Meeting

Yesterday we met up at Laura's house for a few hours to talk about our opening scene and talked about the plot and we sorted out a storyboard.

This is our firstdraft of our storyboard for our opening sequence.

Goodfella's-Opening

Even though this clip is 10 minutes long, I am only want to look at the first 3 minutues of it.
In the opening scene the main lighting is dark and they have done this by putting a defuser over the light to produce a darker shade. They have done this to give sense of badness and something bad is going on. The darker shade gives sinsister impressions to the viewers.
When showing the credits, it shows that it will start off on a moterway because the credits come onto the screen like a car moving and they have added car effects to make it look like the titles are cars.
The camera angles in this clip include:
Establishing shot, this is used to show people where the scene is set.
Close up, this is used to give the sense of the persons facial features to show how they are feeling.
Extreme close up
Medium shot

If the camera is close up to the actor and there is darkness around the characters this gives a sense of evil and tension within the scene.

Sin City opening title sequence

This is the opening title sequence to Sin City.
Lighting
The lighting in this opening tiltle sequence is animated lighting, this means that there is lighting in this but it has been drawn in. (this also applies to most animations).
The colours used in this opening sequence include black, white and red. This resebles plain and simple, the black and white draws attention to the red. The red in this may represent evil, this is because something bad is going to happen in the film.

Opening scenes part 1 intro and Sin City

In the next few blogs i upload, i will show the opening to some of the American Ganster films i listed in one of the blogs i posted earlier.


This is the opening to Sin City.

There are different camera angles and techniques used.
Different camera angles/techniques include:
Establishing shot, this is to show where the scene is set. In this case it is set in a city lots of things are going on and it is a relly busy atmosphere.
Long shot this shows where the character(s) are in the scene, this shows what they are doing, where they are going etc. This may show what sort of person the characters are. Evil, good etc.
Medium/Long shot. This is to show what the character(s) look like from the whole body, how they walk talk, etc.
Medium shot, this is mainly used for dialogue,
Close up is used to show expressions which is being
Medium close up
Shot Reverse Shot
180 degree rule

Lighting
There is not much light to this scene.
It is mainly dark. A key light is used with a defuser to dim the light on the characters faces.

This also has low key lighting to create a mysterious atmosphere which keeps the viewers attension. The red draws attention to certain areas because it stands out from the black and white.

Film Ideas

Seeing as we are going to focus on American Ganster theme for our main idea me and the other guys decided to look up some different American Ganster films to get some ideas that we can use.
Some american ganster films include:
Casino
Sin city
American Ganster
Scarface
Goodfellas
The untouchables
The god father
The road to perdition.

Lighting

Today we learned about lighting and different ways lighting can be used.

Key light - main/ most important light
Back light-

Main idea feedback

Today we presented our ideas to the rest of our class.
Everyone seemed to have liked our ideas and thought that they were good. They liked/preffered our main idea. They gave us some ideas that we listened to and thought about them to help us with our main idea.

Main project Ideas

Seeing as i joined a new group at a late stage, the guys in the group already had ideas. They told me and chelsea the idea(s) that they came up with. I found these ideas interesting and liked them.
The main idea which I was told about was doing a gangster type film and the style will be a bit like Sin city.

the colour of it will be black, white and red which stands out from other things because it will only be used for certain objects e.g the womans dress.

New Group

Me, Chelsea and Dan have seperated and are not in the same group anymore, due to some problems that we had. Me and Chelsea have stayed together and joined another group and Dan went to a different group.
The people who are in the new group include:
-Me
-Chelsea Tufton
-Shaun Harrison
-Laura Lee

Camera shots in Gavin and Stacey

there is a variaty of camera angles shots used in this five mins of Gavin and Stacey
The camera shots that were used include:
Establishing shot- shows audience that they are in London
Medium close up *
Medium long shot  *     Lots of these are used throughout the scene    
Medium shot *
180 degree is used
Long shot

Premiliany exercise part 2

When i put my premilinary exercise on youtube. I put it facebook to see how i could improve it and what comments were made about it.

As Media Studies premilinary exercise

This is our premiliany exercise.

Camera shots/angles

We have learned different camera shots/angles.

ES- Establishing shot- ELS - Exteme Long Shot
An ES is a camara shot that is shot extremily far from the character. This shot shows the character in an area to show where they are and what they are doing(e.g walking down a street in a city).

LS- Long Shot
A LS is a shot that is shot far away, but not as far as a ES.This shows them in relation to their surroundings.

MLS-Medium Long Shot
This shot shows more details of the chracter than the previous shots. Also, the mise-en-scene is shown quite clearer.

MS-Medium Shot
This shot shows a character from between round about the knees- waist area to just above the head. This shot is sometimes called 'mid-shot' or 'three-quater shot'. MS is similer to MLS

MCU-Medium Close Up
The MCU is from the mid-chest to just above the head. This shot shows more detail of the character (what they look like etc). It can also contain two people talking.

CU-Close Up
CU is even more detailed than the shots before. It shows the head and shoulders of the character.

ECU-Extreme close up
This shot shows a small part of the face or an object. This can also show extreme emotion if the camera is extreme close up on the eyes.
BEV-Birds Eye view
A Birds Eye view is a camera shot which is filmed from directly above (overhead ) the scene.

There are lots more which are used within the filming industry

TV Drama

Yesterday we learned about different tv dramas.
There are different types of TV dramas:
Type Of        Example Of TV
Drama          Drama
Teen drama-The inbetweeners
Soap Opera-Eastenders