Film Making Techniques

I stayed after school and watched a number of clips that showed different filming techniques.

• 360* shot; effective because it adds to impact of what is going on (an important phone call) it also acts as an establishing shot
• filming items to narrate what is going on. EG the actor says i have a phone, a few coins, an egg - what we see on screen is a phone, a few coins an egg come up one after another
• when doing flashbacks have real time voice overs come in while flashback is happening to close back into real time
• Zoom out of a real time scene to go into a flashback
• To create a documentary style = minimal camera shake
• Layering of voices for flashbacks
• Zoom in + out quickly for flashbacks, adds to distortion
• Use shots appropriately only use shots where needed to add emphasis EG only really use zoom for a thought or to intensify a feeling

Final Idea

Different Final Ideas

After previously presenting our idea to our peers, we then came up with three different takes of our opening sequence that still carry on the same narrative.

The response we received was positive and have come to the conclusion that we would combine the narrating element in idea 3 with idea 1

Research and Planning for final piece

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Job Allocations

Self assessment of what I learned from todorov/propp task

From this task I understood the difference between a narrative and a story (which is that a story is person A saw person B ect whereas a narrative is once upon a time...)

A narrative is the events presented in a story. I also learnt that the narrative is very important because it helps the audience understand things. Tvzetan Todorov was a theorist that suggested that in all films there is an equilibium, disequilibrium which upsets the balance of things and then a new equilibrium is started where the balance is restored.

 Other theorists suggested that only a certain amount of characters which have certain characterists appear in all films such as a mentor (person who teachers the main character something)

This has lead me to think about my character presentation and profile in more detail so the audience can easily identify and understand each character.

Narrative Research