Preliminary task: Casting

In our preliminary task the casting is as follows:

John Power (me)- Chuck

George Hopkins- Mafia Boss

Mateusz Zbielski- Camera man

Jamie Oliver- Lighting man/ Camera man

Preliminary task: Location planning

In lesson me, George and Mateusz were looking for possible locations for filming our preliminary task, here are some locations we were considering for our Extreme Long Shot/Establishing Shot and our first glimpse of the Mafia boss (the second piece of footage):

Area behind the English block

We thought about using this area to film our establishing shot, we liked this area because of all the rubble it gives a "you shouldn't be here" as an area with rubble is seen as desolate and derelict, Chuck is being held captive inside an old abandoned warehouse.

Area behind the Sports Hall

 

We were thinking about this area for our second shot where the camera tracks backwards while the Mafia Boss is walking towards the camera, we can only see the Mafia Boss' feet while he is walking to where Chuck is being held captive. 

For our final decision we concluded that for our Establishing shot we would use a panning movement with the camera to film the area behind the English block where the mound of rubble currently resides. 

For our second shot with the backwards tracking close up on the Mafia Boss' feet while he is walking to where Chuck is being held captive we decided that the best area to film this would be the path just outside of  the school gate that leads to the main turning circle.

Basic camera movements

Camera Shots: Twin Pine films

In today's lesson our task was to demonstrate multiple camera shot techniques.

Extreme Long Shot (ELS)

Long Shot (LS)

Mid Shot (MS)

Two Shot (TS)

Close Up (CU)

Extreme Close Up (ECU)

Twin Pine films

I am in a group with George Hopkins (bottom left), Jamie Oliver (bottom right) and Mateusz Zbielski. We call our group Twin Pine films.

Preliminary task: Script and Storyboard

In today's lesson we done a bit of filming for our prelim task, we have not completed filming yet but we are getting there. Here is the script we devised for our task. 

Mafia boss: What do you think you're playing at Chuck?

Chuck: What are you talking about? 

Mafia boss: You know exactly what I'm talking about! 

Chuck: I'm sorry, it won't happen again!

At home George completed the storyboard for our prelim task and here it is:

Foundation Portfolio

 

Preliminary Exercise

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

                                                         

Main Task

The titles and opening of a new teen horror film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

AS Media Studies first lesson

In our first AS Media studies lesson we were asked to write up a spider diagram on how we consume media. Here is a photo of me with my work.