Storyboard for Preliminary Task

Narrative: secret service meeting up to discuss the exchange of the drugs, and then character B getting a new drug to take care of.

Characters: A- Hollie Henderson

     B- Abi Perry

Crew: Camera operator- Sophie Ottmann

Director- Abigail Perry

Actor Director- Hollie Henderson 

Costume: A- Black Jeans, white top, black shoes, hair up

               B- black jeans, white top, black shoes, hair up

Props: A4 envelope, bag of white powder/pills, table, chairs

Equipment: Camera (nikon D3 200), tripod, sd card, battery, torch

Date of shooting: Thursday 15th October, 2015

Location: Playground, sixth form corridor, stairs, Attenborough hall, dark back room

Lighting: natural lighting, dark room with spotlight where the exchange will be, spotlights

Action: A walking towards the building where the scene is set

Camera: Wide Shot

Sound: secret service

Action: Walking into door

Camera: Wide Shot

Sound:

 camera: follow hand shot
action: opening the automatic door

 Action: match on action shot

 Wide shot
coming through the door
secret service sound

 Tracking shot

Mid shot 

cross cut to B waiting for A to arrive

Low angle shot up walking up stairs

high angle shot following her walking 

cross cut back to holly waiting tapping her fingers

remove all sound so just hear the tapping of fingers

Tracking shot of A walking into the room. Over the shoulder.

 "I wondered when you might get here. Please sit down"

Shot reverse shot

Two shot

 Shot reverse shot
"So have you fed the fish?"

 Shot reverse shot
"Yes.. I've taken care of it"

 Shot reverse shot

 "Good"

 "What do you want me to do next?"

"I was just coming to that"

 "I was just coming to that"

SOUND

Foley: A technical process by which sounds are created or altered for use in a film, video, or other electronically produced work. 2. A person who creates or alters sounds using this process.
Diegetic sound: 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.
Non diegetic sound: is represented as coming from the a source outside story space. 
Pitch: the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone.
Rhythm: a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound
Sound bridge: When the sound from a previous scene carries quietly into the next scene. Or when the sound from the next scene is heard before the image appears on scene

Sound motif: A sound effect or combination of sound effects that are associated with a particular character, setting, situation or idea through the film. The use of sound motifs can help shape a story that requires many characters and many locations and help unify the film and sustain its narrative and thematic development
Score: original music written specifically to accompany a film.
Crescendo:  is a way for composers to indicate that a passage of music should gradually increase in loudness over time (opposite of a decrease in volume which is described as a 'decrescendo').

Ambient sound: the normal sound which exists in a particular scene or location
Asynchronous sound: an effect which occurs when the sound is either intentionally or unintentionally out of sync with the image. If the sound is unintentionally asynchronous, this is the product of bad editing. If intentionally asynchronous, the film maker is usually attempting to indicate to the audience that they are watching something unreal, that they are watching a film and not observing real life. 
Dialogue: the things that are said by the character

Timbre:  known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics, is the quality of a musical note, sound, or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production

Hyperbolic sound:

How does this extract from jaws use camera shots, angles, movements and composition?

One way in which the camera is used in this extract is the use of the point of view shot, which is in the point of view of the shark underwater. this is used when the children are in the water and the audience just see the legs of the swimmer. This shot makes the swimmers look weak and vulnerable because of the large scale of the ocean also in shot. This shot also shows that  the shark has a high status and is more powerful than the people in this water. 

Another way in which the camera movement was used was the use of the dolly zoom. This technique was used when Chief Brody suddenly realises that there is actually a shark in the water. The use of the dolly zoom is used to grab the audiences attention and emphasise this significant moment. This shot also communicates shock and realisation to the audience. The distortion of the camera also emphasises the Chief's reaction of finally seeing what he has been waiting to see, which is the shark. 

The use of framing and composition is used in this extract very successfully. One example where framing has been used is when the old man goes to talk to Chief Brody, and beside him we also see the ocean and the people in it. This shot is a point of view shot from Chief Brody's eyes and makes the audience sympathise with him as he has to concentrate on two things at once. This shot also makes us as the audience divide our attention to the old man, and also to the people in the water. This creates a sense of tension for the audience because we focus on the close up of the Chief's facial expression. It also shows the audience that although the Chief is being distracted he still concentrates on the people in the water and ignore the old man.

City of God Editing

           The director of the film City of God uses fast paced editing in the opening sequence. This editing technique is used when the slicing of the knives is slicing through the frame. The speedy cuts happen on the beat and also when the director chooses to cut from the knives, to the chicken, to the chef and back to the knives. The director chose to use this technique to reflect and signify the frantic pace of the character's life. The knives help signify danger and violence. Additionally, the director did this to foreshadow to the audience that the chicken (and, by extension, the protagonist) might experience danger or death if they do not escape soon.

                                                              

Furthermore, the director uses a eye-line match of the chickens eye then a cut to the feathers dropping through the frame out of focus, to the feathers on the ground, and back to the chickens eye. This allows the audience to read the story through the chicken's eyes. This makes the audience feel sympathetic towards the chicken. The chicken represents the protagonist and suggests danger and death for the boy. 

The director successfully uses cross cutting between the chicken escaping the favela, and the protagonist also leaving the favela. The director is linking the chicken and the boy together to imply that they are both escaping danger, and they are both escaping from being caught. However, the director also cuts from the boy walking with his friend, to the gang, this suggests that the protagonist is not like the other teenage boys as he feels separate and wants to escape from a bleak future. 

Generic Conventions Poster

This is my movie poster which I created on photoshop. Firstly, we chose to make the original poster black and white, we did this as we noticed it was common in other movie posters. We then added a billing block, using the conventional layout and information. This is not complete. By using photoshop i learnt how to use different techniques for example, adding shadow around the eye and how to change the saturation and brightness of a photo.

Exchanging Parcel Continuity Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64eENJYngU




Evaluating our final video:

After editing our video we watched it back and identified the strengths and weaknesses of the video. The main strength in our video was that we followed the brief, this meant that our video included the 180 degree rule, and had more than 5 different shot types and 7 different cuts. We also included our own props which was also part of the instructions we were expected to follow. Another strength in our video is that we have a successful match on action shot. A example of match on action shot is when Hollie drops the box and then kicks it the action is all connected and works out in sync. However, when we were editing this, we did have to flip the camera to make it fit the 180 degree rule and so that the box was coming from the same direction. The use of the jump cut when me and Hollie got up and put our sunglasses on. The jump cut was intentional to emphasise the actions we were doing and to make it more dramatic. However, there were many weaknesses to our video. One weakness was that we noticed when we started editing was that we had not filmed all the action in different angles which made it harder to edit and match cuts together without making it look to jumpy. Another problem which occurred was that we did slightly break the 180 degree rule, however we did slightly get away with it as it was not too obvious. Our targets for next time is to make sure that we film all the action in one go from lots of different angles and to make sure we think before we start filming so that it is easier and quicker to edit.