Camera Angles

These are used extensively to communicate meaning emotion about characters.
Low angle shot: Looking up at a character or object, often to instil fear or awe on the audience.
Straigh angle shot: Looking at an eye level angle to a character or object, giving a sense of equality between subject and audience.
High angle shot: Looking down on a character often to show vulnerability or waekness.
Canted or Oblique: The camera isw tilted to show the scene at an angle. This is used extensively in the horror and science fixtion genre. The audience will often not consciously realize the change. This is most often refeferred to as a Dutch tilt or going Dutch.
The most obvious and frequentyl refferenced use of this technique is found in the "Batman" TV show and original movie (When the villians were on screen the camera would show at a canted angle.)

Shot Angles
Low
Eye Level
High
Worms eye
Canted
Bird's eye

Extreme close up : Really close to the face.

 

Head and shoulders/close up: Above shoulders shot.

 

Mid shot: Above thigh area to atleast the head.

 

3/4 shot: 3/4 shot of the body.

Medium long shot: Almost long shot.

Long shot: Whole person.

Extra long shot: Further away (Establishing shot).

Two shot: Shot involving two people.

Over the shoulder: A shot over the shoulder.

Camera Basics

In the 1920's German filmmaker moved the camera within the shot for psycholigcal and thematic reasons.
There are seven basic moving camera shots:
Pan - Some place moves from left to right.
Tilt - Tilt to different angles.
Dolly (Trucking, Tracking, Pull-Backs) - Foward/Back out of shot.
Handheld - Camera in someones hand.
Crane - Camera on a crane.
Steadicam - Camera on a person. {:)-[o]{  --- Camera on the body there.
Aerial - Above shot.
Crab - Movement from left to right.
Zoom - Camera lense movement.
Ped - Movement of down/up.

Anchoring Images

What does it mean?
Capturing text under an image.

Anchoring is a form of giving a picture a story with a setence underneath or near explaining it. It can be used to draw people to a story or lead them to a lie. It is important to be used and helps when it gives a caption of what could off been said or done at the time of the photo beind taken.

Semiotics

What is semiotics?
Semiotics is the study of signs and the communication through symbols.

How does it work?
The are 3 areas of study:
1) The sign - The picture, object, sound.
2) The system - Into which these signs are organised.
3) The culture - Within these signs operate.

Key Concepts

Media languages, forms and conventions: The ways in which meanings are created/ways media texts communicate.
Institution: The organisations that create media texts.
Genre: A way of categorising texts according to share conventions.
Representation: The ways in which the world is represented to us by the media.
Audience: The people who buy/consume a media text.
Ideology: The beliefs, ideas and valve systems behind or reflected withing a media text.
Narrative: Story/Plot.

Continuity Piece

  

- What did you find difficult about this task?

I didn't find anything really difficult, we had one problem mainly whilst filming which was the lighting within the room which we had to get equipment borrowed to give the right setting off feel to the piece.

- What new skills have you acquired or developed?

I have developed my skills in filming, lighting and storyboards within the development off the piece and filming.

- What worked well?

When filming we stuck by the story board and got the best out of our piece, we knew what we had to do and where to film within the 180 Degree rule.

- What could you or your team have done better?

When it was being filmed I feel that the camera angles could have been more accurate on our faces when we were acting. Plus it would of helped if we didn't lose some of the filming so we had more shot reverse shot actions within the piece.  It would also off helped if we had a script to following for the dialog off the piece.