Rianna Johnson AS media blog

Introduction to MACS

In one lesson our teacher showed up the ins and outs of iMovie and how we can use it to edit our preliminary tasks. In the lesson I learnt how to record, edit and use different transition effects on iMovie. We also learnt the difference between MACS and PCS. Learning simple things like filing and saving a document.

Feedback: Reserach and Planning

WWW:

balance between written word and spoken information
The locations
Planning that went into the work

EBI

There was an introduction
Work balance was fair
BBFC information was more developed

TARGETS

Have more group work so there is more continuity in slides
Go further into connotations
Learn how to be more specific = less writing

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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