Over the past week we have been looking at different things we need in our small project coming up, we have look at what shots and angles we should use in our project, as i took GCSE Media last year i have a advantage as i have already learned these rules such as the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is where you keep the person you are recording a 1/3rd of the way down, here is an example in a picture.
We also looked at more types of shots like the typical ones long-shot mid-shot and close up this are exactly what they sound like a long-shot is where you can see the whole of the thing/person you are taking a shot at but doesn't show that much detail but each on of these shots goes into more detail as the mid-shot shows half of the person but you can see them more clearly and more of what they are doing and a close up is showing you as much detail as possible, these shots are really important in movies as they can change the atmosphere of the movie as the close up can show if someone is scared by their face sweating and their facial expression.
We also looked at different angles such as high angle and low angle, the difference between these two are that a high angle shows the person as weaker as we are looking down at them but a low angle shows the person as stronger or more powerful, these shots are typically used in horror movies to show who is the antagonist and protagonist. The high angle could also mean something else such as someone being sad over something they have lost or done and this is the same as the low angle as this can show someone who has won or triumphed someone they have done.
More shots are the shot reverse shot which also goes with the 180 degree rule where you stay on one half of the side the people are facing but the shot reverse shot is where person A is speaking so the camera is over person B left shoulder than when the person speaking swaps the camera goes over persons A right shoulder, this way the camera stays on one side and doesn't cross between the to characters as this would cause confusion for the audience. The shot reverse shot is commonly used when there is talking involved such as an interrogation where the investigator questions the suspect
Match on action is where the scene runs smoothly as it has to match such as if i was opening a door we would record the door opening but when we go on the other side of the door the door must be in the same exact position as it was in the first shot to make the scenes run smoothly because if i open the door fully on the first shot than the second shot it was partly closed it would make no sense, in my opinion this rule is probably harder than the rest to complete but if you take multiple shots of the door opening and edit it, it wont be that much of a problem.
We have also learned not to undershoot and always overshoot as if we undershoot and we don't like parts that we recorded than we have to go out and record them again but if we shoot them a couple times we can see what one we like and whats ones we don't so that way we can pick the best of the bunch and we most likely wont have to waste our time to record again, this way we can concentrate on putting our project together.
Over the past week we have been story-boarding our plan where we have to record someone opening a door, walking across the room and talking to someone, what we did was we made a plan before of what we are going to say and what we are going to do and we put it all together on the storyboard, the storyboard is very important and we must strictly stay with it and what it says we must do as if we don't we will get confused and we wont know what we are doing and most likely fail so we must strictly stick with what we have done.
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