Monday, October 27, 2014

My 2 minute movie-Intro

In this post we were asked by Mr. Rami to come up with our own movie. Whether it be thriller, action adventure etc.. After doing so we had to create our own storyboard to the movie and draw it out to how we would make it. The intro is only suppose to be 2 minutes long showing different camera angles, when music should be played, and how opening credits should be presented on screen.


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First thing to appear on screen would of course be the production company. This will stay on for about 5 seconds to make sure us as an audience saw it.



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It then goes on with, "The weinstein" company present, with a desert in the background. The desert helps create the imagery and shows us where this particular scene is.





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After that there's a close up of a abandoned broken car still with the desert in the background. Immediately when the first scene starts with the desert in the background, some Arabic music will be playing, creating an atmosphere.





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Camera then switches to a established shot of most of the desert with a pile of rocks laying close up to the camera. The title of the movie then appears in the center of the screen in big bold letters and the sound of a falcon appears to make it more dramatic.




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The environment changes quickly to a birds eye view/ aerial shot of a car driving on a main road. This scene will appear for about 6 seconds giving the camera time to zoom into the car  from a aerial position. While this is happening there will be the radio in the background being played from his car and as it gets closer the music gets louder later on becoming the actual music until the movie officially begins.




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A close up of the main character will show us how he looks and show any facial expressions helping us decide if he's happy sad etc...On the left hand side of the screen will then be the main actors name in bold letters as well. Music now is very clear as the camera is close up to the actor and continues throughout the next few scenes.




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The next scene is a low angled/close up shot of the car he's driving. The camera will first zoom out from the badge of the car showing us what car he's driving (Porsche) and to show us if he has a lot of money. It will then zoom out and only show the hood of the car and the road under it and then making the car drive over the camera so we get a shot of the car underneath. Actors name will appear at the bottom of the screen in bold letters.




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An established shot will now presented to show the city behind the car and then moving into a tracking shot with the car to show how fast he's driving. Another actors name will be shown almost in the middle of the screen.




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Established/Aerial shot will show the Empire state building and most of the buildings around it. It could also help show what time of day it was, whether it was the morning, afternoon or night. Under the clouds an actors name will slowly appear also on the left hand side.




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This scene will have a long shot of the main actor getting out of his car near a building, now making us wonder where he has stopped and where he's going. Co-stars will now appear on screen in small letters near the bottom.




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The next scene captures the actor walking into the building with a long line of people. An established shot is used again to show the scene and environment he's in. The last of the co-stars has now appeared.




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A close up of the buildings name is now shown. The bank of new york. Now we know where he works and where he has stopped.




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There's then a over the shoulder shot of one of the people in the long line getting a transfer from the bank. This is now a indication that the movie is about to begin anytime now.











Saturday, October 25, 2014

Conventions Of Commercial Cinema-Django unchained

We were asked by our teacher Mr. Rami to talk about Institutional conventions of commercial cinema, and to describe to people reading our blog exactly what it is and what role it plays in movies. In this document I talk about mainly the Opening credits of a movie and a 2 minute intro of Django Unchained.

Monday, October 13, 2014

A Bit About Me

This post is about myself and the reasons for why I chose media as a subject and what it means to me. We were asked by our teacher Mr. Rami to produce this post and give anyone reading the blog some information about us.



Thursday, October 2, 2014

Jaws Essay


This Essay was written for us to have a broader understanding of the movie Jaws. For instance why and how different camera angles were used, where they were used and why they were as effective to us as an audience. I wrote about a small 5 minute scene in the beginning of this movie, and talked about things such as hand held cameras, POV shots, and also make you question yourself about what you would do in those sort of situations. It's all pre conceived ideas that came into my head first.Link is below.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

6 Frames- "Ending The Story"

 As a class we were asked by Mr. Rami to continue and also finish off a story which he made, but only creating it with no more than six slides. The idea was to make this a movie trailer. We were all in groups. Each group and each individual having a different idea in mind than the other. This is my story board.


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Establishing shot of the house and Billy's family. Billy asks mom if he could go back inside after coming home from school. We notice Billy sweating just from a short walk. After this is shown the camera slowly zooms into the small window of the house then transitioning into the next scene (Billy's room)

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Established shot of Billy's room and him sitting at his desk doing homework. As Billy does his homework the suns days shine through the window and onto him piercing his skin. This makes us question, "Is he a vampire?"

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Close up of Billy as the sun starts to burn his skin. Suddenly some dramatic music is being played as we find out he is a vampire. 

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Over the shoulder shot to show the vampire slayer as he arrives up stairs. This a gives us the point of view from the mom making it feel like we are there. The mom panics and shouts, " Billy the vampire slayer is here!"

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Wide Shot shot which transitions into a medium shot as Billy and the vampire slayer fights. Billy eventually gets extremely injured fighting him but seems to hang on.

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Two-shot as the dad rushes in to help Billy only finding out Billy had won. After the two shot will then be a Wide Shot as the camera zooms into the vampire blocking out Billy and his dad. Out of no where we see movement in the background from the vampire slayer making us wonder if he really won...







Ice Bucket Challenge (StoryBoard)

 This story board is about the ice bucket challenge, but not just any ice bucket challenge as we wanted to do it differently compared to most people in the world. Most people were just sitting in a chair, straight in the middle of the camera (Bulls eye). We didn't want this... So the teacher wanted each group to make their own ice bucket challenge video trying to stay away from bulls eye and making it more interesting to the viewers! Maybe include some slow-mo, alpha channels, over the shoulder shots etc...


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Pan shot of the logo moving to the right. Mainly so the audience know the name of the location.


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Aerial shot of location (with a go pro). This is done to establish the location.


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Zoom out of the entrance, transitioning to a wide shot.


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Medium close up of Rami walking out of the door. This helps us to see what he shall be wearing for the event taking place and exactly where he is coming from (the school building).


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Close up of his face, showing facial expressions.


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Extreme close up of eyes. Doing so will show the audience if the person is nervous, anxious, happy etc... 


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 Long-shot of Rami standing next to the logo of the school. This will be presented with an alpha col effect where only the logo and Rami are shown in colour.


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Pov shot of him walking to the bucket. The Pov shot will help make us feel like we are there walking to the bucket or we are in his shoes.


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Low angled shot before Rami walks around the corner.


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Over the shoulder shot focusing on the shoulder first then focusing on Rami, thus making it feel like something is about to happen.

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Person picks up the bucket (using a medium shot) and then fades out to the next scene.


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Low angled shot as Rami sits on a chair. (Will be shot in slow mo). the slow mo helps us capture the moment and really experience it.


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In shot 2 we will have a medium to wide shot displayed from the side of Rami and the person holding the bucket of ice. ( Also shot in slow mo).


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Close up of face after the bucket of ice has been thrown over him. With this being done we can see the expressions on his face after the challenge.


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 Extreme close up as he turns to face the camera, as we expect either a look of disappointment or pure excitement from completing the challenge.


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Medium close up transitioning into a close up. ( Rami screams)




























Foster The People- Coming Of Age (Storyboard)

In this storyboard, we had to create our own music video. This was any music of our choice. These are just the different camera angles used and a bit about the music video written underneath each slide. After we are done with the storyboard, we are going to present it to the class and talk more of it.



 

                    Establishing Shot




                    Close Up Shot



                       Aerial Shot



                          Close Up


                     Medium Shot


                       Long Shot