Tuesday 13 January 2009

match cut week w/b 5/1/09

the first lesson on monday we were given a math cut exercise. We were taught how to use screen shot writing- an alternative to storyboarding. We were given a simple scenario- a man is chain smoking as he sits at a desk copying plans to a cd- and we had to describe exactly how we would personally film this scene. We had to include the shot lengths and the shot angles and choose specifically the ones that would most effectively provide an exciting portait of this scene.

Finally at the end of the lesson we were given another simple scenario- a man walks into a room, sits down, talks to a second person, gets up and leaves. We had to create a screen shot writing for this upon a storyboard that depicts what we had written.

In the next lesson, from what we had planned we were tasked with filming our practivce thriller. Our thriller proved to be more than standard, including unusual camera angles- the camera was at the lowest angle filming directly upwards as the subject walked pass and over the camera through the door. From this experience i had evaluated my own work and understood what i could've done to improve my work.

when an over the shoulder shot consist of two people, the person in the forewground takes one third of the screen.

whenever filming anything, review over what you have filmed constantly

when you are filming continous actions, repeat the actions whilst you film in different angles.

a door on the right of the screen should stay on the right of the screen.

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