Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
By, my teacher setting me preliminary task, in to the lead up for the media
product final, I have learnt sound control is extremely important. For example,
to the lead up to my media product I have learnt that the added background
noise to the partying scene added to the atmosphere. However there were,
continuous background noise that was not needed for the scenes. Thus I decided
to us the sound adjuster, which I have learnt to use over the past months. This
helped me to take away the noise and replace it with a musical soundtrack that
again added great effectiveness to the film.
My editing skills have develop over the process of this year, as now I am
more efficient in the way I use the premier programme as I am now able to
re-order different clips and to move them into different areas of the film or
video clip. For example I am now able to increase sound and lighting to the
scenes so that I will add effect to the following footage so that it looks
prefect. This was visible as the media product is a montage of images that reflects the highs and lows of teenage life. the lighting that I have used in the video where neon lighting and washing lightening so that I was able to create the partying atmosphere of the scenes within the film product. Also I felt that choosing the soundtrack for my overall product was a hard decision as I wanted the music to help reflect the dangers of taking drugs and alcohol, this was apparent when I start after school for one week choosing music that would cater to my target audience, of young adults; the reason I looked at different party house music was that I needed to make sure it cater to the audience; so I decided that an upbeat soundtrack was key to making the media product succeed so that it gave the partying look to of the rebellious teenagers.
Notably I have learnt a lot about camera angles and how to film, in a much
better way now as I am able to establish different shots and to tell you the
meaning and the purpose of certain camera angles and shots that are used in the
making of films by directors. To be specific, I now know that a close up shot,
is a shot that is use to help heighten a scene object, or feature of somebody’s
facial features or outer body, this is present in my film where you have an
actor that is in the drinking scene at the night clubs, where the camera does a
close up that leads to an extreme close up to the drink she is holding in her
hand as well as her face, so that the audience can see that outcome of the
drinking having on the actor on screen. Also it is a good way for the audience
to see that the actors “ being teenagers” are having fun in the film, making
this particular close up have a much better purpose where as if a close up was
at a particular church, this would not have any sort of significant to the
scene as the film is based around alcohol and drub usage thus this would not be
useful in the film; as it is out of content.
I felt that the learning the camera angles gave me a better understanding of how I could express emotion and character from these camera angles. for example one of the actors can be seen dancing proactively by using hand gestures touching her face this links to Berger theory 'ways of seeing' as he believes that women appear and men act this is apparent when Emily wears the use of red lipstick also helps to show the sexual nature of herself . These applies to Laura Murvey theory as the dominate point of view is masculine, as the female body of Emily is being displayed for the male gaze in order to provide erotic pleasure for the male. women are therefore objectified by the camera lens this shown though the use of close ups and extreme close up of Emily the actors lips and face to provide this pleasure also whatever the audience is position to accept the masculine point of view. Furthermore at the beginning of the film the female actress is again holding a spoon which I think we conveyed this to the audience clearly and visually seeing as the audience are able to decode a symbolic meaning out of the spoon, this is expressed through the use of white and purple lighting to suggest that she is at a club as well as the canted angles expressing the emotion of the female girl being on a illegal high therefore the audience are able to witness this at the being, this ties in to Tovor theory of equilibrium when the protagonists life is viewed as normal and everyone is happy, where as in my film is not apparent as it is not a fixed structure seeing at the film starts of with an disequilibrium where the audience are already witness the action of the of teenagers and young people taking drugs. I started it this way as it did not want the audience to lose sense of the reality of the dangers, therefore the audience will experience many teenagers doing harm to themselves ion stead of starting with seeing the actors getting ready etc. therefore the use of juxtaposing the characters and moving images helped to create a chaotic montage of rebellious teenagers
moreover I am also proud of the footage that I have recorded of the
I have also learn the values of each
camera techniques as in the film I understand that by using different shots
in the film will help add character as well as good structure to the scene as
the audience would not be left bored as they would be excited and willing to
know what will happen in the next upcoming scenes. In equal importance I have
also learnt about when “lighting” is useful in a film, for example I know that
my using chiaroscuro in a particular scene in my film will add as well as
heighten the audience’s anticipation for the films outcome, this to be helps
establish a nice and very broad outcome for the film as there is a range of
different structural scene that intertwine beautifully between each other that
helps creates a graceful and musical flair in the scene , with the help of
natural lighting and as well bight and colourful lighting that helps add effect
to the footage. This will then allow the audience to visualise what it would
and will be like to be at the clubs and the partying atmosphere as, the film
creates a sense of wildness around the actors on the screen.
All in all I think that I have done the main and axillary task to the best of my ability as I have covered the main possible aspects:
- I have covered the main research tasks to the best of my ability.
- I done call sheets that cater to each scene of the media product, main task as well as creating an ident for the film product that I am proud of as it gives my film a unique quality and originality for my media footage that are also found in films.
- However if I had more time to plan for my main task, I would have made and produce my own sound tract material in the music studio so that I had my very own original track for my media product.
