TYPES OF LIGHTING

LIGHTING

3 POINT LIGHTING

Key Light

This is the main light. It is usually the strongest and has the most influence on the look of the scene. 
It is placed to one side of the camera/subject so that this side is well lit 
and the other side has some shadow.

Fill Light

This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light.
 It is used to fill the shadows created by the key.
The fill will usually be softer and less bright than the key.
To acheive this, you could move the light further away or use some spun.
You might also want to set the fill light to more of a flood than the key.

Back Light

The back light is placed behind the subject and lights it from the rear.
Rather than providing direct lighting (like the key and fill), its purpose
is to provide definition and subtle highlights around the subject's outlines.
 This helps separate the subject from the background and provide a three-dimensional look.

Lighting Exercise - Emma

Here is some evidence to show some lighting techniques we have learnt.

We learnt how to set the lights up and how lighting is important with in films.

Garageband Task



Final Prelim Task

This is our Final Prelim Task 

Filming Prelim Task

Emma filming an over the shoulder, mid shot of a blackmail

Having a problem with continuity editing, we were trying to find the right place to slam down the case full of money.

Gemma and Emma filming a point of view, close up shot, from Andrews point of view looking at Hannah's intense eyes.

Gemma filming a medium long shot of Hannah counting the money whilst Andrew (Mr Mann) sits and watches.

Problems When Filming Preliminary Task

During filming we realised that we had positioned the brief case differently within different shots, this was a problem during the film as the brief case changed positions in the film confusing the viewer. 

For Example:

 

SHOT1: Brief Case on the right of the girl

SHOT 2: Brief Case on the left of the girl.

SHOT3: The Brief Case is not in the scene

                                   so does not match SHOT 2.

Music

Music for Prelim Task was very important, we had to find the right music to fit in with the tense film, during the process of finding the background music it was diificult to find music that had suspense but wasn't too dramatic.

We found our music for our prelim task of Youtube.

           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyvl2q_im40

Story Board

We created a storyboard to make it easier for us when it comes to filming to have all correct scenes in order.

During the process of filming our Prelim task  the storyboard was very important, the storyboard was easy to follow this was effective because this allowed us to see what scene and shot we needed to film next, this also gave us time limit for each shot and made our time more efficient. However when using our storyboard we noticed during filming that certain shots did not fit, this meant that we had to figure out what shot fitted in best. Next time when creating a storyboard we would make the storyboard more detailed so that are film is accurate to our storyboard.

Planning of our Prelim Task

Planning of our Prelim Task

Ideas for our 1 minute Film

BLACKMAILING SCENE EXAMPLES

This is an example from The Batman Movie.

Techniques used in this clip

• SHOT/REVERSE SHOT
• 180 DEGREE RULE
• MATCH ON ACTION

PLOT

STUDENT A

TEACHER

Student A is Blackmailing teacher, student A has a picture of teacher with another student privately speaking,  student A has requested money off the teacher and our meeting in a classroom to exchange the picture and the money.

OUR IDEAS

One of our ideas for our preliminary task is to add CCTV camera in the film, this was to create more of the genre THRILLER.

The CCTV camera will be looking at the classroom.










PROPS

The money that is going to be given to Student A from the teacher will be stored in a brief case.

  

The photo of the student and teacher will be screwed up after teacher has given the money to Student A









LOCATION







 The location of  our  preliminary film will be  at  Haywards Heath college in a classroom set-up.

ROLES

During the planning time we all had to have

allocated roles, the roles were from 

acting, editing, filming and organising the blog.

GEMMA - Filming- (Lighting) , Editing and Blog


HANNAH- Actress, Editing and Blog


KATIE- Filming, Editing and Blog


EMMA- Filming, Editing and Blog

Shot/Reverse Shot

A shot/reverse shot is a technique used in filming which involves two characters, beginning with one character looking at another character in an opposite position. The camera then moves the shot over to the opposite character showing the first character which establishes that the characters are facing each other.

This video is from the series

'FRIENDS', this video 

is a very good example of 
shot/reverse shot between
two characters.

KATIE

This is another example of Shot/Reverse Shot, showing both characters expressions, the technique is used to show both characters expressions and used because the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
                                                                                                                                           

180 DEGREE RULE

The 180 degree rule is when an imaginary line called the axis connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene. The camera or cameras should always remain on that side of the imaginary line to keep the flow of a scene. The rule enforces continuity of the film. The rule is used in football games as a viewer could see one team aim left and then be aiming right which would confuse the viewer.

Breaking the Rule

The rule should never be broken unless for effect. Breaking the rule will confuse the viewer, especially in scenes of chase and conversation. 

Results if the 180 degree rule is broken:

§  The audience may become confused

§  The actors will be switching sides of the screen
§  Viewer loses focus and could miss parts of the film
§  Could become disorientated

Ways Around the Rule

The only way to break the 180 degree rule successfully without causing disruption to a scene and confusing the audience is to move the camera over the axis in one movement. E.g. walk from behind the object to the front and then back to the front. In this case you will be moving the audience with the camera so there is a clear understanding of what is happening.

GEMMA

MATCH ON ACTION

A match on action, a technique used in film editing, is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement.

+------------------------------------+
|                                    |
|                                    |
|       __                           |
|      /  \   ^                      |
|      |  o   |                      |
|      |@  \  |                      |
|      \__-   |                      |
|      /  \                          |
+------------------------------------+

Shot 1: In this shot, we see the person beginning to get up from a sitting position (albeit, horribly frames). The arrow indicates the person's direction of motion.

+------------------------------------+
|                ___                 |
|               /   \                |
|               |o o|                |
|               | v |   ^            |
|               \_-_/   |            |
|              /     \  |            |
|             /       \ |            |
|             |       |              |
+------------------------------------+

Shot 2: There is a cut to this shot, which shows the person finishing standing up. The main difference from shot 1 to shot 2 is the position of the camera.

        _
       / \                     
-------|O )-------->[2]------------------
       \_/                     
    

          
         [1]

Overhead: This overhead diagram illustrates the camera positions for the two shots (the cameras are denoted by the bracketed numbers; the person is the lozenge on the left; the dashed line is the axis of action). When the person begins to stand up, we see the action from the vantage point of camera 1. When the person has stood up quite a bit, we see the action from camera 2.


 Video and Picture Example Of Match On Action

 

HANNAH