Riah Anne’s Blog

     Through this process, the critical reflection was made to show out progress and understanding of media studies and everything that went along with it. The critical reflection showed my understanding of camera work like shot sizes, camera angles, camera composition, and camera framing, as well as camera movement. It showed my progress of learning mise en scene with colors, lighting, and anything to pertaining the process of the movie.      My critical reflection showed my creative side and the theme of the movie with the colors and the style of it. I wanted to show the process of the creation of my movie plus everything that could happen if it could possibly be released. Throughout the critical reflection I was able to think back on all the things that got me there and the process was great and the education that I got. 

     Production week was very stressful for all of us because of the time that we had and the fact that some people weren't pulling together in their ends of the project. We had to change characters and people and we had to do more work to get everything done on time. However, it was a fun experience over all with my team and were ready to do our creative critical reflection.           Extra things: We had to change things in our planning phase because we wanted it to match, and it took us some extra time which made everything so much more stressful for us. We had a little less time to film due to my sickness and lack of team effort from some, but we got it done. 

    This was the final draft for my AICE media studies film opening. My and my team had changed a couple things around to make it more dynamic than the first draft, but we were really happy with the outcome. This had more characters and we put more time into the editing for the final draft. The new things we included was the logo for our production company at the beginning, opening credits for our characters, and more style the included mise en scene. we were very happy and proud of our movie production, and we were a little upset because we had to change somethings from our original plan and as well as our first draft due to some issue with scheduling and the places we wanted to film at. Over al we were pleased with the end result.  https://youtu.be/ivtomck1X68

     Unfortunately, I wasn't able to contribute to the production week for this week due to me having pink eye, however I was still able to help out from home. I helped them with scene ideas and to edit the movie for the first draft being i wasn't able to do anything within the movie. we were all upset about this because the movie was supposed to be based off of me and a lot of things needed to be changed around but with hard work and teamwork, we made it, and we were pleased with our first draft results.

    https://youtu.be/qm8afBhVxDU   The first draft of the film opening had to be modified due to characters and schedule conflicts. However, we did make it into something that all of the group members were happy with that was still able to have the same location that we wanted to do.     During the film process of the film opening, me and my group were able to include all the mise en scene elements as well was camerawork and camera movement. But this was just out first draft, so everything wasn't the best we wanted to add more lighting and color elements to it, so we are soon going to be changing a few elements to make the film opening better.

    This part of the planning document was to plan out the film opening. This showed the cast's roles, demographics, etc. All the important information that needed to be done to make the opening of the film was there for the film opening. The film pitch was more about all the pre-production of the film opening and the planning for how we should film it. It expressed all our ideas and creativity. This is the part of the planning where I was more in charge of because it was my idea at first before we had to change a couple things around.

     This part of the planning phase was just a base line of everything that was supposed happen for the film opening.  The first picture shows the idea that we wanted for out logo (NightTime productions). It was a group effort that we chose this design to do and we were very happy with the results.       The second picture shows the general information of the film like the title , genre, rating, etc. that everyone would need to know before watching it and sharing it. Next would be the audience that would watch the movie. Since our movie is made up of mostly teenagers, the movie would be for teens but it also adults in it so it could also be for adults too.     The last picture is it show the cast for the film opening and who was the film crew. It shows everyone's  description of what people did and title.

     The sound in film is what makes it interesting to the audience and what captivates them. it is very important to have the sound in movie match up the genre and what is going on in the scene to make the audience understand what is going on and be more interested in the movie.      Also in film, you can hear sound effects. In action movies you hear things blowing up gun shots, car crashes, or any loud sound that would make the action movie more exciting. Or in high school movie all the sounds of people talking are usually sound effects to make the room sound full and lively.

     Our movie is about a girl that wanted to be heard, believed, and was paranoid and with that we needed to convey that with the film opening music. The music would most likely be really intense to set the mood for it and it would have some sound effects that would show how we wanted people to hear what she was hearing. there could also be a voice over to hear internal conflict for this character and dialogue from other characters that go against her.

Camera Composition Camera Composition is how the cinematographer choses to arrange certain elements in the frame of photos or films, whether it is a character in the or item. This adds dimension and further improves the media. The leading lines shot enhances what they are leading to. In this example the lines are leading to a dark shadow at the end of the hallway, making this shot mysterious. Deep focus is the focus on one this while something else is blurred. This example blurs the surrounding things and the sky is the main focus.

Camera Framing      Camera framing is the placement in which how many characters are in your shot. The position in which you put the camera will allow for a clearer view of what is happening, and the framed objects could look more aesthetically pleasing.          "Point of view" is the viewpoint of the character and what they are seeing at that moment. This gives a more personal feel to the film and provides clarity. An insert shot is the shot that shows a specific item or key detail in the film. It shows the importance and usually comes back later in the film.  

