Son Of The Law (Opening Scene)

The opening scene for my main task  

Preliminary Task Evaluation

Preliminary Task Final Video


Evaluation

This is the final video for my group’s preliminary task. In the construction of our film we focused on demonstrating our film techniques, including match-on-action, over the shoulder shot, 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot. I believe that my group consisting of Yusuf, who acted and made the floor plans, Nile who was in charge on set design and editing, and me the camera man, we able to execute our task well as we delegated tasks well and produced a good end product. We used match-on-action, a continuity editing technique, to show our characters moving and make our film easily interpretable to the audience. As well as this, we also used an Over the shoulder shot and shot reverse shot when showing dialogue between the two characters. This was executed well but we had to be careful to acknowledge the 180 degree rule. One problem we encountered during the construction was continuity. We only had a limited amount of time to film our preliminary task so had to stick to a tight schedule. However, after filming we realised that one of our shots had to be re shoot  But this was the next day and our actor was wearing different clothes consequently, in order to preserve good continuity we had to re shoot the whole footage. However, this can be viewed as a good thing because we were able to get better quality shots and acknowledged any errors we had made before. 

As well as camera techniques, in our movie we also incorporated various camera angles. For Example, we used medium, medium close ups and close up shots and Point of View shots.  We also used a dolly shot, which we executed by placing the camera on top of a school chair and wheeling along the camera in the scene which has Yusuf walking down a corridor. However, in doing this we encountered a problem, in view of the fact when pushing the chair, the camera wasn't stationary therefore our shot became shaky which wasn't our intention. We were going to use a CCTV shot, but didn't include it in the final production as we acknowledged that it would be hard to merge that and the match on action well. This was probably the most difficult shot because we didn't have anything to place the camera onto, I had to stand on a chair, holding the camera above Nile's head in order to film it which took us numerous attempts.

After we finished filming the video we uploaded the video onto the computer and then opened it on iMovie so we could edit it. The film was edited by Nile and Yusuf with input from all three of us regarding length of cuts, what to leave out, choice of music etc. A problem we encountered during editing was deciding when to cut scenes so we could display match-on-action as effectively as possible.

How Young People Are Represented In Media

The video below intends to demonstrate how young people are represented in the media.

Iron Man 3 Trailer

Iron Man 3 Trailer



Iron man is a fictional character invented by marvel  that was made into a movie. So far part 1 and 2 have been released successfully and above is the trailer for part 3. The movie follows a billionaire playboy, industrialist and ingenious engineer, Tony Stark suffers a severe chest injury during a kidnapping in which his captors attempt to force him to build a weapon of mass destruction. He instead creates a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. He later uses the suit to protect the world as Iron Man. In think the trailer is good because it gives the viewer insight into what will happen in the film through the use of a montage and various fades. The cuts in the trailer are fast paced which implies the movie is going to be action packed and infers the genre of the movie.

Match On Action Scene

a chase scene freaturing David Belle from the french movie District B13.

Match On Action:  refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.Although the two shots may have actually been shot hours apart from each other, cutting on action gives the impression of continuous time when watching the edited film. By having a subject begin an action in one shot and carry it through to completion in the next, the editor creates a visual bridge, which distracts the viewer from noticing the cut or noticing any slight continuity error between the two shots.

Match on action is used thorught this scene to showw the man running as fluidly as possible.