Deconstruct and Element

We learnt what deconstruct and element meant:
Deconstruct- To take something apart to analyse its individual parts
Element- An important individual part of something

We then were showed an image from a film, and we had to deconstruct the image, we had to analyse the different parts of the image, e.g. lighting, smokiness, darkness, character etc.

Seven types of camera movement

In the lesson we learnt the seven types of camera movements:

1. Pan
2. Tilt
3. Cant
4. Dolly
5. Crane
6. Handheld
7. Zoom

The processes involved in making a film

As a class group we had to decide what was the processes involved in making a film, we all had to write ideas on paper and then stick it up on the board, one member of the class suggested to put the processes in chronological order, therefore it would make it easier to understand and that it is more organised. Then we all had to then discuss what order to put them all in, eventually we all agreed on the order of processes involved in making a film. But we had to apply that to our film making

Scenario storyboard 2

However, we were actually being tested on how us as a group would interpret the scenario as our teacher let us decide what to. So then in the same group, we then decided to not have a theme and keep it simple but still effective with the camera shots and dialogue. We decided to keep most of the same camera shots in the first storyboard we did, but we cut out the flashback scene and decided to film in a classroom as it is more natural and then we could have easier dialogue between school students.
Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, 
crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then 
exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, 
shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule
We were then shown the full task, therefore we came up with more ideas which we are able to do in a short time and we came up with more camera shot ideas for each scene as we have to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and 180-degree rule, and we as a group included this in our storyboard/ideas and on of the members of the group recorded what our ideas were so we would not forget them and that we could apply them to our short scenario video. We also started to write a script for the dialogue scene

As a group, we then went through the dates to see when we are all free to film and we put those dates into our planners so we would have time to film as our deadline is on Friday 27th September

Scenario storyboard

We were given a scenario: A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple lines of dialogue
We were then put into groups of three, my group decided on a theme of a prison setting where a prisoner would be visited by someone, the prisoner would have a flashback of the reason to why he is in prison and we created a story board to help us know what to do when it came to filming, also we thought about camera angles for each shot. As a group we decided to have a black frame at the end to create suspense

Key concepts-further research

I then did further research of Key concepts and what each concept is and more information about them

Key Concepts

In the lesson, we learnt the names of the seven key concepts, it helps us to learn as it is formed as an acronym 'MIGRAIN' so each letter stands for a key concept in media

Camera shots

 In the lesson we learnt about different camera shots:

• Long shot
• Close-up shot
• Point-of-view shot
• Mid shot
• Low angle point-of-view shot
• High angle point-of-view shot
• Extreme close-up shot
• Black frame

We learnt what each shot shows and how it shows that e.g. long shot shows the setting/place which sets the scene

And we also gave examples of each shot taken in a film