Camera Angles      Camera angles is the way the cinematographer moves and places the camera to take a shot. This act gives the film more dimension, creates a different experience in each shot, and provides the emotions needed for that certain shot.         These two angles (high angle and low angle) usually go hand and hand with one another. The low angle here is a bully kicking a girl on the ground. This shows that the bully is a dominant force and aggressor in this scene. The high angle is the bully's eyesight, kicking the girl. This shows the weakness of the girl and conveys a sense of submission or weakness.

Shot Sizes      When it comes to movies, shot sizes play a big part of mostly setting the scene for the film. There are 8 different shot sizes ranging from the farthest (establishing shot) and closest (extreme close up.) Most of these shots gives context in the film and further increases the quality of it rather than all the shots being the same size.      These two examples are the farthest and closest shots in a film. The establishing shot is the shot that shows the setting of the scene as well as gives context. Some movies even go as far as put a heading that will tell where it takes place. The other example is the extreme close up shot the gives emphasis on what is being shown in the film. 

  Camera Movement Videos    The purpose of the exercise was to educate us on how to do camera movement as well as incorporate camerawork such as shot sizes, camera angles, camera framing, and camera composition to prepare us for the film we were going to make. Everyone in my group played a part in acting in the videos, as well as each of us took turns to film the videos for maximum efficiency.  The first video taken was a zoom in, medium frame, over the shoulder, eye level shot. It was able to capture the emotions and feeling into the scene. The girl was looking at her friend in a mysterious manner after something happened between them.  https://youtu.be/Zt9VnB3nz6E The second video taken was a panning, establishing, eye level shot that was able to capture where all the scenes/ videos we made were taken place. https://youtu.be/Q--Usj5y5fQ The third video was of the 500 building where most to all of the videos were taken place. This was supposed to be an eye leve...

  Camera Movement   For this project my teammates and I had to complete a video storyboard helping to explain what camera movement was. in the process we found out that camera movement is the perspective of camera changing by moving the camera around. For this storyboard we made nine different scenes, and we are making six videos from the planned-out scenes during class. Each of the storyboards we had to have a different camera movement and had to include the action line, shot size, camera angles and the framing for the scene. I was in charge of writing down the ideas the team had and then sketching it to make these scenes come to life.

Camera Movement   Camera movement is how the camera moves intentionally in space and time. It makes effects and shape within the film. in film it makes dynamics and makes scenes more interesting and natural. The cameraperson or cinematographer moves the camera in a film. Bong  Joon-Ho and David Lynch are 2 people who are famous in the film industry. Bong Joon-Ho is a South Korean film director that made "Parasite" in 2019, "Memories of Murder" in 2003, and "Barking Dogs Never Bite" in 2000. David Lynch is a filmmaker and actor that worked on/ in "The Straight Story" in 1999, "What Did Jack Do?" in 2017, and "Mulholland Drive" in 2001.     Before this lesson I knew about zooming in and zooming out. They are two of the most common in films. They can differ depending on the context (slowing zooming in or out and quickly zooming in or out.) I recognize because it is usually zooming in slowly on someone's face or zooming out on...

  Camera Composition     Camera composition is how the cinematographer frames and places everything inside the camera frame. For this section of the power point, just like the last one, me and my teammate has to utilize composition to analyze the movie scenes. For example, symmetry balance is when there is something usually a character in the middle of the frame that is in a symmetrical background. And there are leading lines shot that does a similar effect like the symmetry balance; the lines in the scene lead to the main focus usually a character or an object.     Just like the first section of the power point, we had to add the definition of the camera composition that we were doing, the movie's name, key points about the movie scene doesn't have to be super detailed, and then an action line that clearly states what is going on in the movie.

Camera Framing      Camera framing is the way that characters are set up in the camera and appeal to the audience of the movie.  For this section power point, me and my teammate utilized camera framing to analyze movie clips and find which movie had the certain camera framing in it. For example, every movie has a one shot. A one shot is when only one character is shown in the camera frame/ film. Whereas an over the shoulder shot, is when character are talking to one another and they put the camera over their shoulder to get the reaction of the other person they are talking to.      In the power point we had to add in a definition of camera framing that we were doing, movie's name, key points about the movie scene (small details on what's happening), and an action line clearing explain what is going on in the movie.

 Camera Composition      Camera composition is how a photographer chooses to arrange visual elements within the frame. There are many different elements that are within the film that makes it more interesting to the audience. Shapes shot emphasizes the thing, usually a character, in the frame with a shape like a square or circle. Leading lines are usually to emphasize key details or an important thing in a film. 

Camera Framing      Camera framing is how the cinematographer captures the character or characters in a shot, the number of characters can go from one to hundreds of people in a single frame. But this doesn't just count for characters, it can be items too. The insert shot can be for objects too; this shot can reveal key details for a film.