Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Classwork

These are classworks that helped us understand camera angles/movements, mise-en-scene, sound, and edit; so that we could implement them to produce the music video. This was made by Bagus and Nicho.

CAMERA ANGLES

Long Shot

Medium Shot

Close Up

Extreme Long Shot

Cowboy Shot

Extreme Close Up

POV

High Angle

Dutch Angle

Over The Shoulder

Low Angle

Establishing Shot



Effects of each shot

Long Shot: Shows the full object alongside the setting and background

Extreme Long Shot: Shows the subject from a more extreme range, will give emphasis more to the setting of the whole movie.

Medium Shot: Allows the audience to see the characters body language, facial expressions and reactions.

Cowboy Shot: Cowboy shots create an effect that makes the character look cool and dominant.

Close Up: Enables the audience to focus on expressions and dialogues.

Extreme Close Up: Enables audience to feel real time emotion of the character

POV: To place the audience in the characters' shoes.

Over the Shoulder: It creates a new point of view that creates a spatial and connectional perspective of the audience and the character

High Angle: Makes subject look weaker and smaller.

Low Angle: Makes the subject look stronger and dominant.

Dutch Angle: Emphasizes confusion and disorientation due to the inconvenient angle.

Establishing shot: Introduces audience to setting of the movie. 


CAMERA MOVEMENT


These are some videos that helped us understand the aspects of filming

Ultimate Guide to Camera Angles: Every Camera Shot Explained [Shot List, Ep. 3]

Ultimate Guide to Camera Movement — Every Camera Movement Technique Explained [The Shot List Ep6]



MIS-EN-SCENE

Props

Set Design

Costume

Hair

Make Up

Colour

Performance

Lighting

Blocking

Focus

Weather

Environment


Here is a video that helped us understand mis en scene

What is Mise en Scene — How Directors Like Kubrick Master the Elements of Visual Storytelling


SOUND

Other than camera angles and camera movements, there are other key elements to creating a suspenseful and meaningful scene. This includes the 3 types of sounds: diegetic, non-diegetic and trans-diegetic.  


Diegetic: Sound that the characters within the media text can hear. This adds a sense of realism and could reveal some information about the character inside the media and soon to the audience. 


Non-diegetic: This type of sound can only be heard by the audience instead of the characters. This is used to enhance the meaning of the audience to decode and create an emotional response in the audience. 


Trans-diegetic: Trans-diegetic is the type of sound that transitions from one to another, for example from a diegetic sound turning into a non-diegetic sound. A trans-diegetic sound usually helps reflect the character's inner state for example it may start with a diegetic sound at first to connect with the character’s feelings and soon be heard by the character which is revealed as the character’s internal feeling/experience. 



We were also given a video by our teacher in case we wanted to dive deeper into the topic which helped me a lot. As the upcoming projects which were a documentary and a music video needed these skills. 

( Insert this video to your blogs https://youtu.be/2vlwm4VyyTc )


After some more lessons, we learned that there were 3 types of non-diegetic sound.




Description

Effect

Melodie

Positive and pleasing connotations

Enhances a positive scene. Create positive emotions in the audience

DIscordant

Harsh and unpleasant connotations

Enhance negative scenes. Create suspense, tension, and anxiety

Contrapuntal 

Has an opposite tone to the on-screen visuals

Adds deeper meaning to scenes. Insight into the character’s thoughts. Maybe they seek pleasure in doing bad things. 



These are some examples of all three types of non-diegetic sound. 

Melodic:

Insert this link in your blog (https://youtu.be/r1nBktuqKwk?si=lhwzFJJdh3a-Igpt)


Discordant: 

Insert this link in your blog (https://youtu.be/3YTIMGmZUr4?si=q_Gh_N1TGY_8nx7o)


Contrapuntal: 

Insert this link in your blog (https://youtu.be/P0EXHvbsnJ8?si=JBa8Ecsq2yEgICf2)




EDIT

The fourth key element is the edit. The edit in a media text is crucial as it sets the tone and message and can deliver more impact to the audience. 

There are 2 types of editing which are long takes, and short takes each one having a uniqueness and drawbacks of its own. 


A long take is used to : 

  • Build suspense

  • Makes it feel slow for the audience.

  • Extend the feelings of the scene

  • Makes it more immersive

While a short take is used to:

  • Increase the pace of the scenes 

  • Makes it more exciting and high-energy

  • Mostly used to show actions

  • Focuses more on the details

These 2 videos helped me discover more things about the deeper understanding of editing in the media world.

https://youtu.be/h9AEYFYPYTM?si=Ld4P7wqL-rwagdbY (Deeper understanding of long takes)

https://youtu.be/OAH0MoAv2CI?si=ebTKXYxE-ilEa82l (Focuses more on the cuts and transitions)


Not only the duration of each scenes but editing can be classified as another 2 which are continuity editing and non-continuity editing. 

Examples:

Continuity:

  • Straight cuts

  • Eyeline match

  • Shot/reverse shot

  • Cutaway/insert

  • Match cut

This video helped us understand the deeper level of continuity editing https://youtu.be/33eWqDZ6sRc?si=a_D1Bdcd5sJTM3yZ 


Non-continuity:

  • Cross cut

  • Flash back

  • Flash forward

  • Jump cut 

  • Match cut. 

This is the youtube video I found that helped us learn the understanding of a discontinuity editing https://youtu.be/-d6Dp04NV0E?si=dqxmiMNjRene02DE 



Self Reflection:

This classwork is a way for us to know the basic technical elements which we utlized to produce our music video project. These are useful information that would prove useful as different technical elements convey different meanings to suit the theme and style of our project (such as using random camera movement to show that the scene is full of action and full of energy). A way I contributed was suggesting Bagus to take inspirations, to make this blog post, from previous presentations that was made by our teacher so that he'll not use as much time to complete it. In the future, I would help input more classworks in the post, that we did in class such as group activities, to provide more examples so that we'll understand more about the materials that are being taught.



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