4-Month Reflection

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Piper High

In the beginning of the year, I was placed in a class called "Aice Media Studies". This class has been nothing but a mere imagination. This class is intriguing, but challenging. The knowledge I will gain from this class will be something nobody else will know. We've been over a multitude of different concepts such as, Mise en Scene, Camera Framing, Camera Shots, Color in film, etc.. All of these will be beneficial to me when I have to complete my 3 components. This class is one of the harder classes but I will get through it.

Shot Sizes

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Piper High

From this assignment, I learned how to plan a storyboard frame, Understand ways in which media language incorporates viewpoints and ideologies, learn how audiences respond to and interpret media language  understand the impact of developing technologies on media language and grasp how combinations of media language generate meaning.

For this assignment I worked with 3 people. We created a physical shot sizes storyboard in class. Our storyboard consists of a couple who went ghost hunting in a spooky abandoned cemetery. They were both a little on edge about it, but the boiling point was when they heard footsteps, they did a little investigating, then the footsteps got closer. Then it stopped, they then heard hard breathing and panting, they turned around and BOOOMM, there was a creepy man covered in blood. The picture below is a photographic example of what we created:

Camera Angles

 KahiBlogs123

Piper High

In this assignment I learned how to use camera angles to create a storyboard. The objective of this assignment is: 

• Understand ways in which media language incorporates viewpoints and ideologies. 
•  How audiences respond to and interpret media language.
•  The impact of developing technologies on media language
•   How combinations of media language generate meaning.

So what are camera angles? Camera angles are the perspectives a director chooses to capture with a video camera when filming a scene. In this assignment, we created a physical storyboard depicting the different types of camera angles.

The image below is a display of the physical copy:

I worked on this assignment with 3 other people.

Introduction to Camerawork Warm-Up Preliminary Exercise 6: Camera Angles

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Piper High

Camera angles are a key concept anyone in film should know. There are 8 different types of camera angles I had to take notes on in class:

Shot #1: Low Angle (LA):Below eye-line looking up. Used to Make character look powerful. E.G (Super Heroes ; Super Villains)

Shot #2: High Angle (HA): Used to diminish a character and also used to present cities or big landscapes.

Shot #3: Overhead Shot: Directly above a subject, shooting STRAIGHT down.

Shot #4: Dutch Angle: Shots are a Rotated. 

Shot #5: Eye Level (EL): Most commonly used. Does not impose judgement.

Shot #6: Hip Level Shot: It is also called the cowboy shot because in western movies, it is commonly used to show a gun or weapon on the holster of a cowboy.

Shot #7: Knee Level Shot: Shows character details.

Shot #8: Ground Level Shot: Finds camera place all the way down on the ground. Low Angle.

The image below represents photographical examples:

Introduction to Camerawork Warm-Up Preliminary Exercise 6: Shot Sizes

 KahiBlogs123

Piper High

In film, The term shot sizes means how much of the scene is included in the picture, and whether it mainly shows the setting, people in the setting, or details of faces and things. There are 9 different types of camera shots we had to take notes on in class. 

Shot #1: Establishing Shot (ES): Wide enough to establish the geography, time of day and setting. Usually found in the beginning of a movie.

Shot #2: Master Shot (MS): Captures everything happening in the scene and confirms relationships with other characters in the movie.

Shot 3: Wide Shot (WS): Positions characters far from each other ; feeling of loneliness.

Shot #4: Full Shot (FS): When a subject or character’s shot is captured in he entire frame.

Shot #5: Medium Full Shot (MFS): Captures a character from the top of their head just below their waist.

Shot #6: Medium Shot (MS): Captures size in which we interact with each other.

Shot #7: Medium Close Up (MCU): It captures the viewer’s attention and reduces distraction. 

Shot #8: Close Up (CU): At eye level

Shot #9: Extreme Close Up (ECU): Highlight and isolate something crucial to the narrative.

The image below is an example of shot sizes I created.

In this assignment I learned what shot sizes are, and how that are used. Using the right Shot Sizes are crucial for filmmaking because you wouldn’t want to have an ECU shot for a WS shot.

Introduction to Color in Film Preliminary Exercise 5: Primary Colors: Yellow

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Piper High

 The color yellow can signify, wisdom, knowledge, or even, hazard, sickness, insecurity, etc.. Yellow is a warm color.

My 3 teammates created a PowerPoint featuring a the different types of color and their meanings and their connotations. The image below is a physical image of the PowerPoint slide:

Introduction to Color in Film Preliminary Exercise: Cool Colors

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Piper High

Cool colors are typically violets, blues and greens. Cool Colors are generally used in science films Maurer mysteries and suspense films. Cool Colors can signify calming and soothing as well sadness.

I worked with 3 other people on  this assignment.

In the image below, you can get a effect glimpse of what cool colors is and an example from the 2015 movie Inside Out.

The objective of this assignment was to showcase my skills on analyzing color in film. In this assignment, I learned that color can set the mood of a scene and also modify the tone of a scene.