Preliminary task

This is my preliminary task. We got into groups of about 4 people to play around with filming and achieving different shots. This developed our skills of filming and editing skills. This task included change on action, shot reverse shot and not breaking the 180 degree rule.

Filming the shots were relatively easy, the more challenging part was editing all the clips we had together to perfect the material we had. This was quite difficult as some of our filming wasn't as on point as we needed it to be. We had a few problems with getting the match on action accurate and to run smoothly so we ended up having to re film parts to improve it. 

Making our film follow the 180 degree rule was easy as we imagined the 'invisible line' and made sure we filmed the correct parts. The conversation at the beginning had a few issues due to the lighting on the second character. Although this was hard to prevent due to the window letting in the light in one direction, although we got the right idea of the shot reverse shot. We also incluough footage to get the exact accurate points to cut and edit together to look professional. 

Improvements that would make if I were to redo this task would be to ensure that the lighting is bright enough in all the shots. I would also make sure that the editing is smooded match on action shots which were slightly trickier to complete to a realistic standard as we had to ensure that the character was moving from one cut to the next smoothly. To do this we recorded more than enther to be the best it can be and make our filming more perfected. Also the end part needs to be made clearer as it is hard to see what has happened to the character, as we didn't actually film her falling over.

3 types of shots

180 degree rule
The 180 Degree Rule is an important aspect of the film grammar. This consists of while filming never taking a shot over a 180 degrees axis. An example of this would be like watching a football game with the runner going to the right and all of a sudden we cut to him running to the left.



Match on action
This is when filming a clip you film a clip and cut from one position to another, usually a slightly different angle. The cutting is so discrete that it is barely noticeable. An example would be a character entering a room, with a first shot of them opening the door from behind and a second showing the person directly facing forwards. However, the position of the door being open is the same in both shots.



Shot reverse shot
This shot is where a character is shown looking at another character followed by a shot of the other character looking back at the first character. This is usually created by using a method called over shoulder reverse shot and over shoulder shot.

Institution

An institution is an organisation, establishment, foundation or society devoted to the promotion of a particular cause or program. It is a worldwide business.

An example of this is:

"Disney Institute is the professional development arm of The Walt Disney Company. Built on the global success of Disney, our solutions engage organizations in time-tested best practices, sound methodologies, and real life business lessons that facilitate corporate culture change."

-taken from the disney website.

Walt Disney is an institution because the company itself owns many other companies, however most of us aren't aware of this. The reason for owning other companies is to cover all aspects of the media industry.

A few of the companies Walt Disney owns is: 

- Touchstone pictures

- Miramax films 

- Hollywood records

- ESPN

- Abc

- Good morning america

Examples of films produced by disney (also touchstone pictures and miramax films):
- The last song
- Pirates of the caribbean 
- Need for speed
- Step up 
- Ella enchanted
- Cinderella

Different camera angle shots

ECU (Extreme close up)

This is a very close up shot to show small detail on an object or a person. The purpose of it is to show a viewer important detail.

CU (Close up)

This shot is like a facial shot, it is more distant than an extreme close up.
The purpose of this shot is to reveal detail to the viewer.

Head and Shoulders
This shot reveals a persons head and shoulders, it is often used on the news as you can still see detail such as lips moving and facial expressions clearly.

MS (Medium shot)

This shot consists of being below the waist up to above the head (leaving some headroom) This way the viewer can see a persons hand actions as well as their facial expressions.

LS (long shot)

A persons entire body is in this shot, this is useful if a persons walking or moving in any way and it is important for the viewer to see the persons body language.

ELS (extra long shot)
This shot is also known as the establish shot. This gives the viewer some perspective of where the character is, and will make it clear what the location/setting is like.

Two shot
This is when two people are in the scene and their interaction is important to the viewer. This is often used to introduce a scene of a conversation or a reaction.

OS (over shoulder shot)
This shot consists of the camera being held over the shoulder of a character to reveal another character. This is usually used in conversation between two characters as it stimulates a view of the subject as seen from the second persons eyes.

Why I chose AS Media

I've always been a very creative person, and i've always been intrigued by the world of Media in which we live in. From a young age I was fascinated by even the simplest forms of technology, simply recording a video on my very first phone would amuse me for hours; not mentioning when I discovered you could pause the video and then resume it. I used to use this to form camera tricks to make illusions like walking into a closet, pausing the video and exiting, then resuming the video and showing that I had disappeared. Throughout my short life i have had the opportunity to experience a snippet of the evolution of technology and the media around us. I chose to study As Media to develop my understanding of the Media industry, and how this influences the way we live. Throughout the course I would like to gain skills such as being able to edit footage to a professional standard and develop my  standard of creativity to excel in this course.