Experiments in Groups

What We Do in the Shadows - Official Trailer

Inspirational research on films

Inspirational Films I've watched for research on our theme, Heres

a 5 minute clip on a top ten list of great horror/comedy films I've 

chosen to post. A great list of films which not only show great

techniques of filming with angles, panning, dollying and movement,

but a really awesome idea of how me and my group intend on 

filming our short film.

Enjoy!!!

Digetic Effect

Digetic Effect

Here we got put in groups to show audio effects.

Video edited by Jackson, 

Leo is featured as main subject in clip.

diegetic (when you can see where the sound is coming from), 

non-diegetic (when there is no evidence of where sound is coming from)

Re-inactment

Haha

Low Key High Key

HIGH KEY

LOW KEY

In groups we headed out to the studios in groups, heres two pictures 

we took showing low and high keys in still image.  First picture shows 

High key, which shows out real bright. Second picture is a low key glen.

Research on Rule of thirds

Position up your subject with the 

Three horizontal and vertical lines, middle intersections 

represents the spots that your eye will be most drawn too.

Research Video Camera Techniques

Framing & Rule of Thirds

Here I've researched a little bit about framing and video camera techniques. This clip showed me

whether I'm invading personal space as the camera been me in person, or for a dramatic reason I'd want to be in some ones face. All can be told by just by relocating the camera tripod closer or far from the subject

or object, By tilting and adjusting the tripod can also communicate different angles to make it look 

like your looking up or down at some one, or something. 

Story Board

Here I've did a little planning (Pre-production). A story board,

commonly used by some film makers who like this method

for creating scenes.

For example, the making of toy story's, children's movie we watched in class,

shows the basics of creating a story boards, which they work off like guidelines.

Heres my first story board of me waking up and getting to uni on time, using only 

6 frames. I've labelled them as well to show what kind of shot it will be, wether its

a close up panning shot, or a dolly out shot.

Here on this story board i get to class with the worst possible horror scenes.

Ft bruce lee and Scream.

I enjoyed this task very much, just the planning of a first movie fills me with excitement.

Im in to the whole cartoon theme, so this task kind of got me back on track. Actually

sparked my thinking caps back on.I enjoy using this method in the pre process of moving 

image. 

2 CARS 1 NIGHT

Here we have a clip made by n.z film director Taika Waititi.

2 CARS 1 NIGHT

LIGHTING:

Low lighting, mostly black white or grey, 

PROPS:

Old school cars, Bike, old fashioned, A ring

COSTUMES:

Old farming looking clothes, Check it shirt

LOCATION:

Rural area, outside a bar or pub, local, out under street

light with the front of bar smoking area scene.

I really enjoyed this clip, as it was very hilarious I found it. Just the accent and slang
that was thrown between the 3 young actors clearly gave me a confirmation of where
this clip was shot, and where the location was telling me far north? ? ? Maybe. In a rural
area at a local bar or pub. Somewhere there parents go hang out after a hard weeks work.
I enjoy Taika's work a lot, a great influence on all upcoming comedians and actors.
Also a great influence for myself as I am a big fan of his work.

Research on opening Credits

OPENING CREDITS

Opening credits from the movie "Catch me if you can" Starring Leonardo DiCaprio.  

Where it shows a theme and they stuck to it which was awesome.

I like how they characterised his roll in the movie as a cartoon. Gives us a insight

of what the movie is about and his type of character been played on this movie.

Great film by the way. One of me all time favourites. 

Research Camera Tips

BACK-LIGHTING IMAGES

I've decided to research more about the lighting and came across this beautiful image.

Its exactly the kind of aura and form id like to record my moving image in. I like how 

it gives me a dramatic feeling and a hint of where and what theme we will be using.

Without warning you can basically tell that the scene would probably be about a scared

and frightened lady who's lost in the woods and is been chased by a psycho killer. :)

Well its the thought that's popped up into my head. I really am going to try and pull

this off and use this back lighting effect, which will go well with the horror, thriller comedy 

theme we chose. It will take a lot of experimenting but will post up when we've aced it..

