In Media Studies we have all produced a short video using
the media studies video camera given to make sure we could process and
familiarise our self with the workings of the camera, the different and varied
camera angles, and our terrible acting skills.
The story that my group (Georgia, me-Ruby, Andrew and
Sophie) had decided to capture was a story called ‘Andrew Fails’; the main
character (Andrew) was a dedicated dancer, who thought him-self great and
successful at his chosen pursuit; where his naivety and arrogance is the cause
of his ‘downfall’; this can be seen in the way he presents him-self as he walks
at the beginning. Andrew presents him-self to the head judge (Ruby) who leads
Andrew to the dance hall for him to present his dancing to judge Ruby and also
Georgia, to try and pursue a place in the Royal Dance Academy. However, Andrew’s dancing is ‘shocking’
to the judges, who think that the performance was ‘not good enough’ and he has
to go away and re-think his performance before trying to peruse his dancing
again; the story finishes on a tilt with cuing music to end the scene.
The listed shot types and camera movements that were
included were: Close-up, Tilt, Long Shot, Tracking Shot, Middle Shot, and
Vertical Pan. The shots that we did not include were: Crane, Extreme Close-up,
Low Angle, High Angle, Panoramic Shot, Extreme Long Shot, Point Of View, and
Over The Shoulder. We did not include all of the camera shots, however we were
limited to time, on the time allocated for filming people were not in, and the
availability of where we could and was filming was very limited, hence the
background noise in the actual film.
The ‘thinking’ behind each shot. The shots that we used all
have a reason for as to why they were used. Close-up was a shot to focus on
Andrew’s face as he was told his news that his dancing was not good enough,
Tilt was used to focus and capture Andrew’s initial emotions as to just hearing
how bad his dancing is for the judges (and still is). Long Shot is used to
capture Andrew’s dancing in which he performs it in a large space, Tracking
shot is used to capture the angle at what Andrew is walking at and focus on how
his walking inhibits his arrogance. Middle Shot is used to focus on the person,
which was where Ruby was giving Andrew his news which makes the audience focus
on what is being said and not what else is going on in the background, and
Vertical Pan was used to show Andrew isn’t aware of the dancing rules of no
footwear at the academy, showing his arrogance at dancing and how bad he is at
it in general. I believe that all of our actions were successful in inhibiting
the movements that we were trying to capture, however, I do wish if possible
that we could of used more shots.
However, I believe for beginners who had just used the camera
for the first time, I believe that we did quite well in the elements of being
able to get the shots together, knowing which shot was which, and the framing
and editing of the shots and the initial editing was what I believe was quite
successful; however I do believe that the actual live filming and the
steadiness of the shots need to be improved on, Sophie did do most of the
filming but there were some points were other characters got the chance to do
some filming i.e. when the camera is focus on Andrew’s dancing.
I believe that the most positive aspects of our over-all
filming was that we all worked together to create our film, all ideas were put
through and that we were efficient at all making sure we had a equal part to
play. As-well as team work concerns I believe that the acting was of an okay
standard, and especially concerning the over-all editing, we all made sure we
understood how the editing process and application worked and that I also
believe that in terms of adding audio, it suited the video appropriately, and
not being out of sync. Improvements are obviously needed such as getting into an
acting role and perhaps not having to improvise all the scenes in the future,
as well as the steadiness of the camera, and especially including more shots,
maintaining a whole scene of filming and perhaps being more efficient in where
about we are filming.
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