Technique or technical practice

Progression from pt to mt Unpacking the technique/ technology

Representation Link to Macro Bigger picture

Camera Movement

My preliminary task was a continuity task, with no need for any other movements and at that point I had no real understanding of movement, until I completed and evaluated a comparative camera operation task.

Unpacking the technique to camera movement meant I had to understand the lead room, nose room, head room, anticipatory framing and fluid motion. I completed an exercise to take into consideration the above factors and repeated the same exercise four times. After evaluating each attempt, it was evident that I have improved, by taking into account the rule of thirds and I had a better fluid motion with the camera.

Hand held camera movements gave an on edge feel and realism to the characters actions. Slow tripod mounted camera movements given to the long shots of the protagonist walking, conveyed his loneliness, isolation and fear of being discovered.

The hand held movements portray to the viewer that Mark feels uncomfortable in his own skin. Furthermore, the slow tripod shots illustrate his loneliness and concealed secret to his sexual identity.

Composition of Shots

In the preliminary task the composition and aesthetics were not thought of, as I hadn’t learnt about it and this was not important for the task. Camera composition exercise and my self evaluation allowed me to establish various composition elements : Use of frame Foreground/mid

Unpacking the technique to have an eye for the artistic traits such as form, shape, colour and dynamic diagonals.

The composition of my shots are carefully positioned to highlight aspects on the mise- en- scene, moreover some artistic aspects are shown in the shots such as dynamic diagonals, shape and colour

Through the composition of my different shots the viewers will be able to establish the genre of the film, because of the use of simple and existing surroundings.

ground/background and depth Point of view shot Positive and negative space Line and shape Lighting and contrast Mood and tone Colour Proxemics

Camera Shots and Angles

For the preliminary task I only used long, mid and close shots, because of an unlimited understanding. A lesson covering shot sizes and angles allowed me to comprehend all the different types, I could consider for my main task. I tried to get a combination of selective shots and angles into my main task.

Through learning about more technical shot sizes and angles I was able to convey them into my film intro. The representation of the different shots, along with their angles will allow an audience to decode not only the narrative, but the hidden message behind each shot.

The representation of the extreme close ups convey the importance of my protagonists issues and how they are affecting him.

The extreme close up shots only show a particular thing, detaching the full picture, but allow a glimpse into the window of Mark’s anguish and how he actually feels.

White balance The preliminary task contained no white balance technique. This technique is a colour balance on a digital camera, which manipulates the overall colour temperature. For my main task I effectively used this feature

To establish how to create the right white balance, I undertook an exercise that allowed me to evaluate the differences between automatic, tungsten, daylight and custom white balancing from both the interior and exterior factors.

To represent my protagonist with the correct white balance, I chose to implement a custom white balance for the interior shots and a daylight white balance for the exterior shots.

The white balance options allowed a realism impact to the final cinematic product. If I had chosen different settings then the overall impact would have seemed quite artificial.

to create realistic shots.

Storyboards The storyboard for my preliminary task was basic with just shot and action details. However, my main task final storyboard was much more detailed, with not only shot size and action, but with composition, sound, lighting and title placements. Also I was able to capitalise on feedback from my media tutor.

Secondary research gave me insight to opening title credits and their specific order in social realism and mainstream films.

Studying the flow of opening titles, allowed me to establish various positions and why they were initially placed there in films from the professional domain. Representation of the shot size, composition with lighting and sound conveys the mood and atmosphere of the individual shot.

The mood, atmosphere of the planned shot will establish not only a portrayed issue or theme, but it will allow an audience to connect to the wider picture of the genre being depicted.

Scripts There was no real thought that went into my preliminary script. It just basically consisted of camera shot and audio detail, with no real terminology to support the idealism of the task. However, my final script to support my product was far superior to my preliminary task script in the fact it contained a lot more detail

Main task scripts, took into consideration time element breakdown for each shot. The props required, costume design, action and direction for the actors. Audio references to non-diegetic and diegetic sound and actor dialect.

Representation, allowed for genre establishment to include the theme and issues being experienced by the protagonist.

Story establishment through the narrative of the script.

Editing Process Itemisation planning

Music