Basically Backlighting is a more a creative way to use sunlight and creates

 a beautiful aura around the subject giving your images greater impact. 

Heres a link to where I've found my main sources of information: 
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tag/camera-tips/

Experiment with Depth Of Focus

DEPTH OF FOCUS

HIGH SHOT

This still image is a technique to make the subject look small or weak in this angle.

 For example if this was a interview this image would be a by stander that is getting

 interviewed.

LOW SHOT

This Angle gives the object power, with this camera angle facing up 

towards the subject, it gives an effect of sense of size, that the subject is

high above normal person height. Which to me is great for use if I were to

 shoot a remake of godzilla or king kong. Giving the viewer a sense of size 

greater then the average. 

What worked? What did not work? What to work on next?

Having that perfect angle tilted up or down, to get that sense of size.

knowing the level of height with a accurate balanced tripod should really

do the job and leave you with a great outcome when recording moving image.

With still image I believe will still have a different outcome depending 

on lighting and quality, or just lack of knowledge when using cameras like 

myself. What to work on next is to experiment on high quality cameras

while recording moving image this time. 

Research on Location

LOCATIONS

Here below I've listed a few pictures of possible locations I'd ideally  have as

my shooting scene. I've decided to do a collaboration with two other class 

mates where we are still deciding and planning out our story line as we go. 

I've decided to partner up with Albert and Thomas as we all have a similar 

liking in this one theme. Which ill talk more about in my next blog. 

A Dark road to where?

To a old grave yard...

Next to an abandon church.

Here I've chosen these pictures I found on google images, which are very similar

to the locations we have in mind. As you can tell by the scenes, Its located between

 a church and a grave yard. Well we all know where this scenery takes us to, 

our very own short horror, thriller comedy film. We chose to take on a challenge 

and see what we come up with. Three brains are better then one. Lets hope for the 

best.

To the viewers, I'd like to give them the feel of loneliness in a isolated part of
new zealand, also a great thrill and awareness off what's lerking in the dark after
hours...

Research On Video Clip

A few camera movements iv spotted while watching a favourite comic of mines.

Here I've posted a video clip of Key and Peele. 

In this video clip I've noticed that

a few camera movements have been used and different shots spotted through out

 For example, at the beginning of this clip the camera movement dolly's to the right,

then a over the shoulder shot of the teacher, showing the the relation between 

the student and the teacher. This beginning shot also shows the the location of 

where the scene is been shot. (where in this case the scene is at a high school in

class where a substitute teacher is having trouble understanding a student).

Applying skills and analysis of camera handling techniques

Applying Skills

Here for my 24 x shot chase sequence I only took 12 pictures due to a lot of days off from class

and snowball of work to catch up on. Pictures are followed by basic handling technique captions.

Pictures where taken out of school grounds.

EWS: Extreme Wide Shot. 

WS: Wide Shot. 

MS: Medium Shot. 

CU: Close Up. 

ECU: Extreme Wide Shot.

Extreme Wide Shot

Medium Shot

Wide Shot

Extreme Wide shot

Close Up

Medium Shot

Extreme Close Up

Close Up

Medium Shot

Close Up

Medium Shot

Medium Shot

During these camera phone shots, I didn't really enjoy as I am lazy and don't have much

interest in photography, its just something others will create while I'd sit back and enjoy 

the professionals definition of a great shot. For me finding the perfect shot and having to

 label them is very stressing. But, I do like the knowledge learnt of these experiments

especially when its involved in our everyday life out off school, like knowing what kind of 

shot you see when watching a movie or t.v programmes.and its exciting when you

can share it with others outside who have the same interests as you.  

