Camera Workshop - Crossing the Line

Today was the day we had to use the 180 rule in our camera workshop.

Storytelling - 180 rule

Today we got our brief for our next camera workshop; this is storytelling with the 180 rule.

Middle, Beginnings and Ends with Steve Coombes

Today we learned about what's needed for middles, beginnings and ends in story writing.

Edit workshop

Today we had our first edit workshop and we worked on editing clips from a story of 'Delicious Peace'. This helped us to learn the basic tools using Premier Pro.

Camera Workshop 2

Wednesday 5th October 2016

For the second camera workshop we first had to use what we had learnt in the first one and set up our cameras and tripods and then use the white balance, focus and zoom.

Premiere Pro test

Monday 3rd October 2016

Using Adobe Premier Pro we had a 'test' to see which level we was at basic or more advanced; we had to edit clips and audio of a guy in a library/book shop.

Characters and Dialogue with Steve Coombes

Monday 3rd October 2016

Today we learned about characters and dialogue from writer Steve Coombes. Starting with dialogue we were told about 'gold watch dialogue'- this means that the dialogue is really good but for a play and not a film or television.

Pitch feedback and development

Friday 30th September 2016

Today we had to pitch our script idea that we will eventually produce. It was a 25 word pitch with a title, genre, character information, location and a few extra lines of the story. Once we had pitched our idea, Simon our lecturer and the rest of the team gave feedback.

Mise en Scene

Today I learned Mise en Scene - this means 'what is in the scene or visual frame' and is the visual aspect in storytelling. It's a useful way of showing an audience instead of telling and can help define characters for example their emotional state and status. It defines relationships between characters and there are 4 key elements to Mise en Scene which are:

• Setting - location, environment (genre)
• Costume/Makeup e.g good or bad
• Lighting - how it affects setting and character e.g shadows for villains
• Staging - positions of characters or items in the frame

Camera Workshop

Wednesday 28th September 2016

Today we had our first camera workshop. We learned about assembling and using the camera and the boom mic and how to put people into focus and out of focus whilst they are moving or still.