Filming and blogging 24th October 2012
Quick quiz 1) How does filming a character with a high angle shot make your actor appear to the audience? 2) How does filming your character with a low angle shot make your actor appear to the audience? 3) What is Mise-‐en-‐scene?
Quick Quiz – 4) name the shot type
Quick quiz • 5) Name the movement that the following sentence describes. • ‘’ I attached my camera to the front of a supermarket trolley as I wanted the audience to feel and see the movement of the supermarket trolley as it moved through the supermarket aisles.’’ 6) What is a shooting script? 7) What is a canted angle?
Quick Quiz – 10) name the shot type 8) What line should you never cross when filming? 9) How many boxes divide up your screen when using the rule of thirds? 10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIdceyd1L8 -‐ what is this shot?
th 24 October 2012 Lesson Objectives • To understand the importance of adding detail and mise-‐en-‐scene into your film. • To know how to experiment and be creative with your filming. • To develop filming and use of equipment and ICT skills.
Learning Outcomes • I can understand the importance of adding detail and mise-‐en-‐scene into my film. • I can experiment and be creative with my filming. • I can confidently film and use equipment necessary for producing my film.
Mise-‐en-‐Scene • The technical name for the choice a director, photographer or camera operator chooses with regard to what is included within a particular shot. • Mise-‐en-‐scene is linked to mood and genre and can give an audience visual clues about the image or film. • For example, including a Christmas Tree in a shot would tell an audience roughly when in the year a scene was taking place; including a space-‐ship would tell an audience they were probably watching a science fiction film or programme.
Alfred Hitchcock
Be experimental • In your own work it is not always necessary to concentrate on the obvious, or the face of your key actor. • Sometimes shots of objects and small actions can give your audience just as much information as the spoken word (dialogue) • When filming don’t think you have done it in one shot even if your actor has delivered the lines correctly or walked across the room in the right way. • Film the scene again from a different angle or perspective, try focusing on an object in the room, explore the setting of the shot in much more detail.
Evaluation • At the end of every filming session it it is vital that you reflect on your blog the progress you have made. • On my blog there are 6 prompt questions to help you but you may include other responses as well. Go into lots of detail, remember the moderator did not go out filming with you, so you will need to give them as much info as possible, always use PEE.
th Wednesday 24 October
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• Apologies but I am absent this afternoon. • You may continue to film or update your blog. • There will be a member of staff in the lesson to help you. • Please remember to return to the classroom at least 20 minutes before the end of the lesson to write your filming evaluation and return all equipment to the store room. • Thursday’s lesson – Student led presentations.