Surface research on Motorzooming

Links to the "Seven Deadly Camera Sins"

http://www.videomaker.com/article/1356-getting-started-the-seven-deadly-camera-sins

MOTOR ZOOMING

Is what iv chosen out of the lot to do a little surface research on, Iv been looking around

for artist on you tube who do a lot of "motor zooming" in there works and I came across this 

clip which does not have a name of artist but video explains very clearly what to do and how

not to zoom while recording. 

Wrong Video Exercise week 1

Moving Image

We were given the activity to split in groups and demonstrate what "Not" to do when it comes to moving image. My Group had to show through the lens of a camera what Head Hunting is.

Follow link to view video clip

http://www.youtube.com/feature=player_embedded

Walking Sequence Ft Ralph

Walking Sequence

Here we were given a task to head out in groups of four to shoot a walking sequence

using and practicing camera movements. This involved Tripod use, pan, tilt, track, dolly 

steadi cam and many more. In this walking sequence you'll notice we've used some 

of these camera movements. I also added colour effects, and other transitions.

This clip was uploaded to premiere then had sound clips added to sequence shots 

to add life and feel to it.

For myself I liked this experiment very much, I enjoy working with premiere to create 

something you can actually enjoy, and feel a bit better about yourself.  Pushes me to do 

more and want to do better and also learn from, also how I can improve. I intend to  

learn more transitions and effects using premiere, hopefully create something unique  for my 

presentation.

seminar reference

• • Documented information retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com

• Information retrieved from http://artspeaksaction.wordpress.com  

author or journalist unknown.

• Retrieved from youtube.

http://youtu.be/29Cp2qq7258 Shirin Neshat for the DIA: Being a Political Artist Youtube

• Wikipedia. (n.d). Retrieved May 27th, 2014 from Wikipedia.org

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks

Deep Focus

Depth of field is the measure that can be applied to the area in focus within the frame.  Deep focus, which requires a small aperture and lots of light, means that the foreground, middleground and background of the frame remain in focus.  In the image below, from Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941), the extended depth of field gives the frame a 3-dimensional quality, showing multiple planes of action at once.  It also allows the filmmaker to demonstrate the largesse of Kane’s dinner party and his personality.  The ability to achieve deep focus was the result of a technological development in the lens in the late 193os and its adoption as a discursive mode is largely attributed to Welles.

Depth Of Field - Moving Clip good example of racking

How to: Basics of Video Composition

Experiments with reflection

Here Ive experimented with reflection. Mostly of myself showing my reflection 

through windows, car windows, hallways windows and mirrors.

reflection

This image basically describes how I'm going to present my 

work. Using pairs of glasses with reflections of images iv 

chosen to glue in to the lens of the glasses. Mainly images

that I have interests in that show reflection with in the object 

by who ever is wearing the glasses. Which shows my interests 

and likings. It could be anything from a wall of graffiti art to 

a picture of my mates.  

Research on reflection through mirrors

REFLECTION WITH MIRRORS

PLAIN SURFACES

multiple self-portrait reflected in mirrors, 1915-6. Photograph

Here iv chosen to research about two different ways of reflection.

Through mirrors and plain objects which show your reflection. 

Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface 

between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the

 medium from which it originated. Common examples include the 

reflection of light, sound and water waves. What I like about this is 

that there are many ways you could show identity and self portraits

using your reflection and the objects that surround us in our daily lives.

Lens Based Media

RRAW: Free writing about a image

Here Ive chosen this picture to free write about. Why I like it because it says a lot.

I see a lot of colour, I enjoy the thoughts of history when I see the flax made  in the

background. Tells me a lot about the style and type of design. Could also drop a 

hint of what nationality she is. I like how she's sitting there smiling holding her cat.

 She really reminds me of my nana. She also does make bags out of flax. Reminds

me of younger days, when I use to sit beside her as she braided her flax then leave 

them out to dry. I relate very much to this image. 

Researching on logos

Here Ive chosen this pics to free write about. I chose this picture 

because i enjoyed the colours used, also because the lead band 

singer was on the news recently. Random thought I just had there.

