MY BLOG
Hey there! My name is Carmen Báscones and this is my A-level media blog, where I will be keeping track of all my work.
Our task for this year is to create a 2 trailers film promotion package for a new film, together with a website for the film and poster for the film.
After doing some research on film genres we have decide that we are going to choose ACTION.
This has been my research on film genres.
FILM GENRES
ACTION: one or more heroes are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include physical feats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases.
ADVENTURE: are exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales.
COMEDY: the main emphasis is on humor. These films are designed to entertain the audience through amusement, and most often work by exaggerating characteristics of real life for humorous effect.
DRAMA: this genre depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.
HORROR: designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience.
MUSICAL: genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
SCIENCE FICTION: speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel.
WAR: genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles in the twentieth century, with combat scenes central to the drama.
WESTERN: genre of various arts, such as comics, fiction, film, games, radio, and television. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name.
WHAT IS FICCION MOVIE? GIVE AN EXAMPLE
Fiction movie or narrative film is a film that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. In this style of film, believable narratives and characters help convince the audience that the unfolding fiction is real.
Last year I completed my AS media blog by explaining the four technical areas, which are:- Camerawork
- Editing
- Sound
- Mise-en-Scene
CAMERAWORK
Can be used to represent characters in a variety of ways:
- High/low angels/tilts to show dominance/inferiority
- Point of view/over the shoulder to encourage the audience to identify with the character
- Camera movement to suggest the character is fast paced and energetic , or chaotic, anxious..
- Two shots to emphasize the relationship between characters
- Zoom for emphasis
- Close-up to show emotions/reactions
- Long/Establishing shots to show setting/costume
EDITING
- The pace of editing (fast paced-young,energetic,slow-old)
- Contrasting characters or settings (crosscutting,shot/reverse shot)
- Showing us what a character is looking at
- Showing us what a character is thinking about (cutting,superimpositions)
Cutting the process where one shot is replaced on screen immediately. So it is a visual transition created in editing in which one shot is instantaneously replaced on screen by another.
Eyeline match The matching of eyelines between two or more characters. For example, if Sam looks to the right in shot A, Jean will look to the left in shot B. This establishes a relationship of proximity and continuity.
Shot reverse shot cutting usually used for conversation scenes, this technique alternates between over-the-shoulder shots showing each character speaking. In a stape if editing in dialogue sequences.
Film historian David Bordwell defines the film technique "where in one character is shown looking (often off-screen) at another character,and ten the other character is shown looking 'back' at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer unconsciously assumes that they are looking at each other" (Bordwell).
Fade out/in. A visual transition between shots or scenes that appears on screen as a brief interval with no picture. The editor fades one shot to black and then fades in the next. Often used to indicate a change in time and place.The image can fades out out to a black screen, or fades in from a black screen.
Dissolve One shot fades out as the next shot fades in. In other words, a gradual scene transition. The editor overlaps the end of one shot with the beginning of the next one.
Crosscutting Cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indicating they are happening simultaneously. Literally, cutting between different sets of action that can be occurring simultaneously or at different times. Cross-cutting is used to build suspense, or to show the relationship between the different sets of action.
Action Match is a technique of filming used un many sort of films.
It consists of connecting 2 shots together in which a character finished off an action in the second shot that was started in the first one, for example a clip of a character walking through a door in which he opens the door being filmed from behind the clip cuts to hum walking through from the other one.
Graphic match. A similar shape or colour linking two consecutive shots.
A match cut is one method that directs use in editing to suggest a relationship between two different objectives
and to create a visual metaphor. It is a cut within a scene that makes sense spatially. This can be between two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which an object in two shots graphically match.
Slow motion. Relating to, or being motion-picture or video photography in which the action that has been photographed is made to appear to occur slow than it actually occurred.
Fast paced/slow paced editing. When the editing is far paced the action will cut rapidly from shot to shot with each shot lasting only a few seconds. Slow paced editing will involve limited cutting from shot to shot.
Superimposition. One image is placed on top of another image.
SOUND
SOUND
It is part of the production process but mostly with the POST-PRODUCTION process.
Diegetic sound originating from a source in the scene,e.g. dialogue
Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film:
voices of characters
sounds made by objects in the story
music represented as coming from instruments in the story space
( source music)
Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world
Non-diegetic sound added in postproduction.Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action:
narrator's commentary
sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
mood music
Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space.
