Risk assesment - Health and safety - Preventions !

Activity - electrical cables/wires 


Hazard involved 

• Extremely hazardous to the filming crew, The public are indanger of tripping over the cables whilst film crue are filming the shoot. If filming outside need to be careful of the partially sighted because it could be extremely dangerous. 

Prevention 

• To organise all the wiring and where its going to be placed before the shooting the flim starts. Placing all the wiring/dolphins away from public. We could also use mats to cover the wires. 

Activity  -  Heavy equipment




Hazard involved  

• Can be too heavy to carry around, could be hazardous to public aswell as crew.

Prenvention

•  Making sure the equipment are in their cases and not removed could be broken/damaged. Making sure the person caries the equipment carefully or two people carrying icase of injury.

Weather-

Hazard involved

• As the weather has been very snowy we need to check if theres no ice as this could be a big hazard to the crew who are acting aswell the public, we need to be careful of the icy streets as this could injure a person. We need to make sure that we have some grit at hand as this could be very useful to help get rid of the icyness.

Risks and prevention of the filming process

 Absence's of some of the team members in our groups, If some of the team members were absent in the filming process (such as the actors) we could get some back up's as this could help us in the acting process because of the absences. Backups's are very well needed as the actor is not here ,if  their were no backups we wouldnt be able to act therefore were wasting time in our filming time.

Media 9 Frame Shots

Researched Ideas for Title of movie- opening scene

Theses are our Ideas for the opening scene
　


1. Green canvas (fave)

2. The misconstrued

3. Artistic druggie

4. The art of illegal's /The art of illegal

5. The canvas of oz (fave)

6. Paint the druggie

7. The stoner (fave)

8. Art pot (pot = weed)(fave)

9. Merchandise
http://www.drugrehab.co.uk/street-drug-names.htm

Research updated !

 2nd movie analysis

Green street hooligans 

About the movie:

This movie is about a harvard student located in the USA is found with a stash of cocain in his property when the school checks it. When Matt is expelled from University he moves straight to London to live with his sister and her husband. Then he is quikly introduced to steve who is called pete, he quikly gets aquainted with pete with the idea of knowing someone who knows the city and he feels he won't be looked at as an outsider when pete takes him to all the bars and resturants as they raid the city he goes with pete , but after the havy drinking sessions with his close mates in London. On the way from a match Matt is confrunted by a vicious gang of Birmingham city thugs but luckily Pete steps in and gives a hand and saves Matt. The truth Matt learnt about pete and his friends were that they were football hooligans. This movie is so much related to our 2 minute opening scene because in this movie we see a drug/drinking related incidents and our movie has a similar theme to it although it doesnt reflect what our movie is going to show .

1st shot

This first shot starts with matt (the main character) in a room dazed like he was thinking about something really important or he had something was bothering him this denotes him looking down and the camera below him the mise-en-scene for this shot was in a room/house. The main source of light was the sunlight which was faded out to give credit to the charcter who was in the middle of the room which connoted he was the main charcter however matt was not faded out but you could see where the fade started in the shot and where it ended there was also a sountrack playing . 

 

2nd shot

This second shot is starting with matt in the aiport about to board his flight in here the camera is a longshot  where you could see matt's whole body. here the music gets more loader as he rushes to give his ticket to the lady in the reception this connotes hurryness and anxiety from the charcters point of view  as matt hands over the money the camera zooms into the hands of matt in here the soundtrack gets louder and louder as this goes the text at beginning  starts with the names  of the differents characters playing the roles of the movie for Green Street Hooligans.

3rd shot

In this particualr shot he starts narrating about the past year of how he gets kicked out and previous studies he had studied .As he gets closer the camera gets lower and lower to catch his face . This shot is very well captured because they have focused Matts face and defocuses the background i feel this shot was created like this because

they wanted us to focus on the main subject which was Matt. The lighting for this shot was very sharp to say you could see everything in a bright and in a strong light ,the main source of light was the sun which was the most source

Soundtrack for Green Street Hooligans

• One blow

3rd movie analysis on

American Gangster

 American Gangster is a crime related film which is similar to our 2 minute opening scene. American Gangster was directed by Ridely Scott. It starrs Denzel Washington and also Russell Crow. the feeling i get about the movie is that it has a real-type gangster to it. Frank lucas a gangster who resides in Harlem who smuggles her herion into America, Richie Roberts is the detective who is attempting to bring down Lucas's career in drugs (heroin). I feel that this movie is an example of ours as it has that real type of gangster theme and drug theme to it , this film has very much some of the simillar things to our opening scene of and this movie really inspires ours to be that extra really good- quality movie.

