Location scouting

Location scouting by On saturday Me, James and Blaine Went location hunting For our OTS. After problems with my bike's I was forced out of this, so it was Blaine and James' job to find places.

Location hunting - Taken from James media mambo.

When I was given the link to look at the places, I was very happy with the locations that they have compiled.

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Film Roles behind the camera.

Screenwriter- A Screenwriter creates a screenplay known as a written version of a movie before it is
filmed. This is either based on previously written material, such as a book or a play, or
as an original work. A Screenwriter may write a screenplay, then
try to sell it, or the Screenwriter may be hired by a Producer or studio to write a
screenplay on given specifications such as age range and style. Screenplays are often rewritten, and it’s not
uncommon for more than one Screenwriter to work on a script.

Producer- A Producer is given control over the entire production of a motion picture. The success or failure of the motion picture project, is put to the producer. The producer is involved with the project from start to finish.
His task is to organize and guide the project successfully. He organizes the development of the film, and is quite active in the pre-production phase. Once filming begins, generally the role of the Producer is to supervise and give suggestions.

Director-  The Director interprets the script from the film into his work. The Director must be able to lead and control people, have them do what he or she wants them to do, yet remain on good terms.While in production, the Director not only oversees actors, but also works with the Director of Photography, instructs the major technical people, Make sure that they are with in the budget, and deals with outside pressures. The Director is ultimately responsible for what happens on the set.



Director of Photography- also known as the DP, DOP, or Cinematographer, is responsible for the quality of the
photography and the cinematic look of the film. The Director of Photography transforms the Screenwriter's and
Director's concepts into visual images. Using his or her knowledge of lighting, lenses, cameras, and film
emulsions, the Director of Photography creates the appropriate mood, atmosphere, and visual style of each shot
to show the emotions that the Director desires.Working closely with the Director, he determines the camera angles, shot composition, and camera movement for every shot. The Director of Photography then decides upon the lighting equipment and the type and number of cameras that will be required for shooting. The Director of Photography orders the lights and cameras to be set up in such a way to attain the desired effect.

Costume Designer- conceives and draws designs for the costumes to be worn by the actors in the movie. The costume designs must be approved by the Art Director, Director, and Producer before going to the Seamstress, the person who actually makes the costumes.

A Stunt Coordinator- is responsible for choreographing stunts and making sure the stunt is relatively safe, but still realistic.

A Stunt Person (or Stunt Performer)- a specialist actor, actually performs stunts, which are often risky pieces of physical action. Stunts range from fight scenes to a fall from a cliK to a head-on collision with an oncoming truck. Many stunts are actually less dangerous than they appear because of appropriate camera angles, lenses, and editing.

The Sound Designer- oversees all the audio elements of a motion picture; similar to what a Production Designer does for the visual elements.

The Camera Operator (or Cameraman)- rolls the camera and stops it on
cue, as instructed by the Director of Photography. The Camera Operator's
responsibility is to achieve smooth camera movement and produce
satisfactory pictorial images.





Information from http://motion.kodak.com/motion/uploadedFiles/US_plugins_acrobat_en_motion_newsletters_filmEss_10_film-crew.pdf

Planning stage - sound clip

The four of us met round Tom's to discuss our openning title sequence in the style of film noir.  We sent a good 40 mins planning with location some details on clothing and what we wanted to include. Here is a sound clip made by James which includes part of the discussion.

 

Continuity task

Today we had a morning of filming a short piece that had continuity in. We were asked to include the following, Person A walks to the door, opens it, passes through it, crosses room, sits down and talks to someone. It had to be shot with these in mind, Match on action, 180' rule and a reverse shot.
We also were asked in an extension to include some of the following, person walks along, footsteps, door bangs, a scream, ambiant lighting, extreme angles, mettering, reverse tracking, a tilt, more than 3 locations, engima, more than 2 people and implied fear.

Some of the problems that we encountered were that we had children from there P.E lessons wanting to walk past, we were also under trees and were dripped on, at some point we had a rain drop of the lens and didn't notice till the editing.

Media Continuity Set Task from James Wigger on Vimeo.


Continuity [R2] from James Wigger on Vimeo.

Most of the editing was done in Sony Vegas 8 by James Wigger, me and Blaine Kenneally.

• 4 children playing in a window, judging by the quality of the window and the clothes shows that it is in a poor area, maybe africa.
• The lighting is above the window, shows its mid day.
• Dark with in the room means there is no lighting.
• Window represents framing.

• Doorway could show a place to infinity.
• Black and white gives the light more detail.
• Silhouette of woman in the doorway.
• Sun light through the trees shows wonder.
• Hands touching the frame, shows she is stopping for thought.

• From china.
• Buildings around crop the photo to focus on the lady.
• Detal on the roof and walls gives the image a more cultual meaning.

• This screen shot is from red desert.
• The lighting in this scene looks mild and dull which could mean that it is getting dark.
• Image is poor quality so it is quite old.
• The man leaning could mean that he is talking to someone in the room.

