in helping us to convey the message behind the story and to help us do certain things such as the performance .We will also use effects such as therefore making the overall look of the film professional and adding a good effect to the graphics of the video

Short Film Schedule

Duration	Equipment	Location	Cast/Crew
1 week	Camera, tripod and lighting	Munashe ’s house	Munashe Mukandi, Haris Zulfiqar, Curtis Fletcher	Scene 1-2
	Camera, tripod and lighting		Munashe Mukandi, Haris Zulfiqar, Curtis Fletcher	Scene 2-3
1 week	Camera, tripod and lighting	Outside School building road.	Munashe Mukandi, Haris Zulfiqar, Curtis Fletcher	Scene 4-6
2 weeks	Camera, tripod and lighting	Haris Zulfiqar’s House	Munashe Mukandi, Haris Zulfiqar, Curtis Fletcher	Scene

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invenon of Love (2010) - Animated Short Film

This short filmti came across as elegant and was an interesting film. The storyline within this short film is conveyed in a very good way therefore informing the audience what the storyline is as its story of a doomed romance is conveyed it through shadow puppetry with excellent contrasts of black and other simple coloured backgrounds of which each colour shows some aspect of the world the characters live in and highlights the film’s theme of love.

The storyline is therefore effectively conveyed as an inventor looks for love for his mechanical gadgets and goes in search
of it. He finds the girl of his dreams in the country, they marry and he takes her to his home in the city. But she is ill-adapted to life in the city where people’s pets and even vegetation in public parks are present, and the air is polluted with the wastes of industry, and the wife begins to be troubled. Overall this short film makes good representation as the story is conveyed well to the audience therefore making the storyline engaging and the short film also has a good plot with a range of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds.

Diary Logs

15/11/12

Within this lesson there we learnt the different types of shots and angles that are used in order to create a successful film that will show the audience aspects of what will be occurring within that certain film. Listing the different shots these include close up, over the shoulder, extreme close up etc. Looking at angles we looked at the different angles in which a character or an object can be filmed from may it be a high angle, low angle shot etc. Therefore looking at both angles and shots this is what determines the view that the audience get in terms of how the film is conveyed.

Moreover looking at other things that can be done to make improvement to the film these include pan, tilt and zooming in which is done when the object is moving therefore ensuring that the camera is steady and still. Lastly this helps in making sure that the film has a continuous angle but still facing the target.

22/11/12

This week I was identifying all the things that I need to do in order to make a successful short film. Furthermore we also discussed more on what we have to do in order to improve our idea for our short film in which is a presidential campaign in which one of the campaigners is shot with a mysterious character then having done that a news scene is shown with a notification that of the campaigner's execution only to realise that the assassin is the news reader as his gun falls out while doing the news broadcast.

Beginning:

Start with speech 1st campaigner followed by 2nd campaigner

Middle
2nd campaigner is shoot and chaos occurs

End
News broadcast and reveal of the assassin

29/11/12

Within this lesson we have decided to enforce another idea for our short film as the previous storyline would have been hard to interpret. Therefore we have decided to a short film on the journey on life based on the saying YOLO meaning you only live once. Therefore the short film will show a range of events that occur in someone’s life as they grow older and all the things in which they do which express someone being fearless.

Beginning

Short scene showing an explanation of the video in which is followed by imagery in which will show the idea of growing up in life.

Middle

A range of events showing the actors doing things that someone may not necessarily do due to fear.

End

The character at an old age as they still remain living their life to the fullest therefore ending the journey.

6/12/12

Within this lesson we attended to some of the things that are required in order for us to finish our pre-production. Therefore we ensured that things such as our mood and word board were done at a good standard. Furthermore we looked at how we could improve our short film and then applied this onto our storyboard.

13/12/12

Within today's lesson we completed our pre-production in which we had to cover all the things that were not finished. Firstly we ensured that our storyline was in order and organised by making sure that we had a beginning, middle and end scene within our one minute. We also covered Misc- en scene meaning that we knew how to convey our video in terms of use of props, setting/style, costume etc. Lastly we also did our location list and our shooting schedule in order to know where and when we had to film.

17/01/13

Within today's lesson we looked at our plan in order to see what the schedule indicated therefore giving us an insight as to what things we had to carry out and film. Therefore having done this we went filming for our first part which was the introduction. Therefore we went out and filmed the part then further inserted it into the computer in order to edit it however some of the videos in which we got were not good quality hence why we deleted that scene.

24/01/13

Within today's lesson we started to do our editing for our one minute film by doing the opening sequence of credits and inserting the background music (Drake ft. lil wayne and tyga - Motto).Furthermore we added the main title of the film (YOLO) in which went on with the lyrics that are within the song. Finally we also added our logo in the video and added roll effects to our titles therefore making the video more visually appealing.

31/01/13

Within today’s lesson we thought of different things to include within out video such as quotes hence why we researched the following: Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfil it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”

Therefore this gave us an insight into the different things we could include within our short film in    order to make it interesting.

7/02/13

Within this lesson we thought of other music that we could add to our short film. We also did further editing to improve our short film. Lastly we thought of other ideas that we could use in order to make our video more interesting which lead to the idea of adding still pictures within our video along with some quotes and we also did some final things for our short film.