Ideas for final assignment

Our ideas for the final assignment is that my group and I are thinking about doing a skins type theme and setting. We think this would be a good idea as our target audience is teenagers, and skins is a good way to represent teenagers in a stereotypical way.

Preliminary Exercise

• Last lesson we got our preliminary exercise, this task consists of practising the skills needed for the main practical production assignment. 
• The attempt of this task is to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing the room and sitting down in a chat opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanged a couple of lines of dialogue. 
• In this task we had to demonstrate; Match on action, shot/reverse shot and finally the 180 degree rule.

• For this assignment I worked with Katie Coombs and Sarah Barnes. I will be working with this group for my main practical assignment, as i feel that we work well as a group, each and everyone of us contributes to ideas and finally we all get on well as a group.

• So far on the making of our preliminary task my group and I have filmed the scene of our video, I found that this was a successful task to film and trying out different camera shots and angles, even though it did take us a while of working out how the video camera works but we soon got the hang of it. 
• We haven't yet completed the final assignment as there is still editing to do. So far this task has been succesful however, whilst filming my group and I were finding it hard to keep to the 180 degree rule as sometimes we wouldn't be sure wether or not we had gone over. 
• In our group we decided to make a script for the dialogue which meant it was easier for the characters to know their lines and wasn't having to make it all up on the spot.

• So far I am enjoying media A-level, especially the filming and I am looking forward to doing the main practical assignment.

Analysis - disruptive class, dentist waiting room, romantic evening

• The tasks we got set to do I found it easy to construct different scenes. Every scene we had to consider that each character played a part and was in the shot. 
• I thought we all worked well as a team, with everyone having their own input, making it easier to construct to the next scene. 
• We had to construct a, disruptive class, a dentist waiting room and a romatic evening. We eachieved miss en scene however, we could have improved on our crops and scenery by making the pictures look more realistic.

First Media Lesson - Kidulthood

In our first media lesson we analysed the opening 5 minutes of the film Kidulthood, We analysed Kidulthood by Mise-en-scene;


Setting and Props


- set in a school playground, school classroom, Teenagers smoking, council flats


Costume, hair and make up


- School uniform, tracksuits
- Teenagers made to look untidy which suggest the type of school the go to (state)
- Big hoop earings


Facial expressions and body language


- Feisty, rude language, deffesinve language used
- Close up of faces to show emotion
- Aggression of peoples faces
- Teachers faces look scared and intimidated
- Hand held camera effect


Lighting
- Dark (as its winter)
- In the classroom its lighter


Extra Info


- Dramatic, tension building sounds
- Camera on more characts than other ( main character)


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Film Termonology

Close up - A shot showing a character from the neck up, used to show facial expressions

Medium shot - A shot showing a character from the waist up allows other characters to be in view 

Extreme close up - Focuses on a small detail e.g. an eye, hand etc

Long shot - A shot showing a character or setting from a distance

High angle shot - A shot taken from above looking down and makes the audience feel powerful and superior and the actors seem small and vulnerable

Low angle shot - A shot taken from below. It is as if the audience are being looked below on, it may make us feel small

Panning - When the camera moves in an arc from a fixed point

Tracking - The camera is on tracks and follows the action

Zoom - Camera moves in to a close-up, often used to focus attention on a relevant detail or emphasises a character reaction

Diegetic sound - Music/sounds effect that comes from the scene of the film 

Non-diegetic sound - music/sound effect that is added to the film during editing

Mis - en - scene - Everything in the frame i.e. colours, props, set, costumes