28/01/10

In this lesson, we had to continue to planning of our film creation.

Filmmaking can be lengthy with initial scriptwriting, editing, directing and shooting come difficulties, which is why it is important to plan. So we formed a plan of what needed doing, following a obvious guide on how create our film:

Firstly, we have to consider development. In development we have to produce a script, storyboard or some other form of blueprint to guide the filming process.
Considerations for things such as mise-en-scene, lighting, camera and editing should be made.

Secondly, we have pre-production, we select settings for certain scenes and we must organize who would fulfil roles in crew and cast.

Thirdly, we must produce the film. Filming is finished and all shots are recorded ready for editing.

Fourthly, we post-produce the film. Editing would be performed and special effects and titles will be added.

As Part of the development stage, we decided to plan all aspects of film production: mise-en-scene, lighting, sound, editing and camera.

Lighting
As we were producing an amateur film, we decided to incorporate high-key lighting throughout.
The benefit of incorporating these high-key lights is that it does not involve modification for every scene; as a result it allocates the production to finish the recording in hours as an alternative to the lengthy period of days. However, the principal disadvantage is that high-key lighting are unsuccessful in including feeling or atmosphere by lighting particular scene more highly than other scenes.

Mise-en-scene
The Mise-en-scene is a French term which means “put in the scene” or “aspects of the scene”. In Film, its meaning is vast including composition and framing, sets, props, acting and lighting. In cinema, anything which is incorporated into the shot and the arrangement of it has been produced for a reason, to create representations and to allow the audience to generate ideas on the action on screen automatically, without being introduced to the narrative.
In this amateur production, mise-en-scene was considered, although it is not in depth. Setting was crucial, in order to provide the subject with a circumstance, we will use certain props and sets to exemplify particular meanings. Moreover framing will be considered, it will be used to demonstrate relationships between certain subjects.

Camera
As previously mentioned we aim to use a variety of the following to create a more interesting production, as well as to create representations for our audience;
Long shots: A long shot is a shot which demonstrates a large or various subjects and the surroundings of that subject. An extreme long shot is commonly when the camera is a far away as possible from the subject, further emphasizing the background of the shot. Long shots often put emphasis on the circumstances of the subject themselves, it is useful as an establishing shot.

Establishing shot: An opening shot which normally depicts a general view of the scene or a distant exploration of the circumstance or setting of the action.

Medium shots: A medium shot depicts the waist up of a standing subject, it can be used to demonstrate emotion or draw attention to body language. Furthermore it can be used to portray power through particular framing of medium shots.

Close Ups: A close up is a shot which depicts a small segment of the scene, providing greater detail on a subjects facial expression (depicting emotion)or possibly placing further importance on an object of great importance to the scene. It is also useful in reaction shots, high angles and low angles can demonstrate power and dominance in the scene.


Zooming: Zooming is the process where the camera does not physically move, however a subject is magnified and is emphasized by the camera, making it appear important.Zooming out however reveals an increased image of the scene, emphasizing the circumstance of the subject rather than the subject themselves.

Following Pan: A tripod is required to produce this effect in a steady way. A following pan is where the camera follows a subject, it is useful in establishing relationship with their destination. Moreover the speed of the pan can be used to portray the mood of the subject and the atmosphere of the circumstance.

Tilt: The tilt is the vertical movement of the camera, can be used to portray dominance and power.

Tracking or Dolly shots: A tracking shot incorporates the camera moving away or toward a subject. Tracking can create emotional distances between the subject and the audience. It can also change to focus of the scene by simply focusing an another aspect of the scene.

A hand-held camera: The hand held effect generates a more unsteady and amateur production effect. Additionally i can be used to create chaos or danger, this effect is Incorporated in "The Blair witch Project".

Editing
We aim to keep editing to a minimum. With certain effects incorporated to produce particular emotions and reactions. Continuous editing will be the main feature of our production with reaction shots, cutting, matched cuts, alternating cutting rhythms and rates and cutaways will be incorporated. Additionally some elliptical editing maybe be integrated. Titles and text may be incorporated in the editing process.

Sound
Synchronous diegetic sound will feature heavily in our production, as the this simple clip won’t require non-diegetic sound features.