PRELIMINARY EXERCISES

Establishing shot

This sets the scene and the environment and gives the audience an insight into the characters background information and location of the character, This shot helps to develop a bigger picture. In this shot it set the scene for a cloudy, calm day but is juxtaposed with the palm trees which is associated with a hot country.

Mid Shot

Mid shots are mainly used to convey emotion because it is far enough from the subject to capture these emotions aswell as body langauge, In this particular image you can see my dog is happy and can also see if he was to have any particular movements

Close up

This shot allows for finer detail of the subject and emphasises facial expression and eye movement, this is commonly used as a dramatic device and to put focus on the particular subject. 

Two Shot

Used when filming two people, this is more commonly used in interviews portrayed on platforms such as the news. In this type of shot the two people are the main focus and usually have some sort of relation between them.

Three shot

Similar to two shot however taken with three people, used for focusing on a group of people and there relation. In this shot it is filmed to establish the togetherness of the trio and to interest the audience by featuring more than one character.

Over the shoulder shot

This shot is used to give the perspective of another person, the back of the shoulder and head are used as a frame for the image. In this shot it is clearly shown what the subject is looking at and gives a more interesting angle for the audience as it differentiates from a mid shot.

Continuity editing

Lockdown montage - continuity exercise 

• Firstly, we watched the Delicatessen title sequence and studied over it and how it was effective at putting across the story and the different camera shots and angles used
• I also watched To kill a mockingbird 's opening title which has a similar structure to delicatessen. But a different use of misé-en-scene and dramatic music combined with a black and white filter 
• Then In our groups we used this as inspiration for creating our own title sequence, to start with we set up a misè-en-scene set with the props from our prop collection which included mostly old fashioned items to fit the theme such as old photographs of a young couple, pearls, a lace dress and then to portray the characters struggle with addiction we used a bottle of wine and poured this into a glass and some white powder to convey drug addiction also.
  
  
  
• We recorded our title sequence using the background music; Nostalgia by Emily Barker
• Then we began to film the title sequence using a snaking technique with Canon cameras and trailing with different lighting
• Next, we filmed our live action section by using a door and incorporating some of our theme from our title sequence into this. In our case this was someone struggling with addiction so brought out a wine bottle from our prop collection to film with
• After filming this we edited this all together in iMovie and added the music 
• Then we checked through by watching it once, after this we began adding our names in various places of the title sequence and added a film company called 'moonshine studios' and towards the end we worked together to come up with a good title and then put the title of our film in the middle at the beginning in a bold font. We used an old fashioned cursive font for the credits to carry on the theme of our sequence.
• Overall, the whole process went pretty well, we managed to get a smooth tracking over all the objects. However, we did face some difficulty in making sure the edge of the table was not in the shot and making sure to remember to focus on different parts. The live action went well and we were able to get the perfect film after a few different attempts.

Our title sequence