Friday, 23 October 2009

Idea for a Thriller






















Prelim task Evaluation

We were filming in one room above the studio, nothing was in it except three lights and some chairs. In this room there were two doors. We used the second door back in the room.
We shoot the hole scene four or five times , a white shoot , over the shoulder from the girl and the boy and a middle shot.
Then we did some close up from the girl and for example from the feeds of the boy.
The room I think was not the best location to shoot this scenes because the room looks like that nobody used it for a long time.
We had three lights one in each corner the light was light and two of them hard and one soft.
When we started to shoot each of us got work to do for example on hold the camera one got the paper where the actors shout stand, etc.
The whole shooting took together one hour a half for the main shooting and the other half for some close up from the girl face and the boys.
Because it was the first time we were shooting with other actors it was very interesting to see how hard it actually is to shoot only an one minute extract.

Introduction to practical skills

In the last weeks we already did a lot of Practical things in Media studies, first we learned during two lessons how Photoshop works they showed us a lot of things and then we tried on our own. First we learned al the mane parts we have to know like how to copy things or how to use a Lasso. But also some things about Pixel and technical things.
I personally like Photoshop very much, on the beginning it is very hard to get used to it and to know how to use everything but I think when you know how everything works you can do a lot of cool things like Poster or funny Pictures.
After we learned something about a Camera and tripod. On the beginning we learned how to use a tripod, it was not very hard, After we learned something about the Camera 'PD170' how to but here on the tripod and what all the signs means. Also how to but the batterie in it and how it works that you can shoot something.
The first sign we learned about was on the top in the left side, it is the batterie. It shows us how much batterie is left on the Camera.
On the top, right side is the Time Code, it looks like this : "--:--:--:--" the beginning shows us the hours, the second the minutes the third the seconds and the forth the number of frame it goes only to 24.
Also we learned something about hotspots, sound quality, what kind of light we should use and about shutter speed.
Shutter speed is for example when it is on 600 you can use it to film sport, 6 is like slow motion and 50 is like normal. Then we also did our little own extract in a group that shows us how to use a camera. Actually to use a camera is harder then it looks like but it is very much fun I think.
One day we were in the studio and had Interviews. I was the hole time in the studio because I did the light and I enjoyed it very much. When he dar " ready action " everyone buts the light and Camera on and the Interview started.
We used blue and wight light, the camera was I think a PD170, two people were on the light and two people used the camera she only moved sometimes but actually she always was in the same position the lighting moved sometimes too. two people were the speakers and everyone had a Interview with questions like : ' Why have you chosen this subject?' or ' What is your favorite movie?' or 'Name two of your most played tunes on your I Pod'.
And on the end and we are still doing are our blogs. On the blog we are butting for example this essay, pictures of myself and many other things. It is like having a own homepage. But we still just started yet with the blogs so I don't know yet how it is but I think it is quiet cool.