Style of editing

Lighting

Lighting Exercise

Speed of editing

The Birds

Sound Exercise Evaluation

The sound sequence includes a person who sits in a room and hears "mysterious" noises within the room. This sequence was chosen as it was an easy way to showcase all of the different types of sound.

During the introduction non-diegetic music was played. This was in the form of a musical soundtrack. This can indicate how the audience is supposed to feel.


Next is a series of diegetic noises.
Firstly, there is an on-screen sound of the door violently slamming. Secondly, there is an off-screen of banging. The off-screen sounds continue as there is a non-diegetic laugh as the character reads the writing on the board.  After this, the diegetic on-screen sound of the door lock being broken is used. This enhances the noise and draws the attention of the audience to think what will happen next. Once the door is opened the camera seems to black out and there is a numerous amount of off-screen sounds. This enables the extension of the diegetic sounds.

Due to the fact that we tested the mic all of our sound was correctly recorded. In our sound exercise we were able to correctly differentiate diegetic and non diegetic sounds as well as on screen and off screen sounds. However, all of the sounds in our exercise were parallel noises; and there was no sound bridge involved.

Overall, the sound was recorded correctly and we were able to demonstrate the correct ways of filming different sound techniques.

Improvements:

We then see a person who is sitting calmly enjoying her music. If there was happy music playing during this time it could have been seen as a contrapuntal as her mood does not match what is about to happen. To add on to that we could have featured someone in the corridor listening to the same sound to create a sound bridge.

Sound Exercise

Sound

Psycho

North By Northwest

Camera Exercise Evaluation

The story is about a paranoid person who feels they are being followed and is in fact being pursued by a ghost. A story board was created to carefully plan each shot. However, the story board was lost and so the story was recreated from memory; and so may not be as perfect as had hoped. As well as that the shots had to be filmed over the period of two different days. 

The various types of shots that were incorporated into the exercise include:

• Long shot

• Medium shot

• Point of view

• High angle

• Low angle

• Close up

• Medium close up

• Extreme close up

• Pan

However, there were some shots that were left out and could not be attempted. Due to lack of resources a tracking shot could not be included. Also, an over the shoulder shot was not added because it was overlooked. 

The first shot used was the long shot in which the main character is running towards the camera. This was to elongate the length that the main character was running and also to smoothly transition into the next shot. The second shot was a medium shot in which the main character is checking her surroundings, while unknown to her the ghost walks in the opposite direction. The third shot was a close up which was chosen to make the audience feel like they are following the main character. Next, was the medium close up shot which aimed to show the panic and fear of the character’s face and body. After that came the short extreme close up of the character’s back. The face is not shown to add mystery until we get to the next shot where it is revealed to the audience that it is the main character. This follows into a low shot of the main character walking down the stairs which leads into the point of view. The point of view shot was used to show the audience the main character’s perspective. The next shot was supposed to be a pan shot, however this was not completely successful as the whole of the surroundings were not panned. Lastly, was the high angle shot in which the camera records people from above; which made them look smaller and the surroundings larger. 

As this is the first time we have worked with cameras and editing software the production was not perfect. We made several mistakes as beginners. As you can see in the video the camera does shake at times so the shot was not always steady. For the majority of the video the frames were shot appropriately, however some of the shots could have been altered to make it better to view. For example, the running shot at the beginning cuts of the face of the main character so the camera could have been placed elsewhere to capture everything. 

Overall the film managed to successfully show most of the different types of camera shots and angles. A few positive elements also include the editing. We made sure that the shots always transitioned into moving shots to make the film run more smoothly. As well as getting rid of unnecessary footage that would have devalued our film. 

Improvements that could have been made include steadier camera work. Also, the shots could have been improved by making sure they were carried out properly. When editing the final piece we should have gone through the sequence of the film to make sure that it made perfect sense. As well as that we could have tried to find a way to include all of the possible shots; like over the shoulder. 

Camera Exercise

Cinematography