• Having the camera in the darker area shows up more detail on the person and his suroundings.
• the two building that are eathers side of the male frame the picture and focus more on the man.
• The photo is taken from above looking down at him showing dominace.

Pictures are from flickr and Google images.

"The bbfc: a trusted guide to the moving image"

The British board film classifacation,

U- Universal, this means that it is sutiable for children aged four and over.‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.

PG- Parental Guidance, General viewing. Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

12- Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

12A- The ‘12A’ category exists only for cinema films. No one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult, and films classified ‘12A’ are not recommended for a child below 12. An adult may take a younger child if, in their judgement, the film is suitable for that particular child. In such circumstances, responsibility for allowing a child under 12 to view lies with the accompanying adult.

15- Suitable only for 15 years
and over. No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

18- Suitable only for adults. No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video.

R18 - To be shown only in specially licensed cinemas, or supplied only in licensed sex shops, and to adults of not less than 18 years

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is an independent, non-governmental body funded through the fees it charges to those who submit films and video works for classification.
All the information has come from the bbfc website. http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

Some camera angles.

Media: Camera Angles from James Wigger on Vimeo.

ACORN System

This system is used to portray the public in a system that can define classes. More information at http://www.caci.co.uk/acorn/acornmap.asp

A band are the upper middle class they usally take on jobs like higher managerial, administrative or professional.

B band would be middle class and have jobs like intermediate managerial, administrative or professional

C1 bandare the lower middle class they are normally supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional

C2 band is skilled working class usally skilled manual workers

D band are working class they work as semi and unskilled manual workers

E bandthese are those at lowest level of subsistence they are state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers.

Sound bites

Sound bites are a short peace of text with hyperlinks and embetted videos that is a sumary of an essay or along section of text, which you ca use without putting in the whole writen peace. Sound bites can include trailers, podcats and headlines. You would discribe them to be a summery or an synopsis. e.g. on the back of a book or a film review. They will be used to demestrate knowleadge and understanding.

Leave Me (3 minute contest winning version) from Daros Films on Vimeo.

Lesson 6-10-09

Today we learnt about, Target audience, distribution and exchange and marketing processes. marketing processes include print advertising, televisional advertising film, bilboards and word of mouth. Distribution and exchange includ, shops, video rental stores, the internet and borrowing such as going round to a friends or borrowing for a day or two to watch.

Target audience is a big section in media as it determins if you are successfull or not in your production. It includes age, sex, interests, The social economic band which is based on the wealth of the audience. This is put into groups of A B C1 C2 D E, A being the highest and E being non aplicable. The quantitive measurement is deviding the audience into sections of interest and how they respond to films.

Post-modernist is someone that likes to break conventions, like Quentin tarentino films. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/

A traditinalist is someone that wont take risks, they know what they like and they will only watch that, they tend to be dads watching action films, like James Bond. Another film could be Fantastic Mr Fox, as it is a book enterpridated into a film. http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2620588569    

Active and passive are terms given to how you watch it, if you have been asked to see a film then it will be passive but if you made the desision to see a film then it is active.

Hedonist's take riskes they will see a film how ever gorry or bad it is like "saw". They will go to see a film just for their pleasure. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387564/

Perferred

CGI-brows

This is the winner of the virgin media shorts film competition for this year in the people choice section. I found this film to be quite funny but very clever in the sence of how they have used the tecnology.

First task

We were given the inro of James bond's Casino Royale. Which is represented in the style of Film Noir. We were told to Write a small essay on how it Fits in the the style of Film noir.



"The beginning opens to a slightly wobbling camera of a tall building, still in black and white and at night. A car rolls up outside the building and text comes up to the left hand side of the scene with the detail of the place and it whereabouts. This scene is very much like what you would find in a film noir as it has minimum lighting and smoke/steam rising from the ground. You are kept with this scene until the camera quickly changes to a low-angle shot of the man getting out of the car showing his importance, this is poorly lit. The camera then moves to a shot of below the lift and shows it moving up the side of the building. Next the camera then switches to a shot in the lift that is looking down at the man then when the man looks slightly to the left of the camera it changes to the perspective of the man which shows the floor numbers. I found this scene really works well and is one I would like to use. Next is a tracking shot of the man walking down a glass corridor that then switches to inside a room with the door opening on it. This room is poorly lit and shows only outside light with this you can only see part of the man as he moves through the room. It then shows a close up of the man then moves to the left as he turns round to show James bond in the background."

"The camera then switches between shots of both men and ones which show objects in the foreground and them in the background. This is a very good representation of confrontation between to two men.
In-between this you switch with a scene where bond is killing one of his men in a bathroom. This is very different from the confronted scene of the two men as this is very bright and shows a different side of bond which you have never seen before as he has always been with his gadgets but now he is very hands on with the killing and shows him getting hurt. This also links with the scene in the office because it shows just how dark James bond is."

First Post

This first post will be Be a small insight to what will be included in this AS media course. This course includes studying television dramas, such as soaps and crime. I will also be studying the genre or Film Noir and how it affects the mood of the viewer.
My name is Daniel and I will be updating this page regually and full with information from the course and what I have done in media terms prior to this.