Short movie clip - Away

In our movie clip we thought about the camera angles through with our story board before we went out and filmed. We had a few errors but they were easy to resolve and some worked slightly to our advantage, the biggest step back was when another group filmed over our movie for about a minute but I still managed to safe it when I was editing.
While editing i opened the movie with a fade and a low camera shot so it wasn't a sudden beginning, i also muted the diagetic sound and added a Beethoven track. After this scene i faded out for a smoother transaction between my cuts. I deleted the next scene as it had charlie (the other actor) in the background and re-filmed it without him, luckily we noticed this while we were out filming so this didnt corse much extra hassle. After this is a very short scene of me sat on a bench which wasn't that important but in the end brought everything together and came in handy, this fades in and out within seconds. This is when charlie starts his journey towards the bench, before the editing this scene was really noisy so i still have the diagetic sound muted. He joins me on the bench in a two shot, after a short section of our clip it changes to an other shoulder shot, still of us both on the bench. I fade this out and focus on charlie giving me a watch with a close up and in slowmotion so you can see that it's an important part of the movie. This cross-cuts back to us talking on the bench, this is when we both leave and again i have the diagetic sound.

Away

Away Script

 Although my group and I followed the script we changed it enough to make it our own with added and changed lines. We also took bits out to make it easier to memorise and so it didn't go on. We also made it easier to edit from the beginning by putting a few notes on to help remember our idea's.
Once we looked through the script we started a story board.

Story board

Although it's not A* art quality we made it so that we could look back on it and understand it. We made sure that there were lots of different angles to keep the audience interested. We also added the actor's actions along the bottom to make it nice and clear. We moved a shot and showed this with stars so we'd know when we look back on it.

Editing
Someone sadly filmed over part of our film but we luckily managed to save it while editing and it looks great, you woudn't be able to tell.

Before Editing

After Editing

As you can see i added a lot in the clip and deleted the bit thiat was filmed over, i dimmed in and out to give it a smooth transition, i also muted the diagetic sound and replaced it with music at the beginning of the video until the talking starts.

Short Film Clip

Before Editing

After editing

I edited the original video and added music, slow motion and dimming.

I used alot of different camera angles but the main ones I used were:

• Medium close up
• Extreme close up - to show the emotion in the characters face.
• Tilt - to show the audience where Matt had fell and the distance he had so they would maybe feel sorry for him.
• Long shot - Started off with the long shot so my film would flow clearly. 

 

Nosferatu story board.

• Throughout the clip the camera is static and the characters often have to 'walk into view'. The cross cutting often cuts between location instead of characters but this adds suspence and tension to the movie. The idea behind the cross cutting is that it adds a 'cutting edge' The different angles are used well in this movie as the facial expressions are very effective. According to 'The Film Sufi*' The whole movie runs 17 frames per second and that speed would correspond to a realistic presentation of the film.

• The shots above show the beggining of the clip, although the clip can be a bit confusing with out knowing the film, my interpretation of it is that a woman becomes ill so the professor goes runs out to get some help. After he's gone the woman moves across to the woman which crosscuts to the building shes in back to her. 

• These snapshots show the tension of the 'vampire' coming upstairs, the woman heres something then it cross cuts back to the vampire, this again adds tension as your wondering when the vampire is going to enter the room and whats going to happen to the woman. The woman begins to feel ill again and goes back to bed, this is when it cuts across back to the man which looks like he's with a police officer or doctor.

• At the beginning of these cuts you see a close up of the vampire looking down on the woman which is showing the levels and the power the vampire already has over the woman, this cuts straight away a man thats calling out to his master, warning him about the sun, i see it as he is calling out to the vampire. You see a quick shot of the two men (man and police officer) walking back to the building. And it's back to the vampire but he didn't listen to the warning and he burns in the sunlight.

• Finally the woman wakes with a close up and shouts out for jonathon when he comes through the door, which shows a close up of them both.

* http://filmsufi.blogspot.com/2008/10/nosferatu-f-w-murnau-1922.html

Film Shot Types

Film shot types

Title	Description
Extreme long shot
Long shot	They use a long shot to show the house with the characters entering and exiting.
Medium shot	This was the main shot throughout ‘Nosferatu’ showing a wide view of the area but still close enough to the character.
Two shot	Two shot was used quite a lot as the characters had company a lot of the time.
Over the shoulder
Medium close-up	They use this to show the face of the vampire, so you can see the detail of the emotion in his eyes.
Close-up
Extreme close-up

Camera angles

Title	Description
Bird’s-eye view
High angle
Eye-level	Most of the clip is filmed eye-level so you can see a lot of the surroundings as well as the emotion on the characters face.
Low angle	There is the occasional low angle that usually accompanies the long shot.
Oblique/canted angle
Worm’s-eye view
Ground shot

Camera movement

Title	Description
Pan	‘Nosferatu’ Pans for the majority of the clip with the occasional still shot.
Tilt
Tracking shot
zoom

Editing terms

Title	Description
Montage
Cross-cutting	‘Nosferatu’ uses a lot of cross-cutting throughout the clip to add suspence.
Match cut
Shot, reverse chot
Eyeline match
Jump cut
Tracking shot

Analysing the single-camera techniques in "Sex & the City"

The techniques used are effective because you can get smooth camera movement going from a wide shot to a close up, also smooth movement from once place to another; for example the movement between 1 minute 24 and 1 minute 32.

The effect of the non-diegetic music at about 24 seconds suggests to the audience that something fun/upbeat is coming up and makes the viewer feel like the characters. Carrie talking over adds some comedy to the programme as well as telling the audience what the actors can’t show which helps the viewers understand the characters more.

Editing contributes to the continuity by keeping the programme flowing which keeps the viewers entertained. Editing also means you can add and take out some scenes that may not have worked which gives a better quality outcome.