• The location for this filming was done New York City. American Gangster was released in the United States and Canada on November 2, 2007.  

•  This film was nominated for two Academy Award.

• The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, including a notable Best Supporting Actress nomination for Ruby Dee. 

• This is the second film of Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe worked on together.

Research !

Analysis of  Opening Scenes of  Three Different Movies 


 1)  The title of short documentary movie Hanging with Frank 
  
 Website is 4docs


http://www.4docs.org.uk/films/show/2/Hanging+With+Frank


1st shot 


This short movie documentary film starts with a dark/almost black background then a short paragraphed text appears of what was actually happening in the film. It started by stating of what happened in the autumn 1995 of the era and what had happened in the prison chambers of Barlinnie Prison the text is written in a white/bold with a black background and centred in the middle of screen this was denoting a place were people were caged and taunted by prison officers for what ever crime they had committed.


This is the picture of the Barlinnie prison chambers  -

 http://thescruffydogreview.wordpress.com/2007/07/

2nd shot 

The  angle of this shot is a low angle the denotation of this particular shot is of man looking up at something, the colour of this image (still image) is black and white. This is very similar to our movie because we want to incorperate still  images into our movie scene because it makes it more thought about and more interesting to analyse the picture and what it denotes and connotes.

Let Me In ...The US remake of Let the Right One In

The film makers use the camera in many variations in the movie to tell the story.

One of the ways they showed to explain the camera in the movie were when the camera was a low angle shot at the tunnel to give us a feeling of suspense of who was their if it was boy/girl or a old/young but it came closer this mad the viewer more of an unbeknown source of entity

City of God -Review

The movie begins depicting chickens being prepared for a meal which was a wide shot which connotes the struggles of the people as well as the animals in them era. The chicken escapes and an armed gang chases after it, here you see the cammera is following the gang chasing the chicken you also see them with guns which suggests the hardship and the lack of laws in Brazil at the time. Whilst the chicken is running for its life the camera angle has a profile/wide angle shot of the chicken as it escapes.


The chicken comes to a stop between the gang and a young man named Rocket (Buscapé), who believes that the gang wants to kill him.The timeline then flashes back to ten years earlier, as Rocket tells the story of how he got himself into that position.

Todays lesson-4 lessons ....30th sep 2010

In todays lesson we were doing filming in the CLC ( city learning centre).

We were looking at different angles and shots to do for our filming. We got into two groups which i had 4 members in mine.

In this group we were looking at the lighting as well as the shots/angles sizes. We learn about the rule of thirds which sir talked about to us as a whole group, this means when you split shots into third

HomeStudy ..... Opening script

Wide shot angle which sets the scene/location. With different types of furniture chairs/tables.

High angle shot shows everything below whats around the area .

A low angle shot as the person comes through the door  looking straight ahead with a normal to happy reaction.

High angle shot looking at the person who was already sitting their with a joyace facial expression as if happy to see the othe person.

As they sit down the together the camera looks at both with a wide angle shot as to indicate the love between them as friends.

As the two friends just smile at eachother the camera circulates the room as to say theirs nothing more important than the friendship of these two characters.

HomeStudy .....Kiddulthood

The homestudy for today is to analyse Kiddulthoods openeing scene (first 2 mins).

The Denotation of the openeing scene starts with a Bold writing titled Kiddulthood  the colour that was used was a white writing and a blag background which sated the name of the uk film drama.

The title was later followed with another denotation which was school kids playing football this was shown to set the scene and to the audience the location of the film wasa school , the location also looked like it was set in london before we got round to listening to the characters this was obvious because of the gloomy weather.

The camera was in a slow mo' as it drifted side to side as it looked at the different characters in the playground of the school which gave the audience a great vision of what and who the characters were although we could not hear any sound for the first couple of seconds we could judge through our eyes. There was a boy in a graphics classroom drilling stuff together, while this was hapening the music started playing (suspence) however this was a wide close up of the boys fingers drilling his work into place.

 Connotation : as the scene changes you can see a girl (medium long shot) talking on the phone immediatly I realised the accent , her dialogue immediatley told me that she was from east london (cockney accent).

After that shot was over we see a boy handing out flyers (medium long shot) an invatation to his party. Then there was an immediate change to kids playing football again.

The shot went back to the boy in a classroom drilling (denotation) this indicates a smart, work orientate person who loves to study the shot angle (low) was a close up .

There was a different varriety of angles as well shots in this british drama film which stated allot of different connotations as well as denotation.

HomeStudy

Sir had given us a task to do which was to analyse a tv drama of our choice which I later chose to do skins this task was very helpful to us and the skills we gained from it which was to increase our media language.

