single camera techniques

openign

The inbetweeners is a series drama because episode is a diffrent story and dosent continue on from the last episode. this is a none linnear drama which dosent progress in the story line into another episode so it has something new to offer each time. the ending of the drama is closed, so it leaves the audince knowing the ending.

opening shot

The sequence starts with an estabishling shot to show the place where the next shot will take place. This lets the audince know what kind of enviroment it is, and they now can judge what to expect from the drama. The establishing shots are mostly used between ceratain amount of shots to remind the viewer where the action is taking place. The lighting in this scene is natural and contain soft colours.

over the shoukder

The next shot takes us to where the action is taking proceeding. In this case it is inside the house where the over the shoulder shot is used. Also a soft focus is also used to enhance the importance of these two charecters, which are the parents, and make the audince focus on them. in this scene we can see the costume that they are wearing, in this case it is casual clothing which suggests that these people are of workig or middle class. The lighting in this scene is bright with the use of artifial lighting, this makes the effect as if the light is coming out of the window and makes it look more natural.

pov shot

There is then a point of view shot to show the audince what the charecter is doing so that they ca engage in the action and get more imformation about the charecter like what things they like.

low anlge

There is then a low angle shot which is used to make the person above look more dominant, in this case it is more obvious that it is the teacher who is more important, we can also see this from the suit he is wearing.

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The night watch is a one off series drama. The genre of this tv drama is drama. It is a flashback tv drama because it is told backwards. This drama is about the stereotypes being judged in the year 1947. this drama epically centres on homosexuals and abortion in those years. These two were not legal at that time and if the relationships like that were shown and expressed in front of people or attempting an abortion, would get some sort of consequence to deal with.

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This drama is about four women, three of them were in a relationship with one another, and the realtionships were based on lies and cheating and dramitcally ended. One of these women had a secret abortion which went wrong, this only concludes abortion being illegal.this drama is set in london in the year 1944/1947, iconography like the red telephone box also tells us that it is britain. The sequnce opens with a zoom into the window, this helps the audince see what kind of place thecharecter is living in, the image of a person standing in the window and the idea of the camera closing into the charecter also makes the mood and atmosphere rather eerie.

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Later on in the drama oral flashback has been used when the woman saw a green door with the sign on it, this caused her memories to comeback and she started reminising which then took us to that certain moment that she remembered.

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Close ups like the close up of the scirrcors were used suggesting she will do something to herself which was unpredicatbale, this was proved when a mid close up is used to show her cutting her hair, this also lets the audince see her facial expression which shows the feelings that she has towards and they are neagtive and she is trying to get rid of the sad memories. Her sadness is also expressed by the alcahol bottle placed on the table in front of her, this suggests she is depressed and wants to relive her pain with a depressant. There is also a close up to show the charecters ahnds so that the audince can see what she is doing.

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Occasionaly a soft focus is used in a two person shot or an over the shoulder shot to give the feeling of the importance of the charecter that the camera is focused on.

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Three mid shots ahve been used when the women have a conversation in the park, it gives the feeling that the audince are actually walking with them but also looking and listening to each charecter. These mid shots also have been used to give each charecter a individual feeling and expression. A point of view shot has been used to watch one of the women walking away, this suggest that there might have been some sort of relationship between the two before. the lighting of the whole sequence is dull and gloomy it is because the drama itself is not a very happy drama, these kind of colourless colours are used to represent the moodwhich is joyless,cold and depressed, it is used to create more of a dranmatic effect. The dark clothing that the main charecter is wearing (a suit and a long coat) makes her look more masculine as all her femine feautres have been dragged out of her by the big shapeless clothes.

student of the year editing process review day 3

today we was getting quite far in the editing process and we started to add some video transitions on to them. the effects we decided to use was cross fade and dip to white, the reason why we chose these effects is due to the fact that they looked the most effective when we was trying out all the different transitions. also they are the most generic transitions and they are quite popular and kind of look like natural ones. after this we decided to put a graphic that jake made on adobe after effects, he did this by using the effects flicker color and bars blinky and fly in behind camera 3-d. also on the graphic he put a h-d bubble background to make it look more professional. and finally we put the Blackpool and fylde logo in the top right corner. he used a keyframes at the start and turned the opacity down to 0% and at the end turned it back up to 100%, to make it fade it to the graphic. we put all the edits together and started to create a introduction to the video by adding the motion graphic at the start with short clips of each of the students. we exported a small clip of the edit we had done to prove to the tutors that we had accomplished something.

student of the year editing process review day 2

today we decided that jake was going to edit the footage whilst i help him by giving him suggestions to the editing style. the parts of the footage we edited was the interviews from performing arts and health and social care, these are relativly diffrent sorts of people but the marketing department dont wont the same sort of things one by one beacsue it would look boring and samey. also we cut down the shots so that we had a few to put into the video when we had finished. we started to put the videos together today to see what videos fit each other, and so that the same groups of students were with each other. but we didn’t want all of the groups together as we wanted to put them in a different order so that it didn’t really run in order so that the viewer didn’t get bored. we also was trying to find a audio track the first one we thought of was pompeii by bastille but when we listened to the audio track on its own it didn’t sound very good. the next one that i found was choclate by the 1975s we eventually chose this song due to the fact that it had a slow start and then it starts to build up as the song develops. 

student of the year editing process review day 1

the first thing that we did was to transfer the footage that was on the mac book at the front of the classroom. this was very time consuming as the file size was quite big. when this was finished after about half an hour of waiting we then attached our hard drives to our own mac books. there was an issue with doing the editing today as one of my team members was out filming there music video today as this was the only time they could shoot in the location that they required.

 

after the footage transfered from the hard drive to the computer, we decided what format we was going to edit in 720p 25 frames per second, this was so that we got a clear image and there was no lag because we actually shot in full hd, so we needed it to match up. after this we decided which bits of footage we were each going to do, i took the first two days and jake took the second two days, this was so that we had less footage to edit so that we saved a lot more time due to the fact as we didnt have as many videos to cut down. once we cut all the videos down we was going to put them all together to create one video.

seen as though there was so much footage i started to edit down the clips so that they were shorter and much more easy to edit.

 

 

 

 

student of the year day 4- review

in todays session it was our last time to film the students, we went to the bispham campus at 12pm. we knew that we had three groups to film the ones that my group had to film were a student that had been nominated from construction for plastering, and then we had to do some establishing shots of the campus. when we arrived at the constuction part of the campus we had to wait for about five minutes for the student to arrive and then he came and we set up a scenario for him to just start plastering a wall. we did a focus pull shot through a sort of whole in the wall, this i think looked quite creative and a nice shot. also we set up a close up shot of the students face as he was plastering the wall. next we did some establishing shots the first one that we did was a shot from the ground that was aimed at peoples feet as they were walking down the corridor. next we used the same corridor but this time we did a shot from the shoulders and made it so it was focused at the front and out of focus in the foreground. after this we did a tilt shot that we used in the previous day and that was were we started at the ceiling and tilted down to reveal the rest of the room. but this we started really zoomed in on the ceiling and then  we tilted down but whilst doing so we zoomed out. after this we met up with the rest of the teams to discuss what shots they did.