Sound motif a sound of piece of music associated with a character,place or theme (like the JAWS)
The sound motifs condition the audience emotionally for the intervention, arrival, or actions of a particular character. The sound motifs can be very useful in the rough cut, where they help clarify the narrative functions of the characters and provide a sound association for those characters as we move through the story.
Ambient sound means the background sounds which are present in scene or location. Common ambient sounds include wind, water, birds, crowds,office noises, traffic, etc.
Providing audio continuity between shots.
Preventing an unnatural silence when no other sound is present.
Establishing or reinforcing the mood.
Sound mix the way in which the different sounds in a scene are mixed together.
MISE-EN-SCENE
The 5 elements of the Mise En Scene are:
Set design:How the setting is designed
MISE-EN-SCENE
The 5 elements of the Mise En Scene are:
- Settings and Props
- Costume,Hair and make up
- Facial Expressions and Body language
- Lighting and Colour
- Positioning of characters /objectives within the frame
- Settings and locations play an importante part in film-making and are not just backgrounds.
- Sets are either built from scratch or a great deal of time is spent to find a setting whichal ready exists
- Settings can manipulate an audience by building certain expectations and the taking a different turn
Costume, Hair and make up
Costume, Hair and make up act as an instant indicator to us of a character´s personality , status and job.
Facil Expressions and Body Language
- Positining within a frame can draw our attention to an important characters/objectiv
- A film-maker can us positioning to indicate relationships between people
- Colour carries certain connotations which may add meaning to a scene to a scen
- Can give a scene a particular look,feel,or mood
- Can be used for dramatic.
Position characters /objectives within the frame
Location:Where the scene takes place.
Costume:Clothes worn by the actors
Make up
Props:Objectives used in the scene
High key lighting: Bright lighting
Low Key lighting:Dark lighting
Last year I had an amazing teacher which help us with all the work and taught us everything necessary to take the course!
Also I have to say that my group of partners was really good, we work closely together to get a good grade in the movie, which was called THE WOODLAND MYSTERY........
Is true that sometimes we where in trouble because of the different opinions of the filming but onces we talked we solved everything. As I said before my movie was about fiction, so we joined horror to the film to give more excitement to the movie.
Here you can see how was my work of the last year.
PROBLEMS THAT I FACED LAST YEAR
We confronted a couple problems last year, as Media Studies was a new subject for all of us, we weren't quite sure about what we were asked to do.
In my opinion the following four tasks were the hardest tasks to complete. The first problem was the filming, we weren't sure how to distribute the characters between us, put we reached a solution by talking to each other. The second main problem was choosing the place where the filming was going to take place, we had to change this place numerous times, as they didn't express the situation the way we wanted to. Our film was supposed to be of terror, so we chose to film during the night, to make the public feel scared.
We assumed that the computer part of the project would be easy, as we are all pretty techy, but when we had to put all the clips together, we realized it wasn't easy as we thought. Choosing the background music, the letter font and the special effect wasn't easy either.
To conclude, I thank this many problems we experienced as they taught us how to work better in a group and to overcome other problems we had using different computer software's. I would like to end by thanking our professor, who helped us throughout the whole project.
Here you can see how was my work of the last year.
PROBLEMS THAT I FACED LAST YEAR
We confronted a couple problems last year, as Media Studies was a new subject for all of us, we weren't quite sure about what we were asked to do.
In my opinion the following four tasks were the hardest tasks to complete. The first problem was the filming, we weren't sure how to distribute the characters between us, put we reached a solution by talking to each other. The second main problem was choosing the place where the filming was going to take place, we had to change this place numerous times, as they didn't express the situation the way we wanted to. Our film was supposed to be of terror, so we chose to film during the night, to make the public feel scared.
We assumed that the computer part of the project would be easy, as we are all pretty techy, but when we had to put all the clips together, we realized it wasn't easy as we thought. Choosing the background music, the letter font and the special effect wasn't easy either.
To conclude, I thank this many problems we experienced as they taught us how to work better in a group and to overcome other problems we had using different computer software's. I would like to end by thanking our professor, who helped us throughout the whole project.
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