I have chosen to do 'skins' as my analysis as i had watched in 4od.


Camera shots

The camera shots for the 1st scene was a low angle shot when the boy comes out of his house which indicates the superioraty and the sun direclty shining on his face which informs us that hes the star of the 1st scene.

The camera is following him from the right side of his feet as he goes for a jog, the camera is from a low angle shot.

Cmera shots/  mise-en scene

• The next shot of the camera shot is a wide close up of him still running .
• The next shot of skins was  a meduim long shot to show us that the main character which indicates the main person in the shot the lighting was mainly from the sun which indicates it was a sunny day.
• The sounds where mainly from the birds chirping in the background on the trees which the audience could see.

This was the beginning of skins (the 1st minute) which was mainly about the boy running and having a jog

HomeStudy !

The different types of media used :

• Radio
• TV
• Internet
• Newspaper
• Magazine

The reasons why media is used by so many people the young, the old is because of form of enetertainment, a form of escape from routin or problems and emotional release, social utility as well as self-reference and reality exploration and much, much more.

These past four day i have been doing a lot of media research of what kind of media people tend to use, such as reading my books, watching tv, reading newspaper/magazines. I have also been on the internet each day to do my work for all my subjects and to self-refernce my work and have a clear knowlege whats going arnound me such reading newspapers would definetly a form of exploration of reading about different information.

All these different methods of media are very much needed in everyday life there is not media used .

Answering questions on the video.

What did you find most difficult in planning ?

The most difficult thing in the planning were the sketching's we had to do before we had started filming.

What was the most successful part of your filming and why?

The most successful part of my filming was the organising the characters and directing the film as we had already discussed it in the planning before the starting of the filming.

What was the effect of the restriction of having no dialogue to tell story ?

The effects were having the audience who are watching the film to look at different shot sizes as well as the angles and the impact it has of telling the story without any dialogue.

What did you learn form editing the film ?

I have learnt that editing a film is not as easy as it seems you need to learn the scenes of by heart before organising it into the shots that you want, the skills needed to produce the filming needs a more high skilled IT literate person to handle the shot or scenes.

What will you do differently next time?

I would definetly do more various types of angles of shooting the film and this would more diffiicult but more rewarding at the end.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XWqf8Mkh8  <..........Amira &Simona's Editing ..............>

AS Media lesson - 2nd Lesson

In this lesson we had watched a short series called " Mad Men" which we had looked at different shots as well as scenes of the 'drama series' Mad men we analysed the different shots of the lighting the background and much more.

Firstly we had analysed the different camera positions which we have found out there was only one camera shooting for the whole series which M.r holloway pointed out to us which was unbeknown to us at the time.

Secondly we had scrutinised the focus of the camera and of the audience which were the depth of field, this portion of the scene appears acceaptably sharp although the lense could focus at only one distance.

We had also learnt about the 180 degree rule. Sir explained about this rule which is beneficial and much needed rule in the media such as film and soaps this rule is basic for film making that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to eachother if the camera passes the imaginay axis it is called crossing the line , this term is also called the axis line as well as the line of action. As study i have researched a video which would help me understand more about the 180 degree rule even more than intended so I watched this video on youtube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNOT9iHDSXU .

While watching 'Mad Men' the American dramatic television series which was created and directed by 'Mathew Weiner' it was set in the 1960's whilst watching this we were looking out for the makeup and the wardrobe for the opening scene which was the first 4 minutes of the series .

In the opening scene we were discussing the makeup of don and how well he was groomed we had thought about this very much on how he was the manager and this why they mad him look even more groomed than the reporter which was reprting him at the the opening scen

Media leason 1 - 07/09/2010

The first lesson in AS media we had studied -


                            Platform

• Radio - LBC   =  Product

• TV - SOAP opera = Eastenders  = Product

• Newspaper = ok magazine =  Product

In this lesson we had also scrutinised ' HOW' , 'WHY' the media was used. In our first media AS lesson we summarised the types of questions we had about media in teams of groups of three which later was transferred to the board by Mr holloway the questions we had came up with as a group were the followings:

• How we use the media 
•  How media  has an impact in the world around us
• How we veiw people
• How media conveys information
• Who is inolved in making the media
• Who the audiences are
• Why do we use the media
• Why do people make media
• Who is shown by the media and how they are :

Three main groupings for what we loosley call the media


 Print :  Newspaper & Media : Articles,stories, images and words.


Audio-visual : Tv -
                       : Radio
                       : film

E-media :  Tv 
                 :  Internet
                 :  Technology