Continuity piece- The story board, Camera plan and script

We were given a stimuli, for our first simple continuity piece, which was the concept of a somebody walking into a room, and in this room somebody was already presant sitting down, and then to include a conversation between the two charaters. Separetly we all made out individual story board and brought them together once finished to share and discuss ideas with the group. After discussing each subject we decided to go with Nicholas's idea of a student entering a room int he school, and having a conversation with his/her peer. This idea was the most simple and the easiest to apply to a peice of drama, considering we already have a school and class rooms at our disposal, so the piece would be simply realistic.
[insert story board]

Using our resraech into The Line of action we drew out a camera plan, which includes a birds eye view of the set, and diagrams of where the cameras will be placed in order to create the desired shots.
[insert camera plan]

Lastly we put together a simple script, of a boy and a girl bunking and when they meet eacother they engage in conversation:
Femi: Oh my god i though you were a teacher.
Nina: (Out of breath) I almost got caught by Mr.Wilson.
Femi: We should have just stayed in class.
Nina: No this is jokes, lessons are boring.

Even though this script was simple, and not exactly amazing, it was effective because it got the job done alowing us to film all the footage we needed, on our next piece will will focus in on these factors, however it was not an issue becuase our piece included everthing needed.

Continuity piece, The line of action

In order to create a successful continuity piece, we had to under go a number of step to learn how to walk before we can run! Firstly, the research into setting up a simple scene. Our teacher had taught us about the line of action, which is a strategy used by filmmakers which is the most basic rule of camera placement. The purpose of the line of action preserves constant screen direction and space, it gives the film crew a clear plan of where to place the cameras and which shoots to take.

A line is established ^, as seen int his diagram. You are left with a space of 180 degree in which you place your camreas, once the line and the 180 degree working space is clear this is where you place your cameras, and cameras are never placed outside this zone.
Using these rules we were able to shoot a converstaion, incudeing over the shoulder reverse shots, and a mid shot and edited it together to create a perfect conversation, which we were pretty proud of, it felt good once the plan on paper had come together visually.

Home Grown Cinema: Shifty

Synopsis: Shifty is a fast pace film of the urban genre, about two friends who grew up on the outskirts of London. Years later shiftys life had changed dramatically now a crack cocaine dealer trying to survive, out smart rival dealers and eventually change. Chris, Shiftys childhood friend returns home years later, finally facing the mess he left behind. It's the most action packed 24hours of their lives.

The effects of sound on the moving image, to create 'meaning' through sound design

"Sound has a great power but is a conditional power. I places the image in a physical and emotional context, helping us to decide how to take image and how it integrates  itself into everything else".- Walter murch

Diegetic- narative, sound from within the scene. Non- diegetic- music to tell emotion, sound outside the scene.

Meeting Jeremy Thomas

Fortunately due to my wonderful teachers , I was given the amazing opportunity to meet, the very famous, proud to mention British film producer Jeremy Thomas! Some of the films he as produces are as follows: The Last Emperor (1987), Sexy Beast (2000), Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) and The dreamers (2003).
 Son of Gerald Thomas, so he grew up in the film industry which soon became his passion. Given a start in life, he was a rebel at school and dedicated all of his time towards film and making them. He was a very determined young boy who climbed his way to the top. He had won an Oscar for The Last Emperor, in total the film wining nine! It is a remarkable achievement one which everyone passionate about film making can only dream of!
 Listening to him speak was intriguing, simultaneously inspiring, you could almost feel his passion for films. He seemed very understanding towards being young and interested in film, he was down to earth, naturally poetic and as he said through his years of experience he was full of helpful quotes, he compared life to a journey in an air craft -" The plane takes off, you travel through the clouds where much doesn't seem clear, then finally you get through the clouds, and everything becomes clear again".Another quote he sheared with us speaking of life was as follows- "You drop a leaf into a river, and it (you) drift down the river meeting obstructions (and people) along the way".

The production chain

1. The pitch, finding someone to give money for the film.
2. Development, film scripts putting ideas together
3. Principal photography, filming, first day on set
4. Post-production, editing colouring etc
5. Sales agent, finds distributers
6. Distribution, the people who find exibeters- exaple: universal.
7. Exhibition, cinemas

Examining how light can be used to express meaning.

 " Light is everting. It expressses ideology, emotion, colour, depth, style. I can efface, narrate, describe. With lighting, the ugliest face, the most idiotic expression can radiate with beauty or intelligence." - Frederico Fellini, Director.

Today we were taight in depth about, reading lights. What we can tell from a scence by the use of lights. Light is used for the representation of ideology etc. Certain lighting aluminates the meaning of the scene and sets a particular tone, to help the audience understand the narrative of the film.

We also breifly touched upon a Feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey.