Animatic: Story board for A One Man War

This is a preview of our scenes that we created for our film using our script. These pictures are from our
storyboard which we then used to create a short movie by uploading the pictures from the storyboard onto IMOVIE. I worked on scene 1 and 2 of the storyboard, and two other members from my group worked on the other scenes.

Production: Filming - Day 2

On our second day of filming, we worked on filming for our fourth scene which takes place inside a classroom. Before we could start filming, it was important that we booked a classroom for our scene and it was also important that we informed our actor and the pupils know before hand about the place and time of which our filming was going to take place. Before we could started shooting, it was important to make sure that we only used those particular pupils - who returned their permission slips, to be included in the shooting. We successfully set the camera up and changed the settings of the camera to white balance to get a clearer and professional image. During the shoot, we experimented with different camera movements and angles and I really enjoyed it. Taking lots of clips from different angles allowed us to use a mix of camera angles in our film which could make it more interesting. Overall, this experience allowed me to work more with the actor and the pupils and I had fun. And it also allowed me to build my skills on learning more techniques about using a camera and enabling me to increase my standards of using a camera.

Student consent forms: signed and returned

It was important that we collected the reply slips from the students that wanted to take part in our film. This was because the students were all under age 16 and needed parental consent of being allowed to be featured in a film. After collecting the slips, from the group of students, we had to allocate a  pupil that will be interested in taking a role as a mischievous pupil who throws a paper ball at the teacher.

Research and Planning: Story board

Before starting on our story board, i carried out some research on what story boards are and why they are important in the process of planning for our film. From this video i learnt that a story board is a photography/visual version of the script for our film. A story board is really important as it will help us plan what props will be needed, what type of lighting should be used, what camera angles or shots will be used and important of all, it tells us whats going on in that particular scene. This video also mentions that we should have a 'shot list' - a list of shots that are going to be included in each scene. This is also important, as it will help us be organised and use time efficiently and not waste time on agreeing on what shots should be used. Having a shot list will also enable us to see who's in the shot e.g. the teacher or the students and or teachers and students.

Production: Filming - Day 1

Today my group and I have decided to start filming for the first and second scene of our film. We met up with our actor and started filming a few clips for our scene. We had begun filming for our montage first, so we had to use a gym to get hold of the exercising machines and equipment. Before we started filming, we had decided to practice taking different shots and experimenting with different angles; we also used some time to figure out how to use the camera setting accurately e.g. how to set the white balance. After filming clips for our montage, we then moved on to filming our beginning scene, which takes place in a bathroom. We used a changing room, where we found a suitable sink and mirror for our scene, and it was successful. Overall, today was very exciting, I used a camera for the first time professionally, and I enjoyed using my camera technique skills to help decide on what camera shots and angles we should use.

Schedule for our film and a agreement letter for the premisses manager

As a group we created a schedule to help us prepare for filming. A schedule is very useful as it will help us organise ourselves and find suitable times for us to start filming. In our schedule we included:-

- The date and time of when we will carry out our filming

- The location of where the filming is going to take place - we will need to book it

- The props that will be needed

Schudule For Filming

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It was important to get permission from the premisses manager to that we can work in the school site.

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Research: Camera shots

Before starting filming, i have done some research on crucial camera shot techniques to improve my knowledge on the types of shots that can be used whilst filming. This will also allow me to find out the different  shot composition we can use in our film. This is important as it teaches why how and why a shot should be used.

Final Script; A One Man War

A one man war

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Sample Letter: Students consent form

This letter is for the students to be featured in our film. We need to get their parents consent first because they are all under 16.

Sample Letter: Students consent form

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Actor agreement form: For our lead male role

This letter was created for our chosen lead actor. In order to include him in the film, first we needed his consent.

Actor agreement form

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This is a picture of our lead actor signing the actor agreement form.

Risk assesment

This risk assessment was produced in order to help us to take caution whilst filming because we are going to be held liable for our actors injuries.

Risk assesment

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Production: Opening title:

In our group, we allocated different roles to different people for the production of different parts for our opening film title. Sharing the work helped us use our time more efficiently and allowed us to produce our title at high quality and detail. We were each allocated a role which suited our capabilities. I had the role do produce cracking effects on our title (when the silhouette of the soldier shoots at the film title its shatters like glass). I used the flash software to help me do this, it was surprisingly simple and fun, and it came out really good.

The other members of our group were given different roles, for which they used different software’s for. Khadijah was in charge of animating the movements of soldier, Tahmina had to animate our film tile and Sufia had to draw the key hole and the key.

Overall, all our work came out successful and I can’t wait to put it together.

Research: Lead room shot

The concept ‘lead room’ is used in photography and filmography. A lead room is the space that is left in the image, and it is often used in direction of moving/stationary objects. For example, moving objects such as cars require a lead room because if extra space is allowed in front of a moving car, the viewer can see that it has some place to go. Without the space, the viewer will see that it’s not moving.

Narrative theorists

Narrative theorists

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A poster to attract our main actor

This poster has been created in order to help us attract as many actors as possible for a lead male role in our film. We made the poster eye-catching and simple. We included details - such as our contacts - email address and the age range of an actor we're looking for. We haven't included any information of our film, so we told our actors that they can find out more information if they get in touch. This way, we can provide lots of information about our film and help if they don't understand, rather than stating everything down.

Research on camera settings:

Today a professional cameraman, Yoshtio Derman, came in to teach us about camera settings. As a group we focused on different camera settings; we looked at white balance and how it had an impact on images. White Balance refers to the adjustment in film imaging that corrects the colour balance of the lighting. A digital camera needs to find a reference point which represents white. It will then calculate all the other colours based on this white point. So if the camera knows the wall is supposed to be white, it will then compensate all the other colours in the scene accordingly. White objects will appear white, rather than coloured - e.g. yellow when lit by tungsten filament lights, or excessively blue under sunlight. This is because when an image is shot under different conditions white does not appear white and so, white balance corrects the balance of lighting.

This is the colour temperature - typical light source

Source: http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Digital_Imaging/White_Balance_01.htm

Results from our survey:

Results from our survey

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Practising editing videos

Working in a group we learnt few basic steps of creating a movie. We used some video samples and worked on editing it and putting different transitions into it, order to make it look interesting and visually attractive. I learnt how to cut off unwanted parts of the film; this can be done by first playing the video up until to the bit you want to cut off and then by clicking on snip. This was really convenient as instead of filming the whole scene again; we can just easily just cut off unwanted parts of the film, thus, saving us a lot of time.

As a group, using a video camera, we worked on taking a video of someone from different angles, using different shots and using different camera movements. This was interesting and important as this experience allowed to us to gain an insight of how to work with a camera as it allowed us experiment with different camera angles etc..

Research on the rule of thirds and headroom

Rule of thirds:

This technique is going to be really useful to us as it will come in handy when we take different shots. The rule of three is a composition technique. The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine dividing an image into nine equal parts, then dividing the image into two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. By placing an image at these points, you can make your image well balanced and less busy. It also helps a viewer naturally move through an image and also help you tighten the composition of your pictures.

Headroom:

The headroom refers to the distance between the top of the subject's head and the top of the frame. This is done to include the sense of space on both sides of the image. If the headroom is too little then this shot will make viewers feel uncomfortable, as the top of the screen is pressing down on his head. A good headroom is when there is adequate space above the person to make it look comfortable. The person’s eyes should be 1/3 down from the top. Too much of the headroom will show too much space above the person.

Working with animations - learning basic steps

As a group we have been working on how to create animations for our film title and production name. So, in order to create successful animations, we learnt how to use software called ‘flash’. This software is going to be very useful for us as it will help us create animations. From the help of an animation specialist, in groups we first worked on a few simple steps of creating basic animations.

With the help of the animation specialist we learnt how to create motion animations. First of all, before importing an animation it was important to insert a key frame (if you wanted your animation to last for 2 seconds, you have to place your key frame on the ruler marked 24) After inserting the key frame, we needed to use the selection tool; using the selection tool we then had to click on a shape tool to make and an oval. After doing this, it was important that we then click on modify to convert the shape to a symbol. After completing the first stage, it was important to keep in mind that every time we wanted to create the next step for an animation we had to click on ‘insert key frame’ – in order to create a moving picture. Lastly, it was also important to help the animation move smoothly, so in order to make this happen, using the selection tool we had to click on the previous key frame and then click on properties and click on tween motion.

We also learnt how to create shape animation. You first had to insert a key frame, using the selection tool, draw a shape – modify the shape into a symbol, insert another key frame and draw another shape using the same instructions and then go to properties – instead of clicking on motion, you had to click on shape. This allowed the shape to re-form into different shapes. We also looked at how to include special effects – you just follow the same instructions above, go to properties and you can click on different colour techniques such as alpha, or you can just hold down the shift button and re-scale shapes in proportion.

It was really important for our group to understand the key aspects of creating animations as we will need to use it to create our production name and an animation for our opening film title. This experience was exhilarating and I look forward to learning more about creating animations and further developing my skills.

Planning for the script

As a group we worked on how to produce our script perfectly by including all key elements of script writing. It is really important that our script is concise as we have to produce a 5 minute film. In our group, we talked about how actions speak better than words, and we decided that we should keep our dialogue short and let actions speak rather than the character talking about how they feel. We are going to show the characters emotions through actions and this is really effective as the audience will be anxious to find out how a particular character is feeling, so this will mean they will have to focus and look at the actions of the character-creating flair and moving the story forward. When we write a narrative description, we have to make sure that the writing is visual. Our film is going to be 5 minutes long, so, this means that our script will need to 5 pages. If the actions in a particular scene that we include in our film last for a minute, then we will need to produce a page of script for that scene.

All the key elements of script writing include, the slug line-otherwise known as the heading which helps by giving a short brief of the details of the setting of the scene. This is composed into three parts, including exterior and interior, location and time of day.

An example will be – INTERIOR, DON’S LIVING ROOM- DAY

Special scene heading is a heading used when the script alternates between different time periods. – January 1966 or Spring 194.

We found out that when a character is speaking, you have to put the characters name in capital letters etc. An example will be:

- Character speaking: Johnny

- Johnny (Silently)

- Dialogue: …..

We came across many editing styles such as Montage which means, when there are short clips of the film which indicate a series of short related scenes. Continuous editing is when you use a sequence of scenes that have a clear connection; are linked to one another. An intercut is when scenes take place in more than one location-this is often used with telephone calls, one person may be talking from London; whilst the other person may be talking from New York. A split screen is also used to show the intercut between two scenes.

Audience/Research Survey targeting our audience

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Evaluation on a short film based on Drama

I have done a review on a piece drama I watched. This is very relevant as, this will help me plan for our film that we are going to produce. By looking at this piece of drama, it will allow me to find out what conventions are used in drama films and if the film challenges any conventions of drama. I used the BBC Film Network to search for a film of my particular choice, in this case I am going to search for a film based on drama because our group has decide to make a film based on comic-drama.

The short film is called ‘Mud Boy’ written and directed by Nic Penrake and produced by Anit Bashar. The film is based on a working-class family. The film is about a traumatised young girl who makes a disturbing and chilling discovery at the bottom of her garden. I have chosen this film because the title of the film seems very interesting and makes me feel anxious to find out what this piece of drama is about. The film contains very strong language and disturbing scene that may me inappropriate for younger viewers, I believe it may be certificated as 12A.

The film opens with a master shot which reveals the entire dramatised scene. We are immediately shown a mysterious object (a shovel) in the middle of the garden and in the background there are diegetic sounds of two people talking. At first the conversation sounds unclear as there is a lot of chatter and eventually their conversation gets clearer. The conversation seems to be between a man and a woman as they are accusing each other for something. This creates an impact on the audience as it helps reel the audience in the film so that they can find out what’s happening in order to get a clear picture of what the conversation is about. It’s interesting how the camera focuses on the shovel whilst we hear a glimpse of the characters conversation, this immediately creates a connection. This is really affective as it creates suspense and tension on the audience as they will feel eager to find out what’s happening.

The close-up shot presents the first character of a young girl. The close-up shot reveals her facial expressions that show she is frightened. This makes the audience feel sympathy for her. From a low-angle, from the young girl’s perspective (making her look inferior compared to her parents); we are then introduced to two other characters. The over-the-shoulder shot shows both characters. Both look like a working-class couple family. The man uses a lot of foul words on his speech as he talks to the women. He is dressed in a vest and some trousers and his hair is messed up, this allows the audience to make assumptions of him being drunk, being mentally un-stable with anger issues. This is significant as the director uses various elements to construct a bad representation of this character. This makes the audience feel anxious to find out why. The other character, the women, is constantly accusing the man of seeing her son last and from this statement we find out that her son is missing. This builds a lot of tension and anxiety on the audience.

The film begins with conflict from the start and in the middle it reaches a climax. This is when Mina runs off to the back of the garden to avoid the yelling and cursing of her parents. She plays by herself imitating the argument between her mum and her mum’s boyfriend. As Mina plays with her toys she accidentally unearths her brother’s grave. Failing to accept that he is dead, Mina make-believes her brother Jamie is alive and starts to do all she can to clean him up and bring him inside again. When the police arrive, they find the dead Jamie, but to Mina Jamie is now roaming free in the garden.

Drama films mostly depend on the in-depth development of realistic characters who are dealing with emotion situations etc. This film uses conventions of drama by including conflict between to characters, it’s based on crime, there’s a climax point and everything is dramatic.

The ending is really tragic because the secrets unravel a chilling truth, we find out that the women’s boyfriend had buried her son in the back-garden and he then gets convicted. There’s a twist at the end as the audience probably thought that Jamie lives and he is found but we find out that the little girl make-believes that her brother is alive. When the police arrive, they find the dead Jamie, but to Mina, Jamie is now roaming free in the garden.

In general, this film happened to be really tragic, emotional and dramatic. The director cleverly structured this film well, as the film kept me as an audience completely engaged with the urge to find out what will happen next. The hook at the beginning was really effective as it had an impact on me as an audience; I was reeled into the film having constant suspense on what was happening. I learnt a lot by watching this piece of drama, as it helped me understand what type of conventions drama films use and how they use it so that it has an impact on the audience. I importantly learnt how to reel our audience in our film to keep them engaged and interested in finding out what will happen next; with the constant anxiety and suspense.

Research on the Internet Movie Data base (IMDB)

What is IMDB?

IMDB stands for Internet Movie Data base. It was first known as a hobby project by an international group of movie fans. IMDB is a huge collection of movie information. They try to catalogue every relevant detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web. They then do our best to present this information in a manner that is convenient and easy to access for their viewers.

What does it do?

IMDB offers its viewers information about the latest movie releases, trailers to movies and other useful information about movies. It also lets viewers watch TV clips and episodes. They also include news about celebrities, featured news and movie news etc. They have message boards where viewers can discuss about films, awards and TV episodes. As you can see from the following, IMDB offers their viewers a great variety of entertainment features that will be very appealing to them.

This is the plan for our script

Numero Uno - ‘One Man War’

Locations:

• Bedroom
• Bathroom
• Gym
• Streets – travelling scene
• Classroom

Costume:

• Pyjamas
• Gym clothes – e.g. tracksuits, top etc.
• Suit – smart, work attire
• School uniform – students in classroom

Props:

• Teddy bear
• Alarm clock
• Boxing set
• Rucksack
• Paper planes and paper balls

Actors/actresses:

- Main character – Mr Williams

- Class of students

Script: Scene one: A man is sleeping in his bedroom, the alarm clock goes off. He switches it off; he rests his head in his hands. [ sound- breathing heavily ] [ Screen goes black, sound of brushing teeth and washing face ] – Numero Uno (logo) presents ‘One Man War’

Screen re-appears of the man looking at the mirror, resting both his hands on the basin. (Expression – apprehensive, slightly scared)

Scene two:

[Music starts – ‘Eye of the Tiger’] He starts working out in gym or bedroom/ skips scene to getting dressed in bedroom. Crane shot to show him dressed. [ Music stops when door closes as he leaves house. ]

Scene three:

[Travelling, siren as police car goes past] Camera shots: establishing shot of London, high angle shot, shot of his shoes walking, establishing shot of school.

Scene four:

[Point of view shot, sound of heart beating] – Man holds door handle, a window on the door shows screaming children throwing paper planes and paper balls.

Man: It’s time.

[Opens door] It is now silent. Panning shot reveals the children [Camera –eye line view] Camera shows faces of children looking innocent.

Man: [nervous] okay, class, i don’t want any trouble today. Let’s get started. [Man starts writing on board; a paper ball hits him in the back of the head]

Students: [Laugh loudly]

Screen goes black, Eye of the tiger music. Finishing credits.

THE END.

Research on genre: Drama

I have done some research on the genre we will be working on for our film. This research on drama had helped me understand on what conventions drama use etc..

Presentation on Drama

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Preview of our opening title

This has been produced using Photoshop. This is a preview of how our opening title will look like-as you can see our production name will first appear on the screen with the word 'presents' below. On the right is the name of our film that is going to be appearing right after our production name.

BBFC Presentation

I have done research on the British board of film classification to find out what we will need to exclude from our film to make it suitable for a young audience.

Source: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

BBFC Presentation

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Description of the opening of our film:

The opening starts as a gold screen with a white number one. A key enters the number one (symbolising the key latch) and it appears as if a door is opening outwards with a creaking sound. Behind the door, there is a black screen with the ‘Numero Uno’ logo. The ‘Numero Uno’ logo is in Edwardian script. It also has a yellowish-gold border.

‘Presents A one man War’ is in Bodoni SVTY and appears on the screen through apparent typing with a white line flashing after the typing. All the writing is in white. There is also a white silhouette of a soldier on the right of ‘One man war,’ slightly bigger than the font. The white soldier moves his gun barrel towards the screen and shoots, the screen cracks and crumbles.

Planning for the script

Today I focused on writing an interesting script. I thought it would best to keep our script simple because we had to produce a five-minute film. Therefore, keeping the script simple will be reasonable as the film only needs to last for five-minute maximum. As a group we discussed that we should keep our dialogue short and make actions speak and this will help make the film look interesting. The opening of the script is really important because we have to make sure we reel our audience in. Opening a script with a hook is very crucial as it will help keep our audience interested, engaged and it will raise curiosity. The setting should be familiar so that we can relate to it. We had to also think about how we were going to end our script, whether there we were going to have a happy ending or a sad ending, or an ending with a twist.

Beginning- planning and research

Today we have been given a brief; to produce a five minute film to entertain a teen audience. To gather information about the interests of teenagers, I will need to do planning and research on what kind of films they will be interested in. In our group of four, we had a short discussion about what be believed would be the best genre for our teen audience. From our own experience as teenagers we decided that comedic drama will interest our audience. We came up with our production name called ‘Numero Uno’ which means number one.

In our group we had to come up with a story relating to our genre. We thought of many stories but finally decided on one story which is going to be about a teacher who will be preparing to go a class like a solider preparing to go into war. The message that we want to put across is that the students are mischievous and not as innocent as they appear.

We have allocated roles to individuals in our group by carefully understanding which role will best suit whom. The creative director will be allocated to Thamina; we have decided that we should all contribute to writing the script, this way we will get to finish our script on time. Sufia has been allocated to as being the props manager; she will need to take care of what the actors will be wearing and what other props will be needed in order to make our film visually eye-catching and realistic. I have been chosen to produce and create the story board; I can choose based on my creativity and artist skills to carry out this process. The locator manger has been allocated to everyone; we can look for particular locations and then repeat back to take group. Khadiha was been allocated as being the actor/scout manager, she will need to look for appropriate actors and make sure that the actors come on time and attend every secession.

Film Institution-Warner Brothers

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Photography - Lesson Two

In our second photography lesson, we had a chance to go through the pictures that we took last time. We looked through pictures that our peers took and tried to describe why they took such pictures. We learnt that the meaning behind pictures is an important aspect and therefore, before you take any pictures you had to be sure about the reasons why your taking a picture and such. As we went through our groups pictures, we spotted many mistakes that our coordinator helped us spot. There were common mistakes such as the pictures were blurred most of the time, the camera angle and positioning was wrong, we didn't really understand why we took such pictures and clearly we should've took the professional photographers comments into consideration. He told us that the importance of taking pictures is that you spend time on visual aspects before taking a picture and to be sure that its meaningful - and that it's better to take fewer pictures that have meaning put into it than lots of unnecessary pictures which are meaningless.

However, we did come across lots of interesting pictures. In order to improve taking good pictures that will grab attention, appeal to everyone and allow people to think about it, we learnt new techniques on how to improve taking more quality pictures. We looked at the camera positioning and camera angles - all in which would contribute to taking a quality picture.

Short film review - "The way we played"

I have written a review on a piece of drama I watched called ‘The way we played’ which is set in Bosnia during a war. It is about two boys playing in the spring sunshine. They pretend to be pirates and look for treasure at a nearby abandoned hill fort. Instead of gold they find guns which causes an argument between the friends which mirrors the conflict moving ever closer to their door. When Stevo discovers his father, a soldier in the Serb army, has instructions to kill Muslims in the village he sneaks out to warn his friend.

Both boys are unaware of the danger that is going to take place over night that will change their lives forever. What one of the boys doesn’t know is that his best friend is not going to survive the night. This short film is aimed at children aged 12 years and over, this is because there are some disturbing scenes that will be unsuitable for children. This film was founded by UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Scottish Screen.

There are various techniques used to create a representation of the two boys. The mise en scene helps to create a representation of the two boys. Both boys are wearing light coloured cloths; the light colours can connate their innocence and this can also emphasise their vulnerability and naivety that is going to be linked to the situation that is going to take place.

The scene begins with an establishing shot revealing the scenery. The camera shot reveals lots of green land and then at a medium shot it reveals two rows of men performing prayer. There is diegetic music in the background of the Adhan (Call to prayer), this is significant as it adds realism to the atmosphere where the men are praying.

There are many establishing shots of the two boys playing in the green hills of Bosnia; the two shot helps establish a relationship between the two boys and that they are equally important in the film. When the boys are talking, the over the shoulder shot of the camera reveals each of the boy’s perspectives-this helps the audience to look at their emotions, thoughts and gestures. The cinematography is very significant in portraying ideas of the boys; for example the bird’s eye view shot is used to show the inferiority of the two boys and the two shot helps show the relationship between the two boys.

Later on in the film, Stevo wakes up after having a bad dream. Lighting is used-such as low key lighting to set the mood for the atmosphere. The room is dark and the audience can only focus on the boys face; with the camera at a close up. The room looks blurred because of the darkness which can connate confusion, uncertainty and uneasiness, all in which could reflect the boy’s mood.

At a later scene, Stevo finds out that his dad is going to go and kill Muslims in their neighbourhood - including his best friend’s family. The non-diegetic and diegetic music combined together creates dramatic music. There are sounds of house burning and sounds of broken glass shattering and the non-diegetic music contributes to the uneasiness of the situation.

The solders kill Ramiz’s family. Stevo runs away and comes across dead people, around burning houses-with the thought that his best friend is no longer alive. The camera at tracking shot follows Stevo as he runs to the hay fields and sits down all curled up. This shows that he is very frightened. The camera at a long shot focuses on the posture of the boy which reveals that he is terrified as his moving backward and forward. The lights then slowly fade and the screen turns blank. This is significant as it allows the audience to think about what happened and build sympathy for the little boy, which seemed hopeless.

The cinematography, sound, lighting and mise en scene have all contributed to create a representation of the two boys. The techniques have also helped to put across key ideas and views. There are many ideas that are put forward about friendship for example friendship is really precious. It was very effective that the two boy’s relationship was used to tell a story about the war in Bosnia as it built more sympathy and remorse.

Job roles in film production

Job roles in film production by Salma Begum 12 a2

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AS COURSE WORK - VOICE FM

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Photography - Lesson One

Today we had a professional photographer come in to our school to teach us important skills that we needed to adopt in order to make our pictures unique and interesting. We looked through couple of pictures that were taken by famous photographers, such as Diane Arbus. Her pictures were usually black and white which could represent memories of the past and because it was in black and white it made it look unusual and stand out from together pictures and made it look interesting. We then took our own digital camera's and took pictures of different things; I made my pictures interesting by taking pictures of unusual objects at different angles. I found this experience very exciting as I enjoyed taking pictures of different things and also I learnt how to analyse pictures and learn skills about taking pictures.

Introduction To Advance Production

My first impression about this A2 Media course is that it's seems very interesting as there is a lot of interactivity involved in this course. I think I am going to enjoy this course as I can use my creativity and artistic skills to produce a totally unique production. Looking back at last year's work, I have seen very impressive work from students that I enjoyed watching. The video clips and blogs they have produced really impressed me as it showed lots of dedication and achievement that they put in their work. I am therefore looking forward to this course to further develop my skills and learn new techniques about how to produce a video.