In this picture Iv noticed the group name being repeated in 

different styles, something I enjoy doing, repetitive style 

of the same word or logo. I think the promoter for this band

clearly shows a straight forward message to who ever is viewing 

that the personalities of these artists are colourful, meaning 

in some parts they have split personalities, Also seeing

the pics of the guy screaming gives a kind of sense  that this

concert is going to blow your mind. Aimed for rocking rollers.

Punked out teens and who enjoy there music.I like this 

advertising.

Rraw week 5a Political Art

STREET ART

Mostly created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside 

of the context of traditional art venues. To me street art tells a story, about the pain,

 suffering, struggle, strife, history of a public community or as a individual. Many 

                       used this visual style as communication between artist, painters and graffiti artists.

Some to show aprreciation of inspirational idols such as great musicians, political 

movements, dead presidents, traditional backgrounds, gang affiliation, a race, pop

art and many more. Growing up in south auckland a city very much inspired by

american hip hop and style, I saw a lot of graffiti art around, posted up in alleyways,

shops, abandoned houses and buildings. I can say for my self that as I grew, street 

art became apart of me. Places and other cites became a fascination because of 

how I was used to seeing graffiti all over from where I was to where I saw not one 

drop of paint, and this to me really made me miss home when ever I leave the 

south bound. Just the way the pieces of work defined great lines and curves 

when using spray cans. A very popular habit passed down by generations of  using

spray cans to vandalise or show some form of style. These days I think if I was

the mayor of a state Id like to see every shop sign, billboard, banner have this 

kind of style incorporated in the design of font in them. Id spread art like butter

on my toast, and i like my toast covered. If I had my own art Id have them 

posted up in dairy's and covers for doors, all over the motorway for ongoing 

traffic jammers to view as they wait patiently in ques. Id use club rooms to get 

my messages out there to the public, for example if I where to promote a 

drink driving message for all the party poppers and night lifers, Id like to use

 hallways of where people enter and exit after a night of drinking. Where i could paint 

up pictures of fast food restaurants and take aways logos for them to look at as they

enter or exit and hopefully change there state off mind by making them

go  sober up, switching there thoughts about drinking more to 

actually bringing up food topics to where they'll get hungry and go eat at one 

of the fast-food restaurants logos they saw on the walls. 

RRAW:Week 3a EXERCISE 3 - Manifesto

Artistic dreams and sleepless minds,

Some ready to blossom and many yet to find.

Research on Photography

Heres a link to the 7 elements of photography I had researched and built built skills from.

http://www.7photoelements.com/7_Elements_of_Photography/Home.html

Experimentation with Composition Light and Depth

EXPERIMENTATION

Lighting

Composition

Subject is in focus

The subject is in the background.

Experiments with Texture, Line and pattern

EXPERIMENTS

Here Ive taken a photo that shows not only a lining but a triangle pattern moving out in the

distants.

As you see in too the picture frame you'll notice a visual line created by a row 

of cars.

In this close up the texture to me looks and feels crispy, dry and very fragile 

if touched personally.

Heres a horizontal line made by power lines. 

FRENDEN : artist research on illustration.mundo.com

RAY FRENDEN

  Here I've chosen three artworks that interest me. What I like about this top 

pics is the colours, stands out to me and I also like cartoons, the way Ray 

painted it really stands out, I like that the cartoon also shows emotions,

looks like a old angry monkey half man . 

Again in this pics Ive chosen catches my attention, I like colours that stand out

and this pics stood out to me. I have a big liking in cartoons and different characters,

wether they are good or bad. Shows to me that this artist knows a lot of different 

characters and shows meaning and emotions and thats how I can relate to this piece.

My last chosen pics was this piece, which was my favourite out of the three.

Why? Because faces to me tell the person who is viewing the piece a lot about 

 the artist and the way they express there art through out expressing there 

emotions using characters. Usually people they know or famous comedians or 

actors, cartoons or just people they like with unique ways of facial expressions.