Sunday, 21 October 2012

Title Sequence Excercise On The Movie 'Crave'

This exercise shows the the structure of the title sequence of the film 'Crave'.
This Task is to help show us roughly how a title sequence should be/is structured and to help show us how meticulous the planning needs to be to create one of a good quality.
This exercise can be used as a visual reference when we to help facilitate our ideas and film ambitions. This will especially help when it comes to the post production editing stage.

Friday, 19 October 2012

OCR Preliminary Task Evaluation

In my preliminary task we accomplished the three rules
- 180 degree rule,
this was done unconventionally as our video is mainly at a fast pace and we utilised the full range of movements of the rule
- Match on action,
The act was the theft of a laptop in a public place and then running to evade capture, the music I believe fits well with the overall tone of the video.
-  Shot reverse shot,
this rule was repeated and used slightly differently, the first use of it was very typical quick backwards and forwards action. The last use of it was each shot was slightly elongated.

Critisisms:
- I Belive the shots were slightly to shakey.
- We didnt take enough shots so when it came to the editing section I had to cut the same shots into fragments and reorganise them so it gave the impression that we had incorporated many shots into the video.
- I dont belive the camera we used was upto the job as it was quite small and very small input of movement showed hugely in each shot.

Monday, 15 October 2012

OCR Preliminary Task

I made this preliminary task In a group with Alexandra Higgs, we wanted to stray from the generic Preliminary task videos which we found all tended to have lost any sort of distinction between them. We used a 1080p Flip Fino Camera and a bicycle to mimic a dolly shot. It was edited with iMovie for Macbook Pro and gave us our first taste and practice of using the editing software. The sound track is 'Jus A Rascal' By Dizzee Rascal, and it was chosen because we believed it fitted very well with our video.
We chose our actor 'Mamoun Elagab' due to his previous acting experience and he was the most comfortable candidate in front of the camera. 

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

180 degree rule

The 180 degree rule is a film makers rule that aids continuity. there is an imaginary line in the scene which the camera cannot cross. For example if there are two people walking down the line towards each other, the camera could not cross to the other side and it would reposition how we would see the actors and could potentially ruin the continuity for the audience.
 I found this video to aid my explanation.




Match on action

Match on action means when something happens in the scene, then when there is a cut the same piece of action must be going on. This is also an example of continuity editing and is very important to help the audience continually understanding exactly what happens.


Shot Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is show looking back at the first character. Since characters are shown facing in the opposite direction, the viewer assumes they are looking at each other.

Monday, 1 October 2012


Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. Is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment.
The contrast and simplicity of the blue logo on the white background makes it easily recognizable and attractive logo.
The cartoon style letters gives it an attraction to a younger audience which is primarily their target audience.

What is Anchorage?

Anchorage is the fixing or limiting of a particular set of meanings to an image. One of the most common forms of anchorage is the caption underneath a photograph. This Keeps the interpretations of the image around the intended basic point.