Mise-En-Scene

Props

Our group didn't use many props the only items we used were the following:

• 2 Cricket bats
• P.E Classroom
• Mr Hentons car 
• A few chairs

Costume

We did not stick to any particular theme when thinking of costume design, we decided it would be easier and still make sense to the genre if we stayed in our normal business wear because we wanted to be seen as students in our film

Casting

In the beginning we thought about using Mr. Townell and Mrs. Pringle to act in our piece so we could focus on the directing, however because of lesson timings this was not possible and so we had to do it ourselves

Nicole and Tom have agreed to play the "Zombie killers" so I will do the filming

Moving On From Your Storyboard

Moving on...

Location Planning - Tom

You need to 'scout' potential locations for your preliminary task to be filmed. This should be done by taking photographs of at least 2 potential locations and weighing up the positives and negatives of each. Think about the accessibility of your locations as you will, hopefully, be filming next Monday during our double lesson.

Our scene takes place around the English block, we will be using a teachers car boot for our trunk shot and then enter one of the P.E rooms for our dialogue
Casting - Me

All of you will have 2 characters in your preliminary task. You need to 'cast' these parts and show evidence on your blog of this process too. Remember that the people you cast need to be available to film next Monday during our double lesson. If you really struggle you can cast yourselves to appear BUT you will not be allowed to do this for your main task. Remember that you are learning how to produce a piece of media and, therefore, need to be behind the camera and 'directing' as much a spossible. The role of the director is to ensure that his or her vision for the film is realised through camerawork, acting etc. You should be giving directions and not taking them!

We originally planned on having Mr. Townell And Mrs. Pringle for our casting but due to lesson timing they were unavailable and so we are having to do the scenes ourselves
Mise-en-Scene - Nicole

This is a French term which literally means 'put in the scene'. Mise-en-scene includes things such as costume andprops. In a piece of film or television everything that appears in a shot should be there for a specific purpose. We will do more work on this at a later date.

Your actors should be directed as to the costume you wish them to wear. Actors do not turn up to a film set and wear what they want. You have to control this in your role as director.

Do you require any specific props for your filming that will need to be acquired and made available for the 'shoot'? 'Props' is short for 'properties'. 

The props we are using are: Cricket Bats, Chairs, Table (normal class items) We are thinking whether to add a few blood splats onto shirts for more effect.

Screenplay Work

Today we worked more on our screenplay and storyboards, adding camera shots and movements

Here we are!

Basic Camera Movements

Today we learned a variety of Camera  Movements that we can use in our task:

Tracking Shot
-Moving the camera backwards/forwards/In/Out  on a dolly
-Following characters

Crab Shot
-Filming Side to Side (like a crab...)

Tilt Shot
-Up/Down shot on a fixed axis
-Gives the character a sense of power

Zoom
-Alternate tracking shot 
-Focuses on one point, shows importance

Arc Shot
-Full/Semi circle around the characters

Crane Shot
-Follows upwards/downwards to focus on the height

Panning Shot
-Moving from left to right 

Goodfella shots!

Embedding a Powerpoint

Embedding A Powerpoint

To embed a powerpoint is very easy, I recommend using slide-share to create your powerpoint, on the website you can click "Share" or "Embed" and then post it to your blog, you should then be able to view the powerpoint in your blog

You Suck At PowerPoint! from Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee

Embedding a YouTube video

To embed a You Tube video first find the video you want then click on share which you will find underneath the chosen video.

 

You can either click on Blogger and create a new post or you can copy and paste the address, but make sure that you have selected HTML on your post for it to work! 

Basic Camera Shots

Extreme Long Shot- (ELS)

Showing the surroundings, establishes time and place of the production 

Long Shot- (LS)

For example, a full body shot, allows the audience to see a full figure

Extreme Close Up- (XCU)

Close up of something allowing greater detail to be viewed

Close Up-(CU)

Top of shoulders to the top of the head allowing detail to be shown

Mid Shot-(MS)

From the wait to the top of the head

Two Shot-(TS)

2 people in the shot being focused on

Groups, Discussion and Initial Ideas

'Goodfella Films'

Todays we have organised our groups and discussed our ideas together

Here we are!

Our group consists of Me, Tom Bates and Nicole Stephenson. Together we came up with a brief idea for our task and started to prepare a screen play based around the idea of a zombie apocalypse

Foundation Portfolio

Preliminary exercise:
Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room an sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. the task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule

Main Task:
The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of 2 minutes.

  All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright free source

  Students should work in groups. maximum four members to a group, groups stay the same for the preliminary and main task

Preliminary task

In todays lesson we were introduced to our preliminary task, we were told what we had to do for and then we were told different ways which we could film and in what order to prepare for upcoming tasks to ensure we were clear on what to do 

Me As A Consumer of Media

Yesterday in my media studies, I was asked to think about my media consumption. I produced a mind map showing where, how and what i consumed in relation to music, film, games and T.V

Me with my mind-map

We looked at some data about media consumption which can be found by clicking here