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Kill Us All- a Montage of Youth Evaluation: In evaluation, I feel that my film adequately conveys features of New Wave production; I was particularly inspired by the first scene of ' Easy Rider'(Dennis Hopper, 1969), and the idea of a road film. In my film, I wanted to show the youth of Britain today in a different and much more inclusive light, with the intention of displaying that contrary to media headlines and common opinions, that today's youth are curious, interesting and active; in order to do this, I decided to shoot BMX riders in a skate park, on an urban exploration trip and whilst I was out with my friends. In my first shot, I used my iPhone 7 camera to film in homage to hand held film cameras such as the Bolex 16mm and the Arriflex 35-BL that were commonly used in the American New Wave by directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Dennis Hopper and Martin Scoursese in their lower budget production. Although this created camera shake due to not being ab...

The Development of Editing Techniques The birth of cinema... Auguste and Louis Lumiere were "pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion picture camera and projector called the Cinematographe" ( Editors of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 2013) Early Editing...   The first editing technique to come into play in the world of cinema was cutting; before cutting directors would film in one continuous shot with no editing. "Cutting is so fundamental to the medium that it began to emerge relatively quickly" ( filmreference.com). Cutting became more widely used when directors and audiences alike desired for longer films became higher and there was only a small amount of magazine a film camera could hold. Being able to cut scenes allowed for a longer and more complex narrative "by assembling a series of scenes, with each scene filmed in a single shot" ( filmreference.com). In the 1900s cutting was achieved by actual...

Health and Safety Health and safety is in place to keep everybody on the set safe, "sticking to your H&S plan is crucial, and yes common sense is a key factor. It is also about working through your shoot in advance to make sure that you have that very plan in place". (Peter Clews, 2019) In the words of director, Stephen Spielberg, "no movie is worth dying for" Health and Safety Legislation and Procedure "Health and Safety legislation applies to all work activities in the UK, whether conducted by UK nationals or foreigners, even if they are not being paid" HSE. Recognised by law, health and safety should be at the forefront of the mind throughout the process of filming and producing.  The Health and Safety Executive guidelines, endorsed by the UK Government state that a management system should be in place to  define responsibility to "control the risk to employers or others from their work", management systems should be devised...

Different Types of Lighting L ighting plays a key role in moving image; "Lighting is fundamental to film because it creates a visual mood, atmosphere, and sense of meaning to the audience"- David Lynch (2013). The correct use of lighting tells the audience where to look on the screen, can be indicative of the character's psych key and often contributes to the genre that the film is classified as. In the photography studio, we used a three point lighting set up with various different types of lighting to explore how this affected the atmosphere and mood of the footage. Rembrandt Lighting Rembrandt Lighting is a popular lighting set up named after the Dutch painter Rembrandt who used this particular style of lighting within his portraits int he 17th century. It is made up of one light source illuminating half of the face, and a triangle of light illuminating the other side of the face below the eye, known as a chiaroscuro. The light source must be higher than a...

New Wave Film Brief I plan on creating a new wave film, focussing on the effect that Brexit is having on the working class in the UK. My film will be two to three minutes long and the narrative of my film will follow the story of a woman, representative of Britain, dancing with the devil of the Conservative Government. I intend to shoot footage in an interview style with my peers, asking for their opinions on the current political climate and the government which I will then edit in a jump- cut manner with stock footage from political sources to demonstrate the swiftly darkening opinion of the 'tory' party in the youth in Britain. Further to this, I intend to make a statement within my film, insinuating the demise of the UK at the hands of our Government; in order to do this I intend to use low-key lighting in a dimly lit room, personifying Britain in the character of a woman  and I will shoot Britain dancing with the devil, using edge lighting and rembrandt lighting to gi...

Four Hour Film Challenges 1920's Silent Film Four Hour Film Challenge Two Feet- Love is A Bitch Music Video.

Four Hour Film Challenge  Wii 4 Hour Film Challenge The final product of this four hour film challenge, I found was entertaining and creatively thought out and edited. The Mii channel music used creates the basic narrative for the film, and I feel that the use of sound to inspire a plot and narrative is intelligent and imaginative inside-out thinking, and it is evident within each shot that the music being used in the end product was used to inspire the movement of the compositions in the classroom. The fact that the camera is kept still and at the same angle on a tri-pod throughout the film adds interesting dimension to the film; the movement of only the compositions in time to the music is almost comical in stop-motion style in synchronisation to the music, and whilst the entire film is shot within one room, each shot differs vastly to the last. The direction and framing of the characters in the film also has to be noted for it's avant -garde nature, for instance the pil...

How Lighting Affects Camera Techniques For Moving Image Lighting is a good indicator to an audience member of the atmosphere or feel that the filmmaker wishes to convey; this is done to enhance and better communicate the plot. Evoking emotion is imperative to the successful interpretation of any film, and lighting is an excellent example of this as the viewer relates the lighting to a particular mood or atmosphere. High-key lighting is usually naturally sourced, softer light used alongside a three-point lighting system "to help improve high contrast ratios" and "is used to produce images that produce an optimistic, upbeat reaction"; with high key lighting, softer shadows are casted on the subjects and their surroundings are better exposed giving the final footage a lighter and happier feel. Conversely, Low-Key lighting creates effectively the opposite atmosphere to high-key lighting, generally being much more harsh and hard on the subject. Horror as a genre...

Pulling Focus Pulling focus is a creative camera technique, which is also referred to as racking focus; "racking focus is the process of switching the focal point from one subject/object in a frame to another subject/object."DVC ,2013. Usually this is done to indicate to the audience where to direct their attention on screen, such as when somebody speaks the focus would be pulled towards the subject speaking rather than on the subject listening. To explore how this is done, I decided to film my friends going about their usual Saturday business, learning how to pull in and out of focus on my subjects smoothly when they moved in order to keep the focal point on them rather than on their surroundings. My own attempts at rack focusing in a park and also using my dog as a composition. An example of a rack focus from Joon-ho Bong's "The Host" (2006). Here the director draws attention to different characters in the chase scene's foregro...

ISO and Light settings in film. ISO refers to setting the film speed on your camera; 'being able to change the film speed on your camera lets you match the sensitivity of the light sensor to the amount of readily available light', the photographic angle, 2017. ISO not only affects the amount of light that is exposed to the image, but it also affects how much noise is in the final image and the quality of the image. In general, you should try to use lower ISO whilst filming, ranging between 200 ISO and 400 ISO. Whilst you can use ISO to adjust to poorer light conditions, this negatively affects the final quality, so alternative lighting should be considered in these instances rather than just increasing your iso; it is better to adjust your aperture and shutter speed to control how much light enters your camera. To demonstrate this, I decided to shoot both indoors and outdoors for around ten seconds. Outdoors, I used a low ISO at 100 to film due to high natural...

Shutter Speed "Shutter speed is the length of time the camera shutter is open, exposing light onto the image" Nasim Mansurov, and it exists because of the camera shutter opening when the camera is fired, exposing the light sensor in the camera to light that passes through the camera lens. Shutter speed effects exposure, but also effects how much motion blur is created in the footage. As a rule of thumb, the slower the shutter speed, the more motion blur is created in the final image; the shutter speed used should be approximately double the frame rate you're shooting in, the standard settings used are 24 frames per second and a shutter speed of 1/50. To demonstrate this and gain a greater understanding of how shutter speed affects the quality of the footage, I filmed moving compositions for between ten and twenty seconds in three different shutter speeds, 1/30, 1/50 and 1/25, so that I could later analyse the difference in the final footage captured in each of thes...