Preliminary Exercise

Here is my finished Preliminary Exercise:

Camera Angles

There are a vast amount on Camera angles in film and TV which are all used in different scenarios, here are some examples.

Extreme Close Up:
Taken from a long way away somtimes over a quater of a mile. Used to set a scene and establish a location
 

Long Shot:

This category includes the full shot showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom. While the focus is on the characters, plenty of background detail still emerges.

Medium Shot:
Contains a figure from the knees or waist and is normally used for dialogue scenes, or to show some detail of action.

Close Up:

This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detials of mise en scene. Everything else is just a blur in the background. This shot magnifies the object, and shows the importantnce of things, be it words written on paper, or the expression on someones face. 

Extreme Close Up:
As its name suggests, an extreme version of the close up, genreally magnifying beyond what the human eye would experience in reality. An extreme close up of a face, for instance, would show only the mouth or eyes with no background etails whatsoever

 

Continuity

In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.

For example, most continuity errors are subtle, such as changes in the level of drink in a character's glass or the length of a cigarette, others can be more noticeable, such as sudden drastic changes in appearance of a character. Such errors in continuity can ruin the illusion of the scene or movie leading to the scene losing its realism.

Continuity

Match on Action

Match on Action is when you see a character in a scene for example going to open a door. You will have a medium shot of where you can see the whole character. As the character opens the door there will be an Extreme Close up on the Characters hand as they open the door.

Shot/Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

180 Degree Rule

The 180 Degree rule is basically the guideline that states two characters in the same scene should always have the same left right relationship.( As shown above) If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle

Preliminary Exercise!

We were told to produce a continuity exercise which involves a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down opposite another character, they then exchange a couple of lines.

We were told to use these:

• Shot/Reverse Shot
• Match On Action
• 180 Degree Rule

Me!

Hey, Im James.

I take Media Studies at Ken Stimpson Community School. Im 16, live in Peterborough and come from Northern Ireland. I am 6ft tall and have Brown hair, I enjoy doing Drama and English, aswell as Media and hope they help to further my acting career. I also enjoy playing and watching football aswell as many other different sports. Also I have a great love of music in most Genre's but mainly alternative rock.

My group for my Media Studies A-level is with Curtis Lord, Lauren Alexander.

This year in Media Studies we have to complete a premliminary exercise where we have to keep continuity throughout the small scene.

And for a main task we will create a opening titles for a new fiction film.